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==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
 
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"Arnold Beake Peter et Baldwin Mathewes interes indra Nave the Lucretia alias the ''Elizabeth'' et bonis".<ref>[[HCA 13/63 f.20v Annotate|HCA 13/63 f.20v AnnotatHCA 13/63 f.20v]]</ref>
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Baldwin Mathews
Person Baldwin Mathews
Title
First name Baldwin
Middle name(s)
Last name Mathews
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation Merchant
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation
Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text Baldwin Mathewes
Has signoff text Baldwin Mathews
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Language skills English language
Has interpreter
Birth street
Birth parish
Birth town
Birth county
Birth province
Birth country
Res street
Res parish
Res town Middleburg
Res county
Res province
Res country United Provinces
Birth year 1620
Marriage year
Death year
Probate date
First deposition age 37
Primary sources
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Personal answer start page(s)
Allegation start page(s)
Interrogatories page(s)
Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/72 f.125v Annotate
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Act book date(s)
Personal answer date(s)
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Deposition date(s) Oct 6 1657
How complete is this biography?
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Has synthesis completed No
Has HCA evidence completed No
Has source comment completed No
Ship classification
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Baldwin Mathews (b. ca. 1620; d. ?). Merchant.

Brother of London merchant Peter Mathews.[1]

Resident in 1657 in Middleburh (alt. Middleborowe).

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

April 1650

"Arnold Beake Peter et Baldwin Mathewes interes indra Nave the Lucretia alias the Elizabeth et bonis".[2]

January 1655

Thirty-seven year old Peter Mathews, elder brother of Baldwin Mathews, deposed on January 10th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the cause of "Peter Cock and Baldwin Matthewes for their silver in the shipp Saint John Baptist.[3]

October 1657

Thirty-seven year old Baldwin Mathews deposed on October 6th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel in the cause of "Vanbroughs and Nicholas against the Abrahams Offering and Rois".[4]

The case concerned a fatt of black thread laded onto the ship the Abrahams Offering (Master: ffrancis Rpis) at Flushing of Middleburg. The thread was for transportation to London for the account of William Vanbrugh (alt. Vanbrough). Baldwin Mathews handled the lading of the thread onto the ship, but stated that he did not see the thread itself "the same comming to this deponent from Sluce in fflanders readie made up in the said fatt".[5]

The thread received water damage whilst on the ship. Mathews noted that "the port of fflushing is a drie port, soe as shipps when the tide is out, alwaies lie drie, and rest upon the ground; by meanes whereof shipps there doe many times mark or crush and their goods receive dammage; soe that (as hee taketh it) it is the use and custome there amongst merchants and masters to [XXXX] any dammage there received from beneath, to casualtie".[6]

Comment on sources

1653

In her will, written on July 20th 1653, but only proved in 1676, Anne Delboe, wife of London merchant Simon Delboe, made reference to "my brother William Vanbrugh" and to "my sister Susan Vanbrugh". Prior to her marriage, an agreement had been made in 1652 "Whereunto the said Simon Delboe I the said Anne Timothy Crusoe my Brother William Vanbrugh Peter Mathewes and Peter Mathewes Baldwin are parties".[7]
  1. HCA 13/70 f.171v
  2. HCA 13/63 f.20v AnnotatHCA 13/63 f.20v
  3. HCA 13/70 f.171v
  4. HCA 13/72 f.125v
  5. HCA 13/72 f.126r
  6. HCA 13/72 f.126r
  7. PROB 11/352/515 Will of Anne Delboe, Wife of London 23 December 1676