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Receipt of Francis Clarke1

Clarke, Francis Massachusetts-Bay Company

	li.	s.	d.
Resons solis2 1. C 2: li. at 40: s. per li C.	02:	00:	093
Currantes 1. C at 46: s. 8 d. per C:	02:	06:	08
Large ginger ½ C at 7: li. per li. C	03:	10:	00
Anisedes 20: li. at 9 d. per li.	00:	15:	00
gales4 6 li at 12 d. per li.	00:	06:	00
217
guaicum bark 2 li. at 18 d. per li.	00:	03:	00
greene copperis 6 li. at 3 d. per li.	00:	01:	06
small mace 1 li. at 12 s. per li.	00:	12:	00
Rasinggs 2 li. at 5: s. 6 d. per li.	00:	11:	00
Cloues 1 li. at 13 s. per li.	00:	13:	00
Large scnnot 1 li. at 6. s. 8. d. per li.	00:	06:	08
pepper 10 li. at 22 d. per li.	00:	18:	04
powder suger 20 li. at 13. d. per li.	01:	01:	08
for 2 bagges.	00:	01:	00
for 2 barrells.	00:	02:	00
for a box.	00:	00:	06
Jordan Almonds 14 li. at 15 d. per li.	00:	17:	06
Resons solis 20: li. at 4 d. ½ per li.	00:	07:	06
2 boxces	00:	01:	02
Verdegreece 4 oz.	00:	01:	06
	14:	15:	9
pruons 1: C: at 20 s. per C.	01:	00:	00
for a bagge	00:	01:	03
for ½ li. of tobacco	00:	10:	00
	1:	11:	3
	14:	15:	9
	16:	07:	0
Receaued the 6th of march 1629 in full of this bill the sume of sixteene poundes and seauen shillinges I say receaued.	li.	s.
per me Francis Clarke.	16.	7

Resons solis are sun-dried grapes. With currants they were reckoned remedial in scurvy.

The colons and dashes of the original are not reproduced.

Gales may be the leaves or twigs of sweet gale, or bog-myrtle, myrica gale, of old medicinal use, and sometimes employed in brewing.