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of pepper maketh or containeth of Genoa We … of pepper maketh or containeth of Genoa Weight 5688 pounds, which<br />
hee knoweth being a merchant, and having for theise seaventeene or eighteene<br />
yeares last used the trade of Genoa. And further saith that in the<br />
monethes of January and ffebruary in the yeare 1653 English stile every<br />
pound of pepper Genoa Weight was worth 24 sols and 1/2 per pound<br />
at Genoa aforesaid, and for and after that rate merchantable pepper<br />
was sold per pound at Genoa the time aforesaid, which hee knoweth<br />
for that hee this deponent by John lewes and John Meade his factors<br />
there, sold twenty baggs of merchantable pepper at that rate, And<br />
after that rate hee beleeveth the 5688 pounds of pepper arlate might<br />
then and there have bin sold; And hee beleeveth that 24 sols per<br />
pound was the rate that pepper was there sold for severall monethes<br />
next proceeding the said moneth of January, And saith that if the<br />
said quantitie of 5688 pounds of pepper had bin sold after the rate<br />
aforesaid of 24 sols and 1/2 per pound at Genoa, the same would have<br />
produced and amounted to (in Genoa livers) 6967 livers and 16 sols,<br />
which accompting the liver at 1 ''s'' sterling, maketh<br />
in English money - 348 ''li - 7 ''s' - 9 ''d''. All which hee knoweth for the reason<br />
aforesaid. And otherwise hee cannot depose, saving the freight and<br />
chardges are to be deducted out of the said summe of 348 ''li'' - 7 ''s'' - 9 ''d''.
Repeated before doctor Clerke.
Will. Rider [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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16th of ffebruary 1654 [CENTRE HEADING]
De haze and Stock against}<br />
Cable. Suckly Smith}
Upon the allegation given in and<br />
admitted on the behalfe of the sayd<br />
De Haze and Stock
'''Rp. 7.'''
'''John Morse''' of Ipswich in the County of Suffolke<br />
Mariner, where he was borne and hath for allmost<br />
all his life time lived, aged about twenty years<br />
a wittnes produced sworn and examined he deposeth<br />
and saith as followeth.
To the seaventh article of the sayd allegation given in and admitted<br />
on the behalfe of the sayd Dehaze and Stock he deposeth and<br />
saith That he this deponent was one of the Company of the<br />
''William and James'', which shipp sayled in Company with the<br />
shipp the ''Dove'' arlate from Winterton to Newcastle with<br />
two shipps more, and that the sayd fower shipps [?soe] in Company<br />
wherof the arlate ''Dove'' was one, sayled through the<br />
place called the Well on the seaventh day of August<br />
last in night time (as he best remembreth) And further he knoweth not to depose
To the 10th article of the said allegation he cannot depose.
To the rest he is not examined by order of the producent.
To the Interrogatoryes [CENTRE HEADING]
To the first Interrogatory he answereth that he commes as a wittnes<br />
in this cause at the procurement of the laste master of the ship<br />
the ''Successe'' And to the all the rest he answereth negatively for<br />
that he knew not the interrate shipp the ''Successe''. not the interrate shipp the ''Successe''. +
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