Team Sarah
Team Sarah
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Suggested tasks for the week
W/c 26th August 2012
- Browse HCA 13/71 f.60r to HCA 13/71 f.69v ( P1130321 to P1130340) in the (Team Sarah) Week 2 – Sunday 26/8 posting on MarineLives-Transcript.org (Colin)
- Note: HCA 13/71 f.64r P1130329 and HCA 13/71 f.64v P1130330 are examples of single pages requiring several separate metadata entries, due to short depositions
- Try transcribing part of a page, or a full page, of manuscript. Remember to add your name and date as first transcriber at the bottom of the metadata
- You may want to look up some background on the case and depositions you are transcribing
- The Merchants Research Project (the Bron wiki) is a good resource for maps and short geographical profiles.
- If you are lucky, you may also find a mention in the Bron wiki of the merchant, mariner or ship mentioned in your transcription.
- To look for useful resources you can
(1) Browse a category of data (e.g. Places, Maps, or within Primary Documents, try Wills, Hearth tax: London, Hearth Tax: Middlesex, Hearth Tax: Kent & Surrey, and Admiralty court cases, 1650-1669
(2) Use the search box at top RH corner of the wiki page
- For help on using the search function see Searching the Wiki
- TIP:
- Many of the pages from HCA 13/71 f.60r to HCA 13/71 f.69v relate to a dispute about a shipment of currants, and concern a ship which stopped at various Mediterranean ports, including Genoa and Zant
- So you could try looking in the Bron wiki for geographical profiles of Genoa and Zant. The Morea is also mentioned. Can you find out anything about the mid-C17th Morea?
- What about other mentions of shipments of currants? Can you find any existing transcriptions of High Court of Admiralty court cases concerning currants? What sort of merchants were involved in the shipment of currants? Were they members of specific trading companies? Where else did they trade? What other commodities did they trade? What trading goods did they take out from England, or did they use currency and specie?
Some of the primary sources you will find mentioning "currants" (but try looking for others, and remember to use variant spellings when you search)
See PROB 5/840 Inventory & probate accounts of Samuel Mico, 1666, ff. 1-27
See C10/160/41 f. 1
See C10/160/41 f. 3 (only a partial transription, though the digital images are available if you wish to explore these voyage accounts in greater detail)
