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Dutch merchants in London and elsewhere

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The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.

Dutch merchants feature in many HCA 13/71 cases and depositions.

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.

• What can we learn of Dutch merchants can be identified in London, Amsterdam, Lisbon and elsewhere?

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Jewish merchants
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Spanish merchants in London

Dutch merchants in Amsterdam

Frederick Wolfe was an Amsterdam merchant, who was the correspondent of Domingos vas da Britto, a forty year old merchant living in London. Wolf lived near Saint Anthonies port in Amsterdam, where da Britto's servant, Manoel Perera had lived with him for four and a half years

• "37. To the seaventh article hee saith that hee well knoweth the producent

38. ffrederick Wolfe and hath soe donne for theise thirteene yeeres last past
39. or thereabouts, and saith the said ffrederick for eight yeeres of that time
40. hath lived at Amsterdam, where hee was and is an Inhabitant and
41. Burger, and keepes his wife, children and familie there neere in his
42. house being neere Saint Anthonies port, as hee this deponent hath
43. lived fower yeeres and a halfe with him, ended about three yeeres since
44. and this deponents master Mr da Britto hath continuall correspondence
45. with him by lettres of this deponents knowledge, And saith the said producent
46. was and is a subiect of the States of the United Netherlands and
47. for such commonly accompted. And otherwise hee cannot depose."

- HCA 13/71 f.58r Case: The claime of ffrederick Wolfe of Amsterdam in the Hare in the feild; Deposition: 2. Manoel Perera of London Merchant aged 21 (Signature of "Manuel Perreyra" at end of deposition); Date: 21/02/1655 ("same day")^[1]

However, Frederick Wolf had spent his childhood in Lisbon, as Domingos vas da Britto himself testified:

• "9. To the seaventh article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that hee

10. well knoweth the producent named ffrederick Wolfe and hath soe donne
11. from the infancie of the said producent and of this deponent, they goeing
12. to schoole together at Lisbone, and saith that for theise eight yeares last
13. or thereabouts the said producent hath lived and liveth in Amsterdam as a
14. Merchant, and was and is an inhabitant of that citie, and a subiect
15. of the Lords the States of the United Netherlands. and for such commonly
16. accompted...."

- HCA 13/71 f.58r Case: The claime of ffrederick Wolfe of Amsterdam in the Hare in the feild; Deposition: 1. Domingos vas da Britto of London Merchant aged 40 (Signature of "Domingo da Britto" at end of deposition) ; Date: 21/02/1655^[2]

Dutch merchants in the East Indies

Dutch merchants in the West Indies

Dutch merchants in London

Dutch merchants in Portugal

Dutch merchants in Spain

1. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.58r
2. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.58r