Ports
Ports
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.
Many ports are mentioned in HCA 13/71, with descriptions of issues relating to accessing them, and specific practices experienced at those ports, in terms of materials handling, merchant relations, and excise, amongst other topics.
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 specifics do can we learn about named ports?
- Are specific ports identified with specific commodities and specific companies and nationalities of merchant (and mariners)?
Adding footnotes
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Contents
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Descriptions of access to ports
Porto Port
- "The Port of Porto Port in Portugall is a barrd port, and by reason of the barr and alsoe by reason a great fresh doth usually come downe the Port and the Port is very narrowe and rockie on the one side and sandie on the other, it is very dangerous to put thereinto, and the same is not to bee entered but about three quarters flood, and that with a great fresh gale of winde to stemme the fresh, in soe much that noe shipps (as this deponent hath heard by divers seamen who frequented that Port) doe goe in thither without assistance of a pylott belonging to that place or to some other Port neere thereabout and well acquainted with the sayd Port"
- HCA 13/71 f.503r: Case: Cowse against Jiggles; Deposition: 4. James Manfeild of Saint Olaves in Southwarke Mariner aged fifty yeares; Date: 27/02/1656 (1657)[1]
Descriptions of customs at different ports
Porto fferava
- "He hath beene att Porto fferava, but it is so long since that hee hath at present noe memory of the manner and orders used in that Port, nor touching the weights there used"
