Ports
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Ports
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08/11/12: CSG, created page
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Descriptions of access to ports
Porto Port
- “The Port of Porto Port in Portugall is a barrd port, and by reason of the barr and alsoe by reason a great fresh doth usually come downe the Port and the Port is very narrowe and rockie on the one side and sandie on the other, it is very dangerous to put thereinto, and the same is not to bee entered but about three quarters flood, and that with a great fresh gale of winde to stemme the fresh, in soe much that noe shipps (as this deponent hath heard by divers seamen who frequented that Port) doe goe in thither without assistance of a pylott belonging to that place or to some other Port neere thereabout and well acquainted with the sayd Port” (HCA 13/71 f.503r Case: Cowse against Juggles; Deposition: 4. James Manfeild of Saint Olaves in Southwarke Mariner aged fifty yeares; Date: 27/02/1656 (1657))
Descriptions of customs at different ports
Porto fferava
- ”He hath beene att Porto fferava, but it is so long since that hee hath at present noe memory of the manner and orders used in that Port, nor touching the weights there used” (HCA 13/71 f.29v: Case: XXXX; Deposition: 1. James Lutton of East Greenwich in the County of Kent Mariner aged 53)
