MRP: Transcription

Transcription

Editorial history

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Policy issues

Abbreviation

Representation of abbreviations, especially use of lines over single letters, parts of words, or whole words

Capitalisation

Standardize capitalisation for persons and places?

ISSUE: Capital/non-capital distinction hard to determine by non-expert palaeographer

Crossing out

Should crossed out or blotted out letters or words be indicated in transcription?

Dashes

Distinguish length and type of dashes used in manuscript?

ISSUE: Distinguishing space filling dashes from dashes used as hyphens or to show run over between manuscript lines?

Dots

Reproduction of dots, especially preceeding and following greek/arabic or roman numbers?

Page layout

How to indicate page layout, especially position of headers, signatures, and marginalia?

Paragraphs

Determining start and end of paragraphs in legal documents?

Punctuation

Recognition of, and reproduction of, mid-C17th punctuation, especially commas, semi-colons, colons, and double dashes ("=")?

Notes

Common abbreviations

A

a:gt (= against)
allon (= allegacon: allegation)
arle (= article)
arlum

C

Cha: (Charles)
chrpty (charter party)

D

drōr (doctor)

H

hhds

I

interrte

L

L:i (pound sterling)
l:re

M

mo (moneth; month)
M:r

P

p (per)
pcell (parcell, parcel)
pt (part)

Q

q:t

S

s (shilling)
s:d; sd

W

w:ch (which)
w:th (with)

X

xr; X:r (etc)

Y

y:t

Common Latin phrases

A

Ad Interria
Ad Interrogatoria
Ad predeporta
Ad ult dicit
Allegate
Arlate
Arlum
At interr con:ny di:ny at de gXXX

D

Dicit

E

Et alr nescit
Et alr nescit deponere
Et alr referendo
Et fiat ut supra
Et interr ut supra
Et interrogotur con:m div:m et du quolet
Examinat ("this Examinat")

I

Imp:rm interroget:r
the lre interrte
INTERROGATORIA ministrata et ministrand ex parte et p partem William Browne testibus omnibus et singulis ex parte Edward Webb pductis sen pducendis sequuntur
Item Inter quilibi
Item Interroget:r quilet

P

P:rdeposita
Productus

R

Rendet
this Rendent

S

Super allagaconne

T

Testibus omnibus et singulis ex parte et p partem

Legal & commercial language (non-latin)

A

Accompt ("this deponents sole accompt" (HCA 13/68))

Advise ("lres of advise" (HCA 13/68))

Accounted ("commonly accounted reputed and taken")

Actuary ("one of the Actuaries of the Admiralty Court of Bridges")

Allegation ("an allegation given against him on that behalfe of..."

Answereth ("he answereth & acknowledgeth" (HCA 13/19))

Account ("transported to Dunkirke for the accompt and adventure of this deponents"

Allon (abbreviation for "allegation")

Arle (abbreviation for "article", see arles for "articles")

Arlate ("onely one of the fowre English ships arlate" (HCA 13/19))

C

Cargazoone

Cause of complaint ("y:e sd Edward Peascott Michaell Peascott & Edward Randall have without iust cause arrested him by warr:t out of this Co:rt to answere them in their p?dsed cause of complaint" HCA 13/128))

Condemned ("in case the sayd shipp the Morning Starr or Golden Starrbe condemned as prize)

D

Dead fraighted

Denison ("he is a subiect of this Commonwealth and a denison of England")

Deponent

F

fflandrian ("a fflandrian man of warr")

I

Interrogatory (ies) ("Crosse Interries")

K

Knoweth ("knoweth beleiveth or hath heard")

L

Libell ("the posiccons of a libell given ag:t him")

M

Make for them ("To the 12:th pretensed posicon they and either of them answere and accept the contents of this posicon soe far forth as the same doe make for them and not other wise" (HCA 13/125))

P

Persuaded ("verily psuaded in his conscience")

Possession ("quiet and peaceful possession [of property, such as a ship]")

Posic(c)ons (alias Position) ("he doth not beleeve y:e sd posicons to be true")

Precedent ("his p:rcedent answeres" (HCA 13/19))

Precontest ("his precontest")

Predeposed

Pretended

Pretensed ("To 4:th 5:th and 6:th pretensed posicons" (HCA 13/125))

Producent

Protested ("the said Nortons bills being protested, the said ffactor had not moneyes to paye for the same and therefor could not nor would not lade them" (HCA 13/125))

R

Ranke (" the arlate Blaes da La Pina is a Spaniard a subiect of the King of Spayne a merchant Inhabitant of Sevill in Spayne and that he hath bene 30 yeares and upwards, and was and is a merchant of good ranke using to trade betweene Spaine and fflanders" (HCA 13/68)

Reall and true ("the sayd bill of sale is reall and the Contents thereof true")

Referreth ("he referreth himselfe to the Acts & Registry of this Court" (HCA 13/19))

Rendent(s)

Registry (of the High Court of the Admiralty)

Risque (" for his the said John Scrother the producents accompt and risque" (HCA 13/68))

S

Schedulate (" this rendent being M:r & Comander of the ship the Peter arlate did hyer y:e respective marriners schedulate to serve in the sd ship y:e Peterfor the monethly wayges therein menconed" (HCA 137128))

Schedulated ("the said severall persons Schedulated" (HCA 13/125))

Schedule (" hee was not prsent att y:e forming and figuring the said two schedules arlate")

Sign seale and deliver [a legal document, such as a will or contract] ("this deponent saw the sayd Samuel Travis sign seale and deliver the same as and for his Act and deed")

Stayed ("the sd vessell did sett saile from Naples with ?some goods that shee there tooke in, and in her course towards London was stayed & taken by some vessell of warre belonging to the ffrench as he hath heard & beleeveth & was carryed to S:t Margaretta, and was there detained for some tyme in which tyme he beleeved the S:t Massagrene used meanes to gett of y:e s:d shipp & goods" (HCA 13/128)

T

Teno:r ("the sayd Christia Cloppenburgh did signe three bills of lading for the same all of one teno:r" (HCA 13/68))

True owner ("true and lawfull owner and proprieto:r of y:e sayd goods")

Currency and Specie

Peeces of eight ("she had aboard her in silver two XXX, one XXXX, two XXXXXXX, seaven or eight XXXXXX, and a tobacco box and seaven or eight peeces of eight; w:ch the said John Lopez had ashore at Milford. And otherwise hee cannot depose" (HCA 13/73))

Weights & Measures

B

Bags (pepper)
Barrells (e.g. raisins; "17 barrells of starch"; "some barrells of sugar carryed frō y:e howses of y:e producent towards y:e waterside to be so laden")
Baskets (e.g. raisins)
Boards (e.g. timber; "860 four foot boards)
Bundles (e.g. hemp; "68 bundles of hemp"; "bundles of rough hemp" (HCA 15/6 Box Two))
Butts (e.g. sherrie sack; "the true and lawfull Own:r of the said seaven and fortie butts of sack")

C

Cask ("28 Caske of Allom")
Chests (sugar)
Clapboards

H

Hogsheads (hhds; e.g. wines)
Hydes

- "at the time arlate the Boatswaine of the Little Lewis did being did (sic), being demanded what hydes were recd aboard the said ship reply and say three hundred and thirty or thereaboutes but that since hee haveing prsed his booke doth find that there were laden aboard the sd shipp in all but three hundred twenty one some where of were whole Dryed hydes in hayre, and some were sydes of Leather tann'd w:ch hee reckoned and accompted as hydes severally though in truth they were but half hydes" (HCA 13/19)

L

Last

- "he beleeveth that every last of y:e sd salmon conteined 12: barrels" (HCA 13/129)

M

Matt ("12 ?mattes of flaxe")

P

Pack ("five packs of linnen marked and numbred as in the margin" (HCA 13/68))
Parcel ("a parcell of flax to be brought unto Roscoe"; a pcell of tarre brought to this port of London in a shippe called the ffortune (HCA 13/125)))
Piggs ("piggs of silver") (HCA 23/19: the Mayfflower) ("Piggs of lead")
Pipes (of wine, e.g. Canary) ("10 pipes of sugar")
"some few ?Polacoes of Tobacco" (HCA 13/68)
Pipestaves
Pounds (e.g. Cocheneal)

Q

Quarters ("quarters of wheat")
Quintalls (aka Kintalls) ("200 Quintalls of Brazill, Wood" (HCA 13/73)

R

Roll (e.g. tobacco)

S

Small Barrell ("143 small Barr:lls. of Brandy att 11:li 19:s p Barrell an:d to in ster mony. 10:s ?6:d . p Barrell" (HCA 13/128)

T

Tonn ("> ½ Tonns of Rochell wines att 60:li the Tonn french mony and in English mony 4:li. 3:s. 4:d p tonn" (HCA 13/128)

Tunn (" the said tonns of Tallow were worth the summe of 34:li y tonn and noe more" (HCA 13/125)

W

Wainscotts