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<document-start>
1. The 21th of October 1657.
2. <margin value="Left">Davies against Johnson}</margin>
3. Exámined upon the foresaid libell.
4. <margin value="Left">Rp. 4.</margin>
5. John Crooke of the citie of London Bookeseller, aged
6. 42 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
7. To the first article hee saith hee well knoweth the producent
8. Thomas Davies, and that hee was the time arlate owner of the
9. bales of bookes arlate, and for such commonly accounted, and received
10. the same as his owne and disposed thereof, and this deponent saw the
11. Invoice of the ladeing thereof for his account.
12. To the second, 3. 4. 5. 6. ˹7 and 8˺ articles hee saith and deposeth that
13. upon the arivall of the ˹foure˺ bales of booke arlate ˹marked and numbred as in the margent˺ from beyond the
14. seas, and bringing thereof into Pauls churchyard, hee this deponent
15. and his precontest Samuel Thomson were spoken unto ˹by the producent˺ and desired
16. to view them in regard of the dammage which they had received by
17. water, whereupon they viewed the same with diligence and care
18. and this hee saith was in or about June last past, at which time the
19. producents Invoice of the buying and cost thereof was also produced
20. and showne unto them. And saith that upon such their view they found ˹three of the foresaid bales namely those numbred 3. 4. 7˺
21. the said bookes exceedingly dammaged and almost spoiled with water
22. which they had received aboard the shipp the voyage in question, and [say GUTTER]
23. that they were soe soaked in wett that they stanke exceedingly by
24. reason thereof. And whereas the ˹first˺ cost of ˹all˺ the said bookes according
25. to the Invoice was upwards of two hundred and tenn pounds, hee saith
26. that hee this deponent and his said precontest upon such their view
27. found and agreed that ˹the said three bales˺ were damnified or deteriorated eightie pounds
28. sterling, and soe ˹that the whole parcell was˺ not then worth above an hundred and thirtie
29. pounds, XXXX would they indeed have yeelded some money but
30. that the said producent ˹afterwards˺ used much dendeavour and tooke greate care to
31. drie and recover them what hee could, And further saith that besides
32. the said eightie pounds which the said producent was damnified by the
33. said hurt befallen the said bookes hee lost by meanes of the said
34. dammage 30 li per cent: more in this deponents estimation , which the said bookes would have yeelded
35. here (if they had come in good condition) more than their said cost. And
36. otherwise hee cannot depose, saving that when the said bookes came
37. over, the weather and time of the yeare were soe faire and good, that
38. the dammage was generally imputed to the neglect of the master of the
39. shipp and company And saith that besides the said eightie pounds which this deponent and
40. his precontest estimated to be a losse upon the first price of the said bookes
41. said producent suffered losse at the rate of twenty in the hundred in his share of the
42.
43. <margin value="Left">profitt hee might have made here in the sale of the said
44. bookes if they had not bin soe damnified
45. as this deponent alsoe
46. estimateth the same
47. Jo: Crooke SIGNATURE, LH MARGIN</margin>
48.
49. To the Interrogatories. CENTRE HEADING
50. To the first and second hee answereth that hee cometh required by
51. the producent to testifie the truth in this cause, and saith he was at
52. the opening of the said bales of bookes, which was donne (to his remembrance)
53. on the next day after their receiving from on board, and saith they were
54. unbound, and by his remembrance printed in the parts of Holland and
55. Germany, and otherwise saving as aforesaid hee cannot answer saving
56. negatively for his part, and saving that if the said bookes had bin opened
57. aboard, they would have bin quite spoiled because they clove or stuck soe
58. one sheete To another, that they would have bin torne in peeces with opening up they
59. being soe very wet, and there being noe convenience of drying them aboard
60. {Repeated with his precontest before doctor God}olphin
61. John: Crooke SIGNATURE, RH SIDE
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