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 See [[MRP: Admiralty court cases|Admiralty court cases]]
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 ===The Constant Ruth (1652)===
-*  "The ''Constant Ruth'' in 1652 lost 90 slaves out of 207; 2 the ''Fortune'' (in the Royal Africa Company's service) 132 out of 320..."<ref>Ralph Davis, ''The rise of the English shipping industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'' (XXXX, 1962), p. 294</ref>
+*  "The ''Constant Ruth'' in 1652 lost 90 slaves out of 207; the ''Fortune'' (in the Royal Africa Company's service) 132 out of 320..."<ref>Ralph Davis, ''The rise of the English shipping industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'' (XXXX, 1962), p. 294</ref>
 *  "[1653.] 1 & 28 November.  Deposition by John Langley of Wapping, Middlesex, mariner, aged 34, made for plaintiff Thomas Halsey against Samuel Bursfield, garnishee of the goods of Joane Haward, relict and executrix of George Haward, that he was Master of the ''John & Mary'' which was in Barbados in April 1653 with the ''Constant Ruth'' and both were loaded by George Haward.  Edward Cranedge of Limehouse, Middlesex, mariner, aged 21, deposes similarly. (MCSD 4)."<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: . 1607-1660'' (XXXX, 1987), p. 267</ref>
 *  "In 1652, an English vessel, ''Constant Ruth'', purchased 216 slaves in "the River [Curamo]" and sailed with them to Barbados, the first documented European shipment of slaves from the immediate vivinity of the town.  European traders would not visit Lagos regularly until after the 1760s, however, and it would not become as large or important as Offra, Apa, Glehue, Jakin, and other ports farther west on the Slave Coast until even later."<ref>Kristin Mann, ''Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900'' (Indiana, 2007), p. 31; see also Kristin Mann, Edna G. Bay (eds.), ''Edna G. Bay), ''Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil'' (XXXX, XXXX)</ref>

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	* "[1653.] 1 & 28 November. Deposition by John Langley of Wapping, Middlesex, mariner, aged 34, made for plaintiff Thomas Halsey against Samuel Bursfield, garnishee of the goods of Joane Haward, relict and executrix of George Haward, that he was Master of the ''John & Mary'' which was in Barbados in April 1653 with the ''Constant Ruth'' and both were loaded by George Haward. Edward Cranedge of Limehouse, Middlesex, mariner, aged 21, deposes similarly. (MCSD 4)."<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: . 1607-1660'' (XXXX, 1987), p. 267</ref>		* "[1653.] 1 & 28 November. Deposition by John Langley of Wapping, Middlesex, mariner, aged 34, made for plaintiff Thomas Halsey against Samuel Bursfield, garnishee of the goods of Joane Haward, relict and executrix of George Haward, that he was Master of the ''John & Mary'' which was in Barbados in April 1653 with the ''Constant Ruth'' and both were loaded by George Haward. Edward Cranedge of Limehouse, Middlesex, mariner, aged 21, deposes similarly. (MCSD 4)."<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: . 1607-1660'' (XXXX, 1987), p. 267</ref>

−	* "In 1652, an English vessel, ''Constant Ruth'', purchased 216 slaves in ''the River [Curamo]" and sailed with them to Barbados, the first documented European shipment of slaves from the immediate vivinity of the town. European traders would not visit Lagos regularly until after the 1760s, however, and it would not become as large or important as Offra, Apa, Glehue, Jakin, and other ports farther west on the Slave Coast until even later."<ref>Kristin Mann, ''Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900'' (Indiana, 2007), p. 31; see also Kristin Mann, Edna G. Bay (eds.), ''Edna G. Bay), ''Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil'' (XXXX, XXXX)</ref>	+	* "In 1652, an English vessel, ''Constant Ruth'', purchased 216 slaves in "the River [Curamo]" and sailed with them to Barbados, the first documented European shipment of slaves from the immediate vivinity of the town. European traders would not visit Lagos regularly until after the 1760s, however, and it would not become as large or important as Offra, Apa, Glehue, Jakin, and other ports farther west on the Slave Coast until even later."<ref>Kristin Mann, ''Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900'' (Indiana, 2007), p. 31; see also Kristin Mann, Edna G. Bay (eds.), ''Edna G. Bay), ''Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil'' (XXXX, XXXX)</ref>

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	* "The ''Constant Ruth'' in 1652 lost 90 slaves out of 207; 2 the ''Fortune'' (in the Royal Africa Company's service) 132 out of 320..."<ref>Ralph Davis, ''The rise of the English shipping industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'' (XXXX, 1962), p. 294</ref>		* "The ''Constant Ruth'' in 1652 lost 90 slaves out of 207; 2 the ''Fortune'' (in the Royal Africa Company's service) 132 out of 320..."<ref>Ralph Davis, ''The rise of the English shipping industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'' (XXXX, 1962), p. 294</ref>
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		+	* "[1653.] 1 & 28 November. Deposition by John Langley of Wapping, Middlesex, mariner, aged 34, made for plaintiff Thomas Halsey against Samuel Bursfield, garnishee of the goods of Joane Haward, relict and executrix of George Haward, that he was Master of the ''John & Mary'' which was in Barbados in April 1653 with the ''Constant Ruth'' and both were loaded by George Haward. Edward Cranedge of Limehouse, Middlesex, mariner, aged 21, deposes similarly. (MCSD 4)."<ref>Peter Wilson Coldham, ''The Complete Book of Emigrants: . 1607-1660'' (XXXX, 1987), p. 267</ref>
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		+	* "In 1652, an English vessel, ''Constant Ruth'', purchased 216 slaves in ''the River [Curamo]" and sailed with them to Barbados, the first documented European shipment of slaves from the immediate vivinity of the town. European traders would not visit Lagos regularly until after the 1760s, however, and it would not become as large or important as Offra, Apa, Glehue, Jakin, and other ports farther west on the Slave Coast until even later."<ref>Kristin Mann, ''Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900'' (Indiana, 2007), p. 31; see also Kristin Mann, Edna G. Bay (eds.), ''Edna G. Bay), ''Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil'' (XXXX, XXXX)</ref>

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 neere the Shoreside the ground is there suncke and filled w:th mudd soyle and slime in divers places thereof about kneedeepe. But alsoe to
 the Inhabitants there whohaveing wharffes abd parte of theire habitations bordering uppon the River of Thames are often times destroyed
-and pulled downe thereby  without any satisfaction given, but onely reproachfull speeches.  And that the said ?Billenders[[FootNote(Billender.  Billenders appear in CSPD in the early & mid-C17th.  A Swedish secondary source dating from 1768 shows an illustration of a billender as a two masted ship with a ?lanteene sail mounted on the lower part of the rear mast. [http://www.sjohistoriska.se/sv/Fordjupning/Marketstore/Ritning/?msobjid=0014569 Sammanställning av fartygstyper av Fredrik Henric af Chapman som beskrivs i planschverket "Architectura Navalis Mercatoria" (XXXX, 1768), viewed 16/05/12]]] keeping ffire in
+and pulled downe thereby  without any satisfaction given, but onely reproachfull speeches.  And that the said ?Billenders<ref>Billender.  Billenders appear in CSPD in the early & mid-C17th.  A Swedish secondary source dating from 1768 shows an illustration of a billender as a two masted ship with a ?lanteene sail mounted on the lower part of the rear mast. [http://www.sjohistoriska.se/sv/Fordjupning/Marketstore/Ritning/?msobjid=0014569 Sammanställning av fartygstyper av Fredrik Henric af Chapman som beskrivs i planschverket "Architectura Navalis Mercatoria" (XXXX, 1768), viewed 16/05/12]</ref> keeping ffire in
 theire said vessells night and day if any mischance by ffire should happen in theire vessells rideing soe neere the shoare (as God forbidd)
 the same may tend to the utter ruineing of the said Premisses. And likewise that it is theire constant custome especially on the Lords dayes

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 Contains folded paper documents, without ties or other bundling techniques, though the documents are in loose bundles
 On inspection it appears that the papers are in jumbled date order and that the "bundles" are illusory
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