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 <u>The Lord Protector against Joseph Drew</u>
-Francis Harfeild, a forty-six year old grocer of Saint Mary Magdalens Old Fish Street, deposed on February 11th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation given in on February 20th [?XXX] on behalf of Joseph Drew in the cause of "The Lord Protector against Joseph Drew".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.519v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.519v]]</ref>
+[[Ffrancis Harfeild]], a forty-six year old grocer of Saint Mary Magdalens Old Fish Street, deposed on February 11th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation given in on February 20th [?XXX] on behalf of Joseph Drew in the cause of "The Lord Protector against Joseph Drew".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.519v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.519v]]</ref>
 The case concerned the sale of a parcel tobaccoes to Mr Gowen Goldegay at Yarmouth on January 27th 1654, and the subsequent resale and delivery of part of the parcel to Mr Harfeild on behalf of Mr Phillip Drew. Francis Harfeild took delivery of this parcel for Mr Drew at Yarmouth, having carried a letter from Mr John Jefferies and Mr James Wainwright in London to the Sub Commissioner for Dutch Prize Goods in Yarmouth. Payment was effected by means of a bill of exchange drawn on ffrancis Harfeild.<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.520r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.520r]]</ref>

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 Jeffreys himself gave his residence in 1656 as "London", but the following year he specified the parish of Saint Clements Eastcheap<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.235v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.235v]]; [[HCA 13/71 f.533v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.533v]]</ref>
-The Lobdon directory of 1677 contains an entry for "John Jeffery" at Saint Mary Ax.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/littlelondondire00lond#page/n89/mode/2up John Camden Hotten (ed.), The little London directory of 1677 (London, 1863), unpag., viewed 03/11/2016</ref>
+The London directory of 1677 contains an entry for "John Jeffery" at Saint Mary Ax.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/littlelondondire00lond#page/n89/mode/2up John Camden Hotten (ed.), The little London directory of 1677 (London, 1863), unpag., viewed 03/11/2016</ref>
 He was buried at Saint Andrew Undershaft in 1688, with the will of John Jeffreys was proved on November 20th 1688.<ref>Will PCC 150 Exton pr, 20 Nov 1688</ref>

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 <u>The personal answers of Robert Oxwick William Weilday and John Jefferyes made to the positions of an allegation given in against them on behalf of Thomas White and others, undated</u><ref>HCA 13/129 unfol. File_II0_PANA_P1100950-P1100952</ref>
 - Suit for unpaid wages of company of the ship the ''Content''
-- Master ws Godfrey Jones
+- Master was Godfrey Jones
-- Respondents state they believe voyage company was hired for was for London to Guine to the West Indies and back to London, but "what time they entred into pay or when they began the said voyage or how long they continued therein theis rendents know not nor know not well what to beleeve in regard it is so long agoe, about eleven yeares ince£
+- Respondents state they believe voyage company was hired for was for London to Guine to the West Indies and back to London, but "what time they entred into pay or when they began the said voyage or how long they continued therein theis rendents know not nor know not well what to beleeve in regard it is so long agoe, about eleven yeares since"
 - Voyage was to leave Gravesend in September or October 1647 to go to Ginney "and there took in negroes and with them sayled to Barbadoes  on their own accord without any order from thei rendents or any of the other freighters or owners..but neither put any goods or passengers on shoare there". The ship was cast and "never made any port as they beleeve". Rendents never saw the master of the ship again "hee dyeing before hee came home"
 - Outward lading was iron, strong water, wine and other commodities worth around £3,000

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 Jeffreys himself gave his residence in 1656 as "London", but the following year he specified the parish of Saint Clements Eastcheap<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.235v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.235v]]; [[HCA 13/71 f.533v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.533v]]</ref>
-Described himself as a merchant trading in tobacco.
+The Lobdon directory of 1677 contains an entry for "John Jeffery" at Saint Mary Ax.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/littlelondondire00lond#page/n89/mode/2up John Camden Hotten (ed.), The little London directory of 1677 (London, 1863), unpag., viewed 03/11/2016</ref>
-John Jefferies, "grocer", appears on a Civil War horse list, dated XX.<ref>ADD REFERENCE]]</ref>
+He was buried at Saint Andrew Undershaft in 1688, with the will of John Jeffreys was proved on November 20th 1688.<ref>Will PCC 150 Exton pr, 20 Nov 1688</ref>
-The will of John Jeffreys was proved on November 20th 1688.<ref>Will PCC 150 Exton pr, 20 Nov 1688</ref>
+Described himself in a High Court of Admiralty deposition as "a merchant trading in tobacco".
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==

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 <u>The Lord Protector against Wainewright and Jefferies</u>
 The case concerned tobaccoes which had been sold by the Commissioners for Dutch Prize Goods in November 1652 and delivered to a Mr ffrancis Burton, agent or partner for Mr Janes Wainewright and John Jefferies. The tobaccoes had subsequently been damaged and liability for this damage was disputed.
-Mathew Lock, gentleman, formerly a collector of customs at Portsmouth, deposed on January 10th 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on two allegations on behalf of the Lord Protector in the cause The Lord Protector against Wainewright and Jefferies.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.52r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.52r]]</ref>
+Mathew Lock, gentleman, formerly a collector of customs at Portsmouth, deposed on January 10th 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on two allegations on behalf of the Lord Protector in the cause The Lord Protector against Wainewright and Jefferies.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.52r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.52r]]</ref> A second witness, Richard Belchamber, merchant, of the parish of Saint Thomas the Apostle, London, deposed on February 1st 1655, also on behalf of the Lord Protector.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.253r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.253r]]</ref>
 There was a dispute about alleged outstanding customs duties to be paid at Portsmouth, with rate being raised after the sale of the tobaccoes. Delivery of the tobaccoes was delayed several times by Customs while arguments took place with Mr Burton about what was due. While the tobacco was stayed damage resulted to the tobacco in a ship named the ''Mayflower''.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.52v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.52v]]</ref>
 <u>The claime of John Jeffreys and company for the shipp the ''Rappahanacke'' whereof Richard Hull was master and her lading</u>

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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1616
 |First deposition age=40
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.235v Annotate,
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 Described himself as a merchant trading in tobacco.
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
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 '''1656'''
 Forty year old John Jeffreys deposed on June 5th 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.235v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.235v]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation in the cause of "Warner against the shipp the ''Alexander'' William Watson master and against Alexander Howe comming in for his interest and against the sayd Watson".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.235r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.235r]]</ref>
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 '''1657'''
-John Jeffreys deposed the following year in the High Court of Admiralty, specifically on February 3rd 1657.<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.533v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.533v]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation on behalf of William Watts in the cause of "Ewers against Watt".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.532v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.532v]]</ref> He again gave his age as forty, but detailed his residence as the parish of Saint Clements Eastcheap, London.
+<u>Ewers against Watt</u>
 Jeffreys stated that he "is by profession of a merchant and hath traded to Virginia for tobaccoe for these twelve yeares or thereaboutes last past and thereby knoweth that it is usuall with such as are traders in tobaccoe there and have any by them to send their tobaccoes by when March is past by any shipps they can, or if noe shipps bee bound for England bee then there then to barter it away to any that will take it for the like quantitie of tobaccoe to bee paid them the next yeare following or send the same for New England, rather then keepe it in Virginia after March is past, by reason it is a commoditie which with the heate of the country in Virginia will bee spoiled if it bee kept after the moneth of March next following after the yeare wherein it groweth".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.534r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.534r]]</ref>
 '''Undated, but ca. 1658'''
-The personal answers of Robert Oxwick William Weilday and John Jefferyes made to the positions of an allegation given in against them on behalf of Thomas White and others, undated<ref>HCA 13/129 unfol. File_II0_PANA_P1100950-P1100952</ref>
+<u>The personal answers of Robert Oxwick William Weilday and John Jefferyes made to the positions of an allegation given in against them on behalf of Thomas White and others, undated</u><ref>HCA 13/129 unfol. File_II0_PANA_P1100950-P1100952</ref>
 - Suit for unpaid wages of company of the ship the ''Content''
 - Master ws Godfrey Jones
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 '''1660'''
-"On the behalfe of John Jefferyes and Company touching the ''Hopewell'' Arthur Perkins Master aforesaid
+<u>On the behalfe of John Jefferyes and Company touching the ''Hopewell'' Arthur Perkins Master</u>
-- witnesses:
 (1) XX
 (2) XX

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 '''1655'''
-Richard Hull, master of the ship the ''Rappahanacke'', deposed on June 16th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.383r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.383r]]</ref>  He was examined on an allegation on behalf of "John Jefferyes and Company" in the cause of "The claime of John Jeffreys and} company for the shipp the ''Rappahanacke'' whereof Richard Hull was master and her lading".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.382r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.382r]]</ref>
+<u>The Lord Protector against Wainewright and Jefferies</u>
 He stated that "John Jefferyes dwelleth in Clements Lane London and that he hath knowne him for 3 or 4 yeares last, and that Thomas Coleclough liveth in Cornehill London, and that he the rendent hath knowne him for about 4 or 5 yeares last, and he answereth by vertue of his oath that they the sayd Jefferyes and Coleclough and he this rendent are the owners of the said shipp".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.384r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.384r]]</ref>
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 "On the behalfe of John Jefferyes and Company touching the ''Hopewell'' Arthur Perkins Master aforesaid
-- witnesses (1) XX (2) XX (3) XX (4) John Taylor, former boatswain of the ''Hopewell, of Limehouse, aged 39<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.499r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.499r]]</ref> XXX (10) Johannes Goodlad, of Lee Essex, mariner, aged 46<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.588r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.588r]]</ref> (?X) William Jackson, servant to merchant Thomas Burton<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.758v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.758v]]</ref>
+- witnesses:
 The ''Hopewell''. On behalf of John Jefferys, Michael XX,  Colclough etcetera touching the seizure of the ''Hopewell'' by the Portugalls<ref>[HCA 23/111 Item 46 P1100791 - P1100792]</ref>

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	Jeffreys stated that he "is by profession of a merchant and hath traded to Virginia for tobaccoe for these twelve yeares or thereaboutes last past and thereby knoweth that it is usuall with such as are traders in tobaccoe there and have any by them to send their tobaccoes by when March is past by any shipps they can, or if noe shipps bee bound for England bee then there then to barter it away to any that will take it for the like quantitie of tobaccoe to bee paid them the next yeare following or send the same for New England, rather then keepe it in Virginia after March is past, by reason it is a commoditie which with the heate of the country in Virginia will bee spoiled if it bee kept after the moneth of March next following after the yeare wherein it groweth".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.534r Annotate\|HCA 13/71 f.534r]]</ref>		Jeffreys stated that he "is by profession of a merchant and hath traded to Virginia for tobaccoe for these twelve yeares or thereaboutes last past and thereby knoweth that it is usuall with such as are traders in tobaccoe there and have any by them to send their tobaccoes by when March is past by any shipps they can, or if noe shipps bee bound for England bee then there then to barter it away to any that will take it for the like quantitie of tobaccoe to bee paid them the next yeare following or send the same for New England, rather then keepe it in Virginia after March is past, by reason it is a commoditie which with the heate of the country in Virginia will bee spoiled if it bee kept after the moneth of March next following after the yeare wherein it groweth".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.534r Annotate\|HCA 13/71 f.534r]]</ref>
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		+	'''1660'''
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		+	"On the behalfe of John Jefferyes and Company touching thee Hopewell Arthur Perkins Master aforesaid
		+	- witnesses (1) XX (2) XX (3) XX (4) John Taylor, former boatswain of the ''Hopewell, of Limehouse, aged 39<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.499r Annotate\|HCA 13/73 f.499r]]</ref> XXX (10) Johannes Goodlad, of Lee Essex, mariner, aged 46<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.588r Annotate\|HCA 13/73 f.588r]]</ref> (?X) William Jackson, servant to merchant Thomas Burton<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.758v Annotate\|HCA 13/73 f.758v]]</ref>
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		+	The ''Hopewell''. On behalf of John Jefferys, Michael XX, Colclough etcetera touching the seizure of the ''Hopewell'' by the Portugalls<ref>[HCA 23/111 Item 46 P1100791 - P1100792]</ref>
		+	- Interrogatories to be administred unto witnesses produced and sworne for and on the behalf of Thomas Burton of London merchant and others concerning a losse in the ''Hopewell'' of London
		+	-- Interrogatories mention Thomas Burton, James Jenkins, Richard Netmaker, John Hefferies and Thomas Colclough of London merchants, who had goods aboard the ship
		+	-- Note on the interrogatories cover states: John Goodlad and William Jackson sworne the 18th of Aprill 1660 before both the Judges in Court

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