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Transcription

The same day/ [CENTRE HEADING]

Examined upon the sayd allegation dated the 31st
of May 1655/

9us

Elias Watson of the parish of Saint Mary Woollchurch
London Merchant aged 25 yeares or thereabouts a
wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as
followeth videlicet./

To the 3 article of the say allegation and the Schedule therein mentioned hee saith that in the yeare one
thousand sixe hundred fifty fower and moneths therein concurring hee
this deponent was a factor and Correspondent to the arlate James
Cowse at the Island of Palma one of the Canarie Islands and there
by letters of Correspondence and Invoices received from the sayd
Cowse as alsoe by a bill of ladeing signed (as hee beleveeth by
the arlate Edward Keene) and alsoe by letters to the same effect sent
to this deponent by his this deponents father Mr Elias Watson of
London Grocer, hee well knoweth that the sayd Cowes did cause the
goods schedulate to bee laden aboard the arlate shipp the
John and Elizabeth at or neere London to bee transported to Santa Cruze
in the Island of Palma aforesayd for the use and Account of him the sayd
Cowse, And further saith that hee this deponent by letters sent from
Saint Lucar by Mr Edward Watts and Mr Peter Probie English Merchants
there to this deponent at Palma was informed that the same
Keene did arrive with the goods Schedulate at Saint Lucar and hee
there unladed and delivered them to the sayd Watts and Probie And further to this
article hee cannot depose/

To the 7th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this
deponent being a factor resident at Palma the tyme aforesayd
and having lived as a factor in the sayd Island upwards of
sixe yeares and in that tyme sold severall parcells of the
like goods as are Schedulate, thereby knoweth that the goods Schedulate
if they had safely arrived at Palma in the yeare 1654 as they
ought to have done, would there have then yeelded the prices Schedulate
or very neere thereabouts, videlicet in his this deponents Judgement
they would have then yeelded there fiftie thousand Ryalls all
which is one thousand two hundred and fiftie pounds sterling,
hee this deponent hath severall tymes in the tyme of his residense
at Palma there, sold the like quantitie of such goods as are
Schedulate at the respective rates Schedulate, and sometymes
more, And saith hee by reason of his long residense at Palma
experimentally knoweth that the Custome Commission and other
charges of the like goods as are Schedulate
there sold, doe usually, and did at the tyme arlate amount to ten
per Cent videlicet the Royall Custome to sixe pounds sterling per Cent, Commission and
factorage to three pounds per Cent of like money, and warehouse
and other pettie charges to one pound per Cent of like money, And saith hee
also knoweth by letters of Correspondence thence that the like goods
as are Schedulate, doe usually at Saint Lucar yeild a farr lesse rate then they
doe in Palma whether the goods in question designed to goe, and
therefore