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Edward Bests | |
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Person | Edward Bests |
Title | |
First name | Edward |
Middle name(s) | |
Last name | Bests |
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Spouse of | |
Widow of | |
Occupation | Mariner |
Secondary shorebased occupation | |
Mariner occupation | Boatswain |
Associated with ship(s) | |
Training | Not apprentice |
Is apprentice of | |
Was apprentice of | |
Had apprentice(s) | |
Citizen | Unknown |
Literacy | Signature |
Has opening text | Edward Beast |
Has signoff text | Edward Bests |
Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
Language skills | English language |
Has interpreter | |
Birth street | |
Birth parish | |
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Birth country | |
Res street | Limehouse |
Res parish | Stepney |
Res town | |
Res county | Middlesex |
Res province | |
Res country | England |
Birth year | 1619 |
Marriage year | |
Death year | |
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First deposition age | |
Primary sources | |
Act book start page(s) | |
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Allegation start page(s) | |
Interrogatories page(s) | |
Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.299r Annotate |
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Deposition date(s) | Mar 20 1655 |
How complete is this biography? | |
Has infobox completed | Yes |
Has synthesis completed | No |
Has HCA evidence completed | No |
Has source comment completed | No |
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Type of ship | |
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Edward Bests (alty. Beast) (b. ca. 1619; d. ?). Mariner.
Late boatswain on the ship the Elizabeth (Mastre: John Salmon), for fifteen months prior to deposition.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Thirty-six year old Edward Bests deposed on XX in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "John Salmon against Edward Bushell and}
John Bushell.[1]
Edward Bests stated that the ship the Elizabeth had been at Lisbon in February to April 1654, where it had loaded a number of chests of sugar. The ship experineced fould weather en route from Lisbon to London, but arrived safely, where the sugar was unladen.