Tools: HCA 1/50

HCA 1/50

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Created page, 04/03/2015 by CSG

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HCA 1/50 is a volume of records from criminal caes which came before the English Admiralty Court between 1634 and 1653.

We are interested specifically in the record of trial of John Lockier, master of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant. For background on John Lockier and his ship see: Cannibal tales.

The record is in C17th legal latin. Below you will find an extremely rough transcription of the record by a non-latinist. We would appreciate help in perfecting the latin transcription, and in making an accurate english translation.

For further background on individuals mentioned in the record:

John Lockier

Thirty year old master of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant. One of the freighters of the ship. Resident in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in August 1650, after returning from Virginia, where he abandoned his wrecked ship. Deponent in a civil case concerning the unpaid wages of six of his crew, brought before the High Court of Admiralty in August 1650 in the names of Hugh Lockier, George Spurgeon/Spurgin, Richard Paile, Nicholas Paddocke and Thomas Reason.

Richard Batson

Highly litigious London merchant, with a record of defaulting on terms of charter parties and failimng to pay mariners' wages. Born ca. 1601. d. 1667. Citizen and cutler of London. Active in the 1640s and 1650s in trade with West Africa (slaves), Barbados (sugar), Virginia, and Spitzbergen (whales). For more on Richard Batson see: Richard Batson

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Current Transcription

<header>
<series>HCA 1/50</series>
<folio>ff.154v-155r</folio>
<folder>114_03</folder>
<picture>IMG_6851</picture>
<summary></summary>
<document-date></document-date>
<status>First cut transcription started and completed on 04/03/2015 by Colin Greenstreet</status>
<first-transcriber>Colin Greenstreet</first-transcriber>
</header>

[TEXT OMITTED IN UPPER PART OF FOLIO]

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Offay duorum con Capitany}
John Lockier}

Die Jovis decimus
die mensis Octobris
Anno domini 1650 Coram
doctoribus Clerke et Exton et Willimus
Stephens [?Ar] Judicbus [?a] [?XX] [?Camera]
doctoris Exton [?puXX] John Martyn notorio
publica [?XX] comparuit dictus Capitaneus John
Lockier et produ[?xit] in fide[XX] [?XXores] Richard
Batson parochia sancti Botulphi Billingsgate mercator
et Thomam Jancey parochia Sancti Laurentij in [?XXeri]
[?Judeasimo] mecratorum qui submitten se [?Xe]
obligarunt [?se] [?qe] Custodibus sivertats Anglei
[?qe] pro dicto John Lockier in summa quinqentaru[?m]
[?XXbrazu] legalis [?qe] quod [?XXXs] Lockier [?per] [?XXXX]
[?conspebit] cora Judicibus pred etalijs [?JusitXXXs]
supreme Curia Admirallitats Anglia
proxima sessione [?XXXla] deliberaconus Apud
Pretoriu in Burgo de Southwarke [?XXXX]
[?XXXXX] [?hys] quXXei] [?sume] et ibij obijrient[?s] et
[?XXXX]

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Current Transcription

<header>
<series>HCA 1/50</series>
<folio>ff.155v-156r</folio>
<folder>114_03</folder>
<picture>IMG_6852</picture>
<summary></summary>
<document-date></document-date>
<status>First cut transcription started and completed on 04/03/2015 by Colin Greenstreet</status>
<first-transcriber>Colin Greenstreet</first-transcriber>
</header>

[?tunc] non recedit absqr venia [?qe] et dictus
Lockier [?XXXX] submittens se [?qe] obligavit
se [?gie] in [?sXXXia] atqr ad o[XXXX] pred et da
[?conservande] [?dros] fidem [?XXXres] [?Xuos] indem pues et
ne[?susu] Et tunc comparueru?it Proscitta
Lockier [?XXX] [?XXX um] per [?XXXX] hugonis
Lockier de Gunn Ally in Wappinge et
Sara Sourgeon nunc [?ves] [?nu] per [?XXX] Georgij
Spurgeon habitans prope [?ha] Greene bancke
in Wappinge et submitten se [?qe] obligart
se [?qe] Custodinus libertats [?Augsue] [?e] da
prosequo?nd proxima sessione goale deliberationis
pro [?hac] Curia Apud Pretorim in Burgo
de Southwarke [?XXXX], con prefatum Capitaneus
John Lockier Et [?in ?se ?qe]. Et ipso et eodem
tempore quidam Phillippus Stephens
parochia Sancti Jacobi [?XXXX] [?XXXX] [?XX] et georgius
Putt de Shadwell in Comitatu Middlesex nauta
presentes in [?indico] obligarunt se [?qe] [?XXX et ?XXXXX ?cora per se ?XXXij] Custodibus
[?XX] in summa Centum libraru segulis [?XX] de
[?com XXXX] et per [?XXXX] annem quam [?neveruit] [?veritatem]
[?his] que prefato Capitaneo Johanni Lockier
proxima Sessedue goale deliberatonis coram
Judicibus et Justitiarijs pro Admirallitata
Apud Protorud in Burgo de Southwarke
[?seXXX] [?obijcients et [?nesesa]./