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Masquerade

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Purpose of page

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

Ships (and individuals) frequently masquerade as something they are not in a number of HCA 13/71 cases and depositions, as they seek to avoid seizure by privateers or men of warr.

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 stratagems and tactics are used?
• What documentation and argument is required by the Court as proof of the nationality of the ship, its owners, and its freighters?

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False dispatches and writings

Dutch dispatches and writings

• "in expectation of the sayd shipp the Little Mary the foresayd Mr Stephens had procured liberty that she might have bene laden as other English shipps were, and to that purpose he had procured dutch dispatches and writings for XXXX"

- HCA 13/71 f.207r Case: XXXX (“Examined upon the sayd Libell”); Deposition: 4. William Clapham of London merchant aged 29 yeares; Date: 12/05/1656^[1]

Danish dispatches and writings

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False colours

Used by privateers

Used by commercial ships

Several captains of different nations

Example: Dutch and English captains during Anglo-Dutch war

Mixed crews of different nations

Example one: crew analysis by nationality

Example two: crew analysis by nationality

Payoff of local officials

Indulto paid at Teneriff

• "this deponent well knoweth that by reason of the sayd imbargoe noe English shipps were permitted to lade wines there without paying indulto or admission money to the Officers of the King of Spaine"

- HCA 13/71 f.175r Case: Travers against Burridge and Spicer ; Deposition: 5. Henry Negus of London Merchant aged 32 yeares; Date: 30/04/1656^[2]

Use of ships of other nations, in breach of the Navigation act

Martin Noell and Alderman Nathaniel Tem(m)s exported goods from Barbados in a Dutch ship bound for the United Provinces

William Poole, a thirty year old mariner from the Borough of Southwarke, was deposed on behalfe of Martin Noell and Alderman Nathaniel Tem(m)s, whose goods had been impounded in Barbados. They had been attempting to ship goods from Barbados in a Dutch ship, allegedly bound for the United Provinces, in breach of the Navigation Act. Their and others goods, together wth the ship, had been detained.

• "15. To the first article of the sayd allegation hee saith that

16. for severall yeares last past all forraigners not subjects of this
17. Commonwealth have bin prohibited all trade and commerce
18. with the Inhabitants of the Iland of the Barbados without
19. speciall licence first obteyned from this Commonwealth soe
20. to trade there but for more certaynetie referreth him selfe
21. to the lawes Statutes and ordinances arlate And further
22. to this article hee cannot depose/.
23. To the second article of the sayd allegation hee saith that hee this
24. deponent was one of the Company of the Swift Sure a shipp
25. in the Imediate service of this Commonwealth and ˹in˺ her arrivall
26. about the latter end January 1654 English style at the Island
27. of the Barbados And saith that at the sayd shipps comming thither ˹with the rest of the States ffleete˺
28. the Strong Rowland alias the Jamaica Merchant arlate a dutch shipp and some other dutch
29. shipps were then at the Barbados tradeing and trafiquing with
30. the Inhabitants there for sugars and other Commodities which the sayd
31. Iland afforded and saith that soone after the arrivall of the Swift
32. Sure aforesayd the sayd shipp the Strong Rowland and the other
33. dutch shipps were by order of the honorable the Comissioners
34. for the mannageing of affaires in America seized upon with such
35. ladeing as they had on board them, and all other goods whatsoever
36. by them brought thither to trade with, in Whose hands soever they
37. were found ˹on˺ off shoare And hee this being deponent being by
38. order of the sayd Commissioners imployed to goe on board the
39. sayd shipp Strong Rowland and the other shipps soe seized to take
40. an Inventory of their tackles furnitures and ladeings on
41. board them hee this deponent did accordingly performe the same
42. and coming aboard the strong Rowland aforesayd found that shee
43. had in hold in casks great and smale as hogsheads butts ˹and˺ barrells
44. about two hundred caske of Muscovadoe sugar and other goods
45. to the quantitie of a third part of her ladeing ˹of˺ which goods

1. some fowerteene caske of sugar being claymed and made appeare
2. to belong to English men they were againe restored to the laders of them by order of the
3. sayd Commissoners and the rest of the ladeing together with
4. the shipp the strong Rowland and her tackle furniture and Ammuni=
5. tion for that the same could not then bee made appeare to belong
6. to any the subiects of this Commonwealth were detayned by
7. the sayd Commissioners as lawfull prize, for trading contr
8. there contrary to the lawes in that behalfe made And hee this depo=
9. nent did observe that the Master and Company of the sayd shipp
10. strong Rowland were all all dutch men and hearde the Master
11. of her confesse that hee was a hollander or dutchman and
12. that the sayd shipp did then belong to holland and therefore And
13. further to this article hee cannot depose/

35. To the 4th hee saith that hee heard the Master of the sayd shipp confesse
36. that shee was a holland shipp and belonged to dutch men and was
37. bound for holland with her ladeing, but the names of the Owners
38. of her or her ladeing, hee knoweth not nor hath hearde, and saith
39. hee doth knowe what Port shee did belong to when ˹she was˺ seized on but remem=
40. breth not the name thereof having not his Inventary aforesayd about
41. him and further cannot answere/"

1. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.207r
2. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.175r
3. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.427r; HCA 13/71 f.427v