HCA 13/71 f.213r Annotate
| Volume | HCA 13/71 |
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| Folio | 213 |
| Side | Recto |
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| First cut transcription started and completed on 03/12/12; pasted into wikispot on 28/04/14 by Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcriber | |
| Colin Greenstreet | |
| First transcribed | |
| 12/12/03 | |
| Editorial history | |
| Created 06/04/14, by CSG | |
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1. of London, and undertooke to pay and promised to pay the same of
2. five hundred and twenty Rix dollers in specie (accounting tenn Stierers
3. to each shilling for freight within tenn dayes after the arrivall of the
4. said goods at this port, and thereupon namely upon the said contract
5. hee saith there was an Nortorieact act or Instrument made and passed
6. at Berghen, and saith that the charterparties annexed containeth the
7. true effect of the said act of affreightment, and is as hee beleeveth
8. a true translation thereof , and that the contents thereof were and
9. are true, and that at the time of the making or passing the originall
10. the said Edward launder had a duplicate or copie thereof, and this
11. deponent another.
12. To the third hee saith that the shipp upon the said affreightment
13. received into her on Berghen such goods as the said Laundrie laded,
14. and brought the same (saving what perished by the way) to this port
15. and here arived in or about the moneth of March last and
16. here delivered the same to the XX arlate John Southwood againXX and Edward Laundry
17. such as hee ˹and Southwood˺ imployed to receive the same, which hee knoweth because
18. hee sawe the said goods laden, and came over therewith in the said shipp
19. To the fourth hee saith that the said Edward Launder caused the
20. tarr (which was laden and transported in the said shipp) to be stowed
21. by a person of his owne appointing and imploying, and gave the
22. said person five Rix dollers for his care and paines in stoweing
23. the same according to the said Launners design, and saith that in
24. case and dammadge be happened to the said tarr through want of
25. good stowage, the same is happened without any fault of the
26. master or of any of the shipps company.
27. To the first hee saith that the said Edward Launder besides the
28. said act of affreightment and contrary to the expresse agreement
29. had and made betweene him and this deponent, caused a parcell
30. of fish to be laden therein aboard the said shipp, when as hee
31. had hired the said shipp and agreed to carry tarr, balkes (or beames)
32. and deales, refeffing himselfe to the said Notariall Act; and
33. saith a leakie shipp may without carry tarr, deales and balkes
34. without dammage to them, but not fish, for that must or
35. ought to be put into a dry shipp, and further saith that the said
36. shipp was a drie and staunch shipp when shee came from
37. Berghen, and what ever dammage hath befallen th fish, hee
38. saith the same came and happened by meanes of stowing of and
39. tempestuous ˹weather˺, which happened in the said shipps passage, which
40. hee knoweth coming over on her as aforesaid. And otherwise hee
41. cannot depose.
42. To the sixth hee saith that one Rex doller is worth foure
43. shillings and eight pence sterling, as the usuall rate and valew,
44. and the said Southwood hath bin required to pay the freight arlate,
45. but there hath bin only an hundred and fiftie Rex dollers and
46. a halfe thereof paid, the rest being detained whereby, and
47. by the shipps lying still hXXX twelve weekes till weekes still and
48. idle by the said detention, and for victualls and otherwise the said
49. producents have suffered much dammage, XXXX to the summ of a thousand
50. Rex dollers over and above the said remaining freight, besides her still XXXX
51. deteriorating. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
