Port trades

Port trades

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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.

Many port trades are mentioned in HCA 13/71, with descriptions of the trade, as well as personal details of the residence and background of the individuals pursuing these trades

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.

• What port trades can we identify?
• What can we learn about specific port trades?

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Anchor Smith

James Bevan of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Anchor Smith aged twenty two yeares

• "In the months and tyme in the first arlate mentioned the arlate Mr Christmas did receave of the arlate Walter Gough this deponents Master all and singular the Iron worke and other things mentioned in the schedule arlate now read unto him to be used and imployed about the shipp Red Lyon or Lyon arlate this hee deposeth of his owne knowledge being servant to the sayd Walter Gough at the tyme when they were by the sayd Christmas and his servants and others by him imployed to that purpose feteched of the sayd Gough at a shopp which was and is belonging to the sayd Christmas and adioyning to the yarde where the sayd Christmas builded the sayd shipp the Redd Lyon or Lyon, and helpeing to weigh and deliver all the sayd Iron worke and other things schedulate to the sayd Christmas and his servants and six others as hee imployed to fetch the same for the use of the sayd shipp"

- HCA 13/71 f.419r Case: Walter Gough against the shipp the Redd Lyon alias Lyon of London and against Edward Bigg and Company ; Deposition: James Bevan of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Anchor Smith aged twenty two yeares; Date: 19/11/1656

• "the Iron worke in question was wrought in a shopp in Rederiff whereof the Interrogate Christmas was Commonly reputed Owner, and that Gough did not dwell there, and what the sayd shopp was worth ˹for the tyme Interrogate˺ hee knoweth not"

- HCA 13/71 f.421r Case: Walter Gough against the shipp the Redd Lyon alias Lyon of London and against Edward Bigg and Company ; Deposition: James Bevan of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Anchor Smith aged twenty two yeares; Date: 19/11/1656

Arthur Cower of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey parish Anchor smith aged forty seaven yeares

• "26. ...hee this deponent wrought as a Journey man with

27. the arlate Walter Gough in the moneths of June July and August 1656
28. and thereby knoweth that the arlate Mr Christmas being in those months
29. building the arlate shipp the Lyon or Redd Lyon in his the sayd Christmas
30. his yards in the parish of Rederiff commonly called the Pitchehoule the sayd
31. Gough did in the sayd Moneths furnish the sayd Christmas and deliuer
32. vnto him the sayd Christmas and his servantes (or others imployed by him
33. th fetch them) to be used and imployed about the sayd shipp the Lyon or Redd
34. Lyon he so seuerall parcells of Iron worke and nayles following being part of
35. the Iron worke and nayles mentioned in the schedule arlate vizt Bolts speekes
36. and other Iron worke weighing forty one hundred weight, three hundred and
37. a halfe and tenn pounds weight of sheating nayles alsoe by tale seaventeene
38. hundred and a halfe of sheating nayles, also by tale thirty sixe hundred of
39. tenn great nayles, thirteene hundred of halfe Crowne nayles, thirteen
40. hundred of deck nayles thirteene hundred of two shilling nayles, fower
41. hundred of Port nayles twenty hundred and a halfe of twenty penny
42. nayles tenn hundred and three quarters of tenn penny nayles, nyne hundred
43. and a halfe of sixe penny nayles fower hundred of Lead nayles sixe hundred of
44. fower penny nayles three and twenty hundred and a halfe of three penny nayles three
45. hundred of two penny nayles fower payes of hookes and hinges two prickers
46. one stock lock two boate hookes five payes of crosse garnetts, sixe scrapers

1. two clench hammers two hundred and a halfe of twenty penny clench
2. nayles tenn hundred of sixteene penny clench nayles and Rooues, fiue
3. gimbletts, one spring lock and for plateing 1 shovell and for the use of fiue
4. hundred and fowerteene pound weight of Rigg boltes and sett bolts And saith
5. the Iron worke and nayles predeposed of were at the tyme of the delivery
6. of them to the sayd Christmas and his servantes and such as hee imployed
7. to receave them for the use of the sayd shipp well worth in this deponentes
8. Judgment and estimate the seuerall prices in the schedule arlate
9. specified, and hee beleeveth goodes of the like quality were then usually
10. sold at those rates the promisses hee deposeth being then a Journeyman to
11. the sayd Gough and helpeing to make and deliuer by weight and tale the goodes
12. predeposed and keeping Accompt thereof by scoreing vp the weight and
13. numbers in chalke at the seuerall tymes of their deliuery And verily
14. beleeveth and is perswaded in his conscience that the sayd Christmas did
15. fetch and receave the sayd Iron worke and other things predeposed of by the
16. order of the Owners of the sayd shipp Lyon or Redd Lyon for whome
17. hee built the same, and ˹that˺ the same were vsed and imployed vpon the
18. sayd shipp and her boates to her belonging And further to these
19. articles and schedule hee cannot depose./"

- HCA 13/71 ff.422r - 422v Case: Gough against Bigg touching the shipp the Redd Lyon ("Examined on the Libell"); Deposition: Arthur Cower of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey parish Anchor smith aged forty seaven yeares; Date: 24/11/1656

"10. To 5th hee saith that worke done by the sayd Barnackle
11. for the shipp Lyon aforesayd was great boltes about the Keelsten and ?lowe
12. partes of the sayd shipp which is bigger worke then the sayd Goughs was, and
13. goes readier off of hand, and more of it may dispatched in a day then
14. could of that which the sayd Gough did And further cannot answere/
15. To the 6th hee saith that hee this deponent scored vp the goodes predeposed as they
16. were weighed and deliuered, and once a weeke gott a Scriuener to put the particulars
17. in writing according as they were scored hee this deponent not being able to
18. write And further hee cannot answere/
19. To the 7th hee saith the Iron worke in question was wrought in Rederiff
20. parish in a shopp whereof the sayd Christmas was reputed Owner and saith
21. Gough did not dwell there but had his residence at Shadwell in the
22. parish of Stepney And what the sayd shopp was worth for the tyme Interrogate
23. hee knoweth not and further cannot answere/
24. To the 8th hee saith hee answereth negatively saving ˹hee saith˺ that one
25. tyme there being some ˹two droughts of˺ Iron worke to weigh, the same was weighed, but
26. not carried out of the shopp, and the sayd Christmas coming in presently
27. after the same was weighed, began to finde fault and say the scales
28. were not even and that Gough and his servantes Cozened him the sayd
29. Christmas in the weight of things, wherevpon hee this deponent replyed
30. and sayd thus or to thelike effect videlicet truly Master Christmas for my part I
31. scorne to Cozen you or any body in weight, and as for Gough hee is sick at
32. home, and soe the scales being tryed and it appearing that they were
33. not even hee this deponent ˹not knowing what was to cause thereof˺ vpon serious view of them found that an eye
34. of a tackle hooke which used bee hanged vpon one of the scales to make
35. them even was taken away, which was the cause that the scales were
36. not even and this deponent speakeing thereof and saying that was the
37. cause ˹one George (his other name hee knoweth not)˺ a labourer vsually imployed by the sayd Christmas in his
38. yarde did acknowledge and confesse that hee had ˹that day˺ taken the scales out
39. into the yarde to weigh some things and that by that meanes the sayd ˹eye of˺
40. the sayd tackle hooke was lost And saith that a ring being hung
41. on in place of the tackle hooke to make the scales even the sayd Iron worke
42. was againe weighed before ever it was taken out of the shopp, and the same
43. wanting about a pound weight ˹in two draughts˺ by reason of the want of the tackle hooke
44. the sayd Christmas had abatement for that pound weight And this
45. deponent doth by virtue of his oath affirme that the sayd eye of the tackle
46. hooke was vpon the scales that day imediately before the scales were taken

1. into the yarde by the sayde Christmas his labourer and that the sayd
2. Christmas nor any by him imployed had any Iron worke which was
3. weighed delivered to them out of the sayd shipp ˹that day˺ for untill after
4. the undernnesse of the sayde scales was discouered./"

- HCA 13/71 ff.423r - 423v Case: Gough against Bigg touching the shipp the Redd Lyon ("Examined on the Libell"); Deposition: Arthur Cower of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey parish Anchor smith aged forty seaven yeares; Date: 24/11/1656

Other possible primary sources

ADM 106/282 Folio 227. Thomas Bowyer, the Anchor Smith at Woolwich. Repudiates suggestions of his slow performance of work. States that he has worked hard. There is £2,500 owed to him by the Board; `for want of present money I have and am constrained to take up my Iron upon credit and am at this instant deeply engaged to the ironmonger when I am obliged to pay interest at a dear rate'. Notes the rise in the price of coal and asks for a sum of money equal to his present necessities. 1673 July 4 Woolwich
ADM 106/295 Folio 284. John Burgess. Board has asked for account of bar iron delivered to the anchor smith at the yard since 1669. Gives details of this since his arrival at the yard; matters thereon. 1674 Feb. 14 Woolwich

PROB 4/12225 Hutchinson, John, of Blackwall in Stepney, Mdx, anchor smith 1682 31 Mar.

PROB 11/210/383 Will of Humphrey Bowyer, Anchor Smith of Woolwich, Kent 20 December 1649
PROB 11/339/237 Will of John Merrit, Anchor Smith of Saint Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, Surrey 06 June 1672
PROB 11/341/167 Will of John Bryan, Anchor Smith of Saint Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, Surrey 02 February 1673
PROB 11/369/327 Will of Nicholas Bradley, Anchor Smith of Wapping, Middlesex 20 March 1682
PROB 11/369/364 Will of John Hutchinson, Anchor Smith of Stepney, Middlesex 02 March 1682
PROB 11/451/43 Will of Walter Clemens, Anchor Smith of Redriffe, Surrey 06 June 1699

Secondary sources

The National Archives, Online research guide: Royal Naval dockyards' staff

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Block maker/pulley maker

Mathew Clements of Wapping in the parish if Saint Mary Matsellon alias Whitechappell Blockmaker aged 42 yeares

See: HCA 13/72 f.223r

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Brewers clerk

Well acquainted with the prices and valewes of all sorts of beere and casks

Francis Hynde was a fifty-six year old Merchant taylor who had worked as a Brewer's Clerk for thirty years of so. He was called to testify as to the prices and value of various beers, including high quality Sea beer, which was brewed to travel long distances by ship.

Hynde quoted a price of 39 shillings per ton for Sea beer, and a carriage rate of 12d per tonne to deliver the beer from the brewhouse at Maudlins Lane to Blackwall to put aboard ships.

• "42. To the second árticle of the said allegation and ˹schedule annexed (now read unto him)˺ hee saith and deposeth

43. that hee this deponent hath bin a Brewers' clarke theise 30 yeares
44. last or thereabouts and is soe at present, and thereby is well acquainted wuth
45. the prices and valewes of all sorts of beere and casks, and well knoweth
46. that in the yeare and for all all the monethes of the yeere 1652, thirtie nine
47. shillings was the ordinary, usuall and vendible rate and price of Sea
48. beere per tonne one tonne with another, and soe much it was well worth
49. without casks being allowed into the rate, and saith that sea-beere is
50. better brewed and of greater charge in brewing than other beere; and that
51. further

1. further that two barrells of barrells of casks is ordinarily worth 8s at the common
2. price, and 12d per tonne is a usuall and ordinary rate to be given and paid
3. for carrying here from Maudlins lane neare bettle bridge and thereabouts
4. aboard shipps at Blackwall. And otherwise hee cannot depose."

- HCA 13/71 f.146r Case. Crosse against the shipp the ?Chase aforesaid; Deposition: 4. Francis Hynde of the parish of Saint Buttolphes without Allgate London citizen and Marchant-tailor of London aged 45; Date: 08/05/1656

Delivery of beer and barrells from the harts horne brewhouse in Eastsmithfeild to the ship the Salem

The Brewer's Clerk, Peter Descobeck, from the parish of Saint Olaves in Southwarke, was deposed about a series of deliveries of beer from the Hartshorne Brewhouse in Lower East Smithfield.

• "10. In the yeare 1650 and more particularly in or about the moneth of May

11. or June of the said yeare (as hee remembreth the time) there was
12. delivered at and from the Brewhouse of the said Abraham Corsellis
13. (knowne by the name of the harts ?horne brewhouse scituat in
14. Eastsmithfeild) sixtie tonnes, one
15. hogshead and twenty nine gallons of beere and one last and a
16. halfe of barrells to and for the use and setting out of the
17. shipp the Salem arlate then lying in the River of Thames, and
18. outwards bound, and commonly said to be belonging to the arlate Collonel
19. Atkins, and saith the said beere and goods to the time of the said
20. delivery were the goods of the said Corsellis, and the said beere was
21. worth three pounds and twelve shillings per tonne at the ordinary
22. and usuall rate of the like beare at that time, and the said barrells
23. were worth three pounds, All which hee knoweth because hee
24. was the Brewers clarke to the said Brewhouse, and tooke ?note
25. of the said deliverie and entred it downe in the debt booke
26. for account of the said Collonell Samuel Atkins, for whom this deponent made up an account thereof about September XXXX follow?eing the said delivery, as alsoe of and for the fourtie tonnes of caskes arlate, which hee saith were alsoe delivered"

- HCA 13/71 f.417v Case: Corsellis and Debenham against the Sara of Leith against Bilton and Trent; Deposition: 4. Peter Descobeck of the parish of Saint Olaves in Southwarke Brewers Clarke, aged 64 yeeres ("Signature of Peter Descobecq" at end of deposition); Date: 27/11/1656

- The Hartshorn brewhouse was located in Lower East Smithfield adjoining the Hartshorn Wharf. Harben dates it to 3 Hen. VII, and notes that the location of the brewhouse is shown as adjacent to Brown's Wharf in the Survey of St. Katherine's, 1686. It is recorded in the 1662 Middlesex hearth tax returns for the parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate, London, within the Ossulstone hundred, in a sequence of rotulets which has been reordered to run from East Smithfield south end, ?Brush Yard, 'Hartshorne Brewhouse', to Flushing Alley, 'George Alley', Virginia Court, and East Smithfield south side.

The Brewhouse supplied ships on the Thames with beer in considerable quantities, and in the early C18th was associated publicly with many abuses linked to contract brewers and ship's pursers. An entry in the Journal of the House of Commons, dated February 15th, 1710, records issues associated with the "Abuses of the Victualling" and specifically "the Abuses and Frauds, committed at her Majesty's Brewhouse, called the Hartshorne Brewhouse, and likewise those committed by the contracting Brewers."

Barrels of beer had been carried "in several parcels from the Hartshorn Brewhouse to Colliers, Merchant Ships, and other Places," carried by watermen. The Committee for the investigation of the Abuses of Victualling noted disapprovingly that the beer so disposed of was "Sea Beer, and not petty Warrant Beer." One brewer told the Committee that "he has often had beer from the Queen's Brewhouse, by the means of one Moxley, a Servant there, at the rate of 22s. per Ton, and that he knew "a great many Colliers" who were "supplied with Beer from thence...much cheaper there, than of other Brewers."

Another brewer recorded a fine trade, purchasing beer from the Hartshorne Brewhouse at 22s per ton, and selling it on, again to the Queen, at 48s per ton as "Store Beer." It was a commonplace, the Committee had been told, for pursers to sell the Queen's Beer. Abuse was easy in the absence of accounts, with the Under Clerk to the Brewhouse reporting that the Accounts of the Brewhouse had never been made up in the six years he had been there.

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Brewers servant

John Calcott of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Brewers servant aged twenty fower yeares

- HCA 13/71 f.450v Case: Sarah Smith Executrix of Robert Smith against the Swan alias the Giant etc; Deposition: 1. John Calcott of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Brewers servant aged twenty fower yeares; Date: 05/03/1656 /1657

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Broker

• "carried him and Mr Shipton a broker in this deponents boate aboard his said shipp the wildeman then lying at anchor right before Greenwich a little above the bridge, where (as her company said) shee had come to an anchor that night"

- HCA 13/71 f.130r Case: ; Deposition: ; Date: XXXX

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Butcher

Richard Hammond, a successful Wapping butcher, supplying ships at New Crane

• "14. To the 7th hee saith that hee estamateth and conceiveth the said Richard

15. hammond having good dealing in the trade of a butcher, and quick retournes
16. is damnified by being so long out of his money as much as the principall
17. amounts unto, over and besides the said principall."

- HCA 13/71 f.183r Case: Hammond con the Sisters of Ipswich, and Wright; Deposition: Robert Hill of Wapping Butcher aged 28 years (The marke of "Robt hill" at end of deposition); Date: 30/04/1656

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• "7. To the second third and fourth hee saith and deposeth that in the said yeeres

8. 1653. 1654 and 1655 this deponent as mate went thirteene voyages
9. with the said Gregory Carey in the said shipp the Sisters for Newcastle
10. to lade coales, and well knoweth that for every of the said voyages the
11. producent Richard hammond was the Butcher that served the said
12. shipp with beefe, and well knoweth that in that space there were
13. many and severall parcells of beefe fetcht from the shopp of the
14. said hammond neere ffrying pann staires in Wapping aboard the
15. said shipp then lying in the River of Thames, and having made of fXXXX
16. beefe for her provisions, and such beefe was soe fetcht by order
17. of the said Carey and was used and spent ˹and eaten˺ in and upon the said shipp
18. fo by the said shipps company, and was good beefe, but the valew
19. thereof hee saith hee knoweth..."

- HCA 13/71 f.191r Case: Hammond and the Sisters aforesaid and against Wright and others; Deposition: XXXX; Date: 6. francis Corniche of Aldborough Mariner aged 39 yeares. Transcribed by XXXX

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Compasse maker

George Dawny late servant to Mathias Hatton of the Tower Libertie London, Compasse Maker, aged 23 yeeres

• "X. And

X. otherwise he cannot depose, saving hee saith that the Compasses
X. were all or most of them to his remembrance belonging to the said shipp, and that what is
X. set downe in the schedule concerning them, is is for repaireing and
X. materialls and workemanshipp in such reparation
X. George Dawny SIGNATURE, RH SIDE"

- HCA 13/71 f.409v Case: XXXwards and others against the XXXamberline and hill ("Examined upon the fore said Libell"); Deposition: 4. George Dawny late servant to Mathias Hatton of the Tower Libertie London, Compasse Maker, aged 23 yeeres; Date: 12/11/1656

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Cooper

Cooper sent on ship from Port of London to Leith in Scotland to monitor leakage of beer from faulty beer casks

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• "18. John Hall of Eastsmithfeild in the parish of Saint Bultolph

19. Algate Cooper aged fifty five yeares or thereabouts a
20. wittnesse sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth videlicet
21. To the first second and third articles of the sayd allegation hee saith that
22. in the yeare 1650 and moneth of September that yeare the arlate Abraham
23. Corsellis was commonly reputed the lawfull there were certaine quantities
24. of beere to the quantitie of about sixty tonnes, and a last and a half of
25. barrells and about fourty ˹five˺ tonne of Caske (of which beere and barrells the
26. arlate Abraham Corsellis was commonly reputed the lawfull Owner
27. and Proprietor, and of which fourty ˹five˺ tonnes of caske the arlate Andrew
28. Debenham was commonly reputed the lawfull Owner and Proprietor) laden
29. on board the arlate shipp the Salem then rideing in the River of Thames
30. and within the Jurisdiction of this court for the use and accompt of the
31. arlate Samuell Atkins this hee the better knoweth for that hee this
32. deponent being a Cooper by trade was imployed by the sayd Andrew Debenham
33. to trimme and fitt the caske wherein the sayd beere was put, before the
34. and well remembreth that XXX the sayd Debenham then told this
35. deponent after the sayd beere, barrells and Caske were soe laden aboard
36. the sayd shipp for the use and Accompt of the sayd Atkins, that the sayd
37. Atkins found fault with some of the caske into which the sayd beere
38. was put and thereupon refused to pay the sayd Debenham for any of
39. the sayd Caske unlesse the sayd Debenham would send somebody with
40. in the sayd shipp to Scotland Leith in Scotland whether shee was to
41. carrie the sayd beere, barrells and Caske to see and take notise
42. what leakage sh might happen thereto by defect of the sayd Casks,
43. And this deponent was thereupon employed by the sayd Debenham
44. to goe and did goe a longe in the sayd shipp with the sayd beere and Casks
45. to Leith in Scotland ˹in which part of her voyage thither noe dammage or leakeage happened through any defect of the sayd Casks˺ #"

- HCA 13/71 f.400r Case: Corsellis and Debenham ag:t the Sara of Leith against Bilton and Trent coming in for their interest ("Examined on an allegation on behalfe of the sayd Corsellis and Debenham"); Deposition: 3. John Hall of Eastsmithfeild in the parish of St Bultolph Algate Cooper aged fifty five yeares; Date: 06/11/1656. Transcribed by William Kellett.

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Deale merchant

- HCA 13/71 f.454v Case: Matson against Naylor; Deposition: 1. Oliver Langdon of Wapping Wall Deale Merchant aged 38 yeares ; Date: 12/12/1656

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Labourer

• John Fremlett of the parish of Stepney and the County of Middlesex Labourer aged forty two

- HCA 13/71 f. XXX Case: Huggerly Turpin and Company against Captaine John Tott(e)y; Deposition: 4. John Fremlett of the parish of Stepney and the County of Middlesex Labourer aged forty two yeares; Date: 19/08/1656

• William Coxe of Wapping wall labourer aged forty one yeares

- HCA 13/71 f.446v Case: XXXX; Deposition: 3. William Coxe of Wapping wall labourer aged forty one yeares; Date: 31/01/1656 (1657)

• John Danies of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Labourer aged thirty sixe yeares

- HCA 13/71 f.563r Case: Watson against Naylor; Deposition: John Danies of Wapping in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Labourer aged thirty sixe yeares; Date: XX/XX/XXXX

- "the labourers aboard the sayd lighter and amongst them this deponent did worke up to the Knees, in water to heave out the rest of the ballast remayning on board her after shee had receaved the dammage aforesayd…"

- Idem

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Mast maker

"The will of a certain Edward Arlibeare of Wapping gives a glimpse of the varied ship-related enterprizes in the 1660s. A mast-maker, Arlibeare left a mastyard on the water front. Nearby he owned another yard and wharf, rented to Guilford Elvey, a shipwright, adjoining the house of John Moore, another shipwright, and a mastyard occupied by Edward Grey. Arlibeare bequeathed a third piece of land (occupied by John Wright, a shipwright), on which stood a mastyard and two tenements."

- See: HCA 13/71 f.128v Case: Harris, Bowier and others against Pursell, Walters and others); Deposition: 1. Edward Arlibeare of Wapping Wall in the county of Midd Mariner, aged 32 yeares (Signature of "Edward Arlibear" at end of deposition); Date: 02/04/1656

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Packer

• See:

- HCA 13/71 f.221v Case: On the behalfe of the foresaid Meyenbergh and others touching a losse of goods in the Hare in the feild; Deposition: 6. Henry Briggs of the parish of Saint Dunstans in the East London Packer aged 35 yeeres; Date: 15/05/1656

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Rope merchant

Henry Mayne servant and Apprentice of Edward Hopwood of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalens Bermondsey Rope Merchant, aged 23 yeares

- HCA 13/71 ff.409r-409v Case: XXXwards and others against the XXXamberline and hill ("Examined upon the fore said Libell"); Deposition: 3. Henry Mayne servant and Apprentice of Edward Hopwood of the parish of Saint Mary Magdalens Bermondsey Rope Merchant, aged 23 yeares; Date: 11/11/1656

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Sail maker

Michael Scot servant and Apprentice to John Harris of the Tower Libertie saile maker, aged 23 yeeres

- HCA 13/71 f.410r Case: XXXwards and others against the XXXamberline and hill ("Examined upon the fore said Libell"); Deposition: 5. Michael Scot servant and Apprentice to John Harris of the Tower Libertie saile maker, aged 23 yeeres; Date: 12/11/1656

George Shan of Tower wharfe within the liberty or parish of Saint Peter ad Vincula within the sayd Tower aged 51 yeares described himself in his deposition as "by profession a sayle maker"

- SEE: HCA 13/72 ff.223r-223v

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Ship carpenter

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• "43. The same day Examined upon the sayd Libell.

44. <margin value="Left">Rp. (5.us</margin>
45. Richard Cooke of Horsey Downe in the County of Surrey
46. Shipp=Carpenter aged twenty yeares or thereabouts, a wittnesse
47. sworne and examined saith and deposeth as followeth. vizt.
48. To the first article of the sayd Libell. hee saith he ćannot depose.
49. To the second article of the sayd Libell, this deponent saith, that about a yeare and an halfe
50. agoe (the tyme he otherwise remembreth not) the arlate Lighter the
51. William and ffrancis lay in the River of Thames, and stood in need of"

- HCA 13/71 f.138r Case: John Mayor against a certayne Lighter called the William and ffrancis whereof william Knight and company were) Owners and against the sayd William Knight and company comming in for their interest and against whatsoever persons xr ("Examined upon the sayd libell") ; Deposition: 5. Richard Cooke of Horsey Downe in the County of Surrey Shipp=Carpenter aged twenty yeares; Date: 16/04/1656 ("same day". Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet.

"1. repaires, And the sayd John Mayor being a Shipwright was imployed and did
2. by the helpe of the persons mentioned in the schedule arlate now reade to him
3. ámend and repaire the sayd Lighter of the certayne knowledge of this deponent
4. who was one imployed in that worke, and saw the plankes and materialls
5. schedulat used in the sayd repaires. And the sayd John Mayor had order so to
6. repair her of and from ˹a certaine˺ person whose name
7. he remembreth not whom he beleeveth to have bene imployed by the
8. sayd Owners to cause her to be repaired. And being then an Apprentice to the
9. sayd John Mayor he knoweth that the materialls schedulat were usually
10. sold att the respective rates in the sayd schedule mentioned. And that all the
11. persons schedulat had for their respective labours in the premisses the severall
12. wages in the sayd schedule mentioned of and from the sayd John Mayor
13. this deponent and his precontests Robinson and Haynes excepted who had not
14. wages being the sayd Mayors servants, but did usally earne wages for
15. their sayd master att the rates schedulat. And Lastly he beleiveth
16. that the sayd repaires could not have bene done under fifty two pounds
17. four shillings nyne pence. And otherwise not having any particu
18. lar remembrance of the worke schedulat mentioned to be done
19. in June 1655. hee cannot depose.

27. To the Crosse Interrogatories CENTRE HEADING
28. To the first Interrogatorye he saith he comes to be a witnes in this cause by the
29. meanes of the sayd John Mayor, And hath noe manner of Interest or att all
30. in the busines. And further otherwise than negatively hee cannot depose.
31. To the second he saith, he knoweth the sayd Lighter, and did part of the worke for
32. which this suit is broughtn being imployed twenty three dayes in the sayd worke,
33. but saith he did not worke for wages, but as a servant to the sayd John Mayor.
34. ánd expects nothing for his paines. And further cannot answer
35. To the third he referres himselfe to his foregoeing depositions and
36. otherwise or further cannot depose.
37. To the fourth he saith he saw all the particular persons schedulat worke
38. upon the sayd Lighter upon the dayes schedulat and this Rendent wrought
39. with them every day. onely the Boy of which mention is made was
40. ymployed five dayes longer than this Rendent for the triming of okam
41. for the repaires. And saith he heard the sayd ˹whose name he remembreth not˺ person
42. give order for the sayd repaires about a yeare and a halfe agoe att the
43. kay of the sayd John Mayor neere to Horsey downe New stayres,
44. where also the sayd John Mayor gave order to the sayd persons implyoed
45. in the sayd worke about the same tyme. And otherwise he ćannot answer.
46. To the fifth Interrogatory he saith the sayd John Mayor hath not receaved any satis=
47. faction for the sayd repaires so farr as he knoweth or hath heard.
48. And otherwise he ćannot answer.
49. Richard X [MARKE] Cooke MARKE, RH SIDE
50. Repeated with his precontest before Doctor Godolphin

- HCA 13/71 f.138v Case: John Mayor against a certayne Lighter called the William and ffrancis whereof william Knight and company were) Owners and against the sayd William Knight and company comming in for their interest and against whatsoever persons xr ("Examined upon the sayd libell") ; Deposition: 5. Richard Cooke of Horsey Downe in the County of Surrey Shipp=Carpenter aged twenty yeares; Date: 16/04/1656 ("same day". Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet.

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Steevedore

Gregorie Creyk, a young merchant, formerly a factor in Cyprus for four years, gave a detailed account of the steeveing of cotton woolls at a Cyprus port:

"43. To the 3. and 4th articles of the sayd allegation he saith that the sayd shipp the Thomas
44. Bonadventure was in this deponents Judgment of the burthen of about
45. two hundred and seventy, or two hundred and eighty tonnes, and had
46. about the number of men arlate in her the tyme aforesayd, which
47. number of men, by what he hath seene, observed and heard, during his
48. sayd four yeares abode att Ciprus, may receyve, and steeve upon a shipp
49. of such tonnage, about eight or att most nyne baggs ˹a day˺ one day with another
50. from the first beginning of her steeving till she have recyved her full
51. Cargo, and not more, the reason whereof he hath observed to be partly the greatnes
52. of the baggs and their bulke and weight, which renders them
53. difficult to mannage and steeve, and partly the extraordinary labour that
54. still encreases as the shipp fills, so as the greater quantity of goods a
55. shipp hath in her, the more and greater is the labour and difficulty of steeving
56. wools upon her. And soe much he hath well seene and observed as
57. aforesayd. And othewise cannot depose/"

- HCA 13/71 f.25v Case: Keats Jennings and others against ffredericke Chowne and others ( "Examined upon the sayd allegation"); Deposition: 6. Gregorie Creyk of Marton in the county of Yorke merchant aged 24; Date: 29/02/1655

• See:

- HCA 13/71 f.24r Case: Keats Jennings and others against ffredericke Chowne and others ; Deposition: 5. Samuel Dun(e?) of limehouse in the County of middl mariner late cheife masters mate and steevador on board the shipp the Thomas Bonadventure. Captaine Hughes commander of the voyage in question aged 36 yeares; Date: 24/02/1655 (1656)

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Waterman

Waterman in charge of four lighters collecting stockfish from ship in the River Thames

• "After the arrivall of the arlate shipp the Justine at this arlate Port of London with the goods in question hee saith the arlate Mr Southwood did send a Porter to this deponents house to will this deponent to come to him to the Kingshead Taverne on New ffish streete hill and this deponent accordingly came to him and being come the sayd Southwood ordered this deponent to goe with lighters to the shipp the Justine and there receive of the arlate Christian XXgassen and Peter Johnson the ladeing of ffish and deales and tarr and baulkes then on board the sayd shipp and laden aboard her for Accompte of him the sayd Southwood as hee the sayd Southwood affirmed, and told this deponent that the sayd Wegassen and Johnson were by agreement to deliver the sayd ladeing with seven dayes and willed this deponent to give attendance diligently with lighters to XXXX the same, for that otherwise hee the sayd Southwood was liable to pay damerage for what tyme the sayd shipp should bee in delivery of her ladeing above the sayd seaven dayes whereupon this deponent and his XXXX went with fower lighters aboard the sayd shipp and this deponent there demanded the sayd ladeing of ffish deales tarr and baulkes to bee delivered unto him for the use of the sayd Mr Southwood and the sayd Wagassen and Johnson refused to deliver any of the sayd ladeing to this deponent and his servants..."

- HCA 13/71 f.413r Case: ?RasXXXinson and Southward ("Examined upon the sayd allegation") ; Deposition: 2. Robert B?eobie of Saint Olaves Southwarke Waterman aged forty fower yeares; Date: 21/11/1656

- "after the sayd lighters had stayed there about fower dayes the master sayd Wogasson and Johnson did deliver ˹or caused to be delivered˺ out of the sayd shipp into one of the sayd lighters unto John Weaver one of this deponents servants for the use ˹and of much˺ of the sayd Master Southwood as the sayd Weaver told this deponent a parcell of stock fish which the sayd Weaver tooke and carried to St Saviours Dock and there delivered it at a warehouse for Accompt of the sayd Master Southwood"

- HCA 13/71 f.413v Case: ?RasXXXinson and Southward ("Examined upon the sayd allegation") ; Deposition: 2. Robert B?eobie of Saint Olaves Southwarke Waterman aged forty fower yeares; Date: 21/11/1656

- "[Robert Beebee, waterman, in response to interrogatories on behalf of Mr Southwood] hee hath no relation to the Interrogate Master Southwood other then that hee was hyred by him as his lighterman to ˹receave˺ to carrie the goods in question and sweareth to testifie in his cause being forsayd by Master Southwood who well know that this deponent was imployed by him as aforesayd and therefore could not but bee able to testifie therein, but saith hee did not acquainte the sayde Southwood what hee would saye therein, and saith the sayd Southwood gave him five shillings towards the hinderance of his and his servants labours attending to be sworne and examined and promised to give him such further satisfaction for his losse of tyme thereabout as is fitting And saith hee is worth forty pounds and ?noe more his debts paid"

- HCA 13/71 f.414v Case: ?RasXXXinson and Southward ("Examined upon the sayd allegation") ; Deposition: 2. Robert B?eobie of Saint Olaves Southwarke Waterman aged forty fower yeares; Date: 21/11/1656

Robert Garrat, waterman, of of Allhallowes Barking London, aged 50

• "Hee well knoweth the shipp formely called the Stamboline and nowe the arlate Ligorne factor, and well knoweth the arlate John Case who in that ?time arlate was as hee saith Commander of the said vessell, and for such commonly accounted, And likewise well knoweth the arlate Thomas ?Abrahall, from whom hee saith hee this deponent being a waterman in or about the moneth of Aprill 1654 carried aboard the said shipp then called the Stamboline, lying at Ratcliff crosse and outwards bound a boats lading of such goods as are mentioned in the eigth schedule now read unto him, and being as hee beleeveth the very same goods schedu?lated. all which hee saith hee received into his boate at Tower dock by direction of Mr Abrahalls servant who came along with the ?cart that brought the said goods from the said Mr Abrahalls shipp"

- HCA 13/71 f.418r Case: XXX and others against the Stamboline aforesaid and against Hill; Deposition: 8. Robert Garrat of the parish of Allhallowes Barking London, Waterman aged 50 yeares; Date: 03/12/1656

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Wharfinger

Henry Harling Wharfinger of Ralphs key London, aged 27 yeares

- HCA 13/71 f.300v Case: On the behalf of the XXXX; Deposition: Henry Harling Wharfinger of Ralphs key London, aged 27 yeares; Date: 14/07/1656