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Transcription

28 Augusti 1660/:

[XXXX]

3.us

Thomas Griffin Parochia [?Sancti Dunstans GUTTER XXXXX]
Orient Distiller aetatis 47 annos [?agens GUTTER]
circiter juratus Examinatus dicit et deponit
put, Sequitur:/.

Ad 1.um 2.um 3.um et [?Xum] dictae Allonis dicit et deponit that he this deponent
in or about the months of August and September 1657. did [XXX GUTTER]
six and twenty hogsheads of Tobaccoe which were brought [XXX GUTTER]
(as this deponent beleeveth) upon the account of a Planter of Virginia about the sayd [XXXX GUTTER]
and the reason of his soe veiweing of them was for that [?hee GUTTER]
intended (if hee ciuld) to have helped the said Planter to [XXX GUTTE]
Chapman but a Short time after the said Hogsheads of To[?ccoe GUTTER]
were bought by Mr Harris and Mr Beomont arlate, and [?since GUTTER]
the said buying; the same were put into Mr Harris his [?Celler GUTTER]
upon Saint Mary at hill. where this deponent saw the said Hogsheads and [XXXX GUTTER]
the said Tobaccoe and out of every one of the said Hogsheads there [?was GUTTER]
taken a ba[XXXt] or a small quantity of Tobaccos for a sample, which hee
this deponent bought of the said Mr Beamont, and paid
5. d 06./ or 6. d per pound for the same, And saith that noth [XX GUTTER]
time of this veiwing the said Hogsheads of Tobaccoe at the [XXX GUTTER]
house and in the said Harris his Celler the said Tob[?accoe GUTTER]
was in very good Condition for ought this deponent [?could GUTTER]
perceive to the Contrary and the said Tobaccoe was well [?worth GUTTER]
5. d 06. or 6. d a pound the said time and soe Commonly sold [XXX GUTTER]
dealing in that Comodity and every of the said hogsheads (one with another) weighed as hee beleeveth 300 lb. wight or [?thereabouts GUTTER] And saith that in or about the
month of October 1657. the said Tobaccoes were laded
on board the arlate ship the ffortune (John Omer Master) as the
said Omer and his Purser have told this deponent) and as this
deponent hath heard the said Tobaccoe was to be carried in the [?said GUTTER]
ship to some place in Spaine et alr nescit./

Super reliquis non Exr. directione./

Ad Interrogatoria. [CENTRE HEADING]

Ad 1um dicit that Mr Beamont requested this deponent to come and [?testify GUTTER]
and saoth hee shall receive neither benefit nor prejudice [?how GUTTER]
soever this cause goes, and saith that the said Harris his ffather married this [?deponents GUTTER]
mothers sister et alr nehative

Ad 2um hee saith that the said Tobaccoe was Virginia To[?baccoe GUTTER]
[?quoad XXXXX XXXX] se ad predeposita

Ad 3um dicit that hee did not see the said Tobaccoes laden on
the said ship. et alr nescit respondere

Ad 4um dicit that hee was never at Cadiz./.

Ad 5um nescit repondere./.

Ad 6um dicit that there was warr betweene England and Spaine in the [XXXX GUTTER]
Interrate and English ships and goods were at sea then [?forcibly GUTTER]
taken by the Spaniards, wt alr nescit Repondere./:

Ad 7.um nescit Repondere./

Tho: Griffen: [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]