Lewes Maddock
| Lewes Maddock | |
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| Person | Lewes Maddock |
| Title | |
| First name | Lewes |
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| Last name | Maddock |
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| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | Justice of Dover (Master: John ffishbell) |
| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Marke |
| Has opening text | Lewes Maddock |
| Has signoff text | L |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Birth country | |
| Res street | Limehouse |
| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1616 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/71 f.438r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Dec 2 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 | Merchant ship |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Lewes Maddock (b. ca. 1616; d. ?). Mariner.
Resident in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in 1656.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty year old Lewes Maddock deposed on December 2nd 1656 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined in "A businesse of examination of witnesses ad perpetuam in memoriam touching the seizure of the shipp the Justice of Dover and goods in the same promoted by Thomas Wade and others against Monsieur de la Roze and all others et cetera".[1]
Lewes Maddock was one of the company of the ship the Justice of Dover (Master: John ffishbell). The ship had been hired and freighted by John Naylor, John Horne and company to go on a voyage from London to Guinea to Barbados and back to London. In January 1656 the Justice was at "Cape Sierra-Leone in Ginney" to take on wood and water, when she was met with by a French ship commanded by Monsieur de Rose, which attempted to seize her.[2] Maddock reports that Captain ffishbell and other members of his company told the French commander that there was peace between England and France. Despite this the French proceeded to seize the English ship, and turned ffishbell and company out of their ship onto shore "after they had beate and very ill intreated them".[3]
According to Maddock, the Justice was of a burthen of 140 tuns, recently built and outfitted, and worth £1300. Maddock also estimated "her lading of copper barrs, and other goods necessaries and provisions" as being worth £1300.[4]
Of the four deponents in support of the English merchants who owned the ship, three were resident in the parish of Stepney (including two in Limehouse), and one in Ratcliff (= Rotherhithe) across the river Thames on the Surrey side.
Depositions in the case of the Justice of Dover
- John ffishbell of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex Mariner, aged 45 yeeres, November 4th 1656[5]
- William Buckland of Stepney in the County of Middlesex Mariner aged forty fower yeares, November 4th 1656[6]
- John Burnett of Ratcliff Mariner, aged 44 yeeres, December 2nd 1656[7]
- Lewes Maddock of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex Mariner aged 40 yeeres, December 2nd 1656[8]
