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|Person=Samuell Symonds
|First name=Samuell
|Last name=Syonds
|Occupation=Mariner
|Mariner occupation=Quartermaster
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
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|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Ratcliff
|Res parish=Stepney
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1615
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.320v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=May 4 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
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==Biographical synthesis==
Samuell Symonds (b. ca. 1615; d. ?). Mariner.

One of the quartermasters of the ''Levantt frigate'' on voyage to Allicante and the Mediterranean in 1654. Another of the quartermasters of the same ship ws [[John Tyle]].

Resident in 1655 in Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty year old Samuell Symonds deposed on May 4th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.320v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.320v]]</ref> He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Haselgraves in the case of "Andrewes and Clutterbrooke against Haselgraves".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.319v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.319v]]</ref>

The case concerned damage to pepper en route from London to Alicante in the Mediterranean.

Samuell Symonds, the quartermaster, described the loading of thirty bags of pepper in the River Thames, which "were taken in on board the sayd shipp the ''Levant ffrigott'' by take and not by weight out of a boate which brought the same to the ffrigotts side s shee laye neare dicks shoare". The bags were in poor condition when loaded. They were "very wett which was (as hee beleeveth) the only cause why when the sayd ffrigott came to sea divers of the baggs proved rotten and brake".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.319v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.319v]]</ref>

When the bags later burst and started to come up with the ships pump, the crew tried to save the pepper "by setting bread basketts and ballast basketts under the pumps mouth that the pepper might in them be preserved". They then "caused it to be dryed upon the decke and mended the baggs which they found to be rotten with Canvas which was on board the sayd shipp and then put the same pepper which they had preserved at the pumpe and dryed into those baggs they had mended some into one bagg and some into an other". The pepper continued to come up with pumping for a full three weeks after the bags burst.

Symonds claimed that the bags of pepper "all very well stowed above three foote high from the seeleing of the sayd shipp and that divers piggs of lead and donage of bavins upon the lead, laye under the sayd baggs of pepper, and divers perpetuanas and bayes which lay somwhat abaft the sayd pepper laye without eceiving any preiudice by wett neerer a great deale to the seeleing of the shipp then the sayd baggs of pepper did".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.319v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.319v]]</ref>

Before unloading at Alicante the pepper bags had to be repaired "before they were in any fitt capacity to be hoysed over the shipps sides". The freighters factors at Alicante allegedly visited the ship, viewed the stowage of the pepper and found no fault. Instead they "sent canvas aboard to make three or fower new sacks, and the rest there mended with sayles as aforesayd the premisses hee deposeth being Quarter Master and an eye witnesse of them".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.321r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.321r]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 Symonds claimed that the bags of pepper "all very well stowed above three foote high from the seeleing of the sayd shipp and that divers piggs of lead and donage of bavins upon the lead, laye under the sayd baggs of pepper, and divers perpetuanas and bayes which lay somwhat abaft  the sayd pepper laye without eceiving any preiudice by wett neerer a great deale to the seeleing of the shipp then the sayd baggs of pepper did".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.319v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.319v]]</ref>
-Before unloading at Alicante the pepper bags had to be repaired "before they were in any fitt capacity to be hoysed over the shipps sides". The freighters factors at Alicante allegedly visited the ship, viewed the stowage of the pepper and found no fault. Instead they "sent canvas aboard to make three or fower new sacks, and the rest there mended with sayles as aforesayd the premisses hee deposeth being Quarter Master and an eye witnesse of them".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.321r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.321r]]</ref>
+Before unloading at Alicante the pepper bags had to be repaired "before they were in any fitt capacity to be hoysed over the shipps sides". The freighters factors at Alicante allegedly visited the ship, viewed the stowage of the pepper and found no fault. Instead they "sent canvas aboard to make three or fower new sacks, and the rest there mended with sayles as aforesayd the premisses hee deposeth being quarter master and an eye witnesse of them".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.321r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.321r]]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==

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 The case concerned damage to pepper en route from London to Alicante in the Mediterranean.
-Samuell Symonds, the quartermaster, described the loading of thirty bags of pepper in the River Thames, which "were taken in on board the sayd shipp the ''Levant ffrigott'' by take and not by weight out of a boate which brought the same to the ffrigotts side s shee laye neare dicks shoare". The bags were in poor condition when loaded. They were "very wett which was (as hee beleeveth) the only cause why when the sayd ffrigott came to sea divers of the baggs proved rotten and brake".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.319v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.319v]]</ref>
+Samuell Symonds, the quartermaster, described the loading of thirty bags of pepper in the River Thames, which "were taken in on board the sayd shipp the ''Levant ffrigott'' by take and not by weight out of a boate which brought the same to the ffrigotts side as shee laye neare dicks shoare". The bags were in poor condition when loaded. They were "very wett which was (as hee beleeveth) the only cause why when the sayd ffrigott came to sea divers of the baggs proved rotten and brake".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.319v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.319v]]</ref>
 When the bags later burst and started to come up with the ships pump, the crew tried to save the pepper "by setting bread basketts and ballast basketts under the pumps mouth that the pepper might in them be preserved". They then "caused it to be dryed upon the decke and mended the baggs which they found to be rotten with Canvas which was on board the sayd shipp and then put the same pepper which they had preserved at the pumpe and dryed into those baggs they had mended some into one bagg and some into an other". The pepper continued to come up with pumping for a full three weeks after the bags burst.

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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1615
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.320v Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=May 4 1655