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
Commercial failure
- Examples
- "at Geneva this rendent tooke in some pte of her lading & was to goe to Legorne to take in y:e remainder, & at his arrivall at Legorne the merchant who freaighted this rendents ship failed so that this rendents designe was overthrown" [Answer given June 1659] (HCA 13/19)
- "hee doth beleive the said de Silvera not knowing the said ffrancis Pardini was failed did send the bill of lading unto him as he beleiveth" [Answer given June 1659, referring to events in 1649](HCA 13/19)
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)
- Lisbon to Brazil (exact Brazilian destination unspecified)
- "y:e sd ship the Scipio did enter upon & begin her voiage for Brazeel to wit in y:e lading of her goods for that place the 3:d of September 1649. and that y:e sd ship did dept from Lisborne upon y:e sd voiage the 5:th day of November arlate 1649 & ?arrived at Brazeele the 6:th day of March 1649 [i.e. 1650] & there discharged her lading about y:e end of Aprill 1650 & that upon the 20:th of June 1650. y:e sd ship did set saile in company of the portugall fleete for Lisborne againe, and was afterwards put back with the rest of y:e fleete by the command of y:e Admrall for Brazeel where they arrived againe about the first or second of July 1650." (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
