Stephen Cranbrooke
| Stephen Cranbrooke | |
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| Person | Stephen Cranbrooke |
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| First name | Stephen |
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| Last name | Cranbrooke |
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| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | Waiter |
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| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Marke |
| Has opening text | Stephen Cranbrooke |
| Has signoff text | Hour glass symbol |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Res town | Deale |
| Res county | Kent |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1621 |
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| First deposition age | 36 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/72 f.173r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Nov 2 1657 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
| Ship classification | |
| Type of ship | Merchant ship |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Stephen Cranbrooke (b.ca.1621; d.?). Mariner.
Put aboard the ship the Virgin Mary between March and May 1657 at the Downs as a "waiter". The ship had been taken prize by the English, together with a lading of tobacco and other goods.
Resident in 1657 in Deale in the county of Kent.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Thirty-six year old Stephen Cranbrooke deposed on November 2nd 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined upon a libel in the case of "The Lord Protector against Lemmon and Tuffnell".[1]
The case concerned the alleged embezzlement of tobacco and wool from a prize ship by two ooficers of the Prize Office.
Stephen Cranbrooke reported on his role as waiter on the ship the Virgin Mary. Put on the ship at the Downs, whilst the ship was being brought up to London "about twelve or one of the clock at night comming upon the deck of the said shipp which was then at anchor espied the shipps boate lying by her side and three or foure baggs like bejket baggs which were full or neere full in the said boate, and some rolls of tobaccoe lying on a heape in the said boate amounting in his estimation to a dozen or fourteene rolls or thereabouts, and hee conceiveth that the said baggs contained some of the said shipps prize wooll". Cranbrooke spoke to the seamen who were going in the boat and was told that some tobacco and wool was being transferred to the Eagle Ketch. This, Cranbrooke, alleges, was being done with the knowledge of Mr Lemmon and a man named Tuffnell or Tufnet, both of them officers belonging to the Prize Office.[2]
