STAC 5 M36/29g

STAC 5/M36/29g

Interrogatories to be ministered to John Lyn of the town of Kingston upon Hull scrivenor and John Waddy keeper of the woolhouse there on the part of the Fellowship of English Merchants for the Discovery of new Trades concerning the matter in controversy between the same Fellowship complainants against John Gregory late Mayor and Admiral of the said town and port of Kingston upon Hull Defendant.

Inprimis whether do you know or have you heard that the said John Gregory late Mayor of the town of Kingston upon Hull did send John Lyn or any other person unto one Robert Broderick of the said town to have his bond to save and keep him the said late Mayor harmless for forty barrels and three hogsheads of oil and twelve barrels of salmon which after they were seized by Richard Jacklin Marshal of the Admiral Court in Hull aforesaid and laid up in the cellar of Thomas Humphrey were taken and carried away And whether had the same John Gregory any further bond or any other bond or promise of the said Broderick or of any other person to save him harmless or not.

Item whether you or any other person did go to the said late Mayor and give him knowledge that the said Broderick and one Christofer Ellys were at the woolhouse in Hull, and said that they wold break up the door of the said cellar where the oil and salmon did lie, and what answer did the said late Mayor make thereunto. And whether did he stay the same or forbid the doing thereof or not. And whether have you known or heard that the said goods were carried away for lack of justice or any stay and in default of the said John Gregory or not.

Item whether hath or had the said John Gregory or any other to his use any part in the said ship pink or goods or was he or any other to his use to have any part or profit therein by way of adventure promise of bargain or priviledge of common bargain or other ways howsoever or came any of the said goods to his hands or were any of them promised to come to his use by bargain gift reward or by any other consideration or means sithence the arriving thereof And for what consideration and by what means. Or hath he had any other thing given or promised him for suffering of the said goods so to be conveyed away as you think or have heard.

The examinations of John Lynne of Kingston upon Hull scrivener of the age of 43 or there abouts sworn and examined the fourth day of October Anno 1580 before the said commissioners deposeth and sayeth as followeth

1 Inprimis to the first interrogatory this deponent sayeth that on Whytson even last the said John Gregory required this examinate to go to Robert Brotherike and to require him to come unto him, and to enter into bond unto him the said John Gregory but for what matter or to what end he this examinate knoweth not, nor cannot now remember. And he, this examinate, further saith that he at the said John Gregory request at that said time repaired to the said Brotherycke declaring unto him that the said John Gregory required the said Robert to go unto him and to enter into bond unto him who answered this deponent that would give him no bond, And then this examinate willed him to go and talk with him himself who said that if he could meet with him before the tide time upon the next day he would talk with him and further this deponent cannot depose.

2.3. Item to the second and third interrogatory this deponent cannot depose.

The examinations of John Waddy of Kingston upon Hull Mariner and the one of the farmors of the woolhouse there of the age of 66 or there abouts sworn and examined the forth day of October Anno anno predicto before the said commissioners

1 Inprimis to the first interrogatory this deponent cannot depose.

2 Item to the second interrogatory this deponent sayeth that he did go to the said John Gregory being Mayor and told him that the merchants or owners of the goods that was laid in the cellar in the wolehouse came to demand their goods and said that there was none that had any occassion to stay their goods for they had paid the Queen’s Majesty’s custom and all other duties And further he cannot depose.

3 Item to the third interrogatory this deponent sayeth that this examinate thinketh in his conscience that the said John Gregory had never any part thereof nor any other consideration and further he cannot depose.