John Prestman - Revision history

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|Person=John Prestman
|First name=John
|Last name=Prestman
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Master
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Has opening text=John Prestman
|Has signoff text=John Prestman
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1617
|First deposition age=38
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.61v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Feb 14 1655
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
|Type of ship=Merchant ship
|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
John Prestman (b. ca. 1617; d. ?). Mariner.

Master of ships for the past sixteen years ("Hee hath used sea faring for all the fore said time, and hath bin a master of shipps and used the southerne voyages for theise sixteen yeares last past"<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.62r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.62r]]</ref>

Resident in 1655 in Wapping.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Thirty-eight year old John Prestman deposed on February 14th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel in the case of "Pope Burges and Houghton against Orton".

John Prestman was asked to comment solely on practises regarding the pay and conditions of chirurgeons aboard merchant ships.

Prestman observed "as touching the custome of the chyrurgeons not being bound to applie any medicaments or physic to any of the shipps company for sicknesse or hurt happened unto them after the shipps retourne to Gravesend unlesse they pay for the same themselves. hee saith hee cannot speake knowingly thereof, but beleeveth that there is such a custome here practised".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.62r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.62r]]</ref>

The pay of chirurgeons was handled differently from that of othe mariners. Prestman was clear that "Chirurgeons lawfully may and usually doe leave the shipps after and upon their retourne to Gravesend, by the foresaid custome, and are not bound to continue any longer aboard, being from that time out of pay, but the rest of the company of any ship or shipps are obliged to continue aboard until the shipps coming to an anchor and her being moored, if the master soe require them, and until the said master dismisse them, and until that time they are in pay".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.62r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.62r]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 Prestman observed "as touching the custome of the chyrurgeons not being bound to applie any medicaments or physic to any of the shipps company for sicknesse or hurt happened unto them after the shipps retourne to Gravesend unlesse they pay for the same themselves. hee saith hee cannot speake knowingly thereof, but beleeveth that there is such a custome here practised".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.62r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.62r]]</ref>
-The pay of chirurgeons was handled differently from that of othe mariners. Prestman was clear that "Chirurgeons lawfully may and usually doe leave the shipps after and upon their retourne to Gravesend, by the foresaid custome, and are not bound to continue any longer aboard, being from that time out of pay, but the rest of the company of any ship or shipps are obliged to continue aboard until the shipps coming to an anchor and her being moored, if the master soe require them, and until the said master dismisse them, and until that time they are in pay".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.62r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.62r]]</ref>
+The pay of chirurgeons was handled differently from that of other mariners. Prestman was clear that "Chirurgeons lawfully may and usually doe leave the shipps after and upon their retourne to Gravesend, by the foresaid custome, and are not bound to continue any longer aboard, being from that time out of pay, but the rest of the company of any ship or shipps are obliged to continue aboard until the shipps coming to an anchor and her being moored, if the master soe require them, and until the said master dismisse them, and until that time they are in pay".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.62r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.62r]]</ref>
 An earlier deposition in the High Court of Admiralty on July 17th 1651 by [[Alexander Robinson]], master's mate of the ship the ''Garland'' of London, identifies John Prestman as master of that ship. Robinson was examined on interrogatories "On the behalfe of George Clarke}

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	The pay of chirurgeons was handled differently from that of othe mariners. Prestman was clear that "Chirurgeons lawfully may and usually doe leave the shipps after and upon their retourne to Gravesend, by the foresaid custome, and are not bound to continue any longer aboard, being from that time out of pay, but the rest of the company of any ship or shipps are obliged to continue aboard until the shipps coming to an anchor and her being moored, if the master soe require them, and until the said master dismisse them, and until that time they are in pay".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.62r Annotate\|HCA 13/70 f.62r]]</ref>		The pay of chirurgeons was handled differently from that of othe mariners. Prestman was clear that "Chirurgeons lawfully may and usually doe leave the shipps after and upon their retourne to Gravesend, by the foresaid custome, and are not bound to continue any longer aboard, being from that time out of pay, but the rest of the company of any ship or shipps are obliged to continue aboard until the shipps coming to an anchor and her being moored, if the master soe require them, and until the said master dismisse them, and until that time they are in pay".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.62r Annotate\|HCA 13/70 f.62r]]</ref>
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		+	An earlier deposition in the High Court of Admiralty on July 17th 1651 by [[Alexander Robinson]], master's mate of the ship the ''Garland'' of London, identifies John Prestman as master of that ship. Robinson was examined on interrogatories "On the behalfe of George Clarke}
		+	of London merchant concerneing a losse in the shipp ''Garland'' of London. The ship sailed from London bound for Dublin in Ireland in June 1651.<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.24v Annotate\|HCA 13/65 f.24v]]</ref> However, the ship was surprised off the Isle of Wight by a Jersey man of war ad carried to Jersey.<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.25r Annotate\|HCA 13/65 f.25r]]</ref>

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 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res street=Wapping