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The 16th of January 1656. [CENTRE HEADING] On the behalf of the said Mr Tivell} touching the ''Noahs Arke''} '''James Wright''' of London Grocer aged 45 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and examined. '''5us''' To the first and second Interrogatories hee saith and deposeth that in the moneth of March 1656 there was sold by Mr John Tivell of London Merchant unto Mr Samuel Browne and Mr Richard [?Boylie] Grocers one hundred thirtie and five barralls or thereabouts of raisans of the sun, and one hundred eightie two peeces of peece raisins or thereabouts, at the rate and price of fourtie foure shillings per cent for the barrells, and twenty seaven shillings per cent for the peeces, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent at the instance of the said buyers weighed them off for them the said buyers Mr Browne and Mr Boylie and since the delivery of them by their order# [LH MARGIN] #and sawe the [?bills] of parcells mentioning sale of those goods at those rates,/ And their deponent was credibly informed and beleeveth that the said parcells of raisans were brought to London in a ship called the ''Noahs arke'', which was said to come from Callice having bin carried thither by a man of warr belonging to that place, which man of warr (as it was alsoe said) plundered out of her a quantitie of barrells and [?peeces] of raisins. To the third hee cannot depose, saving as aforesaid. To the fourth hee saith that hee this deponent upon the said weighing the said raisins off clearly found and perceived that the barrells and peeces were much defective and wanting [?with] their contents and quantitie of raisins which had bin laded originally in them in Spaine according to what appeared by the caskes and fro[XXXs] and [?then] such defect and want of quantitie happened as hee after perceived and beleeveth by plundering, imbeazealing or filching, and that such plundering and imbeazealing happened (as their deponent was told) by such the said shipp her seizure and carrying into Callice; and as this deponent computed the defect. there was soe plundered and wanting about fourteene hundred weight of raisins of the sun and about six hundred weight of peece raisins, James wright [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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