MRP: Synthesis

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Synthesis

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26/04/12, CSG: Created page






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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]

  • Timber merchants


  • Workings of Vice Admiralty courts outside London


- e.g. Leith, Scotland

- e.g. Court of West England
  1. HCA 23/19