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ADM 7/689 Admiralty: Miscellane … '''TNA'''
ADM 7/689 Admiralty: Miscellanea. Description and map of Newfoundland. The map is in the PRO museum (double pedestal A 5/2, upper frames Apparently a contemporary copy of CO 199/16.
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ADM 106/308 1675 July 24 Folio 75. Sir John Berry Bristol. Has arrived here, reports the bad condition of his sails. '''Report on the fishing fleet here.''' Has given His Majesty's order to the local inhabitants about leaving the area. Damage to the local fishing industry. St Johns Newfoundland<br />
1675 July 24
ADM 106/311 Navy Board: Records. IN-LETTERS. Miscellaneous. Folio 415. Thomas Lewsley. Gives the market price of calmer, tar, pitch, '''Newfoundland oil''' and black rozin. '''1675'''
ADM 106/320/386 Captain John Wyborne, the Pearl, Ferryland Harbour. By a small Bristol vessel he reports his arrival at St. John's harbour, Newfoundland where the Reserve now is and his voyage to Ferryland. The inhabitants of St. John's have been rugged used by the Dartmouth men, but there are '''few Barnstaple men here as there is little fish. 1676 Jul 23'''
ADM 106/323/574 Navy Board: Records. IN-LETTERS. Miscellaneous. W. Fownes. His tender for Stockholm pitch and tar and rosin and '''Newfoundland train oil. 1677'''
ADM 106/339/71 W Bodham, Clerk of the Ropeyard, Woolwich. He has specified the amount of tallow, grease and oil required. He now specified the uses to which it will be put by the hatchellers, hemp dressers and labourers. No one can remember how long these things have been used in the yard but they have certainly been used ever since he has been in the yard. '''Newland oil is not Greenland oil or whale oil but comes from Newfoundland and is made of fish waste.''' 1678 Mar 11
C 6/392/49 Short title: Conymand v Vanlare. Plaintiffs: David Conymand.Defendants: John Vanlare merchant of London. Subject: the plaintiff was a co-partner of the ship William and John. The defendant entered into a charterparty agreement with the ships master to sail to Newfoundland, America to pick up a cargo of fish: mentions William Horton ship's master and Richard Horton ship's master. Document type: answer only.
C 6/398/48 Short title: Clarke v Lange. Plaintiffs: '''Edward Clarke fisherman, of Dartmouth, Devon'''. Defendants: John Lange boat keeper, Henry Penny merchant, of Dartmouth, Devon.Subject: '''An injunction to stop the defendant Lange and his crews from suing the plaintiff for wages due to them from the other defendant Penny, a failed merchant''', as the plaintiff had been employed by Penny on one occasion to act on his behalf. Lange hired crews to man fishing boats owned by Penny including the Thomas and John of Dartmouth: property in Combeinteignhead, Devon; Newton Bushel, Devon and Newfoundland, America. Document type: bill, answer. 1681
CO 195/1 Colonial Office and Predecessors: Newfoundland Entry Books. Entry Books of Instructions, Commissions, Petitions, Correspondence, etc. Orders, grants, petitions, etc., relating to fisheries.: Orders, grants, petitions, etc., relating to fisheries. 1623-1671
CO 199/16 Colonial Office and Predecessors: Newfoundland Miscellanea. Miscellaneous. Account of the colony and fishery. with map. For an apparently contemporary copy, see ADM 7/689. 1677
CO 390/6 Board of Trade: Miscellanea. Miscellanea. Statistics. Newfoundland fishery and inhabitants. 01 January 1675 - 31 December 1731
EXT 6/106 5 items extracted from PRO 30/24/44/75. (1) Case of the King of Sweden for a Quo Warranto concerning impositions on trade. (2) Remonstrance of merchants, owners and masters of ships of the towns of Plymouth and Dartmouth, Devon, and other western ports concerning the fishing trade in Newfoundland. (3) Petition and Proposal of the Corporation of Pin-Makers of London. (4) Remonstrance against the confinement of trade to particular companies. (5) Case of the Refiners of Sugar in England. Date:<br />
17th century
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SP 89/6/161 Folio 291: Consul Maynard to Secretary Bennet. Dissatisfaction of Schomberg and the foreign auxiliary troops with Portuguese government is now greater than ever. Safe arrival of bulk of Brazil fleet and two East-Indiamen. Trouble over salutes with English warships,and over English seamen in Portuguese warships. '''Newfoundland ships taken by Spanish privateers.''' Prospects of war between England and Holland please the Portuguese. Sends a present of two horses. Date and place: 1664 Nov 9/19 and 20/30 Lisbon
SP 89/7/65 Folio 120: Sir Robert Southwell to Lord Arlington. Requesting a protection from the Council for the master of a Newfoundland fishing vessel. Date and place: 1666 Feb 13 Benavente.el. Date and place: 1666 Feb 13 Benavente. +
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