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Cacoa nuts ("six sacks of cacoa nuts" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Callicos ("having aboard her a quantitie of marchandizes consisting in XX cottons and callicos XX XXX XXX factor XXX account taken aboard her on the coast of Cormandel was carrying XX XXX for Bantam for w:ch place the said goods were XXXX and were provided XXXXX to be ther XXXXXX" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Canary wines ("Clayme of Thomas Cowling for Canary Wines taken in the S:t Laurence Peter (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Cande ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Candy
Caracca hydes ("the sd 54 Caracca hydes and y:e said Chest of Tortoise shells" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
?Carra nuts ("six sacks of Carra ?Nuts" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Casalignum
Casialignum ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Cazarra hydes ("y:e foresd ffour & ffifty Cazarra hydes" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Coales ("whether hee doth not well know that the Shipp the Swanne of which the said Absolon was master commeing from Newcastle upon or about the seaventeenth of may last 1660 about 10 or 11 of the clock in the morneing sett saile from or neare Newcastle with her ladeing of coales" (HCA 23/19, no f.); "whither the said Robert Oyle did not cause a great quantity of the said Coales to bee kept aboard the said Shippe, and did hee not cause some of them to bee hidden under the said Shipps ballast, and others of them in barrells and Tubbs, and whither the Coals soe kept aboard the said shippe as aforesaid were not carried away in the said shippe at her departure from Tangier, and were they not burned in the said Shippes Cook-Roome dureing her voyage into the Straights and from thence home to this port of London, and how long did the said Robert Oyle use the said M:r Blands Coales, and what were coales then worth at Tangier aforesaid, and how many Chaldren of the said Coales did hee burne at Tangier, and how many Chaldren did hee carry away in the said Shipp from thence, and why did hee carry away the said Coales, was it not bee cause hee wanted wood or other fowell (sic) for the said Shipps use" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
Cobbwebb lawnes ("A parcell of Cobbwebb lawnes lately seized in the said shippe the young Tobias" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656); "about fifty foure pieces of Cobbwebb lawnes laken out of the said shipp" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656)
Coles ("to that end did pumpe her , and heave out about three Lighters of Coles" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Corne ("whither the Corne that was throwne overboard or that was layd up upon the shoare at Tangier was measured before it was throwne overboard or cast upon the shoare" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Copper ("a Quintall of Copper" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Cotton yarn ("at Scanderoone there were there laden aboard her [the Anne] about One hundred Baggs of Galls, about one hundred Bales of Cotton Yarne, and other goods" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Cottons ("having aboard her a quantitie of marchandizes consisting in XX cottons and callicos XX XXX XXX factor XXX account taken aboard her on the coast of Cormandel was carrying XX XXX for Bantam for w:ch place the said goods were XXXX and were provided XXXXX to be ther XXXXXX" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Currans (= Currants)
Currants ("surprised her and her ladeing of Currans and other goods and dispoiled her and her ladeing of Currants and other goods" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

D

Deales ("whither hee was on board XXX said shippe the S:t Johns Head when the Deales and XXX were sent aboard the said Shippe to make bulke XXXX the Corne that was laden aboard the said Shippe, and XXX whither there were not 240 single deales, and foure and XXX twenty sparres" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
Drugs ("hee hath ?two of his owne shipp ?chests w:ch are full of druggs for his owne account" (HCA 13/73 Part One))

F

ffish (" at the first arrivall of the said Ship Pearce at Nevis y:e said Wood had a pound of Sugar for a pound of ffish" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
ffranjinsense ("two chests of ffranjinsense"(HCA 13/73 Part Two))

G

Galls ("the sayd two Chests of ?Galls as by the Invoice of them delivered unto him appeareth were worth one hundred and two pounds tenn shillings sterling or thereabouts in England but what profitt they would have yeilded at Bantam or else where in the East Indies in bartering or selling hee knoweth not" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "soe soone as y:e said ship [the Anne] Delivered her said salt at Scanderrone, y:e said William Malymy:e M:r and Company of the said ship. did take aboard her, a Lading of Cottons, galls and other peeces to be Transported in her to this port of London" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Gueldings ("the said shippe the Edward and John for the accompt of maior Chamberlayne & others mentioned in the allegacion given on the behalfe of the said Tolly the number of twenty sixe horses & gueldings & 2 mares" (HCA 24/112))
Green ginger ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Gunpowder ("severall Barrells of Gunpowder" (HCA 23/19))

H

Herring
Horses ("the said shippe the Edward and John for the accompt of maior Chamberlayne & others mentioned in the allegacion given on the behalfe of the said Tolly the number of twenty sixe horses & gueldings & 2 mares" (HCA 24/112)

I

Indico (= Indigo) ("a little before y:e arrivall of the said ship Peace at Nevis, the Tobacco plants Indico and Sugar Canes were there at at the other Leeward Islands, spoyled and rooted upp by reason of Hurricanoes" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Indicoes ("Hurricanoes and Stormes had spoyled most of the Sugar Canes, Tobaccoe, and Indicoes in those places, and had rooted many of them up" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Iron kettles ("who by name bought the 413 Iron Potts, 300 bundles of Rod Iron, and 170 Iron Kettles laden on board the shipp the S:t Andrew arrested by Authority of this High Court of Ad:lty" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Iron potts
Rod iron

L

Lawnes ("A parcell of Cobbwebb lawnes lately seized in the said shippe the young Tobias" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656); "about fifty foure pieces of Cobbwebb lawnes laken out of the said shipp" (HCA 3/47, f. 1v, Tues., 3rd June 1656)
Lemmons ("A matter of unladeing and receaving of a parcell of 46 chests of lemmons Laden in the Anne and Joyce" (HCA 3/47 f. 480r (orig), f. 477r. (new); "Satterday 24th October 1657"))
Linseed oile ("Henry de Bruyne agt six pipes of Linseed oile laden by Henry de Bruyne at Amsterdam merchant in the shipp the Angell whereof Jervais Mitchell is M:r and consigned to Bedord Whiting as belonginge to himselfe..." (HCA 13/47 f. 200r (orig. no, new no. is 201r), "the First Session of Hillary Tearme being Wednesday the one and twentieth day of January 1656"))
Logwood ("hee was in y:e said yard (out of w:ch y:e said Logwood was taken & sent on board y:e said ship) whilest, some of the sd wood was weighing, and sawe most of it sent, and brought aboard y:e said ship, y:e said yard being neere y:e waterside & neere unto y:e place: where his ship lay" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "whither hee doth not know beleeve or hath heard that the said fower tonnes and ten sticks of Logwood were sold by the said Jeremiah Sweetman or some other of the said English that arrived in the said Shippe unto some of the Inhabitants of Barnstaple Biddeford or ?Northam before the same were arrested by authority of this Court" (HCA 23/19 no f.))

M

Mahalaga currans ("one hundred and sixty Tonnes of Mahalaga and Petrao Currans viz:t one hundred & thiry of M(OR, N)athaligo & thirty Tonnes of Petrao Currans" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Mahaligo currans ("one hundred and sixty tonne of Mahaligo Currans" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Marble stones ("The claime of ?Chowne Wakeford & others for salvage of small marble stones saved out of the greene Dragon at or neere Brighthelmstone Smith" (HCA 3/47 f. 6v, Wed. 7th June 1656)).
Mares ("the said shippe the Edward and John for the accompt of maior Chamberlayne & others mentioned in the allegacion given on the behalfe of the said Tolly the number of twenty sixe horses & gueldings & 2 mares" (HCA 24/112))
Mathaligo currans ("one hundred and fifty tonnes of Mathaligo Currans seized on board the Lady ffrigott (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Mault ("19 Hogsheads of ?Mault" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Medicaments
Muscavadoe sugar (" of this Depo:ts knowledge Nevis Mascovado Sugar is better than Barbadoes Muscavadoe Sugar" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

N

Nevis sugar ("hee being an Inhaitant of Nevis knoweth that
Nevis Sugar is Better than Barbados sugar" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

O

Oranges ("Thomas Taylo:r and Loys Taylo:r his wife were, Comonly accounted and reputed the true and Lawfull owners and Proprietors of Eight & twenty Ceder Chests, w:ch contained & were filled (as this depo:t verily beleeveth) with Tobaccoe; and alsoe sixty six Rolls of Tobaccoe, and of foure more Rolls of Tobaccoe, and of a quantity of Oranges" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Oyle ("the said ship the Lixon ffrigot was Laden at Ligorne with Oyle Rice Silke Stockings, and Rope, and some other Comodityes" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "each pipe of Oyle" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); ("One Tunn butt of oyle lately found in the Sea by the Company of the shipp the Maidenhead and brought to this port of London" (HCA 3/47 f. 7v, 7th June 1656))

P

Pease ("whither there were not sixty two sacks full of pease Laden aboard the Shippe, and whither the said pease were not dry and well Condiconed when they were Laden aboard the said Shippe?" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
Pepper ("the said Thomas Newman, and one ffrancis Griffith y:e then purser of the said ship (who is since deceased) did goe on shore, in the sd port of Indra Ponza, to buy pepper and did buy a great quantity of pepper there, w:ch was all to have bin transported in the said ship to Leghorne,for the Acco:t of Sr John Dethick and Company aforesaid" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
White pepper ("the said Godfrey Jonas had ?two parcells of white pepper aboard her worth eleaven pounds sterling" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Perfume ("the said shipp in or about ffebruary last was a twelvemoneth departed from XXX XXXX aforesaid for S:ta Domingo, and arrived from VXXX CXXXXX XX two hundred thirtie two chests of sugar and tenn chests of perfume, and six sacks of Carra Nuts, and eight peeces of XXXXX, w:ch were to be carried to and delivered at Sta Domingo" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Petrao currans ("one hundred and sixty Tonnes of Mahalaga and Petrao Currans viz:t one hundred & thiry of M(OR, N)athaligo & thirty Tonnes of Petrao Currans" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Pilchards

R

Rice ("the said ship the Lixon ffrigot was Laden at Ligorne with Oyle Rice Silke Stockings, and Rope, and some other Comodityes" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Roape
Rope ("thirty Quoyles of Rope two Great Trunks, severall Quarter Caskes with XXX and Oyle, and barrells of Pitch and Tarre, and some other Things which were for y:e said Woods owne Private Trade & account" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

S

Salmon
Salt (" two Boates Lading of Salt" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Sassa perilla ("and thence returned to Truxille, and there tooke in Sassa perilla and ?ligden" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Silk ("divers other goods or bales of silke, and other merchandizes and moneys for Account of the saiyd Riccard & Company" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Silk Stockings ("the said ship the Lixon ffrigot was Laden at Ligorne with Oyle Rice Silke Stockings, and Rope, and some other Comodityes" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Silver ("hee is well assured and verily beleeveth that the said two barrs of silver were really and truely pvided and laded for y:e prop and sole account of y:e sad producent and upon his adventure" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Sparres (= sparrs; spars) ("whither hee was on board XXX said shippe the S:t Johns Head when the Deales and XXX were sent aboard the said Shippe to make bulke XXXX the Corne that was laden aboard the said Shippe, and XXX whither there were not 240 single deales, and foure and XXX twenty sparres" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
Strong water ("Nineteene of XXX of Strong water" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Stuffs (" the said M:r ffernandez bought or caused to be bought a Considerable Quantity of Goods in this City, namely Stuffs of severall sorts, and Silke Stockings, and other goods" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Sugar
Sugar canes ("a little before y:e arrivall of the said ship Peace at Nevis, the Tobacco plants Indico and Sugar Canes were there at at the other Leeward Islands, spoyled and rooted upp by reason of Hurricanoes" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
White sugar ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare" (HCA 13/73 Part One))

T

Tamerin ("the Interrogate Thomas Rummings & Anthony Beale had each of them considerable quantities of white pepper, greene ginger white sugar Casialignmum Tamerin and ?Cande but the certayne quantitie hee cannot declare" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Tobacco plants ("a little before y:e arrivall of the said ship Peace at Nevis, the Tobacco plants Indico and Sugar Canes were there at at the other Leeward Islands, spoyled and rooted upp by reason of Hurricanoes" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Tortoise shells ("y:e said Chest of Tortoise Shells" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Tortoyse shells ("one Chest of Tortoyse shells marked [MARK IN THE LH MARGIN] the second marke in the margent, w:ch were soe laden on board y:e sd ship the Morning Starr upon and for y:e Sole & propper Account of the said Alfonso Gomez Dias, Merch:t of Amsterdam" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Trane Oyle ("the arlate Thomas Grove did at Newfound Land lade some trane Oyle aboard the shipp Pease (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Traine Oil ("y:e said Grove did Lade on board y:e said Ship at Newfound Land about six hogsheads of Traine Oyle, w:ch was there stowed inn the Lazaretto or y:e fore?peeke of the said Ship, and there Continued untill it was unladen at Nevis" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

V

Virginia tobaccoes ("a parcell of Virginia Tobaccoes" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

W

Wax ("the rest of the said goods w:ch shee had on board, were by direction & advise of the said Pickford or Ward carried in the said Ship, to the Coast of Barbary and there sold, and Bartered the same for wax, and other Comodityes to y:e best Advantage to the said ffreighters" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Wheat (= wheate) ("what was done with the wheat that was so kept aboard did not the said Robert Oyle after hee went from Tanger aforesaid feed geese, Turkeyes, henns, and hoggs therewith dureing the said Shippes voyage from Tangier aforesaid to Alicant and Xouire and to Zephalania and in his homeward voyage" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
Wine (how many hampers of wine laden aboard the said Shipp S:t Johns Head als the Roman XX for the accompt of the said M:r Blan" (HCA 23/19 no. f.); "How longe after the
arrivall of the said Shipp the S:t Joseph in the Port of Oratava were the thirteen pypes of
wine laden aboard the said Shipp the Joseph by the ffor of the said Humphrey Dewell (HCA 23/19 no. f.))
Wooll (John Dobson Master of the shipp the William of Dartmouth upon the ladings of the seaven and twentie baggs of wool menconned in the premisse of this cause on board the said shipp the William of Dartmouth then lyeing in the porte or roade of Bilboa to be carryed in the said shipp from thence to London" (HCA 24/112))

Z

Zante currants ("Mathalago currants were XXXXX worth twenty XX per hundred more than Zante currants" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

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