MRP: C10/99/66 f. 1
C10/99/66 f. 1
Abstract
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//XXXXXXXXXXX 4:o 5:o Juval XXXXXdie Marty [top LH side]//
//1661 [top LH side]//
//Na ?Havall [top LH side]
//The sewall Answer of John Park one of the def:ts to the Bill of Comp:lt of the Governo:r XXXXXX//
//of merchants of London tradinge to the East Indies Comp:lts//
//The said def:t nowe & att all tymes hereafter savinge to himselfe all Advantages of exception to y:e incertaineties & insufficiencies of y:e said Comp:lts Bill for answer//
//unto soe much thereof as concerneth him this def:t to make Answer unto sayeth, That hee beleiveth itt to bee true, that the other def:t Edward Wood & others the//
//ptowners of y:e shipp called the Royall James & Henry in y:e Bill named, did about the tyme therein expressed lett the said shipp to ffreight to the said//
//Comp:lts for such voiage & upon such condiccons as in y:e said Bill is expressed, But this defend:t denieth that hee, or any others to his knowledge hath laden or//
//putt aboard the said shipp, any pson or psons goods or merchandizes phibited by the said Comp:lts to bee laden in y.e said shipp upon any accompt w:htsoever//
//& in pticuler this def:t denieth, that hee this def:t or any other pson or psons whatsoever to this def:ts knowledge did lade or putt a board the said//
//shipp outward bound any iron, sayes, callicoes or any other the goods & merchandizes in the Bill mencconed, or that this def:t to his knowledge ever sawe any//
//bill of Ladinge, or receipt for the same from Captaine Maurice Blackman in the Bill named, or any others, savinge that this defend:t seeinge y:e//
//booke that was kept for the Acc:t of the said Orators concerninge the said shipp, did finde mencon made in that booke that there were pvided//
//for y:e accompt of the said shipp & Owners viz:t five chests of knives, two hundred & fiftie sayes, nine Bayles//
//or parts of Ruggs two bayles or parts of carpetts sixteen ?Runletts of french spiritts, sixteene Runletts of ffrench Brandy, & for//
//any other goods mencconed by the said Comp:lts bill to bee phibited, this defend:t doth not knowe of any that was carried on board the said shipp //
//the Royall James & Henrye neither did this def:t understand that the above mencconed goods were pvided for the Accompt of the said shipp &//
//Owners, otherwise than is expressed by the booke kept for the said shipps owners Accompt, which booke as this defendan:t remembreth was carried//
//purposelye to the East India howse to bee shewed to y:e said Comp:lts, & as thisdefendant taketh itt was seen by some of them, whoe might therby//
//understand as much as this def:t knoweth & this def:t denieth that hee did ever privatlye, convey, or put on board the said shipp the//
//aforesaid goods or did hire or cause to bee hiered, or knoweth that any other pson or psons did hire, or cause to be hiered a boate, or vessell//
//in the downes for that purpose, or ever reved any noate from any pson or psons whatsoever, for the receipt thereof, or knowes of any//
//direccon given for the retorne of any proceed thereof, forth Accompt of any pson, or psons whatsoever, And this def:t sayeth hee//
//knoweth nothinge of any other the pticulers in the said Comp:lts bill laid to this def:ts charge, other than what hee hath in this//
//his Answer formerly sett forth, without that, that any other matter, or thinge in the said Comp:lts bill conteyned, matteriall, or//
//effectuall for this def:t to make Answer unto, and not herein, & hereby sufficiently Answered unto, confessed, & Avoided//
//traversed or denied is true to this def:ts knowledge, all w:ch matters & things this def:t is ready to averr Justifie maintaine &//
//prove as this hono:ble Co:rt shall Award, & humbly prayeth to bee hence dismissed with his reasonable costs & charges & in that//
//behalfe most wrongfully, & without cause susteyned//
//Sa: Plomer [bottom RH side]
Commentary
See C10/99/70 f. 1
