The Honourable Lords Directors of the Commercie Compagnie of the City Middelburg in Zeeland
Payed expenses for fire, anchor & harbor money etcetera for the noble snow ship The Unity at the coast of England, within the harbor of Plymouth. Her noble transactional account in private
Debet – Sterling £: sts.: penn.
1763, 16 & 17 February
- On fire and anchor money of Her Noble ship, £ 12:12:8 Sterling
- On a hawser for a bull rope weighing 146 lb. a 38 shilling per 100 lb. and five balls of lacing line, £ 2:17:1½ Sterling
- On one ditto for hoist runners weighing 160 lb. a 38 shilling per 100 lb., £ 3:1:4 Sterling
- On brooms & 12 lb. lard for topmast grease, £ 0:4:10 Sterling
- On showing a ‘ An official document containing the route of the shipseijnbriev’, £ 0:0:6 Sterling
- On the watering place, for filling 10 A Dutch liquid measure of approximately 155 liters aumes with water, £ 0:1:0 Sterling
- On the rope-maker for attending to the hawsers on board, £ 0:3:0 Sterling
- On half a dozen tin spoons & forks, £ 0:3:0 Sterling
- On franking the letters sent to Her Honourable Directors, £ 0:4:0 Sterling
- On the bringing out of a hawser on another ship, £ 0:4:0 Sterling
- On expenses for food and drinks for the boat people ashore, £ 10:6:0 Sterling
- On ditto for me, the undersigned, £ 6:4:0 Sterling
- To the pilot for bringing in and out the first time, £ 7:7:0 Sterling
- On ditto [pilot] for the second time, £ 3:3 Sterling
- On a half aume of rum for ship’s consumption, £ 1:6:8 Sterling
- To the lord Henry Tolcher for provision for advanced money according to the receipt, £ 2:17:0 Sterling
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£ 40:19:7 Sterling
- On vegetables, £ 2:3:1 Sterling
- On bread, £ 1:13:0 Sterling
- On 58½ lb. cheese, £ 0:19:0 Sterling
- On candles, £ 0:2:1½ Sterling
- On three bags of green peas a 14 shilling, £ 2:2:1 Sterling
- On salted fish, £ 0:12:0 Sterling
- On 545½ lb. beef, £ 5:13:7¾ Sterling
- On 45 lb. mutton, £ 0:11:3 Sterling
- On 12 aumes beer, £ 6:4:7 Sterling
- On 20 lb. butter, £ 0:10:6 Sterling
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£ 20:11:3¼ Sterling
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£ 61:10:10¾ Sterling
Credit – Sterling £: sts.: penn.
15 February & 8 March
- Received in cash from the lord Henry Tolcher junior in Plymouth for which I, the undersigned, have given His Honourable two letters of exchange as payment as large as £ 48:6:0 Sterling and one ditto £ 11:0:0 Sterling. Both in order of the lord Barents in London charging Your Honourable Lords Directors, £ 59:6:0 Sterling
- Her Honourable Directors owe me, the undersigned, £ 2:4:10¾
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£ 61:10:10¾ Sterling
Thus handled in Plymouth
This 20 March anno 1763
