Thomas Basse

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Thomas Basse
Person Thomas Basse
Title
First name Thomas
Middle name(s)
Last name Basse
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation One of the Company
Associated with ship(s) Agreement (Master: Giles Lawrence)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text Thomas Base
Has signoff text Thomas Basse
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Language skills English language
Has interpreter
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Res town Saxmunden
Res county Suffolk
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Res country England
Birth year 1625
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First deposition age 28
Primary sources
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/68 f.337v Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Dec 14 1653
How complete is this biography?
Has infobox completed Yes
Has synthesis completed No
Has HCA evidence completed No
Has source comment completed No
Ship classification
Type of ship Merchant ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Thomas Basse (alt. Base) (b. ca. 1625; d. ?). Mariner. One of the company of the Agreement'.

Resident in 1653 in Saxmunded in the county of Suffolk.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Twenty-eight year old Thomas Basse deposed on December 14th 1653 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the cause of "Richard Hall John Hallett".[1]

The case concerned the loss of the Agreement, a ship of two hundred tuns burthen and eighteen guns, to Tripoly pirates and the enslavement of the surviving members of the ship's company.[2]

Arriving at Zant, the master and company of the Agreement found few oils to lade. "Only some of the mariners laded in there some small adventures in currants which afterwards were safely brought to Coronna".[3] At the request of George ffarington, the Zant factor, the Agreement sailed to Coronoa "about 30. leagues farther for the taking up the sayd oyles there". But Thomas Basse and his fellow mariners "knowing how dangerous a place Corona was and how much the passage was infested by pyrates absolutely refused to goe to Corona unlesse they might be fully secured to and att Corona and from thence back againe to Zant". Basse describes a "contract and covenant" being drawn up between Giles Lawrence, the master of the ship, and George ffarington the factor, promising to secure the ship and mariners.[4]

Despite the promised security, the ship was attacked fifteeen leagues outside Zant on its return trip by a Triply man of war and "her oyles were burnt blowne up and lost in the seas". Giles Lawrence, Thoamas Basse, and "several others of the shipps company that escaped alive from that calamity were carryed to Tripoly and there made slaves for about 16 monethes".[5]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/68 f.337v
  2. HCA 13/68 f.338v
  3. HCA 13/68 f.338r
  4. HCA 13/68 f.338r
  5. HCA 13/68 f.338r