William Lary

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William Lary
Person William Lary
Title
First name William
Middle name(s)
Last name Lary
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Gunner
Associated with ship(s) London (Master: Jacob Gray)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Marke
Has opening text William Lary
Has signoff text WW
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Language skills English language
Has interpreter
Birth street
Birth parish
Birth town
Birth county
Birth province
Birth country
Res street Limehouse
Res parish Stepney
Res town
Res county Middlesex
Res province
Res country England
Birth year 1596
Marriage year
Death year
Probate date
First deposition age 57
Primary sources
Act book start page(s)
Personal answer start page(s)
Allegation start page(s)
Interrogatories page(s)
Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/70 f.408v Annotate
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Act book date(s)
Personal answer date(s)
Allegation date(s)
Interrogatories date(s)
Deposition date(s) Jun 2 1655
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 In immediate service of the Commonwealth
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

William Lary (b. ca. 1596; d. ?). Mariner.

Gunner of the ship the London (Master: Jacob Gray) in September 1653, when she was in the service of the English Commonwealth.

Resident in 1655 in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Fifty-seven year old William Lary deposed on June 2nd 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined in "A busines of ensurance on the behalfe of John Steevens of Lee in the County of Essex mariner concerning an average susteyned in the shipp London.[1]

The case concerned a claim for insurance on the ship the London, which had been badly damaged in a six day long storm ten leagues off Yarmouth. The crew had been forced to cut away cables, anchors and ropes, and had lost a large brass gun over the side. The hull too had experienced much damage.

William Lary was an exceptionally experienced mariner having "been a seaman these forty yeares". He had known the ship the London for twenty of those years, and had been her gunner at the time of the storm. He described the ship "riding at anchor with the ffleete under the command of Generall Monke off of Yarmouth" when "there happened a most strange, violent and tempestuous storme" which William Lary "never saw the like though he hath bin in many".[2]

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/70 f.408v
  2. HCA 13/70 f.409r