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29th September 1758 - 3rd December 1759

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Image 75 of 13622nd October 1759


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These are to Certify that at the General Quarter Session of the Peaceofholden for
the City of London at the Guildhall within the same City on Monday the twenty second
Day of this Instant October Before Sir Richard Glyn< no role > Knt . & Bart . Mayor of the City of London
Sir Willam Moreton< no role > Knt . Recorder of the said City Robert Scott< no role > Esqr . Nathaniel
Nash
< no role > Esqr .other of the Aldermen of the said City and others their Fellows Justices
of our said Lord the King assigned to keep the peace of our sd. Lord the King within the said City and also to hear and determine divers
Felonies Trespasses and other Misdeeds committed within the same City James White< no role >
of Thomas Street London Merchant a Subject of this Realon and who in habits in the
said City of London appeared in open Court before the said Justices and made sufficient
proof before and to the Satisfaction of the sd. Justices according to the Directions of the
Statute in that Behalf by the Oaths of two Credible Wihresses (whereofHugh Henry Coffin< no role >
the Master of the hereinafter mentioned Ship was one) that on or about the tenth
Day of October Instant there were shipped and cleared at Cowes in the Isle of Wight
on Board the Ship called three Sisters of Lymington where of the said Henry Hugh< no role > Henry Coffin< no role > was
Master Thirty Tons or twelve Hundred Rushells of Lett English White Salt for and on
Account of him the said James White< no role > the Owner thereofsad that the Duties thereof had
been [..] duly paid to this Majesty)
and to be delivered to him in the port of London
[..] and that the duties there of had been duly paid to Hi Majesty
And that the said Ship with the said Salt on Board her in the Course of her
Voyage from Cowes to London sunk and was totally lost by the Stress of bad
Weather and that all the said Salt perishred by Means of the said Accident
And that the same was not occasioned by any Leekage of the said Ship




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