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to be sould, and doth conteyne about fifty acres, but what the same will yeild, hee knoweth not, but saith that Mr Barkers land there is as good as the said Hales land, and further saith not.
10. To the 10th Interrogatory he saith that hee can say nothinge.
11. To the 11th Interrogatory he saith that Mr Norton did pull down a malt howse sometimes a barne and | a stable, and some parte of the Mansion howse in Datchett and hath built vpon the dwellinghowse | But whether it be better for sale or conveniency he knoweth not. And saith yt was well and | convenient before it was pulled down. And further saith not.
Depositions taken at Skynners Hall in London the xxith of December 1627. by Daniell |
Hills and Nathaniell Weston gents by virtue of a Commission to them directed out of the high | Court of Chancery in the said suite betweene Robert Barker esqr.
plaintife and Bonham | Norton esqr. defendant.
17. Lawrence Blomley of Silver Street London, Citizen and draper of London aged xxxith | yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined. To the 17th Interrogatory he saith that hee did knowe John | Hodgetts in the Interrogatory mencõned, and did so knowe him about a yeare before his death but knowe | him not to be Mr Nortons cashier, otherwise then that the said Bonham Norton hath so confest | in an Answere vpon oath in Chancery in a suite there betweene Margarett Hodgetts the Relict of | the said John Hodgetts plaintife, and the said Bonham Norton defendant. And saith that he knoweth not § | certainely the hand-wryting of the said John Hodgetts, but verely beleeveth that if yt were | showed vnto him, he could partely iudge, whether yt, were his hand or not. And further saith that | the said John Hodgetts had, in his custodie as his decease certaine accompts bound vp in Parchment | of divers receipts and payments for Mr Norton. And also that he knoweth that there is an entrie | therein of the sume of three hundred pounds sett downe to be receaved of the said Hodgetts for Mr | Nortons Accompt of Mr Alderman Harvye & of the payment thereof, And it is entred there to bee | paid in manner following. Paid to Mr Barker of the three hundred pounds that was reward of | Alderman Harvye - 66li -16s - 8d. To Mr Plomer - 211li - 6s - 0d. More for that my master laid out for | him - 21li - 17s - 4d. Re of Mr Barker for money laid out for him - 21li - 17s - 4d wch said - 21li - 17s - 4d | is brought to Mr Nortons receipts in the said Hodgetts Accompt booke, as by the said booke to wch for more | certainty this deponent referreth himself may appeare. And saith that so much by the defendant is allowed | by the said booke as is expressed in this Interrogatory. And saith that hee thinketh in his conscience that | those seuerall entries are of the said Hodgetts owne hand wryting, and he the rather so thinketh for | that the said Mr Norton hath confessed and acknowledged to him this deponent that yt is John Hodgetts | owne hand wryting and saith that the wryting in paper now showed him is a true copie of so much | as is concerninge that particulers entred in the said Accompte booke.
8. To the 18th Interrogatory he saith that hee doth know Mr Phillip Gerrard of Grayes Inne Esquire | and that hee is of Councell wth the defendant Mr Norton. And this deponent was present at a conference | at the Master of the Rolls his howse, about the second of November last, betweene the said Mr Gerrard | and Mr John Vaughan touching Mr Barker and Mr Norton parties to this suite, And saith that the | effect and substance of their conference was, Mr Vaughan taking occasion to speak to Mr Gerrard of | the Strictnes of the decree betweene Mr Barker and Mr Norton in appointing Mr Barker to pay 2000li | and to allowe 20 per cent for non payment of the moneys and not shewing howe the money should beeing | raised. Mr Gerrard therevpon answered declaring himself, that yt was ever intended that Upton should | be sould, and that the 20 per Cent was not intended that Mr Barker should paie it but to tye him | more certainely to performe his parte of the decree. And that if it should fall out that Mr Norton should | hinder the sale of Upton he should not only loose the 20 per Cent, but be otherwise punished as the | Commmissoners should thinck fitt, or to such effect.
John Bill citizen and Stationer of London aged fiftye one yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined diae et Anno praesente.
11. To the xith Interrogatory he saith that he is partener wth the defendant Mr Norton in the office of Kinges printer | and hath bene so by the space of six yeares or thereabouts. And saith by the space of fiue yeares or § | thereabouts that the books of Accompts of the worke printed and receipts and payments of the said office were | kept by Mr Roger Norton for the defendant and by this deponent and Joseph Baysett for this deponent but | for the greatest parte of that tyme yt was kept by Thomas Harper in the Interrogatory mencõned, And further | to this Interrogatory he cannot depose.
12. To xiith hee saith that the vsuall impressions of the books of the said office are 6000. 3000. | & 1500: or thereabouts but paper by the Reame hath bene vsually delivered & sett for every of the | said Impressions respectively hee cannot certainly saie, but referreth himself to the said Thomas | Harper and Joseph Baysett, whence he put in trust to see that besides performed, as also to the book | of Accomptes And further to this Interrogatory he saith not.
13. To the 13th Interrogatory he saith that the wages to the Compositors and Presmen in the said office | for the tyme aforesaid hath bene for the most parte certaine and constant for the particular works | wherein they haue bene imployed. And saith that yt is constantly knowne among the § | workmen by their wages and the booke in hand what worke is and must be done for the | same. And if there be any interruption of the worke by their negligence or other wayes the workmen are abated of their wages, and so the wages expresse the workes, and by § | those wages the beginning of the worke is knowne but not the ending. And saith that yt may | be found out by such meanes probably as he beleeveth, but for more certainty he referreth | himself to mr Harper & Mr Roger Norton and others that haue bene imployed in that busines.
14. To the 14th hee saith that Mr Norton and this deponent did purchase the lattin Stock of the | Company of Stationers in June last at five thousand pounds price or thereaboutes the | assurance to be made by them and that they were to pay about five thousand pounds | in bookes for the same but the assurance is not yet made, but they haue the possession | and vse thereof. And further saith that they were to paie about 5000.li for the same out | of bookes belonging to the office of Kinges Printer to be paid in such books from time | to tyme at such time as they could provide the same, And they were to deliver the said | bookes at such prices as they commonly sold them to Stationers. And saith for the bookes & value and how much they have already payd he referreth himself to the book of Accompt | of the said office. And saith that they haue not, nor are not to paie any ready money | but only bookes as aforesaid. And saith that Mr Henry ffetherston was in treaty for the | said stock before this deponent and Mr Norton went through for yt as this | deponent hath credibly heard, And saith that he was to paie fower thowsand & nyne hundred | poundes
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poundes for yt in money or thereabouts as hee this deponent Credibly heard and that hee | should paie two thowsand pownds downe in hand and the rest afterwards.
16. To the 16th hee saith that by by-passadge he was acquainted wth the mariage and porcõn | of Sara Norton the now wife of Mr Christopher Barker, and that yt was reported to this | deponent by Mr Norton that the defendant was to giue eighteen hundred pounds porcõn wth | the said Sara, And saith that hee heard mres Norton promise that shee or the defendant | should or would giue Two hundred pounds more in mariage to the said Christopher | but who was privie thereto otherwise he remembreth not.
Richard Jackson of the parishe of St Margaretts on St Peters Street in Westminster printer aged ffortye two yeares or thereabouts sworne & examined daie | et Anno praesente.
20. To the 20th Interrogatory he saith, that hee is a workman imployed by Mr Norton and Mr | Bill in the office of Kinges Printer, and his place is at the presse, And saith that hee | hath beene a servant there neere vpon Twenty yeares, except two or three yeares | that hee was absent. And that hee knoweth that the vsage and course of the said § |office for two yeares last past parte of the five yeares mencõned in this Interrogatory hath | beene such as is mencõned in the seuerall points expressed in the wryting now showed | him. And saith that the practise of the said office in that point contynueth at this presente as yt did for the space of the said two yeares, And further saith not.
William Bate of Hosier Lane London printer aged 30 years or § | thereabouts sworne and examined daie et Anno praesente.
20. To the 20th Interrogatory he saith that hee is a workman by Mr Norton and Mr | Bill imployed in the place of a Compositor in the Office Kinges Printer and hath | bene so imployed 16 yeares or thereabouts. And saith that he knoweth that the | vsage and Course of the said office for the space of ffive yeares last past or | vpwards hath been such as is mencõned in the Interrogatory and the severall points | of the wryting now showed him, saving the 17th Article of the said wrytinge | to wch being a Compositor and not a presseman he cannot so certainely speake | vnto, And the same wryting is true respectively in the present Course of the | said office, And further to this Interrogatory he cannot depose.
Nathan Pearce of Aldersgate Street London printer aged 30 yeares | or thereabouts sworne and examined die et Anno praesente.
20. To the 20th Interrogatory hee saith that at this presente hee is not a workeman in | the office of Kinges printer, but hath bene hertofore imployed there about 12 | yeares in the place of a Compositor, And saith he knoweth the vsage and | Course of the said office for the greates parte of the five yeares last past | hath beene such as are mencõned in the seuerall pointss expressed in the § | Interrogatory and of the wryting now showed vnto him, And the presente Course of | the office is true in those points & further saith not.
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