Greene William ffisher (imported sugars from Portugal) Thomas Markland (Custome house waiter for the excise upon the shipp the ''Six Brothers'' upon her arivall from Port a Port) Richard Westcome (Brother of William Westcombe alias Wescomb)
TNA POSSIBLE: PROB 11/341/443 Will of Thomas Markland, Clerk of Saint Olave Southwark, Surrey. 04 April 1673
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To the 13th hee answereth negatively./ To the 14th hee saith hee is brother to Richard Westcombe one of the parties in this suite but is noe servant or hath any dependance upon him or any of the rest of the parties litigant And further cannot answere/ To the last hee saith hee cannot answere/ Repeated before Doctor Godolphin 12th of May: 1658:/ Will Wescomb [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] ************************ The tenth of May 1658 Examined upon an allegation given in on the behalfe of the said Greene. Greene against ffisher.) '''Rp. 1''' '''Thomas Markland''' of the parish of Saint Andrews Undershaft London Grocer, aged 50 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined. To the first article hee saith and deposeth that hee this deponent was the Custome house waiter for the excise upon the shipp the ''Six brothers'' arlate upon her arivall from Port a Port in Portugall to this port, and tooke an account in writing of the sugars brought home, and delivered thereout to and for account of the arlate William ffisher, contained in two and twenty chests and two fetches, and of the Weight thereof and made entrie thereof in his booke, which hee hath now with him, And saith hee findeth by this said booke and well knoweth that the same upon deliverie had at Buttolphs wharfe weighed 203 ''lb'' weight and a quarter and one (grosse) which quarter and one make twenty nine pounds, which hee knoweth because by vertue of his said office hee stood by and saw the weighing of the said two and twenty chests and two fetches of sugar, and entred the same as aforesaid in his booke, And saith the arlate William ffisher was comming to and againe at that time and gave order for sending them hence, and hath since acknowledged the receipt of the said sugars and hath paid the customes thereof, and saith the said delivery was in July last as appeareth alsoe by his said book. And further hee cannot depose, saving that the premisses were and are true and notorious, and saving that 707 R[oove] and 25 ''li'' of sugar Portugall weight at 32 li to a roove (which is the usuall computation) make 202 ''li'' weight and 25 ''li'' as hee hath [?cost] the same by. Tho: Markland ********************* Examined upon the foresaid allegation '''2.''' '''George Webb''' of the parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch London haberdasher, aged 30 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined. To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee this deponent was imploed by the arlate mr ffisher and other Marchants to take up their sugars brought in the shipp the ''Six brothers'' from Porto Port in Portugall to this port and did accordingly see to the deliverie and taking up of them
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