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Timber trade

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05/01/13: CSG, created page

Purpose of page

The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.

Reference is made to the purchase and transport of timber in a number of HCA 13/71 cases and depositions.

All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.

• At which ports was timber collected?
• To which ports was timber transported?
• What can we learn about types of timber in demand from customers and for what uses?

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Cases in HCA 13/71 mentioning timber

Timber from Riga for London in the Saint John Baptist, owned by Luke Lucie

The Saint John Baptist was seized by an English ship between Calais and the Goodwin sands. It was bound, supposedly, for London, having taken on a cargo of clapboards and other wood at Riga.

Its crew was of mixed statehood. The master, Broeder Backson, was a Holsteiner ("Holsteinland"), and the bulk of the twelve man crew were Swedes and "Eastlingers," with just three English sailors.

• "19. To the second hee saith shee tooke in her present lading of clapboards GUTTER

20. and other wood at Riga about five weekes since, and at the time GUTTER
21. report was aboard, shee was bound and intended for this port to
22. discharge, but they were to say they were bound for Rochell, whXXX GUTTER
23. to avoide Ostenders, and this deponent was shipped for Rochell
24. and saith hee hath not said nor heard the master or any of the company
25. say that shee was bound for Ostend or any other port in fflanders
26. or intended to goe thither. And otherwise hee cannot depose."

- HCA 13/71 f.298v Case: The Lord Protector against the shipp the Saint John Baptist (and her lading) BrXXXX Baxton Master ; Deposition: 4. Gerrit Johnson of dantzik Mariner, aged 28 yeeres (The marke of "Gerrit Johnson" at end of deposition) ; Date: 10/07/1656 ("same day"). Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet.^[2]

Clapboards and wainscots from Danzig to London in the ffortune

The Dantsicke sailor Jurian Maes provided detail in his testimony of the stowing of a cargo of clapboard and wainscot, which has been lade in tiers, with mats between the wood

• "21. To the third hee saith that the wood ˹namely the clapboard and wainscot were˺ laid and stowed upon the

22. said matts over the wood and then mattes very carefully laid over the said
23. pack goods againe, whereby they were sufficiently and well dennaged and
24. found against dammage, which they would undoubtedly have avoided
25. had it not bin for the said extraordinary fowle weather."

1. ↑ Electronic link to a digital source
2. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.298v
3. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.51r