Silvester Bely
| Silvester Bely | |
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| Person | Silvester Bely |
| Title | |
| First name | Silvester |
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| Last name | Bely |
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| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Blacksmith |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Sylvester Bayly |
| Has signoff text | Silvester Bely |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
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| Res street | |
| Res parish | Liberty of Tower of London |
| Res town | London |
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| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1610 |
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| First deposition age | 40 |
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| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/63 f.10v Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Apr 6 1650 |
| 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
Silvester Bely (alt. Sylvester Bayly) (b. ca. 1610; d. ?). Blacksmith.
Resident in 1650 in the Liberty of the Tower of London.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty year old Silvester Bely deposed on April 6th 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. He ws examined on interrogatories in "Nego[?tium] examinaconis testis ad perpetua rei memoria ex parte Jaohannis Scotson Administratorem bonorum Roberti Scot alesa quoad navem quendam vorat the Desire".[1]
Silvester Bely testified that he had known Robert Scot in his lifetime, and that Scot had been the master and part-owner of a ship named the Desire of London. Belu had been present at a house in Shadwell, whose sign or name he did not remember. Bely was at the meeting "together with one James Hitchcocke and Mr Robert Tranckmore of Blackwall whith others about a yeare and a halfe since, when and where hee did see the said Robert Scott buy and pay for the said fowerth part of the said shippe the Desire of and to one Robert Orton (who was was allsoe master and 4th part owner of her before)". In consideration for the purchase Scot paid £80. Bely stated that "Orton did then and there signe seale and for his act and deed deliver a bill of sale made of and for the premisses, to which bill of saile and payment of the said moneys as aforesaid hee this deponent is a witnesse and did thereto sett his hand or name together with other of the persons before mentioned who were then and there alsoe present and sawe the same soe had and done as is before in this his deposition mentioned and expressed".[2]
