HCA 13/72 f.399r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/72 |
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| Folio | 399 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
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| 2015/12/01 | |
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at the tyme of ladeing the sayd seaven pipes of wyne aboard the Mary
and Joyce in the Port of Oratava hee did not take particular notice of the
markes they then had upon them./
To the 7th hee saith the sayd Stafford is commonly accompted to bee an
Englishman borne, and hee verily beleeveth was borne at Limpston in the
County of sevon, and hee saith hee the sayd Stafford liveth and for severall
yeares last past hath lived in the parish of Saint Olave in Southwarke and is
a subiect of this Commonwealth And further hee cannot depose/
To the 8th hee saith saving his foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose
saving hee beleeveth the sayd Stafford doth runne the whole risque
and hazard of the sayd seaven pipes of Canarie wynes and that noe
person but the sayd Stafford hath any right or interest in the sayd seaven
pipes of wyne And further hee cannot depose/
To the last hee saith his foregoeing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories on the behalfe of his highnes the
Lord Protector/ [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatorie hee saith hee was none of the Company of either of
the shipps Interrogate only hee went Supracargo of the Mary and Joyce
Interrogate the voyage in question and saith hee is an Englishman borne
at Limpston the County of devon and a subiect of this Commonwealth
And to the rest of the Interrogatorie hee answereth negatively/
To the 2 hee saith hee hath knowne the Interrogate Phillip Stafford wver
since his this rendents Childhood or thereaboputs, and saith the sayd Stafford
liveth in London and soe hath done (as hee beleeveth) during all the
tyme Interrogate./
To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee knoweth that the Interrogate Phillip Stafford
did at the Canaries barter away waxe and goats skinnes
and other Commodities some whereof were the proceed of the Commodities hee carried
from London and bartered in barbery for that waxe goates Skinnes and other
Commodities, and that hee barrtered at the Canaries some of the Comodities
alsoe which hee brought from England and had not disposed of at Barbarie
and therewith and with the sayd goats skinnes and waxe and other Commodities as hee beleeveth bought the wines now claymed, and saith
hee knoweth the sayd Stafford did treate at the Canaries with one Peter
Symon who is reputed a Portuguese by birth and one Mathew
who is reputed an Irishman by birth about buying of wynes, and
beleeveth hee bought the wynes now claymed of them, and further hee
cannot answere for that hee remembreth not that hee was present at
the tyme of the concludeing of the bargaine betweene them nor knoweth
whether hee opaid ought in money for them./.
To the 4th hee saith hee being Supracargo and the sayd Stafford Master of
the Mary and Joyce, was present with him at the Canaries and
sawe him there and saith hee beleeveth the wines in question were sent to
the shipp side by those of whome they were bought and there taken aboard
by the sayd Stafford and his Company, and saith hee sawe not the wines
in possession of the sayd Stafford till such tyme as they came aboard the
sayd shipp and then sawe some of them stowed among other wines there And further hee
cannot answere
To the 5th hee answereth negatively for that hee verily beleeveth and is Cleerely perswaded in his
conscience
