http://www.marinelives.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=James_Higgs 2026-06-25T05:02:35Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.25alpha http://www.marinelives.org/index.php?title=James_Higgs&diff=116018&oldid=prev 2016-10-23T22:07:17Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{Banner}} {{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree |Person=James Higgs |First name=James |Last name=Higgs |Occupation=Woodmonger |Training=Not apprentice |Citizen=Unknown |Literacy=Marke |Ha...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Banner}}<br /> {{SemBioLongInfoBoxThree<br /> |Person=James Higgs<br /> |First name=James<br /> |Last name=Higgs<br /> |Occupation=Woodmonger<br /> |Training=Not apprentice<br /> |Citizen=Unknown<br /> |Literacy=Marke<br /> |Has opening text=James Higgs<br /> |Has signoff text=IH<br /> |Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}<br /> |Language skills=English language,<br /> |Res parish=Saint Botolph Billingsgate<br /> |Res town=London<br /> |Res country=England<br /> |Birth year=1612<br /> |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/72 f.122r Annotate,<br /> |Deposition date(s)=Sep 28 1657<br /> |Has infobox completed=Yes<br /> |Has synthesis completed=No<br /> |Has HCA evidence completed=No<br /> |Has source comment completed=No<br /> |Type of ship=Shore based<br /> |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None<br /> }}<br /> ==Biographical synthesis==<br /> James Higgs (b. ca. 1612; d. ?). Woodmonger.<br /> <br /> &quot;Liveth by his place of a cole meter&quot;. &quot;This deponent who was then one of the citie meters&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;[[HCA 13/72 f.122r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.122r]]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> Resident in 1657 in the parish of Saint Botolph Billingsgate.<br /> <br /> ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==<br /> Forty-five year old James Higgs deposed on September 28th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel in the case of &quot;Butler against the ''Comfort'' and against Addams and Company&quot;.&lt;ref&gt;[[HCA 13/72 f.122r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.122r]]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> James Higg stated that in November 1651 the ship the ''Comfort'' (Master: Edmund Morgan) arrived from Newcastle with a lading of coals. The coals were sold by Morgan in London and Higgs recollected that &quot;her lading of coales brought that voyage from Newcastle amounted to two hundred chaldrons or thereabouts of this cities measure, this deponent seeing the measuring thereof.&quot; The measurement of the coals happened between Ratcliff and Wapping, where the ship rode at anchor. Higg reported that Morgan received &quot;the summe of fourtie pounds or thereabouts in money for part of the coales, at one payment, and severall other smaller summes for smaller parcells that were sold at the shipps side and the money there received.&quot;&lt;ref&gt;[[HCA 13/72 f.122r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.122r]]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Comment on sources==</div>

ColinGreenstreet