Tools: Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
Background
Members of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London were involved in the export of English cloth, especially undyed, white, broadcloth. The MarineLives wiki contains references to a number of London merchants, and English merchants based in Hamburg, Amsterdam, Dordrecht and Rotterdam, who were members of, or connected with, the Company of Merchant Adventurers. The MarineLives project team wants to identify all these references and to pull them together on this wiki page. This will form a finding aid for all researchers interested in the C17th cloth trade, and more broadly in the trade for textiles. It will also serve as an input into the research work of Dr Tom Leng (Sheffield), who is currently writing a book on 'Disorderly Brethren: the Merchant Adventurers of England, c.1588-1688'.
Possible search terms to help identify Merchant Adventurers
Please help the MarineLives team identify members of the Company of Merchant Adventures of London in our 6 million word full text transcription wiki.
Search the wiki, do some sleuthing, and tweet us suggested names and wiki page references. We will add your findings to the wiki, with references and acknowledgement.
Many of the members of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London will not be identified as such, but can be presumed to be members through a combination of their export trade in cloth (and other goods), their location, their trading partners and secondary information you will need to look for on the web.
Here are some search terms for our wiki you might want to get started with
Cloth
Cloath
Cloth merchant
Cloth-merchant
Adventurer
Merchant + Hamburg
and lots lots more...
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Merchants resident in London & surrounds
George Boldero [alt. Baldero][1]
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Merchants resident elsewhere in England
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Merchants resident in the United Provinces
Amsterdam
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Dordrecht
Henry Boldero [alt. Baldero][2]
- "the said Mr Henry Baldero is of his this deponents certaine knowledge a native of England, and was borne at Berry in the County of Suffolk, where this deponent was likewise borne and the said Henry Baldero doth here (by this deponent who is his correspondent) pay taxes to this Comonwealth of England for lands which hee hath here in England and is ffree of the Company of the Merchant Adventurers of London and hath bin tresurer of the said company"[3]
John Boldero [alt. Baldero][4]
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Rotterdam
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Merchants resident in Hamburg
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