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<document-start>
1. of the said papers hee left the same to be annexed ˹(with translations into English)˺ to an authenticall
2. copie of this affidavit, to the end the same ought be made publique, and
3. intimated to such as might be therein any waies concerned.
4. Ben barebore SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
5.
6. The 15th of June 1657.
7. <margin value="Left">hárbin ágaimst Wills and others.}</margin>
8. Exámined upon an allegation on the behalfe
9. of the said harbin.
10. <margin value="Left">Rp. .j.</margin>
11. Nicholas Saunders of Truroe in Cornewall
12. Merchant, aged 28 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
13. and exámined.
14. To the fifth árticle of the said allegation (upon which alone hee
15. is by discretion of the producent exámined) hee saith and deposeth that
16. hee this deponent having for eleaven yeeres (ended about two yeeres
17. since) lived at Morlaix in the Realme of ffrance and there often traffiqud
18. (amongst other things) in tobaccoes bought thither from Bourdeaux,
19. is knowing and skilfull in the condition of those tobaccoes, and more
20. particularly of the tobaccoes in question, in asmuch as the same was
21. for the account of the producent mr harbyn consigned unto to Morlaix
22. to this deponent and partner, by william lade Carey lader at Bourdeaux
23. for the said account, who wrote unto this exáminate that it was
24. of the best sort of Bourdeaux tobaccoe and as good as any was made
25. that season, and this was soe written and sent to this deponent
26. ánd partner before the seizure of the said tobaccoe in question,
27. and for theise reasons hee saith hee is well assured and knoweth
28. that the said tobaccoe was at the time of the said lading and of
29. the seizure thereof worth ˹at Morlaix˺ nine sols per pound at the least, and
30. that soe it would gave ˹there˺ yeelded at Morlaix. And saith that according
31. to the said advise from the said lader, the said tobaccoe was in quantitie
32. foure tonnes of tobaccoe ˹or thereabouts˺ ˹and amounted in weight to 8197 pounds˺ which amounts to or makes eight thousand
33. weight or thereabouts, ˹referring himselfe˺ but for the more certaintie of the quantitie
34. and weight hee referreth himselfe to the bill of lading for the same
35. which this deponent hath seene, and supposed the same to be is XXXXXing
36. in this Court, And saith further that the time arlate, namely
37. in and about the moneth of March 1654 and 1655 tobaccoes of that
38. ˹or like˺ sort or like, generally sold and were vended at Morlaix XXXXXX
39. at nine sols per pound one with another, soe that the said tobaccoe
40. of the said mr harbyns, being as aforesaid eight thousand one hundred
41. ninetie seaven pounds would have made and amounted to - 3688 livres
42. 13 sols, which after the rate of the then exchange amounted to two
43. hundred wightie two pounds and odd shillings sterling, the exchange then being
44. as hee saith from Morlaix to London fiftie five pence English to the
45. ffrench crowne. And this hee saith was and is publique and notorious
46. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
47. Nic. Sanders SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
48. Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
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