HCA 13/73 f.441v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/73 |
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| Folio | 441 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Roger Towner | |
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and saith that soe fare as ever hee wuld heare, noe shipps of holland or hollander
noe others [?what] soever that were not Spaniards or subjects of the king of Spain have
bin or are permitted to traffique in the said places of the west Indies or to carry any
goods [?therein], and so strict are the Spaniards there, that they will not suffer [?fflanxxxxx]
or other forreine subjects of the king of Spaine to traffique there nor any but what
are moor Spaniards , and saith that as this deponent hath bin informed by xxxx of
the officers of the said shipp Mary , the said goods seized, were laded by Maxin de Herera
a Spaniard, and (as they said they beleeved) for the account of Spaniards, And
further hee cannot depose saving what followeth.
To the second, third, and fourth hee saith that severall of the company of the Santa
Maria, as alsoe the duty master and pretended sopracargo have confessed and
acknowledged in this deponents presence shortly after the said seizure, that the said
shipp was set out from Santa [?Crus] under the command of the arlate Juan
Mexia de herera, and there [?were] severall spaniards there shipped upon her
to the number of twenty, and then they sailed from there to Santa domingo, and
then they did [?neare] the spanish [xxxx] coast at Santa[?Crucc] and at Santa domingo
during the time of her stay there, and then the outward cargo of the said
shipp was sold by the said Mexia de herara, and the shipp [xxxxxxd] and
fitted for her retourne by his order, and when she xxxxxxxxxxxx
and other her said goods were laded aboard by him at Santa domingo, xxxx
this deponent verilt beleeveth, then the said shipps cargo that was so seized
would have proved without any further testimony to be for the account
of spanish subjects by the papers that were aboard, and were [??thrown]
overboard by the said spanish Captaine Juan Mexim de herera or his orders, as
severall of the company confessed [xxxxx] were, and saith that the duty master
and pretended sopracargo could not [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
was demanded by Admirall stoker in this deponents presence, And
further deposeth not:
To the fifth article hee saith and deposeth that hee also heard severall
of the said company of the said Mary say and acknowledge to the effect [?declared]
in this article, and further hee cannot depose.
To the sixth he saith that hee hath alsoe heard severall of the said
shipp Mary her company confesse and say that upon her retourne after having
touched at Santa Cru[xx] and coming towards the coast of Spaine, they discovered
a fleete of ffench shippes coming from Newfoundland towards the [?strait of]
month, and not [forxxxx] when they were and fearing that they might be
examined by them , the said spanish Captaine Juan Mexia de herera did
cause his Spanish colours and papers to be put into a bagg, and that they
were given into the hand of the [xxxxx] masters mate of the said shipp, to be
heaved overboard, and then that summe were heaved overboard accordingly,
and soe [xxxx] the said boats [xxxxx] mate himself confessed to this
deponent soone after the said seizure. And further deposeth not.
To the seventh article hee saith that hee hath heard the effect of that
said article acknowledged by most of the said shipps company. and further
deposeth not.
To the eighth he saith that this deponent found the said shipp the Santa
Maria on or about the 29th of October 1658 in the night in the
Bay of Gibraltar dischardging part of her goods into a ffluke that
was sent from Cadiz to receive them, the master of which fluke did at
