'''TNA''' PROB PROB 11/280/544 Will of Charles Rich, Merchant. 23 September 1658 PROB 11/354/341 Will of Sir Charles Rich of London. 07 July 1677 PROB 11/374/201 Will of Charles Rich of Saint Giles in the Fields, Middlesex. 10 October 1683
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case the sayd Edwards and Whitfeild recover their whole wages And saith hee beleeveth none of the other wittnesses arlate are of Kinn or indebted to the sayd Edwards or Whitfeild And further hee cannot depose./ To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true/ Repeated with his three precontests before doctor Godolphin the marke of the sayd Roger [MARKE] Worthley [MARKE, RH SIDE] ******************************** The fourth of Aprill 1657. On the behalfe of Lucas aforesaid} touching the ''Teneriff Merchant''} '''Rp. 3.''' '''Hugh Powell''' of Dukes Place London Merchant aged 49 yeares or thereabouts, sworne and exámined. To the second Interrogatorie (upon which alone hee is by direction of the producent exámined) hee saith and deposeth that there were laden aboard the said shipp the ''Teneriff merchant'' at the time of her last being in this port of London a Butt and a hogshead and a trusse or small bale of Merchandizes, which mr Charles Rich the lader thereof said were worth three hundred pounds and stood him in soe much, and therefore praid this deponent going aboard, to speake to the master to have or care of the good stowage thereof, being as hee said drie commodities. And further that there were in this port the time aforesaid laden or embarked aboard her eight or nine servants and fifteene Tonnes of ffire stone for the accompt of the producents Robert Lucas, John Ladd, henry James and Charles Rich of this deponents sight. And saith that the said shipp going in her said last voyage her from this port to the Ile of Wight there were at the said Ile laden and embarqued in and onboard her for the accompt of the producents Robert Lucas, John Ladd, henry James and Charles Rich sixtie five horses or more, which were soe embarqued by the said John Ladd, and by the said henry James his order there were alsoe and there laden fowre hogsheads of sheeres, and tenn sheepe or thereabouts, of all which said servants foure parts of ffire stone, horses, sheeres and sheepe the said Robert Lucas, John Ladd, henry james and Charles Rich were owners and proprietors, namely the said servants ffire stone horses, sheeres and sheepe were laden in six parts, and mr Lucas, mr Ladd, mr Jammes and mr Rich aforesaid were every and each of them a proprietor of a sixth part thereof: All which hee knoweth being alsoe imployed on their behalfe in the said lading, and seeing the writeing and accounts made up touching each of the said proprietors, and that this deponent dispatched the said shipp from the Ile of Wight on or about the nineth day of January last past, bound for the Barbada's. And lastly saith that the foresaid butt, hogshead and trusse of goods were laden upon the particular account of the said mr Rich and appeared by the bills of lading for the same, which were taken in his owne name. Hugh Powell [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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