MRP: C6/218/65 f. 4

C6/218/65 f. 4

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//A schedule whereof mention is made in the Answer ?herewithe ??attached//

//M.r Samuell Sowton his accompt in Swedish money//
//XXX To the XXXXX sugars sould for my account//
//XXX To ditto more//
//XXX To ditto more//
//XXX To a XXXX & XXXX//

I HAVE LEFT OUT MANY LINES SINCE I NEED TO REIMAGE THE TOP OF THE SCHEDULE

//Ditto his account in English money//
//XX To and paid M:r ?Writing XXXX//
//XXX To ?36 Last 7 barrells of tarr sould by you for XXXX//
//To XXXX sevrall summes disburst by pticuler agreem:t betweene us/7
//To Ben Hinton)//
//To cash paid your selfe in foure payments//
//To dito//
//To Ben Hinton foure hundred pounds to cash two pounds//
//To Ditto Hinton//
//To sewall expences for M:r XXen & materials aboute yo:r XXXX//
//To Ben Hinton//
//To ditto//
//To John Vander?houen, XXXXXX//
//To XXX XXXX one hundred pounds to cash twelve pounds//
//To Ben Hinton//
//To cash paid XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX//
//To money due ?Geo: ??Hartes ffreight//
//To my interest and ?consent in the S:t Jacob//
//To cash sent into your house//
//To cash paid your man//
//To a parcell of copper delived y:w//
//To Daniell Arthur ffor a bill on XXXXX//
//To charges for the tarr Comp:y of Stockholme//
//To MX XXX & proffitt of sewall adventures as by ptiuclers
agreed on under your hand//
//To my eighth pte of the sXXXX & her ?load my pffitt on that
voyage to Venice you haveinge recvd all//
//To Ben Hinton//
//To Henry Leighton//
//To ditto Hinton//
//To accompt of interest for which I give you creditt on the
other side for your expXXtion of money//
//by goods delivered on ?bord XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX//

Per contra in Swedish money

1673 P contra (Sterling)

//By ballance of the accompts of Sweedish money being
13201: 01: 21 at D 22 p In Sterling//
//By a bill on Ben Hinton//
//By freight of 108 last of Pitch & tarr at 3:li p last//
//By Ben Hinton in 2 bills//
//By William ??Joynes//
//By my 1/16 pte of George Waites shipp//
//By cash XXX//
//By ditto//
//By bill//
//By Ben Hinton//
//By ditto payable to David Clarke//
//By John Wright//
//By cash recvd at sevall tymes//
//By my 1/2 of the XXXX & Crownes leaving of XXXX//
//By John Wright you paid for sugar//
//By my XX pte of the ??success & her lading to Venice//
//By 10 last 7 barrells NarXX tarr att £7-15:s p last//
//By 5 last of ??Weiborgh pitch att £11-11 p last//
//By my 1/2 pt XXXX loading for Stockholme//
//By freight of Iron p the ?Salvator & the GufX//
//By 15 last 12 bars of tarr p the George at 9:li - 5:s p last//
//By John Mitford//
//By cash//
//By ditto//
//By y:e 1/2 of goods in Comp:a//

TEXT BELOW MAY HAVE BECOME DISPLACED
//By cash//
//By Ben Hinton//
//By cash//
//By William Kingston for 10 g: out last of tarr//
//By accompt of interest//
//By ballance of this accompt is due to mee XXXX//
//By William Kingston for 7 last of tarr//

//SUMMA//

//1674/5 To ballance so far//

//1674/5

//Feb 5 By cash recvd of your man//
//Feb 10 By ditto recvd//
//Feb 13 By Daniell Arthur p cash//
//March 3 By two last of tarr//
//March 3 By two last of tarr//
//March 3 By my 1/2 of 40 last of tarr p the Samuell ffor Venice//
//March 4 By M:r ?Collier & Comp:a//
//March 8 By Ben Hinton for a noate to David Clarke//
//March 16 By cash recvd of M:J:
//March 23 By cash recvd of ?Kirwood & ?Hinde//
//March 23 By a bill on M:r Tindall//
//March 23 By y:e moyety of a debenture for 117X of sugar//
//April 17 By a bill on Richard Tomson & Comp:a//
//April 23 By a bill on Ben Hinton//
//May 7 By M:r Collier & Comp:a for a s:d bill of exchange to Rich: RXXX//
//May 15 By a bill payable by XXXXXX//
//May 20 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX//
//June X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX//
//June 11 By M:r Collier & Comp:a for a bill of Ben: Hinton//
//June 11 By ditto Hinton//
//June 11 By ditto Hinton//
//June 12 By ditto//
//June 17 By ditto//
//June 24 by ditto for a noate payable by Compte M:r Barr//
//July 31 By M:r Collier & Comp:a for a noate to pay in//
MORE TEXT TO COME

//?1675/6//

//1675/6 Ditto Accompt Dr//

//?1676//

//1676//

Notes

Sowton and Cutler appear to be engaged in some joint trade, though they were probably also trading independently. Goods traded include tar, pitch, and sugar. Shares taken in ships and cargos vary between 1/16 and 1/2. Frequent mention is made of Ben Hinton, who may have been a correspondent based in Stockholm; alternatively he may have been a London Goldsmith, who was declared bankrupt in 1687. Mention is also made of M:r Collier & Company, which I believe was located in Livorno. Several references are made to ships sent to Venice. Mention is also made of a William Kingston. Credits and debits are recorded separately each year for Swedish denominated and sterling denominated transactions in the shcedules presented to the court of Chancery. David Clarke, the London apothecary mentioned in Samuel Sowton's Bill of Complaint, appears in several journal entries.

Possible primary sources

Contemporary pamphlet, 1687

London, June the 15th 1687. Land and houses belonging the estate of Benjamin Hinton, goldsmith: and for the use of his creditors, the assignees of the commissioners of bankrupts do offer to sale, by inch of candle, at the Marine and Carolina coffee-house ... on ... the 21th of July ... houses in Soho, alias Kings square ... [and houses ... in Harpden ground, near St. James's park] (London, 1687)

London Metropolitan Archives

London Metropolitan Archives: Harben Bequest: DEEDS; 1600-1700 HB/C [n.d.]: Indenture of Assignment HB/C/181 2 W. & M. 1690
- Contents:
1. John Hill, Obadiah Sedgwick, George Sitwell of London, William Nutt and Benjamin Hinton, Goldsmith of London.
2. Edward Hildeyard, Francis Moore, Heritage Lenton.
3. Rt. Hon. Paulett 'Earle' of Bolingbrooke.
Parcels of 'Mannor' or 'Bayliwick' of St. James in the 'feilds.' Mentions various closes, parcels, messuages in Frith Street, etc. Plan attached.
Witnesses--Nichol. Calton, Thomas Madockes, Samuel Grave, John Johnson.
Further Assignment to Sir Cloudesley Shovell endorsed on the Deed.

TNA

PROB 11/211 Pembroke 1-54 Will of John Collyer, Merchant and Clothworker of London 08 January 1650
- John Collier and Job Thorgmorton were appointed as agents in Leghorn in 1640 by the East India Company to receive consignments of pepper from London.
- See John Collyer will

MRP: C6/218/65 f. 4

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