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<document-start>
1. The 10th of November 1657
2. Cowse against ones.}
3. Exámined upon the foresaid allegation [XXXX GUTTER]
4. <margin value="Left">dt. Cowse</margin>
5. <margin value="Left">Rp. 3</margin>
6. Richard Symonds of London Marchant, aged 23
7. yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
8. To the eighth árticle of the said állegation upon which alone hee is [at the GUTTER]
9. discretion of the producent exámined hee saith and deposeth that
10. hee well knoweth Beniamin Say Marchant living at the Barbadas
11. by meanes that this deponent longe resided there and was there
12. familiarly acquainted with him, and well knoweth him to be
13. correspondent in traffique of the producents Edmund and James
14. Cowse, and well knoweth his handwriting having often seene
15. him write, and saith that lately this deponent saw in the hand
16. of the said Edmind a lettre dated at the Barbadas the first of
17. July last, subscribed , Beniamin Say ˹directed to Edmund and James Cowse˺ and wherein the said Say
18. whose hand hee verily beleeveth the said lettre to be) writeth that
19. hee had sold severall of the said Cowses wines which came in the
20. shipp the ffortune for two thousand six hundred pounds
21. of sugar, and two of the said pipes for two thousand six hundred pounds of
22. sugar, and did proceede in selling the rest after the rate
23. of two thousand six hundred pounds of sugar per pipes, And
24. otherwise referring himselfe to the ordinary rules of calculation
25. touching the ámount of the sugars at 3d per pound hee cannot depose.
26.
27. To the Interrogatories. CENTRE HEADING
28. To the first hee cometh required by Edmund Cowse aforesaid
29. to testifie the truth in this cause, wherein hee hath noe interest [XXX GUTTER]
30. and saith hee hath used to goe to sea theise xi yeares but never
31. had any command of any shipps, and otherwise negatively.
32. To the second hee saith hee was not any of the said shipps company
33. and otherwise negatively.
34. To the ˹3˺ hee hath not soe deposed.
35. To the 4 and 5th they concerneth him not.
36. To the rest hee hath not soe deposed.
37. Richard Symonds SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
38.
39. The same day. CENTRE HEADING
40. Exámined upon the fore said allegation.
41. <margin value="Left">Rp. .4.</margin>
42. Jacob Gregory of the parish of Saint Michael Cornehill
43. London Salter, aged 45 yeares or thereabouts sworne and
44. exámined.
45. To the eighth article of the foresaid allegation hee saith and deposeth
46. that hee hath received lettres from his correspondent ˹and sonne William Gregory˺
47. living at the Barbada's, wherein hee the said ˹William˺ writes that [XX GUTTER]
48. Cowse (writing of and meaning the producent) his wines
49. which came thither in the ffortune, were sold some of them for 24[00 li GUTTER]
50. of sugar per pipe and some at 2600 li of sugar per pipe, and
51. ˹XXXX˺ hee resolved to sell all the rest at 2600 li per pipe as the lowest
52. rate or to that effect, and writeth further that the quantitie [XX GUTTER]
53. which the said shipp ˹XX at the Canaries˺
54. for the said Cowses account was ˹73˺ pipes, and this lettre hee
55. <margin value="Bottom right, under main body of text, as lead to next page">[was GUTTER]</margin>
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