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− | ''' HCA13/73'''
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− | '''Editorial history'''
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− | 01/05/12, CSG: Created page
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− | ==Suggested links==
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− | ==Physical description==
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− | ==Sample transcriptions==
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− | ===Front Cover===
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− | P1110298
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− | //XXXX13
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− | January 1658
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− | March 1660//
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− | P1110299
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− | DOUBLE PAGE, WITH RECTO F15 RECTO
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− | P1110300
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− | f. 15 recto
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− | //The 19:th day of January 1658 English style
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− | Maurice Thompson Alderman William Thompson)
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− | & other freighters of the shipp the ''Maydenhead'')
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− | agt the Dutch East India Company in pticular and)
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− | all other x:r X XXXXXX)
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− | Examined on the allegation given in
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− | XX XXX of November 1658 on behalfe of
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− | the sayd ffreighters
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− | 5 WILLIAM READING of Rederiff wall
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− | in the parish of S:t Mary Magdalen Bermond-
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− | sey in the County of Surrey mariner aged
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− | thirty five yeares or thereabouts a wittnesse
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− | sworne & examined saith and deposeth
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− | as followeth viz:t
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− | To the 10:th arle of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee
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− | this deponent was purser of the shipp the ''Olive Branch'' an
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− | English shipp which went upon a tradeing voyage from London bound
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− | for Bantam but at her comeing thither the sayd shipp ''Olive
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− | Branch'' was hindred by certayne dutch shipps of warr belonging
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− | to and being in the implyment of the dutch East India Company
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− | by which meanes ?they wwas forced to goe to an Island in XXX
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− | PaXXogando upon the Coast of Sumatra and there pXXXX her lading
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− | of pepper to be brought
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− | secretly unknowne to the dutch in XXXX or boates from
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− | Bantam to the sayd Island of Pullegand:o where the shipp the
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− | ''Olive Branch'' ridd And saith that hee being XXXX a foresayd Puerser
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− | of the sayd shipp and on XXXX at Bantam during the moneths
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− | of January ffebruary and part of March in the yeare of our
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− | Lord 1656 while the lading of pepper which was shipped aboard
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− | the ''Olive Branch'' was proXXXing at Bantam to be sent to
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− | Pollegaade and takeing the weight there of and imployed in
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− | sending the same away thaereby knoweth that in the yeare and
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− | moneth aforesayd pepper might then have bin hard at Bantam bought
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− | of the Chinese (sic) & was by the Chinese offered XXXXXXXXXX
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− | there to be sold to ?sayth as would buy the same at the rate of five
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− | and a halfe pence alright or XXXX for the parcell every parcell
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− | being comonly accompted one hundred sixty two pounds English weight
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− | And saith that the ''Olive Branch'' having taken in her ladeing
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− | of pepper at ?Pulligaade XXXXX XXXXX and brought the same
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− | to Ligorno which was according to Charterpty the Port whither
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− | she was designed to carry the same And hee this deponent goeing
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− | Purser in her to Ligorno knoweth that in the Moneths of ffebruary
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− | and March 1657 in which moneths the sayd shipp ''Olive Branch''
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− | was & remayned in the Port of Ligorno XXXX pepper was brought in XXXX was there frequently
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− | and commonly sold at the rate of twenty peeces of eight
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− | per hundred English weight, and hee this deponent having some
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− | pepper pf his owne which was brought hither in the sayd shipp
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− | did there sell the same at som what a bove
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− | that rate of twenty peeces of eight per hundred English weight
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− | And further to this arle hee cannot depose.
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− | To the rest of the articles hee is not examinat, by ?direction
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− | WILLIAM READING [His signature]
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− | Repetit before Dor Godolphin
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− | P1110302
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− | f. 15 verso
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− | //and saith gee kast XXXX the
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− | about
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− | XXX
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− | a halfe
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− | answere
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− | knowing
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− | XXXX
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− | To the 3 hee saith hee
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− | P1110311
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− | f.56 recto
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− | //Consigned the same to be delivered to this depo:t herein XXX XXX
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− | for the said Account of the said ''Provident'': and afterwards this
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− | depot received the Letter of advise and Invoice annexed from him
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− | the said ffacto:r by the said ship ''S:t Laurence'' XXXX XXX seizure together
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− | with the bill of Lading arlate w:ch hee hath nowe alsoe seene, And
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− | this depo:t hath heard that the said ship belonged to the arlate M:r
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− | fford, And further hee deposeth not, saving that the said Letter
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− | Invoice and Bill of Lading Exhibited were and are the same
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− | soe by him received:
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− | To the 8:th hee saith that after the XX XXXX hee this depo:t was
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− | advised by letters from Plymouth of the seizure of the said ship
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− | and Lading by Captaine Aylett, and of her bringing in thither
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− | where shee was brought (as hee saith) to this port for this depo:t
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− | here received the said silver in question out of her, and further
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− | deposeth not.
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− | To the 9:th hee saith hee is well assured and verily beleeveth
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− | that the said two barrs of silver were really and truely pvided
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− | and laded for y:e prop and sole account of y:e sad producent and
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− | upon his adventure, and that hee runneth the sole hazard thereof
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− | and that noe Spaniard or other subject of the King of Spaine
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− | had at the time of the said Lading and seizure any interest
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− | therein w:ch hee is ?induced the more assuredly to beleeve for
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− | y:t this depo:t by theproducents order hath and ?must make good the proceeds
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− | thereof unto them and that amounted with him for y:e same as
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− | will noe other, And further deposeth not
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− | ==Notes==
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