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Masquerade

Editorial history

08/11/12: CSG, created page

Purpose of page

The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it. Ships (and individuals) frequently masquerade as something they are not in a number of HCA 13/71 cases and depositions, as they seek to avoid seiure by privateers or men of warr.

All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.

• What stratagems and tactics are used?
• What documentation and argument is required by the Court as proof of the nationality of the ship, its owners, and its freighters?

Adding footnotes

• Go into edit mode

• Insert immediately after the sentence or phrase you wish to annotate the following macro:

<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>

• Replace 'This is the footnote text' with the footnote you wish to add, using the format: first name, surname, title, (place of publication, date of publication), page or folio number

• Save the page

Creating an electronic link within the footnote to a digital source

• Using the top RH menu bar in your open window, highlight the footnote text which you wish to become the clickable link. This will place square brackets round the text, within the existing curved brackets

e.g. <ref>[Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>

• Insert the URL of the digital source IN FRONT of the existing text, but still within the square brackets, leaving one space between the end of the URL and the start of the footnote text

e.g. <ref>[http://XXXXX Electronic link to a digital source]</ref>

• Save the page, and the footnote text will now show 'Electronic link to a digital source' as a clickable link, which, when clicked, will go to 'http://XXXXX'

Suggested links

PhD Forum

False dispatches and writings

Dutch dispatches and writings

• "in expectation of the sayd shipp the Little Mary the foresayd Mr Stephens had procured liberty that she might have bene laden as other English shipps were, and to that purpose he had procured dutch dispatches and writings for XXXX"

- HCA 13/71 f.207r Case: XXXX (“Examined upon the sayd Libell”); Deposition: 4. William Clapham of London merchant aged 29 yeares; Date: 12/05/1656

Danish dispatches and writings

INSERT EXAMPLE

False colours

Used by privateers

Used by commercial ships

Several captains of different nations

Example: Dutch and English captains during Anglo-Dutch war

Mixed crews of different nations

Example one: crew analysis by nationality

Example two: crew analysis by nationality

Payoff of local officials

Example: Teneriff