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Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-19T14:05:45Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Legal */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.14.1 15/04/2024
----

==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Kinsale; Emden; Paris; Rouen; Boulogne; Saphia; Constantinople; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; Elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; dennaging; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market; Price arbitrage between markets [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations; Publique and Notorious [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour amongst merchants [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certificates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4:'''

* This is an interesting topic, which has been neglected by historians. It takes a lot of data to say anything meaningful about non-elite investment activities. And that's after you have got over the big hurdle and are considering that non-elite men and women may have been active investors. The SOLM-2024 database offers a unique and extensive set of data on private adventures by non-elite men (and some women) just waiting to be used by an innovative doctoral student or post-doctoral fellow. Do get in touch with us and we will guide you through what we have already calendarized and what else exists in the 30 million plus set of English Admiralty Court depositions, 1570 to 1688, and how you can unlock these data.

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-19T13:07:36Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Information */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.14.1 15/04/2024
----

==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Kinsale; Emden; Paris; Rouen; Boulogne; Saphia; Constantinople; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; Elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; dennaging; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market; Price arbitrage between markets [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations; Publique and Notorious [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certificates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4:'''

* This is an interesting topic, which has been neglected by historians. It takes a lot of data to say anything meaningful about non-elite investment activities. And that's after you have got over the big hurdle and are considering that non-elite men and women may have been active investors. The SOLM-2024 database offers a unique and extensive set of data on private adventures by non-elite men (and some women) just waiting to be used by an innovative doctoral student or post-doctoral fellow. Do get in touch with us and we will guide you through what we have already calendarized and what else exists in the 30 million plus set of English Admiralty Court depositions, 1570 to 1688, and how you can unlock these data.

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-16T08:55:36Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Materials */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.14.1 15/04/2024
----

==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Kinsale; Emden; Paris; Rouen; Boulogne; Saphia; Constantinople; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; Elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; dennaging; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market; Price arbitrage between markets [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certificates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4:'''

* This is an interesting topic, which has been neglected by historians. It takes a lot of data to say anything meaningful about non-elite investment activities. And that's after you have got over the big hurdle and are considering that non-elite men and women may have been active investors. The SOLM-2024 database offers a unique and extensive set of data on private adventures by non-elite men (and some women) just waiting to be used by an innovative doctoral student or post-doctoral fellow. Do get in touch with us and we will guide you through what we have already calendarized and what else exists in the 30 million plus set of English Admiralty Court depositions, 1570 to 1688, and how you can unlock these data.

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-15T10:22:27Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* People */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.14.1 15/04/2024
----

==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Kinsale; Emden; Paris; Rouen; Boulogne; Saphia; Constantinople; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; Elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certificates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4:'''

* This is an interesting topic, which has been neglected by historians. It takes a lot of data to say anything meaningful about non-elite investment activities. And that's after you have got over the big hurdle and are considering that non-elite men and women may have been active investors. The SOLM-2024 database offers a unique and extensive set of data on private adventures by non-elite men (and some women) just waiting to be used by an innovative doctoral student or post-doctoral fellow. Do get in touch with us and we will guide you through what we have already calendarized and what else exists in the 30 million plus set of English Admiralty Court depositions, 1570 to 1688, and how you can unlock these data.

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-15T10:21:28Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Overview of the database */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.14.1 15/04/2024
----

==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certificates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4:'''

* This is an interesting topic, which has been neglected by historians. It takes a lot of data to say anything meaningful about non-elite investment activities. And that's after you have got over the big hurdle and are considering that non-elite men and women may have been active investors. The SOLM-2024 database offers a unique and extensive set of data on private adventures by non-elite men (and some women) just waiting to be used by an innovative doctoral student or post-doctoral fellow. Do get in touch with us and we will guide you through what we have already calendarized and what else exists in the 30 million plus set of English Admiralty Court depositions, 1570 to 1688, and how you can unlock these data.

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T18:31:27Z

ColinGreenstreet:

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certificates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4:'''

* This is an interesting topic, which has been neglected by historians. It takes a lot of data to say anything meaningful about non-elite investment activities. And that's after you have got over the big hurdle and are considering that non-elite men and women may have been active investors. The SOLM-2024 database offers a unique and extensive set of data on private adventures by non-elite men (and some women) just waiting to be used by an innovative doctoral student or post-doctoral fellow. Do get in touch with us and we will guide you through what we have already calendarized and what else exists in the 30 million plus set of English Admiralty Court depositions, 1570 to 1688, and how you can unlock these data.

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T18:23:07Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me? */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certificates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4:'''

* This is an interesting topic, which has been neglected by historians. It takes a lot of data to say anything meaningful about non-elite investment activities. And that's after you have got over the big hurdle and are considering that non-elite men and women may have been active investors. The SOLM-2024 database offers a unique and extensive set of data on private adventures by non-elite men (and some women) just waiting to be used by an innovative doctoral student or post-doctoral fellow. Do get in touch with us and we will guide yu through what we have already calendarized and what else exists in the 30 million plus set of English Admiralty Court depositions, 1570 to 1688, and how you can unlock these data.

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T18:06:49Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database? */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certificates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T18:04:06Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Questions and Answers */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2:'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3:'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certifiates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T18:03:10Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database? */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* We already have a good deal of information the SOLM-2024 database on medical care. We need to hear your research questions to help us expand this coverage. We have detailed descriptions of good and poor care by chirurgeons on board commercial ships, caring for both mariners and passengers at sea and in ports. We have estimates of the value of chirurgeon's chests, including instruments, books and medicaments. We have descriptions of medical certifiates being granted and refused according to the health of a ship's company, and ships being forced to quarantine when coming from ports known to be affected by the plague. We have descriptions of battles between ships and estimates of dead and wounded, together with injuries sustained by men in these battles.

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T17:44:47Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Materials */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods; inspection by masters of the Trinity House [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T15:52:31Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* People */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Deaths on ship; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T15:30:51Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Information */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Overheard speech; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers [TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T14:49:47Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Legal */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore; Commissions of Inquiry [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T12:46:52Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Financing */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Bonds; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T07:21:38Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short...

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the recto (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T07:20:54Z

ColinGreenstreet:

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

* Let's start with the referencing system. "HCA" = "High Court of Admiralty". This was the top Admiralty Court in the Admiralty Court system in England in the C16th and C1th. For much of this period the Court was physically located in the Doctors Commons near Saint Paul's church. "HCA 13/58" refers to volume 58 in the HCA 13 series and follows the naming convention used by the National Archives at Kew, where the physical documents are stored and are viewable. Volume HCA 13/58 consists of witness statements or depositions submitted in the English High Court of Admiralty between the years 1642 and 1644. "f.8r" refers to the rector (front) side of the eighth folio in that specific volume.

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T07:08:05Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Legal */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Law of Olleroon; Includes Ireland; Scotland; Wales; Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests; Foreign licences; Foreign Permissions [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-13T05:57:40Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Ships */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers; Indentured servants [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-12T15:18:14Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-12T14:02:41Z

ColinGreenstreet:

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing the these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Questions and Answers==

===QUESTION 1. How reliable are the data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 1:'''

===QUESTION 2: I have found several interesting short text extracts in the database which include references (for example HCA 13/58 f.8r). What do these references mean and how do I find an image and full transcription of the page from which the short text extracts come, so I that can check and contextualize the extracts?===

'''ANSWER 2: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 3: I am interested in medical care on board commercial ships in the C17th. Where can I find information about this topic in the database?===

'''ANSWER 3: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 4: I am looking at private investment behaviour by non-elite men and women. Can your database help me?===

'''ANSWER 4: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 5: I am looking at the connection between Atlantic trade routes and the Mediterranean in the late C16th and early C17th. How should I get started looking for data in your database?===

'''ANSWER 5: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 6: Can your database help me compare wage levels of mariners in England and the United Provinces in the first half of the C17th?===

'''ANSWER 6: [INSERT TEXT]'''

===QUESTION 7: How can I investigate behavioural norms, non-conforming behaviour, discipline and punishment amongst mariners using your database?===

'''ANSWER 7: [INSERT TEXT]'''

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-12T10:39:37Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing the these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT TWO B.JPG

2024-04-12T10:37:44Z

ColinGreenstreet:

File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE B.JPG

2024-04-12T10:37:13Z

ColinGreenstreet:

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-12T10:26:38Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing the these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT FOUR.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO B.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

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ColinGreenstreet:

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2024-04-12T10:19:54Z

ColinGreenstreet:

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ColinGreenstreet:

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-12T10:17:04Z

ColinGreenstreet:

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Scoping of the textual and numerical resources in the database==

'''The two primary types of data in the SOLM-20124 database are textual and numerical'''

Below are tables describing the these data in terms of cell counts as of April 11th 2024:

TEXTUAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 TEXT FOUR.JPG]]

NUMERICAL

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL ONE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL THREE.JPG]]

[[File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL FOUR.JPG]]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

File:SOLM-2024 SEMINAR DATABASE Ver.14.1 13042024 NUMERICAL TWO.JPG

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ColinGreenstreet:

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2024-04-12T10:13:48Z

ColinGreenstreet:

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ColinGreenstreet:

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ColinGreenstreet:

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-11T20:14:47Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Ships */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Damage to ship; Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-11T08:56:50Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Ships */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]
-- Suprisals and Seizures [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-11T08:31:27Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* People */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Boulogne; Saphia; Scanderoon; Cyprus; Messina; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

HCA 13/72 f.67r Annotate

2024-04-10T19:26:43Z

ColinGreenstreet:

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|Transcription='''A5'''

The eighteenth of June 1657.

The claime of Antonio da ffonseca da}
ffranca for his goods in the ''Virgin Mary''}
''and All Saints'' of Catagena. ffrancklin Budd.}
Exámined upon an allegation given in on the
behalfe of the said claimer the 9th of this
instant.

'''.j.'''

'''Diego de La Baton''' of Sevill Master of the shipp
the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Cartagena, aged
33 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.

To the first árticle hee saith hee well knoweth the producent Antonio
da ffonseca da ffranca and hath soe donne for theise fourteene monethes
last or thereabouts, and that the said producent is commonly reputed a
native of ffarnambuco in Brazila in the dominion of the king of
Portugall, And other wise hee cannot depose.

To the second hee saith the producent is commonly esteemed a subiect
of the king of Portugall.

To the third hee saith that hee this exáminate hath seene
papers in the hands of the said producent declaring his being a lieutenant
in service of the said king of Portugall in the Warrs arlate; and to have served in the
said warres and imployment and to have lived at Angola hee was and is
commonly accounted and reputed.

To the fourth hee saith that for all the time arlate and to this present
there have bin and are certaine shipps (commonly called permission shipps)
which notwithstanding the warrs betweene the kings of Spaine and
Portugall, have and doe by mutuall permission of the said respective kings officers
usually goe and trade from Cartagena in the West India's in the dominion
of the king of Spaine to Angola in the dominion of the said king of
Portugall, and from Angola to Cartagena and other parts of the West
Indias in the subiection of the said king of Spaine, in carrying
Blackmores, slaves and other Merchandizes and bartering the same
in the West Indies, and retourning hides, tobaccoes, tortoise shells, and
plate thense to Angola, and this hee saith is publique and notorious.
And further hee cannot depose.

To the fifth hee saith hee well knew the shipp the ''Lady of Conquest''
arlate and John Rodrigues da Calderon her commander, and sawe her
(being a permission shipp and having license to that purpose) depart
from Cadiz on the voyage arlate for Angola, whense shee was
bound for Cartagena aforesaid, and this deponent being at Cadiz did
assist the said Captaine Rodriguez in his dispatch thense, and thereby
to know the distance of her voyage as aforesaid, And saith that shee was
againe to retourne from Cartagena to Angola, And this was and is
true and notorious. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the sixth hee saith hee hath seene the license of the Governour of
Angola graunted to the said Antonio da ffonseca da ffranca in the yeere
1655 for his departure thense in the said shipp for the West Indies in
a trading voyage for his owne account

To the seaventh and eighth hee saith that the said producent brought the said
voyage from Angola to the West Indies about fiftie Negroes for his
owne account, which hee knoweth for that the said shipp the ''lady of Conquest'' wherein hee went touched at
Comana in the West Indies, where this deponent then was, and sawe
the said producent and Negroes, and there saw him dispose of some of
them
}}
'''Summary of the Admiralty Court Deposition Dated June 18th, 1657'''

[GENERATED BY CHAT GPT-4]

'''Facts of the Case:'''

Claimant: Antonio da Fonseca da Franca is claiming ownership of goods aboard the ship "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena."

Claim Background: Antonio is reputedly a native of Farnambuco, Brazil, under Portuguese dominion, and a subject of the King of Portugal. He has been recognized as serving as a lieutenant in the Portuguese king's service.

Voyage and Trade: Antonio undertook a voyage from Angola to the West Indies, transporting about fifty slaves on his own account. This trade involved carrying slaves and other merchandise from Angola to Cartagena and exchanging them for hides, tobacco, tortoise shells, and plate to be returned to Angola.

Goods in Question: The goods claimed include forty-nine potacos of tobacco, six hundred sixty-three hides, and four chests of tortoise shells. These were loaded onto the "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena" for transport to Spain (Saint Lucas, Cadiz, or Saint Sebastians) for Antonio's account.

Seizure: The ship, along with the goods in question, was seized by a frigate in the service of the Commonwealth off Cape Finisterre, with the cargo then brought to the Thames.

'''Disputed Facts:'''

Ownership and Origin of Goods: The deposition details Antonio's role and investment in the goods, asserting his sole ownership, particularly emphasizing that no Spaniard or subject of the King of Spain has any interest in these goods.
Legality of Trade and Transport: The trade and transport activities, despite the ongoing war between Spain and Portugal, were conducted under permissions granted by the respective authorities, allowing for such exchanges even in times of conflict.

'''Legal Issues Raised:'''

Ownership and Propriety: The claim centers on establishing Antonio da Fonseca da Franca's ownership of the goods seized by the Commonwealth's frigate. This involves demonstrating his procurement of the goods with his resources and their loading onto the ship for his account.

Legitimacy of Trade: The deposition touches upon the broader legal issue of conducting trade between warring nations under special permissions, highlighting the complexities of maritime law and the rights of merchants in such contexts.

'''Legal Issues Disputed:'''

The deposition does not explicitly detail disputes over legal issues but implicitly addresses potential concerns regarding the legality of Antonio's trade activities and the subsequent seizure of his goods. The emphasis on permissions and licenses seeks to preempt or counter any arguments against the legality of his trading activities.

'''Summary:'''

This Admiralty Court deposition documents the claim by Antonio da Fonseca da Franca over goods seized from the ship "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena." Antonio, a Portuguese subject, asserts ownership of the cargo, detailing his trade activities between Angola and the West Indies and the eventual seizure of his goods by a Commonwealth frigate. The case highlights issues of ownership, the legality of trade under permissions during wartime, and the rights of merchants in international waters.

HCA 13/72 f.67r Annotate

2024-04-10T19:13:04Z

ColinGreenstreet:

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|Editorial history=Edited on 17/05/2013 by Colin Greenstreet
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{{PageTranscription
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|Transcription='''A5'''

The eighteenth of June 1657.

The claime of Antonio da ffonseca da}
ffranca for his goods in the ''Virgin Mary''}
''and All Saints'' of Catagena. ffrancklin Budd.}
Exámined upon an allegation given in on the
behalfe of the said claimer the 9th of this
instant.

'''.j.'''

'''Diego de La Baton''' of Sevill Master of the shipp
the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Cartagena, aged
33 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.

To the first árticle hee saith hee well knoweth the producent Antonio
da ffonseca da ffranca and hath soe donne for theise fourteene monethes
last or thereabouts, and that the said producent is commonly reputed a
native of ffarnambuco in Brazila in the dominion of the king of
Portugall, And other wise hee cannot depose.

To the second hee saith the producent is commonly esteemed a subiect
of the king of Portugall.

To the third hee saith that hee this exáminate hath seene
papers in the hands of the said producent declaring his being a lieutenant
in service of the said king of Portugall in the Warrs arlate; and to have served in the
said warres and imployment and to have lived at Angola hee was and is
commonly accounted and reputed.

To the fourth hee saith that for all the time arlate and to this present
there have bin and are certaine shipps (commonly called permission shipps)
which notwithstanding the warrs betweene the kings of Spaine and
Portugall, have and doe by mutuall permission of the said respective kings officers
usually goe and trade from Cartagena in the West India's in the dominion
of the king of Spaine to Angola in the dominion of the said king of
Portugall, and from Angola to Cartagena and other parts of the West
Indias in the subiection of the said king of Spaine, in carrying
Blackmores, slaves and other Merchandizes and bartering the same
in the West Indies, and retourning hides, tobaccoes, tortoise shells, and
plate thense to Angola, and this hee saith is publique and notorious.
And further hee cannot depose.

To the fifth hee saith hee well knew the shipp the ''Lady of Conquest''
arlate and John Rodrigues da Calderon her commander, and sawe her
(being a permission shipp and having license to that purpose) depart
from Cadiz on the voyage arlate for Angola, whense shee was
bound for Cartagena aforesaid, and this deponent being at Cadiz did
assist the said Captaine Rodriguez in his dispatch thense, and thereby
to know the distance of her voyage as aforesaid, And saith that shee was
againe to retourne from Cartagena to Angola, And this was and is
true and notorious. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the sixth hee saith hee hath seene the license of the Governour of
Angola graunted to the said Antonio da ffonseca da ffranca in the yeere
1655 for his departure thense in the said shipp for the West Indies in
a trading voyage for his owne account

To the seaventh and eighth hee saith that the said producent brought the said
voyage from Angola to the West Indies about fiftie Negroes for his
owne account, which hee knoweth for that the said shipp the ''lady of Conquest'' wherein hee went touched at
Comana in the West Indies, where this deponent then was, and sawe
the said producent and Negroes, and there saw him dispose of some of
them
}}
'''Summary of the Admiralty Court Deposition Dated June 18th, 1657'''

[GENERATED BY CHAT GPT-4]

'''Facts of the Case:'''

Claimant: Antonio da Fonseca da Franca is claiming ownership of goods aboard the ship "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena."

Claim Background: Antonio is reputedly a native of Farnambuco, Brazil, under Portuguese dominion, and a subject of the King of Portugal. He has been recognized as serving as a lieutenant in the Portuguese king's service.
Voyage and Trade: Antonio undertook a voyage from Angola to the West Indies, transporting about fifty Negroes on his own account. This trade involved carrying slaves and other merchandise from Angola to Cartagena and exchanging them for hides, tobacco, tortoise shells, and plate to be returned to Angola.

Goods in Question: The goods claimed include forty-nine potacos of tobacco, six hundred sixty-three hides, and four chests of tortoise shells. These were loaded onto the "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena" for transport to Spain (Saint Lucas, Cadiz, or Saint Sebastians) for Antonio's account.

Seizure: The ship, along with the goods in question, was seized by a frigate in the service of the Commonwealth off Cape Finisterre, with the cargo then brought to the Thames.

'''Disputed Facts:'''

Ownership and Origin of Goods: The deposition details Antonio's role and investment in the goods, asserting his sole ownership, particularly emphasizing that no Spaniard or subject of the King of Spain has any interest in these goods.
Legality of Trade and Transport: The trade and transport activities, despite the ongoing war between Spain and Portugal, were conducted under permissions granted by the respective authorities, allowing for such exchanges even in times of conflict.

'''Legal Issues Raised:'''

Ownership and Propriety: The claim centers on establishing Antonio da Fonseca da Franca's ownership of the goods seized by the Commonwealth's frigate. This involves demonstrating his procurement of the goods with his resources and their loading onto the ship for his account.

Legitimacy of Trade: The deposition touches upon the broader legal issue of conducting trade between warring nations under special permissions, highlighting the complexities of maritime law and the rights of merchants in such contexts.

'''Legal Issues Disputed:'''

The deposition does not explicitly detail disputes over legal issues but implicitly addresses potential concerns regarding the legality of Antonio's trade activities and the subsequent seizure of his goods. The emphasis on permissions and licenses seeks to preempt or counter any arguments against the legality of his trading activities.

'''Summary:'''

This Admiralty Court deposition documents the claim by Antonio da Fonseca da Franca over goods seized from the ship "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena." Antonio, a Portuguese subject, asserts ownership of the cargo, detailing his trade activities between Angola and the West Indies and the eventual seizure of his goods by a Commonwealth frigate. The case highlights issues of ownership, the legality of trade under permissions during wartime, and the rights of merchants in international waters.

HCA 13/72 f.67r Annotate

2024-04-10T19:06:51Z

ColinGreenstreet:

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|Folio=67
|Side=Recto
|Status=Uploaded image; transcribed on 12/02/2013
|First transcriber=Colin Greenstreet
|First transcribed=2013/02/12
|Editorial history=Edited on 17/05/2013 by Colin Greenstreet
|Note=IMAGE: IMG_121_11_4461.JPG
}}
{{PageHelp}}
{{PageTranscription
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: IMG_121_11_4461.JPG}}
|Transcription='''A5'''

The eighteenth of June 1657.

The claime of Antonio da ffonseca da}
ffranca for his goods in the ''Virgin Mary''}
''and All Saints'' of Catagena. ffrancklin Budd.}
Exámined upon an allegation given in on the
behalfe of the said claimer the 9th of this
instant.

'''.j.'''

'''Diego de La Baton''' of Sevill Master of the shipp
the ''Virgin Mary and All Saints'' of Cartagena, aged
33 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.

To the first árticle hee saith hee well knoweth the producent Antonio
da ffonseca da ffranca and hath soe donne for theise fourteene monethes
last or thereabouts, and that the said producent is commonly reputed a
native of ffarnambuco in Brazila in the dominion of the king of
Portugall, And other wise hee cannot depose.

To the second hee saith the producent is commonly esteemed a subiect
of the king of Portugall.

To the third hee saith that hee this exáminate hath seene
papers in the hands of the said producent declaring his being a lieutenant
in service of the said king of Portugall in the Warrs arlate; and to have served in the
said warres and imployment and to have lived at Angola hee was and is
commonly accounted and reputed.

To the fourth hee saith that for all the time arlate and to this present
there have bin and are certaine shipps (commonly called permission shipps)
which notwithstanding the warrs betweene the kings of Spaine and
Portugall, have and doe by mutuall permission of the said respective kings officers
usually goe and trade from Cartagena in the West India's in the dominion
of the king of Spaine to Angola in the dominion of the said king of
Portugall, and from Angola to Cartagena and other parts of the West
Indias in the subiection of the said king of Spaine, in carrying
Blackmores, slaves and other Merchandizes and bartering the same
in the West Indies, and retourning hides, tobaccoes, tortoise shells, and
plate thense to Angola, and this hee saith is publique and notorious.
And further hee cannot depose.

To the fifth hee saith hee well knew the shipp the ''Lady of Conquest''
arlate and John Rodrigues da Calderon her commander, and sawe her
(being a permission shipp and having license to that purpose) depart
from Cadiz on the voyage arlate for Angola, whense shee was
bound for Cartagena aforesaid, and this deponent being at Cadiz did
assist the said Captaine Rodriguez in his dispatch thense, and thereby
to know the distance of her voyage as aforesaid, And saith that shee was
againe to retourne from Cartagena to Angola, And this was and is
true and notorious. And otherwise hee cannot depose.

To the sixth hee saith hee hath seene the license of the Governour of
Angola graunted to the said Antonio da ffonseca da ffranca in the yeere
1655 for his departure thense in the said shipp for the West Indies in
a trading voyage for his owne account

To the seaventh and eighth hee saith that the said producent brought the said
voyage from Angola to the West Indies about fiftie Negroes for his
owne account, which hee knoweth for that the said shipp the ''lady of Conquest'' wherein hee went touched at
Comana in the West Indies, where this deponent then was, and sawe
the said producent and Negroes, and there saw him dispose of some of
them
}}
Summary of the Admiralty Court Deposition Dated June 18th, 1657
Facts of the Case:
Claimant: Antonio da Fonseca da Franca is claiming ownership of goods aboard the ship "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena."
Claim Background: Antonio is reputedly a native of Farnambuco, Brazil, under Portuguese dominion, and a subject of the King of Portugal. He has been recognized as serving as a lieutenant in the Portuguese king's service.
Voyage and Trade: Antonio undertook a voyage from Angola to the West Indies, transporting about fifty Negroes on his own account. This trade involved carrying slaves and other merchandise from Angola to Cartagena and exchanging them for hides, tobacco, tortoise shells, and plate to be returned to Angola.
Goods in Question: The goods claimed include forty-nine potacos of tobacco, six hundred sixty-three hides, and four chests of tortoise shells. These were loaded onto the "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena" for transport to Spain (Saint Lucas, Cadiz, or Saint Sebastians) for Antonio's account.
Seizure: The ship, along with the goods in question, was seized by a frigate in the service of the Commonwealth off Cape Finisterre, with the cargo then brought to the Thames.
Disputed Facts:
Ownership and Origin of Goods: The deposition details Antonio's role and investment in the goods, asserting his sole ownership, particularly emphasizing that no Spaniard or subject of the King of Spain has any interest in these goods.
Legality of Trade and Transport: The trade and transport activities, despite the ongoing war between Spain and Portugal, were conducted under permissions granted by the respective authorities, allowing for such exchanges even in times of conflict.
Legal Issues Raised:
Ownership and Propriety: The claim centers on establishing Antonio da Fonseca da Franca's ownership of the goods seized by the Commonwealth's frigate. This involves demonstrating his procurement of the goods with his resources and their loading onto the ship for his account.
Legitimacy of Trade: The deposition touches upon the broader legal issue of conducting trade between warring nations under special permissions, highlighting the complexities of maritime law and the rights of merchants in such contexts.
Legal Issues Disputed:
The deposition does not explicitly detail disputes over legal issues but implicitly addresses potential concerns regarding the legality of Antonio's trade activities and the subsequent seizure of his goods. The emphasis on permissions and licenses seeks to preempt or counter any arguments against the legality of his trading activities.
Summary:
This Admiralty Court deposition documents the claim by Antonio da Fonseca da Franca over goods seized from the ship "Virgin Mary and All Saints of Cartagena." Antonio, a Portuguese subject, asserts ownership of the cargo, detailing his trade activities between Angola and the West Indies and the eventual seizure of his goods by a Commonwealth frigate. The case highlights issues of ownership, the legality of trade under permissions during wartime, and the rights of merchants in international waters.

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-10T09:13:26Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* People */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Scanderoon; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: RELATIONSHIPS
-- Relationships [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

MarineLives

2024-04-10T06:03:56Z

ColinGreenstreet:

__TOC__
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==MarineLives Online Research Seminar: Thursday, April 25th 2022==

'''We are holding an online research seminar at the end of April to introduce and demonstrate the SOLM-2024 Admiralty Court Database'''

[[File:Seminar Agenda 05042024.JPG]]
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==Who will benefit from attending this seminar?==

'''This seminar is intended for doctoral students, post-docs and early career scholars interested in exploring the potential of English High Court of Admiralty material'''

Participants will:

1. Receive a free copy of the 24,000 deponent, 10,000 ship database (SOLM-2024) to support their personal research, in advance of the seminar

2. Guidance at the seminar on how the database is structured, and how it can best be searched and used to address research questions

3. Hands on experience of using the database, with free online access to 30,000 images which support the database

4. Ongoing support for seminar participants after the seminar as they further explore and use the database

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==Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database==

[[Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database]]

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==What we would like in return?==

'''In return the MarineLives project would appreciate:'''

1. Your commitment to working collaboratively as you explore your own research questions

2. Your willingness to offer suggestions on how to improve the database

* Thematically
* Searchability
* Usability
----
==What you will learn from attending the MarineLives online seminar on April 25th 2024==

'''For the next two weeks we will be adding content to this section to illustrate the potential of the SOLM-2024 database. Today we are starting with Historical Geography.'''

1. How to explore Early Modern Historical Geography using the SOLM-2024 database

PEOPLE

* 24,000 deponents with current place of abode at level of parish and town
* 2258 deponents with current place of abode identifed and length of time spent at that place
* 1675 deponents with place of birth identified

SHIPS

* 13,989 ship voyages linked to specific deponents with full or partial nodal descriptions
* 8,589 depositions linked to named ships which are affiliated with specific ports of ownership

MATERIALS

* 3,472 depositions linked to named ships with the voyage nodal patterns fully or partially identified and ship ladings identified for specific ports

- '''We are growing this section on the geography and character of ship ladings in response to the geographical interests of database users. Participants in our online seminar on April 25th 2024 will have a chance to influence this according to their research interests'''

MICROHISTORY

* Depositions related to:
- The Royal Exchange (and Exchanges elsewhere in continental Europe)
- Customs Houses
- Taverns, inns and victualling houses
- Private homes
- Warehouses and cellars
- Wharves and keys
- Shops

[[File:Length Of Time Resident 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]

[[File:Place Of Ship 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]

[[File:Voyage Nodal Points TWO 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]

[[File:Ladings By Geography 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]

[[File:Micor History 07042024.JPG|1300px|thumb|left|]]

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==This is a list of people who are confirmed participants in the seminar==

[[File:Seminar Participants 05042024.JPG]]
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'''If for any reason you need to drop out unexpectedly prior to the seminar, please give us at least a couple of days notice so we can fill your space'''

* Seminar is limited to 20 participants
* We will be using ZOOM, with details to be emailed to participants prior to the event
* Personal copies of the database to be emailed on Friday April 12th 2024
* Online users guide to the database to be published on the MarineLives wiki by Friday April 12th 2024

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-09T18:04:30Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Labour */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Scanderoon; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company; Men pressed from ship [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-09T15:51:20Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Legal */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Scanderoon; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Viceconsuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-09T15:06:29Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Labour */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Scanderoon; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid; Nationality of ship's company [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-09T14:21:37Z

ColinGreenstreet: /* Ships */

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Scanderoon; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-09T13:58:35Z

ColinGreenstreet:

'''This is the start of the Users Guide to the SOLM-2024 database'''

== Overview of the database==

- Technology: Excel Workbook
- Size: 22 MB
- Dimensions: 23,715 rows; 320 columns
- Sheets: One
- Conceptual structure: Flat semi-structured database
- Author: Colin Greenstreet
- Date started: 2017
- Latest version: SOLM-2024 Ver.13.2 08/04/2024
----
==Conceptual structure==

- The primary dimension is formed by the personal depositions of PEOPLE

- There are six secondary dimensions, of which the SHIP secondary dimension is the dominant one. This is formed by the named ships with which most of the personal depositions of people are associated.

- The five additional secondary dimensions are MATERIALS; INFORMATION; FINANCING; LABOUR; and LEGAL

- The primary and secondary dimensions have sub-groupings of related characteristics, which are descibed belowd

===People===

PEOPLE: BASIC
-- Name [Forname; Surname] [TEXT]
-- Age [Years; Estimated birth year] [NUMBER]
-- Gender [Male/Female] [TAB]
-- Marital status [Bachelor; Spinster; Married; Widowed] [TAB; TEXT]
-- Relationships with other people [Father/Son/Daughter; Husband/Wife; Uncle/Nephew; Cousins] [TEXT]
-- Age married [NUMBER]
-- Religion [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY
-- Current residence [Street/Hamlet; Parish; Town; County/Province] [TEXT]
-- Current state [e.g. England; e.g. France] [TEXT]

PEOPLE: GEOGRAPHY ADVANCED
-- Place of birth [Parish; County; Province; State] [TEXT]
-- Length of time in current residence [NUMBER; TEXT]
-- Approximate age when moved to current residential area [YEARS]

PEOPLE: IN PLACE
-- Activities at the Exchange, London; Exchanges outside London overseas [TEXT]
-- Activities at Customs houses [London; Scanderoon; Barbados; elsewhere] [TEXT]
-- Activities at taverns, inns and victualling houses, cook shops [TEXT]
-- Activities at private homes [TEXT]
-- Activities at warehouses; cellars [TEXT]
-- Activities at wharves and keys [TEXT]
-- Activities at shops [TEXT]
-- Activities in prisons [TEXT]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION
-- Main self-described occupation [TEXT]
-- Further more detailed self-described occupations [TEXT]
-- Additional work related activities described in text [TEXT]
-- Detailed self-described occupations normalized [TAB]
-- Years in occupation [NUMBER]
-- Age started occupation [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS
-- Apprenticeship/Servant status [TAB]
-- Age became apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Years as apprentice [NUMBER]
-- Age became servant [NUMBER]
-- Years as servant [NUMBER]

PEOPLE: OCCUPATION: MARITIME
-- Years at sea [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first went to sea [Years] [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years at sea before made master [NUMBER]
-- Approximate years master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Approximate age first master of ships [NUMBER]
-- Months master of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Months in company of most recent ship [NUMBER]
-- Length of most recent voyage in which deponent present [NUMBER]
-- Number of known voyages by deponent in named ship

PEOPLE: SKILLS
-- Literate - Signature [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Initial(s) [TAB]
-- Illiterate - Marke(s) [TAB]
-- Language, reading & writing skills, quantitative skills; weighing; navigation skills; mapping skills; schools [TEXT]

PEOPLE: HEALTH
-- Medical; Sickness; Injury; Disability; Health; Surgeon's expenses [TEXT]
-- Prisons; Imprisonment; Punishment; Torture; Galleys [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: WAGES
-- Wages (£) [per day] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per week [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) [per month] [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per voyage [CURRENCY]
-- Wages (£) per year [CURRENCY]
-- Wages and/or Profits [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: TAXES
-- Subsidy assessment (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Subsidy assessment [TEXT]

PEOPLE: FINANCE: INVESTMENT
-- Private adventures + clothes, instruments and other personal items [£] [CURRENCY]
-- Private adventures + money + clothes, instruments and other personal items [TEXT]
-- Small loans and debts between mariners and mariners and passengers [TEXT]
-- Worth (debts paid) (£) [CURRENCY]
-- Worth (debts paid) [TEXT]

PEOPLE: CATCHALL CATEGORY
-- Seafaring record or other commercial record [TEXT]

===Ships===

SHIPS: BASIC
-- Name of ship [TEXT]
-- Place of affiliation of ship [e.g. the Seaventure of Yarmouth] [TEXT]
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Man of war voyage [TAB; TEXT]
-- Ship type [Frigate; Brighantine; Galleon; Carvell; Pinnace; Pink; Flute; Galliott; Flyboat; Ketch; Bark; Smack; Patash/Potash; Hoy; Barge; Billander; Lighter; Gaber; Packet boat; Tide boat; Ferry; Wherry; Lighthorseman; Sculler; Crayer; Cock boat; Pete boat; Trink boat; Trawler; Hebber; Stowe boat; Oyster dredger;Dogger boat; Herring busse; Busse; Fishing boat] [TAB]

SHIPS: VOYAGES
-- Extent of voyage knowledge [None; Partal; Full] [TAB]
-- Voyage nodeal points [Named nodes in route order, if known] [TEXT]

SHIPS: PHYSICAL
-- Ship burthen [Tons] [NUMBER]
-- Ship ordnance [Guns] [NUMBER]
-- Ship decks [NUMBER]
-- Ship age [YEARS; TEXT]
-- Ship length [NUMBER]
-- Ship breadth [NUMBER]
-- Ship depth [NUMBER]
-- Height between decks [NUMBER]
-- Where ship built [TEXT]
-- Where ship bought [TEXT]

SHIPS: PEOPLE
-- Name of master of ship [TEXT]
-- Ship company size [including master and boys] [NUMBER]

SHIP: OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
-- Ship details [burthen; manning; ordnance]; Furniture; Apparrell; Sails; Rigging; Hull; Anchors; Value of ship; Freight rates; Demurrage; Size of ship's company; Owners of ship [TEXT]
-- Repairs to ship; Ship building; Leakiness; Pumping of ship; Weighing of ship [TEXT]
-- Ships provisions [Food; Drink; Iron work; Ropes; Sails etc.] [TEXT]
-- Passengers [TEXT]
-- Weather [hurricanes; monsoons; tempests, gale; storms; frost; ice; tropical heat; wind; fog; tide]; Severity of weather [stress; distress; extremity; (very) foul; thick; contrary; bad; wet]; Impact of weather on ship [leakage; steering errors; casting away; running ashore; driven ashore]; Seasonality [TEXT]
-- Planned and/or actual voyage details and key voyage dates [TEXT]

SHIP: SEA BATTLES AND AND PREDATION AT SEA
-- Deposition contains sea battle [YES/NO] [TAB]
-- Length of sea battle [HOURS] [NUMBER]
-- Dead [COUNT]
-- Wounded [COUNT]
-- Sea battles; Rules of war [TEXT]
-- Nature of interaction with Turkish men of war; Barbary; Sally; Argiers; Tunis; Santa Cruz; Marrocoes; Galleys; King of Spain's galleys; Slavery [TEXT]

===Materials===

MATERIALS
-- Materials handling [on shore and on ship]; theft; weights & measures standards; rats and cats; damage to goods [TEXT]
-- Theft of goods; Embezlement of goods; Fraud; Evasion of custom and impost; Contraband [TEXT]
-- Seasonality; Vintage; Time to market [TEXT]
-- Details of ship's lading and her laders; including value of lading; and freight charges [TEXT]
-- Textiles (bay(e), callico, cloth, damask(e), diaper, dozens, kersey, lace, silk, taffaty(e); Cambrick stuff(e), Northern kersey, serge, Spanish cloth, tapestry ); Raw materials (cotton wool(l), flax, wool(l)); Dye stuffs: (woad(e); indigo(co); speckled wood; red(d) wood; Yarn; Garments; Household textiles (boulster, napkins, pillow) [TEXT]

===Information===

INFORMATION
-- Transmission of information between locations [TEXT]
-- Public speaking on ship and in port; Consortships at sea; Consultation with Company and Passengers[TEXT]
-- Documents [letters; books; journals; notes; verbal contracts]; Making & Use of documents [TEXT]

===Financing===

FINANCING
-- Financial structures [bills of exchange; lending; assurance]; Late payments for freight; Legal agreements; Verbal contracts; Debts; Bankruptcy; Currency exchange; Trading profit calculations [TEXT]

===Labour===

LABOUR MARKET
-- Labour market; Where hired; Where left ship; Where wages paid [TEXT]

===Legal===

LEGAL: BASIC
-- Event triggering legal case in High Court of Admiralty [TEXT]
-- Short form case description [TEXT]
-- Folio mark [TEXT]
-- Date of deposition [Modernized English calendar] [TEXT]

LEGAL: ADVANCED
-- Disputes in English law courts or arbitration; Commissions; Protests; Examinations on ships; Examinations on shore [TEXT]
-- Disputes in non-English law courts or arbitration outside England; Includes Inquisition, Embargos, Sequestration, Consuls; Commissions; Foreign Notaries; Protests [TEXT]

LEGAL: CUSTOMARY BEHAVIOUR
-- Customary behaviour in non-English ports [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on River Thames [TEXT]
-- Customary behaviour on high seas; Prize law at sea [TEXT]

LEGAL: NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR
-- Behaviour of mariners on ship; Behaviour of other men and women; Abilities/Skills; Duties; Roles; Consent [TEXT]
-- Reputation and credit worthiness of mariners on ships; tradesmen; merchants [TEXT]

==Linkages between dimensions==
NOTE: one deponent can have multiple linkages to a ship
-- Deponent sailed in ship as one of company (includes pilots and factors) [TAB]
-- Deponent is passenger in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is part-owner of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is freighter of ship [TAB]
-- Deponent had goods in ship [TAB]
-- Deponent is shore based supplier to ship [TAB]

==Sorting the database==

- Use of filters

- Use of sort buttons

- Use of F5 function

[THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT]

==Exercises==

'''1. Using the SOLM-2024 database to analyse trade flows'''

- Example: Brazilian/Portuguese/Mediterranean
- Example: Hamburg/Lisbon-Cadiz/Mediterranean
- Example: English East Mediterranean

'''2. Using the SOLM-2024 database to compare and contrast shipping size and types in different geographies'''

- Question: Size and character of English East Mediterranean English shipping versus English Atlantic shipping
- Question: Size and character of English Atlantic shipping on Newfoundland versus Virginia versus Barbados routes

'''3. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study the roles, duties, and tasks of different occupations'''

- Question: How did people in specific mariner sub-occupations self-describe their office, places, tasks?
- Question: How did people evaluate the performance of others in specific mariner sub-occupations?
- Question: What can be quantified in terms of skill levels and wage levels for different mariner sub-occupations?

'''4. Using the SOLM-2024 database to study predation by galleys in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1H C17th'''

- Question: Where do you find galleys and war ships geographically active in seizing commercial shipping in the 1H C17th [Turkish galleys; galleys of Argiers; galleys of Tunis; galleys of Sally; Spanish galleys; French galleys]

'''5. Using the SOLM-2024 database to look at the use by English mariners of international legal jurisdictions'''

- Question: How can we use the data within SOLM-2024 to identify legal cases in non-English legal jurisdictions invollving English commercial shipping?
- Question: How can we systematically examine the strategies used by mariners and factors to access legal systems and arbitration in non-English jurisdictions?
- Question: What was the role of Consuls and Consular assistance outside England and how did mariners interact with Consuls?

==Providing feedback==

- '''We encourage all our users to provide feedback and to make special requests to us'''

- '''The SOLM-2024 database can improve by being used as much as possible for a wide range of research tasks'''

Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-09T13:52:40Z

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Users Guide to SOLM-2024 database

2024-04-09T13:21:03Z

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