MRP: C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 1
C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 1
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//To the right honorable the Lords XXXXX of the Great Seale of England//
//Xxall humble manner complaining showeth unto your Lordshipps James Moydiford (sic) Robert Dawes[1] Jonathan Dawes William Rider John Portman & Phillip ?Scarth of the City of London Merchants John Robinson Alderman of the said City of London Isacke Taylor marriner//
//Executor of the last Will and Testamem:t of Abraham ?Moace dec:d and Paul Priaux of [blank in original] Exo:r of the last Will and Testam:t of Thomas Hodges late of London Merchant Partowners of the good shipp called the Thomas and William of London of the//
//burthen of foure hundred forty and foure Tunnes That Whereas heretofore that is to say in or about the moneth of Aprill w:ch was in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand sixe hundred fifty and two your Orators James Mondiford & Robt Dawes Jonathan Dawes//
//Thomas Hodges and Phillipp ?Scarthe and the said Abraham ?Moace together w:th Thomas Porter William ffletcher William Limbery David Davison ffrancis Wilkinson Thomas Dyer and Widdowe James then of London aforesaid Merchants & most of them since that//
//tyme deceased and one Captaine John Jefferson Marriner also dec:d being partowners of the said Ship called the Thomas and William That is to say your Orator James Mondiford of equall two and thirtie parts of the sd shipp//
//shipp and furniture the same being devided into two and thirty equall parts the said Abraham ?Moace of two equall two and thirtyeth parts of the said shipp and furniture your Orators Robert Dawes and
//and furniture, the said William Lymbry of foure equall two and thirtieth pts of the said shipp and furniture the said Thommas ffletcher of two equall two and thirtieth pts of the said shipp and furniture
//XXXX shipp and furniture the said Thomas XXXX of two equall two and thirtieth pts of the said shipp and furniture
//and furniture, and Captaine John Jefferson of seaven equall two and thirtieth parts of the said shipp and furniture [Two lines in the original are blanked out, but the text flows clearly before and after]your said Orator James Mondiford Robert Dawes and Jonathan Dawes and other the then Partowners aforesaid being minded to lett out the sd shipp//
//ro XXXX the William XXX did leave the care and managm:t thereof unto the said Captaine John Jefferson who thereupon had severall treatyes w:th John Holland Thomas Smith and others then Com:rs of the Navy for and on the behalfe of the Parliam:t touching the same & did//
//made a contract and agreem:t w:th the said Com:rs for letting out to hire the said Shipp w:ch was reduced into writings by way of Articles of agreem:t bearing date on or about the twelvth day of Aprill w:ch was in the said yeare one thousand sixe hundred fifty and//
//two made or mencconed to bee made betweene the said Com:ers of the Navy of the one part and the said John Jefferson by the name of Captaine John Jefferson Commander of the good ship called the Thomas and William of London of the burthen of//
//foure hundred forty foure tunnes on the behalfe of himselfe and the rest of the then Owners of the said shipp and thereby the said Captaine John Jefferson did lett to hire and fraight the said shipp unto the said Com:rs to serve the Parliam:t for one voyage w:th//
//her to bee made and did agree that the said shipp w:th expedicon should bee completely rigged fitted and furnished at the proper costs and charges of the said John Jefferson and the rest of the Owners in Warlike Equipage and and as is usuall for//
//shipps imployed as men of warre in the service of the state and also victualled and manned for six moneths service at sea certaine or eight moneths if required & being soe fitted should be ready to sett saile from Woolwych out of the River of//
//Thames to such port or place as the States Generall or Commander in cheife of the ffleete should appoynt and that the said John Jefferson and the rest of the shipps Owners should pay and defray alll extraordinary ?Pilletage and?doe for XX//
//other acts as therein is expressed In consideracon whereof the said Captaine John Jefferson and the rest of the Owners were to have and receive from the Parliam:t after the rate of foure hundred pounds p mensem (sic) accompting twenty eight dayes to the moneth//
//for the said Shipp that is to say two moneths pay in hand amountinge to eight hundred pounds by way of imprest and soe much more as will make up six moneths pay when the said shipp should have served his time after her commencem:t unto//
//Sea pay and the remainder att the discharge of the said shipp or w:thin forty dayes after as in and by the said agreem:t in writing before ?refereinge thereunto beinge had may more at large appeare In purformance of w:ch said contract and agreem:t the said//
//shipp was completely rigged fitted furnished victualled and manned at the charge of the Owners thereof and entred into the States service and into sea pay on or about the thirtieth day of Aprill w:ch was in the said yeare one thousand six hundred//
//fifty and two and the said John Jefferson was Captaine and M:r of the said shipp during that service w:ch continued for the space of one whole years thence next ensuinge and for and towards the fittings and furnishing of the said shipp the Treasurer//
//for the navy for the tyme beinge according to the said agreem:t did satisfie and pay or cause to bee satisfied and paid to the said John Jefferson or as hee did appoynt the summe of eight hundred pounds or some of her great summe of money by way of//
//imprest for w:ch as yett noe accompt hath beene given either to the then or p:rsent Owners And the said John Jefferson being to goe to sea the service aforesaid and havinge alone visibly contracted w:th the said Com:rs and acted in this buisnesse (beinge//
//therein specially trusted by the other Owners of the said shipp) the said John Jefferson upon or about the tyme of his entringe into the said service did by some writing in that behalfe made authorize constitute and appoynt Sarah his then wife to act his XXXXXX [CSG: this is important: appears to be another arrangement like Elizabeth Dallison and Sir George Oxenden]
//in his absence and to receive and pay in his stidd and to mannage his estate to all intents and purposes as hee himselfe could or should have done or to that effect as in and thereby if your Orators had the same to produce would more fully and at large//
//appears and after that tyme the said John Jefferson went to sea in the service aforesaid and continued therein at one tyme for the space of thirteene moneths at foure hundred pounds a moneth and at another tyme in one Thousand sixe hundred//
//fifty three for five moneths at one hundred forty pounds a moneth and the said John Jefferson in that tyme by himselfe and others for him had and received severall summes of money upon the said shipps accompt and one or more booke or bookes of accompt was or//
//were kept concerning the said shipp and ther receipts and disbursem:ts relatinge to her and the said service and therein and thereby (if his pretended disbursm:ts therein menconned were allowed him w:ch is not ?inst to bee done) it appeare that thXX//
//was due to the Partowners of the said shipp about the moneth of Aprill one Thousand sixe hundred fifty foure the summe of six thousand pounds or neare thereabouts or some other great summe of money & afterwards that is to say about the moneth//
//of May one Thousand sixe hundred fifty and foure the said John Jefferson dyed intestate after whose death Sarah the relict of the said deceased tooke letters of administracon of the goods and chattells of the said deceased of a great value as welll sufficient to satisfye//
//pay all his debts and what was due & to bee accompted for in relacon to the said shipp and otherwise since w.ch time the said Sarah hath possessed herselfe of all the psonall estate of him the said John Jefferson consisting in bond bills specialtyes ready monyes plate householdstuffe//
//of all sort and of divers and sundry leases and morgages and allso possessed her selfe of the said booke & bookes of accompt w:ch doe concerne the said shipp and her earninges expences and imploym:ts and of the estate of the said John Jefferson w:ch was of great value and more//
//then sufficient to pay and discharge all his debts, and the said Sarah is and ought to bee lyable not onely to an accompt of what was received for or in ?leiue of this said shipps service either by her late husband John Jefferson himself or by her in his absence at any//
//tyme duringe the life of the said John Jefferson but also to make full satisfacon thereof out of her late husbands estate to your Orato:rs who as well by vertue of severall good and sufficient assurances in the law are for valuable consideraccons ?become severally//
//?interressed in and intituled to the said shipp and her earnings as by their respective assurances they are ready to manifest as there shall be occasion as alsoe by vertue of one or more sentance or sentances in the Court of Admiralty presented by your Orato:rs against//
//the said John Jefferson whererin and whereby five equall two thirtieth parts of the said shipp and furniture and of her
//Orators being the rest of the Owners of the said shipp against the said John Jefferson for satisfaccon of part of his debt to the said shipps
//to that computacon your Orators are intituled as followeth That is to say your Orator
the said shipp was reduced and now remaines in seaven and twenty parts and accordinge//
//unto five equall full seaven and twentieth pts of the said shipp
parts of the said shipp and furniture and of her earnings, your Orato:rs Tob:t & John Dawes//
//unto two equall full seaven and twentieth pts of the said shipp and furniture and of her earninges
of the said shipp and premisses, your Orator William Rider unto three equall full//
//full seaven and twentieth parts of the said shipp and premisses, your Orato:r John Portman unto two equall full seaven and twentieth parts of the said shipp and furniture and of her earnings And your Orator Phillip Scarth unto one full//
MISSING LINE and your Orators further shew unto your Lordshipps//
//that after the death of the said John Jefferson the said Sarah his widdowe and Relict did while she was sole (Or, solo) and continued unmarried or some for her by vertue of some order or orders warr:t or warr:ts from some one or other of the Com:rs of the//
//Navy receive or cause to bee received from Richard Hutchinson Treasurer of the Navy (or from his deputy or deputyes Agent or Agents) upon the said shipps accompt for her earnings severall summes of money at severall timesa nd gave severall ??acquitts//
//for the same by the name of Sarah Jefferson in all amounting to the summe of five thousand pounds or to some other great summes of money the certainty whereof or the pticulars of w:ch said severall paym:ts and the tymes when and to whom and by what pticular ord:r//
//the same was or were made your Orators cannott sett forth but the same are very well knowne to the said Sarah and thereof severall entryes are made in the said Treasurers book of accompts as will thereby appeare if the same might bee produced In all//
//amounting to the summe of 5000 or some other great summe of money as aforesd All w:ch doth belonge to your Orators as Partowners of the said shipp besides your Orators are to have and accompt of and satisffaccon for what was formerly received as of aforesaid But now soe it XXXX//
Notes
Thomas Porter William ffletcher William Limbery David Davison ffrancis Wilkinson Thomas Dyer and Widdowe James
Possible primary sources
TNA
ADM 39/2772 William and James 1673
- ↑ Robert Dawes and Jonathan Dawes were probably trading partners. Both were involved in the Levant trade. Robert Dawes will, written and proved in 1661, mentions his honoured friend Sir George Smith and "his lady", and leaves the residue of his estate to his brother Jonathan Dawes, who was at the time (July 25th, 1661) resident in Constantinople. Robert Dawes was an investor in the Smirna Venture Joint Stock (C10/109/102, 1663). His brother, Jonathan, was a part owner of the Loyal Merchant, together with Sir George Smith, Sir George Oxenden, and others
