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the Letters aforesaid, nor saw any of them … the Letters aforesaid, nor saw any of them opened, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose saving his foregoeing deposition to which hee referreth himselfe.
To the last hee saith the schedule interrogated was and is written in Spanish, and was<br />
the very schedule annexed to the allegation, and otherwise negatively, saving as aforesaid.
Wm Martyn Interpreter [SIGNATURE, LH SIDE]
Diego mendes [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 14th of Aprill 1659. [CENTRE HEADING]
The claime of the said}<br />
Betts and Ailward}
Examined upon the fore said allegation.
'''2.'''
'''Diego Mendez''' of La Palma in the Canaries, aged 25 yeares or<br />
thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the first and second articles hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth<br />
the producents Patrick Betts and Peter Aileward, and saith that the said<br />
Betts went master and the said Aileward assistant to the Sopra carfo<br />
of the shipp the ''hope'' arlate the voyage in question, on which shee proceeded<br />
in or about September 1657 from Amsterdam, where there was by the said<br />
Betts for his owne account laded and put aboard her for the said voyage<br />
certaine linnens, spices, hats, and woollens, and by the said Aileward for his<br />
account serges, linnens, stockings and other goods, all to be bartered away in the<br />
West Indies, which this deponent (who alsoe went the said voyage thence) saw<br />
them lade, and saith the said shipp safely arived therewith in the Spanish West<br />
Indies of this deponents sight who arived there in her.
To the third fourth 5 and 6th hee saith that after such arivall of the said shipp and<br />
goods in the Spanish West Indias John Lopez the principall Sopracargo being<br />
a Spaniard abd thereby capable of trading there in his owne name (which the<br />
producents being Irish merchant) vended and trucked away their said outwards<br />
commodities for their account, for the goods following which hee procured<br />
or produced in barter for them in retourne of their said goods, namely for<br />
the said Betts twenty chests of Indigo and drugs, of which hee beleeveth<br />
fufteene were Indigo's, and for the said Aileward thirteene chests of Indigo's<br />
and drugs but how many of them contained Indigo's and how many drugs hee<br />
knoweth not, nor knoweth the markes of them or of Bets his chests, nor<br />
what drugs they had in their sea chests, all which goods hee saith were truely<br />
provided for and were the produce of the said outwards goods of the said producents<br />
and for their account were laded aboard the said shipp of this deponents knowledge<br />
who being a Spaniard did assist the said lopes in selling or disposing the<br />
said outward and procuring the said homewards goods for the same. And saith<br />
the said shipp was to come therewith for dover or the downes.
To the 7th hee saith that shortly after the said shipps departure from [?Matansor] where<br />
shee touched in her homewards course the said voyage the arlate Toribbio<br />
ffernandez being in want of clothes sold the said Aileward sixteene arobes<br />
of Sassaparella which were in the said shipp for his account, for which the said<br />
Aileward then made him part of payment in clothes, and for the rest was<br />
to pay him afterwards by a praemium betweene them at which this deponent<br />
was present. And having soe bought them the said sixteene arobes became<br />
the goods of the said Aileward, and upon his adventure.
To the 9th that the said shipp afterwards comming neere this coast<br />
was by the fowle weather and contrary winds put into Millford haven with<br />
all the said goods in her, where this deponent left them and came by land<br />
to London. And further hee cannot depose.
To the 10th hee saith the said Patrick Betts and Peter Aileward were and<br />
are commonly accounted Irish men, Subiects of this Commonwealth and<br />
dwellers in London And further hee cannot depose.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith that hee came in the said shipp to Milford haven but<br />
notshipp to Milford haven but<br />
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