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The same day/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined u … The same day/ [CENTRE HEADING]
Examined upon the sayd allegation dated the 31st<br />
of May 1655/
'''9us'''
'''Elias Watson''' of the parish of Saint Mary Woollchurch<br />
London Merchant aged 25 yeares or thereabouts a<br />
wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as<br />
followeth videlicet./
To the 3 article of the say allegation and the Schedule therein mentioned hee saith that in the yeare one<br />
thousand sixe hundred fifty fower and moneths therein concurring hee<br />
this deponent was a factor and Correspondent to the arlate James<br />
Cowse at the Island of Palma one of the Canarie Islands and there<br />
by letters of Correspondence and Invoices received from the sayd<br />
Cowse as alsoe by a bill of ladeing signed (as hee beleveeth by<br />
the arlate Edward Keene) and alsoe by letters to the same effect sent<br />
to this deponent by his this deponents father Mr Elias Watson of<br />
London Grocer, hee well knoweth that the sayd Cowes did cause the<br />
goods schedulate to bee laden aboard the arlate shipp the<br />
''John and Elizabeth'' at or neere London to bee transported to Santa Cruze<br />
in the Island of Palma aforesayd for the use and Account of him the sayd<br />
Cowse, And further saith that hee this deponent by letters sent from<br />
Saint Lucar by Mr Edward Watts and Mr Peter Probie English Merchants<br />
there to this deponent at Palma was informed that the same<br />
Keene did arrive with the goods Schedulate at Saint Lucar and hee<br />
there unladed and delivered them to the sayd Watts and Probie And further to this<br />
article hee cannot depose/
To the 7th article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this<br />
deponent being a factor resident at Palma the tyme aforesayd<br />
and having lived as a factor in the sayd Island upwards of<br />
sixe yeares and in that tyme sold severall parcells of the<br />
like goods as are Schedulate, thereby knoweth that the goods Schedulate<br />
if they had safely arrived at Palma in the yeare 1654 as they<br />
ought to have done, would there have then yeelded the prices Schedulate<br />
or very neere thereabouts, videlicet in his this deponents Judgement<br />
they would have then yeelded there fiftie thousand Ryalls all<br />
which is one thousand two hundred and fiftie pounds sterling,<br />
hee this deponent hath severall tymes in the tyme of his residense<br />
at Palma there, sold the like quantitie of such goods as are<br />
Schedulate at the respective rates Schedulate, and sometymes<br />
more, And saith hee by reason of his long residense at Palma<br />
experimentally knoweth that the Custome Commission and other<br />
charges of the like goods as are Schedulate<br />
there sold, doe usually, and did at the tyme arlate amount to ten<br />
per Cent videlicet the Royall Custome to sixe pounds sterling per Cent, Commission and<br />
factorage to three pounds per Cent of like money, and warehouse<br />
and other pettie charges to one pound per Cent of like money, And saith hee<br />
also knoweth by letters of Correspondence thence that the like goods<br />
as are Schedulate, doe usually at Saint Lucar yeild a farr lesse rate then they<br />
doe in Palma whether the goods in question designed to goe, and<br />
thereforedesigned to goe, and<br />
therefore +
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