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|Person=Clemens Simpson
|First name=Clemens
|Last name=Simpson
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Gunner
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Marke
|Has opening text=Clemens Simpson
|Has signoff text=Five pointed star
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1607
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.448v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Feb 27 1657
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Fishing ship
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
Clemens Simpson (b. ca. 1607; d. ?). Mariner.

Late gunner on the ship the ''Minorie Busse'' (Master: John Ketch).

Resident in 1657 in Wapping.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Fifty year old Clemens Simpson deposed on February 27th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.448v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.448v]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation dated December 1656 on behalf of John Ketch, the master of the ''Minories Busse'' in the case of "Ketch and others against the shipp The ''Minories'' and against James Boydon".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.448r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.448r]]</ref>

Clemens Simpson stated that he ws hired in 1653 as gunner of the ''Minorie Busse'' (Master: John Ketch) by Captaine John ffearnes, who was reputed to be the husband and agent of the Corporation of London. He was hired to go on a fishing voyage. John ffearnes had supposedly fitted out several ships for similar voyages on behalf of the Corporation of London.

Clemens Simposn reported that at ffearnes order he went to the house of a ship chandler in Wapping owned by Valentine King and fetched "forty pounds of powder. fifteene round shott, some musketts, swords and quarter pikes, three or fower lanthornes, some shott=basketts two skeines of match, fower paires of bandoliers (not remembering the particulars otherwise than as aforesaid) save that hee alsoe had a sponge wor[XX] and ladle for the gunne aboard the said shipp".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.448v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.448v]]</ref>

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 |Deposition date(s)=Feb 27 1657

Clemens Simpson - Revision history

ColinGreenstreet at 14:27, November 5, 2016

ColinGreenstreet at 19:00, October 28, 2016

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