Cereal trade

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Cereal trade

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05/01/13: CSG, created page



Purpose of page

The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.

Reference is made to the export of corn and wheat from England in a number of HCA 13/71 cases and depositions.

All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.

  • At which ports was corn and/or wheat collected?
  • To which ports was was corn and/or wheat transported?
  • What can we learn trade in cereals in the mid-C17th?


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Suggested links


PhD Forum
PhD Forum Themes

Currants and raisins trade
Metals trade
Oranges and lemons trade
Salt trade
Slave trade
Textile trade
Wine trade



Cases in HCA 13/71 mentioning corn




Cases in HCA 13/71 mentioning wheat


The George Bonadventure experienced an unusual "mutiny" early in its voyage from Gravesend to Zant, with a cargo of wheat.

  • "25. To the second third and fowerth articles of the sayd allegation

26. hee saith that hee being Purser as a foresayd knoweth
27. the sayd shipp the George Bonadventure having taken in at
28. London (among other ladeing) seaven hundred quarters of wheate
29. did arrive with
30. the same on board her the voyage in question
31. at Zant upon or about the three and twentieth day of Aprill 1655 and
32. was there to deliver the same And saith the sayd Corne of this
33. deponents sight and knowledge was in the transportation to Zant much
34. damnified by water taken in through the hatches of the sayd
35. shipp which was occasioned by the negligence of the Carpenter
36. of the sayd shipp Christian Bickley and his Mate their negligence
37. to calke and keepe the sayd hatches tight, which they omitted to
38. doe though this deponent (observing the sayd hatches to bee faulty
39. and want calkeing) did seuerall tymes speake to them to amend
40. the same..."

- HCA 13/71 f.266v Case: Beniamin dimmock John Godden Christopher Knecke Richard Brooke and henry denbe against George ffarington; Deposition: 1. Robert Thompson the parish of Saint Martin in the Vintrey London Cittizen and Merchantaylor of London late Purser of the shipp the George Bonadventure of London aged forty sixe yeares; Date: 02/07/1656. Transcribed by XXXX[2]



Cases in other HCA volumes, 1650-1669, mentioning cereals


  • "It being very notorious & well knowne to the sd M:r Wayn Wright & all other mrchants that use the East countrey trade that every Last of wheate payeth one dollar the charges at Stettin & Stralsound & the charges for Smacks & boates to bring y:e sd corne on board, & petty pilotage & other dutyes, all w:ch hee this rendent did really pay" (HCA 13/129 no f.)


  • "The arlate shipps were laden with wheate fflaxe and Iron" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no recto, Case: Beane ag:t Jacobs: Personall answeares: Humfrey Beane: Date: XXXX)


  • "Three lasts of wheate, eleaven baggs of wool, 2000 sheep skins, and about 20 shipp pounds of uron" (HCA 13/76 f. 11v.)


  • "What was done with the wheat that was so kept aboard did not the said Robert Oyle after hee went from Tanger aforesaid feed geese, Turkeyes, henns, and hoggs therewith dureing the said Shippes voyage from Tangier aforesaid to Alicant and Xouire and to Zephalania and in his homeward voyage" (HCA 23/19, no f.)
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