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	Twenty-five year old Joseph Stapeley, servant of George Margetts, deposed on February 21st 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. The case concerned the newly built ship the ''Merchant Frigot'' (Master: Nicholas Phillips), which was bound for Guinea and needed fitting and furnishing. Stapeley reports delivering provisions, materials, tackle and cordage partly in Margett's shop in Thames Street "known by the sign of the Rotterdam" and partly from Margett's "ropeground at Limehouse". Stapeley describes his master as a "ropeseller", and himself as book keeper to Margett, who entered details of deliveries in his master's shop book. The goods had been delivered between March 1646 and November 1647.<ref>HCA 13/62 unfol. 130D3300 DSC_0777</ref> Margett's received payment from the ship's master for all but £50, for which he took a bond for payment.<ref>HCA 13/62 unfol. 130D3300 DSC_0778</ref>		Twenty-five year old Joseph Stapeley, servant of George Margetts, deposed on February 21st 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. The case concerned the newly built ship the ''Merchant Frigot'' (Master: Nicholas Phillips), which was bound for Guinea and needed fitting and furnishing. Stapeley reports delivering provisions, materials, tackle and cordage partly in Margett's shop in Thames Street "known by the sign of the Rotterdam" and partly from Margett's "ropeground at Limehouse". Stapeley describes his master as a "ropeseller", and himself as book keeper to Margett, who entered details of deliveries in his master's shop book. The goods had been delivered between March 1646 and November 1647.<ref>HCA 13/62 unfol. 130D3300 DSC_0777</ref> Margett's received payment from the ship's master for all but £50, for which he took a bond for payment.<ref>HCA 13/62 unfol. 130D3300 DSC_0778</ref>
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	The case concerned the delivery of goods and materials by the ropemaker George Margett to the ship the ''Endeavour'' (Master: Walter Davies). Robert Hooker attested to his expertise in the rope business, "having used the said trade about 13 or 14 yeares together".<ref>[[HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate\|HCA 13/61 f.491r]]</ref>		The case concerned the delivery of goods and materials by the ropemaker George Margett to the ship the ''Endeavour'' (Master: Walter Davies). Robert Hooker attested to his expertise in the rope business, "having used the said trade about 13 or 14 yeares together".<ref>[[HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate\|HCA 13/61 f.491r]]</ref>
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 Twenty-nine year old Robert Hooker deposed on May 28th 1649 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate|HCA 13/61 f.491r]]</ref> He was examined in the cause of "Margetts con Collet et Roberts".<ref>[[HCA 13/61 f.490v Annotate|HCA 13/61 f.490v]]</ref>
-The case concerned the deliverey of goods and materials by the ropemaker George Margett to the ship the ''Endeavour'' (Master: Walter Davies). Robert Hooker attested to his expertise in the rope business, "having used the said trade about 13 or 14 yeares together".<ref>[[HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate|HCA 13/61 f.491r]]</ref>
+The case concerned the delivery of goods and materials by the ropemaker George Margett to the ship the ''Endeavour'' (Master: Walter Davies). Robert Hooker attested to his expertise in the rope business, "having used the said trade about 13 or 14 yeares together".<ref>[[HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate|HCA 13/61 f.491r]]</ref>
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 ==Biographical synthesis==
-Robert Hooker (alt. Robertus Hooker) (b. ca. 1620; d. ca. 1689). Ropemaker, of Ratcliff.
+Robert Hooker (alt. Robertus Hooker) (b. ca. 1620; d. ca. 1689). Ropemaker, of Ratcliff/Shadwell.
 Married to Anne Hooker (b.?; d. ca. 1689).
-Robert Hooker was related to another Stepney ropemaker, Daniel Adkins, through the marriage of Hooker's niece to Adkins.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.408v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.408v]]</ref>
+Robert Hooker was related to another Stepney ropemaker, Daniel Adkins (b.?; d.ca. 1687), through the marriage of Hooker's niece to Adkins.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.408v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.408v]]</ref>
 In the ropemaking trade from ca. 1635 or 1636. Servant of ropemaker George Margetts in 1646 and in 1648. Margetts had a shop on Thamesstreet in the parish of Saint Dunstans in the East and a ropeground in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney. By 1649 Robert Hooker appears to have left Margetts service, though he still testified on his behalf, referring back to rope deliveries made in 1647.
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 C 10/177/4 Bence v. Hooker, Robinson, Bell: Middx 1674
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 PROB 11/365/85 Will of George Margetts, Merchant of Stepney, Middlesex 18 January 1681
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 PROB 11/401/361 Will of John Margetts, Rope Seller of Stepney, Middlesex 24 October 1690

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-Thirty-eight year old Robert Hooker deposed on November 15th 1659. He described himself as a ropemaker of Ratclid. He was deposed in the libell of "Daniel Adkins ropemaker against the ship the ''Orange Tree'' whereof Engle=ffrith was master and against the said Englefrith". Hooker was related to Adkins through the marriage of Daniel Adkins to Robert Hooker's niece.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.408v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.408v]]</ref>
+Thirty-eight year old Robert Hooker deposed on November 15th 1659. He described himself as a ropemaker of Ratcliff. He was deposed in the libell of "Daniel Adkins ropemaker against the ship the ''Orange Tree'' whereof Engle=ffrith was master and against the said Englefrith". Hooker was related to Adkins through the marriage of Daniel Adkins to Robert Hooker's niece.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.408v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.408v]]</ref>
 Hooker stated that he had been at the Red Cow, a victualling house in Ratcliff Highwayy  in September 1659. He had seen Daniel Adkins, a rope maker, together with the master of the ship the ''Orange Tree'', come into the victualling house and sit down with a Greek named Anthony Balsome. They had dscussed money owing to Daniel Adkins.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.408r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.408r]]</ref> As an experienced ropemaker, Hooker stated that in the months of July to September 1659, new cordage was worth between 40 and 42 shillings per hundred, spunyarn 14 shillungs per hundred, Hamburg lines 18 shillings per dozen, Dipley line 8 shillings per [?dozen]. Marlin 9 or 10 pence per pound and Howsin 6 pence per pound.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.408v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.408v]]</ref>

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 |Probate date=September 17, 1689
 |First deposition age=28
-|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/61 f.39v Annotate, HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate, HCA 13/73 f.671r Annotate,
+|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/61 f.39v Annotate, HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate, HCA 13/73 f.408v Annotate, HCA 13/73 f.671r Annotate,
-|Deposition date(s)=Apr 19 1648, May 28 1649, Dec 18 1660
+|Deposition date(s)=Apr 19 1648, May 28 1649, Nov 15 1659, Dec 18 1660
 |Has infobox completed=Yes
 |Has synthesis completed=No
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 Robert Hooker (alt. Robertus Hooker) (b. ca. 1620; d. ca. 1689). Ropemaker, of Ratcliff.
-In the ropemaking trade from ca. 1635 or 1636. Servant of ropemaker George Margetts in 1646 and in 1648. Margetts had a shop on Thamesstreet in the parish of Saint Dunstans in the East and a ropeground in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney. By 1649 Robert Hooker appears to have left Margetts service, though he still testified on his behalf, referring back to rope delivereies made in 1647.
+Married to Anne Hooker (b.?; d. ca. 1689).
 Thomas Canter, a seventeen year old servant of Robert Hooker, ropemaker of Ratcliff, deposed in the High Court of Admiralty in May 1661, but in a case unrrelated to his master.<ref>HCA 13/74 f.65r</ref>
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 The case concerned the deliverey of goods and materials by the ropemaker George Margett to the ship the ''Endeavour'' (Master: Walter Davies). Robert Hooker attested to his expertise in the rope business, "having used the said trade about 13 or 14 yeares together".<ref>[[HCA 13/61 f.491r Annotate|HCA 13/61 f.491r]]</ref>
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 Chosen as churchwarden on April 1st 1552 "for Shadwell Mr Robert Hooker"<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/memorialsstepne00frergoog#page/n277/mode/2up G.W. Hill, W.H.Frere (eds), Memorials of Stepney parish (Guildford, 1890-91), p.239]</ref>
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-"Mr. Robert Hooker was tenant of the Mercers' land in Ratcli£fe. —Court Roll of April 15, 1656."<ref>[XX]</ref> p.236
+"Mr. Robert Hooker was tenant of the Mercers' land in Ratcliffe. —Court Roll of April 15, 1656."<ref>[XX]</ref> p.236
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 Thomas Canter, a seventeen year old servant of Robert Hooker, ropemaker of Ratcliff, deposed in the High Court of Admiralty in May 1661, but in a case unrrelated to his master.<ref>HCA 13/74 f.65r</ref>
-Hermione Hobhouse (1994) states that George Margett's ropeyard was on the northern side of eight acres of riverside land imemdiately to the south of the boundary between Limehouse and Poplar. This land was leased in 1633 to the shipwright John Graves, who had his yard at the north side of the boundary. This was later known as Limekiln Dockyard and then Dundee Wharf. George Margetts took out a sublease on the northern part of the property around 1650 and developed it as a ropemaking yard with a wharf, ropehouse, storehouse, houses and a ropewalk. In 1662 Margetts acquired the freehold to John GRaves' eight acres with and additional two and a half acres in the east.<ref>'The Riverside area: The Margett's Ropeyard Site in 'Ch. 14 - Limehouse Hole, in Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1994), pp. 388-397. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp388-397, viewed 04/11/2016</ref>
+Hermione Hobhouse (1994) states that George Margett's ropeyard was on the northern side of eight acres of riverside land imemdiately to the south of the boundary between Limehouse and Poplar. This land was leased in 1633 to the shipwright [[Abraham Greaves|John Graves]], who had his yard at the north side of the boundary. This was later known as Limekiln Dockyard and then Dundee Wharf. George Margetts took out a sublease on the northern part of the property around 1650 and developed it as a ropemaking yard with a wharf, ropehouse, storehouse, houses and a ropewalk. In 1662 Margetts acquired the freehold to John Graves' eight acres with and additional two and a half acres in the east.<ref>'The Riverside area: The Margett's Ropeyard Site in 'Ch. 14 - Limehouse Hole, in Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1994), pp. 388-397. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp388-397, viewed 04/11/2016</ref>
 Resident in 1648 in Limehouse and in 1660 in Ratcliffe, both in the parish of Stepney.

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	Thomas Canter, a seventeen year old servant of Robert Hooker, ropemaker, deposed in the High Court of Admiralty in May 1661, but in a case unrrelated to his master.<ref>HCA 13/74 f.65r</ref>		Thomas Canter, a seventeen year old servant of Robert Hooker, ropemaker, deposed in the High Court of Admiralty in May 1661, but in a case unrrelated to his master.<ref>HCA 13/74 f.65r</ref>
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	Hermione Hobhouse (1994) states that George Margett's ropeyard was on the northern side of eight acres of riverside land imemdiately to the south of the boundary between Limehouse and Poplar. This land was leased in 1633 to the shipwright John Graves, who had his yard at the north side of the boundary. This was later known as Limekiln Dockyard and then Dundee Wharf. George Margetts took out a sublease on the northern part of the property around 1650 and developed it as a ropemaking yard with a wharf, ropehouse, storehouse, houses and a ropewalk. In 1662 Margetts acquired the freehold to John GRaves' eight acres with and additional two and a half acres in the east.<ref>'The Riverside area: The Margett's Ropeyard Site in 'Ch. 14 - Limehouse Hole, in Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1994), pp. 388-397. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp388-397, viewed 04/11/2016</ref>		Hermione Hobhouse (1994) states that George Margett's ropeyard was on the northern side of eight acres of riverside land imemdiately to the south of the boundary between Limehouse and Poplar. This land was leased in 1633 to the shipwright John Graves, who had his yard at the north side of the boundary. This was later known as Limekiln Dockyard and then Dundee Wharf. George Margetts took out a sublease on the northern part of the property around 1650 and developed it as a ropemaking yard with a wharf, ropehouse, storehouse, houses and a ropewalk. In 1662 Margetts acquired the freehold to John GRaves' eight acres with and additional two and a half acres in the east.<ref>'The Riverside area: The Margett's Ropeyard Site in 'Ch. 14 - Limehouse Hole, in Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs, ed. Hermione Hobhouse (London, 1994), pp. 388-397. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp388-397, viewed 04/11/2016</ref>