MRP: C5/53/26 f. 1
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C5/53/26 f. 1
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//XXXX//
//3:o Octobris 1668//
//?Wychel//
//To the Right hono:ble S:r Orlando Bridgman knight and Barronett Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England//
//Humbly complayneing therewith unto your honor your Orator Sir Richard fforde of London knight and John Buckworth of London merchant That in the moneth of May in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and fower there being A treaty between your Orators and S:r William Ryder of//
//London knight and William Cutler of London merchant touching a trade of Iron and copper to be driven & carried on att Stockholme in Sweadland by them all Jointly it was concluded and fully agreed upon between your said Orators and the said S:r William Ryder and William Cutler to become Joint partners in Equall//
//fowerths in the said trade of Iron & copper & that a Joint Stock should be forthwith raised by all the partners share and share like & placed in the hands of John Colvile goldsmith[1] for the advanceing & carrieing on ofe the said Joint Trade and it was further agreed between your Orators and the said Sir William//
//Ryder and William Cutler that the said trade should be managed and driven on in the names of your Orator John Buckworth and the said William Cutler Jointly but not by either of them in particular and that all Letters & orders touching the said Trade should be in both their names as Likewise all goods which should be bought//
//abroad and sent home to London should be consigned & directed to your Orator John Buckworth and the said William Cutler Jointly & not to one of them in particular And it was further agreed upon between all the said parties that what monies should be raised or borrowed by the said partners upon the account of the said Joint trade should//
//be actually paid into the said John Colvile And should be imployed onely in the said Joint trade and not upon any other account and that noe moneyes should be paid out of the said Joint stock but by the particular orders and directions ofe all the partners And that the said Joint Trade should be mannaged by your Orator John Buckworth//
//and the said William Cutler for the Equall benefitt of themselves and the said other two partners In pursuance of which agreement and designe your Orator John Buckworth & the said William Cutler with the privity and consent ofe the said other partners did give orders to Samuell Sowton & Thomas Cutler (who was sonn of the//
//said William Cutler) they being factors resideing att Stockholm aforesaid to buy on the account of the said Joint partners a certaine quantity of Iron andCopper att Stockholme aforesaid and to send & confirme the same to your Orator Buckworth and the said William Cutler Joyntly in England with direcconns to them to drawe bills ofe//
//exchange for the vallue thereofe upon John Banks & ?Marses Banks being merchants resideing att ?Hambureinge in Germanie & upon William Vandervort & John Vandervort marchants resideing att Amsterdam in Holland in parts beyond the seas who were ordered for theire reimbursement to draw bills of exchange upon your Orator John Buckworth//
//and the said William Cuttler here in England in pursuance of which orders severall quantities of Iron and copper were by the said Sowton and Thomas Cutler bought att Stockholme upon the account of the said Joint Trade and by them shipped and sent for England but how and for what reason your Orators know not the said//
//Iron and copper was not consigned and appointed to be delivered unto your Orator Buckworth and the said William Cutler Joyntly as the same should have been but it was consigned unto the said William Cuttler onely who received the same and afterwards without the knowledge or consent of your Orator Buckworth or the other partners sold & disposed//
//thereof to great proffitt but never to this day rendered any account thereof to your Orator Buckworth or to any other ofe the partners And the said Sowton & Thomas Cuttler after they had bought & sent the said Iron & Copper as aforesaid did draw bills of exchange for the same upon the said John & Charles Bankes & William & John//
//Vandervorts who in the like manner drew ??othyer bills of the like vallue upon your Orator John Buckworth and the said William Cuttler And there being by that meanes charged upon your Orator John Buckworth and the said William Cuttler as aforesaid And your Orators and the said S:r William Ryder and William Cuttler ?finding that there was//
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Commentary
Potential primary sources
- ↑ John Colville, goldsmith of London was XXXXX
