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19 September 2013 +
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Colin Greenstreet +
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354 +
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HCA 13/72 +
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<u>Robert Archer</u>
Latham a … <u>Robert Archer</u>
Latham and Mathews mention a Robert Archer, citizen and grocer of Old Jewry, whose name occurs in a will of 1659. They state that this Robert Archer was possibly the uncle of Betty Archer, admired by Pepys as an undergraduate, and of Mary Archer, who married to Clement Sankey, an ex-Fellow of Magdalene in 1669UNIQb074288f1442eea0-ref-00000132-QINU
<u>William East</u>132-QINU
<u>William East</u> +
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'''TNA'''
<u>Chancery</u>
C 5/475/15 Short title: East v Barnardiston. Plaintiffs: William East. Defendants: Giles Barnardiston. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: Bill, answer, schedule. 1657
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The 23th of June 1658.
Examined upon the … The 23th of June 1658.
Examined upon the libell.
Benjamin Ballenger against)<br />
k[?a]te and others)
'''Clark dt. .1.us'''
'''Robert Archer''' of the parish of Saint Olaves<br />
Jury London, Grocer, aged 45 yeares or thereabouts<br />
sworne and examined.
To the fifth article of the said libell hee saith and deposeth<br />
that the hogs heads of sugars brought from the Barbada's<br />
in the later end of the yeare 1656 did usually weigh and<br />
containe one with another about foure hundred and a quarterne weight<br />
net sugar, and about five hundred weight grosse that is to say<br />
the hogshead and sugar together. And further saith that every<br />
hundred weight of Barbadas sugars going under the name<br />
of Muscavado's, unpurged and before excise payd thereof<br />
were in the monethes of Aprill and May 1657 worth to be sold in<br />
London thirtie seaven shillings per hundred or thereabouts.<br />
one hundred with another, which hee knoweth being a Grocer<br />
by trade, and now trading cheifly in sugars in London, and<br />
having soe donne for theise ten yeares last or thereabouts,<br />
and having perused his bookes touching the prices and<br />
weight of the foresaid sugars in the times aforesaid. And<br />
further hee deposeth not.
Upon the rest not examined by direction of the producent.
Robert Archer/ [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The same day.
Examined upon the fore said Libell.
'''dt. 2'''
'''William East''' of the parish of Saint Peters<br />
Cornehill London Merchant Tailor, aged 43<br />
yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined.
To the fifth article of the said libell hee saith that hee<br />
is a Grocer by trade, and dealeth by wholesale in sugars<br />
and keepeth a sugar merchant[?s], and hath dealt in greate<br />
quantities of Barbadas sugars in the time arlate, and thereby<br />
well knoweth that hogsheads of Barbadas sugars brought to<br />
this port in or about the end of the yeare 1656 usually<br />
weighed and made out one with another foure hundred and<br />
a quartene weight (or thereabouts) of sugar net, and about<br />
five hundred weight grosse that is to say sugar and hogsheads<br />
together. And saith that every hundred weight of Barbada's<br />
Muscacada's sugars in the monethes of Aprill and<br />
May 1657 were here in London worth to be sold seaven and<br />
thirtie shillings per hundred one with another, which hee<br />
alsoe knoweth for that hee hath perused his bookes touching<br />
the weight and prices of Barbadas sugars for those times.
Repeated with his precontest before<br />
Collonel Cock.
William East [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]l Cock.
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