David Bayly
| David Bayly | |
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| Person | David Bayly |
| Title | |
| First name | David |
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| Last name | Bayly |
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| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | Presumably common man |
| Associated with ship(s) | ffreindship (Master: Barnaby Holding) |
| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Marke |
| Has opening text | David Bayly |
| Has signoff text | D |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Res street | |
| Res parish | Saint Mary Magdalen |
| Res town | Bermondsey |
| Res county | Surrey |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1616 |
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| First deposition age | 40 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/71 f.6v Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Feb 16 1656 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
| Ship classification | |
| Type of ship | Merchant ship |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
David Bayly (b. ca. 1616; d. ?). Mariner.
"One of the company of the shipp the ffreindshipp the voyage in question", and also one of the company on the ship's boat, which attempted to fetch the disputed wine, before it was rafted out.
Presumably a commonman.
Resident in 1657 in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in Southwark.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty year old David Bayly deposed on February 16th 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1] He wa examined on an allegation in the cause of "XX".
The case concerned a dispute over butts of wine lost whilst being rafted out to the ship the ffreindship when she was at Mallaga in October 1655. The weather condiitons were rough at Mallaga and the master insisted that the wines be rafted, rather then fetched in the ship's skiff. The sea was so wild that " it tore the roapes and empty butts that bore up the sayd rafte for that they broke loose twice before the sayd rafte and wines thereon could bee brought to the sayd shipp side". Bayly's testimony was damming about the behaviour of Mr Whitty, the freighters' factor at Mallaga, who insisted on rafting the wines. Bayly stated that "all the wines upon the sayd rafte except one butt perished, although the company of the sayd shipp did both with creeping with greylings and sweeping with roapes doe their utmost endeavour to save the same, which dammage had not happened if the sayd Whitby had not forsed the sayd shipps company to raft the sayd wynes".[2]
Bayly was still owed his wages, but was a little hazy on the matter, saying "his whole wages is yet unpaid (but what the same amounteth to hee doth not at present remember) and hee saith hee beleeveth the reason when his wages is not paid, is because the master of the ffreindshipp is denyed his freight for the wine in question".[3]
