PhD Forum briefing note: Geography and trade; Commerce and law
PhD Forum briefing note: Geography and trade; Commerce and law
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04/12/12: CSG, created page
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This draft page is a briefing note for the planned PhD Forum online discussion of geography and trade, and commerce and law
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Introduction
Purpose and process of the forum session
The purpose of the forum on geography and trade, and commerce and the law, is for PhD Forum members to explore the potential of HCA materials, as exemplified by HCA 13/71.
Forum members are asked to think how HCA materials might assist them directly in their studies, and more generally how they might assist scholars in exploring issues related to these topics.
The online session, which will take place on XXXX, will be facilitated by XXXXX. The role of the facilitator is to structure the session, and to pose a series of questions to forum members. All participating members are encouraged to speak, and at the end of the forum the facilitator will ask each member to make some summary remarks.
Notes will be taken of the meeting and posted to the PhD Forum page after the session. Forum members are encouraged to expand and and correct these notes as they see fit.
The questions: Geography and trade
(1) What types of geographical knowledge are contained in HCA materials?
(2) What can be learned about trade in and with specific regions?
(3) What data in HCA materials might contribute to a micro-model of English trade in the 1650s?
The questions: Commerce and law
(1) What can be learned about commercial practices and behaviours from HCA materials?
(2) What can be learned about legal practices and behaviours from HCA materials?
Geography and trade
Types of geographical knowledge
Trade in and with specific geographies
Micro-model of English trade
Resources on geography and trade
Geography and trade
Geographies of trade
Bound for Barbary
English coastal trading
Types of trade
Currants and raisins trade
Oranges and lemons trade
Slave trade
Slavery without redemption
Textile trade
Statehood of merchants
Dutch merchants in London and elsewhere
Jewish merchants
Portuguese merchants in London
Spanish merchants in London
Introduction
Commerce and business
HCA documents have considerable research potential for academics interested in establishing the nature of mid-C17th commercial infrastructure in London and on the Thames estuary, and in a range of European and North American ports.
The HCA 13 series is a good series from which to start such analysis, since it contains a fair number of cases involving shore based suppliers to ships, and cases which link specific ladings of commodities to specific wharves and keys.
Cases provide useful detail on neglected areas of historiography, including Thames docks and wharves, Thames shipyards, and local Thames river traffic involved in loading and unloading larger ships, and transporting goods by river and coastal waters over short distances. Using these data is likely to involve significant work of synthesis, and will require inspection of a broader selection of HCA documentation across years and HCA documentation types, and of totally different series and document types, such as records of involving Chancery, probate, hearth tax, merchant letters, and State papers.
Thames wharves and keys
HCA 13 and other HCA data can be combined with probate data for PRC wills and inventories for individuals identifed as wharfingers, warehousemen, and other trades linked to specific wharves and keys. HCA data can also be linked to A2A searches of county and municipal archives for court cases involving specific wharves and keys, and redevelopment plans and maps for named wharves and keys.
Thames shipyards
HCA 13/71 contains some data on Thames shipyards. See: Thames shipyards in 1650s
One case provides detail of John Pett's Deptford shipyard.[2] More generally there are a good number of depositions by shipwrights, though typically testifying to repairs on specific ships, or of travel on specific ships as crew members, rather than providing contextual detail on dock infrastructure.
It is possible that other volumes in the HCA 13 series will provide more detail on Thames shipyards.
One case in HCA 13/71 provides detail on ship building activity in Normandy. See: XXXX
Frequent mention is made in HCA 13/71 of the purchase by English merchants of foreign ships, frequently of Dutch origin, though typically without details of their building or the specific ship yard from whence they came. See: XXXX
Thames river traffic
Resources on commerce and law
Commercial infrastructure and associated behaviours
Customs and excise
Materials handling
Thames docks and wharves
Thames lighters
Thames shipyards in 1650s
The Exchange in the City of London
Port trades
Ports
Commercial behaviour
Discipline
Injury and death
Maritime incompetence
Masquerade
Navigation
Privateering and piracy
Commercial economics
Seamens' wages
Seasonality
Ship economics
Law
Commercial law
High Court of Admiralty process