is City, who being sworn by making the Sign of the
Cross according to Custom and promising to declare the Truth, being
asked according to the Tenor of the Articles Contained in the
Interrogatory and Inserted in the foregoing Copy, he said as follows--

1. To the first he said that he knows Don Phelipe Ybanes and has known
him by that Name about twenty four years and knows him to be a Native
of St. Lucar de Barameda in Andalusia and an Inhabitant in this City,
where he Married in the Year 35 with a first Cousin of this Deponent;
That from the year 37 to that of 51 he followed the Business of
Working at Husbandry in the Fields near a Dwelling House he had at the
Mills and in the Herd yard of Doctor Don Ambrosio de Medrano.
Afterward he went to places up the Country where he became Clarke to a
privateer Schooner fitted out by the Lieut. at War of the Town of St.
John of the Remedys[2] Don Juan Antonio de Royo. Afterwards said
Ybanes Informed him that he had been met with by some Englishmen Said
to be Privateers near the Coast of this Island (he did not Exactly
remember the place) and that they had carried away the Money he took
for his Voyage, and is what he heard Commonly Reported in this City,
which is all he knows about this Enquiry.

[Footnote 2: San Juan de los Remedios, commonly called Remedios, lies
in the middle of the north coast of Cuba, 32 miles east of Santa
Clara.]

2. To the second he said that he does not know the said Schooner and
is Ignorant of the other particulars in the Enquiery.

3. To the third he said that he is Ignorant of the Contents in this
Enquiery.

4. To the fourth he said that he did not know Caleb David nor for what
he came to this City.

5. To the fifth he said that he knows nothing about the Enquiery in
this Article.

6. To the Sixth he said that he knows one Antonio de Correa, a
Spaniard living in this City since the year 1733, that his Employment
was bringing Wood from the Coast with Regordete Fregeno[3] but does
not know that he made a Voyage in 56, Nor the Embarcation in which he
went nor any thing of the rest Enquired.

[Footnote 3: _Regordete_ means short and stout.]

7. To the seventh he said that he knows nothing more to Answer than
what he has said to the foregoing.

8. To the Eighth he said that he Expects no Interest from the Result
of this Cause and that what he has said and Declared is the Truth, to
which he has made Oath and being Dated and Read to him he said it