[2] The latitude given in the next paragraph, 21° 23´ N., must be the correct one. Lat. 21° 33´ would be on the island of Cayo Largo. [Doc. no. 184] gives lat. 21° 18´, long. 81° 57´.
[3] Captain's clerk.
[4] Appeared.
[5] See also [doc. no. 184], [note 3].
191. Declaration of Don Gerónimo de Medrano. November 19, 1759.[1]
19th of November 1759 Before the Lieut. Auditor General Commissioned in this Cause appeared Ensign Don Geronimo de Medrano a Native and Inhabitant of this 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 Ybañes 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.
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.