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	102. v. Certificate of William Barrett, comptroller and collector of customs at Yarmouth, that Thomas Horth had paid the subsidy and impost for 130 tons of Greenland train oil in the Relief, of Ipswich, Thomas Cleecher, master, and is to be suffered to pass to London. 4th March 1637 [i.e., 1637–8, sed qu. 1636–7.] [Attested copy. ½ p.]"<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52735 John Bruce (ed.), CSPD, 1637, 'Charles I - volume 354: April 15-30, 1637', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1637 (1868), pp. 1-49], viewed 27 January 2013</ref>		102. v. Certificate of William Barrett, comptroller and collector of customs at Yarmouth, that Thomas Horth had paid the subsidy and impost for 130 tons of Greenland train oil in the Relief, of Ipswich, Thomas Cleecher, master, and is to be suffered to pass to London. 4th March 1637 [i.e., 1637–8, sed qu. 1636–7.] [Attested copy. ½ p.]"<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52735 John Bruce (ed.), CSPD, 1637, 'Charles I - volume 354: April 15-30, 1637', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1637 (1868), pp. 1-49], viewed 27 January 2013</ref>
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		+	===Whale oil/Train Oil===
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		+	* Importing Whale Oil, &c.
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		+	"Die Martis, Decembris 3, 1644.
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		+	PRAYERS.THE humble Petition of the Fellowship of English Merchants, for Discovery of new Trades, desiring, That the Importation of Whale Oil, and Whale Fins, from any Parts beyond Seas, except from Greenland, might be prohibited, was this Day read; and ordered to be referred to the Consideration of the Committee for the Navy: And all the Burgesses of the Out Ports are added to this Committee, as to this Business."
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		+	('House of Commons Journal Volume 3: 3 December 1644', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 3: 1643-1644 (1802), pp. 712-713. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=11164 Date accessed: 31 January 2013.)
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		+	"Ordinance about the Importation of Train Oil.
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		+	The Ordinance for prohibiting Train Oil to be brought in by Strangers, was read the Third Time, and Agreed to.
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		+	(Here enter it.)
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		+	"An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for freeing and discharging the Vintners from any Demand, for or concerning any Delinquency, concerning the Imposition of Forty Shillings per Tun on Wines, or any Thing concerning the same, except the Persons herein."
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		+	"Ordinance to prevent the Importation of Train Oil, &c. by Foreigners.
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		+	"The Lords and Commons assembled in the High Court of Parliament of England, taking into Consideration that nothing more enricheth this Kingdom than Commerce, whereby the Navigation thereof is much increased, especially in Fishing Voyages, and therefore ought to be encouraged; upon the humble Petition presented from the Fellowship of Merchants of England for Discovery of new Trades, Adventurers to Greenland; shewing, That they were the First Discoverers of that Country, and, for many Years successively, have maintained the Fishing there, which hath been a great Increase of many Seamen and many Ships Yearly employed, to the great Benefit of this Kingdom; but of late Years have been much prejudiced, for that great Quantities of Whale Oil of Strangers Fishing are permitted to be imported into this Kingdom, more than it can spend; by Means whereof, the said Petitioners, and others His Majesty's Subjects trading thither, have not Vent for theirs, which, without some speedy Prevention, will disable them from continuing their Fishings into those Parts, to the Hazard of the Loss of that Country unto Strangers (so long desired by them), being Subjects to the Crown of England; and likewise taking into Consideration, that, in other Kingdoms and States, the Importation of Whale Oil and Fins are not permitted to any but the Subjects of those Kingdoms and States of their own Fishing; do therefore Order and Ordain, That no Whale Oil nor Fins, nor Gills, commonly called Whale Bone, either Wrought or Unwrought, shall hereafter be imported into any Port, Haven, or Creek, of this Kingdom, from any Foreign Parts whatsoever, other than what are immediately fished in Greenland by the Subjects of this Kingdom, and in Ships set out from hence, under Penalty of Confiscation; and all Customers, Comptrollers, Searchers, Waiters, and all other Officers, in their several and respective Places, are hereby required to attend the due Execution thereof, and not to permit or suffer any Whale Oil, nor Fins, nor Gills, as aforesaid, to be imported into this Kingdom, or colourably customed for any other Goods or Merchandize; but that they do forthwith seize and take the same into their Custody, One Moiety for the Use and Benefit of the State, and the other Moiety for the said Fellowship, towards their Charges; and all Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Bailiffs, Sheriffs, Constables, Headboroughs, and all other His Majesty's Officers, in their several and respective Places, are hereby commanded and required to be aiding and assisting therein, as they will answer the contrary at their Perils."
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		+	('House of Lords Journal Volume 7: 6 May 1645', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 7: 1644 (1767-1830), pp. 354-356. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33302 Date accessed: 31 January 2013)
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		+	"Thursday, the 12th of October, 1654.
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		+	Prayers.
		+	Whale Fishery.
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		+	RESOLVED, by the Parliament, That it be referred to a Committee, to call before them the Company of Greenland and Eastland Merchants; and thereupon to consider how and in what Manner there may be a present Supply of Whale Oil for this Nation; and how the Trade of Fishing for Whales may be regulated for the Advantage of the Commonwealth; and report their Opinion.
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		+	Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee, to whom the Business for Transportation of Cor And Mr. Lilburne, Lord Commissioner Widdrington, Alderman Richards, Sir Henry Vane, Lord Lambert, Mr. John Ash, Mr. Beale, Mr. Tho. Gorges, Mr. Minors, Mr. Wm. Lister, Commissary General Whaley, Colonel John Birch, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Brandlin, Captain Howard, Mr. Long, Mr. Dun, Mr. Goff, Mr. R. Cheshire, Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper, Mr. Grove, Mr. Wakering, Mr. Thelwall, Colonel Wastell, Sir Charles Wolsley, Lord Broghill, Alderman Dickenson, be added to that Committee: And they are to meet upon this Business this Afternoon, at Two of the Clock, in the same Place where they sat."
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		+	('House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 12 October 1654', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 375-376. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24367 Date accessed: 31 January 2013.)
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		+	"Friday, the 25th of November, 1653.
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		+	Excise.
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		+	Captain Stone reports from the Committee to whom the same was referred, The List of all Rates of Excise, on Commodities of Inland Making or Growth:
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		+	For all Linseed-Oil, Whale-Oil, Blubber-Oil, Rape-Oil, Pilchard-Oil, and all other Oils within this Commonwealth, upon every Barrel, to be paid by the Maker 5s 0d"
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		+	('House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 25 November 1653', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 356-358. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24320 Date accessed: 31 January 2013. )
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		+	"September 9-16, 1666.
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		+	Sept. 9.
		+	Plymouth., 1666.
		+	7. Sir Jo. Skelton to Williamson. '''The Constant Warwick and Victory have brought in three French ships from Greenland, laden with whale oil,''' and one Dane laden with brandy; also five merchantmen from Lisbon, and two from Scanderoon," laden with galls and silks.
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		+	('Charles II - volume 171: September 9-16, 1666', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1666-7 (1864), pp. 108-133. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=54869 Date accessed: 31 January 2013)
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		+	"Martis, 10 die Januarii; 4° Gulielmi et Mariæ. 1693
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		+	Greenland Trade.
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		+	A Petition of Sir William Scawen, and others, touching the Greenland Trade of Fishing, was read; setting forth, That the Trade to Greenland for Whale Fishing hath formerly been very beneficial to this Kingdom, not only for the great Quantities of Whalebone and Oil which hath been imported from thence; but also a Nursery for Seamen, and the Expence of Provisions for victualing the Ships: That the said Trade, for many Years past, having been wholly lost to this Nation, and engrossed by Foreign Nations, some London Merchants, about Twenty Years ago, did attempt to regain the said Trade; and, for their Encouragement therein, an Act was passed in the Twenty-fifth Car. IIdi, whereby it was Enacted (inter alia), That it should be lawful for any Vessel belonging to England (whereof the Master should be an Englishman, employed for the Catching of Whales, till the Twenty-fifth March 1683,) to be navigated with One Moiety of the Mariners only English; and yet to pay no other Custom for the Oil Blubber or Fins, than if the Ships had been navigated with Three-fourths of the Mariners English: That, during the Continuance of the said Act, several Merchants did, on their separate Accounts, fit out divers Ships; and some small Quantities of Whalebone and Oil were imported, and the Foreign Markets kept at reasonable Rates; but those Merchants, meeting with many Losses and Difficulties, were wholly discouraged and disabled to proceed therein; and could never bring the said Trade to any Perfection: That, since the Year 1683, when the said Act expired, there hath not been one Ship sent from England to Greenland; so that Whalebone, which, about 1683, was sold at Sixty Pounds per Ton, is now sold for Four hundred Pounds the Ton; whereby Holland and Hamburgh draw out of this Kingdom above One hundred thousand Pounds for Whalebone and Whale Oil: That, it being now impossible to regain the said Trade otherwise than by a joint Stock, the Petitioners have agreed and, undertaken to raise a joint Stock of Forty thousand Pounds, to be wholly employed in the said Trade: And praying Leave to bring in a Bill for incorporating the Petitioners, and granting to them the sole Privilege of navigating such Ships as shall be employed in the Greenland Trade; and that the House would take the same into Consideration.
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		+	Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Petition be referred to a Committee: And that they do prepare and bring in a Bill for encouraging the Greenland Trade of Fishing.
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		+	And it is referred to Sir Sam. Bernardiston, Sir Richard Onslow, Sir Math. Andrews, Mr. Burrard, Serjeant Tremaine, Mr. Mountague, Mr. Scobell, Sir Edward Abney, Mr. Onslow, Sir Edward Seymour, Sir Tho. Clarges, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Waller, Mr. Blowfield, Mr. Pitts, Sir Robert Rich, Mr. Colson, Sir Rich. Temple, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Piggott, Mr. Baile, Mr. Sandford, Mr. Cook, Mr. Papillion, Mr. England, Mr. Hutchinson, Sir Sam. Dashwood, Sir Stephen Evans, Colonel Perry, Sir John Moreton, Mr. Stokes, Sir John Dorrell, Sir John Key; and all the Merchants of the House: And they are to meet this Afternoon at Four a Clock, in the Speaker's Chamber."
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		+	('House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 10 January 1693', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 10: 1688-1693 (1802), pp. 773-774. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=29284 Date accessed: 31 January 2013. )

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 '''John Barefoote'''
-- Alexander Barefoote, cooper, mentioned in Edmund halley's personal answers to a libell given in on the behalfe of Captain William Thomas
+- Alexander Barefoote, cooper, mentioned in Edmund Halley's personal answers to a libell given in on the behalfe of Captain William Thomas
 "''and thereupon Alexander Barefoote

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 - Alexander Barefoote, cooper, mentioned in Edmund halley's personal answers to a libell given in on the behalfe of Captain William Thomas
- "''and thereupon Alexander Barefoote
+"''and thereupon Alexander Barefoote
 Cooper to ye sd goods for preservacon of them hyred warehouse
 =roome for twenty tonns or thereabouts of ye said Oyles''"

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 - Alexander Barefoote, cooper, mentioned in Edmund halley's personal answers to a libell given in on the behalfe of Captain William Thomas
-"''and thereupon Alexander Barefoote
+ "''and thereupon Alexander Barefoote
 Cooper to ye sd goods for preservacon of them hyred warehouse
 =roome for twenty tonns or thereabouts of ye said Oyles''"

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 '''John Barefoote'''
-- Alexander Barefoote, cooper, mentioned in Edmund halley's personal answers to a libell given in on the behalfe of Captain William Thomas (HCA 13/128 no fol. nos.)
+- Alexander Barefoote, cooper, mentioned in Edmund halley's personal answers to a libell given in on the behalfe of Captain William Thomas
 John BelX

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 John Andrewes
 William Baker
 John Barefoote
 John BelX
 Nathaniel BirXe

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 Chesley W. Sanger, 'The Origins of British Whaling: Pre-1750 English and Scottish Involvement in the Northern Whale Fisheryy' in ''The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord'', V, No. 3 (July 1995), 15-32
 - http://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol05/tnm_5_3_15-32.pdf, viewed 27/11/13
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 Roger CXXXXX
-'''Thomas Damerell'''
+<u>'''Thomas Damerell'''</u>
 - PROB 11/160/460: Will of James Damerell, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex; 24 October 1631

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 John Gage
 William Goddwin
 <u>Edward Goslyn</u>
-<u>James Goulding</u>
+<u>'''Edward Goslyn'''</u>
 John Hamond
 John Han?eson

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 Edward Lee
 Richard Littlefeild
 <u>Richard Mandry</u>
 Richard Mann