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for his paines hee should take in assistin … for his paines hee should take in assisting him ashore or otherwise the said voyage<br />
without agreeing with him for any certaine wages, this deponent then taking him the<br />
said Lopez to be in Spanish imployment, but when afterwards hee this deponent understood<br />
him to be in the Imployment of English hee repented his comming aboard as not knowing<br />
how hee should be satisfied for his time spent in that service till the said Captaine<br />
assured him of satisfaction, and saith that when this deponent soe came aboard there<br />
weere none of the outwards lading aboard, but shortly after the said John Lopez fell<br />
to taking in and did take in three hundred eightie three chests or<br />
thereabouts of Indico's and drugs, the most part whereof were as hee beleeveth<br />
Indico's, eleaven skinns of the like commoditie, two barralls and two potacks<br />
of commodities being as hee beleeveth of Indicos and druggs as aforesaid. And<br />
thence the said shipp went to Truxilla, where shee tooke in another said one<br />
hundred and tenn ar?obes of sassaperilla or thereabouts, and four hundred seaventie<br />
and six hides or therabouts, which were brought and provided with moneyes<br />
the proceed of goods there ?traded<br />
by the said Captain before hee this deponent the?re understood by discourse and<br />
the adjusting of accounts there donne, and from Truxillo shee departed<br />
in or about September last and about fifteene dayes after was forced<br />
by fowle weather to touch at Mara?usa, where shee staid about five or<br />
six dayes that the weather was fowle and againe set saiile and being come<br />
cleere thence, hee then understood aboard that the said shipp was bound for England<br />
thereto discharge, and that by fowle weather shee was necessitated to goe to<br />
Milford haven, And saith that hee this deponent laded and had sixteene<br />
of the foresaid arXbes of sassaperilla belonging to him, which at sea hee<br />
sold to one Peter an Irish man who was second assistant to John Lopez.<br />
and that of the foresaid goods three or four of the mariners had some<br />
small quantities or parcells , but how many hee knoweth not. And<br />
further hee cannot depose, saving that this deponent is a subject of the<br />
king of Spaine.
To the 4th hee saith that there was an English master and a<br />
dutch master aboard besides the said John Lopez (who is a Spaniard)<br />
and further hee cannot depose.
To the 5th negatively for his part and otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 6 hee saith hee knoweth the said shipp only from the said time of<br />
his comming aboard her in the Gulfe of honduras, and otherwise hee<br />
cannot answer,
To the 7th hee saith there were one and twenty man belonging to the said shipp<br />
whereof seaven were Spanairds, whereof John Lopez, diago Mendez and this deponent are in London, the rest hee left aboard at Milford, but knoweth<br />
not where they now are, and saith that hee heard that the said John Lopez was<br />
borne at Cadiz, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 8th hee saith the said shipp had tenne gunns aboard, and saith there<br />
were two plates, one tobacco box, eight spoones, and two cups<br />
all of silver, and 4 peeces of eight in the said shipp when shee was seized,<br />
And saith hee beleeveth the said John LOpez sold them to furnish himselfe<br />
with money to come up to this citie. And otherwise hee cannot depose
To the last hee cannot answer./
Wm Martyn Interpreter [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
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