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To the 6th hee saith that according to the … To the 6th hee saith that according to the Rules for Customes in the<br />
ports of England, there are not any goods (for which custome is payable)<br />
delivered out of the warehouses of which the officers of the Customes<br />
have locks and keyes without payment or satisfaction first made<br />
and given for the Customes of such goods, but the parcell of tobacco<br />
in question, being very greate, the summe of money due for the Customes could<br />
not be found and computed till they were all delivered out, nor<br />
could perfect bills be drawne for the same till such deliverie finished<br />
and the said tobaccoes all weighed off, And otherwise hee cannot<br />
depose.
To the 7th and 8th articles hee saith that in the instant of time as this deponent<br />
was perfecting the accompt and drawing bills of Exchange for payment<br />
of the moneys due for the Customes of the said tobaccoes after<br />
1 ''d'' per pound, namely in orabout the 2[?9th] of November<br />
1652 hee this deponent received order from London from the<br />
Grand Commissioners of the Customes in writing to demand 6 ''d''<br />
per pound for the Customes of the said tobaccoes as being of<br />
foreiners plantation, and that this deponent made demand<br />
thereof accordingly of the said Mr Burton, who refusing to pay<br />
the sam, the said tobaccoes were in perusance of the<br />
said order staid, untill the 15th or 16th of January<br />
next following), at which time hee received order from the sai<br />
Commissioners for the Customes to free the same<br />
and let them passe, which upon one of those two dayes hee<br />
performed, and released the same accordingly, in all or any part<br />
of whic time of tetention, the Commissioners for prize goods<br />
were not active in the said stay nor were any cause or used<br />
any meanes for the same, but the said stay was donne<br />
mearly upon the said order of the Commissioners for the Customes,<br />
And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 9th hee cannot depose.
To the 10th hee saith that this deponent hath heard the said Burton<br />
acknowledge and say that the dammadge to the said tobaccoes<br />
happened the 17th day of January 1652, And otherwise<br />
hee cannot depose.
To the 11th hee cannot depose, saving that the said Wainewright<br />
and Jefferies or their agents sent downe to Portsmouth a<br />
copie of an order from the Committee of the Naby for the release<br />
of the said tobaccoes from the pretence of 6 ''d'' per pound customes.<br />
which this deponent sawe tenn dayes or a fortnight before<br />
the receipt of the foresaid order from the Commissioners for Customes<br />
for freeing the same, but this deponent could not discharge<br />
the said tobaccoes upon the said copie of the order from the<br />
Committee, not unlesse hee had the originall order, and soe much<br />
hee signified to the said Wainewright and Jefferies their agent<br />
at Portsmouth, And otherwise hee cannot depose.
To the 12th hee saith that the vessell the ''Mayflower'' arlate<br />
into which the said tobaccoes were put at Portsmouth by the<br />
said Burton, was (when shee as taking in the said tobaccoes) at the towne key) leakie<br />
and the said Burton was made acquainted with her said leakinesse.<br />
and with her said leakinesse.<br />
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