Henry Mayne

Henry Mayne

Henry Mayne
Person	Henry Mayne
Title
First name	Henry
Middle name(s)
Last name	Mayne
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation	Rope merchant
Secondary shorebased occupation	Apprentice, Servant
Mariner occupation
Associated with ship(s)
Training	Not apprentice
Is apprentice of	Edward Hopwood
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen	Unknown
Literacy	Signature
Has opening text	Henry Mayne
Has signoff text	by me Henry Mayne
Signoff image	(Invalid transcription image)
Language skills	English language
Has interpreter
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Birth parish
Birth town
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Birth country
Res street
Res parish	Saint Mary Magdalen
Res town	Bermondsey
Res county	Surrey
Res province
Res country	England
Birth year	1633
Marriage year
Death year	1658
Probate date	June 11, 1658
First deposition age	23
Primary sources
Act book start page(s)
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/71 f.409r Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Nov 11 1656
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	Shore based trade
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation	None

Biographical synthesis

Henry Mayne (b. ca. 1633; d. poss. ca. 1658). Rope merchant.

Servant in 1654 of rope merchant Edward Hopwood.

Resident in 1656 in the parish of Saint Mary Bermondsey.

The will of Henry Mayne, rope merchant, of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey was proved on June 11th 1658.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Twenty-three year old Henry Mayne deposed on November 11th 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel in the cause of "Hopwood and others against the Stambeline and Hill".

The case concerned delivery of goods and materials to the ship the Stamboline (Master: Captaine John Case) by a variety of suppliers.

Henry Mayne stated that the goods and materials listed on a schedule attached to the allegation were supplied in April 1654 by Edward Hopwood for use on the ship the Stambeline. Mayne effected the delivery, being the servant of Hopwood. The delivery was made "at and from his warehouse at Redriff wall to and for the use and furniture of the said shipp the Stambeline then out lying near the said warehouse". The Stamboline at that time. Henry Mayne was certain of "the premisses touching the said delivery, with the particulars and prizes hee is the better able (as hee saith) to depose for that hee as servant to his said master delivered them as aforesaid, and made entrie thereof in his masters debt booke, which hee hath lately perused, and hath taken a note thereout agreeing with the said schedule".

Captaine John Casse (alt. Case), the forty-six year old former master and commander of the Stambeline (alt. Stamboline), gave his residence as the parish of Saint Olave Southwark, when he deposed in the same case on November 7th 1658. In his evidence he recited the precise amounts owing for delivery of goods and materials from the litigating suppliers and aacknowledged that the goods and materials had been delivered.

The suppliers and amounts were:

Edward Hopwood 36 li - 8 s - 10 d

William Bowyer 9 li- 15 s - 4 d

Joseph Beaumont 9 li- 13 s - [?X d]

John Harris 17 li-16 s

John Cooke 15l - 13d

John Wright 1 li - 4 s

Mattias Hatton 3 li - 6 s 2 d

Thomas Abrahall 25 li - 4 s

Comment on sources

1658

PROB 11/281/72 Will of Henry Mayne, Rope Merchant of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, Surrey 11 June 1658

1674

PROB 11/345/261 Will of Edward Hopwood, Grocer of London 23 June 1674