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Eadem die
Super allegatione preaed examinatus.
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'''Georgius Crane''' parochia Sancta Maria Magdalena Bermondsea<br />
in Comitatu Surria Nauta, aetatis 25 annorum aut circiter testis<br />
productus et examinatus.
Ad quartum arlum die allegaconis deponit et dicit that hee this deponent<br />
hath gonne as a mariner six or seaven severall voyages from hence<br />
to the Canarie Islands, and for foure or five voyages hee hath gone<br />
masters mate thither in three severall shipps, and by the meanes<br />
aforesaid hee well knoweth and is acquainted with the tonnage<br />
of the goods and merchandizes arlate, and saith that two pipes and<br />
noe lesse of Canary wine doe make and are accompted to a tonne<br />
and noe more; and that hides are of severall computations as they<br />
are bigger or lesser, but they have bin and are usually accompted<br />
and reckoned after 42 or 43 hides to a tonn, but if they are smaller<br />
then ordinary, then 45 are often accompted to a tonne. And saith that<br />
fourteene quintalls of ginger and noe lesse are usually accompted<br />
to and doe make a tonne and noe more, three chests and<br />
noe lesse of sugar doe make and are commonly accompted to a<br />
tonne and noe more; and 20 kintalls and noe less of campecha<br />
loggs and doe make and are usually accompted to a tonne<br />
and noe more, and eight pottacoes and noe lesse of tobaccoes are<br />
(as hee hath often heard and beleeveth) estimated and commonly<br />
accompted to make a tonne, Et alr nescit deponere
Ad 5 nescit.
Super reliquis non examinatus ex direconem producen
George Crane [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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