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|Person=William Wood
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|Res county=Middlesex
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|Birth year=1610
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.486r Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Sep 29 1655
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|Has HCA evidence completed=No
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|Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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==Biographical synthesis==
William Wood (b. ca. 1610; d. ?). Shipwright.

Resident in 1655 in Wapping in Middlesex.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty-five year old William Wood deposed on September 29th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.486r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.486r]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==

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 '''August 1658'''
-Twenty-seven year old Wapping shipwright Marke Cronzy [alt. ?Croney] deposed on August 11th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty.He was examined regarding the ship the ''Pilgrim'' (Master; James Watkins'', which in June 1655 had received a new boltspritt from the mast maker William Wood. Cronzy described himself as then and now a servant and bookkepper of Wood.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.448v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.448v]]</ref>
+Twenty-seven year old Wapping shipwright Marke Cronzy [alt. ?Croney] deposed on August 11th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty.He was examined regarding the ship the ''Pilgrim'' (Master: James Watkins), which in June 1655 had received a new boltspritt from the mast maker William Wood. Cronzy described himself as then and now a servant and bookkepper of Wood.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.448v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.448v]]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==

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 Described himself as a shipwright, but refers in his 1655 Admiralty Court deposition to freighting ships with a partner to import timber from Norway.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.486v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.486v]]</ref>
-Resident in 1650 and in 1655 in Wapping in Middlesex. "Where he hath lived about nine years past" (so since ca. 1646). A Wapping shipwright, Thomas Twinney, mentioned "the yard of William Wood mast maker in Wapping" in a deposition from July 1650.<ref>HCA 13/62 unfol. 131D3300_DSC_0041</ref>
+Resident in 1650 and in 1655 in Wapping in Middlesex, "where he hath lived about nine years past" (so since ca. 1646). A Wapping shipwright, Thomas Twinney, mentioned "the yard of William Wood mast maker in Wapping" in a deposition from July 1650.<ref>HCA 13/62 unfol. 131D3300_DSC_0041</ref>
-His servant and Bookkepper was the Wapping shipwright Mark Cronzy (1655-1658).<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.448v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.448v]]</ref>
+His servant and bookkeper was the Wapping shipwright Mark Cronzy [alt. Croney] (1655-1658).<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.448v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.448v]]</ref> Croney appears in Admiralty and State Paper records from the 1670s and 1680s engaged in naval ship building.
 The will of William Wood of Wapping was proved on November 18th 1678.<ref>PROB 11/358/297 Will of William Wood of Wapping, Middlesex 18 November 1678</ref>

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 Described himself as a shipwright, but refers in his 1655 Admiralty Court deposition to freighting ships with a partner to import timber from Norway.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.486v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.486v]]</ref>
-Resident in 1655 in Wapping in Middlesex. "Where he hath lived about nine years past" (so since ca. 1646).
+Resident in 1650 and in 1655 in Wapping in Middlesex. "Where he hath lived about nine years past" (so since ca. 1646). A Wapping shipwright, Thomas Twinney, mentioned "the yard of William Wood mast maker in Wapping" in a deposition from July 1650.<ref>HCA 13/62 unfol. 131D3300_DSC_0041</ref>
 The will of William Wood of Wapping was proved on November 18th 1678.<ref>PROB 11/358/297 Will of William Wood of Wapping, Middlesex 18 November 1678</ref>
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
 '''September 1655'''
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 Paula Watson in B.D. Henning (1982) identifies William Wood's partner in the interregnum as John Wright, a contractor and shipowner. According to Paula Watson, aided by Sir William Batten, William Wood acquired a virtual monopoly of the supply of ship masts in the early years of the Restoration. In 1670 he entered into partnership with (Sir) Mathew Anderson to build an East Indiaman at Wivenhoe.<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/wood-william-1611-78 'WOOD, William (1611-78), of Wapping Wall, Mdx.' in online version of B.D. Henning (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690(1983)]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==
 '''1678'''
-ADM 106/340/24 Sir William Warren, Sir John Shorter, William Wood and Gregory Haye, Timber Merchants, Wapping. They have hired the Black Cock, Captain Michael Pack, and the King Solomon, Commander Gabriel Morgen, to go to New England to import the masts that have been contracted for. They have protection for the seamen but the ships have been stopped by the Customs at Gravesend because of the general embargo. Asks for a warrant to enable them to sail and for a convoy out of the Soundings to protect them from any enemies. 1678 Nov 6
+ADM 106/340/24 Sir William Warren, Sir John Shorter, William Wood and Gregory Haye, Timber Merchants, Wapping. They have hired the ''Black Cock'', Captain Michael Pack, and the King Solomon, Commander Gabriel Morgen, to go to New England to import the masts that have been contracted for. They have protection for the seamen but the ships have been stopped by the Customs at Gravesend because of the general embargo. Asks for a warrant to enable them to sail and for a convoy out of the Soundings to protect them from any enemies. 1678 Nov 6
-PROB 11/358/297 Will of William Wood of Wapping, Middlesex 18 November 1678
+PROB 11/358/297 Will of William Wood of Wapping, Middlesex 18 November 1678.
 '''Undated'''
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 Although Wood was born in an inland village, he was already a shipwright at the time of his marriage, and was later recommended by Peter Pett as a supplier of masts to the Commonwealth navy. During the Interregnum he was in partnership with John Wright as contractor and shipowner. With the help of Sir William Batten he acquired a virtual monopoly in the early years of the Restoration, so that he was able to ‘set and command his own price’. Although Samuel Pepys succeeded in wresting at least one contract from him, to the benefit of Sir William Warren, he continued to prosper, and was described as ‘very rich’ on the occasion of his son’s marriage in 1666. In 1670 he entered into partnership with (Sir) Matthew Andrews to build an East Indiaman at Wivenhoe.4
-Wood stood for Dunwich at a by-election early in 1671 against Admiral Sir Thomas Allin. When it was objected that he was a stranger in Dunwich his supporters claimed that he had been a freeman since September 1658 and ‘was intimately known to most of the freemen of Dunwich as having done eminent service in managing some of the affairs of the said corporation’. Besides serving ‘three several years’ master of the corporation of shipwrights’, he was also a merchant.
+Wood stood for Dunwich at a by-election early in 1671 against Admiral Sir Thomas Allin. When it was objected that he was a stranger in Dunwich his supporters claimed that he had been a freeman since September 1658 and ‘was intimately known to most of the freemen of Dunwich as having done eminent service in managing some of the affairs of the said corporation’. Besides serving ‘three several years’ master of the corporation of shipwrights’, he was also a merchant of very considerable quality and dealing, and a great encourager of navigation, having freighted thirty sail of ships a year, each to measure at least the burthen of 250 tons. His election was disputed, but he was allowed to sit on 25 Jan. on the merits of the return, and became a moderately active Member of the Cavalier Parliament. He was appointed to 28 committees, most on economic subjects, such as the preservation of naval stores (14 Apr. 1671), and those instructed in 1673 to inquire into the decay of the Muscovy, Eastland and Greenland trades and to give local authorities powers to prevent the spread of fire. On 19 Apr. 1675 during a debate on a motion to recall British subjects in the service of the French King, he desired that a passage in my lord keeper’s speech may be remembered, that Joseph, in time of plenty, provided for famine, and though we are in peace, [he] would think of building ships. On 19 May 1675 he was appointed to the committee on the bill appropriating the customs for the use of the navy. His only other speech was in October, during a debate in committee on building war ships, when he gave some technical information on the size and cost of various rates. His name appeared on the working lists and on Wiseman’s account of government supporters. As a Middlesex j.p. he was active against conventicles, and he was also much concerned about the danger from fire in the metropolitan area. In the 1677 session, he was marked ‘doubly vile’ on Shaftesbury’s list, and appointed to the committee on the bill for the recall of British subjects from the French service. The Admiralty suggested that he and Wright with other ‘eminent merchant-builders’ should be consulted about the practicability of maintaining the separate account for the building of the 30 new warships, on which Parliament had insisted. The ledger that was accordingly kept shows payments of £940 to him between September 1677 and his death. In A Seasonable Argument, he was described as ‘master of the King’s dock, his shipwright, and a violent man for taxes’, and his name appeared on both lists of the court party in 1678. His last committee was on the bill for fixing the measurements of colliers on 3 June, and he was buried at Wapping on 11 Nov. Nothing further is known of his family, although his son continued to receive substantial payments from the treasurer of the navy during 1679.5
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 of very considerable quality and dealing, and a great encourager of navigation, having freighted thirty sail of ships a year, each to measure at least the burthen of 250 tons.
 His election was disputed, but he was allowed to sit on 25 Jan. on the merits of the return, and became a moderately active Member of the Cavalier Parliament. He was appointed to 28 committees, most on economic subjects, such as the preservation of naval stores (14 Apr. 1671), and those instructed in 1673 to inquire into the decay of the Muscovy, Eastland and Greenland trades and to give local authorities powers to prevent the spread of fire. On 19 Apr. 1675 during a debate on a motion to recall British subjects in the service of the French King, he desired
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 that a passage in my lord keeper’s speech may be remembered, that Joseph, in time of plenty, provided for famine, and though we are in peace, [he] would think of building ships.
 On 19 May 1675 he was appointed to the committee on the bill appropriating the customs for the use of the navy. His only other speech was in October, during a debate in committee on building war ships, when he gave some technical information on the size and cost of various rates. His name appeared on the working lists and on Wiseman’s account of government supporters. As a Middlesex j.p. he was active against conventicles, and he was also much concerned about the danger from fire in the metropolitan area. In the 1677 session, he was marked ‘doubly vile’ on Shaftesbury’s list, and appointed to the committee on the bill for the recall of British subjects from the French service. The Admiralty suggested that he and Wright with other ‘eminent merchant-builders’ should be consulted about the practicability of maintaining the separate account for the building of the 30 new warships, on which Parliament had insisted. The ledger that was accordingly kept shows payments of £940 to him between September 1677 and his death. In A Seasonable Argument, he was described as ‘master of the King’s dock, his shipwright, and a violent man for taxes’, and his name appeared on both lists of the court party in 1678. His last committee was on the bill for fixing the measurements of colliers on 3 June, and he was buried at Wapping on 11 Nov. Nothing further is known of his family, although his son continued to receive substantial payments from the treasurer of the navy during 1679.5
 Ref Volumes: 1660-1690

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 ==Comment on sources==
 '''1678'''
 PROB 11/358/297 Will of William Wood of Wapping, Middlesex 18 November 1678

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 |Death year=1678
 |Probate date=November 18, 1678
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.486r Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Sep 29 1655
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 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
 Forty-five year old William Wood deposed on September 29th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.486r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.486r]]</ref>

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 |Res county=Middlesex
 |Res country=England
-|Birth year=1610
+|Birth year=1611
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.486r Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Sep 29 1655

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 |Has HCA evidence completed=No
 |Has source comment completed=No
 |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
 }}
 ==Biographical synthesis==
-William Wood (b. ca. 1610; d. ?). Shipwright.
+William Wood (b. 1611; d. 1678). Shipwright.
-Resident in 1655 in Wapping in Middlesex.
+Described himself as a shipwright, but refers in his 1655 Admiralty Court deposition to freighting ships with a partner to import timber from Norway.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.486v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.486v]]</ref>
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
 Forty-five year old William Wood deposed on September 29th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.486r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.486r]]</ref>
 ==Comment on sources==

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 |Has opening text=William Wood
 |Has signoff text=William Wood
-|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
+|Transcription image={{#transcription-image:  }}
 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res street=Wapping
 |Res county=Middlesex
 |Res country=England