Difference between revisions of "MRP: Synthesis"
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| + | - Prices outside England, e.g. Surat (the ''Mayflower'', 280 tonnes, 13 or 14 years old, badly damaged, valued with tackle and provisions at 910:li sterling by Capt. Robert ffisher, commander of the ''Smirna Merchant'' (£3.25 per ton) | ||
* Timber merchants | * Timber merchants | ||
Revision as of 09:37, April 27, 2012
Synthesis
Editorial history
26/04/12, CSG: Created page
Suggested links
To do
Notes
Possible topics for synthesis
- Attitudes and behaviour towards negroes by sailors and ship masters
- Corruption and kickbacks (prevalence; function)
- Greenland fishing
- Ship age
- "an old shipp being about the Age of thirteen or fourteen yeers old" (the Mayflower, ca. ?1659)[1]
- Ship prices
- Create table of price of ships per ton (by age and burthen)
- Prices outside England, e.g. Surat (the Mayflower, 280 tonnes, 13 or 14 years old, badly damaged, valued with tackle and provisions at 910:li sterling by Capt. Robert ffisher, commander of the Smirna Merchant (£3.25 per ton)
- Timber merchants
- Workings of Vice Admiralty courts outside London
- e.g. Leith, Scotland
