Portuguese merchants in London
Portuguese merchants in London
Editorial history
13/11/12: CSG, created page
Purpose of page
The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.
Portuguese merchants in London are hard to distinguish from Spanish merchants. However, they are occasionally explicitly identified as Portugues in HCA 13/71 cases and depositions.
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.
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Suggested links
Flemish merchants
French merchants
Spanish merchants in London
Swedish and Norwegian merchants
Portuguese merchants freighting goods from London on English ships
Loss of the Black Boy off the Isle of Wight
- "The shipp the Black boy was freighted and hired by hee this deponent of and from his precontest Robert Gale (owner of her) in or about June last to make a voyage to the Jamaica Islands to take wines and other merchandizes, and to retourne therewith and to follow the freighters orders, and that hee soe freighted her for account of himselfe and other Portuguese living in this citie, and that they laded her outwards with serges, cloth and other goods, and that at the Canaries there were laden for their account 149 pipes of wines as by the papers transmitted them XXXather hath bin manifested XXXXX, And saith that the said shipp comming from thense with the said wines for the downes, was about fourteene dayes since cast away by storme and fault or error of the mariners at BXXXX in the Ile of Wight as this deponent hath by lettres bin informed..."
Portuguese correspondents of London merchants
- HCA 13/71 f.412r Case: On the behalfe of Antonio Rodrigo Robles and others touching the casting away of the Blackboy; Deposition: 3. Antonio Roderigo Robles of London Merchant, aged 37 yeeres; Date: 17/11/1656[2]
Young Portuguese merchant in London
Augustine Coronell (incorrectly written as Colonell by the Admiralty clerk) was a thirty year old Portuguese merchant, living in London
- "6. To the 2 hee saith he is a Portugese by byrth and is noe assurer of any
7. part of the goods in question nor any way concerned in them
8. And otherwise negatively./
9. To the 3 hee saith hee never lived in holland or fflanders save
10. only as a soionener for a moneth or some such smale tyme
11. at seuerall places as Amsterdam Rotterdam and other places
12. in Zealand and at Antwerpe and Bruxells and other places in
13. fflanders,..."
- HCA 13/71 f.537v Case: Goodwin and Company against the Saint John; Deposition: 4. Augustine Colonell of London Merchant aged thirty yeares; Date: 04/02/1656 ("same day"). Transcribed by Jill Wilcox[3]
Coronell arranged false bills of lading for goods shipped from Lisbon to France, to avoid their seizure by the Spanish
- "18. To the 7th article hee saith hee well knoweth that within the yeares
19. and moneths arlate and since the Pease betweene the King of Spaine
20. and the Lords of the United Provinces hee this deponent being by
21. birth a Portuguese but for these three yeares an Inhabitant of the
22. Cittie of London as a Merchant Stranger and in both respects an
23. Enymie to the King of Spaine hath in the sayd tyme receaved seuerall
24. Merchandizes from Lisbone here in London and had for his owne
25. Accompte and ˹hath had˺ severall goods sent for this deponents Accompt from
26. Lisbone to ffrance, but for the better preserveing them from being
27. seized if mett with by any men of warr subiects of the King of Spaine
28. hee this deponent hath caused his Correspondents at Lisbone
29. to take bills of ladeing for the sayd goods as laden for Accompt of
30. subiects of the States of the United Provinces and as bound for
31. the United Provinces when in reality the same were bound for ffrance
32. or England countryes in hostility with the King of Spaine, and
33. for Accompt of this deponent a subiect of Portuguese and an
34. Inhabitant of England And saith it is a usuall practize among
35. Merchants of such Countries as are in hostility with the Spaniard
36. or have goods sent from any Country in hostility with the
37. Spaniard, or to any Country in hostility with him to make
38. the like colourable bills as if the same were for Accompt of the
39. subiects of Princes or States in Amity with the King of Spaine
40. and bound to Countries in Amity with him..."
