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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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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")^[2]

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^[3]

Dutch merchants in London

Phillip van Hulten was an Amsterdam merchant, known to Abraham Bald, a young twenty-six year old Dutch merchant, who had been living in London since 1655, but who had been born in Amsterdam. Bald testified that he had known Phillip van Hulten, resident in the Lady Gracht in Amsterdam, for five years.

• "11. To the tenth article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that

12. hee well knoweth the producent Phillip van Hulten and hee
13. hath donne for these five yeares last or thereabouts this deponent
14. for all that time and (untill about elevene moneths since hee
15. came to live in London) dwelling in Amsterdam where he was borne
16. and where he had acquaintance and dealing with the said Phillip
17. in the way of merchandize, and saith the said Phillip then
18. dwelt (and as hee believeth still dwelleth) on the Lady Gracht
19. in Amsterdam, in the house where his father (whom this deponent
20. alsoe well knowe dwelt before hin, and further that for said
21. producent was and is a merchant of good account and an
22. Inhabitant and free citizen of Amsterdam (where this deponent
23. beleeveth hee was borne) and a subject of the Lords the States
24. of the United Netherlands, and for such commonly accompted.
25. and further hee deposeth not."

- HCA 13/71 f.57r Case: The claime of Phillip Van ?Hulten of Amsterdam for his goods in the Hare in the ffeild; Deposition: Abraham Baldd of London Merchant aged 26 (Signature of "Abraham Baldd" at end of deposition); Date: 19/02/1655. Transcribed by Karen Gunnell^[4]

Twenty-five year old merchant Charles Marescoe had spent most of his life in England:

• "1. To the 3 Interrogatorie hee saith hee hath lived in England about sixteene yeares

2. continually and hath before that lived both in holland ˹and˺ in fflanders only
3. as a schoole boy for some short tyme as at Amsterdam in holland and
4. Lisle in fflanders and saith that hee hath seene printed Coppyes of
5. the last treaty betwixt Spaine and the United Provinces wherein to the best
6. of hsi remembrance there is an Article that noe shipp of warr belonging
7. to the King of Spaine or his subiects shall molest search or take
8. any shipps belonging to the sayd States or their subiects though bound
9. to or comming from an enymyes Port And further saving his
10. foregoeing deposition hee cannot depose/"

- HCA 13/71 f.536v Case: Goodwin and Company against the Saint John; Deposition: 3. Charles Marescoe of Saint Bottolph Billingsgate London Merchant aged twenty five yeares (Signature of "Charles Marescoe" at end of deposition) ; Date: 04/02/1656. Transcribed by Colin Greenstreet^[5]

Dutch merchants in the East Indies

Dutch merchants in the West Indies

Dutch merchants in London

Abraham Bald was a young twenty-six year old Dutch merchant living in London, who had been born in Amsterdam. Until early 1655 he had been resident in Amsterdam, where he had been born. He testified that he had known the producent Phillip van Hulten, an Amsterdam merchant resident in the Lady Gracht in Amsterdam, for five years

• "11. To the tenth article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that

12. hee well knoweth the producent Phillip van Hulten and hee
13. hath donne for these five yeares last or thereabouts this deponent
14. for all that time and (untill about elevene moneths since hee
15. came to live in London) dwelling in Amsterdam where he was borne
16. and where he had acquaintance and dealing with the said Phillip
17. in the way of merchandize, and saith the said Phillip then
18. dwelt (and as hee believeth still dwelleth) on the Lady Gracht
19. in Amsterdam, in the house where his father (whom this deponent
20. alsoe well knowe dwelt before hin, and further that for said
21. producent was and is a merchant of good account and an
22. Inhabitant and free citizen of Amsterdam (where this deponent
23. beleeveth hee was borne) and a subject of the Lords the States
24. of the United Netherlands, and for such commonly accompted.
25. and further hee deposeth not."

- HCA 13/71 f.57r Case: The claime of Phillip Van ?Hulten of Amsterdam for his goods in the Hare in the ffeild; Deposition: Abraham Baldd of London Merchant aged 26 (Signature of "Abraham Baldd" at end of deposition); Date: 19/02/1655. Transcribed by Karen Gunnell^[6]

Dutch merchants in Portugal

Dutch merchants in Spain

1. ↑ Electronic link to a digital source
2. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.58r
3. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.58r
4. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.57r
5. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.536v
6. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.57r