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To the first article of the said allegatio … To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth<br />
that this deponent being Clerke for the Commissioners for dutch-Prize<br />
Goods at such time as the arlate Wainewright and Jefferies<br />
bought the Tobaccoes in question of them, and being present at the<br />
contract, and entring the same in the Booke kept for the like purpose<br />
and seeing the said Wainewright and Jefferies subscribe the same,<br />
and having lately perused the said entrie, Well knoweth that<br />
in the said contract soe entred and by them soe subscribed, there is<br />
not any mention made of paying the customes for the same by the<br />
Commissioners for dutch prize goods, or that the said tobaccoes were<br />
sold, cleare of customes, nor that the said Wainewright and Jeffereies<br />
or tobaccoes should not be molested for the said customes (as is<br />
mentioned in the said article). And as for any compact by word of<br />
mouth betwixt the Commissioners and the said buyers that the Commissioners<br />
should pay or satisfie the customes, or that the said buyers should be<br />
exempted there from, hee saith hee doth not remember. howbeit<br />
hee saith it is usuall for the Commissioners to deliver all<br />
goods (that they sell) cleare of Customes to<br />
the buyer though there be noe expresse mention made of it, in the contract. And further hee cannot depose, saving hee beleveth that<br />
the said Commissioners agreed or undertooke to cause deliverie of the<br />
said tobaccoes to be made at Portsmouth within twenty dayes after the<br />
4th of November 1652, for that hee remembreth there was a<br />
letter written from them to their Sub Commissioners at Portsmouth<br />
to that purpose.
Upon the rest hee is not examined by direction of the producent.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the second third and fourth Interrogatories hee ssaith and deposeth that hee<br />
well remembreth that the said Wainewright and Jefferies or one<br />
of them or some one or other on their behalfe came to the Commissioners<br />
for ducth prize goods and spoke to them and desired that they the<br />
said Wainewright and Jefferies might by them selves or their agents<br />
treate and agree with the officers of the Customes for the Customes due<br />
upon the said tobaccoes, intimating that it would be a courtesie unto them<br />
and that they might make some advantage thereof: and saith that what<br />
moneys they paid for the customes, were to be defalked upon their payment<br />
for the said tobaccoes, out of the price contracted for. And otherwise<br />
saving as aforesaid hee cannot depose, saving the said Commissioners<br />
gave way to the said buyers to satisfie the said Customes at the usuall<br />
rate of tobaccoe of the plantation of English beyond sea, and the said buyers<br />
taking it as a favour, went a way well satisfied.
To the 11th and 12th Interrogatories hee answereth that the Commissioners<br />
for prize goods did take a speciall care (immediatley upon the demands<br />
of the officers of the Customes of 6 ''d'' per pound customes for the tobaccoes in question)<br />
that the imposition of 6 ''d'' per pound should be taken off, and reduced to one<br />
penny per pound, and at length namely the 31th of december 1652 after<br />
very greate diligence, solicitaion and paines both by themselves and the<br />
officers, did obtaine an order from the Committee of<br />
the Navy that the Customes of the said tobaccoes soe sold by the Commissioners<br />
should be oassed in the Custome house as of English plantation beyond<br />
sea, which was 1 ''d'' per pound. And otherwise hee cannot answer.
Toound. And otherwise hee cannot answer.
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