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|Person=Giles Nicholls
|First name=Giles
|Last name=Nicholls
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Master's mate
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Marke
|Has opening text=Giles Nicholls
|Has signoff text=+
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res town=Sheilds
|Res country=BIshoprick of Durham
|Birth year=1605
|First deposition age=50
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.479v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Sep 21 1655
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Coal ship
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
Giles Nicholls (b. ca. 1605; d. ?). Mariner.

Master's mate of the ship the ''Desire'' in February 1655.

"Hath belonged to the arlate shipp the ''Desire'' for theise two yeares last past".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.480r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.480r]]</ref>

Resident in 1655 at Sheilds in the Bishopricke of Durham.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Fifty year old Giles Nicholls deposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of John Jackson and Company in the case of "Cary and Company owners of the ''Sisters'' against the shipp the ''Desire'' and against John Jackson and Company".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.479v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.479v]]</ref>

Giles Nicholls stated that he had been on board the ship the ''Desire'' on February 4th 1655 bound in for Tinmouth Haven to take in her lading of coals. The ship "being come about halfe way within the barr, the winds were soe strong and crosse that the sayd shipp could be gott noe further into the sayd haven". The master and company were forced to cast anchor and "did there ride by her anchors and cables for two tides being about the space of 24 hourers".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.479v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.479v]]</ref>

Giles Nicholls was very knowledgeable about conditions at Tinmouth, and spoke "of his certaine knowledge living at Sheilds many yeares, and having made many voyages into Tinmouth havern arlate, the place where the sayd shipp the ''Desire'' did ride at anchor, is an usuall place for shipps to cast anchor and there to ride when crosse winds lett them from comming in further to the said haven". In his clear opinion there was room for the second ship, the ''Successe'' to have passed by without coming near or hazarding her. Moreover, Giles Nicholls claimed that he saw at least twenty ships pass the ''Desire'' by safely on the very same tide before the ''Sisters'' came and foell foul of the ''Desire''.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.479v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.479v]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
-Fifty year old Giles Nicholls deposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of John Jackson and Company in the case of "Cary and Company owners of the ''Sisters'' against the shipp the ''Desire'' and against John Jackson and Company".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.479v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.479v]]</ref>
+Fifty year old Giles Nicholls deposed on September 21st 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of John Jackson and company in the case of "Cary and Company owners of the ''Sisters'' against the shipp the ''Desire'' and against John Jackson and company".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.479v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.479v]]</ref>
 Giles Nicholls stated that he had been on board the ship the ''Desire'' on February 4th 1655 bound in for Tinmouth Haven to take in her lading of coals. The ship "being come about halfe way within the barr, the winds were soe strong and crosse that the sayd shipp could be gott noe further into the sayd haven". The master and company were forced to cast anchor and "did there ride by her anchors and cables for two tides being about the space of 24 hourers".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.479v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.479v]]</ref>

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 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res town=Sheilds
-|Res country=BIshoprick of Durham
+|Res county=BIshoprick of Durham
 |Birth year=1605
 |First deposition age=50