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<u>Letters of John Page</u>
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"27. to Gowen Paynter and William Clerke<br />
'''15 Nov. 1650'''<br />
a. I have received yours, 14 Oct., per Mr Steward, perceiving thereby that Mr Shadforth [the Elizabeth] and Mr Webber [the Blessing] were both arrived with you, for which I am hearty glad, giving the Lord praise for it. I do now expect them daily, God send them well to arrive. The times are very dangerous. Prince Rupert is come out of Lisbon with 24 sail and hath taken 2 or 3 ships from Malaga. He lies off the southern cape. God grant he send none about your Islands. Insurance is very high upon the news, but I had done most of mine before the tidings came. I have insured for your accounts on the Matthew from the Canaries to London £2,500 at 4 per cent, and on the Blessing I have insured £1,500 for your accounts in equal halves at 4 per cent. Likewise I have insured on the Elizabeth £2,150 in the proportion as I freighted her. When '''Mr Warren''' was upon the Barbary Coast and taken by the French, (fn. 9) he writ me of his mischance and the danger that Peter Steward [the Island Merchant] escaped, upon which I was very doubtful of Mr Shadforth. So that I presently caused £800 to be insured on him for our accounts from hence to Barbary and so to the Canaries, for which I gave 6 per cent and glad it was done so, which, as it falls out, is so much money cast away, but I hope our voyage will bear it. I am very glad that my project hath list [i.e. pleased] so well, hoping that our corn will sell very well.
FN. 9 = In 1651 Thomas Warren testified in the Admiralty Court that the William and Henry, on which he had served as factor, had earlier been taken by a French man-of-war off Mogador (H.C.A. 13/64, 28 April 1651)."UNIQ66f807eb7ed8f343-ref-00000007-QINU
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30. to Gowen Paynter and William Clerke<br />
'''15 Feb. 1651'''<br />
30b...'''Mr Warren''' hath bought a ship of 200 ts and intends for the Barbary Coast about June or July. This ship was entered for San Sebastian in a politic way, so that I knew not of her going till yesterday. By the next I shall be more larger, which I conceive will be a month hence by our State's fleet which are bound for Barbados, being in all 10 sail of gallant ships which intend to stop at Santa Cruz [de Tenerife] to refresh and take in some wine for beverage."UNIQ66f807eb7ed8f343-ref-0000000A-QINU
"52. to William Clerke<br />
'''15 Feb. 1652'''<br />
52b....'''Mr Warren''' and Mr Lee, owners of the ''Susan'', do think they are wronged because you do not send home the account you writ of. In the meantime I have stopped £20 [of the freight payment]. Pray hasten it over per first. They likewise demand a pipe of wine which was due per charterparty, of which I am ignorant of, so desire your order about it. We have lost half our principal per said vessel. I have sold my part to '''Mr Warren'''."UNIQ66f807eb7ed8f343-ref-0000000D-QINU
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"67. to William Clerke<br />
'''1 Feb. 1653'''<br />
a. I have written you at large per this conveyance, to which crave reference. Have since received yours, 16 Dec., per '''Mr Thomas Warren''', which cannot answer at present so fully as could wish, being straitened with time."UNIQ66f807eb7ed8f343-ref-00000010-QINU
"80. to William Clerke<br />
'''22 Jan. 1654'''<br />
I have written you per several ships this vintage at large, to which crave reference. But as yet have not had the happiness to receive a line from you, at which I do not much admire in regard I hear you were at Gran Canaria. Here are several passengers come from Dartmouth by land from the Peter, Capt. Pedro Ribete, who is safe arrived there about 25 days since and as yet not come into the river but hourly expected. I am told Pedro Ribete hath letters for me but told the passengers would deliver them by his own hand. I have a great desire to have a few lines from you. I hope you are not angry with me, though I confess I have not been so good as my word with you about your account.
This small vessel [the Agreement, Capt. John Mourton] I bought between me and '''Mr Thomas Warren''' in halves; and having a few pilchards in the West, by great chance, I have ordered them to be sent in this vessel, seeming could get no other in all the West Country for to carry the fish away, being about 120 hhds, which were all that I could get for love or money."UNIQ66f807eb7ed8f343-ref-00000013-QINU<br />
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<u>Books</u>
Todd Gray, ''Early Stuart Mariners and Shipping: Maritime Surveys for Devon, 1619-35'' (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, 1990)
<u>Journal articles</u>
'The Canary Company', ''English Historical Review'' (1916) XXXI (CXXIV): 529-544. doi: 10.1093/ehr/XXXI.CXXIV.529: 529-544. doi: 10.1093/ehr/XXXI.CXXIV.529 +
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