HCA 13/68 f.353v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/68 |
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| Folio | 353 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2018/03/06 | |
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and saith e wrought not by day wages, but bu the measures of
corne att 3½ d a quarter portage and 12 d a [?skene] over measure. and was payd
by the Commissioners of the prize office, or their Agents by warrants from
the sayd Commissioners.
To the 2d Interrogatory he saith he wrought not upon any shipp fr the
sayd Commissioners in or about June July or August last save the sayd shipp ffortune
onely, the burthen whereof or master he knoweth not. and saith
he began to worke upon the sayd shipp in July last but the particular
day remembreth not, and wrought upon her about 15 dayes
first and last. (and saith there was about one thousand and sixty
quarters of wheat taken out of the sayd shipp. and 230. quarters thereof
was layd up att Saint Saviours dock in a granary there. and about
830 quarters att the Bridge howse:- And this deponent nor any
other private person to his knowledge had any of the sayd wheat.
or so farr as he hath seene. And otherwise cannot depose
To the .3. Interrogatory he saith he is perswaded in his conscience that
the foresayd stench and heat of the sayd corne was the occasion
of the sayd Spriggs death for that the sayd Sprigg was before
the sayd worke an healthy and lively man, and in the sayd worke gron
faint weake and ill and so contynued to his death still complaining
of the surfitt of heat and could he gott in the sayd worke and
otherwise cannot depose.
To the .4. he saith the sayd wheat could not possibly have bene turned
in the sayd shipp nor have bene preserved from perishing without
carrying into open aire and sweet and good granaries. and
otherwise saving as aforesayd cannot depose.
the marke H of the sayd [MARKE, RH SIDE]
Henry Walter
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The same day
The sayd Richard Staples to the Interrogatoryes
To the .1. he saith he hath bene employed by the Commissioners for prize goods
in Corne prizes but not in any other worke att severall tymes as
Corne prizes came to their hands for 2 or 3 yeares past and saith
he wrought not by day but by measure att 12 d the score of
quarters. [?XXXXXXXXXXXXXX] into the Lighters and 18 d per score of quarters measured into Lighters
and receyved his wages from the Commissioners of the prize offices or their
Agents by their warrant, and the sayd fortune was the last he wrought upon and
hath not in memory the names of the rest.
To the .2. he saith in June July and August last he wrought for the
sayd Commissioners upon the fortune aforesayd whose master or burthen he saith
he knoweth not, and not uppon any other shipp in or about that tyme for the sayd Commissioners. and he so wrought
upon the sayd shipp about ten or 12 dayes first and last and
began in July but remembrers not the particular days And saith
about 1000 and some odd quarters of wheat were taken out of
the sayd shipp and the greatest part thereof was disposed of in the
Bridgehowse and the remaynder in a Granary att Saint Saviours
dock. And saith himselfe nor any Labourer or other person had any
part of teh sayd Corne to their owne private use so farr as this deponent
knoweth beleiveth or hath heard And further cannot depose
