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Boston aforesayd and that there was noe be … Boston aforesayd and that there was noe beere then aboard the sayd<br />
shipp and that the sayd shipps Company did fill and carry away divers<br />
dunletts of wine out of the sayd shipp to a great quantitie And<br />
further hee cannot depose./
To the sixth article of the sayd allegation hee saith that upon or about the<br />
fifth of July one thousand six hundred fifty fower hee this deponent did see severall bills which were sett up[XX ]<br />
severall noated places as the markett place and other noted places in Boston<br />
in New England for sale of the wynes seized in the sayd shipp the ''Saint John''<br />
''Baptist'' expressing that they were to be made sale of at three a clock in<br />
the afternoone that day at the Castle Taverne in Boston wehereupn this<br />
deponent and Mr Robert Gilpin a Merchant and one Mr Sharpe a Marchant<br />
and one Mr Charles Yeo a Merchant went presently after this deponent had<br />
read the sayd bills to the sayd Castle Taverne where hee this deponent and<br />
the sayd Merchants attended two or three howers to have<br />
bidd money for the sayd wines and to have advanced the price of them to their<br />
full value, and after this deponent and the rest of his Company aforesayd had stayed there soe longe in [?expectation]<br />
of a sale to be made of the sayd wines there according to the bills aforesayd<br />
one Mr Edward hutchenson a Merchant came into the sayd Castle Taverne<br />
and told this deponent and the Company with him that the bills about sale<br />
of the sayd wines seized in the ''Saint John Baptist'' were altered and that the<br />
name of the Castle Taverne in Boston was dashed out of the sayd bills<br />
and the name of the Shipp Taverne in Boston put in, and that hee had bin<br />
at the Shipp Taverne and sawe the sale of the sayd wynes, and sayd that<br />
Captaine Leveret (meaning the arlate Captaine Leveret in whose [?powere]<br />
the sayd wines were then left by the arlate Maior Sedgewick who was<br />
gone from Boston did [?hold] the sayd wines upon such termes videlicet to pay<br />
ha;fe the price downe in ready money for what they should be sold<br />
for, and remitt the other halfe to be paid in money by good bills of exchange<br />
at London, soe that upon those termes boe body in Boston was able to<br />
answere those demands, or bidd any considerable value for it whereupon [?hee]<br />
(as the sayd Mr hutchenson affirmed before the Company then present)<br />
the sayd Levert had made a sale thereof to himselfe at the value of fifty five shillings a punchion which is [?XXXX XXX] or the sayd Mr<br />
hutchenson then spake words to the like effect, whereupon hee this<br />
deponent went out of the Castle Taverne into the streets where the sayd<br />
bills touching the sale of the sayd wyne were put up, and found<br />
them altered, and the name of the Castle struck out, and the name of the Shipp<br />
Taverne put in to them, as the sayd Mr hutchenson had before related the same<br />
to bee, and hee this deponent then went to the Shipp Taverne and found by enquirie that<br />
the sayd Leveret and some othrs had bin there about sale of the sayd wines<br />
and that they were sold and all the Company gone, and this deponent<br />
enquiring of the Inhabitants of the sayd Shipp Taverne, who had bought the sayd<br />
wynes, they replyed that Captaine Leveret, (meaning the arlate Captaine<br />
Leveret) had bought them himselfe, And further hee cannot depose
Toimselfe, And further hee cannot depose
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