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Missing places

Editorial history

23/12/11, CSG: Created page



The authors of this wiki need help with primary research and synthesis for a wide range of buildings, places, and areas. The focus should be on the period 1650-1659, and on working from contemporary primary sources, rather than from modern secondary sources.

Contributions are particularly welcome from Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Gujarati speakers, using primary sources authored in a range of languages.

Topics to explore include:

- Ports and towns in continental Europe (excluding the European territories of the Ottoman Empire)
- Ports and towns in the former Ottoman Empire
- Ports and towns on the west coast of India
- Ports and towns around the Arabian Gulf
- Islands, ports and towns of Barbados and Jamaica
- Plantations and ports of Virginia and New England
- English private and public buildings
- English rural and urban local areas

Ideally, the end product would ideally be a profile of the specified place, integrating an understanding of place and its geographical interconnections, with the core individuals around which this wiki has been built - Sir George Oxenden, the subscribers in the mid-1650s to the Smirna Venture Joint Stock and the King Fernandez Joint Stock, and Sir George Oxenden's correspondents in the 1660s, when he was President in Surat.

Suggestions for novel primary sources relevant to the period 1650-1669 are also appreciated.





How you can help


You could contribute to our work in several ways.

For example, by contributing a draft profile of a specified place, supported by reference to primary (and secondary) sources.

For example, by suggesting novel primary sources relevant to an understanding of these places, in the early and mid seventeenth century, and particularly in the period 1650-1669.

Primary source suggestions and draft profiles can be submitted by modifying the existing wiki entries for places listed below.



Suggested links


Missing faces

Alphabet of names
Alphabet of places
Bigger alphabet of names
Bigger alphabet of places
Bigger alphabet of ships



Possible primary sources


Mercatoris, Gerardi, Atlas Minor (Amsterdam, 1634)
- Viewable as Google E-Book or as downloadable PDF
Sanson, Nicholas, L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittés de geographie et d'histoire (Paris, 1683)
- Viewable as Google E-Book or as downloadable PDF
- Maps are reasonably well reproduced, though many maps are over split pages



Index of missing places


The following is an index of places for which profiles are sought. By clicking on the link you can access possible research questions, together with possible primary sources



A


Aleppo
Alicante
Amsterdam
Antwerpen



B


Baltic
Bantam
Barbados
Blackfriars lodgings (Oxenden family in early 1640s)
Blackwall
Bordeaux
Brasil
The Bull (Rochester)




C


Cadiz
Cephalonia (one of the seven Ionian islands; closely linked to Zante)
Chatham
Chirk Castle
Constantinople
Court of Chancery, Westminster
The Crown (Rochester)
The Custom's house



D


Danzig
Denmark
Doctors Commons



E


East India house
England
The Exchange
Exeter house, the Strand
Exeter College (Oxford)



F


France

G


Galatia
Garrawayes (Garraways) coffee house, Cornhill
Genoa
Goa
Gombroon
Grays Inn chambers, London
Gray's Inn walks, London
The Great James, Bishopsgate[1]
The Guildhall



H


Hamburg



I


Ireland
Isfahan



J


Jamaica



K




L


Livorno



M


Macao
Maidstone
Malaga
Marseilles
The Mermaid tavern, Cornhill
Messina
Middle Temple



N


Naples
New College (Oxford)
New England



O


Oxted



P


Paris
Pillau
Portugal
Portsmouth
The Poultry counter



R


Red Lion Inn, Wingham
Riga
Rotterdam
Rouen
Russia
William Ryder's house, Bethnal Green



S


St. Helena
St. John Street, Clerkenwell (Lady Oxenden)
St. Paul's Churchyard booksellers
Scotland
Smyrna
Spain
Stettin
Stockholm
Surat
Sweden


T


Tangiers
Toulon
Trinity Hall
Tripoli
Tunis



U


United Provinces


V


Valencia
Venice
Virginia



W


Westminster School
The White Hart Inn (Rochester)
Winchester School
Woolwich



Y



Z


Zante
  1. 15th October 1667, Letter from William Ryder to Sir GO, London