Ad octavum articulum dicit That the Jesus
the Grace of God the Swallowe and the Angell brought in them
at ther departure from Cartagena in the West Indias into the
saide havon of La vera Crux xl [40] negros at the leaste whereof
ther were three lost in the Angell w[hic]h came to the spaniardes
possession whiche negros were of the best sorte and goodlye
of stature and the choise and principall of all the Negros whiche
were gotten that last voyadge And moreover ther were in the
Mynnyon at that tyme xij [12] negros of like goodnes whiche
xl [40] negros the saide Hawkins lost in the saide fight who
were eyther slayne by the spaniardes or taken by them in the
saide foure shippes lost, and the same as he seythe were of
the saide S[i]r william Garrardes and companies adventure And
as towchinge the price and value of those negros this deponent
seythe that he hathe ben in the west Indias in ij [2] voyages
the first in the yere 1567 and the last 1568 And by that occasion
knowethe by his experience the value & sale of negros in
the hether parte of the west Indias whereas he seythe a negroe
is worthe
and were these late yeres commonlie soulde for C [100] and Cxx
[120] pesos of goulde And a choyse negroe worthe doble or treble
so muche money And in this last voyadge this deponent knowethe
that there was one negroe soulde for Cl [150] pesos of goulde
whiche was not so muche worthe as manie of the saide xl [40]
choise negros were worthe And this y deponent iudgethe by his
experiens that theise choise negros might have ben soulde at
the hether places of the West Indias for cl [150] and CC [200]
pesos of goulde one w[i]th an other For that suche negros be
muche desired and in request in these places whiche be carried
from thence into the mayne lande and soulde as this deponent
hathe harde the spaniardes confesse in those sea quoastes there
in the saide maine lands for iiijC [46] vC [45] and somme a
thowsand pesos of goulde a pece
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