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ánd one pipe of wine aboard as alsoe fourt … ánd one pipe of wine aboard as alsoe fourtie six hides and one Canastre<br />
of tobaccoe, and that there are two pipes belonging to mr webb whereof the<br />
owners of the shipp, and John Seldon (on having some such name) one<br />
of the company, an English man (this deponents mate) hath a pipe of wine<br />
aboard, and this deponent and the said danielson have alsoe a quarter caske<br />
of wine aboard, which they bought to fill up their other wines withall, and<br />
this deponent hath two or three Rundlets that hee bought for his owne<br />
drinking. And saith this deponent continued in the said shipp and that<br />
the said danielson was the man that went ashore and signed the bills for a<br />
merchants goods both for the weight and the deliverie thereof, and that this<br />
deponent signed noe bills, and therefore cannot say to whom they were<br />
to be delivered, but [?concei]veth they were all to be delivered to mr fernandez<br />
into freight the shipp according to Charter partie and laded her outwards; and saith hee never said<br />
that any of the owners of any of the goods were subiects of the king of Spaine<br />
nor knoweth hee as hee saith that any subiect of the said king hath any<br />
goods or any interest in any goods in the said shipp.
To the third hee saith the said danielson brought home to the downes<br />
and sent some letters or papers thense to London<br />
, but the contents of them or to whom directed, or from whom written<br />
or the number of them, hee saith hee knoweth not, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose saving as aforesaid, and saving there were noe bills or<br />
writings made away or burnt torne or throwne overboard.
To the 4th hee saith hee had noe instructions by word of mouth or private<br />
touching the disposall of the said goods, nor what answer to make to<br />
English ships or other, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 5th hee saith that on or about tuesday last Captaine Chellingworth<br />
with a manned shallop came aboard the said shipp, and said hee seized such<br />
goods aboard to as should be belonging to her subiects of the<br />
king of Spaine, to which purpose hee said hee had a Commission, and<br />
showed a parchment under seale and saith this deponent hath not bin<br />
taught or instructed what to depose or say. And otherwise cannot depose.
To the 6th hee saith hee knoweth the interrogated John Lopez da Meiranda,<br />
but what countrey man or whose subiect hee is or where dwelling hee<br />
knoweth not, only hee staid at Teneriff being [?amen]ded , and saith the<br />
interrogated John Balthazar was accounted his servant, And otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose saving as afore said.
To the 7th hee saith hee neither knoweth nor hath heard of Ignatius<br />
Landihola or Antonio da Ponte interrate, And otherwise cannot answer.
To the 8th negatively.
To the last and papers shewed him hee saith hee knoweth not the<br />
hand writing, or subscription of any of them, or by whom they were written<br />
or subscribed, but touching their contents, hee referreth himselfe to the<br />
said paper themselves
Robert Hunter [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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To the further Interrogatorie ministred [CENTRE HEADING]<br />
by Mr Webb<br />
hee saith and deposeth that this deponent bought the fore said two pipes<br />
of wine (which hee hath said to be for mr webbs account) of the said John<br />
Lopez de Miranda, in truck for a bale of linnens which this deponent carried<br />
out for the said mr webbs account, and what the said linnens came short to pay<br />
further said two pipes, this deponent supplied with money, and this deponent<br />
gave noe obligation or undertooke to pay ought to mr Page for the same, but it<br />
was agreed betweene them that if mr Page would here give this deponent<br />
thirtie pounds sterling a peese for the said two pipes, this deponent<br />
was to let him have them
Robert Hunter [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor GodolphinRH SIDE]
Repeated before doctor Godolphin +
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