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The 16th day of february .<u>1654.&l … The 16th day of february .<u>1654.</u> [CENTRE HEADING]
Keats and Jennings against ffrederick}<br />
Chewne and others. Smith. Budd.}
Examined upon an Allegation exhibited the<br />
5th of January <u>1654</u>. on the behalfe of the said<br />
Keats and Jennings./
'''Henry Hughes''' of deptford in the County of<br />
Kent Roape Merchant aged 23. yeares or thereabouts.<br />
a Wittnes sworne and examined:/
To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith and deposeth, That the<br />
Cotton woolls and goods arlate were delivered out at Porta fferara<br />
arlate to George Norleigh ffactor and Agent to and for the arlate<br />
Alderman fredericke Chewne and Companie, and upon such their delivery<br />
by this deponent in the name and on the behalfe of Captaine George hughes this deponent<br />
at and upon the command of the said Norleigh pretending Order from<br />
his Principalls to that purpose, did, though with much reluctance, permitt the<br />
same to be wweighed, and so delivered to the said factor, who refused to<br />
receive the same upon any other termes. The premisses hee well knoweth as<br />
being the person who delivered the said Merchandizes as abovesaid. And<br />
further cannot depose./
To the second hee saith, That at the time of the weighing of the said goods<br />
this deponent was not permitted to come neere the Stillyard where the same were<br />
weighed, because that according to the Custome observed at Porta fferrara<br />
no stranger is permitted to come neere the goods delivered into the Lazaretta<br />
till such time as they have passed their full Purgation. And further cannot<br />
depose/:-
To the third hee saith, That hee this deponent was present at and saw the<br />
bringing out of the weights of the Stillyard wherewith the said Cottons and galls were<br />
weighed, out of a warehouse in the said place of Lazaretta, the same then<br />
lyeing upon the ground and being as this deponent saw and observed over=<br />
growne with rust and very unfitting in this deponents Judgment for the exact<br />
weighing of any goods or merchandizes whatsoever. And further cannot depose
To the 4th hee saith, That hee this deponent by the Credible relation of the<br />
Pursers of the shipps the ''Mary Rose'' and ''William and Thomas'' (which<br />
discharged their ladeings at Porta fferrara at one and the same time as<br />
the ''Thomas Bonadventure'') was informed, That Cotton woolls and galls<br />
and other goods unladen out of the said respective shipps being weighed<br />
at Porta fferrara, and afterwards conveied to<br />
Leghorne, and there reweighed were found and observed to be of<br />
much greater weight being weighed at Leghorne then when weighed<br />
at Porta fferrara, and this deponents seeing and observing the weighing of<br />
sewerall goods belonging to particular Merchants out of the said shipp<br />
''Thomas Bonadventure'' at Porta fferrara, and afterwards the<br />
re=weighing thereof at Legorne, did thereby find, that the said goods<br />
did very much advance<br />
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