Female involvement in marine activities
Female involvement in marine activities
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08/11/12: CSG, created page
Purpose of page
The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.
Women are mentioned in HCA 13/71 cases and depositions in a range of circumstances, including as owners of ships and lighters, as owners of on shore trades, and as executrixes and administratrixes
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.
- In what circumstances do women appear in HCA 13/71 cases?
- What specific roles do women perform in HCA 13/71??
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Female ownership of ships
- "he this deponent was and still is Captaine or Master and Commander of the sayd shipp the Three Sisters and was constituted Master of her by James Pickering who ˹with his three daughters then were the reputed˺ Owners of the sayd shipp"
- HCA 13/71 f.149v Case: On the behalfe of Mary Dell in her owne right and as Administratrix of John Dell, against the shipp Three Sisters Samuell Titsell Master and against Alexander Hatchel; Deposition: Captaine Samuel Titsell of Radriffe in the County of Surrey master of the sayd shipp Three Sisters aged 36; Date: 12/04/1656[2]
Female ownership of lighters
Elizabeth Matson, owner of the lighter the Ellen and Anne
Oliver Langdon was thirty-eight years old when he testified in the case of Matson against Naylor. He was a deal merchant from Wapping Wall, and had known the producent in the case, Elizabeth Matson, for the last ten years. Elizabeth was the owner of the lighter the Ellen and Anne. There is no mention of a Mr Matson.
Langdon also knew the Ellen and Anne, having bought ballast from Elizabeth Matson and having had it shipped in her lighter on several occasions. He signed his answers to the articles of the allegation with his marke, as he did his responses to the interrogatories.
Langdon was an eye witness to the incompetence of the crew of a Thames hoy, owned by one "Naylor of Barking." While Matson’s lighter lay moored beside the Mary of Ipswich taking on ballast, Naylor’s hoy came "downe the river under saile, directly towards the said shipp and lighter."
Seeing the hoy bearing down on them the crew of both the Ellen and Anne and of the Mary cried out to the crew of the hoy to lower their sail. "Otherwise they would split the said lighter." Langdon also took up the cry having been "casually rowing by in a wherry while the premisses happened." "Seeing the said hoy comming soe dangerously on towards the said lighter," Langdon "called out to her company to keepe off, and telling them that otherwise they would splitt the said lighter."
The hoy ignored them and the result was catastrophic.
"34. the said hoy ran with her bough upon the said lighter, and broke
35. her side downe, (soe that the said side lay under water) and brake
36. her inward and outward workes, and crushed her in peeces, all
37. which hee knoweth for that this deponent was casual{l}y rowing
38. by ˹in a wherry˺ while the premisses happened, and him selfe seeing the said
39. hoy comming soe dangerously on ˹towards˺ the said lighter, called out to her company
40. to keepe off, and telling them that otherwise they would splitt
41. the said lighter."
- HCA 13/71 f.454v Case: Matson against Naylor; Deposition: 1. Oliver Langdon of Wapping Wall Deale Merchant aged 38 yeares (The marke of Oliver Langdon at the end of the deposition). Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet. Date: 12/12/1656.[3]
The response of the crew of the Mary and of the Ellen and Anne was, as described by Oliver Langdon, an impressive one.
Several of the crew of the Mary *leaped into the said lighter, and with their backs helped to beare off and cleare away the said hoy." If they had not done so, the lighter would have, Langdon averred, speedily sunk.
The labourers on the Ellen and Anne sought to keep the lighter afloat and to get her to shore. Standing up to their knees in water, they heaved out the remaining ballast, presumably overboard into the Thames.
In his responses to interrogatories put to him, Langdon assured the court that the lighter had been strong and staunch before the collision, and provided contextual detail: there had been other ships in the Thames, but none near enough to the hoy to explain the incident. Furthermore, it had been an ebb tide. The damage stood at seven pounds to repair, a carpenter told Langdon, no small sum for a lighter owner.
Tradeswomen
Women as witnesses
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- "4. To the 6th ˹and 7th˺ Interrogatories hee saith that before the departure of the sayd shipp
5. the hare in the ffeild from England for Cadiz in Spaine the Interrogate
6. John Van Lathum came from the Interrogate John Kein and brought ˹to the arlate Gyles Vandeput˺ two
7. papers but the contents of them hee knoweth not but hath heard and beleeveth
8. that the one of them was a bill of sale made of the sayd shipp to the sayd Gyles
9. Vandeput and saith the sayd Mr Vandeput tooke the sayd papers and after
10. hee had perused them tore one of them and sayd hee would not have
11. any hand in Colouring any foreigners goods nor would have any thing
12. to doe in that busines or words to that effect these premisses were soe done
13. in presense of this deponent and the sayd Mr Vandeputts wife and some others
14. and his precontest ffrancis Nevile and some others whome hee remembreth
15. not And farther to this Interrogatorie hee cannot depose"
- HCA 13/71 f.365r Case: Nicholas Clement and Adrian van Bolstrode and company etcetera; Deposition: 4. Herman Gorris of London Merchant aged twenty eight yeares (Signature of "Herman: Gooris" at end of deposition) ; Date: 16/09/1656. Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet.[4]
