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Portuguese merchants in London

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13/11/12: CSG, created page

Purpose of page

The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it. Portuguese merchants in London are hard to distinguish from Spanish merchants. However, they are occasionally explicitly identified as Portugues in HCA 13/71 cases and depositions.

All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.

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Portuguese merchants freighting goods from London on English ships

Loss of the Black Boy off the Isle of Wight

• "The shipp the Black boy was freighted and hired by hee this deponent of and from his precontest Robert Gale (owner of her) in or about June last to make a voyage to the Jamaica Islands to take wines and other merchandizes, and to retourne therewith and to follow the freighters orders, and that hee soe freighted her for account of himselfe and other Portuguese living in this citie, and that they laded her outwards with serges, cloth and other goods, and that at the Canaries there were laden for their account 149 pipes of wines as by the papers transmitted them XXXather hath bin manifested XXXXX, And saith that the said shipp comming from thense with the said wines for the downes, was about fourteene dayes since cast away by storme and fault or error of the mariners at BXXXX in the Ile of Wight as this deponent hath by lettres bin informed..."

1. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.412r