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I Do declare that I was Shipt by Capt. Æneas Mackay in the Sloop Amsterdam to the Island of Teneriffe and to receive fourteen Gilders per month. We proceed[ed] our Voyage, but before We Sailed from thence he told us he was bound to Cork, which I consented to go with him, and at our Departure from Corke he told us he was bound again to Teneriffe, St. Cruize, where We came from, which if occasion I will give my Oath and has sett my Hand.
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John X Gording.
140. Certificate of British Consul in Madeira. March 9, 1740 (N.S.)[1]
These are to Certify all whom it may Concern that upon the arrival of the Sloop Amsterdam Post at this Island the Judge of the Poor applyed to Capt. Philip Dumaresq to have her Unloaded, there being no Salt Beef in the Place at that Time for Sale, to which the said Dumaresq answer'd that he could not consent to it till it was first Condemn'd by some English Admiral as good Prize, upon which the said Judge Applyed to the officers of the Chamber at their respective Houses and came back and told him that he should be obliged to it whether he wou'd or no, for that the Island was in great want thereof, and that he would give him a Certificate that they forced him to it, but to this day the said Dumaresq has not been able to obtain it, notwithstanding the said Judge has in my hearing several Times promised to give it to him.
As Witness my Hand in Funchal, Island of Madera, 9th March 1740.
Richard Baker, Consul.
[1] It is to be presumed that all these documents originating in the Madeira or Canary Islands are dated according to new style.