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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined u … The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid alleagtion.
'''2.'''
'''John Goodman''' of the parish of Saint Catherin Coleman [?XXX]<br />
London Cooper, aged 34 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the said allegation hee saith that three hogsheads (ordinarily<br />
and usually) of Virginia tobacco doe and will take up<br />
as much or more bulke, or roome in a shipp as will serve<br />
to receive or stow a tonne of any sort of wines or other<br />
liquid goods, which hee knoweth being a master Cooper<br />
and having soe bin for theise twelve yeares last and<br />
having bought many virginia hogsheads after the<br />
tobaccoes were taken out, and otherwise hee<br />
cannot depose, not being able to depose of the bulke of<br />
Virginia hogsheads for twelve or fourteene yeares since as<br />
hee saith.
To the Interrogatories. [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first negatively, not knowing ought of the voyage.
To the second hee saith that some Virginia hogsheads are often<br />
bigger and some lesser than other, but ordinarily they are as<br />
aforesaid, and further hee cannot answere save was aforesaid.
John Goodman [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day. [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the foresaid allegation.
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'''3.'''
'''James Jauncy''' of the parish of Saint Lawrence Jury<br />
London citizen and Grocer of London aged 34 yeares or thereabouts sworne and<br />
examined.
To the said allegation hee saith that three hogsheads of<br />
Virginia hogsheads of tobacco are commonly accounted to<br />
a tonne to be thence laded for Ireland and other parts<br />
whereout they are hence frequently transported, and indeed they videlicet three of those [?XXXX] taken<br />
up (as hee saith) ordinarily and commonly as much roome<br />
and tonnage as a tonne of any sort of wine or other<br />
liquid goods, or rather more. And saith that within and for<br />
the space of theise foure or five yeares last Virginia<br />
hogsheads have bin commonly [?amended] and are much bigger than before<br />
that time they used to be, namely hee saith that three of<br />
them are and have bin within the said yeares commonly as<br />
bigge said yeares commonly as<br />
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