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To the sixth hee answeareth that hee doth beleive that the said M:r Pardini did in | To the sixth hee answeareth that hee doth beleive that the said M:r Pardini did in | ||
further ?prosequucon of the said fraudulent contrivance betweene him and the said M:r Thacker his sollicitor endorse the bill of ladeing as is alleadged but hee being soe failed & absented hee doth beleive the same is utterly voyd and of noe effect." [Answer given June 1659, referring to events in 1649] (HCA 13/19) | further ?prosequucon of the said fraudulent contrivance betweene him and the said M:r Thacker his sollicitor endorse the bill of ladeing as is alleadged but hee being soe failed & absented hee doth beleive the same is utterly voyd and of noe effect." [Answer given June 1659, referring to events in 1649] (HCA 13/19) | ||
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===Travel Time Sources=== | ===Travel Time Sources=== | ||
Revision as of 20:52, April 28, 2012
Synthesis
Editorial history
26/04/12, CSG: Created page
Contents
Suggested links
To do
Notes
Possible topics for synthesis
- Attitudes and behaviour towards negroes by sailors and ship masters
- Brazeele trade
- Corruption and kickbacks (prevalence; function)
- Fish
- "he answereth & beleeveth that Salmon & herings were no vendible commodity at Rochell in y:e moneths arlate" (HCA 13/19)
- Geographical language
- Areas
- Linked to commodties (Rhenish wine; French wine)
- Non-port towns
- Ports
- Seas
- Greenland fishing
- Port to port routes
- 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
- Time
- Between ports
- lading in port
- Unlading in port
- Wages
- Levels by job function
- Variances within and between job functions, & over time, & according to perceived risk and supply/demand
- Workings of Vice Admiralty courts outside London
- Regional courts
-- Example: Leith, Scotland
-- Example: Court of West England
- Process
- Registry
Topics for synthesis
Commercial failure
- Examples
- "at Geneva this rendent tooke in some pte of her lading & was to goe to Legorne to take in y:e remainder, & at his arrivall at Legorne the merchant who freaighted this rendents ship failed so that this rendents designe was overthrown" [Answer given June 1659] (HCA 13/19)
- "hee doth beleive the said de Silvera not knowing the said ffrancis Pardini was failed did send the bill of lading unto him as he beleiveth but hee doth not beleive the said John Tha?cker did really buy the said wood of the said M:r Pardini or pay him any thing for the same, neither doth hee beleive that the said M:r Pardini or any other merchant that is failed hath a legall power to make any sale of any goods that come to him during the time they absent and are not able to pay their debts, but hee doth beleive the said M:r Thacker being imployed by y:e said M:r Pardini as his sollicitor to make his composicon with his creditors hee & the said M:r Pardini did contrive together to gett the said goods into their hands if possibly they could and in order thereunto he beleiveth the said M:r Pardini did colourably, and fraudulently signe the bill of sale or schedule alleadged and deliver the same for his XXX as hee beleeveth...
To the sixth hee answeareth that hee doth beleive that the said M:r Pardini did in
further ?prosequucon of the said fraudulent contrivance betweene him and the said M:r Thacker his sollicitor endorse the bill of ladeing as is alleadged but hee being soe failed & absented hee doth beleive the same is utterly voyd and of noe effect." [Answer given June 1659, referring to events in 1649] (HCA 13/19)
Port Time Sources
- Unlading & Relading time in Lisbon port, 165X
Travel Time Sources
- Inverness to Rochell
- "he answereth & beleeveth That the weather ?serving a ship doth usually & may saile from Innvrnes to Rochell in ?20 dayes or thereabouts" (HCA 13/19) [DATE]
- Lisbon to Brazil (exact Brazilian destination unspecified)
- "y:e sd ship the Scipio did enter upon & begin her voiage for Brazeel to wit in y:e lading of her goods for that place the 3:d of September 1649. and that y:e sd ship did dept from Lisborne upon y:e sd voiage the 5:th day of November arlate 1649 & ?arrived at Brazeele the 6:th day of March 1649 [i.e. 1650] & there discharged her lading about y:e end of Aprill 1650 & that upon the 20:th of June 1650. y:e sd ship did set saile in company of the portugall fleete for Lisborne againe, and was afterwards put back with the rest of y:e fleete by the command of y:e Admrall for Brazeel where they arrived againe about the first or second of July 1650." (HCA 13/19) [DATE]
- Gravesend to coast of Greeneland and back to Gravesend
- "the sd ship sett sayle from Gravesend upon or about the fourteenth of Aprill 1656. & not before as they beleeve at w:ch time & not before the sd monethly pay was to begin in case the sd pties had behaved themselves as they ought to have done, & these rendents further beleeve that y:e ship the Greyhound came back againe into the River of Thames & was here discharged upon or about the fowrteenth day of September 1656 as they beleeve" (HCA 13/28) [DATE]
Wages
- Seamens' wages to travel from Lisbon to Brazil and back
- "some consideraccon extraordinary above what they were in the first place hired
for" (HCA 13/19) [DATE]
- Customary exchange rates for mariners
