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|Person=James Bevan
|First name=James
|Last name=Bevan
|Occupation=Anchorsmith
|Training=Apprentice
|Is apprentice of=Walter Gough
|Citizen=Unknown
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|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Shadwell
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1634
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.419r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Nov 19 1656
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
James Bevan (b. ca. 1634; d. ?). Anchorsmith. Servant of Walter Gough, whose shop was probably in Shadwell

Resident in 1656 in Shadwell.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Twenty-two year old James Bevan deposed on November 19th 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined in the case of "Walter Gough against the shipp the ''Redd Lyon'' alias ''Lyon'' of London and against Edward Bigg and Company."<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.419r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.419r ]]</ref>

James Bevan stated that a Mr Christmas received iron works accordinfg to a schedule presented in Court. These iron works were to be used on the ship the ''Red Lyon'' alias ''Lyon''. The goods were fetched by the servants of Mr Christmas from Walter Gough "at a shopp which was and is belonging to the sayd Christmas and adioyning to the yarde where the sayd Christmas builded the sayd shipp the ''Redd Lyon'' or ''Lyon''. James Bevan helped " to weigh and deliver all the sayd Iron worke and other things schedulate to the sayd Christmas and his servants and six others as hee imployed to fetch the same for the use of the sayd shipp".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.419r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.419r ]]</ref>

It appears that the iron work was made near the site of the ship building and not in Walter Gough's own blacksmith's shop. Bevan said that "the iron worke in question was wrought in a shopp in Rederiff whereof the interrogate Christmas was commonly reputed owner, and that Gough did not dwell there, and what the sayd shopp was worth ˹for the tyme interrogate˺ hee knoweth not".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.419r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.419r]]</ref> Mr Christmas' shop and yard were in Rederiff in Surrey, not Shadwell.<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.420v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.420v]]</ref>

There was a problem with the scales used to weigh the iron. According to Bevan "one tyme scales being uneaven by reason the sayd Christmas this servants had lost an eye of a tackle hooke which was fastened to the scales to make them even the same being discovered and found fault with by the sayd Christmas when one parcell of the iron works in question was about to bee weighted the sayd tackle hooke eye was looked for and not being found an iron ringe was fastened to the scales to make them even instead of the tackle hooke eye aforesaid and then the sayd parcell was weighed and was found good weight."<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.420r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.420r]]</ref>

The iron works delivered were accounted for both by Mr Christmas and his servants and by James Bevan, who kept a score or tally. Bevan stated "the sayd Christmas and his servants and agents who fetched the iron worke in question did keepe an accompt thereof And saith the same was alsoe [?scored] up by this deponent where it was fetched."<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.420r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.420r]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 James Bevan stated that a Mr Christmas received iron works accordinfg to a schedule presented in Court. These iron works were to be used on the ship the ''Red Lyon'' alias ''Lyon''. The goods were fetched by the servants of Mr Christmas from Walter Gough "at a shopp which was and is belonging to the sayd Christmas and adioyning to the yarde where the sayd Christmas builded the sayd shipp the ''Redd Lyon'' or ''Lyon''. James Bevan helped " to weigh and deliver all the sayd Iron worke and other things schedulate to the sayd Christmas and his servants and six others as hee imployed to fetch the same for the use of the sayd shipp".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.419r  Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.419r ]]</ref>
-It appears that the iron work was made near the site of the ship building and not in Walter Gough's own blacksmith's shop. Bevan said that "the iron worke in question was wrought in a shopp in Rederiff whereof the interrogate Christmas was commonly reputed owner, and that Gough did not dwell there, and what the sayd shopp was worth ˹for the tyme interrogate˺ hee knoweth not".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.419r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.419r]]</ref>  Mr Christmas' shop and yard were in Rederiff in Surrey, not Shadwell.<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.420v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.420v]]</ref>
+It appears that the iron work was made near the site of the ship building and not in Walter Gough's own blacksmith's shop. Bevan said that "the iron worke in question was wrought in a shopp in Rederiff whereof the interrogate Christmas was commonly reputed owner, and that Gough did not dwell there, and what the sayd shopp was worth for the tyme interrogate hee knoweth not".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.419r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.419r]]</ref>  Mr Christmas' shop and yard were in Rederiff in Surrey, not Shadwell.<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.420v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.420v]]</ref>
 There was a problem with the scales used to weigh the iron. According to Bevan "one tyme scales being uneaven by reason the sayd Christmas this servants had lost an eye of a tackle hooke which was fastened to the scales to make them even the same being discovered and found fault with by the sayd Christmas when one parcell of the iron works in question was about to bee weighted the sayd tackle hooke eye was looked for and not being found an iron ringe was fastened to the scales to make them even instead of the tackle hooke eye aforesaid and then the sayd parcell was weighed and was found good weight."<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.420r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.420r]]</ref>

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