MRP: Riga
Riga
Editorial history
06/12/11, CSG: Created page and uploaded Mercatoris Livonia map
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Livonia plate in Gerardi Mercatoris, Atlas Minor (Amsterdam, 1634), p. 115; out of copyright book and image
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Notes
Riga as part of English Baltic trade
"in & bet y:e yeares of o:r Lord one thousand six hundred sixtie & one (sixtie two) sixtie three) sixtie four) & sixtie five) y:e s:d S:r W:m Rider and yo:r Orato:r as ptners in Merchandize did freight on in sewall vessells from y:e port of London to Stockholme in Sweden to Dansicke in Poland and to Riga in Sweden diverse merchandizes & comodityes in pticuler sugar Tobacco Pepper Tinne Lead Cardimmon Coales Indigoe ffrench & spanish wines & sevall other Comdityes & yo:r Orato:r cannot in pticuler menconn all w:ch had safe arrivalls & were from tyme to tyme sold to very great pfitts & great returns were made from Stockholme & other pts beyond y:e seas as y.e proceed of these merchandizes w:ch had likewise safe arrivalls at y:e port of London w:ch retorns did consist in Irons Copper XXX Plates XXX Gunnes Copper Barrs Pitch & divers other Comodityes of w:ch great pfitts was made y:e pticuler Bills of Lading Envoyces & accompts of all w:ch together w:th all the comodityes themselves did come to y.e hands of y:e s:d S:r William Rider Cocke or Alderman Backwell or some or one of them or for their uses or by their order"[1]
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Merian, M., 'Riga', ca. 1650, copper etching, 21.3 x 25.7cm[2]
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Suggested secondary sources
- Jump up ↑ 'Bill of complaint brought by William Cock vs. Sir William Ryder et al, C10/155/38 f. 1
- Jump up ↑ www.philographikon.com/imagesbalticstates/rigamerian.gif, viewed 06/12/11
