HCA 13/70 f.324v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 324 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2014/12/04 | |
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Boston aforesayd and that there was noe beere then aboard the sayd
shipp and that the sayd shipps Company did fill and carry away divers
dunletts of wine out of the sayd shipp to a great quantitie And
further hee cannot depose./
To the sixth article of the sayd allegation hee saith that upon or about the
fifth of July one thousand six hundred fifty fower hee this deponent did see severall bills which were sett up[XX ]
severall noated places as the markett place and other noted places in Boston
in New England for sale of the wynes seized in the sayd shipp the Saint John
Baptist expressing that they were to be made sale of at three a clock in
the afternoone that day at the Castle Taverne in Boston wehereupn this
deponent and Mr Robert Gilpin a Merchant and one Mr Sharpe a Marchant
and one Mr Charles Yeo a Merchant went presently after this deponent had
read the sayd bills to the sayd Castle Taverne where hee this deponent and
the sayd Merchants attended two or three howers to have
bidd money for the sayd wines and to have advanced the price of them to their
full value, and after this deponent and the rest of his Company aforesayd had stayed there soe longe in [?expectation]
of a sale to be made of the sayd wines there according to the bills aforesayd
one Mr Edward hutchenson a Merchant came into the sayd Castle Taverne
and told this deponent and the Company with him that the bills about sale
of the sayd wines seized in the Saint John Baptist were altered and that the
name of the Castle Taverne in Boston was dashed out of the sayd bills
and the name of the Shipp Taverne in Boston put in, and that hee had bin
at the Shipp Taverne and sawe the sale of the sayd wynes, and sayd that
Captaine Leveret (meaning the arlate Captaine Leveret in whose [?powere]
the sayd wines were then left by the arlate Maior Sedgewick who was
gone from Boston did [?hold] the sayd wines upon such termes videlicet to pay
ha;fe the price downe in ready money for what they should be sold
for, and remitt the other halfe to be paid in money by good bills of exchange
at London, soe that upon those termes boe body in Boston was able to
answere those demands, or bidd any considerable value for it whereupon [?hee]
(as the sayd Mr hutchenson affirmed before the Company then present)
the sayd Levert had made a sale thereof to himselfe at the value of fifty five shillings a punchion which is [?XXXX XXX] or the sayd Mr
hutchenson then spake words to the like effect, whereupon hee this
deponent went out of the Castle Taverne into the streets where the sayd
bills touching the sale of the sayd wyne were put up, and found
them altered, and the name of the Castle struck out, and the name of the Shipp
Taverne put in to them, as the sayd Mr hutchenson had before related the same
to bee, and hee this deponent then went to the Shipp Taverne and found by enquirie that
the sayd Leveret and some othrs had bin there about sale of the sayd wines
and that they were sold and all the Company gone, and this deponent
enquiring of the Inhabitants of the sayd Shipp Taverne, who had bought the sayd
wynes, they replyed that Captaine Leveret, (meaning the arlate Captaine
Leveret) had bought them himselfe, And further hee cannot depose
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