Receiv'd from Capt. Philip Dumaresq Command[er] of the Private Man of War Sloop Young Eagle, a Mediterranean Pass No. 2533,[1] Granted by the Hono'ble the Commissioners of the Admiralty of Great Britain the Eleventh Day of July, One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight, to Æneas Mackay, then Master of the Sloop Amsterdam Post, now taken as Prize by the abovesd Capt. Ph. Dumaresq. In Witness hereof I have Signed two Receipts, both of this tenour and Date, in the Island of Madera, the 29th May, 1740.
Richard Baker, Consul.
The Claimant in Court acknowledged the Certificate signed by the Consul touching the Delivery of the English Mediterranean Pass to him by Capt. Dumaresq to be the proper hand writing of Richard Baker, Esq., Consul at Madera, as also the Certificate of the Judge of the Poor's obliging Capt. Dumaresq to Unload.
[1] See [doc. no. 128], [note 12].
142. Certificate of British-Dutch Vice-Consul in Teneriffe. April 26, 1740 (N.S.).
I Certify and avouch to all Gent. whom these Present may concern, That Don Peter Dufourd, Vice-Consul General for the French and Britannick Nations,[1] Appeared before Me, as also Don John Delake, John Whitefield and Don Issario Antonio Samer, Merch'ts residing in this Port, who say that the Sloop called the Amsterdam Packett, whereof Capt. Aeneas Mackay is Commander, has usually come to this Port; and that the said Sloop arrived here under Dutch [Colours] the 27 of October the year last past, 1739, and that the said Sloop sailed again for Amsterdam, consigned to the Divernetts, and that the said Sloop wore Dutch Colours, during the time she lay at anchor in this Road, and that said Sloop Sailed and Returned on her Voyage out of this Port under Dutch Colours; and that the said Æneas Mackay brought with him his Dutch Clearance and Passport, and that he the said Mackay is a Resident and Dweller in Amsterdam; and that the Cargo which he had brought and now did bring, did actually belong to Merch'ts in Holland Corresponding with the aforementioned Divernetts herein expressed, and that the aforesaid Don Peter Dufourd, as Vice-Consul General, did pass the Usual Visit of Health in the aforegoing Voyage; and that he[2] brought his Dutch Journal, which was set down in his Book as a Dutchman, and for this purpose he[3] holds his Vice-Consulship as well as being Employed Vice-Consul for the Dutch; and further saith that he the said Dufourd had been in Company with Isaac Divernett in the House of Don Arnold Vansteinfortt,[4] Consul General for the Dutch in these Islands, when the said Æneas Mackay shewed him his Papers, as he was Consul for that Nation, Manifesting his being Naturalized in Amsterdam, and for this reason he brought a Dutch Passport and Wore Dutch Colours; the Truth of which he declares before God, no person being able to say to the contrary, it being a Publick and known Truth, of what has been Declared, Signed by these Presents with the aforesd Vice Consul Gen'l and the afore mentioned Merch'ts of this Port of Santa Crux of Teneriffe, the 26th Day of April 1740. Peter Dufourd, Vice Consul General, John Whitefield, Issario Antonio Samer, John Delake, Joseph Vranes [Vianes][5] of Salas, Publick Scrivener.
Compared with the Original before Me which is in my Power and office, and this I remit as a true Copy, the Day and Year aforementioned. In Testimony of the Truth,
Joseph Vranes of Salas,
Publick Scrivener.
We do Declare and Avouch that Joseph Vranes, who has attested this Copy, is Publick Scrivener, and that full Faith is and ought to be given to all his Instruments of Writing and Dispatches, both here and abroad. Wherefore We have Signed this in Santa Crux of Teneriffe, the 29th of April, 1740.
Joseph Padilla,
Apostollick Notary.