MRP: Lisbon

Lisbon

Editorial history

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Ville de Lisbone et Flote des Indes, Scotin, 1734

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(1) Detail from 'Ville de Lisbone et Flote des Indes' from Joseph-François Lafitau, Illustrations de Histoire des découvertes et conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde, Tome 1. Frontispice dépl.
- 26 x 46 cm et moins, taille-douce : n. et b., engraved by J.B. Scotin (1671-1716) (Paris, 1734)
- Image is out of copyright
- Sourced from Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.bnf.fr, for non-commercial use^[1]

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Notes

Thomas Maynard, Lisbon, 1661

"That the Portuguese government had good reason to complain of Garland's behaviour, can be seen from the following reference to this affair in a letter from Thomas Maynard, at Lisbon dated 4 November 1661. He explains that the ship Alexander of London, Nicholas Garland, master (who died on the voyage) was freighted by Messrs Parker and Bence of London ..."^[2]

Thomas Bird, Lisbon, 1663

"[October 2, 1663] The Deputy having procured a letter of credit from Alexander Bence to Thomas Bird at Lisbon, to be taken to Madeira for supply of wines to the American, the same being for the Company's use, order is given for the Deputy to be indemnified."^[3]

Mentions in wiki primary documents

Sir George Oxenden's correspondence

See 29th March 1662/63, Letter from John Mennes to Sir GO, Lisbonne

Legal

Wills

See John White will
- John White was a merchant of Oporto, Portugal, who died in May 1673 in Oporto
- "I doe thereby request Mr Nicholas Pollixfen English Merchant now resident in the Citty of Lixa [Lisbon] to receive and take into his possession All such summe or summes of mo:s as may or shall Appeare to be the proper due of my deare and loveinge wife aforesaid and as shall Appeare by the Accompts of my Executor"

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↑ http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2300145h/f1.item, viewed 09/01/12
↑ The Mariner's mirror, vol. 37 (XXXX, 1951), p. 220
↑ 'A Court of Committees, October 2, 1663' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 681) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 342

[1] ttp://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2300145h/f1.item, viewed 09/01/12

[2] The Mariner's mirror, vol. 37 (XXXX, 1951), p. 220

[3] 'A Court of Committees, October 2, 1663' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 681) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 342

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