Thomas Alleyn, Anne Hawker, widow. v. Nathaniel Beard, clothier.: Accounts relating...

Thomas Alleyn, Anne Hawker, widow. v. Nathaniel Beard, clothier.: Accounts relating to dealings and transactions between the defendant and Robert Hawker, late of Stroud (Gloucester), (brother of Thos. Hawker, plaintiff's late husband), dyer."What is the custom or usuage in trade between dyers and clothiers if the dyers spoyl or damage cloth in the dying or colouring are the dyers in such case by the custom or usuage of such trade to make good or allow for the same to the clothier in the accots between them or out of the money coming for dying," &c., &c."Henry Dudbridge, of Woodchester, in the county of Glouc., dyer, aged sixty yeares and upwards." To the seventh interr'y this dept. sayth that it is the custom and usuage in trade between dyers and clothiers if the dyers spoile and damage cloth in the dying or colouring, ye dyers in such cases do make good or allow for ye same to ye clothiers in ye accols between them of ye money coming for dying. And this dept. sayth that for his own part he hath frequently been obliged in such cases sometimes to take nothing and sometimes but half price for dying, and sometimes to take to the cloth so spoiled and to pay the clothier for it. And this dept. hath for above fourty years known this to be ye custom and practice."Samuel Butt of ye parish of Strowd, in ye county of Gloucr, dyer." To ye sixth interr'y this dept. saith that it is usuall and customary for ye dyers to keep an accot of the dyeing and colcuring of ye cloths by them dyed, and to keep books and accots of ye prizes thereof, and to give in such accots to ye clothiers to be perused by"them and ye accots between ye dyers and clothiers are usually made up by comparison of ye dyers accots with ye accots kept by ye clothiers. And this dept. also saith that ye rates and prizes of dyeing do differ according to ye nature of ye cloth and ye variety of colours. And that ye usual price taken by this dept. for colouring of a cloth green is fourty shillings, and for colouring of a cloth blew sometimes eight and twenty shillings, and sometimes six and thirty shillings, and other intermedjate prizes according to ye goodness of ye colours. And for woading of a cloth (which is a sort of blew put upon cloths p'parative to their being dyed black), sometimes five shillings and sometimes four and twenty shillings, and other intermeadiate prices according to ye goodness of ye woad. And for colouring of a cloth black generally sixteen shillings. And this dept. saies that no difference is made in ye prices of dying on accot of ye different length of cloths or pieces of cloth which are half cloths (which cloths and pieces frequently happen to be sometimes more and sometimes less than just lengths). But this dept. saith that often times in cases where ye pieces happen to be so much more than their just lengths as that ye apprehend they cannot afford to dye them at ye usuall rates they make ye woad so much ye worse in proporc'on as may make them amends." To ye seventh interr'y this dept. saith that if a cloth be spoiled by them in dyeing green or blew (which is when it is spotted or ye colour be so uneven as that ye cloth requires to be made a black) it is the custom to make allowance for ye same by chargeing ye clothier no more for dying such colour than if he had only put a woad upon it, but such allowance is not made on account of a cloth's not happening in ye colouring to hit a pattern, provided ye"difference be not very great," &c., &c.: Gloucester