Chapitre XIV

Whitehall the second of June 1630.

This day Thomas Fittz Marchant being convented before the Board for a

notorious misdemeanor in imbeseling and conveying away certaine Beavor

skins, out of a Warehouse wherein they were deposited by way of

sequestration under lock hung on by order of the Court of Admiralty, was

after examination taken of his Carriage therein, committed to the prison of

the Fleete, and it was further ordered, that the examinations taken before the

Board, should be transmitted to Master Atturney Generall, who after

perusall of them is hereby prayed and required to take strickt examination

of the business, aswell to discover who were actors or Abettors anie way in

conveying away the said goods, as to whose hands anie parte of the same

either in specie or anie parte of the moneyes ariseing upon the sale of them,

are come, and how the same hath bin imployed, or disposed of, and by

whose direction with all such other circumstances as he shall finde requisit

touching the same, and that the Messinger who hath the said Fitz in

custodie doe forthwith carry him before Mr. Atturney to the end he may

take order for the present producing of the said Fittz, his booke of Account,

without which he refuseth (as appeareth in his Examination before the

Board) to declare what parte of the money ariseing upon the sale of the said

goods he had already received.

Whitehall the 16th. of June 1630.

Upon consideration this day had at the Board of the difference depending

betweene Monsr. de Cane a subject of the French Kings and Thomas Pittz

and others English Merchants Adventurers to Canada, and upon

consideration had in particuler of the great contempt and affront of all

authoritie and Justice shewed by the said Fittz, whereunto also it is to be

presumed that the rest of his partners were privie and Abettors, It was

thought fit and ordered that his Majesties Atturney Generall doe proceede in

Starr Chamber against the said Fittz, with all expedition, and that he

likewise hasten the Commission agreed on and directed for the examination and discovery of the rest of the Actors or Abettors in the said

misdemeanors, and that here of he give their Lordshipps an account at their

next sitting on Fryday in the afternoone. Lastly it is thought fitt and ordered

that the said Fittz be still continued prisoner in the Fleete. And that the

Warden be expressly charged and required not to suffer him at all to goe

abroad.

(State Paper Office, Colonial Papers, vol. V, art. 97.)

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