The Exchange in the City of London

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The Exchange in the City of London

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08/11/12: CSG, created page


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The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it. The Exchange in the City of London is a meeting place mentioned in a number of HCA 13/71 cases and depositions.

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Clarifying the entry of silks into the boatswaine's and freight books of a voyage

  • "Mr Phillipp Mitchell the brother of the sayd henry Mitchell being much troubled that hee could not finde out what was become of the sayd bayle of silke number 10 did about three moneths since goe to the sayd Captaine heaman upon the Exchange London and in the presence of this deponent and his precontest William Mettcalfe desyre the sayd Captaine to lett him see how the 39 bayles and two faugotts of sike aforesayd were entered in the boatswaines books, whereto the sayd Captaine heaman answered and sayd that his boatswaine was dead, and that his booke was lost or to that effect, whereupon the sayd Phillip Michell desyred that hee might see the freight books for the voyage in question, and the sayd Captaine heaman went with the sayd Phillipp Mitchell William Metcalfe and this deponent to the house of the arlate Mr hugh fforth who had the sayd freight booke in his custody, and shewed the same to the sayd Mitchell Metcalfe and heaman and this deponent..."


- HCA 13/71 ff.142v & 143r Case: Mitchell against the harry of London and against Mathew XXman; Deposition: 2. Stephen Smith of Worplesdon in the County of Surrey gent aged 32 yeares; Date: NO DATE (Possibly 29/04/1656)[2]

Advertisement of planned date of a ship's departure on the Exchange

The thirty seaven year old mariner, Lawrence Thompson, of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney, testified that Phillip Ewer, the Master of the William, had advertised the planned date of his departure for Virginia on the public Exchange in London

  • "44. ..., And this deponent sawe

45. bills put which were sett up upon the publique Exchange London expressing
46. and giving notice to such whome they might concerne that hee the sayd
47. Ewers would proceede upon his sayd voyage to Virginia before the one
48. of the sayd moneth of October, which bills were (as hee verily beleeveth)
49. made and sett up by the order and direction of the sayd Ewers"

- HCA 13/71 f.537v Case: Goodwin and Company against the Saint John; Deposition: 4. Lawrence Thompson of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and county of Middlesex mariner aged thirty seaven yeares; Date: 04/02/1656(57) ("same day")XXXX. Transcribed by Jill Wilcox[3]

Refusal to make delivery of goods

The twenty-nine year old London merchant William Clapham was at the Exchange in London in January 1656, and witnessed Mr Webber refuse the delivery of wines from the Canaries to Mr Spiner unless he were compensated for the four hundred pounds Indulto money he had had to pay out in the Canaries.

  • "22. To the eleventh ˹and 12th˺ hee saith that after the arrivall of the said shipp

23. the John and Mary with the said wines in this port, namely in or about
24. January last, Mr Spiner (to whom they were ordered by Mr Burridge
25. to be delivered) demanded the same of the said webber in this deponents
26. presence and hearing upon the Exchange London, and offered to
27. but the said Webber refused the delivery, unlesse hee were paid
28. the Indulto money, And saith the said Mr Burridge and company
29. have suffered losse by market and otherwise by the said detention since GUTTER
30. the said shipps arivall. And otherwise hee cannot depose."

- HCA 13/71 f.281v Case: Travers against Burridge and others; Deposition: 2. William Clapham of London Merchant aged 29 (Signature of "Wm Clapham" at end of deposition); Date: 07/07/1656. Transcribed by XXXX[4]
  1. ↑ Electronic link to a digital source
  2. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.143r
  3. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.537v
  4. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.281v

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