HCA 13/70 f.343r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 343 |
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C.2.
The second of July 1655. [CENTRE HEADING]
John Taylor and Company against Currance}
brought to this port from the Morea in the}
Castle frigot, John Wall Master.}
Examined upon an allegation made in the
Acts of Court on the behalfe of
henry Chewne and ffrancis ffowkes
the 27th of June last past.
Budd,
ffrancklin. dt.
.j.
John Earlsman of London Merchant aged 23 yeares
or thereabouts, sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee well knoweth the
producents henry Chewne and ffrancis ffowke
and well knoweth that in or about the moneth of March last opast William
ffowke Merchant, Consul of the Morea, as factor of and for the said
henry Chewne and ffrancis ffowke laded aboard the shipp the Castle
frigot John Wall Commander in the Roade of Petras thirteene
butts and six Carratells of Morea Currants to be thence transported
in the said vessell to this port of London and here to be delivered to
the said henry Chewne and ffrancis ffowke (or order) for whose accompt
hee saith they were laden, and upon their adventure, and further
that the said William ffowke at or about the same time at Petras
aforesaid laded aboard the said shipp for the accompt of the allegate
Thomas Middleton six butts and one Caratell of the like Currants
to be transported to this port for his the said Thomas his accompt
and upon his adventure, all which hee knoweth to be true, because
hee this deponent was then and there present, and sawe the lading
of the said two parcells of currance, namely those for mr Chewne
and mr ffowke and those for Captaine Middleton, and was
particularly acquainted with and privie to the providing them
for the said respective accompts with moneys which the said William
ffowke had (as hee said) in his hands of the said respective producents,
and besides hee heard him severall times say at and before the time of
the said lading; that the said respective producents had sent him money
expressely for the buying and lading the said goods for their said accompts
and for the reasons aforesaid
and having nowe seene the bills of lading exhibited, (which hee saith hee
sawe signed at Petras in the Roade aboard the said shipp by the said [?Wall
hee saith hee well knoweth the said henry Chewne and ffrancis
ffowke to be the true owners of the said thirteene butts and six
Caratells and the said Thomas Middleton of six butts and one Caratell
of Morea Currants aforesaid, and that the same were laden for their
respective accompts and that they have run the adventure thereof, and
saith the contents of the said bills were and are true and soe had and
donne as therein is contained, which hee knoweth being present as
aforesaid and privie to the said contents. And hee moreover deposeth
taht before and to the time of the lading of the said respective parcells
of Currants namely for the space of a fortnight or thereabouts before
the said lading (that this deponent was there) hee this deponent sawe
the said Currants in the custodie and possession of the said William
ffowke in a warehouse at Petras under his locke and key, and
sawe them or most of them taken and laden thence aboard the said shipp and
helped to carry them from the warehouse to the shipps boate
and
