Archive:E 133/3/515
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Overview
This document, and others like it, illustrates the financial difficulties that William Whitney, Esq., Receiver of Tutbury was experiencing toward the end of his short life.
Dates
Michaelmas, 20-21 Elizabeth I (1578)
Related Documents
Locations
- London
Parties
- William Whitney, Esq., Receiver of Tutbury
- Marmaduke Spight
Summary
Transcription
Folio 1
BARONS DEPOSITIONS
The Queen, Plaintiff
Spight, Marmaduke, Defendant
The deposi[t]ion of Will[ia]m Whitney taken before Mr Christopher Muschampe
esquier one of the Barons of the quenes Ma[jes]t[ies] Courte of Eschequer the
tenth Day of December in the xxjth yere of the reigne of our soveraigne lady Elizab[eth]
____ as ffollowith
[1 William W]hitney of Whytney in the County of Hereff[ordshire] gentilman of the age of xxvjto yeres [obscured] sworne and examyned the day and yere above said. To the first Interrogatory he deposeth and saith that he doth not knowe Marmaduke Spight marchant named in this Interr[ogatory], nor did ever see him to his remembrans.
2 Item to the second Interrogatory he saith that he nor any other for him or in his name did berowe
(to his knowlege) of the said Marmaduke Spight the some of CCli mencyoned in
in this Interr[ogatory], but further saithe that he himself delt first with one John Shrawley a Broker of
london about February last for to helpe him to CCli for six monthes, who p[ro]mysed this
deponent this to helpe to borowe him so muche money, and after at their next meting the said
Broker tolde this deponent that he had borowed for him of Mar_h one Marmaduke Spight
a m[er]channt twoe hundreth poundes for vj monethes space, and that he must paye for the
lone thereof to the said Spight at the said vi monethes ende, the some of CCli
and also to be bounde unto the said M[ar]maduke Spight in a bonde of ___ for the suer
the suer payment of the said CCli at the ende of the said vj monethes, and
futher saith that within a daye of ij after he was so bounde, unto the said Spight
he and then he recyved his money of the said Shrawley and not of the said Spight
Folio 2
3 Item to the thirde Interr[ogatory] he saith that he nor none for him (to his remembranns) receyved the
said some of CCth in redy money of the said M[ar]maduke Spight named in this Interr[ogatory], but saith that that
money which was paide unto him, he receyved in himself of the said Shrawley the Broker
which came not in all to the full some of CCli in redy money, and that the losse which he hath
susteyned by that bargaine comes to the some of fyftye pound[es] and more, and ferder
saith that he did never agree w[i]th the said M[ar]maduke Spight for any h losse he shuld
susteyne or beare for the lone of the said CCli but only w[i]th the said Shrawley the said Broker
with whome he was agreed to lose more then after the rate of xli in the C, for
___ Cli for a whole yere.
4 Item to the fourth Interr[ogatory] he saith that he was not paide his money at the said brokers handes at the day of the
ensealing and delyver upe of his said bonde of Lcli w[hi]ch was made unto the said M[ar]maduke Spight, nor a good while in a day
or two after, because that the Broker Shrawley had not solde the wares (as he said unto
this deponent) which he had receyved before of the said M[ar]maduke Spight for to make
money of, to pay this deponent w[i]th all. and more he can not say
[signed] W: Whitney
Folio 3
Interogatoryes to be mynestred on her Ma[jes]t[es] behalfe to one William Whitney gent
Inp[ri]mus doo you know one Marmaduke Spight marchunt and how longe have you knowne him
2 Itm Whether have you or eny in your name borowed of the same Marmaduke Speight the sum of two hundred and fyftye poundes or no and yf you did not what sum did you borow of him and what are you to paye for the same for the tyme you borowed hit, and when did you borow the same for how longe, and what sum wer you bownd in to pay the same
3 Itm Whether receved you or eny for you the sum of two hundred and fyfty poundes in rede [ready] mony of the same Marmaduke Speight and yf you did not receve so muche, what what losse are you to sustayne for borowinge the same for the sayde terme and whether was it agreed betwixt you and the said Marmaduke or his factor that you should lose or pay more then after the rate of ten pownd[es] in the for every hundred for one hole yeare and what thing[es] else ____ you say touchyng the borowinge of the sam sum
4 Itm Whether was the money payd to you when you seled the band[es]
This document was obtained by Adrian Benjamin Burke, Esq. and transcribed by Tim Doyle
