Ports
Ports
Editorial history
08/11/12: CSG, created page
Purpose of page
The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.
Many ports are mentioned in HCA 13/71, with descriptions of issues relating to accessing them, and specific practices experienced at those ports, in terms of materials handling, merchant relations, and excise, amongst other topics.
All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.
- What specifics do can we learn about named ports?
- Are specific ports identified with specific commodities and specific companies and nationalities of merchant (and mariners)?
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Contents
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Descriptions of access to ports
Porto Port
- "The Port of Porto Port in Portugall is a barrd port, and by reason of the barr and alsoe by reason a great fresh doth usually come downe the Port and the Port is very narrowe and rockie on the one side and sandie on the other, it is very dangerous to put thereinto, and the same is not to bee entered but about three quarters flood, and that with a great fresh gale of winde to stemme the fresh, in soe much that noe shipps (as this deponent hath heard by divers seamen who frequented that Port) doe goe in thither without assistance of a pylott belonging to that place or to some other Port neere thereabout and well acquainted with the sayd Port"
- HCA 13/71 f.503r: Case: Cowse against Jiggles; Deposition: 4. James Manfeild of Saint Olaves in Southwarke Mariner aged fifty yeares; Date: 27/02/1656 (1657)[2]
Mallaga
- Use of rafts to raft out wine to a ship anchored off shore
Descriptions of customs at different ports
Cadiz
James Downe, a London merchant, had extensive experience of trade with Cadiz, both as a merchant and as a ship's purser. He had also lived in Cadiz for fourteen years. He reported that it was the custom and manner of trade of the English, that for ships owned by Englishmen, a daily payment of one piece of eight was paid to masters and pursers when they were on shore in Cadiz about ship's business. This payment was in addition to any contract for wages.
- "7. James Downe of London Marchant living in
8. Bishopsgate streete at the signe of the Bull
9. aged 38 yeares or thereabouts sworne and examined
10. To the first article of the said allegation hee saith and deposeth that for theise
11. twenty yeares last past hee this deponent hath well knowne the
12. custome and manner of trade of the English at Cadiz and of the duties
13. paid and payable to the masters and Pursers of the English shipps there
14. hee having for that space frequented that port both as a merchant
15. and as a Purser of shipps, and for fourteene yeeres of that space
16. residing there, and thereby hee well knoweth that it hath bin and
17. is there use ˹and˺ custome that such masters and ˹or˺ Pursers of any
18. English shipps ˹whereof English men are owners˺ as trade or lain there, being imployed on shore about
19. the owners busines, have bin for all the said time and are allowed during
20. such their imployment on shoare about the shipps businesse as to
21. retaine freight or to let out the shipp to freight or the like a peece
22. of eight by the day and for each day, for his ˹or˺ and their
23. expens and charges on shoare over and above his or their wages
24. contracted for, and hee for his part having bin Purser there in two
25. shipps (whereof English men were owners) was allowed the same and
26. after the same rate, And this custome as he hath bin informed hath
27. bin observed time of out of minde, and is well knowne to and
28. notorious amongst merchants and mariners trading to XXXX that port,
29. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
30. James Downe SIGNATURE, RH SIDE"
- HCA 13/71 f.102r Case: Browning against Vanderpost and Company; Deposition: 1. James Downe of London Marchant living in Bishopsgate streete at the signe of the Bull aged 38 yeares (Signature of "James Downe" at end of deposition); Date: 27/02/1655[3]
Porto fferava
- "He hath beene att Porto fferava, but it is so long since that hee hath at present noe memory of the manner and orders used in that Port, nor touching the weights there used"
