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|Person=John Bennet
|First name=John
|Last name=Bennet
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=One of the Company, Quartermaster
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Marke
|Has opening text=John Bennet
|Has signoff text=IB
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1599
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/73 f.171r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=May 6 1659
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Merchant ship
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
John Bennet (b. ca. 1599; d. ?). Mariner.

Quartermaster n the ship the ''Elizabeth and Mary'' (Maser and Commander: Thomas Middleton).

"On or about the 18th day of the moneth of October 1645 hired by the said Thomas Middleton to goe Quartermaster of the said ship, and hath ever since belonged to the said ship".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.171r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.171r]]</ref>

Resident in 1659 in Wapping.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Sixty year old John Bennet deposed on May 6th 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty. He ws examined on an allegation in the case of "Croford against Middleton".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.171r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.171r]]</ref>

The case concerned a dispute about the pay of Andrew Hill, who had been hired as a cook on the ''Elizabeth and Mary'', but who had subsequently died. John Bennet suggested that 30 shillings a month "is usually given to mariners that serve in ships, in the place of cooke as the said Hill did on such voyages as the ''Elizabeth And Mary''.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.171v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.171v]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 Quartermaster in the ship the ''Elizabeth and Mary'' (Maser and Commander: Thomas Middleton).
-"On or about the 18th day of the moneth of October 1645 hired by the said Thomas Middleton to goe Quartermaster of the said ship, and hath ever since belonged to the said ship".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.171r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.171r]]</ref>
+"On or about the 18th day of the moneth of October 1645 hired by the said Thomas Middleton to goe quartermaster of the said ship, and hath ever since belonged to the said ship".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.171r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.171r]]</ref>
 Resident in 1659 in Wapping.

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 |Occupation=Mariner
 |Mariner occupation=One of the Company, Quartermaster
 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown

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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1599
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/73 f.171r Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=May 6 1659

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 |Has opening text=John Bennet
 |Has signoff text=IB
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 John Bennet (b. ca. 1599; d. ?). Mariner.
-Quartermaster n the ship the ''Elizabeth and Mary'' (Maser and Commander: Thomas Middleton).
+Quartermaster in the ship the ''Elizabeth and Mary'' (Maser and Commander: Thomas Middleton).
 "On or about the 18th day of the moneth of October 1645 hired by the said Thomas Middleton to goe Quartermaster of the said ship, and hath ever since belonged to the said ship".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.171r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.171r]]</ref>