MRP: C10/55/132 f. 2
Contents
C10/55/132 f. 2
Editorial history
15/11/11, CSG: Images made of manuscript
20/11/11, CSG: Started transcription
Abstract
Transcription
//Sworne the 18:th of//
//March 1657//
//?Ala: ??Hoball//
//The severall Answer of William White Marriner one of the def:ts to the Bill of Comp:lt of Martin Noell Esq:r George Underwood Esq:r Simon Delboe and John Taylor Merchants Complaynants//
//The sayd Def:t saving to himselfe now and at all tymes hereafter all advantages and benefit of Excepcionn to the incertaintyes insufficiencyes and ?Impfeccons of the sayd Bill of Complaint for Answer unto soe XXXX thereof or any wayes materially//
//XXX XXXX him this Def:t
//?or severally adventure severall or any pcells of goods money Comodities
//East Indyes in the Shipp called the Mayfflower of which Captaine
//or any of them
//with the same upon the Comp:lts behalfe or for their Accomp and benefit or otherwise or that the Comp:lts or any of them allowed him Sallary as their or any of their servant or ffactor Neither doth this Def:t//
//know that the sayd Henry Watkins did on the behalfe of the Comp:lts or any of them traffique with ?or barter or exchange by way of Merchandizing or otherwise the sayd p:rtended goods or comodityes in the said Bill of//
//Complaint menconed for goods Comodities or Merchandizes of the native growth and Manufactures of the said Indies or any other goods the said Indyes did afford or for any other goods whatsoever neither doth thus def:t//
//know that the Comp:lts p:rtended stocke in the says Bill menconed was any way improved to any value whatsoever or that the Comp:lts or any of them had any stocke there to improve And this def:t doth not know//
//what the sayd Henry Watkins in the yeares of our Lord one thousand six hundred ffifty and six and one thousand six hundred ffifty and seaven or at any other tyme did shipp or layd aboard any//
//XXXXX money on or comodities whatsoever to the value of one penny in the ship called the Mayflower in the Bill menconned of which William White the elder or this def:t was then Captaine or Comander or in any//
//other ship or that any such goods money of Comodities were committed or delivered to the sayd William White the elder or or this Def:t or that the same were by the sayd William White this Def:t received//
//
Commentary
See also C10/55/132 f. 1
Possible primary records
PROB 4/23449 Haley, Thomas at sea, batchelor (marriner in the East India ship Mayflower') 28 Feb 1661/2 (28 Feb 1661/2)
SP 46/97/fo 18 Petition to the Council of State by Major Robert Russell and Robert Barrett requesting that they be treated similarly to the other members of the East Indies Company sailing on the ship Mayflower in respect of payment for provisions. [1655 Dec. 20]
