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the Exchange London (being thereto imploye … the Exchange London (being thereto imployed by the said Thomas Andrews<br />
and company the producents) and tooke a note of the said weight in writing and thereby well knoweth that at the time<br />
when they were laden aboard the ''Levant frigot'' John hasilgrave commander<br />
(which was on or about the 18th of July 1653) the said thirtie baggs of<br />
pepper did containe neat, tenn thousand eightie and eight pounds of<br />
pepper, English weight, And otherwise hee cannot depose./
To the 9th article hee cannot depose saving as aforesaid.
To the 10th and 11th he saith that hee this deponent having bin six or seaven<br />
yeeres last with the said mr Andrewes as his servant and apprentice and writing in<br />
his counting house, this deponent hath had the oportunitie of viewing<br />
his dispatches and accompts, for which this deponent keepeth his bookes,<br />
and hath seene and entred severall accompts from Genoa of pepper<br />
sent thither from this port by the said Thomas Andrewes and company,<br />
And saith hee hath amongest others seene severall advises from<br />
the said producents for [?XXX] at Genua touching the valew or price of pepper<br />
there per pound, namely one of the third and another of the 11th of<br />
ffebruary 1653. From John Lewes and John Meade factors at Genua<br />
signifying and advertizing in that of the third of ffebruary that<br />
pepper was there sold them immediately after such receipt, at the price of 24 sols and<br />
a halfe per pound Genua weight, And further saith that by the<br />
said seeing of accompts from Genua, hee findeth and well<br />
knoweth that seaventie one pounds of pepper English weight, make<br />
an hundred pounds Genua weight or thereabouts, And otherwise<br />
saving his foregoeing deposition (whereunto and the common course of casting<br />
up an accompt hee referreth himselfe) hee cannot depose,<br />
and saving that the said pepper shipped and sent as aforesaid from hence<br />
was by this deponent in behalfe of the said producents shipped in good<br />
condition, and that the same was soe shipped in good condition, hee hath<br />
seene a bill of lading under the hand of the said hasilgrave.
To the thirteenth article hee saith and deposeth that this deponent hath<br />
seene letters of advise from the said factors at Genua sent to the said<br />
Thomas Andrews and company giving them to understand that upon and<br />
after the arivall of the said John hasalgrave at Genoa they received<br />
of him 938 dollers, which hee paid unto them (and not more as they wrote)<br />
as the proceede of pepper laden for the producents accompt for the port of Genuoa and sold by<br />
the said haslgrave before hee came to Genuoa, and that this deponent<br />
hath not seene any other advice of any other or greater summe<br />
delivered or paid unto them or to any other at any other place upon the<br />
accompt of peppers sold by the said hasalgrave; And further that<br />
by advises it did and doth appeare that about the time that the said<br />
moneys namely 938 dollers were delivered to the said producents factor<br />
at Genua by the said haselgrave, the exchange was at 58 ''d'' to the<br />
doller was at 58 ''d'' to the<br />
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