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fill and carry away divers Rundletts of wy … fill and carry away divers Rundletts of wyne to a greate quantity<br />
and that for divers weekes aafter the sayd shipps arrivall at Boston aforesayd<br />
there was noe beere aboard the sayd shipp, and that during that tyme hee and<br />
all the company aboard the sayd shipp dranke nothing on shipp board but wine<br />
And further to this article hee cammot depose./
To the 6th article hee saith that the sayd Thomas Smith told this deponent that hee<br />
saw upon or about the fifth of July 1654 bills sett up at Boston arlate for<br />
the sale of the wynes seized in the shipp ''Saint John Baptist'' which expressed that<br />
the sayd wines were to be made sale of at the Castle Taverne in Boston<br />
whereupon the sayd Smith and this deponent went to the sayd Taverne and attended<br />
there to have seene what price the sayd wynes were sold at and to have<br />
advanced them in the sale to their true value, and after this deponent and the<br />
sayd Smith and others who stayed with them to the same purpose had bin neere two howers<br />
at teh sayd Castle Taverne one Mr Edward hutchinson who liveth<br />
in Boston aforesayd came to the sayd Smith and this deponent and their other company<br />
who stayed there to the purpose aforesayd, and asked them why they were not<br />
at the sale of the sayd wines seized in the ''Saint John Baptist'', whereto the sayd Smith<br />
and this deponent and the rest of the Company made answere that they expected them<br />
to be sold there at the Castle according to a bill sett up to that purpose<br />
whereto the sayd hutcheson replyed, the bill is altered ad it is<br />
put in that they are to be sold at the shipp Taverne<br />
and withall sayd that the arlate Captaine Levert had<br />
by his high demands of halfe money ready pay and the other halfe in good<br />
bills to be paid at London soe beaten off all buyers that noe body for want<br />
of ready money could bid any considerable value for them and soe noe<br />
body bidding (as the sayd hutchinson affirmed) above fifty shillings a [?puncheon]<br />
or thereabouts, the sayd Leveret sayd hee would give fifty five shillings a<br />
punchion (which is eight pounds five shillings a tonne) and noe body bidding soe<br />
much in respected of the difficulties put upon payment videlicet to pay ready money halfe<br />
and bills for the other halfe, the sayd Leveret had disposed of them to his owne use<br />
at the sayd rate of 8 ''li'' - 5 ''s'' a tonmne, And further hee cannot depose<br />
saving hee saith that if the sayd Leveret had exposed the sayd wines to<br />
sale at Boston upon fayre and equall termes such as the trafiquers there<br />
are used to buy upon, as to have exchanged for Commodities or have sold<br />
upon reasonable tyme of payment for money, and not have stood upon half ready money<br />
downe, the sayd wines would have yeilded 20 ''li'' a tonne as hee beleeveth<br />
and hee hath heard<br />
some of the Inhabitants of Boston aforesayd saye soe much or the like<br />
in effect./
To the last hee saith his foregoing deposition is true./
To the Interrogatories there being but one in all [CENTRE HEADING]
To the Interrogatorie (there being but one) hee saith hee is a Mariner and noe way<br />
related as a servant to any of the parties Interrogated saving as is predeposed hee [?went]<br />
with the sayd Smith to Boston on the producents affaires as is predeposed and was payd<br />
his hyre for the same by the producents and is nothing of Kinne to any of them, and<br />
atf Kinne to any of them, and<br />
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