MRP: C10/99/66 f. 1
C10/99/66 f. 1
Editorial history
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Abstract & context
C10/99/66 f. 1 is the answer of John Pack, a former servant of the London merchant Edward Wood, to a Bill of complaint brought by the English East India Company.
The original Bill of Complaint is missing, though the separate answer of Sir George Smith, Sir William Ryder, Edward Wood and Maurice Thompson survives as C10/99/70 f. 1.
Suggested links
See C10/99/70 f. 1 (Answer by Sir George Smith, Sir William Ryder, Edward Wood and Maurice Thompson, to a Bill of Complaint brought by the East India Company in early 1661)
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Transcription
//XXXXXXXXXXX 4:o 5:o Juval XXXXXdie Marty [top LH side]//
//1661 [top LH side]//
//Na ?Havall [top LH side]
//The sewall Answer of John Park one of the def:ts to the Bill of Comp:lt of the Governo:r XXXXXX//
//of merchants of London tradinge to the East Indies Comp:lts//
//The said def:t nowe & att all tymes hereafter savinge to himselfe all Advantages of exception to y:e incertaineties & insufficiencies of y:e said Comp:lts Bill for answer//
//unto soe much thereof as concerneth him this def:t to make Answer unto sayeth, That hee beleiveth itt to bee true, that the other def:t Edward Wood & others the//
//ptowners of y:e shipp called the Royall James & Henry in y:e Bill named, did about the tyme therein expressed lett the said shipp to ffreight to the said//
//Comp:lts for such voiage & upon such condiccons as in y:e said Bill is expressed, But this defend:t denieth that hee, or any others to his knowledge hath laden or//
//putt aboard the said shipp, any pson or psons goods or merchandizes phibited by the said Comp:lts to bee laden in y.e said shipp upon any accompt w:htsoever//
//& in pticuler this def:t denieth, that hee this def:t or any other pson or psons whatsoever to this def:ts knowledge did lade or putt a board the said//
//shipp outward bound any iron, sayes, callicoes or any other the goods & merchandizes in the Bill mencconed, or that this def:t to his knowledge ever sawe any//
//bill of Ladinge, or receipt for the same from Captaine Maurice Blackman in the Bill named, or any others, savinge that this defend:t seeinge y:e//
//booke that was kept for the Acc:t of the said Orators concerninge the said shipp, did finde mencon made in that booke that there were pvided//
//for y:e accompt of the said shipp & Owners viz:t five chests of knives, two hundred & fiftie sayes, nine Bayles//
//or parts of Ruggs two bayles or parts of carpetts sixteen ?Runletts of french spiritts, sixteene Runletts of ffrench Brandy, & for//
//any other goods mencconed by the said Comp:lts bill to bee phibited, this defend:t doth not knowe of any that was carried on board the said shipp //
//the Royall James & Henrye neither did this def:t understand that the above mencconed goods were pvided for the Accompt of the said shipp &//
//Owners, otherwise than is expressed by the booke kept for the said shipps owners Accompt, which booke as this defendan:t remembreth was carried//
//purposelye to the East India howse to bee shewed to y:e said Comp:lts, & as thisdefendant taketh itt was seen by some of them, whoe might therby//
//understand as much as this def:t knoweth & this def:t denieth that hee did ever privatlye, convey, or put on board the said shipp the//
//aforesaid goods or did hire or cause to bee hiered, or knoweth that any other pson or psons did hire, or cause to be hiered a boate, or vessell//
//in the downes for that purpose, or ever reved any noate from any pson or psons whatsoever, for the receipt thereof, or knowes of any//
//direccon given for the retorne of any proceed thereof, forth Accompt of any pson, or psons whatsoever, And this def:t sayeth hee//
//knoweth nothinge of any other the pticulers in the said Comp:lts bill laid to this def:ts charge, other than what hee hath in this//
//his Answer formerly sett forth, without that, that any other matter, or thinge in the said Comp:lts bill conteyned, matteriall, or//
//effectuall for this def:t to make Answer unto, and not herein, & hereby sufficiently Answered unto, confessed, & Avoided//
//traversed or denied is true to this def:ts knowledge, all w:ch matters & things this def:t is ready to averr Justifie maintaine &//
//prove as this hono:ble Co:rt shall Award, & humbly prayeth to bee hence dismissed with his reasonable costs & charges & in that//
//behalfe most wrongfully, & without cause susteyned//
//Sa: Plomer [bottom RH side]
