HCA 13/66 Silver IMG 118 07 2463 Annotate
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the [?worke] men have bin unfurnished with the said sorts of woolls and albeit there hath bin greate enquerie made after the same, yet have they bin scarse to be got for money, and therefore hee is as hee saith well assured that the said commodities to the quantities of two or three thousand baggs are at a better market in England than in ffrance fflannders or hollandm and may here be sold at a higher price and greater rate than in any of those places or other parts thereabouts, And this hee saith was and is true and notorious and well knowne to merchants and tradesmen dealing in that commoditie. And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the crosse Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING] To the first hee saith hee cometh required by Mr Budd the States proctor to be a witnesse in this cause, and that hee dwelleth in lumbardstreete, and hath soe donne for theise fifteene yeares last past, and that hee sawe the maior part of the woolls in question at Chesters key within five weekes last. And saith hee is not bound to answer touching the valew of his estate. To the second hee saith that hee hath used to buy woolls of Spaine sometimes of one merchant and somtimes of another as hee hath found them furnished and hath dealt with most of the merchants that have driven any considerable trade in those commodities at one time or other And that hee this summer bought some of severall merchants as Mr Edward [?Radden] and others, And otherwise hee cannot answer, saving they have bin considerable quantities that hee hath bought this summer. To the third hee saith that in case the woolls in question came to be sold hee may probably buy a parcell of them if hee finde a penniworth to be had therein as hee conceriveth it for him to doe being in the way of his trade and calling. And otherwise negatively. To the 4th hee saith that the usuall weight of Spanish wooll is somtimes more and somtimes lesse, videlicet from an hundred and a quartern to three hundred and a halfe, and hee never made soe narrowe inquirie of the quantitie of those woolls in England [?XX] [?XXXX] as to be able to estimate the number of baggs that [?were] [?at] [?XXXX] in this land, and saith hee hath knowne neare [?how] hundred baggs in one mans hand at [?XXXX]. And otherwise hee cannot depose. To the fifth hee saith that Castilla wools are of two sorts namely felt woolls and cloth woolls, and accordingly they are used, and saith they would more be used if they could be had than formerly they have bin in England, because the Commonwealth growes more populous, and the people more reduced to [?CCesse] of habit and clothes then formerly, and otherwise hee cannot answer. To the sixth hee saith that Castila woolls are a [?XXXX] [?XXXX]
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