MRP: Warehousing
Warehousing
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Warehouses were located throughout the City of London in the mid-seventeenth century. However, they were concentrated along the north and south shores of the River Thames, particularly in the parishes of XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX, and in the wards of XXXX, XXXX, XXXX.[1]
John Strype's Survey of London provides some limited information on London warehousing and wharves in the later seventeenth century.[2]
A map of the locations specified by the wills and posthumous inventories of wharfingers provides a more analytical complement to these descriptive data.
- It may also be worth examining the locations specified by London, Middlesex and Surrey carmen and porters in surviving wills and inventories
No warehouse buildings have physically survived from this period. However, inspection of eighteenth and nineteenth century engravings, and early twentieth century photographs, gives some sense of their appearance. For example, the London County Council Survey of London for Tower Street Ward contains interesting early photographs.[3]
Some merchant inventories give information on storage and warehousing areas within combined residential and commercial properties in London. For example, XXXX.[4]
The English East India Company had a number of specialised warehouses at different locations:
- The pepper warehouse[5]
- The blue warehouse[6]
- The Exchange warehouse[7]
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EEIC warehouses
"[1677-1679]...Aston, Keeper of the Pepper Warehouse, 80/. ; David Aston, assistant, 30/. ; Thomas Spriggs, Husband, 200/. ; Francis Thomson, assistant, 100/. ; George Papillon, Keeper of the Blue Warehouse, 160/. ; and for setting up the candle, 10/. ; Thomas Lewis, Paymaster of the Mariners, 30/. ; William Moses, Solicitor, 20/. ; Captain John Prowd, Surveyor, 80/. ; Robert Johnson, Doorkeeper, 40/. ; Michael Prescot, Surveyor of ..."[8]
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- ↑ Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1677-1679 (Oxford, 1938), p. 177
