MRP: Synthesis
Synthesis
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26/04/12, CSG: Created page
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Possible topics for synthesis
- Attitudes and behaviour towards negroes by sailors and ship masters
- Brazeele trade
- Corruption and kickbacks (prevalence; function)
- Fish
- "he answereth & beleeveth that Salmon & herings were no vendible commodity at Rochell in y:e moneths arlate" (HCA 13/19)
- Geographical language
- Areas
- Linked to commodties (Rhenish wine; French wine)
- Non-port towns
- Ports
- Seas
- Greenland fishing
- Port to port routes
- Ship age
- "an old shipp being about the Age of thirteen or fourteen yeers old" (the Mayflower, ca. ?1659)[1]
- Ship prices
- Create table of price of ships per ton (by age and burthen)
- Prices outside England, e.g. Surat (the Mayflower, 280 tonnes, 13 or 14 years old, badly damaged, valued with tackle and provisions at 910:li sterling by Capt. Robert ffisher, commander of the Smirna Merchant (£3.25 per ton)
- Timber merchants
- Time
- Between ports
- lading in port
- Unlading in port
- Wages
- Levels by job function
- Variances within and between job functions, & over time, & according to perceived risk and supply/demand
- Workings of Vice Admiralty courts outside London
- Regional courts
-- Example: Leith, Scotland
-- Example: Court of West England
- Process
- Registry
Travel Time Sources
- Inverness to Rochell
- "he answereth & beleeveth That the weather ?serving a ship doth usually & may saile from Innvrnes to Rochell in ?20 dayes or thereabouts" (HCA 13/19)
Wages
- Seamens' wages to travel from Lisbon to Brazil and back
- "some consideraccon extraordinary above what they were in the first place hired
for" (HCA 13/19)
- Customary exchange rates for mariners
