William Clutterbucke

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William Clutterbucke
Person William Clutterbucke
Title
First name William
Middle name(s)
Last name Clutterbucke
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Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Purser
Associated with ship(s) Harry Bonadventure (Master: Robert Swanley)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Signature
Has opening text
Has signoff text William Clutterbucke
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Language skills English language
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Res town Hackney
Res county Middlesex
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Res country England
Birth year 1630
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First deposition age 23
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/68 f.138v Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Sep 24 1653
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Has infobox completed Yes
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Has HCA evidence completed No
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Ship classification
Type of ship In service of the Commonwealth
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

William Clutterbucke (alt. Clutterbuck) (b.ca.1630; d.?). Mariner.

Purser on the ship the Harry Bonadventure.

Resident in 1653 in Hackney.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

William Clutterbucke, a twenty-three year old mariner, deposed on September 24th 1653 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1] He was examined on an allegation on behalf of the Keeper of the Liberty of England as part of "A busines of examination of Witnesses for the perpetuall remembrance of the matter on behalfe of the Keeper of the Liberty of England by authority of Parliament concerning the losse of a certaine shipp named the Harry Bonadventure whereof Robert Swanley was captaine and the goods that were in her and concerning a certaine shipp or vessell named the Saint Peter where of one Claes Symondson Cohone was master being a shipp formerly belonging to the Dutch subiects of the States of the United Provinces and taken and seized by Captaine Swanly in the sayd shipp the Harry Bonadventure in the immediate service of this Commonwealth."[2]

Complete list of witnesses examined on the same allegation were

  1. Lorenzo Michael of Sevill in Spayne corporall of the sayd shipp the Harry Bonadventure aged thirty yeares[3]
  2. James Collett of the parish of Stepney in Middlesex cooper of the sayd shipp the Harry Bonadventure aged eight and twenty yeares[4]
  3. Robert Tibbet of Limehouse in the county of Middlesex mariner master of the sayd shipp the Harry Bonadventure aged six and forty yeares[5]
  4. John Standen of London neere Bottolphs wharfe chyrurgeon of the sayd ship the Harry Bonadventure aged 28 yeares[6]
  5. William Clutterbuck of Hackney in the county of Middlesex mariner purser of the sayd shipp the Harry Bonadventure aged three and twenty yeares[7]
  6. John Merrick of Wapping in the county of Middlesex mariner late Leiuetenant of the Harry Bonadventure and afterwards master or commander of the Saint Peter a foresayd, aged one and thirty yeares[8]
  7. Richard Hall of Ratcliffe in the county of Middlesex mariner, quartermaster of the sayd shipp the Harry Bonadventure aged five and thirty yeares[9]
  8. Richard Clayton of Blackwall in the county of Middlesex mariner, late cooke of the sayd shipp the Harry Bonadventure, aged five and thirty yeares[10]
  9. Robert Swanley of Hackney in the county of Middlesex mariner late captaine or commander of the sayd shipp the Harry Bonadventure, aged eight and thirty yeares[11]


Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/68 f.138v
  2. HCA 13/68 f.130r
  3. HCA 13/68 f.130r
  4. HCA 13/68 f.133v
  5. HCA 13/68 f.135v
  6. HCA 13/68 f.137r
  7. HCA 13/68 f.138v
  8. HCA 13/68 f.140v
  9. HCA 13/68 f.142v
  10. HCA 13/68 f.144r
  11. HCA 13/68 f.145v