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some of them about their selling and this … some of them about their selling and this deponents buying the<br />
same, and did offer them fiftie pounds per tonne for the [?oile]<br />
and fourtie shillings per barrel for the anchovas one with<br />
another, and soe much hee would willingly have given for them<br />
and indeed they were as hee saith then very well worth soe<br />
much and were worth more by tenn pounds per tonne for<br />
the oiles for the space of a moneth or six weekes together next before<br />
such comming in of the said vessell, which her comming in was in or<br />
about the end of the moneth of June 1654, All which hee<br />
knoweth for that hee is by trade an oile man and hath bin a shop keeper<br />
and dealer in the said trade (as a master) for thise thirteene<br />
yeeres last or thereabouts. And further hee cannot depose,<br />
saving this deponent tasting of the said oiles found<br />
and knew that they were of the best sort of Genoa oiles<br />
and knew alsoe that the anchovas were alsoe of the best sort
John Brewer [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
'''Rp'''
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'''John Seade''' of London Oileman, aged 58 yeares<br />
or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the fifth article of the said allegation hee saith and<br />
deposeth that in or about the later end of July 1654<br />
hee this deponent bought of the producents James<br />
and company a parcell of the best Genoa oiles amounting<br />
to five and twenty tonnes which were brought to this port shortly<br />
before in the ''Packet frigot'' at the rate of fourtie seaven<br />
pounds for every two hundred thirtie and six gallons<br />
of oiles soe by him bought, every two hundred thirtie and<br />
six gallons of the said oiles being a tonne according to the<br />
Gage of Sivill, and soe much this deponent paid for the same<br />
and soe much hee saith it was then well worth, But if the said<br />
shipp had arived with the said oiles a moneth or six weekes<br />
or two monethes sooner, the said oiles would have yeelded<br />
fiftie pounds for every like quantitie of gallons or every tonne [?of]<br />
Sivill gage, for that they were vey scarse, but at or<br />
about the time of the said shipp the ''Packet frigots'' arivall<br />
there came the like commodities in other shipps, which<br />
caused the fall of the market, All which hee knoweth<br />
being an Oileman by trade, and dealing<br />
often times for greate quantities of oile, and otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose, saving that the oiles brought to this [?port]<br />
the said time in the ''Packet frigot'' were of the best Genuoa [?sort]
Jo:n Seede [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]a [?sort]
Jo:n Seede [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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