1 [John Oxenham, deposition 2 , Panama, July 7, 1578.]

(p. 30) ... In the city of Panama on the seventh day of the month of July in the year one thousand five hundred and seventy eight, I, Juan Lorenzo Perez, his majesty's notary, clerk of this royal Audiencia,... went to the public jail of this city, where was confined one of the Englishmen whom General Diego de Frias and his troops brought from Vallano, whom I, the notary, ordered to be brought before me,

The English prisoner's deposition.