John Bishopp

John Bishopp

John Bishopp
Person	John Bishopp
Title
First name	John
Middle name(s)
Last name	Bishopp
Suffix
Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation	Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation	Cooper
Associated with ship(s)	Hercules (Zachary Browne)
Training	Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen	Unknown
Literacy	Marke
Has opening text	John Bishopp
Has signoff text	Cross-hatching
Signoff image	f.r: Right click on image for full size image in separate window
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	1610
Marriage year
Death year
Probate date
First deposition age	48
Primary sources
Act book start page(s)
Personal answer start page(s)
Allegation start page(s)	HCA 24/113 Item 117 IMG_112_10_3574-3584
Interrogatories page(s)
Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/72 f.310r Annotate
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Act book date(s)
Personal answer date(s)
Allegation date(s)	Mar 31 1658
Interrogatories date(s)
Deposition date(s)	Apr 6 1658
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 service of Commonwealth
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation	None

Biographical synthesis

John Bishopp (b. ca. ?; d. ?). Cooper.

Cooper on the ship the Hercules, which served as a man of war in the service of the Commonwealth in September to December 1652.

He was resident in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in 1658.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty-eight year old John Bishopp deposed on April 6th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty.

The case involved a dispute between Captain Zachary Browne, master of the Hercules, and her company, of whom Bishopp was one. The Hercules was a large ship of war, with a burthen of 400 to 450 tons, thirty-two guns and a sizeable crew. The ship ran aground near the Dutch fleet in December 1652 near Dungness. The captain wanted to engage part of the Dutch fleet, but allegedly his crew disobeyed his commands and boarded the ship's long boat, intending to abandon ship. As a result, the Hercules was captured by the Dutch.

Zachary (alt. Zacharia) Browne commanded the merchant ship the Hercules from 1650 to 1652 in the service of the English Commonwealth. The incident the Admiralty Court case of 1658 refers to occured at the Battle of Dungeness, and ended with the Hercules being taken back to the United Provinces by its captor, Bastiaan Centen, commander of the ship the Haes. As a consequence, Zachary Browne was courtmartialled, convicted and dismissed from the Commonwealth navy for incompetence. He returned to naval service under Charles II, being appointed captain in 1664. He commanded the forty gun ship the Assistance at the battle of Lowestoft, and in a number of subsequent battles in the second Anglo-Dutch war.

Comment on sources

1658

Allegation in the High Court of Admiralty given by proctor Mr Smith on behalf of Zachary Browne, captaine of the ship the Hercules in the immediate service of the English Commonwealth on March 31st 1658, short title of the cause is 'Browne against severall marriners'. One of the articles of the allegation lists fifty-three mariners' names, who are alleged by Browne to have deserted the ship.