Geographical and Place Terms

Geographical and Place Terms

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Purpose of this page

This page provides a dictionary of geographical and place terms taken from mid-C17th High Court of Admiralty documents.

MarineLives project members are encouraged to add to the terms listed and to add short illustrative snippets from sample transcriptions available at Admiralty Court Cases. The appropriate HCA reference, together with folio number, if available, should be noted in brackets after the snippet.

Index

A

Achean (= Achin; Achine; Acheene) ("Achean on the coast of the Island of Sumatra" (HCA 13/73))
Achine ("y:e Queene of Achine" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Affrica (= Africa) ("the shippe the Providence was of London, and belonged to the Royall Company of English Merchants tradeing for Africa, and was come to trade for them upon the Coast of Affrica" (HCA 23/19 no f., but recto))
Aldermanburie (HCA 13/71 f.??))
Aleppo ("William ffookes and Richard Chowne then living in one of the houses belonging to the English factory in Aleppo" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Allecante (= Alicante; Allegant) (" went from Ligorne to Allecant and there tooke in goods & went therewith to Lisbon" (HCA 13/73))
All Hallowes Barking ("ROBERT TINDALL of the parish of All Hallowes Barking London Mariner, aged 48 yeares or thereabouts sworne before the right hon:le John Godolphin doctor of lawes one of the Judges of the High Court of the Admiraltie and examined upon certaine Interries as witness on the behalfe of the said Alderman Ricard and others" (HCA 13/71 f. 242r))
Amsterdam ("shee carried in her from Amsterdam linnen, woollen, silkes, and XXX pipes of wine" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "y:e Sole & propper Account of the said Alfonso Gomez Dias, Merch:t of Amsterdam" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "JOHN JOHNSON BOSCH of Amsterdam Mariner aged 27 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Andra Ponza = Indra Ponza, Sumatra ("the said ship as aforesaid at Andra (sic) Ponza" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Angola ("the freights that were made by the said shipp from Lisbone to the Maderas and from the Maderas to Angola were made by Capt Ell in in his life tyme and that hee & his purser kept the Accompts thereof were the pffits thereof" (HCA 13/129 no fol. no., verso, Case: XXXX: Answer: XXXX: Date: X))
?Antiego ("hee was absent at ?Antiego upon the imployment of the arlate Luke Woods whilst the things arlate were transeacting" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Antwerp (= Antwerpe) ("hee this deponent was borne at Antwerpe under the dominion of the Kinge of Spaine and hath lived for these 10 yeares last in England & is a ffree man of the Cittie of London where hee hath lived for the most pt of the sayd tyme" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Archangell
Austin Friars ("the Owners of the said shippe the May flower when shee went last from this port of London were as followeth viz:t S:r Thomas Somes of Soper Lane London Grocer of 3/16 pts M:r William Cockayne of Austin Fryers London owner of 3/16 p:t M:r Richard Clutterbucke owner of 1/16 p:t M:r Robert Whitlock of London of 1/16 p:t M:r Holmes of Glocestershire (as the XXXXtriss) of 1/16 M:r Humphrey fford of London of 1/16 p:t M:r Harris of Leigh of 1/16 p:t M:r Theophilus Smith of London 1/32 p:t M:r XXXcrofte of Islington Owner of 1/32 pt M:r Whitall of Towerwharfe of 1/32 M:r Skinner of 1/32 p:r M:r Francis Flyer of 1/32 p:t M:r ?Hoverlyne of Wapping of 1/32 p:t M:r George Smith XX of 1/32 p:t M:r Geo: Swift of London of 1/32 and lastly hee this deponent is owner of 1/16 pt of the said ship" (HCA 13/64 f.32r))

B

Badajos ("this Depo:t [MANUEL DE FONSECA of London Merchant, aged 21 yeeres] was borne at Badajos in Spaine, and is a Batchelo:r and hath lived for theise six yeeres last in this City, and for foure yeeres before hee lived in ffrance and Holland" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Bantam ("the said Van Voozt on or about the said Nineteenth of Octob:r 1657: Caused the sd Captaine Taylo:r and Company to Depart from Indra Ponza, and sailed with the Bantam ffrigot in her way to Bantam. neere w:ch place arriving the said Van Voozt, nor any other of the Dutch shipps Lying before Bantam, soe that y:e Bantam ffrigot was Constrained to goe to Battavia" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Bantam Roade ("there were aboard the said Ship ffrancis and John two and thirty Musketts w:ch were taken by this depot for the sayd ships use after her coming into Bantam Roade" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Bantham

Map of Barbados, Lygon, R. (London, 1657)^[1]

Lygon, R, Map of Barbados (London, 1657)

Barbadas
Barbadoas
Barbados ("the said Mountjoy is ready to depose upon oath, he being at the Island of Barbados at that tyme the Lord Willowby of Parham came thither; being about y:e moneth of May 1650 the said War M:r at first caused the Gunnes to be made ready pretending it was to stand in his owne defence against the Lord Willowby but presently after the said Ward M:r went aboard, & had private conferrence with the Lord Willowby and the seamen of y:e ship Parramore were commanded to pvide their skiffe in readinesse w:th Armes under pretence to secure their said M:r from harme, but straight they were commanded by y:e said Ward M:r to Ayd Certaine of y:e Malignant Parties a?shore and to secure them from Capt:n Strong, and Captain Starre who otherwise might have apprehended them for the states of England" (HCA 1/8 f.?8?))
Barbadoes ("The Barbadoes" (HCA 13/73))
Bermudas ("were upon the said seizure taken by the said Captaine James and XXXX XXX (in their said man of warr) and carried to Bermudas"(HCA 13/73))

The Coast of Barbary & the Maroc to Quibriche Caravan Route, Manesson, A., 1719^[2]

Barbary ("the rest of the said goods w:ch shee had on board, were by direction & advise of the said Pickford or Ward carried in the said Ship, to the Coast of Barbary" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Barking ("Jacobus Mann, of Barking, London, Merchant, aged 67" (HCA 13/64 f.?))
Barnstable ("ROBERT DOWNE of Barnstable in the County of Devon late purser of the ship of fflyboate called y:e Agreement aged 27 yeares or thereabouts" (HCA 13/64 f.7r))
Batavia (" Godfrey ?Jonas (whom hee XXXX know) was Gunner of the ship the ffrancis and John (Laurence XXXXing Mr) and departed this life at Batavia in East India about fourteene monthes since" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Battavia ("this Depo:t, and Captaine Isaac Taylo:r were Comanded to Appeare before the arlate John Martsuyker the Generall of and for the Dutch East India Company at Battavia w:ch they according (sic) did" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Bermudas ("after the said shipps departure from hence she came and arrived at the Bermudas where shee discharged pt of her passengers w:ch shee brought from hence abord her" (HCA 13/64 f.15r))
Biddeford ("whither hee doth not know beleeve or hath heard that the said fower tonnes and ten sticks of Logwood were sold by the said Jeremiah Sweetman or some other of the said English that arrived in the said Shippe unto some of the Inhabitants of Barnstaple Biddeford or ?Northam before the same were arrested by authority of this Court" (HCA 23/19 no fol. no.))
Bilbao
Bilboa ("he saw a letter at Bilboa frō the sayd Bodkin att Nantes directed to ffrancis Bodkins att Bilboa, ordering him to procure the like summe of moneyes, and this deponent knoweth that the sayd ffrancis Bodkins bought and procured the same accordingly" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.33r))
Binney ("hee well knoweth that the producente Rowland Wilson John Wood and company aclate, Marchants trading to the partes of Ginney, Binney and the Gould coast" (HCA 13/64 f.23r)
Birchin Lane ("Examined upon an accon on y:e behalfe of y:e sayd Batson WILLIAM TICKELL of Birchen Lane London merchant aged forty three yeares or thereabouts, a witness sworne and examined" (HCA 13/71 f. 167v))
Biscay ("JACOME JUAN of ?Deva in Biscay Mariner, aged 28 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Bishopsgate streete ("JAMES DOWNE of London Marchant living in Bishopsgate streete at the signe of the Bull aged 38 yeares or thereabouts sworne & examined" (HCA 13/71 f.102r))
Blackwall ("after such time as the sd ship arlate arrived at Blackwall this rendent did give the sd Gosling a Cup of beere at London & tould him when the ship was discharged he would talke further with him about the voiage in question or to that effect" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no. recto & verso, Case: Edward Gosling, wages: Answer: Richard Batson: Date: XXXX))
Boston ("River of Boston'" (HCA 13/1 f-??); "Mee Robert Hubbert of Boston in Newengland" (HCA 15/6, no fol. no., bill of lading, Dec. 20th 1655))
Brabant ("HENRIQUE JORGE MENDEZ of Antwerpe in Brabant merchant aged forty eight yeares or thereabouts a witnes" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.22r))
Braseele (" Thomas Ewans her Master did take upon him a new Voyage to be made from Lisbon to Braseele & thence back to Lisbon" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
The Brazeele (= Brazeeles) ("the sayd shipp at here goeing out had noe designe of goeing to Brazeele or any other parts of the West Indies" (HCA 13/73))
Brazil ("y:e said Wood was to be transported in y:e said Ship to London for y:e Account of the Portugall Brazil Company" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Braziles ("there was there Laden and put abord the said ship at Lisbone by his said employres A cargazoone of goods & Merchandizes w:ch were to bee transported in the said shipps for y:e Braziles for thre Accompt & others of that nation" (HCA 13/64 f.12r))
Brest ("the said Ship Thomas. about two yeares before. shee was seized by y:e sd three brest men of warr and sawe heer last in Brest harbour after y:e sd time that she was seized" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "hee hath not seene y:e sd Ship Thomas or any of her Anchors Cables. or sailes since her, being in Brest Harbo:r" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Bridges (= Bruges) ("one of the Actuaries of the Admiralty Court of Bridges" HCA XX/XX f. X))
Bristoll
Bruges (= Bridges) ("hee dayly expected the arrivalll of the sd ship Crowned Towne of Bruges at Bristoll, from Nantes w:th a lading of Salt Wine, Spiritts of wine or Brandy" (HCA 13/76 Part One f.58r))
Burdeaux ("Did you know the said shipp called the Willingminde of London of the burthen of 60 Tonne whereof Adam Browne was M:r: under God, at such time as shee was last in Ross in XX Ireland, when was she last there, was shee not then bound forth from thence on a voyage to Rochell and Burdeaux in ffrance or one of them and soe to returne to Waterford" (HCA 23/19))
Bugby's hole
Buttree (""August 1652 A Noate of w:t my fourty five hodgsheads of Corne Cost at Buttree" (HCA 15/6, Case: ?Jones & others XXX marriners of the Constant Ruth ag:t Holworthy & others: Item: A copy of an Account delivered by M:r Williams executors February 24:th 1654, f.4r))

C

Cadiz ("James Drawater did at Amsterdam about eight monethes since take the shipp the Anne aforesaid to freight for a voyage to be made with her from Amsterdam for Cadiz, there to deliver such goods as the said freighter should lade or cause to be laded aboard her, and to receive such other goods as by his order should at Cadiz be provided and brought to be reladed aboard her for this port to w:ch shee was to retourne therewith" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "JUAN THOMAS MILATI of Cadiz in Spayn merchant aged 23 yeares or thereabouts a witness sworne and examined deposeth and saith as followeth" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Caen ("deposeth That the double shallup or frigat named the ffrancis late of Deepe and nowe of this port of London of the burthen of thirteene tonnes or thereabouts where of David Barre was and is master was really and bona fide bought by John Samborne merchant (having procucacon from this deponent to that purpose) of the master David Barre at Caen in Normandie on or about the thirtieth day of March last past (newe stile) for the price and summe of twelve hundred and twenty livred Tournois upon and for the sole and proper accompt of hee this deponent really and truely paid for the same with his effects remayning in the said Sambornes hands" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Callis (= ?Calais) ("in her Course for Callis whither she was bound was taken and carryed to ?Amsterdam by fourteene Men of Warr, and was was (sic) there deteyned from about the beginning of December 1652 till about the 15:th day of Aprill 1653. Last past, upom p:rtence that she was comeing for some port in the Commonwealth of England" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.8v))
Calves ("y:e Islands fflowers and Calves, being two of the Westerene Islands" (HCA 13/73))
Canaries
Canaryes ("there was Newes brought thither that the English had taken Dunkirke, and had put all the Spaniards to the Sword after they had given them. quarter, And thereupon the Spaniards at the Canaryes were very much incensed ag:t the English And saith this was Publique and Notorious at Oratavo, & in the Road, and places thereabouts" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Candy ("there tooke in ballast & went to Trapanye & tooke in salt & carried the same to Venice, & there discharged the same about the 1?8:th. day of August 1655. as he beleeveth, And there this rendent was offered a fraight to Smirna & soe to Venice againe w:ch this rendent accepted of, but dureing such tyme as he was at Venice intreating about the same the Duke of Venice or his Officers forced this rendent & his sd ship into their Service contrary to this rendents good will & likeing to carry bread from thence to Candy for the ffleete w:ch this rendents ship accordingly did & arrived & delivered the same there in or about y:e beginning of december 1655" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no., verso, Case: Allegacon on the behalfe of Edward Paull & others: Personal answeres: William Wilmott: Date: XXXX))
Cape La Gulis ("did you not know That in the course of the said shipp homewards and upon, or about the 12:th of Aprill 16660 the M:r and Companie of the said shipp or some of them did espye the Land of Cape La Gulis beinge about 60, or 70 Leagues ti the Eastward of it" (HCA 23/19))
Caribbe Islands ("the aclate Robert Page was owner and lawfull proprietor and in possession of a certaine Negro and of a beaver hatt, and died possessed thereof on or about the 23:th day of June last on Nevis one of the Caribbe Islands" (HCA 13/64 f.19r))
Channell ("roaving up and downe in the English Channell" (HCA 23/19))
Charles-Towne (HCA 13/71 f.?))
Chatham ("John Bourman, of Chatham, Kent, Shipwright, aged 38" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Chelsey Colledge ("there were about twenty men belonging to the said Ship the said Voyage; whereof Seaven (with the said John Lopes are Spaniards, and foure of them are nowe in London being this day brought hether from Chelsey Colledge whereof this depo:t is one" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
The Island of Chepalonia ("kept the sayd Hosyer and ?his Company for some tyme prizoners in chaynes and afterwards turned them on shoare in the Island of Chepalonia" (HCA 13/73))
Ciprus Bashaw or Governor (on Ciprus) (HCA 3/47 f. 2v, Wed.,4th June 1656))
City of London ("JOHN STANNIAN of the citie of London gent., aged 26 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Civill (= Sevill)
Civitavecchia ("she might thence have gone with her outward lading to civitavecchia" HCA 13/71 f. 193r). A port near Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Coast of Barbara ("the foresaid Voyage both at Canaryes Maderas, and on the Coast of Barbara and all other places the said Ship the Lisbone ffrigot was at the Voyage in question" (HCA 13/73))
Coast of Barbary ("the rest of the said goods w:ch shee had on board, were by direction & advise of the said Pickford or Ward carried in the said Ship, to the Coast of Barbary and there sold, and Bartered the same for wax, and other Comodityes to y:e best Advantage to the said ffreighters" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Colburne ("the sayd shipp about nine yeares since was built att Colburne in Pomer land, and hath for the sayd nyne yeares Last past belonged to Dantzyck, the p:rmisses this deponent knoweth having lived in Dantzyck for and during all the sayd tyme., and is master
of the sayd shipp" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.8v))
Colestaires ("in the moneth of November last, as this depo:t was goeing to y:e Waterside; neere Colestaires, hee sawe one John Tyler, & some others talking and discoursing in a Carpenters yard with one Mordecay Yonge" (HCA 13/73))
Comana ("she departed in or about November 1657 to ?Comana a coast on the terra firma" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Comann ("hee came first aboard the shipp the S:t Mary interrogated on Comann in the West Indies, whence hee was hired and shipped by John Lopes, who apppeared there as Captaine of her" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Comando (= Comendo) ("Whether doe you know a certaine Shipp called the Providence whereof Thomas Cheves was master and Comander, if yea expresse so much, and whether doe you not know that the said shippe was lately and when bound out in the service of the Royall Company of Mrchants of England trading for Africa, and did arrive in the Rode of Comando in Affrica in or about September 1663" (HCA 23/19 no f.))

Prospect of Constantinople, Sandys, 1621^[3]

Sandys, Prospect of Constantinople (London, 1621)

Compter a small prison for debtors and vagrants; two were located north of the river at Wood Street and Poultry Street, and one was south of the river in Southwark. ("hee the said Southward presently caused him to be arrested, and carried away to the Compiter" HCA 13/71 f.413r)
Constantinople
Copeland Islands ("the said shipp...was...cast away neere about the Coplin Islands" HCA 13/71 f, 237v). A group of three islands in the north Irish Sea.
Corde ("William Best of Corde in the County of Dorset Mariner Gunners Mate of the Shipp Peace aged twenty two yeares or thereabouts" (HCA 13/73 Part Two)
Corfe ("WILLIAM BEST of Corfe in the County of Dorset Mariner Gunners Mate of the shipp Peace aged twenty two yeares" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Cormanteene ("No:101 Bought one man slave at Cormanteene 50 (barrs) 00 (Monies):188" (HCA 15/6, Case: ?Jones & others XXX marriners of the Constant Ruth ag:t Holworthy & others: Item: A copy of an Account delivered by M:r Williams executors February 24:th 1654, f.4v))
Corsica ("hee beleeveth Leghorne interrate to be about 10 or 15. leagues more out of the direct course from Zant to the straights mouth, than Corsica is" (HCA 13/71 f.?19?v))
Croskrey (= Croskery) ("hee understandes the Sampson but formerly the Johannes and saith that the sd ship did as hee beleeveth untill lately belong to ?Croskrey in Norway in the Dominions of the King of Denmarke; and to Hans Matson of Croskrey, a subject of the King of Denmarke & reputed to be borne in Norway" (HCA 13/76 Part Two f.201r))
Cyprus ("on or about the thirteenth day of November 1657: and ?from that day all the said marine:s schedulate entred into whole pay. and from Gravesend as aforesaid shee went to Yarmouth and there tooke in her Lading of ffish, and from thence sailed to Marcellis, and there delivered the same. and tooke in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus and there (after they had Cleared their hold of y:e ballast,) tooke in a Lading of Salt, and Caried the same to the port of Satalea, and there delivered her Salt, and tooke in XXXXX and sauled back againe to Cyprus, and tooke in another Lading of Salt, and caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and there delivered y:e same, and the last of y:e said Salt was delivered at Scanderoone on or about the fourth day of June 1658" (HCA 13/73 Part One))

D

Dansick ("Whether have the said James Mills and Benjamin Harrison both or one of them bee not allowed Twenty Pounds upon an East Country voyage from Dansick or Quinsbrough to London, besides the ?dennidge and severall other priviledges belonging to them or one of them as a Master of a shipp" (HCA 23/19))
Dantzijck
Debtford ("JOHN CARRIER of Debtford in the County of Kent Shipwright late Carpenters Mate of the Lady ffrigott aged twenty two yeares" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Deepe (= ?Diepe) ("deposeth That the double shallup or frigat named the ffrancis late of Deepe and nowe of this port of London of the burthen of thirteene tonnes or thereabouts where of David Barre was and is master was really and bona fide bought by John Samborne merchant (having procucacon from this deponent to that purpose) of the master David Barre at Caen in Normandie on or about the thirtieth day of March last past (newe stile) for the price and summe of twelve hundred and twenty livred Tournois upon and for the sole and proper accompt of hee this deponent really and truely paid for the same with his effects remayning in the said Sambornes hands" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Denia ("...and thence have gone to Denia" HCA 13/71 f. 193r.). A port in the province of Alicante, Spain halfway between Alicante and Valencia.
Denmark
Deptford ("HENRY HUGHES of Deptford in the County of Kent Merchant aged 28 or thereabouts" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
?Deva ("JACOME JUAN of ?Deva in Biscay Mariner, aged 28 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Devon ("HANIBAL ROWE de Sheldon in Com Devon clothier etatis 35" (HCA 13/64 f.19v))
Dorchester ("in the moneth of September last the producent John Davy being XXX to reade with this deponent and with his brother living in Dorchester in Devon being clothiers for cloth upon his the said producents owne accompt, bought two ends of broad cloth of this deponents said brother in lawe named Peter ?Colway" (HCA 13/64 f.20v))
Dorset (= Dorsett) ("WILLIAM BEST of Corfe in the County of Dorset Mariner Gunners Mate of the shipp Peace aged twenty two yeares" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Dort ("whether was James Yard Junior an English ffactor in ?Dort then p:rsent when the same were bought by his Order" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Dover ("John Tilly for about for about Nine or Tenne yeeres last hath lived and resided at Amsterdam as a merchant Stranger, and for about tenne yeeres bifore (sic), the said Tilly lived at Dover here in England, where this Depo:t first knewe him, and there the said Tilly his Mother lived with the said Tilly for many yeeres who was an Irish woman: & Could speake noe other Language than Irish" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "The clayme of Daniell Skinner the Elder) Daniell Skinner the Younger & Thomas Skinner)English Marchants of Dover7 for the shipp) the Younge Gyant of Dover (Robert Hopkins M:r) & her tackle & furniture & for her ladeing of) the sayde shipp being XXXX Taken by) some of the shipps of the State & Commonwealth ) of England" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Downes ("sett saile in and with the said ship and some goods in her from the Downes in or about the moneth of February 1656 (accordinge to the English stile) for Bantam" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Duke Streete (in parish of Stepney) ("this depo:t was p:rsent as this depo:ts house; at the signe of the Ship neere Duke ?Streete" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Dukes place ("DIEGO FLIPE ?KERCHOVER of Dukes place London Marchant aged 21 yeares or thereabouts" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Dunkirke ("there was Newes brought thither that the English had taken Dunkirke, and had put all the Spaniards to the Sword after they had given them. quarter" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Dunquirke ("the said owners bought the said shipp (as this deponent hath bin informed) at Dunquirke about two yeares since, but this deponent was not present nor knoweth ought of the payment therefore" (HCA 13/69 no f.); "from a month before Michaelmas last or there hee this deponent hath bin master of the said shipp the S:t ffrancis and come first aboard her then at Hamburgh as master thereof, and that a Dunquirke as this deponent was told XX bin master of her next before this deponent, who having bin plundred in the Elbe; had lost the said shipp at Hamburgh 3 or 4 monethes befoer this deponent became master of her" (HCA 13/69 no f.)
Dunwich ("JOSIAS HARRISON of Dunwich in Suffolk apprentice to Samuel ?Driver of the Sus?tan, aged 12 yeares or thereabouts" (HCA 13/69 no f.))

E

The East Indias ("after y:e Departure of the said Bantam ffrigot from the East Indias as a foresaid shee set saile for Legorne" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
East countrey ("it being very notorious & well knowne to the sd M:r Wayn Wright & all other mrchants that use the East countrey trade that every Last of wheate payeth one dollar the charges at Stettin & Stralsound" (HCA 13/129 no fol. no., recto))
East Countrye ("on or about the third day of October in the yeare 1652 the sayd shipp sett sayle from Dantzyck and sayled to ?Rya a place likewise in the East Countrye and there tooke in a lading of hempe flax tarr Clap boards and other like goods" (HCA 13/68 Part ne f.8v))
East Smith feild ("Examined upon an allon on behalfe of y:e Keeps of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament. JOHN MAJOR of East Smith feild in the County of Midds Leiftenanant of the Elizabeth frigot in the immediate service of this Commonwealth aged five and twenty yeares or thereabouts a witnes" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.23r))
Eastlands (= the Eastlands)
Elbe ("from a month before Michaelmas last or there hee this deponent hath bin master of the said shipp the S:t ffrancis and come first aboard her then at Hamburgh as master thereof, and that a Dunquirke as this deponent was told XX bin master of her next before this deponent, who having bin plundred in the Elbe; had lost the said shipp at Hamburgh 3 or 4 monethes befoer this deponent became master of her" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Elgeta ("BENITO DEYRIGOIN of Elgeta in Biscay Mariner aged 18 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Emms ("what papers were on board the sd shipp came to the hands of y:e Captaine of y:e Crowne ffrigott that tooke and seized them off the River of Emms upon y:e Coast of Holland without concealing or making away any of them" (HCA 13/76 f.5v))
England
English Channell ("roaving up and downe in the English Channell" (HCA 23/19): "Whether the sd shippe the Nativity when (as itt is p:rtended) shee was seized by Captaine Colarte was nott she seized in the English Channell and in sight of land" (HCA 23/19: Document Number: 4: Case: XXXX: Date: XXXX: no f., but recto))
Europe ("(From the Spanish West Indies) and ?then departed to goe for Europe" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "the said Ship set saile from Batavia for Europe w:th such Pepper as shee had taken in before the said 11:th of October, shee not being pmitted to take in any goods whatsoever afterwards in those parts that this depo:t knoweth of" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
The Exchange ("y:e said Bridges advised this depo:t XX delivered the said Letters to y:e merch:ts to whom they were directed and the said M:r Bridges to that End went along with this depot to the Exchange; where hee delivered the said Letters according to thir Superscriptions" (HCA 13/73 Part One))

F

ffalmouth ("y:e said ship in her outward voyage lay about thirteene dayes windbound at ffalmouth and Pendennis Castle" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
ffalmouth Harbour ("the said Ship lay winde bound at ffalmouth Harbour on her outward Voyage for about thirteen dayes" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
ffanchurch Streete ("WILLIAM INIANS of ffanchurch Streete London Mariner late Masters Mate of the James aforesayd aged twenty two yeares or thereabouts a wittnes" (HCA 13/71 f.112r))
fflanders ("the proceed thereof to be imployed in the service and upon the Occasion of his sayd Catholique Ma:ty in Italy and fflanders, the p:rmisses this deponent knoweth to be true for that hee is under paymaster Generall of the King of Spaines Army in fflanders" (HCA 13/68 f.22r)); "hee was present out of employm:t and was formerly a Captaine in y:e Duke of Yorkes Army in fflanders" (HCA 13/76 f.25v))
?ffloowbridge ("THOMAS FISHER: Living at ?ffloowbridge London Fishmonger, aged 46 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
fflowers ("y:e Islands fflowers and Calves, being two of the Westerene Islands" (HCA 13/73))
ffrederick stadt (= ffrederickstadt)
fflushen ("Att what Ports beyond the Seas hath the said shippe traded this voyage, Putt him in minde of his oath and lett him declare whether ?some of the goods that are nowe claymed did not com from some English Plantacon beyond the Sea, and Whether the ship since shee went from fflushen was nott att some English Plantacon" (HCA 23/19 no fol. no verso, Document Number: 10: Case: XXXX: Date: XXXX))
fflushing ("ABRAHAM PETERSON of fflushing Mariner Stiersman of the said shipp the S:t ffrancis, aged 26 yeares or thereabouts" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
France
ffrederickstadt ("the Interr shipp the ?Death belongeth and hath belonged to ffrederickstadt ever since her building there which happened about five or six yeares since, and was hired to serve in the sd shipp; Death, about Easter last by the Skipper named Hance Decker le Doate, at ffrederickstadt, where the owners of her live" (HCA 13/76f.5v); "the Nettle leafe the ffrederickstadt fflag was on board" (HCA 13/76f.5v))

G

Gallaway ("THOMAS MARTIN of Gallaway in Ireland merchant aged five and twenty yeares a witnes" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.33r))
Gazachico "after she went away from Oratava either to Gazachico [near Oratavo Road]" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Genoa ("her voyage from London to Genoa in the Streights and there discharged her outward ladeing" (HCA 13/73); "hee beleeveth there was peace, and Amity betweene the Comonwealth and the State of Genoa. and their subjects the time arlate" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Ginny ("hyred by Godfrey Jones the M:r of the Ship the Content to serve in the said shipp from hence to Ginny, & to other ports & places in the West Indies and so home againe to this port of London" (HCA 13/129 no fol. no., Personal answers of Robert Oxwick, William Weilday and John Jefferyes: Allegation: John White & others: Date: 4th Feb. 1658))
Ginney ("hee well knoweth that the producente Rowland Wilson John Wood and company aclate, Marchants trading to the partes of Ginney, Binney and the Gould coast" (HCA 13/64 f.23r); "they beleeve that the sd ship did dept from Gravesend about September or October 1647. & from thence (as they have heard & beleeve went to Ginney & there tooke in Negroes, & with them sayled to Barbadoes on their owne accord" (HCA 13/129 no fol. no., Personal answers of Robert Oxwick, William Weilday and John Jefferyes: Allegation: John White & others: Date: 4th Feb. 1658))
Gould coast ("hee well knoweth that the producente Rowland Wilson John Wood and company aclate, Marchants trading to the partes of Ginney, Binney and the Gould coast" (HCA 13/64 f.23r)
Gravesend ("the sayd shipp the Peace being in the yeare 1656 fitted for the voyage in question fell downe from London to Gravesend" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "after she shall be cleared at Gravesend" (HCA 23/19))
The Great James [in Bishopsgate Street, London]
Greenland ("all the parties allegate were hyred to serve in the vessell the Greyhound allegate by order of these rendents as they beleeve for the wages expressed in the schedule annexed to these rendents answeres and noe more as they beleeve for a fishing voiage to be made in the sd vessell for Greeneland & the ports & harbours thereabouts" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no., recto, Case: XXXX: Answer: Richard Batson, Humphrey Beane, & Gowen Goldegay: Date: January 13th 1656 (57)))
Guaraarhirhe ("hee this dep:t hath resided in London for almost two yeares last past and hath constantly lodged at M:r Davies his house in Dukes place London where hee lodgeth at present, and is a Native of the place of Guaraarhirhe in the Canarie Islands" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Guinney ("this depo:t put into y:e Guinney frigot about three weekes before y:e sd disaster happened" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Gulf of Honduras (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Guelfe of Honduras ("the ?Guelfe of Honduras" (HCA 13/73))
Guernsey
Gurnsey

H

Hamborow ("the first person or clubfoated fellow said that they were bound for Hamborow. Although as hee saith the Clubfooted fellow spoke a great deale better English than the other did, and this depo:t better understood him" (HCA 13/76 f.7v))
Hamburgh ("the said Otto hath lived there [Amsterdam] for theise twelve yeeres last: And for soe long hee hath bin a Subject of the States of the United Netherlands, but was borne at Hamburgh" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "the allegate S:r Marcuo Verolo de Silvera, was for all the time allegate and is resident at Lixon and the said Duarte Munez de la Costa for all the time aforesaid hath beene and is resident att hamburgh and is a merchant there" (HCA 13/129 no fol. no., recto, Personal answers of Augustine Coronell: Allegation: John Thacker: Date: June 23rd 1659))
Havana ("goods for Havana" (HCA 13/73); "Santa ?Cruse was built in CoXXXpeXye in the West Indies about foure yeeres since, where the said Captaine Joseppo Sinnego bought her and brought her to ?Vera Cruce wheare the said Captaine XXXed her with goods for Havana" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Holland ("ALLEN ALLENSON of EuXXXXX in Holland Mariner, aged fourtie yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Holsatia lat. ("DITL?OF HENDRICKSON de ffrederickstat in Holsatia Nauta" (HCA 13/76 f.12r)
?Holstatia lat. (= ? Holstein; Holsten)
Holsten ("was hired to serve in the sd shipp; Death, about Easter last by the Skipper named Hance Decker le Doate, at ffrederickstadt, where the owners of her live, but who are the owners are what their names are or of what parts they are owners hee knowteth not but beleeveth them to bee ffree persons under the Dominions of the Duke of Holsten" (HCA 13/76 f.5v))
Holsteyne ("they the sd owners are said to bee Burgers and inhabitants of ffrederickstadt a ffreecity in the Dominions of the Duke of Holsteyne And when hee is at home he liveth with his parents housekeepers and dwellers in the liberties of y:e city of ffrederickstadt being a Batchelo:r" (HCA 13/76 f.6r))
Holy yeland ("This Rendent saith that the sayd shipp the Lewis or ?Lowisa was taken neere to Holy yeland by the Kentish frigot whereof Capt Reynolds was Commander and this Rendent masters mate" (HCA 13/68 f.22r))
Honduras ("the said Ship went from Amsterdam to an Island, w:ch as hee taketh is called Trinidad. and from thence went to Comana, and thence to Truxilla and there delivered out severall of the said outward goods and thence went to Honduras and there delivered the rest of the said outward goods. and tooke in Chests of Indico and Druggs" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
The Hope ("the sayd shipp about the latter end of the sayd moneth of January 1648 fell downe to the Hope" (HCA 13/73))
Horne ("y:e said Otto and Thompson or Tymison, have had their Dwelling places in Holland namely y:e sd Otto at Amsterdam; and the said Thompson or Tymison neere Horne, in North Holland" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Horsey Downe ("RICHARD ROLFE of Southampton, but lodging at present in Horsey Downe mariner, late Boatswaine of the ship the Lisbone ffrigot, aged 23 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Hoyes

I

Indra Ponza ("the said Captaine Van Voozt, did send one of ?his foresaid pinnaces about thirty men therein, to lye at the Rivers mouth at Indra Ponza to hinder and did hinder the goeing in and coming out of the Captaine and Company of the Bantam frigot (sic), to and from Indra Ponza and from bringing any goods from thence on board y:e said ship Bantam ffrigot (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Indra Ponza Roade ("hee saith that Indra Ponza Roade is and ought to be a place free for the English to trade in over w:ch place y:e Queene of Achine (whom this depo:t well knoweth having lived with her about five yeeres) was and is the supreame Governournesse; who did about three yeeres since? there: and at all other of her Dominiones proclaime ffree Trade to the English Nation; And saith hee hath a Copy of the said Proclamacon now in his Custody" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
?Indria ?Ponza ("set saile in her from this port to ?Indria ?Ponza in y:e island of Sumatra in y:e East Indias" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Innvrnesse (HCA 13/129)
Ipswiche (= Ipswich) ("M:r Edward Bushell M:r John ?Osbun M:r Nicholas Hulton M:r Samuell Hedges M:r Beniamin Packes all liveing in and about London, M:r John Bushell and M:r Barnaby Crofford Englishe Merch:ts in Lisbone, M:r Thomas Wite W:m Maynard and John Daniell of Ipswiche and lastly hee this deponent were owners of the said ship the Reason when she went last from hence and doe soe continue till this day for ought hee knoweth to y:e contrary" (HCA 13/64 f.13r))
Ireland ("this depo:t well knowe the said John Tilley ?is, ffather and Mother, who were both Commonly accomted Natives of Ireland; and spoke both of them y:e Irish Language" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Island of Barbados
Island of Nevis
Island of Palma ("The Clayme of Joseph Markes and John) Baptista Margarita and others merchants) of Spayne and subiects of the King of) Spayne for their goods lately laden on att)
the Island of Palma in y:e Canaries) and Cast on shoare in the shipp the) ffortune whereof Phillip Duncar was Ma:r upon the Coast of Cornwall." (HCA 13/68 Part One f. 34v))
Island of ?Pullegand:o ("from Bantam to the sayd Island of Pullegand:o where the shipp the Olive Branch ridd) (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Island of Trinidad
Isle of Wight ("the shipps arlate were stayed at y:e Isle of Wight by the Governour or his deputye at Yarmouth castle in the said Island upon information given by some of their owne Company as hee beleeveth that they were bound for Spayne" (HCA 13/128 no fol no. recto, Case: Beane ag:t Jacobs: Personall answeares: Humfrey Beane: Date: XXXX); "one of y:e ffrigatts Company y:e ffrancis the aclate Captaine W:m ?Brustowe Commander went on board and seized or stopped the shipp S:t Ignatius aclate in Yarmouth Roade within the Isle of Wight, And saith that under a little parcell of tobacco in a private place of y:e great Cabbin of y:e S:t Ignatius this deponent found the three schedules or ffrench lres aclate N:o 6. 7. 8 and breaking them open found them to bee ffrench but could not understand them, and some two dayes after such his finding of y:e said lres this depo:t gave them to y:e said Captaine W:m Burstow Commander of y:e said ffrancis ffrigatt" (HCA 13/76 Part Two f.203r))
Islington ("the Owners of the said shippe the May flower when shee went last from this port of London were as followeth viz:t S:r Thomas Somes of Soper Lane London Grocer of 3/16 pts M:r William Cockayne of Austin Fryers London owner of 3/16 p:t M:r Richard Clutterbucke owner of 1/16 p:t M:r Robert Whitlock of London of 1/16 p:t M:r Holmes of Glocestershire (as the XXXXtriss) of 1/16 M:r Humphrey fford of London of 1/16 p:t M:r Harris of Leigh of 1/16 p:t M:r Theophilus Smith of London 1/32 p:t M:r XXXcrofte of Islington Owner of 1/32 pt M:r Whitall of Towerwharfe of 1/32 M:r Skinner of 1/32 p:r M:r Francis Flyer of 1/32 p:t M:r ?Hoverlyne of Wapping of 1/32 p:t M:r George Smith XX of 1/32 p:t M:r Geo: Swift of London of 1/32 and lastly hee this deponent is owner of 1/16 pt of the said ship" (HCA 13/64 f.32r))
Italy ("the said Tye came in the said Ketche:rs Boate on board the said Ship, and told the said Ketcher, and the Company that the Spaniards would not upon any ?Tezines, whatsoever permit the said Ship to trade there in regard shee came from Italy, and had Goods on board her that came from Roome (sic), where the plague was at that time" (HCA 13/73 Part One))

J

Jamaica ("goods for Havana and there tooke in other goods and after some ?time of ?stay departed with her and her lading for Sta Domingo where hs designe was to deliver the said goods and there to embarque ?soldiers for Jamaica"(HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Java ("the land of Java" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Java Maior lat. ("lett every wittnesse be asked whether doe you not knowe, or have hear dthat XXX Cittie of Bantam did and dooth stand XX a XXXXX Island called Java Maior, and XXXX thesaid Island is a very greate Islan, and forsuch comonly accompted" (HCA 23/19 no f.))
Jersey ("had formerly about 8 yeares since bin an Inhabitant and lived in Jersey where hee beleiveth hee was borne" (HCA 13/64 f.1r); "under the hand of Sir George Carteret the now Govero:r of Jersey" (HCA 13/64 f.1r))
Johanna ("Whether did not the said shipp at her goeinge from Johanna to Suarratt arrive at Surratt in as short a tame as other shipps usually doe and in such tyme as wind and weather would pmitt and that the said shipp came to Surratt at such tyme and season of the yeare as is usuall for shipps to come thither" (HCA 23/19 no f.))

K

Kent
Kingston supra Thamesm lat. (BENJAMIN BENNETT de Kingston supra Thamesm in Com Surria ?Gen annos agens 32" (HCA 13/76 f.27v))
Kingston upon Thames ("hee was borne in Kingston upon Thames and liveth at present by goeing to sea. and knoweth none of y:e parties litigant And hath lived at Kingston all his time saving when hee has bin at sea and other places upon his occasions" (HCA 13/76 f.28r))
Knasburrough ("Lawrence Broadbolt, of Nevis, in the West Indies, Merchant, borne at Knasburrough, Yorkshire, aged 44" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

L

Leaden hall street ("hee this depo:t hath well knowne and been familiarly acquainted with the aclate Nicholas del Peino since the moneth of August 1653 last past, and hath frequently during that time seene conversed and eaten in y:e companie of the said Del Peino, who hee saith till about the moneth of November 1653. last past did usually lodge in the white hart in Leaden hall street London, And by reason of his this depo:ts familiar conversation with the said Del Peino during the time predeposed, hee this depon:t well knoweth, that hee the said Nicholas Del Peino did constantly reside in and about this City of London and pts adjacent" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Leeward islands ("Nevis and S:t Christophers and other of the Leeward Islands" (HCA 13/73); "the said Ship was bound from Newfoundland, to the Leeward Islands as well as to the Barbadoes" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
?Leferno ("?Leferno in ffrance" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Leghorne ("y:e said ship y:e Bantam ffrigot after her Departure from Battavia, sayled to Leghorne and there safely arrived on or about the 18:th day of August 1658: and there her said pepper taken in at Indra Ponza was delivered" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Ligorne ("the said ship the Lixon ffrigot was Laden at Ligorne with Oyle Rice Silke Stockings, and Rope, and some other Comodityes" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "ffosse Tucker & Howgate with the rest of the sayd shipp Scipio her company proceeded upon her voyage from London to Genoa in the Streights & there discharged her ladeing & tooke in some goods there & went with them to Ligorne where fayling of their designe they landed the goods brought from Genoa and went from Ligorne to Allecant" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Limehouse ("JOHN CARTER of Limehouse in parish of Stepney Blockmaker aged 61 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Lipari ("she might have thence gone with her outward ladeing to civitavecchia and the Iland of Lippery" HCA 113/71 f.193r.). Located in the Aeolian islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea off north coast of Sicily.
Lymehouse ("ABRAHAM LANGFORD of Lymehouse in y:e pishe of Stepney and County of Midds Marrin:er late purser of the shipp the Good Successe, aged 24 yeares or thereabouts" (HCA 13/64 f.3))
Lisboa
Lisbon
Lisbone (= Lisbonne) ("in y:e moneths of January ffebruary March Aprill and untill about the 19 or 20:th day of May last past the said ship the Successe whereof W:m Backy was Commander) was and remained in the Port of Lisbone" (HCA 13/64 f.3))
Lizboa (the said Shippe was upon and at the time of her departure From this Port of London upon the voyage to Lizboa of the Burthen of one hundred and eighty Tunnes or thereabouts" (HCA 23/19))
London
London wall ("hee hath lived about ?9 moneths last past in England, and hath lodged in y:t time in 4. or 5. sewall places in London according to his best ?convenience, and was borne at Cadiz in Spaine, and inhabiteth at present London wall neare y:e Spanish Ambassado:r" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Lubeck ("did not ffrancis Summ:rs alleadg that the afforesaid Sampson. did by promise or subscription off (sic) policy or anothe way insure him 50:li or more or less in the St Jacob off (sic) Lubeck one Hans Claeson which said Summe was to reinsure him. pte of 100:li he the said Summ:rs had insured the. said Powys" (HCA 23/19 no fol no., Document Number: ?: Case: James Powys ag:t XXXX : Date: XXXX))

M

Madera Islands ("the said Ketcher and his Company finding that there was not practick to be gotten at the Canaries, for their said ship did upon a serious Consideracon saile the said ship to the Madera Islands, and there safely arrived" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Maderas ("the freights that were made by the said shipp from Lisbone to the Maderas and from the Maderas to Angola were made by Capt Ell in in his life tyme and that hee & his purser kept the Accompts thereof were the pffits thereof" (HCA 13/129 no fol. no., verso, Case: XXXX: Answer: XXXX: Date: X))
Madras ("what daie of the moneth what yeare of our Lord the said Shipp the Mayfflower was dispatched and cleared at Madras ?by factors and Agents of the East=India Companie XX Madras upon her voyage homewards for England" (HCA 23/19))
Madrid ("This deponent daith that the sayd Sebastian da Cortizo was and is a Spaniard borne and lives in Madrid where he was borne and hath in habited for theis 20 yeares past and indeed all his tyme. and was and is a subiect of the King of Spaine and so accounted." (HCA 13/69 Part One f.22v))
Maierque ("y:e sd M:r did sell some of the goods at Maierque but without the order of him the sd Samuell Mico for he did give him order to goe first for Naples & thither shee did after goe & there arrived" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no., Allegation: On the behalfe of Thomas Cullinge Jonathan Andrewes & Gifford Bale: Personal answers: Samuell Micoe: Date: Hune 10th 1657))
Mallega ("FRANCISCO LORENZO DE LARA Native of Mallega in Spaine, Merchant resideing at present in London aged 24. yeares or thereabouts a Witnesse sworne and examined" (HCA 13/69 no f.))

Marseille, Delice de France, 1685^[4]

Marcellis lat. (= Marseille) ("on or about the thirteenth day of November 1657: and ?from that day all the said marine:s schedulate entred into whole pay. and from Gravesend as aforesaid shee went to Yarmouth and there tooke in her Lading of ffish, and from thence sailed to Marcellis, and there delivered the same. and tooke in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus and there (after they had Cleared their hold of y:e ballast,) tooke in a Lading of Salt, and Caried the same to the port of Satalea, and there delivered her Salt, and tooke in XXXXX and sauled back againe to Cyprus, and tooke in another Lading of Salt, and caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and there delivered y:e same, and the last of y:e said Salt was delivered at Scanderoone on or about the fourth day of June 1658" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Maderas ("shee sailed to the Maderas againe: (she being ordered soe to doe by the said Pickford or Ward before her goeing from the Maderas to the Coast of Barbary. (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Martinice ("hee hath heard some of the said Ships Company say, that they heard the said Luke Woods order the said Grove when hee had missed the Barbadoes to saile to Martinice and soe to Nevis") (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Masterland ("Sven Rasmuson Masterland in Suecia Navarchus dicta navis annos agens 50:ta aut XX XXter" (HCA XX/XX P1090925 f.3v); "The second was from Masterland with Herrings to Stockholme, and there this depo:t tooke in a lading of Pitch, tarr, Iron and some Dealeboards, for and to bee delivered at this city of London to Charles Marisco a merchant here" (HCA 13/76 f.3v))
Meslepatan (= Mesloputan; Mesleputain)(Whether doe you not know know beleive, or have heard reported that the May fflower before her arrivall at Madras the voyage in Question did Come from Meslepatan for Madras & that being XX with goods she was dispatched from XXXX for Madras by W:m Johnson Cheife XXXX for the East India Companie" (HCA 23/19))
Mevis = Nevis ("hee well remembreth that at Mevis this deponent & Robert Grove Cheife Mate of the Peace & William Tizard another mate of the sayd shipp & one Robert Chipp the Gunner of her were produced as witnesses before Captaine Morton Captaine Russell Captaine Smith & other officers under the Governour at Mevis upon Interrogatories given in before them against the sayd Thomas Grove the Master" (HCA 13/73))
Mexico ("This deponent saith and deposeth that in the monethes of June and July 1653 and continually since the arlate John Bodkin was and is the Lawfull Owner and proprieto:r of the arlate five hundred peices of eight of Mexico and Sevill conteyned in two bag?s marked and numbred as in the margent [IB n:° 3. 4.]" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.33r))
Middleborough ("CLAES WILLEMS of Middleborough Mariner, late M:r of the ship the Morning Starr aged 38 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part One)
Middlesex
Midds ("CAPTAINE LAURENCE BROWNING of Ratcliffe in the parish of Stepney and County of Midds Mariner M:r or Comander of the Ship the ffrancis and John: aged 52 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Milford ("she had aboard her in silver two XXX, one XXXX, two XXXXXXX, seaven or eight XXXXXX, and a tobacco box and seaven or eight peeces of eight; w:ch the said John Lopez had ashore at Milford. And otherwise hee cannot depose" (HCA 13/73))
Milford Haven ("taken by y:e Lizard ffrigot (Cap:t Baker Comander,) being in y:e Imediate Service of this Comonwealth and by him & Company Carried to Milford Haven" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Millbrooke ("Thomas Serjeant of Millbrooke, Cornwall, Boatswayne of the ship the Delight, aged thirty-five years" (HCA 13/71 f.?))
Morea ("certayne English Merchants of the Maria (OR, Morea) Company tradeing for Turkey to goe from London to Polerao & other places beyond Seas" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "at our about ?Petras in the Morea where the said possession of all & singular the said Currans was as they beleeve de?fined by the first and originall Owners thereof or their factors or servants or by their order unto theise respondents and Companies factors for their use" (HCA 13/129 no fol. no, recto, Case: XXXX: Answers: Andrew Rickard Esq:r, William Vincent Esq:r, Nicholas Penning, Phillip ffarewell, John Sandys, and Michael Evans: Date: 5th October 1659); "in the behalfe of y:e said Alderman Riccard or others of the Morea Adventurers or any other persons" (HCA 13/129 no fol. no, verso, Case: XXXX: Answers: Andrew Rickard Esq:r, William Vincent Esq:r, Nicholas Penning, Phillip ffarewell, John Sandys, and Michael Evans: Date: 5th October 1659))
Morlaix ("being in her Course for this Port & coming from Morlaix" (HCA 13/73 Part One))

N

Nantes ("he saw a letter at Bilboa frō the sayd Bodkin att Nantes directed to ffrancis Bodkins att Bilboa, ordering him to procure the like summe of moneyes, and this deponent knoweth that the sayd ffrancis Bodkins bought and procured the same accordingly" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.33r))
Naples ("y:e sd M:r did sell some of the goods at Maierque but without the order of him the sd Samuell Mico for he did give him order to goe first for Naples & thither shee did after goe & there arrived" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no., Allegation: On the behalfe of Thomas Cullinge Jonathan Andrewes & Gifford Bale: Personal answers: Samuell Micoe: Date: Hune 10th 1657))
Nevis ("Nevis and S:t Christophers and other of the Leeward Islands" (HCA 13/73))
Newcastle ("Last in Company of a greate ffleete of English Colliars Consisting of about threescore and tenne saile; And y:e arlate Ship the Abigail, came likewise out from Newcastle in Company of the said ffleete" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Newcrane ("all the shipps papers that hee knoweth of were delivered to the Captaine of y:e ffan fan who seized and tooke sd shipp Peter off of Yarmouth about six leagues from thence and was by him sent with her sd lading up y:e river of Thames where she now lyes neere y:e Newcrane" (HCA 13/76 f.7r))
Newengland (= New England)
Newfoundland
Newfound Land ("the Pease being come out some few dayes before from Newfound Land the shipp the Pease & her company of espied XXXX shipps at Sea which they thought to be some of her consorts bound for the Barbados"(HCA 13/73))
New crane ("on or about the tenth day of May last the shipp the Mary of XX aclate rode at anchor in the River of Thames over ag:t New Crane taking in of ballast in a fitting place where shipps use to ride and take in ballast" (HCA 13/71 f.454v))
New found land ("upon the departure of the shipp Pease from the New found land" (HCA 13/73))
Newhaven ("this Depo:t did in a former voyage carry about three hundred Quintalls of Brazeel wood, from Lisbone to Newhaven for y:e account as hee beleeveth of the said Brazil Companie" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Normandie ("deposeth That the double shallup or frigat named the ffrancis late of Deepe and nowe of this port of London of the burthen of thirteene tonnes or thereabouts where of David Barre was and is master was really and bona fide bought by John Samborne merchant (having procucacon from this deponent to that purpose) of the master David Barre at Caen in Normandie on or about the thirtieth day of March last past (newe stile) for the price and summe of twelve hundred and twenty livred Tournois upon and for the sole and proper accompt of hee this deponent really and truely paid for the same with his effects remayning in the said Sambornes hands" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
North Holland ("y:e said Otto and Thompson or Tymison, have had their Dwelling places in Holland namely y:e sd Otto at Amsterdam; and the said Thompson or Tymison neere Horne, in North Holland" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Norway ("This deponent saith that he went as merchant in the shipp Tankervale Robert Cooke ma:r the last voyage she made which was from this port of London to Norway and there to take in horses; and was from hence to have gone to y:e Barbados and so back agayne to this port" (HCA 13/71 f.167v))
Nova Hibernia lat. ("the said shipp the Santa Cruse belonged to the port of VXXX CXXX in ?Nova ?Hibernia in the Dominion of the king of Spaine" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

O

Old Swan ("The Red Lyon at the Old Swan in Thames Streete" (HCA 13/73))
Oporto ("whether hee was in the shippe the Nativity when shee began her last voyage and from What port was shee sett out when she was bound for Oporto Port" (HCA 23/19))
Oratava ("y:e Roade of Oratava" (HCA 13/73); "the Lisbone ffrigot, the said Voyage arrived in the Road of l'Oratava on or about the 25:th of July 1658" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "Tye tooke and went the same day therewith on shore in a Dutch Boate to the Port of Oratavo aforesaid (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Oratavo
Ostend (= Ostende)
Ostender (y:e M:r of y:e Royall and the Stiersman of y:e Goliffe ?resemble one another, Et alr nescit saving hee hath heard y:e sd M:r Speake to y:e Effect arlate. who Speakes very good dutch .whom hee supposeth to bee an ostender" (HCA 13/76 f.28r))

P

Paris
Paul Church yard ("the said peece of fine cloth cost and was worth twenty one shillings per yard and was bought at that rate of Thomas Nevill draper in Paul Church yard" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Pendennis Castle ("ffalmouth and Pendennis Castle" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "the ship should be sailed downe to Pendennis Castle (being about two Miles from ffalmouth Harbour) and there ordered this depo:t (who was Cheife mate of the said Ship. all the sd Voyage to ly there at Anchor untill day light, in regard it is a very dangerous place for Rocks, & Shelves" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Pillow ("Whether Thomas Benson was not on board the Shippe in controversy at Pillow neare Quinsbrough" (HCA 23/19))
Plimouth
Plymouth ("betweene ffalmouth and Plymouth the said Wood did Cleare foure men off of the ship" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Plymouth Sound ("y:e said Grove lay ready & staid in Plymouth Sound about a fortnight purposely for y:e said Wood, who was ashore" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Poland ("JACOB GROAT of Dantzijck in Poland mariner master of the sayd shipp the S:t John aged eight and thirty yeares or thereabouts. a witnes" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.8v))
Poltrao (the Road of ?Poltrao" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Pomer land ("the sayd shipp about nine yeares since was built att Colburne in Pomer land, and hath for the sayd nyne yeares Last past belonged to Dantzyck, the p:rmisses this deponent knoweth having lived in Dantzyck for and during all the sayd tyme., and is master
of the sayd shipp" (HCA 13/68 Part One f.8v))
Pomerland ("hee was borne under the dominion of the Duke of Pomerland" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Poplar ("JAMES BERBLOCK of Poplar in the parish of Stepney and County of Midd mariner aged fifty one yeares" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Port of Ligorno ("this deponent goeing Purser in her to Ligorno knoweth that in the Moneths of ffebruary and March 1657 in which moneths the sayd shipp Olive Branch was & remayned in the Port of Ligorno XXXX pepper was brought in XXXX was there frequently and commonly sold at the rate of twenty peeces of eight per hundred English weight" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Port of London
Portsmouth ("ALEXANDER COVELL of Portsmouth Barber, aged 25 yeares or thereabouts sworne in Court" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Portugall ("The perils and dangers of the seas excepted saile unto Lisboa in the Kingdom of Portugall there to discharge the goods and merchandizes carried In her thither and being then dispatched shall directly saile from thence to the ?Madera Islands XX The straights of Gibraltar being in league of friendship with the King of England" (HCA 23/19))
?Pullegand:o ("from Bantam to the sayd Island of Pullegand:o where the shipp the Olive Branch ridd) (HCA 13/73 Part One))

Q

Quinsbrough (= Quinsborough) (Whether have the said James Mills and Benjamin Harrison both or one of them bee not allowed Twenty Pounds upon an East Country voyage from Dansick or Quinsbrough to London, besides the ?dennidge and severall other priviledges belonging to them or one of them as a Master of a shipp" (HCA 23/19))

R

Ratcliffe ("ROBERT HERCULES of Ratcliffe Mariner aged 40 yeeres" (HCA 13/72 Part Two))
The Red Lyon at the Old Swan in Thames Streete
Rederhithe (= Redriffe) ("THOMAS CLARKE of Rederhithe or Redriffe in y:e County of Surrey late Master and Commander of the said shipp y:e Rappahannack aged 42. yeares or thereabouts sworne in Court and examined" (HCA 13/73 f.628r)). Also "Rederiff" in HCA 13/73 f.230r P1130619, line 5. It is Rotherhithe on the Surrey shore of the Thames in London.
Rederiff wall ("WILLIAM READING of Rederiff wall in the parish of S:t Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in the County of Surrey mariner aged thirty five yeares" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Redriffe
Riga ("Riga in Prussia" (HCA 13/76 f.11r))
Rippon ("hath bin Credibly informed that the said Cowling was borne at or neere Rippon in Yorkeshire" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
River of Emms ("what papers were on board the sd shipp came to the hands of y:e Captaine of y:e Crowne ffrigott that tooke and seized them off the River of Emms upon y:e Coast of Holland without concealing or making away any of them" (HCA 13/76 f.5v))
River of Indra Ponza ("In his passage one of y:e said Dutch Vessells. w:ch came and Anchored at or neere y:e Barre of y:e River of Indra Ponza, sent her boate and alsoe another Boate well manned to seize this depo:t and y:e said Bantam ffrigotts boate & y:e Pepper therein" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
River of Nants (" the said Grove did not take in all y:e salt sent by the sd Wood to be Laden on board y:e said ship in y:e River of Nants" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
River of Thames ("in or about the beginning of the moneth of August 1658, the said ship Warewell arived in the River of Thames" (HCA 13/73))
Roan ("Set out the said Ship, about January 1653 from this Port of London on a Voyage to bee made with her from hence to Roan, & to other places beyond the Sea" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Rochell La Rochelle, a harbour on the Bay of Biscay in France.("Did you know the said shipp called the Willingminde of London of the burthen of 60 Tonne whereof Adam Browne was M:r: under God, at such time as shee was last in Ross in XX Ireland, when was she last there, was shee not then bound forth from thence on a voyage to Rochell and Burdeaux in ffrance or one of them and soe to returne to Waterford" (HCA 23/19))
Roehampton ("M:r Tomas Papillon and Lawrence Martell were and are Englishmen and Inhabitants of this citie and persons well affected to the parliament of England, and soe commonly accompted, w:ch hee knoweth having knowne them living here from their ?childhoods, and ?with the M:r Papillon was borne at Roehampton and the said Martell at Towerhill London" (HCA 13/64 f.21v)
Roome ("shee came from Italy, and had Goods on board her that came from Roome (sic), where the plague was at that time" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Ross (= Rosse) ("Did you know the said shipp called the Willingminde of London of the burthen of 60 Tonne whereof Adam Browne was M:r: under God, at such time as shee was last in Ross in XX Ireland, when was she last there, was shee not then bound forth from thence on a voyage to Rochell and Burdeaux in ffrance or one of them and soe to returne to Waterford" (HCA 23/19))
Rotterdam ("the aclate George Robinson is his this deponents servant but permitted by this deponent to trade for himselfe, and to make use of this deponents correspondent ?Korne ?Parnen of Rotterdam, and with the sd Kornis is now XXXX XXXXXX a Dutchman borne and a subiect of the States of the United Netherlands and ?who an Iynhabitant of Rotterdam, from ?whence this deponent frequently receiveth lres from him in ?the ?run of merchandise" (HCA 13/71 f. 214r))
Royall ("the sayd Clauson liveth at Royall in ffrance & soe hath done divers yeares but what countryman by birth or whether hee keepe a family this dep:t knoweth not" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Rye ("RICHARDUS TUO de Rye in Com Sussex Victualler" (HCA 13/76 f.7r))

S

Salinas (= Salina) ("hee saith, That the direct Course to sayle from Salinas roade in Cyprus for Englands is to saile thence to the straights mouth, and saith hee beleeveth Zant to be about 20. leagues out of the direct Course from Ciprus to the Straights mouth" (HCA 13/71 f. ?19?r&?v))
Satalia [in the Mediterranean] (" upon y:e Death of the foresaid W:m Malim (w:ho
was M:r of the said ship) this depo:t became M:r of her, hee being before: y:e said W:m Malims Cheife mate; And for that hee received at Satalia, of the sayd William Malim ?twenty Eight ryalls of Eight, and at Scanderoone hee received of y:e sd Malim either Eight or tenne Ryalls more (but, whether eight or Tenne he doth not nowe remember having lost most of his Accounts.) and saith that those summes were all that hee receaved the said voyage in pt of his wages for his Service in y:e sd Shipp" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Satalea ("on or about the thirteenth day of November 1657: and ?from
that day all the said marine:s schedulate entred into whole pay. and from Gravesend as aforesaid shee went to Yarmouth and there tooke in her Lading of ffish, and from thence sailed to Marcellis, and there delivered the same. and tooke in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus and there (after they had Cleared their hold of y:e ballast,) tooke in a Lading of Salt, and Caried the same to the port of Satalea, and there delivered her Salt, and tooke in XXXXX and sauled back againe to Cyprus, and tooke in another Lading of Salt, and caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and there delivered y:e same, and the last of y:e said Salt was delivered at Scanderoone on or about the fourth day of June 1658" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Sattalia ("sailed to Cyprus, and there (after her ballast was heaved out,) shee tooke in a Cargo of Salt & Carried the same to a place called Sattalia, and there delivered y:e same, and having taken in Ballasts sailed back to Cyprus againe, and after her hold was Cleared of y:e ballast, shee tooke ?on another Lading of salt, and Caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and there Delivered the same" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
S:t Andrew Undershaft ("JOHN ASHURST the younger of the pish of S:t Andrew Undershafte London Marchant aged 25 yeares of thereabouts a witness sworne & examined" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
S:t Bartholomew neere the Royal Exchange ("JOHN SAVAGE of the parish of S:t Bartholomew neere the Royal Exchange London Merchant, aged 32 yeeres or thereabouts" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
S:t Catherines near the Tower ("Laurence Burr, of St Catherines near the Tower, Cooper of the Lady ffrigott, aged 38" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
S:t Christophers ("Nevis and S:t Christophers and other of the Leeward Islands" (HCA 13/73))
S:t S:ta Cruze ("replyed they were Vessells carrying of wines to S:t Sta Cruze" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
S:t Dunstans in the East ("RICHARD ELL of the parish of S:t Dunstan s in the East
London Mariner the commander of the shipp the Prosperous of London, aged 50 yeares or therabouts" (HCA 13/64 f.27r))
S:t Dunstans ("JOHN LEWIS of the parish of S:t Dunstans XXXX East ?India Merchant aged 47 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Sancta Gabriellis ffanchurch ("JACOBUS CORSELLIS12 XXXXXXXXXXX Sancta Gabriellis ffanchurch London Mercator" (HCA 13/64 f.22r))
S:t George Buttolphe Lane ("ALBERTUS SKINNER of the pish S:t George Buttolphe Lane London Merchant aged 28 yeares or thereabouts a witness sworne and examined" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
S:t John do Lus ("the producent John ffrederick and company were and at this proper wise and over XXX the moneth of August 1649 or thereabouts have bin the true and lawfull owners and proprietors of the shipp the XXXX XXX called the S:t Quartin of St John do Lus" (HCA 13/64 f.20v))
S:t Katherines' Docke ("divers ?Billeneeres for the space of 12: yeares and upwards have made it theire usuall practice to lay theire hoyes and vessells betweene the said Staires and S:t Katherines' Docke. the same is a very great annoyance and prejudice not onely to the watermen there plying who formerly had a faire and sandey ground very commodious for theire Imployment But now by reason of the Continuall rideing Stayeing and abideing of those vessells sometimes Thirty togeather betweene the said staires and dock neere the Shoreside the ground is there suncke and filled w:th mudd soyle and slime in divers places thereof about kneedeepe" (HCA 15/6 Box One no folio no., Item: Petition of divers watermen plyeing at S:t Katherines Staires and other the Inhabitants there bordering upon the River of Thames: Date: XXXX))
S:t Katherine's staires ("The humble Remonstrance of diveres watermen plyeing at S:t Katherines' staires and other the Inhabitants there bordering uppon the River of Thames whose names are hereunto subscribed" (HCA 15/6 Box One no folio no., Item: Petition of divers watermen plyeing at S:t Katherines Staires and other the Inhabitants there bordering upon the River of Thames: Date: XXXX))
S:t ?Jones ("the ship then rideing in the harbour of S:t ?Jones which is the safest and best or at least as good and safe a harbour as any is in the Newfound land" (HCA 13/73))
Santo Lazio ("about three dayes or XXXXX before the said Grove Discovered y:e Island called Santo Lazio (by w:ch sight of w:ch Island the said Grove and Company perceived they had overshot the Barbadoes) (HCA 13/73))
S:t Leszus
S:t Lucar ("PEDRO DE MORALIS of S:t Lucar Mariner, aged 28 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
S:t Lusea ("the sayd Thomas by his steering on his owne course contrary to the advise of his sayd Mates did misse the Island of Barbados and came to the Island of S:t Lusea in the moneth of November 1657" (HCA 13/73))
S:t Mallo (= S:t Malo; S:t Malloe) ("trading voyage for the port of S:t Mallo aclate to Newfoundland to catch fish and to carry the same for Bilbao and there to dispose of and soe to returne againe for S:t Malo w:th the proceed of such goods for his owne proper Accompt" (HCA 13/64 f.1r))
S:t Manes Castle ("Whether Immediately before the said shippe was stayed neere ffalmouth was shee nott chased by a dutch man of Warre or some other shippe upon the seas neere the Coast of Cornwall on the West of ffalmouth and Pendennis, or S:t Manes Castle" (HCA 23/19))
Sancta Margarets Lothbury ("THOMAS ROUSE XXXXX Sancta Margarets Lothbury London Mercator XXX agens 31" (HCA 13/64 f.20r))
S:t Margaret Newfish streete ("this deponent was borne in the pish of S:t Margaret Newfish streete London & hath lived these 4 yeares last or thereabouts in the pish of A:t Andrew Undershafte aforesayd" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
S:ta Marice Matsellon lat. ("THOMAS ANDREWS de Wapping in parro S:ta Marice Matsellon als White Chappell annos agens 42" (HCA 13/76 Part One f.1r))
Sancta Martin Outwich lat. ("WILLIMUS BRADNOX paXXXX ?Sancta Martin Outwich London Mercator, annos agens 20" (HCA 13/64 f.?r))
S:t Martins ("S:t Martins in ffrance" HCA 13/76 f.11r))
S:t Mary Magdalen ("ADAM BEALE of the pish of S:t Mary Magdalen Bermondsey Shipwright aged forty eight yeares" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
S:t Mary Matsellon ("THOMAS CAPELL of the parish of S:t Mary Matsellon als Whitechappell Cooper aged twenty two yeares" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
S:t Olaves, Southwark
S:t Saviour Southwarke ("THOMAS HOLBERT of the parish of S:t Saviour Southwarke Waterman aged 44 or thereabouts, sworne in the high Court of the Admiraltie of England saith" (HCA 13/76 f.10r))
S:t Vallazyes [France] ("the said Ship, and her Lading met with Extraordinary ?soule, windy , and Tempestuous weather by w:ch shee was driven upon y:e sand, neere S:t Vallazyes in ffrance; and by meanes thereof split, and broken in peeces.
and utterly lost together with her lading" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
S:ta Domingo ("the said shipp in or about ffebruary last was a twelvemoneth departed from XXX XXXX aforesaid for S:ta Domingo" /HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Scanderoone ("he sayled with his shipp Richard and William in Company of Cap:t Hughes in the Thomas Bonadventure from Scanderoone to Cyprus, from Cyprus to Serigo so to Zant so to ?Cap halaria so to porto leghorne" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Scanderrone ("soe soone as y:e said ship [the Anne] Delivered her said salt at Scanderrone, y:e said William Malymy:e M:r and Company of the said ship. did take aboard her, a Lading of Cottons, galls and other peeces to be Transfported in her to this port of London" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Scotland
Seville (= Sevill; Sevile) ("the said Gerrard Lloyd and company had a very greate trade at Seville in Spaine and did there keepe a house and familie, and had at Sevile and other parts in Spaon a very greate commerce and traffique by ?many of Marchdize, w:ch hee knoweth for that hee this deponent lived at Sevill aforesaid with XXXX ?case where that kept their factory and managed their said trade and some came to take notice thereof" (HCA 13/71 f.393r))
Shadwell ("RICHARD EDWARDS: of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex aged 42 yeeres" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Shaddwell
Sheldon ("HANIBAL ROWE de Sheldon in Com Devon clothier etatis 35" (HCA 13/64 f.19v))
Sicklesham harbor
Signe of the Bull ("JAMES DOWNE of London Marchant living in Bishopsgate streete at the signe of the Bull aged 38 yeares or thereabouts sworne & examined" (HCA 13/71 f.102r))
Signe of the Ship ("this depo:t was p:rsent as this depo:ts house; at the signe of the Ship neere Duke ?Streete" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Skadam ("HERRICK WILLIAMSON of Skadam in Holland Mariner aged fourty yeares or thereabouts a witnes" (HCA 13/68, f.4r))
Smirna (= Smyrna)
Soper Lane ("the Owners of the said shippe the May flower when shee went last from this port of London were as followeth viz:t S:r Thomas Somes of Soper Lane London Grocer of 3/16 pts M:r William Cockayne of Austin Fryers London owner of 3/16 p:t M:r Richard Clutterbucke owner of 1/16 p:t M:r Robert Whitlock of London of 1/16 p:t M:r Holmes of Glocestershire (as the XXXXtriss) of 1/16 M:r Humphrey fford of London of 1/16 p:t M:r Harris of Leigh of 1/16 p:t M:r Theophilus Smith of London 1/32 p:t M:r XXXcrofte of Islington Owner of 1/32 pt M:r Whitall of Towerwharfe of 1/32 M:r Skinner of 1/32 p:r M:r Francis Flyer of 1/32 p:t M:r ?Hoverlyne of Wapping of 1/32 p:t M:r George Smith XX of 1/32 p:t M:r Geo: Swift of London of 1/32 and lastly hee this deponent is owner of 1/16 pt of the said ship" (HCA 13/64 f.32r))
South Seas ("hee well knoweth the said shipp the Love and was commander of her in her late homewards voyage from the South Seas, and went out in her from this port thither in w:ch going out this deponent was master of her" (HCA 13/71 f.242r)
Southhampton (=Southampton) ("Richard Man, of Southhampton, Mariner, aged 31" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Southwarke
Spaine
Spanish West Indias ("in and about the monethes of May and June 1657: the arlate M:r ffernandez and M:r Page had discourse and treaty with John Lopes about sending a ship and Cargoe from England or Holland to the Spanish West Indies for the Account of them the said M:r ffernandez and M:r Page, and Company" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Spanish West Indies
Spayn ("JUAN THOMAS MILATI of Cadiz in Spayn merchant aged 23 yeares or thereabouts a witness sworne and examined deposeth and saith as followeth" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
State of Genoa ("hee hath corresponded with the producent Stephen Pallavicino in y:e wayes of Merchandize, and saith hee was and is comonly reputed a native subject, & Inhabitant of the State of Genoa" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Stepney ("Grace Hogsflesh, of Stepney, Widowe, aged 39" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

Stettin, Hollandische Merkur (Haerlem, 1660)^[5]

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Stettin ("it being very notorious & well knowne to the sd M:r Wayn Wright & all other mrchants that use the East countrey trade that every Last of wheate payeth one dollar the charges at Stettin & Stralsound & the charges for Smacks & boates to bring y:e sd corne on board, & petty pilotage & other dutyes, all w:ch hee this rendent did really pay" (HCA 13/129 no f.))
Stobenheath ("JOHN TREDDLE of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney als Stobenheath in y:e County of Midd Mariner aged twenty seaven yeares or thereabouts" (HCA 13/71 f.?310r))
Stockholme ("Did you know the good shipp or vessell called y:e Providence of Stockholme whereof John Robertson was M:r at such time as she was last at Stockholme aforesaid?" (HCA 23/19 no fol. no. recto, Document Number: 11: Case: XXXX: Date: XXXX))
The Straights ("a tradeing voyage from London to the Straights" (HCA 13/73))
Straights mouth (= streights mouth) ("hee beleeveth Leghorne interrate to be about 10 or 15. leagues more out of the direct course from Zant to the straights mouth, than Corsica is" (HCA 13/71 f.?19?v))
Straights of Gibraltar ("from this port To Lisboa and from thence to the XXXX Or any other place within the straights of Gibraltar Being in ffriendshipp with the King of England" (HCA 23/19))
Stralsound
The Streights ("the sayd shipp Scipio was lying in the River of Thames takeing in goods for a tradeing voyage for which shee was bound from this Port of London to be made to the Straights or the places neere there about and soe to returne and thence to this port of London" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Studland bay
Suecia lat. (= Sweden)
Sumatra (= Summatra) ("Achean on the coast of the Island of Sumatra" (HCA 13/73); "during the time that the said ship the Bantam ffrigot was upon y:e Coast of Sumatra & in y:e East Indias y:e Voyage in question; this depo:t and the said Captaine Taylor and Company of the said Ship Did Carry and demaneane themselves very Civilly, and peacably" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Summers Island ("Thomas Taylo:r and Loys his wife ag:t the Shipp y:e Summer Islands Merch:t and ag:t John Jenkins M:r of y:e said Ship" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Surrey (= Com Surria) ("JOSEPHUS XXXXXX de Redrith in Com Surria Nauta, natus in parea S:t Olavi Hartstreet London annos agens 20" (HCA 13/76 Part Two f.233r))
Sussex
Sweden

T

Tangier (= Tanger; Tangie) ("How much thereof was throwne over board in the Road of Tangie, did not the said Robert Oyle order it to bee throwne over board, and who did helpe to throwe it overboar, lett the witness declare theire names, and what quantity of the said wheat was throwne on the shoare before the Citty of Tangier, and who did order the same to bee so throwne on shoare, was it not done by the order of the said Robert Oyle, and would not the wheat which was soe throwne a shoare, with good usage have vyn recoverable and fitt for use" (HCA 23/19 no fol. no. recto, Document Number: 13: Case: XXXX: Date: XXXX); ("what was done with the wheat that was so kept aboard did not the said Robert Oyle after hee went from Tanger aforesaid feed geese, Turkeyes, henns, and hoggs therewith dureing the said Shippes voyage from Tangier aforesaid to Alicant and Xouire and to Zephalania and in his homeward voyage" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
Teneriffe (= Tenerife) ("before y:e silver in question came & arrived here in England, the ffactor of the said producent called don Luis Perez de Vittoria, sent from the Iland of Teneriffe to the XXXX M:r Vandeput, for his the said producents Accompt to the Vallue of betwixt twelve and thirteene hundred pounds sterling in silver" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "DON ANTONIO DE PUNTE ?CARRILLAY ?gutman of the place of Tenerife in the Islands of the Canaryes merchant aged 29 yeares or thereabouts, a witnes sworne & examined" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Thames Streete ("The Red Lyon at the Old Swan in Thames Streete" (HCA 13/73)
Topsham ("soone after the Ladeing of the said 5 bales of serges schedulated abord the said ship the Diamond at Topsham shee sett saile and departed therewith from hence for S:t Maloe" (HCA 13/64 f.22v))
Towerhill ("M:r Tomas Papillon and Lawrence Martell were and are Englishmen and Inhabitants of this citie and persons well affected to the parliament of England, and soe commonly accompted, w:ch hee knoweth having knowne them living here from their ?childhoods, and ?with the M:r Papillon was borne at Roehampton and the said Martell at Towerhill London" (HCA 13/64 f.21v)

Tower Street , Thames Street and the Legal Quays, Roque, 1746^[6]

Tower Street ("the owners of the said ship both at the tyme of her goeing out from hence and till this day were and are as followes viz:t M:r Richard ?Peetrs Merchn:t in Lisbone owner of 1/8 part M:r Hugh ?Southing of Tower Street London of 1/16 pt for himselfe and freind, M:r Jo:n Bushell of Lisbo:n Merchant 1/16 pt for himselfe and freinds M:r Samuel Vassall for himselfe and freind of 1/16 pt , M:r Thomas Bateman of London of 1/8 part M:r PXXX Middleton of 1/16 pt M:r Dudley Avery of 1/16 pt M:r Barnaby ?Crosson of Lisbo:n march:t of 1/16 pt, M:r ffrancis Hanbury of Lisb:n March:t of 1/32 pt; M:r James Man of Marke Lane London Merch:t 1/16 pt M:r James ?Cotton 1/32 pt for y:e acc:ot of M:r Thomas Waters M:r MXXX of Lisb:n Merch:t 1/16 pt M:r Henry Smith 1/32 pt and XX this deponent for himselfe and master was and is owner of two sixteenths partes and one Two and thirtieth part of the said ship the Hanniball (HCA 13/64 f.14v))
Towerwharfe
Trapany ("come safe out of y:e Port of Trapany" (HCA 13/68 f.138v))
Trinidad ("the said Ship went from Amsterdam to an Island, w:ch as hee taketh is called Trinidad. and from thence went to Comana, and thence to Truxilla and there delivered out severall of the said outward goods and thence went to Honduras and there delivered the rest of the said outward goods. and tooke in Chests of Indico and Druggs" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Tripoly ("betwixt Smirna & Venice this rendent & his sd ship & ladeing were taken by three Tripoly men of warr, & carried to Tripoly & ?the ?said ship & lading all lost, & this rendent & his Company made prisoners as he beleeves, where this rendent continued by the space of Three moneths & ?od dayes, & then was ransomed w:ch cost him ?800. dollars as he beleeves, & this rendent beleeveth that all the rest of the s:d Comp:ie who are ?liveing except Edward ?Paull are there yet in captivity" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no., verso, Case: Allegacon on the behalfe of Edward Paull & others: Personal answeres: William Wilmott: Date: XXXX))
Truxilla
Truxillo ("XXXX discharged at Honduras the said shipp returned to Truxillo where she tooke aboard ?Jassonavilla and hides" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Turkey ("hee this depo:t having for many yeares been a marin:r and a Master of a shipp frequenting and using the trade of Turkey and pticulalry of Ciprus aclate well knoweth, That Cyprus cotton woolls are usually and ordinarily putt in very great baggs, which cannot be stowed without very great paines and difficulty" (HCA 13/71 f.19r))

U

United Netherlands ("the said John Shauternel is a Subject of the States of the United Netherlands" (HCA 13/73 Part Two); "the said shipp did never before as hee knoweth and he XXX beleveth ?belong to Amsterdam or other port without the Dominion of the States of the United Netherlands" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
United Provinces (" y:e sd John is a Subject of the States of the United Provinces" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Upper Shadwell ("WILLIAM WOOD of Upper Shadwell in y:e parish of Stepney mariner aged 27" (HCA 13/73))

V

Venice ("there tooke in ballast & went to Trapanye & tooke in salt & carried the same to Venice, & there discharged the same about the 1?8:th. day of August 1655. as he beleeveth, And there this rendent was offered a fraight to Smirna & soe to Venice againe w:ch this rendent accepted of, but dureing such tyme as he was at Venice intreating about the same the Duke of Venice or his Officers forced this rendent & his sd ship into their Service contrary to this rendents good will & likeing to carry bread from thence to Candy for the ffleete w:ch this rendents ship accordingly did & arrived & delivered the same there in or about y:e beginning of december 1655" (HCA 13/128 no fol. no., verso, Case: Allegacon on the behalfe of Edward Paull & others: Personal answeres: William Wilmott: Date: XXXX))
?Vera Cruce ("Santa ?Cruse was built in CoXXXpeXye in the West Indies about foure yeeres since, where the said Captaine Joseppo Sinnego bought her and brought her to ?Vera Cruce wheare the said Captaine XXXed her with goods for Havana" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Virginia ("y:e time arlate this rendent was sent by the sd Edmund Cowse to Virginia with a quantity of goods vizt 7?1 pipes of wine & no more as he beleeveth 2: chests of white earthen ware one bale of paper & noe more 20 peeces of east India stuffe called pantadoes, & a pcell of red earthen wares worth nothing at all as he beleevth, and a small quantity of salt, & no other goods as hee beleeveth" HCA 13/128 no fol. no. recto, Allegation: Edmund and James Cowse: Answer: Daniell ?Jiggles: Date: XXXX))

W

Wapping ("Thomas Yeomans of Wapping, Mariner, late Masters Mate of the Peace, aged 23" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Wapping dock ("came to an Anchor a little belowe or against Wapping dock" (HCA 13/73))
Waterford ("Did you know the said shipp called the Willingminde of London of the burthen of 60 Tonne whereof Adam Browne was M:r: under God, at such time as shee was last in Ross in XX Ireland, when was she last there, was shee not then bound forth from thence on a voyage to Rochell and Burdeaux in ffrance or one of them and soe to returne to Waterford" (HCA 23/19))
Waymouth ("at Plymouth and Waymouth y:e said Wood did discharge severall of the Mariners that belonged to the said Ship, soe that it was very dangerous bringing her up to this port" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
West Indias ("to manage the ?Trucking, Selling, and Bartering away of the Outward Cargoe at the said West Indias (sic)" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
West Indies ("the sayd shipp at here goeing out had noe designe of goeing to Brazeele or any other parts of the West Indies" (HCA 13/73))
Westerene Islands ("y:e Islands fflowers and Calves, being two of the Westerene Islands" (HCA 13/73))
Westow ("EDWARD CARR of Westow in the County of Durham Mariner at first a common mariner & afterwards Boatswaines Mate of the sayd shipp the Vine aged twenty one yeares or thereabouts a witness" (HCA 13/71 f.307v))
White hart ("hee this depo:t hath well knowne and been familiarly acquainted with the aclate Nicholas del Peino since the moneth of August 1653 last past, and hath frequently during that time seene conversed and eaten in y:e companie of the said Del Peino, who hee saith till about the moneth of November 1653. last past did usually lodge in the white hart in Leaden hall street London, And by reason of his this depo:ts familiar conversation with the said Del Peino during the time predeposed, hee this depon:t well knoweth, that hee the said Nicholas Del Peino did constantly reside in and about this City of London and pts adjacent" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
Whitechappell (= White Chappell) ("THOMAS CAPELL of the parish of S:t Mary Matsellon als Whitechappell Cooper aged twenty two yeares" (HCA 13/73 Part One); "JACOBUS TAYLOR de White Chappell prope London Nauta annos agens 46" (HCA 13/76 Part One f.57r))

Y

Yarmouth ("on or about the thirteenth day of November 1657: and ?from that day all the said marine:s schedulate entred into whole pay. and from Gravesend as aforesaid shee went to Yarmouth and there tooke in her Lading of ffish, and from thence sailed to Marcellis, and there delivered the same. and tooke in Ballast, and sailed to Cyprus and there (after they had Cleared their hold of y:e ballast,) tooke in a Lading of Salt, and Caried the same to the port of Satalea, and there delivered her Salt, and tooke in XXXXX and sauled back againe to Cyprus, and tooke in another Lading of Salt, and caried y:e same to Scanderoone, and there delivered y:e same, and the last of y:e said Salt was delivered at Scanderoone on or about the fourth day of June 1658" (HCA 13/73 Part One))
Yarmouth castle ("the shipps arlate were stayed at y:e Isle of Wight by the Governour or his deputye at Yarmouth castle in the said Island upon information given by some of their owne Company as hee beleeveth that they were bound for Spayne" (HCA 13/128 no fol no. recto, Case: Beane ag:t Jacobs: Personall answeares: Humfrey Beane: Date: XXXX))
Yorkshire ("hath bin Credibly informed that the said Cowling was borne at or neere Rippon in Yorkeshire" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))

Z

Zant ("hee well knoweth, That ordinarily, shipps which have not complicated their Cargaison at Cyprus doe touch at Zant in their way for London, and these take in Currants and many times come thither expressely, for their better securitie, in which cases Zant is commonly accompted th best and nearest way for London, though in deed, thise considerations excepted, it be something out of the direct Course" (HCA 13/71 f.?19r))
Zante ("Zante currans" (HCA 13/73))
Zealand ("he is an Irishman, and is not bound as he beleiveth to discover his conscience in poynt of Religion, and is a Merchant facto:r without a settled aboad, and from the yeare 1642. to 1646. lived in fflanders. frō 1646. to 1652 in the beginning thereof lived in Holland and Zealand. and from April 1652. to July 1653 in Spain, from whence he came in July last and in the same month arrived in London, and here hath resided ever since." (HCA 13/68 f.33v)

Zephalania ("what was done with the wheat that was so kept aboard did not the said Robert Oyle after hee went from Tanger aforesaid feed geese, Turkeyes, henns, and hoggs therewith dureing the said Shippes voyage from Tangier aforesaid to Alicant and Xouire and to Zephalania and in his homeward voyage" (HCA 23/19, no f.))

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