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|Person=William Rickes
|First name=William
|Last name=Rickes
|Mariner occupation=Cook
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=William Rickes
|Has signoff text=Willm Rickes
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Shadwell
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1617
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/72 f.153v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Oct 6 1657
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
William Rickes (b. ca. 1617; d. ?). No occupation specified by the notary.

Described as a Cook on the ''Gilbert'' on a voyage to Barbados in 1656.

Resided in 1657 in Shadwell.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty year old William Rickes deposed on October 6th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.153v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.153v]]</ref> He was examined on XX in "Upon an articulate allegation given in and admitted on the behalfe of the sayd John Cobb, Mathew Jennings and others the parties agents. John Cobb, Mathew Jennings and others mariners of the said shipp the ''Gilbert'' (whereof William Croford is Master) against the sayd shipand against Gilbert Keate, Jonathan Keate and Company".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.150r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.150r]]</ref>

William Rickes stated that he was cook of the ship the ''Gilbert'' on a voyage to Barbados and knew almost all the mariners listed in the Court schedule. He asserted that all the men "aswell the outward as inward bound voyage did doe and performe their severall duties and services in the sayd shipp, as faithfully and laboriously as men could possibly doe or performe".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.154r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.154r]]</ref>

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