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the sayd ffudge for the accompt of the say … the sayd ffudge for the accompt of the sayd Alderman Micoe<br />
did weigh at the Custome house (of this deponents certaine<br />
knowledge who receaved the said goods for his Master and saw<br />
them there weighed) twenty seaven hundred, two quarters and<br />
nine pound weight and noe more, and the [?Tare] three quarters<br />
and twenty sixe pounds at fower pound weight for every<br />
hundred and twelve pound, being the usuall Tare allowed<br />
upon such goods, Soe that the Tare being taken off, the<br />
neate weight of the sayd Goats woolls that the said ffudge<br />
delivered was but twenty sixe hundred two quarters and<br />
eleaven pounds, And he deposeth and saith that he<br />
findeth by severall parcells of goods that a<br />
hundred Rotuloes Smirna maketh one hundred twenty<br />
and five pounds weight English, and that upon that<br />
accompt the two thousand sixe hundred and eight Rotuloes<br />
weight of the said Goats wools would and was to have made<br />
here three thousand two hundred and sixty pound weight<br />
but they made and weighted neate noe more then two thousand<br />
nine hundred seventy and nine poundds, soe that there<br />
was wanting of the iust weight of the said woolls two<br />
hundred eighty pounds and one, And he deposeth that the<br />
said ffudge hath acknowledged that every pound of the said<br />
Goats wooll is worth 1 ''s'' 4 ''d'' here in London, as alsoe<br />
he this deponent knoweth that at present it is worth as<br />
much. And further he cannot depose.
To the last he saith his former deposition is true.
To the Interrogatoryes. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he is the<br />
domestique srvant of the producent, and cometh to be now<br />
examined by his order, And that as to the point of right<br />
he favoureth the partyes litigant equally, and wisheth the<br />
victory to the deserver therof in iustice.
To the second Interrogaory he answereth that he first saw<br />
the interrate woolls at Chesters key he this Rendent being<br />
there on shoare, and that they were there taken a shoare<br />
out of a Lighter and presently weighed in the sight of the<br />
Rendent, and of one on the behalfe of the shipp And further<br />
he cannot answeare./
To the third Interrogatory he knoweth not to answeare./
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin./
Edmund Johnson [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The 12th day of ffebruary 1654 English style [CENTRE HEADING]
Edward Tayler against 1/8 part of the ''Blessing'' of which}<br />
George Blake Commander, adiudged by a Primum decretum<br />
and against the sayd Blake and all others to show cause why}<br />
a Secundum decretum should not passe against the}<br />
sayd part Suckley}
Examined on an allegation given the 5th of ffebruary [?XXX]<br />
aforesayd on behalfe of the sayd Tayler/
'''Rp. 1'''
'''Michaell Tayler''' of Wapping in the parish of<br />
Stepney a distiller of strong waters aged [?XXX]<br />
or thereabouts a witnesse sworne and examined saith and<br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./br />
deposeth as followeth videlicet./ +
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