C17th Arctic whaling - Revision history

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-Deposition of Nicholas Parkins, mariner, of Wapping in Stepney, aged 40 (''"cheife Mate and Pylott of the Merchants Adventure of London the voyage in question of which shipp James Golding was Master"'' (HCA 13/71 f.589r)
+Deposition of Nicholas Perkins, mariner, of Wapping in Stepney, aged 40 (''"cheife Mate and Pylott of the Merchants Adventure of London the voyage in question of which shipp James Golding was Master"'' (HCA 13/71 f.589r)
 '''April 1657'''

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-Deposition of Jeramie Joffrey, rope maker, of Ratcliff in Stepney, aged 38
+Deposition of Jeramie Jolley, rope maker, of Ratcliff in Stepney, aged 38
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 Thomas ffrost shipped at thirty nyne shills per
 moneth whereof recd one moneths pay before
-his foeing out & fifteene shills foure pence for cloathes
+his goeing out & fifteene shills foure pence for cloathes
 & was in the ship the time aforesd, soe thre remaines
 in case he had pformed the voiage as he ought to

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 three pounds before he went out & stwo shill and
 two oence upon cloathes so in case he had pformed
-his voiage to Greeneland as he ought tp have done
+his voiage to Greeneland as he ought to have done
 there remaines

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 A deposition dated May 5th 1651 of a fifty year old merchant named Richard Batson is consistent with later depositions for Richard Batson the whaling entrepreneur. This earlier deposition gives his pairsh of residence as "Sain Buttolph Billingsgate London."<ref>[HCA 13/64 P1180708]</ref>
-Larry Gragg (XXXX:99) cites evidence of Richard Batson issuing instructions to Humphrey Kent, in 1641, who was on his way to Barbados to act as his agent (Larry Gragg, Englishmen transplanted: The English colonization of Barbados, 1627-1680 (Oxford, 2003), p. 99)
+Larry Gragg (XXXX:99) cites evidence of Richard Batson issuing instructions to Humphrey Kent, in 1641, who was on his way to Barbados to act as his agent.<ref>Larry Gragg, ''Englishmen transplanted: The English colonization of Barbados, 1627-1680'' (Oxford, 2003), p. 99</ref>
 Brenner suggests that Richard Bateson (sic) was a major player in the Virginia tobacco trade in the late 1630s and early 1640s, in partnership with Samuell Vassall.<ref>Robert Brenner, ''Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653'' (London, 2003, 1st pub. Princeton,  1993),135</ref>

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 In the 1650s he was active in trade with Barabados and with Spitbergen.
-There is also evidence of Richard Batson trading in the East Indies, and having been a subscriber to English East India Company stock in the 1650s (CHECK).
+There is also evidence of Richard Batson trading in the East Indies, and having been a subscriber to English East India Company stock in the 1650s.<ref>[http://XXXXX Electronic link to a digital source]</ref> (CHECK).
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 Larry Gragg (XXXX:99) cites evidence of Richard Batson issuing instructions to Humphrey Kent, in 1641, who was on his way to Barbados to act as his agent (Larry Gragg, Englishmen transplanted: The English colonization of Barbados, 1627-1680 (Oxford, 2003), p. 99)
-Brenner (XXXX:XX) suggests that Richard Bateson (sic) was a major player in the Virginia tobacco trade in the late 1630s and early 1640s, in partnership with Samuell Vassall.
+Brenner suggests that Richard Bateson (sic) was a major player in the Virginia tobacco trade in the late 1630s and early 1640s, in partnership with Samuell Vassall.<ref>Robert Brenner, ''Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653'' (London, 2003, 1st pub. Princeton,  1993),135</ref>
 There are surviving records of Richard Batson's commercial activity from the late 1640s (1648: transport of goods to Barbados, 164X: trading in East Indies).

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 Richard Batson (b. ca. 1601, d. ?1667) was the son of XXXX and XXXX.  He married XXXX in XXXX and had at least one child - Martha Batson, who married John Bendish, son of Sir ?Thomas Bendish.
-The Batson family was connected to Highworth in Wiltshire. A trade token survivies from the mid to later C17th for a Richard batson in Highworth (presumably related to Richard batson of London), and Richard Batson of London's nephew, Thomaas Batson, was buried at Highworth. IS HIGHWORTH MENTIONED IN RB'S WILL?
+The Batson family was connected to Highworth in Wiltshire. A trade token survivies from the mid to later C17th for a Richard Batson in Highworth (presumably related to Richard Batson of London), and Richard Batson of London's nephew, Thomas Batson, was buried at Highworth. IS HIGHWORTH MENTIONED IN RB'S WILL?
 Richard Batson had at least one brother, and was uncle to ?Thomas Batson (of Stepney and ?Barbados), whose will was proven in 1701 (PROB 11/460/78 Will of Thomas Batson of Stepney, Middlesex. 23 April 1701).