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HCA 13/70 f.293v Annotate
First transcribed 3 February 2015  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 293  +
Parent volume HCA 13/70  +
Side Verso  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 03/02/2015  +
Transcription fill and carry away divers Rundletts of wyfill and carry away divers Rundletts of wyne to a greate quantity<br /> and that for divers weekes aafter the sayd shipps arrivall at Boston aforesayd<br /> there was noe beere aboard the sayd shipp, and that during that tyme hee and<br /> all the company aboard the sayd shipp dranke nothing on shipp board but wine<br /> And further to this article hee cammot depose./ To the 6th article hee saith that the sayd Thomas Smith told this deponent that hee<br /> saw upon or about the fifth of July 1654 bills sett up at Boston arlate for<br /> the sale of the wynes seized in the shipp ''Saint John Baptist'' which expressed that<br /> the sayd wines were to be made sale of at the Castle Taverne in Boston<br /> whereupon the sayd Smith and this deponent went to the sayd Taverne and attended<br /> there to have seene what price the sayd wynes were sold at and to have<br /> advanced them in the sale to their true value, and after this deponent and the<br /> sayd Smith and others who stayed with them to the same purpose had bin neere two howers<br /> at teh sayd Castle Taverne one Mr Edward hutchinson who liveth<br /> in Boston aforesayd came to the sayd Smith and this deponent and their other company<br /> who stayed there to the purpose aforesayd, and asked them why they were not<br /> at the sale of the sayd wines seized in the ''Saint John Baptist'', whereto the sayd Smith<br /> and this deponent and the rest of the Company made answere that they expected them<br /> to be sold there at the Castle according to a bill sett up to that purpose<br /> whereto the sayd hutcheson replyed, the bill is altered ad it is<br /> put in that they are to be sold at the shipp Taverne<br /> and withall sayd that the arlate Captaine Levert had<br /> by his high demands of halfe money ready pay and the other halfe in good<br /> bills to be paid at London soe beaten off all buyers that noe body for want<br /> of ready money could bid any considerable value for them and soe noe<br /> body bidding (as the sayd hutchinson affirmed) above fifty shillings a [?puncheon]<br /> or thereabouts, the sayd Leveret sayd hee would give fifty five shillings a<br /> punchion (which is eight pounds five shillings a tonne) and noe body bidding soe<br /> much in respected of the difficulties put upon payment videlicet to pay ready money halfe<br /> and bills for the other halfe, the sayd Leveret had disposed of them to his owne use<br /> at the sayd rate of 8 ''li'' - 5 ''s'' a tonmne, And further hee cannot depose<br /> saving hee saith that if the sayd Leveret had exposed the sayd wines to<br /> sale at Boston upon fayre and equall termes such as the trafiquers there<br /> are used to buy upon, as to have exchanged for Commodities or have sold<br /> upon reasonable tyme of payment for money, and not have stood upon half ready money<br /> downe, the sayd wines would have yeilded 20 ''li'' a tonne as hee beleeveth<br /> and hee hath heard<br /> some of the Inhabitants of Boston aforesayd saye soe much or the like<br /> in effect./ To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true./ To the Interrogatories there being but one in all [CENTRE HEADING] To the Interrogatorie (there being but one) hee saith hee is a Mariner and noe way<br /> related as a servant to any of the parties Interrogated saving as is predeposed hee [?went]<br /> with the sayd Smith to Boston on the producents affaires as is predeposed and was payd<br /> his hyre for the same by the producents and is nothing of Kinne to any of them, and<br /> atf Kinne to any of them, and<br /> at  +
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