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|Person=Robert Shorting
|First name=Robert
|Last name=Shoting
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Boatswain
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=Robert Shorting
|Has signoff text=Robert Shorting
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1633
|First deposition age=22
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.204v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Jan 3 1655
|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
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
Robert Shorting (b. ca. 1633; d. ?). Mariner.

Boatswain of the ship the ''Mary'' of London (Master: William ffishman).

Resident in 1655 in Wapping in the county of Middlesex.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Twenty-two year old Robert Shorting deposed on January 3rd 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined "On the behalfe of the said Whetcombe and Jackson touching the ''Mary''".

Robert Shorting was literate, and made reference to his need as boatswain to observe and note down the marks of different merchants and laders of goods. He stated that there were "thirtie butts of wine, seaven hundred and twenty peeces of fruite, and about foure hundred barrells of raisings, all which were soe laden by Mr Jackson a factor there, and to be transported to this port, and saith the said goods were marked either with '''PWW''' or '''BW''' namely some of them were marked with the first and the rest with the second of the said markes, And saith hee heard the said Jackson at Malaga say that the said goods were all for the accompt of Mr Whetcombe and one Mr Jackson merchants of this citie, and hee came to take notice of the said markes because hee was boatswaine and tooke notice thereof in necessitie".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.204v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.204v]]</ref>

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Robert Shorting - Revision history

ColinGreenstreet at 10:19, November 5, 2016

ColinGreenstreet at 20:30, October 29, 2016

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