HCA 13/70 f.449v Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/70 |
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| Folio | 449 |
| Side | Verso |
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| Colin Greenstreet | |
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And hee saith that after they who bought the rest of the ginger in the warehouse where the sayd
Swinnocks ginger laye or their assignes had taken away out of the sayd warehouse all the
ginger by them bought some sixty baggs. care was taken to lay by one
hundred baggs of ginger for the sayd Samuell Swinnock, and this deponent and
his sayd Contests and other porters imployed as aforesayd did helpe to weigh the
same and laye the same out of the warehouse it then was in into a warehouse next
thereto adioyning to be there safely kept for the sayd Swinnock till such tyme as
hee would callfor the same And further hee cannot depose./
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first hee saith that hee was required in the behalfe if the Commissioners
for prize goods to come and testifie the truth in this cause but by whome particular
hee remembreth not and saith hee hath nos share or interest in the ginger in
controversie nor is none of the warehouse keepers interrogate, but saith hee sawe
the ginger in question severall tymes in the warehouse at Ralphes Key where it
lay having often occasion to goe thereinto by reason hee was and is as is predeposed a porter imployed
by the sayd Commissioners about delivery of such goods as they sell, but how
many tymes hee was therein hee cannot certainely answere./
To the 2 Interrogatorie hee saith there was (as hee beleeveth) three hundred and some odd
baggs of ginger in the whole parcell Interrogate and saith hee knoweth not of any lott that
was made for any of the sayd parcells nor whose lott was first if the same
were allotted, nor who by name bought the rest of the ginger interrogate, but
saith they who bought or at least brought warrants for the receiving thereof
did (without any lotts cast that this deponent knoweth of) received the ginger by them receaved,
out of the whole, according as this deponent and his contests and the sayd other
porters delivered the same unto them, and lost the sayd Swinnocks hundred
baggs and about 60 baggs more belonging to an other man, and saith hee this
deponent was present at the delivery of all the ginger which was taken away out of
the parcell Interrogate. And further hee cannot answere/
To the third hee saith it concerneth him not to answere thereto for that hee hath
not deposed to the third article of the allegation Interrogated neither can he depose to
the contents of this Interrogatorie/
To the 4th Interrogatorie hee saith hee referreth him selfe to his deposition to the 5th
article of the allegation and further hee cannot answere saving hee saith there was
noe ginger delivered as aforesayd save what this deponent and the sayd other
porters delivered with their owne hands and weighed without suffereing the receivers to meddle
with takeing the same from among the other baggs of ginger left, which were
one hundred and sixty, out of which hundred and sixty baggs this deponent
and the rest of the sayd porters then weighed and layed by the sayd 100 baggs for the
sayd Swinnocks use./
Repeated before doctor Godolphin./
Edward Sherwin [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation
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Edward ffrancis of the parish of Saint Olave in Southwarke
Cittizen and Merchantaylor of London a wittnes sworne and
examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet./
