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To the fourth and 5th articles hee saith a … To the fourth and 5th articles hee saith and deposeth that within a<br />
short time after the said Brewer had bought the parcell of oiles<br />
in question, this deponent who had as aforesaid bought other<br />
oiles of the same qualitie, and the said Brewer meeting together<br />
and speaking of their said oiles soe bought, they fell to treating<br />
that this deponent should either take the said Brewers parcell at a [?prXXX]<br />
[?XXXed], or els that this deponent who had bought a greater<br />
parcell should deliver the said Brewer a parcell of his [?XXXXXX]<br />
to the said Brewers parcell, and this<br />
deponent was to pitch the price, and<br />
the said Brewer was to give this deponent<br />
40 ''s'' (or some other summe of money which hee particularly remembreth<br />
not) and to have his election whether to take or refuse both the<br />
said parcells; and the said Brewer made choice to leave<br />
to this deponent upon the said price pitched, his the said Browers<br />
parcell, and gave this deponent then some moneyes in part of<br />
payment of the said 40 ''s'' or other summe agreeed upon, and this hee saith was donne<br />
at the Naggs head taverne neare the Custome house, then and there<br />
being present Captaine Robert deane, an oile man in watlingstreete. [?Only]<br />
that within very few dayes after the premisses, the said John<br />
Brower came to this deponent upon the Exchange London, and<br />
brought and delivered and paid unto him the remainder of the said summe<br />
of 40 ''s'' (or other summe agreed upon) in the presence of the saud<br />
Captaine deane and others, and soe this deponent had really<br />
bought the said oiles of the said Brewer; and further saith that<br />
afterwards this deponent sold the said oiles to Alderman [?siXX]<br />
and brought the said Alderman to the said Brewer upon the<br />
Exchange and told him then hee had sold the said oiles to the<br />
said Alderman, and therefore willed the said Brewer to deliver<br />
them to him, and the said Brewer acknowledging this deponents<br />
said buying of them, willed him to drawe a note for them [?XXXXX]<br />
the same and said that hee would sett his hand thereto, And<br />
saith that hee this deponent having soe bought the said oiles of<br />
the said Brewer intended to have deliverie made him after 236<br />
gallons to the tonne, being the same proportion that hee had received<br />
from the prize office in his other parcell there bought,<br />
and that this deponent intended to make deliverie to the said Alderman<br />
at the same Gage, as hee had donne in other the like oiles before<br />
that being the gage that this deponent both bought and<br />
sold at from time to time though there were no particularme to time though there were no particular +
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