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HCA 13/71 f.277r Annotate
First transcribed 27 September 2012  +
First transcriber Colin Greenstreet  +
Folio 277  +
Parent volume HCA 13/71  +
Side Recto  +
Status Uploaded image; transcribed on 27/09/2012  +
Transcription port in Spaine Portugal or Italy or from Sport in Spaine Portugal or Italy or from Spaine Portugal or Italy to Saint Malo's, Roane<br /> New haven, fflanders or dover the masters and companies use by<br /> custome to have for average upon every bale of strangers goods one Ryall at least<br /> upon every docket fraight and for English goods a royall upon every bale good and three Ryalls every tonne and this customary allowance hee saith is<br /> comprized under the names of primage and average, or more properly<br /> average, and saith there is constantly in English billls, mention made<br /> of primage and average, a part from the freight, This custome<br /> and usage hee saith hee hath knowne for theise thirtie yeeres last during<br /> which space hee hath frequented the sea as a Mariner, and gonne to<br /> and from severall of those places, and saith the same custome prevailed<br /> and is observed for other ports and places within and without the Streights. To the second article hee saith and deposeth that for divers yeares last past<br /> wherein English shipps have gonne from Lisbone to Brazilia<br /> manned with English, there hath constantly a certaine average bin<br /> used to be expressed in every Charter partie and bill of lading for<br /> and in lieu of average over and besides the freight expressed in the<br /> said Charter parties and bills, which said average, (as being belonging<br /> to the masters and mariners, and not to the owners of the shipps) hath<br /> bin accustomed constantly to be paid and allowed by the ffreighters, and<br /> that the same was not nor is ever understood to be allowed or given<br /> to the owners of the shipp imployed, but to the masters and company<br /> as an encouragement and regard in regard of<br /> their care and diligence of in stowing and preserving the lading as<br /> much as in them lives, and depending the same against men of warr<br /> or otherwise hazarding their lives for the same; and alsoe as an earnest<br /> or obligation upon them to be carefull of the said lading, in asmuch<br /> as by their receiving the said average, they stand liable for dammage<br /> that shall happen by ill stowage or want of due pumping and<br /> performing their bounden duties in that behalfe, which hee knoweth<br /> for the reasons aforesaid, and for that hee hath gonne the said voyage<br /> from Lisbone to Brazila, as commander of the shipp ''Scipio''<br /> which was manned with English, and this deponent had his Charter<br /> partie and bills made accordingly. To the third hee saith that besides their wages there is noe other<br /> allowance whatsoever to the masters and mariners of any English<br /> shipps that goe to the Brazila but only the said average expressed<br /> in the said Charter parties and bills, which hee knoweth for the reasons<br /> aforesaid, and having bin a commander of shipps for theise twenty<br /> yeares last and upwards. And otherwise cannot depose. To the fourth hee cannot depose. To the fifth hee saith that the said average doth really and soly<br /> belong to the master and company, and not to the owners or any other<br /> and this hee saith was and is publique and notorious. And otherwise<br /> saving as aforesaid hee cannot depose. To the sixth hee saith that usually and accustomably at London there is in all<br /> Charterparties made for other voyages (and not for the Brazila) the summe<br /> for freight in particular expressed, and besides the freight there is<br /> commonly expressed primage, average and pettitloadmonage<br /> (or pettilodsmoney) accustomed, and saith the said primage, average and<br /> pettiloadmonage hath from time to time belonged and doth alwaies belong<br /> toged and doth alwaies belong<br /> to  +
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