MRP: C20/803/34 f. 2
C20/803/34 f. 2
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//XXXX Quer//
//JOHN MAYNE formerly examined on the pte of the ?def:ts and now pduced to bee//
//examined on the pte and behalfe of the Complts to all the Interr:s and thereunto sworne//
//examined saith as followeth//
//1. TO the ffirst Interr this depon:t sayeth that hee doth not knowe the Complts or either of them//
//neither did hee know the said John Younge in the Intr named, but this dep:t saith that hee//
//well knew Jacob Searle the ffather and Jacob Searle the nephew in the Inter named//
// and alsoe Jacob Searle the deft and ?that ?hee hath knowne them all for Thirty yeares last//
//past and upwardes//
//2. TO the secon Intrr this depon:t saith that hee hath bin in the Kingdom of [?two or three words obscured by fold]//
//but not in the Citty of Tunnis in the Intrr named in or about the yeare one Thousand//
//six hundred fforty six in the shipp called the Smyrna merchant Commander Cap:t Nicholas//
//?Reid and that there was with him alsoe att that time one Mathew ?Birt and Richard ?Pearse//
//and others, And this deponent further saith that hee was afterwards in the Kingdom of Tunnis//
//aforesaid with Generall Blake in the shipp called the Elias in or about the yeare, one//
//Thousand six hundred ffifty and ffower and more to this Intrr this deponent, cannot//
//certainly depose//
//3. TO the Third Interr this depon:t saith that hee did know the said Thomas Browne//
//in the Interr named when hee resided at Tunnis aforesaid in or about the yeare one//
//Thousand six hundred ffifty and six and the meanes by which this deponent knewe//
//this Thomas Browne was for that hee came aboard the shipp called the Smyrna M:rchant//
//Capt Nicholas Reid Comannder att the Galetta[1] ??be in the porte of Tunnis aforesaid//CHECK SPELLING OF COMMANDER
//as Consull of Tunnis as this depon:t was then informed, but this dep:t saith that//
//hee hath not bin att the Citty of Tunnis aforesaid, and this dep:t doth not remember//
//that hee did not see the said Thomas Browne att any other time, and that to the best of//
//this dep:ts remembrance the said Thomas Browne was a man of a middle stature and that hee had a beard, but of//
//what colour and whether itt was longe or shorte when hee did see him this dep:t cannot certainly remember//
//for to this depon:ts best remembrance hee did see the said Thomas Browne but once and that//
//was att the time and place before expressed in this his deposiconn, and more to//
//this Intrr this depon:t cannot certainly depose//
//4. TO the ffowerth Intrr this dep:t saith that hee was once at Tripoli in Barbary in the Intr//
//names in or about the yeare, one Thousand sixe hundred fforty nine in a shipp called the//
//Salvador belongeinge to one M:r John ffairfax and Company whereof was master Jacob//
//Searle the Nephew to Jacob Searle the ffather of the defend:t Jacob Searle, And//
//this deponent further saith that hee was att Tripoli aforesaid att noe other time//
//and more to this Inter this deponent cannot certainily depose//
//5. TO the ffifth Intrr this deponent cannot cetainely depose otherwise or more than what//
//hee hath formerly deposed in his Answeare to the Third Intrr//
//6. To the sixth Intrr his dep:t sayeth that hee know the said Jacob Searle that was taken//
//captive att Triply in the yeare one Thousand and six hundred fforty nine, but this deponent//
//was not with the said Jacob Searle when hee remained there a captive and this deponent//
//doth not know what summe of money was Agreed uppon for the Ransome of the said Jacob//
//Searle the captive, but this depon:t saith that afterwards in the aforesaid yeare one Thousand six//
//hundred fforty & nine when the said Jacob Searle the captive was ransomed and freed//
//from his captivity in Tripoli aforesaid, That his Ransome money was six hundred dollars//
//or thereabouts w:ch was paid by The John ffarfax and Company as hee hath formerly deposed//
//in his Answere to the Interrogatorys to which hee hath bin formerly examined & ?sworne//
//on the behalfe of the defts, and more hee cannot certainely depose//
//7. To the seaventh Inter this depon:t saith that hee did know William Ward in the Inter//
//named when hee did reside in or about Tripoly in the yeare one Thousand six hundred//
//forty nine, and this depon:t hath likewise heard the said Jacon Searle the captive in the//
//Interrogatory named to say that hee was redeemed by the said William Ward out of captivity//
//by the order and appointment of M:r John ffarfax and Company and that Jacob Searle the//
//??Nephew of the said Jacob Searle the captive did pay the Ransome money unto the said//
//John ffarfax and Company, and more to this Inter this depon:t cannot certainely depose//
//8. To the eigth Intrr this depon:t saith that hee did know the said ffarfax and company//
//resident att Livorno in Italy in the Inter named in the yeare one Thousand six hundred//
//fforty and nine, or thereabouts and the meanes by which this dep:t knew the said ffarfax & company//
//was that hee secured them in their shipp called the S:t Salvador as master unto the said Jacob//
//Searle the captive after his redemption out of captivity from Tripoly, and more to this Intrr//
//this depon:t cannot certainely depose otherwise than hee hath formerly deposed in his XXXX to the p:rcedent Intrr//
//THOMAS MOORE
Notes on Moore's deposition
Refers to the Kingdom of Tunnis in Barbary. Went to Tunnis in the Guift of Milbrooke twenty nine years ago. Money was paid from Mr Ward to Mr Browne for redemption of the captive.
//THOMAS FFAMBY
Notes on ffamby's deposition
Was in Tunnis in the ship the Providence Capt Poynes comannder and names those who he was with. But this was 29 years ago. Was in Tripoly 9 or 10 years ago.
//JOHN HOOPEY
Notes on Hoopey's deposition
//GEORGE MATHEW
Notes on Mathew's deposition
//PETER SCHAGGELL
Possible primary sources
TNA
C 5/388/14 Baker v. Fairfax: Middlesex 1646
C 5/395/207 Searle v. Searle: Middlesex. 1659
C 5/409/3 Fairfax v. Brown 1652
C 5/552/44 Searle v. Maynard: Devon. 1663
C 6/125Pt1/50 Short title: Fairfax v Abdey. Plaintiffs: John Fairfax, Robert Gardiner, Charles Therold, Lambert Pitches and Hugh Forth. Defendants: Robert Abdy. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1654
C 6/128/73 Short title: Greene v Searle. Plaintiffs: Thomas Greene and William Adney. Defendants: Jacob Searle and William Stower. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, two answers. 1647
C 6/186/100 Short title: Searle v Searle. Plaintiffs: Andrew Searle. Defendants: Elizabeth Searle and Grace Searle. Subject: lands (not specified). Middlesex. Document type: two answers. 1669
C 6/573/2 Short title: Abdy v Fairfax. First plaintiff: Abdy. Defendants: Fairfax. Document type: bill only. [1649-1714]
C 6/574/188 Short title: Searle v Pennington. First plaintiff: Searle. Defendants: Pennington. Document type: bill only. [1649-1714]
C 6/610/32 Short title: Fairfax v Chamberlin. First plaintiff: Fairfax. Defendants: Chamberlin. Document type: bill only. [1649 - 1714]
C 10/19/66 Robert Levett v Jacob Searle, Nicholas Gould, Robert Abdy, William Williams, Andrew Rickards, Nathan Wright and others: money matters, Middlesex. Bill and answer 1653
C 21/S59/16 Searle etc v. Love etc. (1656)
- C 21 Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Country Depositions, Series I
C 22/355/62 Fairfax v Browne. Between 1558 and 1714
C 22/543/39 Oxendon v. Searle. Between 1558 and 171
C 22/685/33 Oxenden v. Searle Between 1558 and 1714
PROB 11/237 XXXX Will of Jacob Searle, Merchant of Plymouth, Devon 14 June 1654 Alchin 202-253 pp. 1-4
PROB 11/363 Bath 60-123 Will of John Mayne, Merchant of Exeter, Devon 29 June 1680 pp. 1-6
SP 46/84/fo 15 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: arrival of ships from England; trade is slack; price of pepper; Leghorne; 12 July 1642; Postscript, 9 Aug.;
SP 46/84/fo 27 William Ellam to Warner: has remitted proceeds of sale of indigo to Fairfax and Barnsley; Genoa; 14 June 1642; with Postscript, 16 August, hopes to balance the loss on the indigo with sales of Spanish cloth.
SP 46/84/fo 29 William Ellam's charges for sale of Warner's indigo sent by Fairfax and Barnsley; Genoa; 31 May 1642.
SP 46/84/fo 33 Fairfax and Barnsley: faults in his cloth due to worm; Leghorn; 17 May 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 57d Account of Fairfax and Barnsley for sale of Warner's cloths brought in the Society of London; 23 Nov. 1641.
SP 46/84/fo 64 Accounts of Fairfax and Barnsley for sale of Warner's pepetuanas and kersies in Leghorn; 5 Oct. 1641.
SP 46/84/fo 69 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: bills of exchange with Retano; Leghorn; 8 Feb. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 70A Accounts of Fairfax and Barnsley for purchase of silk and sale of kersies and serges; Leghorn; 1 Feb. 1642.
SP 46/84/fo 103 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: Warner has been abused by the clothmaker; sale of pepper is at a stand; prices of cloves and pepper; Leghorne; 12 Apr. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 111 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: sales of indigo; Leghorn; 15 Mar. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 124 Accounts of Fairfax and Barnsley for the sale of Warner's bayes and indigo; [Leghorn]; 8 June 1641.
SP 46/84/fo 139 Account of Fairfax and Barnsley for sales and purchases for Warner in Leghorn; 2 Mar. 1641.
SP 46/84/fo 178 Fairfax and Barnsley's accounts for sale of Warner's latten plates; 16 Mar. 1641.
SP 46/84/fo 180 Accounts of coloured satins sent to Warner by Fairfax and Barnsley from Leghorn; 31 Mar. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 215 Account of Fairfax and Barnsley for the sale of Warner's perpetuanas brought in the Experience; 24 Nov. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 230 Accounts of Fairfax and Barnsley for Bolognia silk bartered for Warner and Edward Wastfeild; [? 1643].
SP 46/84/fo 232 Fairfax and Barnsley: favourable exchange at Venice; goods bought in the Mary Rose; Leghorn; 1 Aug. and 20 Aug. 1643;
SP 46/84/fo 236 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: the Mary Rose arrived at Genoa after a tedious voyage; takes advantage of the favourable exchange at Venice; prices of pepper and lead; Leghorn; 11 July and 1 Aug. 1643;
SP 46/84/fo 240 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: as in fo. 327; prices of lead and pepper; Leghorn; 20 June and 11 July 1643.
SP 46/84/fo 247, 247d Fairfax and Barnsley: Mary Rose has not arrived from Valencia; trade is slack; war between the Pope and the Princes; Leghorn; 23 May and 20 June 1643;
SP 46/84/fo 254 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: have sent cloths to Ellam in the Swiftsure; Legorn; 25 Oct. and 8 Nov. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 259 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: Florence taffeta taken in barter for indigo; sends no silks; bills drawn on brother Jordan Fairfax; Legorn; 18 and 25 Oct. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 271, 271d Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: trade in pepper; cloth sales; Leghorn; 27 Sept. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 272 Account of Fairfax and Barnsley for sale of mixed Spanish cloths; Leghorn; 8 Nov. 1642.
SP 46/84/fo 273 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: bills of exchange; arrival of cargo of pepper; Leghorn; 23 Sept. 1642.
SP 46/84/fo 275, 275d Fairfax and Barnsley's account of sales of Chard kersies; Leghorn; 20 Sept. 1642.
SP 46/84/fo 279 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: sale of mixed kersies; dealings with Ellam and Retano; prices of lead, pepper and cloves; Leghorn; 13 Sept. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 287 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: discharge of mixed kersies from Exeter Merchant; will send silks in the Northumberland; prices of pepper and cloves; Leghorn; 23 Aug. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 294 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: goods discharged from the Swan and Exeter Merchant; cloth sent on to W. Ellam; price of pepper; Leghorn; 9 Aug. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 300 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: dealings with Mr. Ellam in Genoa for sale of Warner's indigo; worm breeds in cloths as a result of planting rape seed in England; Leghorne; 10 May 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 303 Antonio Retano to Warner: dealings with Fairfax and Barnsley; has accepted his bills; the Advance sets sail; Genoa; 9th and 16th May 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 306 William Ellams to Warner: money is scarce; asks if he can barter cloths for silks; dealings with Fairfax and Barnsley; Genoa; 25 Apr. 1643.
SP 46/84/fo 310 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: kersies are not in demand; perpetuanas sell well; prices of lead and pepper; Leghorn; 21 Mar. and 4 Apr. 1643;
SP 46/84/fo 327 Fairfax and Barnsley: Mary Rose has not arrived from Valencia; trade is slack; war between the Pope and the Princes; Leghorn; 23 May and 20 June 1643;
SP 46/84/fo 341 Fairfax and Barnsley: favourable exchange at Venice; goods bought in the Mary Rose; Leghorn; 1 Aug. and 20 Aug. 1643;
SP 46/84/fo 342 Accounts of Fairfax and Barnsley for goods bought and sold for Warner; 22 Nov. 1642.
SP 46/189/23 Letter addressed to George Warner from Antonio Retano concerning payment of bills on behalf of John Fairfax and to the ships the Jeremy, the Golden Fleece and the Reformation from Allegant (?Alicante), the Charles from Cadiz and the Catt from Plymouth carrying pilchards 1641/2 Jan 3
SP 46/189/28 Letter addressed to George Warner from John Fairfax and Thomas Barnsley concerning trade in indigo, peppers, lead, cloves and other goods 1641/2 Feb 8, Mar 15
SP 46/189/35 Letter addressed to George Warner from John Fairfax and Thomas Barnesley in Leghorn concerning financial transactions, trade in indigo, cloth and silk and the ships, the Peter and the Barbery from Amsterdam, the Golden Cross and the Peter and Andrew 1642 June 7
SP 46/189/36 Letter addressed to George Warner from John Fairfax and Thomas Barnsley in Leghorn concerning trade and financial transcations and the ships the Peter and the Barbery from Amsterdam, the Golden Cross and the Peter and Andrew 1642 June 14
SP 46/189/37 Letter addressed to George Warner from John Fairfax and Thomas Barnesley in Leghorn concerning trade in lead, pepper, indigo and other goods, financial transactions and the Peter and Andrew 1642 June 20
SP 46/189/44 Letter addressed to George Warner from John Fairfax and Thomas Barnesley in Leghorn concerning financial transactions 1642/3 Mar 2
SP 46/189/48 Letter addressed to George Warner from John Fairfax and Thomas Barnseley of Leghorn concerning financial transactions, the cloth trade and transportation of goods 1643 May 23
Selected items of interest within George Warner's commercial papers, 1637-43, at TNA
SP 46/84/fo 1, 1d Richard Burren to Edward Wastfeld and George Warner: reports cloth sales, bills of exchange, purchase of Russian hides and ferret silk; death of the Emperor [Ferdinand II]; Hamburg; 7 Mar. 1637.
SP 46/84/fo 4d.-5d Accounts, Oct. 1636 - Aug. 1638.
SP 46/84/fo 8, 8d Peter Clerke to Warner: pitch and tar; is free to take an apprentice; his rates on cloth sales; Hamburg; 27 Nov. 1638.
SP 46/84/fo 21 John Fairfax's account of sale of perpetuanas to Lorenzo Corsen in Leghorne; 27 Aug. 1639.
SP 46/84/fo 22 John Fairfax's account for satins shipped for London for Warner in the Lewis; Leghorn; 1 Oct. 1639.
SP 46/84/fo 23 John Fairfax's account of sale of `elbroads' to Bartholomew Bonandrin; Leghorn; 12 Nov. 1639.
SP 46/84/fo 24, 24d William Ellam to Warner: trade in bayes; details of local weights; shipping losses; Genoa; 21 Jan. 1640; with post script, 11 Feb.;
SP 46/84/fo 27 William Ellam to Warner: to send more red Moscovia hides; Genoa; 24 Mar. 1640;
SP 46/84/fo 28 Henry Whitaker to Warner: spice market; Amsterdam; 11 Mar. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 29 Jonas Abeels to Warner: price of `rose coppit'; the contract with the King of Sweden expires in June; Amsterdam; 14 Mar. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 30 Same to the same: the like; price of pepper; exchange rates; Amsterdam; 24 Mar. 1640;
SP 46/84/fo 31d., 32 Warner's cash accounts; Feb. - Mar. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 33 Accounts of Taffeta sent to Warner by John Fairfax and Thomas Barnsley; from Legorn; 31 Mar. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 42 Andryes van de Langevelde to Warner: sale of the Lubeck vessel; Sandwich; 11 May 1640;
SP 46/84/fo 44, 44d Charter Party for shipment in Thomas Davis's ship; Genoa; 2 June 1640;
SP 46/84/fo 47-8d Accounts for the Lubeck ship in Sandwich; [1640];
SP 46/84/fo 50 Bill to Warner for copperas bought in Hamburg; 24 July 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 51 Pearce Starkie's accounts for sale of Warner's tobacco in Hamburg; Aug. 1639 - July 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 52 Accounts of John Fairfax and Thomas Barnsley for purchase and despatch of black velvets for Warner from Leghorn to London; 6 Aug. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 53-4 Warner's accounts for purchase of indigo from Samuel Carleton and subsequent despatch to Legorne, etc.; 18 Aug. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 55d.-56 Accounts of John Fairfax for sale of indigo for Warner and Carleton in Legorn; 1640-1.
SP 46/84/fo 58,59 Warner's cash accounts; contain references to members of his family; Oct. 1640.
SP 46/84/fo 66 William Cranmer, deputy of the Merchants Adventurers Fellowship in Rotterdam, to Warner: his election as assistant for the Sinxon Mart; to appear at Rotterdam by June 24th under pains of £50; 5 Jan. 1641; Sealed; with Warner's draft reply excusing himself;
SP 46/84/fo 69 Henry Whitaker to Warner: trade in indigo; Amsterdam; 1 Feb. 1641.
SP 46/84/fo 70 Mathias Rodde to Warner: dealings with P. Starkie in Hamburg about the sale of the Lubeck ship; Lubeck; 3 Feb. 1641;
SP 46/84/fo 70A Bond and obligation of Peter Pett of Ratcliff, shipwright, to pay George Warner £800 if he fails to abide by the award (adjudicators named) concerning repairs to the St. John Baptist; 17 Feb. 1641;
SP 46/84/fo 71 Account of Fairfax and Barnsley for sales and purchases for Warner in Leghorn; 2 Mar. 1641.
SP 46/84/fo 93 Peter Clerke to Warner: trade in Swedish spars; offers to teach Warner's new apprentice Dutch; Hamborrh; 10 Aug. 1641;
SP 46/84/fo 94 Brian Ball to Warner: Warner's cloths are too fine for sale in Rotterdam, where the market lies in coarse goods; bills of exchange with John Quarles and Samuel Clarke; Rotterdam; 12 Aug. 1641;
SP 46/84/fo 112, 112d Warner's notes of debts; Nov. 1641.
SP 46/84/fo 126d., 127 P. Starkie's accounts; [? 1641].
SP 46/84/fo 130 P. Starkie's accounts of wax and tin sent to Leghorn and Genoa; [? 1641].
SP 46/84/fo 141 Assurance by G. Warner for voyage of the Virginia Merchant, (John Flower merchant), for a voyage from London to Virginia, returning via Holland; 31 Jan. 1642.
SP 46/84/fo 155 Antonio Retano to Warner: bills of exchange; shipping movements; the Golden Fleece takes quicksilver to Cadiz; prices of pepper, indigo, rice, anniseed; Genoa; 14 Mar. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 167 Fairfax and Barnsley to Warner: Warner has been abused by the clothmaker; sale of pepper is at a stand; prices of cloves and pepper; Leghorne; 12 Apr. 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 177 P. Starkie to Warner: to introduce bearer, Nicholas Hickes, to a merchant trading to Virginia; Hamburgh [Hamburg]; 5 May 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 194 Warner's notes of accounts; 20 May 1642.
SP 46/84/fo 195 Starkey to Warner: clothworkers here will only work on dressed white cloths; details of sales; Hamburg; 20 May 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 209 P. Starkie to Warner: disputes between the clothworkers of Hamburg, Lubeck and Bremen, who refuse to dress coloured cloths after Michaelmas; Mathias Rode was here last week; Hamborough; 24 June 1642.
SP 46/84/fo 215 P. Starkey to Warner: safe arrival of the cloth fleet; he and his wife appreciate the gift of artichokes; a report that the Royal Navy has seized some of the King of Denmark's ships; details of sales; Hamburgh [Hamburg]; 8 July 1642;
SP 46/84/fo 267 Starkie's account of cloth sales; 12 and 14 Oct. 1642.
SP 46/85/1 Out-Letter Book of George Warner 1639-42; all Letters written by Warner from London:-
E.g.
SP 46/85/1/fo 5 to John Fairfax [in Leghorn]: purchase of silks; East India goods in London are parcelled out at high prices; 4 Oct. 1639.
SP 46/85/1/fo 13d to Fairfax: the East Indiamam Marie arrived; will buy calicoes; prices of pepper, sugar and nutmegs; sends broad perpetuanas in a ship which was delayed by storm in the Downs; as the post is stopped in Upper Germany uses the French post; 23 Jan. 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 14d to Starkey: Andreas Kerkman's debt; Starkey's letters should be more detailed; he is unbusinesslike; to buy wax and Russian hides; will send copperas; to report what was wrong with the bays; 24 Jan. 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 17 to Farfax: silks sent in the Golden Fleece; trade with Smirna; his hand is deep in the Hamburgh [Hamburg] trade but will gradually broaden his interests; trading in coarse goods; to buy silks and tallow; London sale of East India Company's spices and calicoes; 15 Feb.
SP 46/85/1/fo 19d to Farfax: high price of East Indian Company's pepper and indigo in London; is sending him tallow and wax from Hamburg; 21 Feb. 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 21 (ii) to Starkey: trade is slack; Mr. Wastfield's loss; to write to Mathias Rode in Lubeck that the ship [John Baptist of Lubeck] is being viewed at Sandwich by a prospective purchaser; bills of exchange; 13 Mar. 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 24d to John Farfax and Thomas Barnsley: cloths sent to them in the Rainbowe; scarcity of Russian hides in London and Hamburg; 5 Apr. 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 26 to Starkey: to buy Russian hides for shipment to Leghorn; to send pewter to William Ellam in Genoa; sends him cloth in James Talbott's ship; 25 Apr. 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 28d to Starkey: intends to corner the market in copperas; whether Starkey can sell copperas in Hamburg, Lubeck and Stade; sends a hilt and spurs for Guise Boure's master; to send sturgeon which he needs as a present; a letter of attorney to conclude John Warren's affairs; 16 May 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 30 (i) to Edward Kendrick [in Rotterdam]: whether black Hondschoot says are merely English says dyed; if it is a local manufacture to send samples; 22 May 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 31 to Farfax: Russian hides; London prices of Florence satin; Lucca taffeta; Bologna black sarsenets and other Italian silks; to send silks to arrive in London by Midsummer and velvets by Michaelmas; London mercers like rich, heavy silks; 24 Jan. 1640.
SP 46/85/1/fo 39 to Farfax and Barnsly: trade in London is slack because of the disturbed times; gives prices of sugar candy; silk and indigo at the London sales of the East India Company; will send indigo to Leghorn; the price of indigo is high in France, Spain and Holland, and will rise; 21 Aug.
SP 46/85/1/fo 47 (i) to Farfax and Barnsley: all trade is dead; traffic in indigo; 22 Jan. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 47d (iii) to Starkie: to sell copperas as he fears Parliament will set it free; bills of exchange; 5 Feb. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 49 to Whitaker: sends indigo; the London market is flooded with the earl of Warwike's prize indigo; to send price-list of East Indian goods; 26 Feb. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 49d to Farfax and Barnslie: awaits arrival of coloured velvets; trade in taffetas; London sales of East Indian Company pepper; sends trial pack of Chard Kersies; will expect orders for says; 5 Mar. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 51 to Farfax and Barnslie: sale of indigo; coloured velvets arrived in Margaret Constance; 19 Mar. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 56 to Fairfax and Barnslie: indigo sales; wishes to charge a bill on Anthonio Returno, their correspondent in Venice; Abbot's bankruptcy; Abbot with his father and brothers; has lost £150,000; 16 Apr. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 60 (i) to Farfax: to barter the defective indigo; 14 May 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 60 (iv) to Brian Ball: understands his cloths are too fine for the market; to send patterns; 21 May 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 61d to Farfax and Company: Warner's Company have been persuaded by the Commons to lend the state £200,000; money has already been sent from London to supply the armies in the north; purchase of canvas; 4 June 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 64d (ii) to William Lee: flowery-coloured cloths shipped; 1 July 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 65 (i) to Joseph Penington: the exchange; reports the breaking of the agreement between his Company and Parliament for the loan; 25 June 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 65d to Farfax: indigo and says; Warner has put too much confidence in Capt. Carleton; coloured satins; high prices of East Indian goods; 9 July 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 68d to Fairfax: distracted times dishearten all in England; hopes the Scots will go home and the English army be disbanded, and then trade come into its wonted course; 20 Aug. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 74 (i) to Farfax: is content with small profits and quick returns; sales of cloth in Messina; loss of Capt. Limbre's ship off the English coast; 1 Oct. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 75 (i) to Starkey: his advice discouraging sending coarse cloths to Hamburg; the Rotterdam merchants in London enchance prices; 22 Oct. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 76 (ii) to Whitaker: to send the indigo to Legorne or ship it for London; 19 Nov. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 78d (ii) to William Lee: sends cloth in Thomas Goslin's ship; 15 Dec. 1641.
SP 46/85/1/fo 80d (ii) to Starkey: the goods acquired by bartering the indigo are of poor quality; Jordan Fairfax awaits the money for the capers; bills of exchange; 21 Jan. 1642.
SP 46/85/1/fo 81 (ii) to Ellam: the velvets he sent are not summer goods and should not have been bartered for the wire; `such distracted times in England'; 11 Feb. 1642.
SP 46/85/1/fo 83d (ii) to Starkey: is narrowing his interests; is out of pocket for the indigo; 25 Mar. 1642.
SP 46/85/1/fo 84d (i) to Ellam: indigo sent from Amsterdam; will send trial quantity of Spanish cloth, which he can easily supply; 1 Apr. 1642.
SP 46/85/1/fo 85d (ii) to B. Ball: to send home his accounts; to pass unsold cloth to William Lee for discharging debts; if the cloths were the wrong colour it was because he did not send advice; 7 Apr. 1642.
SP 46/85/1/fo 86 to William Lee: sends blue and red cloths (clothiers named); understands he is now free to undertake sale of coloured cloths; to advise on colours; B. Ball will transfer his stock to him; 7 Apr. 1642.
SP 46/85/3 George Warner's Accounts, 1638-43:-
SP 46/85/3/fo 2d.-3 Balances 1643.
SP 46/85/3/fo 3d.-13 Cash account; Apr. 1638 - May 1643.
SP 46/85/3/fo 13d.-15 Voyages from Hamburg and Rotterdam; Apr. 1638 - Mar. 1643.
SP 46/85/3/fo 16d.-22 Starkey's account in Hamburg; Oct. 1638 - Mar. 1643.
SP 46/85/3/fo 22d.-6 Account of cloth bought and shipped; Apr. 1638 - Nov. 1642.
SP 46/85/3/fo 27d.-9 Profit and loss account; Apr. 1638 - 1643.
SP 46/85/3/fo 30d.-31 Stock account; 1638-43.
SP 46/85/3/fo 31d.-54 Accounts with individual clothiers and merchants (named); 1638-43.
SP 46/85/3/fo 54-6 Rotterdam factors' accounts; 1642-3.
SP 46/85/3/fo 57-65 Accounts with merchants; 1641-3.
SP 46/85/3/fo 65d.-6 Leghorn accounts; 1643.
SP 46/85/3/fo 67d.-9 Accounts for indigo and Bologna silk.
Joan Thirsk quotes from a couple of letters of George Warner from the early 1640s. See Joan Thirsk, Seventeenth-century economic documents (Oxford, 1972), pp. 497, 499
Possible secondary sources
Jewitt, Llewellynn Frederick W., A history of Plymouth (XXXX, 1873)
- ↑ Presumably "Galetta" is the port of La Goulette (Halq al Wadi). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis, viewed 07/11/11
