[Declaration of Diego Ruiz] In the said city on the stated day, month, and year, before Their Graces appeared present for the said investigation Diego Ruiz, who before me, the notary, was sworn in before God and a sign of a cross, in legal form, and [f.25, vto.] having done so, aware of it, he promised to tell the truth, and being questioned according to the tenor of the stated auto, he said that having left from the port of Havana by order of the senores governors of it in aid of this post and to scour its coasts, they went to [the coasts], and having arrived at the town of Santa Elena, which they found already without people because of the news that they had of their coming, they passed onward in pursuit of the said people who depopulated it, of the Scottish nation, according to news they had from a boy whom they found in the said town of Santa Elena, and pursuing onward about fifteen or twenty leagues, they arrived at a plantation in which, this witness having gone on land by order of Captain Alejandro Thomas de Leon, they found in the said plantation eleven items of slaves, eight of them men and three of them women, whom they declared and placed in this city, and he does not know if any other thing was found in the said plantation more than what he has declared; and near the said plantation, on its coast, a small boat [botecillo] which they have likewise declared, and from an English boy they found in the said plantation they found out that it was of the governor of [f.26] San Jorje, and what he has said and declared is the truth and what he knows, aware of his oath, and he is of the age of thirty years, and he did not sign, not knowing how to. Their Graces signed it. Thomas Menendez Marquez Francisco de la Rocha Before me, Alonso Solana Public and Governmental Notary