Johannes Basford

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Johannes Basford
Person Johannes Basford
Title
First name Johannes
Middle name(s)
Last name Basford
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Occupation Tobacconist
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Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
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Citizen Unknown
Literacy Marke
Has opening text Johannes Basford
Has signoff text Johannes Basford
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Language skills English language
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Res street
Res parish Saint Stephen Coleman Street
Res town London
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Res country England
Birth year 1618
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First deposition age
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/73 f.534r Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Aug 2 1660
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Ship classification
Type of ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Johannes Basford (b. ca. 1618; d.aft. 1662). Tobacconist.

Resident in 1660 in the parish of Saint Stephen Coleman Street.

Presumably the same as the John Basford in the first precinct of Coleman Street ward in the 1662 Hearth tax records. He is recorded to have five hearths.[1]

Basford signed his deposition with a simple marke.[2]

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty-two year old Johannes Basford deposed on August 2nd 1660 in the High Court of Admiralty. He stated that he was "a tobacconist and well skilled in tobaccoe" and that he had been employed by Harris and Beomant to "viewe about foure or five twenty hogsheads of Virginia tobaccoe belonging unto them lying in a celler in Saint Mary at Hill". According to Basford all but three of the hogsheads were dry and well conditioned and were very good sound tobaccoe. Basford gave the current price of tobacco in London as 5 d a pound.[3]

Comment on sources

  1. 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1662, Coleman Street ward, First Precinct', in London Hearth Tax: City of London, 1662 (2011), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-hearth-tax/london/1662/coleman-street-ward-first-precinct; accessed 18 October 2016
  2. HCA 13/73 f.534r
  3. HCA 13/73 f.534r