Robart Humphry

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Robart Humphry
Person Robart Humphry
Title
First name Robart
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Last name Humphry
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Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Mate
Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
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Has opening text Robert Humphry
Has signoff text Robart Humphry
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Language skills English language
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Res street Wapping
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Res county Middlesex
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Res country England
Birth year 1619
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First deposition age 40
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Has infobox completed Yes
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Ship classification
Type of ship Merchant ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Robart Humphry (alt. Robart Humphry) (b. ca. 1619; d. ?). Mariner.

Mate of the ship the Summer Island Merchant in XXX.

Resident in 1659 in Wapping.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty year old Robart Humphry deposed on February 2md 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel on behalf of Thomas Taylor and Loys his wife in the cause of "Thomas Taylor and Loys his wife against the shipp the Summer Islands Merchant and against John Jenkins master of the said ship.[1]

The case concerned the ownership of twenty-eight cedar chests of tobacco, seventy rolls of tobacco, and "a good quantity of oranges". The goods had been laden on board the ship the Summer Island Merchant at the Bermudas by Loys Taylor, wife of Thomas Taylor, to be transported to England. On the ship's arrival at London, her master, John Jennkins, refused to deliver the oranges to Loys Taylor, despite her demanding the oranges, together with the tobacco, from Jenkins.[2]

Robert Humphry was a witness to the lading of the said goods, saying that "hee went out, and came home mate of the said ship the Summer Island Merchant and sawe the foresaid goods on board the said ship, at the Bermudas, and tooke a noate in writing of the same saving the said oranges".[3]

The ship had been almost fully laden at the time that Loys Taylors's tobacco and oranges were laden. Humphry stated that "the said Jenkins for convenient stowage of the said chests broke up eight of the said cedar chests, (but whether they were all broken up by and with the consent of the said Lois Taylor hee knoweth not". Whereas the tobacco was in good condition on arrival, the oranges were rotten. Humphry was unable to testify to the condition of the goods when they were stowed, believing theat the ship's company had stowed them well, but "hee cannot affirme it because hee kept aloft to see the comming of the goods, and was not in hold". He described the state of the fruit on its arrival in London, saying "a greate many of the oranges that were brought home in the shipp were perished by long lying, and rotting and casualtie of the passage".[4]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/73 f.34r
  2. HCA 13/73 f.34r
  3. HCA 13/73 f.34r
  4. HCA 13/73 f.34v