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Commodities glossary

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^[1]

A

Allom ("28 Caske of Allom")^[2]
Almonds ("Currants ffennell and Comin (OR, cumin) seeds, ffustick and almonds the certaine ?quantutyes whereof this deponent cannot sett forth")^[3]
Ambergreese ("he cam along in the sayd shipp and had aboard for his owne Accompt. 1600. pces of 8/8 and 361/2 ps of 8/8 and 75 ps of 8/8 and gold to the value of 1471/2 in ps of 8/8 one bag of ambergreese worth 212. ps of 8/8 1/2 and 311 kintalls (sic) of Spanish Iron.")^[4]
Annise Seeds ("was full laden and she could well beare with rich Commodityes, Quicksylver, Rice, Annise seeds, Currants")^[5]

B

Barbados sugar ("hee being an Inhaitant of Nevis knoweth that Nevis Sugar is Better than Barbados sugar")^[6]
Barley ("seeing the said seizure of the ffortune, which was laden with malt and barley")^[7]
Baulkes ("the ladeing of ffish and deales and tarr and baulkes then on board")^[8]
Beaver ("one barrell of beaver and one fearkin of Suckets")^[9]
Beaver hatt ("the aclate Robert Page was owner and lawfull proprietor and in possession of a certaine Negro and of a beaver hatt, and died possessed thereof on or about the 23:th day of June last on Nevis one of the Caribbe Islands"^[10]
Beaver skinns ("the said barrill att the time of the said lading containeing ninety eight beaver skinns, seaven otter skinns. and fower minx skinns"^[11]
Blubber ("the voiage arlate the said ship came and arrived at a place called Hope Iland as he hath heard and there the Master and Companie of her did get the blubber of some seahorse which the fflemings had left ther as not thinking the same worth taking which said blubber this rendent beleeveth was brought home in the said ship to this rendent and Companie the whole of whale blubber and horse blubber did amount unto 16. or 17. tonnes of course oyle and not above as he beleeveth and also about halfe a tonne of whale bone and not above as he beleeves all which together with the charges of boyling custome and excise and other petty charges after the comming home therof deduced did extend to about 165:li or 170:li and noe more as he beleeveth")^[12]
Brandy ("20 hogheads Brandy att 58:li the hogshead) and to in sterling 3:li - 19:s. 00:d per hogshead.) 35 hogsheads. att 60:li per hogshead, and to in sterling mony 4:li 3:s. 4:d. per hogshead) 143 small Barrells of Brandy att 11:li 19:s per Barrell an:d to in sterling mony. 10:s ?6:d . per Barrell^[13]
Brandy wine ("Out of the Shipp Unities lading for 91 Caske of Brandy wine 147 [li] - 19 - XX")^[14]
Butter ("three hundred firkins of butter"^[15]
Brazil Wood ("200 Quintalls of Brazil Wood")^[16]
Brazil Woode
Brazeelewood (an allegation given on the behalfe of John Charker concerning the possession of 200 quintalls of Brazeelewood brought to this port of London in the shippe the Jon and Abigall of which Thornas Morley Cap:t"^[17]
Butter ("three hundred firkins of butter")^[18]

C

Cacoa nuts ("six sacks of cacoa nuts")^[19]
Callicos ("having aboard her a quantitie of marchandizes consisting in XX cottons and callicos XX XXX XXX factor XXX account taken aboard her on the coast of Cormandel was carrying XX XXX for Bantam for which place the said goods were XXXX and were provided XXXXX to be ther XXXXXX")^[20]
Calve Skins ("the said Whitwood did provide a considerable quantity of Calves skinnes for part of the said ships Lading")^[21]
Canarie wynes ("hee this dept in or about the moneths of December and January in the yeare 1655 according to the English style having received here at London severall parcells of Canarie wynes transported from the Iland of Teneriffe to this XX for this depon:ts accompt, did here dispose of and sell the same at XXX the Price of Thirty eight pounds sterling per pipe")FootNote(HCA 13/1 f.?
Canary wines ("Clayme of Thomas Cowling for Canary Wines taken in the S:t Laurence Peter (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Cande ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings and Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare")^[22]
Candy
Caracca hydes ("the said 54 Caracca hydes and the said Chest of Tortoise shells")^[23]
?Carra nuts ("six sacks of Carra ?Nuts")^[24]
Casalignum
Casialignum ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings and Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare")^[25]
Cazarra hydes ("the foresaid ffour and ffifty Cazarra hydes")^[26]
Cheese ("did furnish each of them with two barrells, and alsoe one Holland Cheese")^[27]
China Rootes ("a parcell of China Rootes (of above six hundred weight")^[28]
Clap boards ("on or about the third day of October in the yeare 1652 the sayd shipp sett sayle from Dantzyck and sayled to ?Rya a place likewise in the East Countrye and there tooke in a lading of hempe flax tarr Clap boards and other like goods")^[29]
Clapboards
Clarett ("7 Tonns ?1 hoggshead of Clarrett att 84:li 5.?s the Tonn and in ster. 5:li. 17:s. 2:d. per ton")^[30] (HCA 13/128 unfoliated, r.,Case: Office of the Judges ag:t Richard Lavers, promoted by Richard Ford; second schedule)]]
Cloth ("one peece of fine cloth conteyning thirtie and one yards")^[31]
Cloves ("and two parcells of Cloves weighing about threescore pounds a peece")^[32]

Coal Merchant Trade Card, Fruchard, P., mid-C18th^[33]

Coales ("whether hee doth not well know that the Shipp the Swanne of which the said Absolon was master commeing from Newcastle upon or about the seaventeenth of may last 1660 about 10 or 11 of the clock in the morneing sett saile from or neare Newcastle with her ladeing of coales"^[34] ; "whither the said Robert Oyle did not cause a great quantity of the said Coales to bee kept aboard the said Shippe, and did hee not cause some of them to bee hidden under the said Shipps ballast, and others of them in barrells and Tubbs, and whither the Coals soe kept aboard the said shippe as aforesaid were not carried away in the said shippe at her departure from Tangier, and were they not burned in the said Shippes Cook-Roome dureing her voyage into the Straights and from thence home to this port of London, and how long did the said Robert Oyle use the said Master Blands Coales, and what were coales then worth at Tangier aforesaid, and how many Chaldren of the said Coales did hee burne at Tangier, and how many Chaldren did hee carry away in the said Shipp from thence, and why did hee carry away the said Coales, was it not bee cause hee wanted wood or other fowell (sic) for the said Shipps use")^[35]
Cobbwebb lawnes ("A parcell of Cobbwebb lawnes lately seized in the said shippe the young Tobias"^[36]; "about fifty foure pieces of Cobbwebb lawnes taken out of the said shipp")^[37]
Coles ("to that end did pumpe her, and heave out about three Lighters of Coles")^[38]
Comin seeds (= cumin seeds) ("Currants ffennell and Comin (OR, cumin) seedsm ffustick and almonds the certaine ?quantutyes whereof this deponent cannot sett forth")^[39]
Coniak wines ("they had reced advice from him that hee had accordingly laded the sayd shipp with two hundred twenty one tonnes of Coniack wines for the Accompt of them and the sayd Thomas Skinner")^[40]
Corne ("whither the Corne that was throwne overboard or that was layd up upon the shoare at Tangier was measured before it was throwne overboard or cast upon the shoare" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Copper ("a Quintall of Copper"^[41]
Copper barrs ^[42] (HCA 15/6, Case: ?Jones and others XXX marriners of the Constant Ruth against Holworthy & others: Item: A copy of an Account delivered by M:r Williams executors February 24:th 1654, f.2v))
Copper kettle (" Out of the Shipp Unities lading for Brasse and Copper)
kettle and Basons 042 [li] - XX- XX")^[43] (HCA 23/19 no fol. no verso, Document Number: 242: Case: XXXX: Date: XXXX))
Cotton woolls ("Ciprus cotton woolls are usually and ordinarily putt in very great baggs, which cannot be stowed without very great paines and difficulty, more especially when a shipp draweth nere to her full lading, having already receaved the most considerable quantity of her cargo")^[44] (HCA 13/71 f.?19r))
Cotton yarn ("at Scanderoone there were there laden aboard her [the Anne] about One hundred Baggs of Galls, about one hundred Bales of Cotton Yarne, and other goods" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Cottons ("having aboard her a quantitie of marchandizes consisting in XX cottons and callicos XX XXX XXX factor XXX account taken aboard her on the coast of Cormandel was carrying XX XXX for Bantam for which place the said goods were XXXX and were provided XXXXX to be ther XXXXXX" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Cowyres ^[45] (HCA 13/71 f.628v)
Cumin seeds (= comin seeds) ("Currants ffennell and Comin (OR, cumin) seeds ffustick and almonds the certaine ?quantutyes whereof this deponent cannot sett forth")^[46] (HCA 13/68 f.130.v))
Currans (= Currants)
Currants ("surprised her and her ladeing of Currans and other goods and dispoiled her and her ladeing of Currants and other goods")^[47] (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Cutcheneale (= cotcheneale) ("The clayme of Christopher Boone of London Merchant for severall parcells of silver and ?Cutcheneale heretofore specially claymed by Adrian Goldsmith of Antwerpe having bin seized in the Shipps the Sampson Salvador Saint George and Morning Star and since legally transferred to him the sayd Christopher Boone")^[48] (HCA 13/71 f.372v))

D

Deales ("whither hee was on board XXX said shippe the Saint Johns Head when the Deales and XXX were sent aboard the said Shippe to make bulke XXXX the Corne that was laden aboard the said Shippe, and XXX whither there were not 240 single deales, and foure and XXX twenty sparres")^[49] (HCA 23/19, unfoliated))
Dealeboards ("The second was from Masterland with Herrings to Stockholme, and there this depo:t tooke in a lading of Pitch, tarr, Iron and some Dealeboards, for and to bee delivered at this city of London to Charles Marisco a merchant here")^[50] (HCA 13/76 f.3v))
Druggs (= drugs) ("hee hath ?two of his owne shipp ?chests w:ch are full of druggs for his owne account")^[51] (HCA 13/73 Part One))

E

Earthen ware ("the time arlate this rendent was sent by the said Edmund Cowse to Virginia with a quantity of goods videlicet 7?1 pipes of wine and no more as he beleeveth 2: chests of white earthen ware one bale of paper and noe more 20 peeces of east India stuffe called pantadoes, and a parcell of red earthen wares worth nothing at all as he beleevth, and a small quantity of salt, and no other goods as hee beleeveth")^[52] HCA 13/128 unfoliated, r., Allegation: Edmund and James Cowse: Answer: Daniell ?Jiggles: Date: XXXX))
East India stuffe ("the time arlate this rendent was sent by the said Edmund Cowse to Virginia with a quantity of goods vizt 7?1 pipes of wine & no more as he beleeveth 2: chests of white earthen ware one bale of paper & noe more 20 peeces of east India stuffe called pantadoes, & a pcell of red earthen wares worth nothing at all as he beleevth, and a small quantity of salt, and no other goods as hee beleeveth")^[53] HCA 13/128 no fol. no. recto, Allegation: Edmund and James Cowse: Answer: Daniell ?Jiggles: Date: XXXX))

F

ffennell ("Currants ffennell and Comin (OR, cumin) seeds ffustick and almonds the certaine ?quantutyes whereof this deponent cannot sett forth")^[54] (HCA 13/68 f.130.v))
ffish ("at the first arrivall of the said Ship Pearce at Nevis the said Wood had a pound of Sugar for a pound of ffish")^[55] (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
fflaxe (= flax) ("the arlate shipps were laden with wheate fflaxe and Iron")^[56] (HCA 13/128 no fol. no recto, Case: Beane ag:t Jacobs: Personall answeares: Humfrey Beane: Date: XXXX))
ffranjinsense ("two chests of ffranjinsense")^[57](HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Figgs ("from thence to ffaro in Portugall where they arrived with the said shipp in September 1651. where the said shippe haveinge taken in a quantity of figgs beinge but little above halfe her ladeinge did set saile with the same for London")^[58] (HCA13/125))
Flax (("a parcell of flax to be brought unto Roscoe")^[59] HCA XX/XX f.XX))

G

Galls ("the sayd two Chests of ?Galls as by the Invoice of them delivered unto him appeareth were worth one hundred and two pounds tenn shillings sterling or thereabouts in England but what profitt they would have yeilded at Bantam or else where in the East Indies in bartering or selling hee knoweth not"^[60] (HCA 13/73 Part One); "soe soone as the said ship [the Anne] Delivered her said salt at Scanderrone, the said William Malymy:e Master and Company of the said ship. did take aboard her, a Lading of Cottons, galls and other peeces to be Transported in her to this port of London")^[61] (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Gaulls ("having already received and laden aboard her one hundred baggs of wool and 400 baggs and upwards of gaulls") (HCA 13/71 f.?19r))
Ginger ("four barrells of Spanish Tabacco, a great quantity of dry ginger loose and about four barralls and one ?Potaco more of ?Varinaes Tobacco, and forty Ratacos more of varinaos tobaccoes, thirteen pipes of sugar or thereabouts, eighteene baggs of ginger, a great quantity of Brazil and Cam?ocha wood all for the proper use and Accompt of the sayd Joseph Markes John Baptista Mograita and other merchants of Spayne subiects of the King of Spaine to be transported in the sayd shipp to Dunquerke for their use")^[62] (HCA 13/68 Part One f.35r))
Gueldings ("the said shippe the Edward and John for the accompt of maior Chamberlayne and others mentioned in the allegacion given on the behalfe of the said Tolly the number of twenty sixe horses and gueldings & 2 mares")^[63] (HCA 24/112))
Greene ginger ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings and Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare")^[64] (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Gunpowder ("severall Barrells of Gunpowder")^[65] (HCA 23/19))

H

Hemp "68 bundles of hemp" HXA XX/XX f.XX); "bundles of rough hemp")^[66] (HCA 15/6 Box Two))
Herings ("he answereth and beleeveth that Salmon and herings were no vendible commodity at Rochell in the moneths arlate")^[67] (HCA 13/129 unfoliated, r., Personal answers of Peter Cornelius Youngboare: Allegation: ?Maurice Trent: Date: 17th March 1658))
Herrings ("The second was from Masterland with Herrings to Stockholme, and there this deponent tooke in a lading of Pitch, tarr, Iron and some Dealeboards, for and to bee delivered at this city of London to Charles Marisco a merchant here")^[68] (HCA 13/76 f.3v))
Hides ("This deponent saith That coming in August 1653 last past as a passenger from Cadiz in Spaine to Saint Malloe ffrance in a certaine shipp named the Saint Vincent hee well well remembreth that some dayes before the says shipps depture from Cadiz he saw one Raphael da Luna who was the servant of the acclate Manual Lowij Carnero carry on board the sayd shipp a good parcell of Indian hides, which hee sayd were his masters, and he consigned the same to William Claviel att Saint Mallo who does busines as a factor for the sayd Carnero")^[69] (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Horses ("the said shippe the Edward and John for the accompt of maior Chamberlayne and others mentioned in the allegation given on the behalfe of the said Tolly the number of twenty sixe horses and gueldings and 2 mares")^[70] (HCA 24/112)

I

Indico (= Indigo) ("a little before the arrivall of the said ship Peace at Nevis, the Tobacco plants Indico and Sugar Canes were there at at the other Leeward Islands, spoyled and rooted upp by reason of Hurricanoes")^[71] (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "they had allsoe receaved seaverall other letters from theire Agents and Correspondents there wherein the manner of the said takeing away of the said tenne barrells of Indico belonging to y;e said producent was menconned and expressed")^[72] (HCA 13/64 f.?r))
Indicoes ("Hurricanoes and Stormes had spoyled most of the Sugar Canes, Tobaccoe, and Indicoes in those places, and had rooted many of them up")^[73] (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Iron ("whilst the said shipp was at Stockholme aforesaid, there was a quantity of Iron, and other goods ladena and put on board her there for the sole and proper accompt of him the said Patrick Angus")^[74] (HCA 23/19 f.?recto))
Iron kettles ("who by name bought the 413 Iron Potts, 300 bundles of Rod Iron, and 170 Iron Kettles laden on board the shipp the Saint Andrew arrested by Authority of this High Court of Admiralty" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Iron potts
Rod iron

K

Knifes ("2 dozen of knifes given to the blakes (sic) that brought my things from the shore:")^[75] (HCA 15/6, Case: ?Jones & others XXX marriners of the Constant Ruth against Holworthy & others: Item: A copy of an Account delivered by M:r Williams executors February 24:th 1654, f.4r))

L

Lawnes ("A parcell of Cobbwebb lawnes lately seized in the said shippe the young Tobias")^[76] (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656); "about fifty foure pieces of Cobbwebb lawnes laken out of the said shipp" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656))
Lead ("was freighted and againe laden there with lead and sugar by M:r Richard fford merchant of this citie and companie")^[77] (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Leather ("some were sydes of Leather tanned which hee reckoned and accompted as hydes severally though in truth they were but half hydes")^[78] (HCA 13/129, no fol. no., Case: XXXX: Answer: XXXX: Date: XXXX))
Lemmons (= lemon) ("A matter of unladeing and receaving of a parcell of 46 chests of lemmons Laden in the Anne and Joyce")^[79] (HCA 3/47 f. 480r (orig), f. 477r. (new); "Satterday 24th October 1657"); "the arlate Manuel Lewis Carrero was and is a Spanish borne and a subiect of the King of Spaine and lives in Cadiz and there keepes a house and family and is a merchant trading in lemon and other merchandizes which he deposeth, himselfe living in Cadiz and having good acquaintance with the sayd Carrero")^[80] (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Linnens ("saith that the said cargo of linnens were laden by monsieur Le Mot Arman, and consigned to this port to the said Mr fford")^[81] (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Linnen cloath ("these hides of this deponents knowledge who went a passenger in the Saint Vincent came safe to the sayd Claviels hands, and hee as this deponent is well assured did here sell the same and convert the proceed thereof in to Linnen Cloath for accompt of the sayd Carnero")^[82] (HCA 13/69 unfoliated))
Linseed oile ("Henry de Bruyne against six pipes of Linseed oile laden by Henry de Bruyne at Amsterdam merchant in the shipp the Angell whereof Jervais Mitchell is Master and consigned to Bedord Whiting as belonginge to himselfe...")^[83] (HCA 13/47 f. 200r (orig. no, new no. is 201r), "the First Session of Hillary Tearme being Wednesday the one and twentieth day of January 1656"))
Logwood ("hee was in the said yard (out of which the said Logwood was taken and sent on board the said ship) whilest, some of the said wood was weighing, and sawe most of it sent, and brought aboard the said ship, the said yard being neere the waterside and neere unto the place: where his ship lay")^[84] (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "whither hee doth not know beleeve or hath heard that the said fower tonnes and ten sticks of Logwood were sold by the said Jeremiah Sweetman or some other of the said English that arrived in the said Shippe unto some of the Inhabitants of Barnstaple Biddeford or ?Northam before the same were arrested by authority of this Court")^[85] (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Looking Glasses ("And saith there was likewise on board her a great quantity of looking glasses and drinking glasses and allso of XX and other wares of great value which this deponent cannot specify")^[86] (HCA 13/68 f.130.v))

M

Mahalaga currans ("one hundred and sixty Tonnes of Mahalaga and Petrao Currans videlicet one hundred & thiry of M(OR, N)athaligo & thirty Tonnes of Petrao Currans" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Mahaligo currans ("one hundred and sixty tonne of Mahaligo Currans" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Marble stones ("The claime of Chowne Wakeford & others for salvage of small marble stones saved out of the greene Dragon at or neere Brighthelmstone Smith")^[87] (HCA 3/47 f. 6v, Wed. 7th June 1656)).
Mares ("the said shippe the Edward and John for the accompt of maior Chamberlayne & others mentioned in the allegacion given on the behalfe of the said Tolly the number of twenty sixe horses & gueldings & 2 mares")^[88] (HCA 24/112))
Mathaligo currans ("one hundred and fifty tonnes of Mathaligo Currans seized on board the Lady ffrigott)^[89] (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Malt ("seeing the said seizure of the ffortune, which was laden with malt and barley")^[90] (HCA 13/69))
Mault ("19 Hogsheads of ?Mault" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Medicaments
Minx skinns ("the said barrill att the time of the said lading containeing ninety eight beaver skinns, seaven otter skinns. and fower minx skinns")^[91] (HCA 13/71 f.43v))
Muscavadas ("in the yeare 1647 and particularly in and about the moneth of November in the said yeare Barbadas sugar Muscavadas (w:ch is the ordinary sort) was here worth 14:li per hundred and consequently two hogsgeads were worth 28:li sterlinge at the common and usuall price, which hee knoweth because hee this deponent hath longe dealt as a marchant in that commoditie, and at that time sold at that rate, and saith that two hogsheads of Barbadas sugars doe ordinarils containe nine hundred weight of sugar")^[92] (HCA 13/64 f.24v))
Muscavadoe sugar (" of this Depo:ts knowledge Nevis Mascovado Sugar is better than Barbadoes Muscavadoe Sugar")^[93] (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

N

Negroes ("March the 26: 1652 A noate of what cargoe I received for a voyage to Guinea in the bite to buy Negros")^[94] (HCA 15/6, Case: ?Jones & others XXX marriners of the Constant Ruth ag:t Holworthy & others: Item: A copy of an Account delivered by M:r Williams executors February 24:th 1654, f.2r))
Nevis sugar ("hee being an Inhaitant of Nevis knoweth that Nevis Sugar is Better than Barbados sugar")^[95] (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

O

Oake timber ("the said shipp is of the burthen of about 32 tonns and had on board her a lading of Oake Timber (for building of shipping and Houses) laded on board her by severall merchants living at ffrederickstadt")^[96]
Oranges ("Thomas Taylor and Loys Taylor his wife were, Comonly accounted and reputed the true and Lawfull owners and Proprietors of Eight and twenty Ceder Chests, which contained and were filled (as this deponent verily beleeveth) with Tobaccoe; and alsoe sixty six Rolls of Tobaccoe, and of foure more Rolls of Tobaccoe, and of a quantity of Oranges")^[97]
Otter skinns ("the said barrill att the time of the said lading containeing ninety eight beaver skinns, seaven otter skinns. and fower minx skinns")^[98]
Oyle ("the said ship the Lixon ffrigot was Laden at Ligorne with Oyle Rice Silke Stockings, and Rope, and some other Comodityes")^[99]; "each pipe of Oyle"^[100] (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "One Tunn butt of oyle lately found in the Sea by the Company of the shipp the Maidenhead and brought to this port of London")^[101] ())

P

Pantadoes ("the time arlate this rendent was sent by the said Edmund Cowse to Virginia with a quantity of goods vizt 7?1 pipes of wine and no more as he beleeveth 2: chests of white earthen ware one bale of paper and noe more 20 peeces of east India stuffe called pantadoes, and a parcell of red earthen wares worth nothing at all as he beleevth, and a small quantity of salt, and no other goods as hee beleeveth" HCA 13/128 no fol. no. recto, Allegation: Edmund and James Cowse: Answer: Daniell ?Jiggles: Date: XXXX))
Paper ("Theise goods laden are as followeth Eight pipes of Oporto wynes whereof, Two are white, one ?eager, A Bale cont 32: Rames of white writing paper A packett 20. peeces of pintados which here sell at 50:li Two chests of fine earthen ware A parcell of course earthen ware A parcell of Salt" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no. recto, Allegation: Edmund & James Cowse: Answer: Daniell ?Jiggles: Date: 1st November 1655))
Pease ("whither there were not sixty two sacks full of pease Laden aboard the Shippe, and whither the said pease were not dry and well Conditioned when they were Laden aboard the said Shippe?" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
Pepper abr. pepp ("the said Thomas Newman, and one ffrancis Griffith the then purser of the said ship (who is since deceased) did goe on shore, in the said port of Indra Ponza, to buy pepper and did buy a great quantity of pepper there, which was all to have bin transported in the said ship to Leghorne, for the Account of Sir John Dethick and Company aforesaid" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
White pepper ("the said Godfrey Jonas had ?two parcells of white pepper aboard her worth eleaven pounds sterling" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Perfume ("the said shipp in or about ffebruary last was a twelvemoneth departed from XXX XXXX aforesaid for Santa Domingo, and arrived from VXXX CXXXXX XX two hundred thirtie two chests of sugar and tenn chests of perfume, and six sacks of Carra Nuts, and eight peeces of XXXXX, which were to be carried to and delivered at Santa Domingo" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Petrao currans ("one hundred and sixty Tonnes of Mahalaga and Petrao Currans videlicet one hundred & thiry of Nathaligo and thirty Tonnes of Petrao Currans" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Pickled Herrings (= pickled herings) "To the second Interrogatorie This deponent saith and deposeth that the sayd ship the Hart had att the tyme of the sayd seizure, one hundred and four score Tonnes of pickled herrings on board her" (HCA 13/68 f.3v))
Pictures ("16 naggs of wooll of the 7 and 8:th for accompt of Martin XX XXXXXX XXX Thomas?Molender arlate, and one roll of ?pictures of XXXX Vanderplanck" (HCA 13/76 f. 172v.)
Pilchards ("And saith the said shipp went from Plymouth with a lading of about 600 hogsheads of pilchards to bee carried in the said ship and to bee delivered at Leghorne" (HCA 13/76 f.29r))
Pintadoes
Pitch ("The second was from Masterland with Herrings to Stockholme, and there this deponent tooke in a lading of Pitch, tarr, Iron and some Dealeboards, for and to bee delivered at this city of London to Charles Marisco a merchant here" (HCA 13/76 f.3v))
Portugall Oyle ("Out of the Shipp Red-Mill for 23. pipes amd 21. hogsgeads of Portugall Oyle 565 [li] - XX- XX" (HCA 23/19 no fol. no. verso, Document Number: 242: Case: XXXX: Date: XXXX))
Prunes ("fifteen punchions of pruans" (HCA 13/71 f.237v))

R

Rhenish wine ("bound for Amsterdam to fetch Rhenish wine" (HCA 13/76 f.12r))
Rice ("the said ship the Lixon ffrigot was Laden at Ligorne with Oyle Rice Silke Stockings, and Rope, and some other Comodityes" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Rope ("thirty Coyles of Rope" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Roape
Rochell wines ("7 ½ Tonns of Rochell wines att) 60:li the Tonn french mony and ) in English mony 4:li. 3:s. 4:d p tonn" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no. recto, Case: Office of the Judges ag:t Richard Lavers, promoted by Richard Ford; second schedule))
Rope ("thirty Quoyles of Rope two Great Trunks, severall Quarter Caskes with XXX and Oyle, and barrells of Pitch and Tarre, and some other Things which were for y:e said Woods owne Private Trade & account" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Rosemary ("a pcell of dry rosemary leaves consists, & squills, Eight parts of DXXXX, and two ?sucall cases of perfume and at Sabia on the same acc:t" (HCA 13/76 f. no fol. no.))

S

Sacks ("to whome were the said sacks delivered at Tangier for the use of the Garrison there, and whither the said Robert Oyle dod not keepe some of the said sacks on board" (HCA 23/19 no fol. no. recto, Document Number: 13: Case: XXXX: Date: XXXX))
Saffron ("And saith that in or about July last there was laded aboard the said shipp at Nantes a cargo of wine, and XXXXX, and vinegar and caskes of saffron to be carried in her for Bridges for accompt (as this deponent understood) of her said owners" (HCA 13/76 f.60v
Salmon ("he beleeveth that every last of y:e sd salmon conteined 12: barrels and was worth 20:li sterl p last & not above and y:t every Last of herrings cont 12 barrells of herrings worth 10:li ster p last" (HCA 13/129 no f., Personal answers of Peter Cornelius Youngboare: Allegation: ?Maurice Trent: Date: 17th March 1658)
Salt ("two Boates Lading of Salt" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "ffrench salt" (HCA 23/19 no f., but verso); "Out of the prize shipp Turke 165 2/5 of Spanish salt" (HCA 23/19 no f., but verso)
Sassa perilla ("and thence returned to Truxille, and there tooke in Sassa perilla and ?ligden" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Scarlett cloath (HCA 13/71 f.628v)
Serges ("the producente Tomas Papillon and Lawrence Martell (both well knowne to this deponent) wrote and gave commission to M:r Nicholas XXX of Exon to buy them 5 bales of serges, of 10 peeces of serges in each Bale, and to lade them aboard the shipp the Diamond of Topsham bound for S:t Malo, and to marke them F.C. and consigne them to Marc ?John at S:t Maloe for accompt of the said producents Tomas Papillon and Lawrence Martell XX XXXX of ffrancis Calendrini, w:ch hee knoweth because this deponent keepeth the accompte of the said M:r Papillon wrote the said letter to the said partner by their order" (HCA 13/64 f.21r))
Sheep Skins ("three lasts of wheate, eleaven baggs of wool, 2000 sheep skins, and about 20 shipp pounds of iron")^[102]
Silke (= silk)("divers other goods or bales of silke, and other merchandizes and moneys for Account of the saiyd Riccard & Company")^[103]
Silke Stockings ("the said ship the Lixon ffrigot was Laden at Ligorne with Oyle Rice Silke Stockings, and Rope, and some other Comodityes")^[104]
Silver ("hee is well assured and verily beleeveth that the said two barrs of silver were really and truely pvided and laded for y:e prop and sole account of y:e sad producent and upon his adventure")^[105]
Slaves ("y:e 17:th day at night she came aboard againe & brought me word y:t I could not have men slaves under 40 barrs nor women under 35:")^[106]
Spanish salt (" Out of the prize shipp Turke 165 2/5 of Spanish salt at 60:s per Weigh for 586:li 4:s or coming to in sterling money 586:li - XXX - XX")^[107]
Sparres (= sparrs; spars) ("whither hee was on board XXX said shippe the S:t Johns Head when the Deales and XXX were sent aboard the said Shippe to make bulke XXXX the Corne that was laden aboard the said Shippe, and XXX whither there were not 240 single deales, and foure and XXX twenty sparres")^[108]
Strong water ("Nineteene of XXX of Strong water"^[109]; "the sd ship did carry out Iron, Strong Water, Wine, & other commodities to the value of about three thousand pounds, & sailed therew:th as they beleive to Ginney, and there as they beleeve & have heard tooke in 100: and some odd negroes for pt of the sd ladeing and therewith & the other goods went away for the West Indies where they were lost & cast away without makeing of any port of discharge")^[110]
Stuffs ("the said M:r ffernandez bought or caused to be bought a Considerable Quantity of Goods in this City, namely Stuffs of severall sorts, and Silke Stockings, and other goods"^[111]
Suckets ("one barrell of beaver and one fearkin of Suckets")^[112]
Sugar (= sugars)
Sugar canes ("a little before y:e arrivall of the said ship Peace at Nevis, the Tobacco plants Indico and Sugar Canes were there at at the other Leeward Islands, spoyled and rooted upp by reason of Hurricanoes^[113]
White sugar ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare")^[114]
Sweet oyles ("I pray be pleased to give Orders unto this Bearer Anthony Guy Wine-Cooper to receive Twelve Butts of Sweet Oyles bought by John Day for my Accompt which is all at p:rsent from yo:r humble serv:t Martin Noell")^[115]

^[116]

T

Tamerin ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare")^[117]
Tarre ("thirty Quoyles of Rope two Great Trunks, severall Quarter Caskes with XXX and Oyle, and barrells of Pitch and Tarre, and some other Things which were for y:e said Woods owne Private Trade & account")^[118]
Timber ("the Skipper was taken out of his shipp aboard the man of warr that tooke him, and three Englishmen put on board the sd vessell who brought her and her sd lading of Timber with this depot up into the river of Thames")^[119]
Tobacco
Tobacco pipes
Tobacco plants ("a little before y:e arrivall of the said ship Peace at Nevis, the Tobacco plants Indico and Sugar Canes were there at at the other Leeward Islands, spoyled and rooted upp by reason of Hurricanoes")^[120]
Tobaccos
Tortoise shells ("y:e said Chest of Tortoise Shells")^[121]
Tortoyse shells ("one Chest of Tortoyse shells marked [MARK IN THE LH MARGIN] the second marke in the margent, w:ch were soe laden on board y:e sd ship the Morning Starr upon and for y:e Sole & propper Account of the said Alfonso Gomez Dias, Merch:t of Amsterdam")^[122]
Trane Oyle ("the arlate Thomas Grove did at Newfound Land lade some trane Oyle aboard the shipp Pease)^[123]
Traine Oil ("y:e said Grove did Lade on board y:e said Ship at Newfound Land about six hogsheads of Traine Oyle, w:ch was there stowed inn the Lazaretto or y:e fore?peeke of the said Ship, and there Continued untill it was unladen at Nevis")^[124]

V

Virginia tobaccoes ("a parcell of Virginia Tobaccoes")^[125]
Vinegar ("And that all the said shipps lading (except a parcell of about sixtie Cases of glasse, and five tonnes of Vinegar belonging to this depon:t")^[126]

W

Wainscotts ("saw ?them put aboard y:e sayd shipp all for his the sd Harrisons owne accompt and knoweth that he did the tyme aforesd lade aboard y:e sd shipp for his like accompt 126 XXXXX wainscott of the value of ?110:li sterl. or thereabouts")^[127]
Wax ("the rest of the said goods w:ch shee had on board, were by direction & advise of the said Pickford or Ward carried in the said Ship, to the Coast of Barbary and there sold, and Bartered the same for wax, and other Comodityes to y:e best Advantage to the said ffreighters")^[128]
West India goods ("wines and West India goods, to be returned in the sd shipp to this port for the said account of M:r ffernandez")^[129]
Whales ("the voiage in question was a fishing voiage for y:e catching of whales & that y.e arlate Gosling & Mandrey were as they beleeve shipped by the sd rendents or some of them at first as harponiers onely in the ship the Own:rs Adventure and left unto Thomas Damerell the Comander of the sd ship to appoint them his Mates if he please")^[130]
Wheat (= wheate) ("what was done with the wheat that was so kept aboard did not the said Robert Oyle after hee went from Tanger aforesaid feed geese, Turkeyes, henns, and hoggs therewith dureing the said Shippes voyage from Tangier aforesaid to Alicant and Xouire and to Zephalania and in his homeward voyage"^[131]; "it being very notorious & well knowne to the sd M:r Wayn Wright & all other mrchants that use the East countrey trade that every Last of wheate payeth one dollar the charges at Stettin & Stralsound & the charges for Smacks & boates to bring y:e sd corne on board, & petty pilotage & other dutyes, all w:ch hee this rendent did really pay")^[132]
White pepper
White sugar
Wine ("how many hampers of wine laden aboard the said Shipp S:t Johns Head als the Roman XX for the accompt of the said M:r Blan"^[133]; "How longe after the arrivall of the said Shipp the S:t Joseph in the Port of Oratava were the thirteen pypes of wine laden aboard the said Shipp the Joseph by the ffor of the said Humphrey Dewell")^[134]
Wooll (= wools) (John Dobson Master of the shipp the William of Dartmouth upon the ladings of the seaven and twentie baggs of wool menconned in the premisse of this cause on board the said shipp the William of Dartmouth then lyeing in the porte or roade of Bilboa to be carryed in the said shipp from thence to London")^[135]

Z

1. ↑ XXXX
2. ↑ HCA XX/XX f.XX
3. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.130v
4. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.34r
5. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.130v
6. ↑ HCA 13/73
7. ↑ HCA 13/69
8. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.413r
9. ↑ HCA 15/6, no fol. no., bill of lading, Dec. 20th 1655
10. ↑ HCA 13/64 f.19r
11. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.43v
12. ↑ HCA 13/128 no fol. no. recto, Case: Edward Gosling, wages: Answer: Richard Batson: Date: XXXX
13. ↑ HCA 13/128 no fol. no. recto, Case: Office of the Judges ag:t Richard Lavers, promoted by Richard Ford; second schedule
14. ↑ HCA 23/19 unfoliated, but v.
15. ↑ HCA 13/69 unfoliated
16. ↑ HCA 13/73
17. ↑ HCA 13/129 unfoliated, r., Personal answers of Augustine Coronell: Allegation: John Thacker: Date: June 23rd 1659
18. ↑ HCA 13/69 unfoliated
19. ↑ [[FootNote(HCA 13/73
20. ↑ HCA 13/73
21. ↑ HCA 13/76 f.58r
22. ↑ HCA 13/73
23. ↑ HCA 13/73
24. ↑ HCA 13/73
25. ↑ HCA 13/73
26. ↑ HCA 13/73
27. ↑ HCA 13/125
28. ↑ HCA 13/74 f.61r
29. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.8v
30. ↑ HCA 13/128 unfoliated, r.
31. ↑ HCA 13/69 no. foliation
32. ↑ HCA 13/74 f.61r
33. ↑ Phiippe Fruchard, Engraved coal merchant trade card, mid-C18th, held at British Museum
34. ↑ HCA 23/19 unfoliated
35. ↑ HCA 23/19 unfoliated f.8v
36. ↑ HCA 3/47 f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656
37. ↑ HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656
38. ↑ HCA 13/73
39. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.130.v
40. ↑ HCA 13/69 unfoliated
41. ↑ HCA 13/73
42. ↑ XXXX
43. ↑ XXXX
44. ↑ XXXX
45. ↑ XXXX
46. ↑ XXXX
47. ↑ XXXX
48. ↑ XXXX
49. ↑ XXXX
50. ↑ XXXX
51. ↑ XXXX
52. ↑ XXXX
53. ↑ XXXX
54. ↑ XXXX
55. ↑ XXXX
56. ↑ XXXX
57. ↑ XXXX
58. ↑ XXXX
59. ↑ XXXX
60. ↑ XXXX
61. ↑ XXXX
62. ↑ XXXX
63. ↑ XXXX
64. ↑ XXXX
65. ↑ XXXX
66. ↑ XXXX
67. ↑ XXXX
68. ↑ XXXX
69. ↑ XXXX
70. ↑ XXXX
71. ↑ XXXX
72. ↑ XXXX
73. ↑ XXXX
74. ↑ XXXX
75. ↑ XXXX
76. ↑ XXXX
77. ↑ XXXX
78. ↑ XXXX
79. ↑ XXXX
80. ↑ XXXX
81. ↑ XXXX
82. ↑ XXXX
83. ↑ XXXX
84. ↑ XXXX
85. ↑ XXXX
86. ↑ XXXX
87. ↑ XXXX
88. ↑ XXXX
89. ↑ XXXX
90. ↑ XXXX
91. ↑ XXXX
92. ↑ XXXX
93. ↑ XXXX
94. ↑ XXXX
95. ↑ XXXX
96. ↑ HCA 13/76 f.5v
97. ↑ HCA 13/73
98. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.43v
99. ↑ HCA 13/73
100. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.43v
101. ↑ HCA 3/47 f. 7v, 7th June 1656
102. ↑ HCA 13/76 f. 11v.
103. ↑ HCA 13/73
104. ↑ HCA 13/73
105. ↑ HCA 13/73
106. ↑ HCA 15/6, Case: ?Jones & others XXX marriners of the Constant Ruth ag:t Holworthy & others: Item: A copy of an Account delivered by M:r Williams executors February 24:th 1654, f.4v
107. ↑ HCA 23/19 no fol. no. verso, Document Number: 242: Case: XXXX: Date: XXXX)
108. ↑ HCA 23/19, unfoliated
109. ↑ HCA 13/73
110. ↑ HCA 13/129, Personal answers of Robert Oxwick, William Weilday and John Jefferyes: Allegation: John White & others: Date: 4th Feb. 1658, unfoliated
111. ↑ HCA 13/73
112. ↑ HCA 15/6, no fol. no., bill of lading, Dec. 20th 1655
113. ↑ HCA 13/73
114. ↑ HCA 13/73
115. ↑ HCA 23/19 unfoliated, r.
116. ↑ XXXX
117. ↑ HCA 13/73
118. ↑ HCA 13/73
119. ↑ HCA 13/76 f.6r
120. ↑ HCA 13/73
121. ↑ HCA 13/73
122. ↑ HCA 13/73
123. ↑ HCA 13/73
124. ↑ HCA 13/73
125. ↑ HCA 13/73
126. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.164r
127. ↑ HCA 13/68 f.413.r
128. ↑ HCA 13/73
129. ↑ HCA 13/73 f.549v
130. ↑ HCA 13/128 no fol. no. Allegation: XXXX: Answer: Richard Batson, Humfry Beane & Gowden Goldgue (als. Goldeye): Date: Feb ?8th 1656
131. ↑ HCA 23/19 unfolaited
132. ↑ HCA 13/129 unfoliated
133. ↑ HCA 23/19 unfoliated/73
134. ↑ HCA 23/19 unfoliated
135. ↑ HCA 24/112
136. ↑ HCA 13/73