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Warehouses were located throughout the City of London in the mid-seventeenth century. However, they were concentrated along the north and south shores of the River Thames, particularly in the parishes of XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX, and in the wards of XXXX, XXXX, XXXX.^[1]

John Strype's Survey of London provides some limited information on London warehousing and wharves in the later seventeenth century.^[2]

A map of the locations specified by the wills and posthumous inventories of wharfingers provides a more analytical complement to these descriptive data.

- It may also be worth examining the locations specified by London, Middlesex and Surrey carmen and porters in surviving wills and inventories

No warehouse buildings have physically survived from this period. However, inspection of eighteenth and nineteenth century engravings, and early twentieth century photographs, gives some sense of their appearance. For example, the London County Council Survey of London for Tower Street Ward contains interesting early photographs.^[3]

Some merchant inventories give information on storage and warehousing areas within combined residential and commercial properties in London. For example, XXXX.^[4]

The English East India Company had a number of specialised warehouses at different locations:

- The calico warehouse (1645)^[5]
- The pepper warehouse (1677-79)^[6]
- The blue warehouse (1677-79)^[7]
- The Exchange cellar (1645)^[8]
- The great warehouse at the Customhouse (1661)^[9]

- Warehouse-keeper of indigo and cinnamon, etc. (1645)
- Keeper of the exchange cellar (1645)

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==Mentions of warehouses in Wiki primary sources

Sir George Oxenden correspondence

See Pre-17th March 1665/66, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO

all things you sent home are come safe & are now in y hands of M:r Sprigg in the Cust:house, being delivered in by the worthyness of the Captaines who I am XXX promised, you better things, but are all XXXX XXXXX....

See 24th March 1665/66, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Corner (London)

your goodes are yett in the warehouse by reason of my Sister’s Sickness, but I shall have them suddainly out. ?Acion was y:e mann^[10] my Sister employed to the Comm:te & Custom house XXX I intend to make XX, of being acquainted w:th all my Sister’s affaires, and a good Accompant X honest, & well ??expressed, hee is M:is Hoddesden’s^[11] sonne

See 1st April 1666, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO

the Commtee: at ye: East India house who sent for mee in, & there producing my Sisters will prxxxxxx [?proceeded] [?proved] , they wth: much respect to you and me, immediately made an oder to the Husband Mr Sprigg to deliver all your remaining goodes in their Warehouses to me

See October 1667, Letter from William Ryder to Sir GO

I have allredy advised yow of ye said fire wch hapned in ye City begann ye 2d September last, where most of yo ffreinds have become sufferers God give it to us some other way, amongst wth M:r ?Texlles^[12] goods w:ch yow sent, being delayned in ye Comp:a warehouse were consumed, soe yt shee & others must have patience

Inventories

Paul Docminique senior's warehouse in Wheeler Street

In the warehouse belonging to the
said deceds house at Wheeler streete

IMPRIMIS 8li and ½ of Bollognia
silke at 24s p ll
Item 33li of Moyhaire yarne
at 2s – 6d p ll
Item 35li of Bassan silke at 20s p ll
Item 29li of Slackthrown ?Lagee silke
at 17s p ll
Item 11li of course Ossoy silke at
18s p ll
Item 121li small, of ?Burmalagee silke
at 11:s the small ll
Item 22li of fine Lagee silke
at 18;s p ll
Item 15li of double ?tram silke at
13:s p ll
Item a bale of Naples 220li ?neat at
20s p ll
Item one bale of Orsoy wt. 220li neat,
at 20:s p ll
Item a Bale of Morea silke wt.
160:li neat, at 7:s the small ll
Item 97li neat, small ll of Bengala
at 12:s p ll
Item 164 small ll of slaq?ckxbasse Lagee
at 12s the small ll"^[13]

Sir George Smith warehouse, XXXX

Law suits

Wills

Phillip Strode’s warehouse in Aleppo

See Philip Strode will

Notes

EEIC warehouses

"[July 35, 1645] Officers for the Company's service are chosen as follows : Jeremy Sambrooke to be book-keeper or general accountant ; Adam Bowen, writer and ' register of letters ' to foreign parts, and keeper of the calico warehouse ; Valentine Markham, auditor ; John Blount, warehouse-keeper of indigo and cinnamon, etc. ; James Acton, solicitor ; Thomas Rilston, husband ; John Young, purser-general ; William Hurt, paymaster of the mariners ; Samuel Sambrooke, assistant to Bowen ; John Spiller, beadle and porter ; Michael Dunkin, assistant to the Treasurer ; Richard Swinglehurst, secretary and keeper of the Exchange cellar"^[14]

"[December 23, 1661] As it would be a great expense and inconvenience to have the saltpetre received this year examined before it is taken over from Mr. Seaborne, and Francis Thomson having seen it all landed and also what was taken away, the Court gives direction for all the saltpetre brought home this year and still in the warehouses to be taken over as it is from the charge of Richard Seaborne, who is to deliver the key of the great warehouse at the Customhouse to Mr. Sprigg."^[15]

"[DATE? YEAR?]The warehouse in Mark Lane belonging to Edward Watts to be cleared and the King's goods removed from thence to the warehouse in Leadenhall, and 10l. to be charged to His majesty's ..."^[16]

"[1677-1679]...Aston, Keeper of the Pepper Warehouse, 80/. ; David Aston, assistant, 30/. ; Thomas Spriggs, Husband, 200/. ; Francis Thomson, assistant, 100/. ; George Papillon, Keeper of the Blue Warehouse, 160/. ; and for setting up the candle, 10/. ; Thomas Lewis, Paymaster of the Mariners, 30/. ; William Moses, Solicitor, 20/. ; Captain John Prowd, Surveyor, 80/. ; Robert Johnson, Doorkeeper, 40/. ; Michael Prescot, Surveyor of ..."^[17]

Sir John Morden, warehouses

"At the time of his marriage Sir John is stated to be of the parish of St. Martin Outwich, and he seems to have retained the same business premises during his lifetime. In the Little London Directory of 1677 (fn. 7) occurs the name of John Morden, merchant, Bishopsgate Street, and in his will Sir John Morden left £3 to the poor of the parish of St. Martin Outwich. (fn. 8) The actual position of the premises occupied by him has not yet been discovered, but those of Sir Samuel Barnardiston are shown on Ogilby and Morgan's well-known map of London, published in 1677. (fn. 9) Sir Samuel's house was in Bishopsgate Street Within, near Cornhill, and abutted, at the rear, upon Merchant Taylors' Hall, being reached by a passage between two of the houses or shops that occupied the street frontage. It is possible that Sir John at one time had his counting house in part of his friend's building; but he must subsequently have owned or taken on lease other premises which may have combined residence and business premises, for in his private account books for later years occur receipts of rent from Sir Thomas Rolt for "ye chamber" and from John Wynde for "ye warehouses.""^[18]

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Possible secondary sources

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5. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, July 35, 1645' (Court Book, vol. xix, p. 311), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), pp. 92-93
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8. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, July 35, 1645' (Court Book, vol. xix, p. 311), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), pp. 92-93
9. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, December 23, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 441), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 168
10. ↑ Elizabeth Dallison mentioned Mr. Sprigg at the London Custom House in a letter to Sir George Oxenden dated pre-March 1665/67, shortly before Elizabeth Dallison's death. See Pre-17th March 1665/66, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO. Thomas Sprigg was the EEIC Husbandman at the Customshouse, appointed by the EEIC in 1661 to replace Richard Seaborne, whose practices had been investigated and found wanting
11. ↑ Elizabeth Dalyson's cousin Tobell Aylmer had a younger sister, Mary, who had married, as her second husband, Christopher Hoddesdon of Hornchurch, Essex. Their son, or another relative, may be the accountant Sir Henry Oxenden is referring to in the above letter. By 1661 Christopher Hoddesdon himself was deceased
12. ↑ Mr. ?Texlles was XXXX. See Missing faces
13. ↑ PROB 5/2521 Inventory of Paul Docminique sen., 1680/81, ff. 1-8
14. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, July 35, 1645' (Court Book, vol. xix, p. 311), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), pp. 92-93
15. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, December 23, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 441), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 168
16. ↑ Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company: 1664-1667 (Oxford, 1923), p. 330
17. ↑ Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1677-1679 (Oxford, 1938), p. 177
18. ↑ T. Frank Green, Survey of London Monograph 10: Morden College, Blackheath (London, 1916), p. 27