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Edward Brigges
Person Edward Brigges
Title
First name Edward
Middle name(s)
Last name Brigges
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Master
Associated with ship(s) Willing Minde (Master: Edward Brigges)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text Edward Briggs
Has signoff text Edward Brigges
Signoff image (Invalid transcription image)
Language skills English language
Has interpreter
Birth street
Birth parish
Birth town
Birth county
Birth province
Birth country
Res street
Res parish
Res town Shoreham
Res county Sussex
Res province
Res country England
Birth year 1617
Marriage year
Death year
Probate date
First deposition age 40
Primary sources
Act book start page(s)
Personal answer start page(s)
Allegation start page(s)
Interrogatories page(s)
Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/72 f.93v Annotate
Chancery start page(s)
Letter start page(s)
Miscellaneous start page(s)
Act book date(s)
Personal answer date(s)
Allegation date(s)
Interrogatories date(s)
Deposition date(s)
How complete is this biography?
Has infobox completed Yes
Has synthesis completed No
Has HCA evidence completed No
Has source comment completed No
Ship classification
Type of ship Merchant ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Edward Brigges (b. ca. ?; d. ?). Mariner.

Master of the barke the Willing Minde. Previous master was John Humphreys, who replaced himself with Edward Briggs.[1]

Resident in 1657 in Shoreham in the county of Sussex.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty year old Edward Brigges deposed on October 28th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty.[2] He was examined on an allegation in the case of "William da Grates and company against the shipp the Willing Minde Edward Briggs master and against Humphrey".[3]

Another mariner on the Willing Minde, twenty-seven year old John Humphreys of Bright Hampson in Sussex, stated that "the said producent John Humphrey went master of her for himselfe for a yeere or a yeere and halfes speace or thereabouts, and that hee and company put in the said Briggs master of her, who hee saith is now in possession of her to the use of the said producent and soe was at the time of the arrest allegate laid upon her at Bristoll".[4]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/72 f.93r
  2. HCA 13/72 f.93v
  3. HCA 13/72 f.92v
  4. HCA 13/72 f.93r