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4 October 2013 +
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| First transcriber
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Colin Greenstreet +
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464 +
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HCA 13/72 +
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| People
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<u>Mathew Travis</u> +
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| Primary sources
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'''TNA'''
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PROB 11/325/120 Will of Robert Travis, Salter of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, City of London. 24 September 1667<br />
PROB 11/364/363 Will of John Travis, Salter of Saint Mary Aldermary, City of London. 20 November 1680<br />
PROB 11/368/390 Will of Mathew Treavis, Salter of London 02 December 1681Treavis, Salter of London 02 December 1681 +
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Uploaded image; transcribed on 04/10/2013 +
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bigg as foure of them used to be about twe … bigg as foure of them used to be about twelve or<br />
fourteene yeeres [?since]. The premisses hee deposeth for that<br />
hee this deponent hath for theise nine yeeres last [?as] a freeman dealt in<br />
and used the trade of Virginia and other tobaccoes, and hath<br />
receaved many hundreds hogsheads of tobacco brought thence<br />
in that space, and as free man and apprentice hee hath used<br />
and bin versed in that trade for theise seaventeene yeares last,<br />
And further hee cannot depose saving that hee saith hee is soe<br />
well acquainted with the dimension and [?bignes] of<br />
Virginia hogsheads that hee can well make estimate of<br />
the roome they will take in a shipp, and beleeveth that shipps<br />
which are bought and sold and commonly warranted for<br />
three hundred tuns, will not nor can conveniently take<br />
in or stowe above seaven hundred hogsheads of Virginia tobacco.<br />
And saving that Virginia caske being [?cheape], this deponent and others doe frequently<br />
[?pack] up out wards lading sent to to Virginia and other places in them, and have #
[#] [XXXX] frequently<br />
[XXXX as three to] a tonne<br />
[XX ? nor more], the<br />
[XXXX] refusing to<br />
[XXX] more than three<br />
[XXXXX.] [LH MARGIN]<br />
James Jauncye [SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN]
To the Interrogatories [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith hee was not in the voyage, and therefore<br />
hee answereth negatively.
To the second and third hee saith that Virginia hogsheads are not<br />
commonly all of a size, but saith that three large hogsheads exceede<br />
a tonne and three mid [XXXXX] or size of hogsheads make or supplie the<br />
roome of a full tonne in storage, and saith that complaint being lately<br />
made by masters and owners of shipps to the Assembly at Virginia<br />
of the [XXXX] sustained by them of late yeares by the largenes of<br />
hogsheads made for tobaccoes, and of their taking too much room in<br />
their shipps the said Assembly as hee hath bin informed both by letters<br />
and otherwise have made an order to bring them to a lesse<br />
and a certaine [?gage]. And otherwise hee cannot answer saving as<br />
aforesaid.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
James Jauncye [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 9th of November 1658.
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
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'''Mathew Travis''' of the parish of Saint John Evangelist<br />
London citizen and salter of London aged<br />
50 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that within and during<br />
theise five or six yeeres last past Virginia hogsheads wherein<br />
tobaccoes are usually imported have bin and commonly are much<br />
bigger than Virginia hogsheads for importing tobaccoe were for<br />
tenn yeares space or thereabouts next preceding the said five or six<br />
yeeres last, which hee knoweth for that for theise thirtie yeares<br />
lastfor theise thirtie yeares<br />
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