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'''Mathew Sannders''' parochia beate Maria Matsellon alias<br />
Whitechapple London yeoman 60 annorum aut circiter testis<br />
in hac parte productus iuratus et examinatus./
Ad 8ym arlum allegationis ex parte dcu Joseph Sannders in hac parte<br />
dat et oblat, dicit et deponit That he this deponent beinge one of the porters<br />
belonginge to the Custom house. London about six weeks since was twice<br />
abord the arlate shipp called the ''fflower de Luce'' (wherof Hugh Weston was<br />
master) whilest the Tobaccoes in question were deliveringe out of her in the river of Thames<br />
into close Lighters, and after the sayd Tobaccoes were broughte up in the sayd<br />
Lighters to he custome house key he this deponent and his contest William<br />
Greene did helpe lande the same and putt them into ware houses<br />
and since the same were broughte into warehouses he sawe about<br />
foure or five hundred hogsheads of the sayd Tobaccoe on severall dayes videlicet from Thursday last untill yesterday in the afternoone opened in the heads<br />
and the staves of them pulled abroad soe that they mighte have a fulls<br />
sighte of the Tobaccoes in them, and sayteh that about nynetye six hogsheads<br />
of the sayd Tobaccoe under severall marks were quite rotten and lookt like<br />
dunge and were not worth any thinge in his iudgement, and about<br />
one hundred eightye five hogsheads more of the sayd Tobaccoes under<br />
severall marks were much dampnifyed and some of them were about halfe<br />
and some about a quarter wett and some more and some lesse, and in that<br />
quantitye as he guesseth there was dampnifyed and spoyled soe much<br />
as weighed five thousand and five hundred weighte of neat Tobaccoe or theraboits which<br />
dammage as he beleiveth happened to the sayd Tobaccoe abord the sayd<br />
shipp the ''fflower de Luce'' by salte water, for that he this deponent<br />
goeinge abord the sayd shipp in the river of Thames to fetch eighte hogsheads<br />
of Tobaccoe out of her bread roome after all her ladeinge of goods<br />
(but those 8 hogsheads) delivered out of her, went into her hould<br />
andf her, went into her hould<br />
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