MRP: Danzig - Revision history

Francescagreenstreet at 15:19, February 29, 2012

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Francescagreenstreet at 14:46, January 9, 2012

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Francescagreenstreet at 00:11, January 2, 2012

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Francescagreenstreet at 00:11, January 2, 2012

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Francescagreenstreet at 12:05, December 30, 2011

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Francescagreenstreet at 10:09, December 28, 2011

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Francescagreenstreet at 09:59, December 28, 2011

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 ====Nathaniell Harris, son of Captain Nicholas Read's master====
-"[Letter from Captain Nicholas Read to Sir George Oxenden, 17th March 1662/63] S:r these lines are alsoe to accompany M:r Nathaniell harris who is Ma:s ?Sonn from whome I had my breeding as to a Merch:t & it ?hath been y:e will of God to order y:d Wrld to frown upon him hitherto, his breeding hath been a Merch:t sometime he spent in Danzick soe’s speaketh y:e German language very well, further had his breeding: 5: or:6: years at Ligone"<ref>[[MRP: 17th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Reade to Sir GO, Ipswich|17th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Reade to Sir GO, Ipswich]]</ref>
+<u>Letter from Captain Nicholas Read to Sir George Oxenden, 17th March 1662/63</u>
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 ====Mrs Joanne Solomons, residing in Danzig, 1679, mother of London merchant George Cock====
 "ITEM I give and bequeath to my said Sonn John Gerrard Cock Sixteen pounds a yeare to be paid to him by my Executrix by four quarterly payments in such manner and at such times as the Interest of the said Six hundred pounds is before limited to be paid to him Nevertheless my will and meaning is that the payment of the said Sixteen pounds a yeare shall be continued and paid to him during the life time of his Grandmother Mrs Joane Solomons now living and residing at Dantzick in Prussia and for six months after her death and noe longer For that my said sonne hath the expectation of a considerable livelyhood from and after the death of his said Grandmother and may then well Spare the said sixteen pounds a yeare"<ref>[[MRP: George Cock will|George Cock will]]</ref>

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 ===Danzig as part of English Baltic trade===
-"[Refers to 1661-1665] in & bet y:e yeares of o:r Lord one thousand six hundred sixtie & one (sixtie two) sixtie three) sixtie four) & sixtie five) y:e s:d S:r W:m Rider and yo:r Orato:r as ptners in Merchandize did freight on in sewall vessells from y:e port of London to Stockholme in Sweden to Dansicke in Poland and to Riga in Sweden diverse merchandizes & comodityes in pticuler sugar Tobacco Pepper Tinne Lead Cardimmon Coales Indigoe ffrench & spanish wines & sevall other Comdityes & yo:r Orato:r cannot in pticuler menconn all w:ch had safe arrivalls & were from tyme to tyme sold to very great pfitts & great returns were made from Stockholme & other pts beyond y:e seas as y.e proceed of these merchandizes w:ch had likewise safe arrivalls at y:e port of London w:ch retorns did consist in Irons Copper XXX Plates XXX Gunnes Copper Barrs Pitch & divers other Comodityes of w:ch great pfitts was made y:e pticuler Bills of Lading Envoyces & accompts of all w:ch together w:th all the comodityes themselves did come to y.e hands of y:e s:d S:r William Rider Cocke or Alderman Backwell or some or one of them or for their uses or by their order"<ref>'Bill of complaint brought by William Cock vs. Sir William Ryder ''et al'', [[MRP: C10/155/38 f. 1|C10/155/38 f. 1]]</ref>
+<u>Extract from Bill of complaint brought by William Cock vs. Sir William Ryder et al, post 1665</u>
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 ===English merchants & mariners in Danzig===

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 [[File:MAP_DETAIL_Scandanavie_Map_RH_Side_L_Europe_En_Plusiers_Cartes_Paris_1683_DL_CSG_281211.PNG|thumbnail|600px|none|Detail of 'Scandanavie', RH side, Nicholas Sanson, ''l'Europe en plusieurs cartes'' (Paris, 1683)]]
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 ===Town plan===
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 ===Townscape===
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 ===Image credits & copyright information===

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 See [[MRP: Stockholm|Stockholm]]
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 ==Images==

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 ==Images==
-===Map of Baltic, Nicholas Sanson, 1683===
+===Map of Baltic, Detail, Nicholas Sanson, 1683===
 [[File:MAP_DETAIL_Scandanavie_Map_RH_Side_L_Europe_En_Plusiers_Cartes_Paris_1683_DL_CSG_281211.PNG|thumbnail|600px|none|Detail of 'Scandanavie', RH side, Nicholas Sanson, ''l'Europe en plusieurs cartes'' (Paris, 1683)]]

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 ===Image credits & copyright information===
-Add '''Image credits & copyright information'''
+(1) Lower portion of RH side of map of 'Scandanavie' in Nicholas Sanson, ''L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittés de geographie et d'histoire'' (Paris, 1683), p. 11
+- Out of copyright book and image
-Lower portion of RH side of map of 'Scandanavie' in Nicholas Sanson, ''L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittés de geographie et d'histoire'' (Paris, 1683), p. 11, out of copyright book and image
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 ==Town profile==

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 ===Map of Baltic===
-[[File:MAP_DETAIL_Scandanavie_Map_RH_Side_L_Europe_En_Plusiers_Cartes_Paris_1683_DL_CSG_281211.PNG|thumbnail|600px|none|N. Sanson, Detail of 'Scandanavie', RH side, ''l'Europe en plusieurs cartes'' (Paris, 1683)]]
+[[File:MAP_DETAIL_Scandanavie_Map_RH_Side_L_Europe_En_Plusiers_Cartes_Paris_1683_DL_CSG_281211.PNG|thumbnail|600px|none|Detail of 'Scandanavie', RH side, Nicholas Sanson, ''l'Europe en plusieurs cartes'' (Paris, 1683)]]
 ===Town plan===
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 ===Danzig as part of English Baltic trade===
-"in & bet y:e yeares of o:r Lord one thousand six hundred sixtie & one (sixtie two) sixtie three) sixtie four) & sixtie five) y:e s:d S:r W:m Rider and yo:r Orato:r as ptners in Merchandize did freight on in sewall vessells from y:e port of London to Stockholme in Sweden to Dansicke in Poland and to Riga in Sweden diverse merchandizes & comodityes in pticuler sugar Tobacco Pepper Tinne Lead Cardimmon Coales Indigoe ffrench & spanish wines & sevall other Comdityes & yo:r Orato:r cannot in pticuler menconn all w:ch had safe arrivalls & were from tyme to tyme sold to very great pfitts & great returns were made from Stockholme & other pts beyond y:e seas as y.e proceed of these merchandizes w:ch had likewise safe arrivalls at y:e port of London w:ch retorns did consist in Irons Copper XXX Plates XXX Gunnes Copper Barrs Pitch & divers other Comodityes of w:ch great pfitts was made y:e pticuler Bills of Lading Envoyces & accompts of all w:ch together w:th all the comodityes themselves did come to y.e hands of y:e s:d S:r William Rider Cocke or Alderman Backwell or some or one of them or for their uses or by their order"<ref>'Bill of complaint brought by William Cock vs. Sir William Ryder ''et al'', [[MRP: C10/155/38 f. 1|C10/155/38 f. 1]]</ref>
+"[Refers to 1661-1665] in & bet y:e yeares of o:r Lord one thousand six hundred sixtie & one (sixtie two) sixtie three) sixtie four) & sixtie five) y:e s:d S:r W:m Rider and yo:r Orato:r as ptners in Merchandize did freight on in sewall vessells from y:e port of London to Stockholme in Sweden to Dansicke in Poland and to Riga in Sweden diverse merchandizes & comodityes in pticuler sugar Tobacco Pepper Tinne Lead Cardimmon Coales Indigoe ffrench & spanish wines & sevall other Comdityes & yo:r Orato:r cannot in pticuler menconn all w:ch had safe arrivalls & were from tyme to tyme sold to very great pfitts & great returns were made from Stockholme & other pts beyond y:e seas as y.e proceed of these merchandizes w:ch had likewise safe arrivalls at y:e port of London w:ch retorns did consist in Irons Copper XXX Plates XXX Gunnes Copper Barrs Pitch & divers other Comodityes of w:ch great pfitts was made y:e pticuler Bills of Lading Envoyces & accompts of all w:ch together w:th all the comodityes themselves did come to y.e hands of y:e s:d S:r William Rider Cocke or Alderman Backwell or some or one of them or for their uses or by their order"<ref>'Bill of complaint brought by William Cock vs. Sir William Ryder ''et al'', [[MRP: C10/155/38 f. 1|C10/155/38 f. 1]]</ref>
-===English merchants in Danzig===
+Barbara Burnell, the mother of the London merchant and clothworker, Thomas Burnell, was the daughter of Peter Camberlin of Dansicke.<ref>Add footnote</ref>
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-'''Francis Sanderson, Danzig correspondent of Sir William Ryder'''
+====Francis Sanderson, Danzig correspondent of Sir William Ryder====
 Sir William Ryder appears to have a correspondent called Fr.[ances?] Sanderson in Danzig, who wrote on Oct 3. 1665 to "Sir. Wm. Rider and Co.":
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 "''Vessels are delayed, not  being suffered to unload for fear of infection; grieves to hear of the heavy judgement of the plague in London; business disbursements at Riga; hears that the custom house officers at Pillau have refused to clear English ships till further order, because the King stayed in England two of the Elector of Brandenburg’s vessels. Particulars of Abraham of Dixon of Newcastle’s ship being stopped at Pillau.''" [Adm. Paper]<ref>Mary Anne Everett Green, Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell, Francis Lawrance Bickley (eds.), ''Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II: 1660-[1685]: 1665-66'' (London, 1864), p. 26</ref>
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-'''Nathaniell Harris'''
+====Nathaniell Harris, son of Captain Nicholas Read's master====
 "[Letter from Captain Nicholas Read to Sir George Oxenden, 17th March 1662/63] S:r these lines are alsoe to accompany M:r Nathaniell harris who is Ma:s ?Sonn from whome I had my breeding as to a Merch:t & it ?hath been y:e will of God to order y:d Wrld to frown upon him hitherto, his breeding hath been a Merch:t sometime he spent in Danzick soe’s speaketh y:e German language very well, further had his breeding: 5: or:6: years at Ligone"<ref>[[MRP: 17th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Reade to Sir GO, Ipswich|17th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Reade to Sir GO, Ipswich]]</ref>
+----
-===Mrs Joanne Solomons, residing in Danzig, 1679===
+====Mrs Joanne Solomons, residing in Danzig, 1679, mother of London merchant George Cock====
 "ITEM I give and bequeath to my said Sonn John Gerrard Cock Sixteen pounds a yeare to be paid to him by my Executrix by four quarterly payments in such manner and at such times as the Interest of the said Six hundred pounds is before limited to be paid to him Nevertheless my will and meaning is that the payment of the said Sixteen pounds a yeare shall be continued and paid to him during the life time of his Grandmother Mrs Joane Solomons now living and residing at Dantzick in Prussia and for six months after her death and noe longer For that my said sonne hath the expectation of a considerable livelyhood from and after the death of his said Grandmother and may then well Spare the said sixteen pounds a yeare"<ref>[[MRP: George Cock will|George Cock will]]</ref>

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 ==Notes==
 ===English merchants in Danzig===

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 "''Vessels are delayed, not  being suffered to unload for fear of infection; grieves to hear of the heavy judgement of the plague in London; business disbursements at Riga; hears that the custom house officers at Pillau have refused to clear English ships till further order, because the King stayed in England two of the Elector of Brandenburg’s vessels. Particulars of Abraham of Dixon of Newcastle’s ship being stopped at Pillau.''" [Adm. Paper]<ref>Mary Anne Everett Green, Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell, Francis Lawrance Bickley (eds.), ''Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II: 1660-[1685]: 1665-66'' (London, 1864), p. 26</ref>
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