Tools: Week Two Autumn
Contents
Week Two goals
(1) To understand the Court process, legal document types, and the uses to which historians have put the Court records
(2) To start learning to read and transcribe Court depositions
(3) To discuss how best to practice reading and transcribing and to support each other
(4) To introduce the Silver Ships narrative and supporting materials
Introduction to the High Court of Admiralty
- Blakemore/Marsden/Steckley articles
- Legal process
- The archive/document types
Starting out with paleography & MarineLives editorial policy
- More on the edit box: page structure and the examination books
- Common transcription pitfalls: MINIMs, shorthand & expansions, capitalization, toponyms, punctuation, the gutter
- Tips
Team practice pages
- Team practice pages
Introduction to the Silver Ships narrative and supporting materials
Evidence of the Spanish/Flandrian/Hamburg silver trade in the early 1650s
Silver Ship witnesses - by Geography
Homework
(1) Each participant in the autumn programme is to transcribe one page from the Silver Ship depositions
- Allocated pages:
- Jo Pugh 13/69 Sil 1 f. 19r
- Jonathan Dent 13/69 Sil 1 f. 4r
- Maya Silverman [ADD PAGE]
- Mia Ridge 13/69 Sil 1 f. 20r
- Oliver Tanner 13/69 Sil 1 f. 35r
- Ross Keel 13/69 Sil 1 f. 35v
- Samuel Watson 13/69 Sil 1 f. 36r
(2) Each participant in the programme should familiarize themselves with the Silver Ship timeline and key characters, using the MarineLives wiki resources on the Silver Ships
Chose one particular character in the Silver Ships litigation (for axample, a merchant, a mariner, or a lawyer) and research them using the wiki resources, looking both at depositions in which the vhosen individual is mentioned and also wiki pages which synthesise material from the depositions and other sources
Come to the next group Skype call prepared to briefly present that character to other members of the group
