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expressed) and this rendent did sounde or … expressed) and this rendent did sounde or knocke all or most of the<br />
sayd Casks and when by the soundinge of them he found a caske<br />
to want very much he gaged every such Caske, and somme of the<br />
company of the said shipp were presentw hen he gaged them<br />
and sawe howe much they wanted of beinge full, but this<br />
rendent did not make any exception against any of the sayd<br />
caskes nor did refuse or leave any of them aboard by reason of their<br />
emptines but sent them all on shoare, Et alr nescit rendere./
Ad 4um rendet That it is a usuall thinge in all voyages out of<br />
the Streights wherein oyles are broughte from thence to the porte<br />
of London for some oyles to leaje out although the master and compay<br />
of the shipp or shipps in which they come doe use their uttermost<br />
endeavors that they can in the stoweing of them and to keepe<br />
them from leakage, and that ther is comonly lost by leakage<br />
in cominge from the Straights to London three fower five<br />
and six in the hundred, and some tymes seaven in the hundred<br />
which is accompted very great leakage, which he knoweth to be true<br />
havinge bene present at the takinge up of much oyle broughte<br />
from the Straights and heard other men report what is the<br />
usuall leakage of oyles in those voyags but hath not much<br />
experience therin himselfe havinge bene apprentice but three<br />
yeares and a halfe or therabouts to a Cooper. Et alr nescit rendere/
Ad 5um rendet That he sawe the oyles in question abord the sayd<br />
shipp but whither they were stowed well or ill he knoweth not<br />
havinge noe iudgement thrin, Et alr satisfa[?ctum] est supra.
Ad 6um rendet That he cannot tell howe many [?salmes] of oyle<br />
make a tonne./
Signmum dri [MARKE] Johis Such./ [MARKE, RH SIDE]
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9th Marty 1636.
Pro [?XXX] South.}
'''Rp Juro.'''
'''William Tristram''' of the parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft<br />
London Merchant aged about 44 yeares sworne before the<br />
worshipfull John Exton Doctor of Lawes Surrogate to the righte<br />
worshipfull Sir Henry Marten knighte Judge of his Majestyes high<br />
Court of the Admiraltye and afterwards examined uppon<br />
certayne Interrogatoryes ministred on the behalfe of Robert South<br />
and others sayeth and deposeth therunto as followeth videlicet/
To the first Interrogatorye hee sayeth. That in the moneth of ffebruary<br />
Anno domini 1634 stillo Anglies this deponent did lade aboard the<br />
arlate shipp the ''Charitye'' whereof Nicholas Hart was master) then lyeinge<br />
in the river of Thames, sixt and twenty hogsheads<br />
of Tobaccoe contayninge neat waighte the usuall teare deducted<br />
six thousand sighte hundred and fiftye pounds at the least,<br />
to be transported in the said shipp to Rotterdam and there<br />
delivered for the accompte of him this deponent and company, and<br />
about the latter end of the said moneth of ffebruary anno pred<br />
this deponent did alsoe lade aboard a shipp whereof one John Houlden<br />
was master). then alsoe remayninge in the porte of London, sixteene<br />
hogsheads of Tobaccoe, weighing neat Tobacco (the ussuall teare<br />
deducted) fower thousand and fiftye pounds or therabouts, which<br />
(to his nowe best remembrance) was consigned to be delivered at<br />
Amsterdam./
To the 2 he sayeth That all the Tobaccoes before mentioned<br />
were entred in his Majestyes custome house London in wards, and<br />
customs and other dutyes were paid for them, but the said goods were shipte<br />
outtwards in the shipps aforesaid, by Certificats under the hands of the ffarmers, without<br />
payeingethe ffarmers, without<br />
payeinge +
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