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
13/1425 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.)