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Deposicõns of Witnesses taken at Skynners Hall London the xixth of Aprill |
1627. before Daniel Hills and Nathaniell Weston Commissioners by vertue of |
his Mats Commission awarded out of the high court of Chancery in a cause there |
depending between Robert Barker esqr. plaintife and Bonham Norton esqr. defendant
Thomas Harper of the parishe of St Annes Blackfriaers London Stacõner aged thirtie eight | yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined on the plaintifes behalf, to the second Interrogatory saith | that he cannot thereto depose anything materiall, the thinges therein conteyned being done | before his comming to execute anything in the said office.
To the fourth Interrogatory he saith that he knoweth nothing touching the managing of the said | office by the two persons named in the Interrogatory only he saith that the said two persons were there | but what they did for that moiety he knoweth not and he this deponent was ymployed | for Mr Bill, and knoweth nothing of the decree, And said that weekely accompt was | made between the two persons and this deponent for the severall moietyes, but knoweth not | what yearely accompts were made for the [word illegible] moietys, And saith that Mr Constable | came thither, but whether he were accomptant for the plaintife or not hee knoweth not, And | saith that he knoweth of nothing that was either printed sold or trusted by the defendant | or Mr Bill, wthout the mutuall consents of the said defendant and Mr Bill but whether the | plaintife or his Accomptant were made, acquainted therewth or not, he knoweth not.
To the vth Interrogatory he saith that this deponent for Mr Bill & Mr Roger Norton for the defendant kept | severall keyes of the books accompts and stock of the said office, And saith that since his§ | Comming viz from Christmas or thereabouts 1623 till Christmas last the care and § | managing of the said office was comitted to this deponent for Mr Bill and the said Roger § | Norton for the defendant and during that tyme they bought and sould the wares & comodities for | both partes of the said office, and made entries of the worke, receipts and proffitts of the same, and | likewise receaved the moneyes of the said office during that tyme, And also the defendant & MrBill | and this deponent & Mr Roger Norton wth their consents trusted out the warres & commodities | of the said office.
To the vith Interrogatory he saith that he conceaveth he hath made sufficient answere in the last precedent deposition.
To the viith Interrogatory he saith that all the summes of money debts receipts and proffits § | mencõned in this Interrogatory are truly booked and entred in the books of the said office except | anything hath bene omitted through negligence or forgetfulnes, but thincketh that noe | somme or thing of value hath bene forgotten or neglected and if there were any such | error yet yt was found in the Chest and paid out for the proffitt of the stock.
To the viith Interrogatory he saith that hee knoweth nothing more then before he hath answered | in the former Interrogatories.
To the vxth he saith that all the printed books were dulie entred in the books of accompts | except some fewe books of little value that were given awaie by consent of Mr Norton | and Mr Bill, and some that might be imbeaselled wherein Mr Bill susteyned as great § | losse as the plaintife or defendant and further to this Interrogatory he cannot depose more than hee hath said before. |
To the xth Interrogatory hee saith that he cannot at this pointe wthout further tyme of Inquiry | expresse the value of the Stock books paper and debts of the said office, neither can hee | now estimate yt, And he saith that the same is nowe kept in the custodie of the | defendant and Mr Bill, And further to this Interrogatory he cannot depose.
To the xith he saith that noe new debts were made to any debtors before their old | debts were paid, as he verely beleeveth, and thinketh in his Conscience that all the | debts made to Stationers that haue bene since his coming to the office are all good | wthin the compasse of twenty pounds little more or lesse. | To
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To the xiith Interrogatory he saith that at this pointe he cannot readily declare | what debts or summes of money due to the office since the xviiith of June last are | receaved, but they are expressed in the books of accompts to wch he referreth | himself, And saith that the said persons, that manage the office haue receaved the | same, and truly and dulie entred the into the bookes of the office as he verely | beleeveth, and what the proffitts of the office are he knoweth not, And for the rest | of this Interrogatory he referreth himself to the bookes of accompts.
To the xiiith Interrogatory he saith that he knoweth of noe bookes printed in the said office | for any private vse of any of the said parties, but those that have been imprinted albeit | not belonging to the office of Kinges printer, yet the proffitt hath bene for the | ioynt Stock
To the 27th Interrogatory he saith he cannot depose any thinge at all.
Daniel hills.
Nath. Weston. |
