MRP: Wood
Wood
Editorial history
19/03/12, CSG: Created page
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To do
(1) Compile a list of woodmonger post-mortem inventories, 1640-1700
Notes
Sappon wood, 1662
"Dom ffrancise de Lima Sig:r Antonio de mello de Cassro & another [2 words in original manuscript] fidalga haveing had a pcell off solor Sappon [could be "Jappon"] Wood lyeing upon theire hands now upwards of a yeare, it was by them offered unto mee ?for sale w:ch knowing it, to bee of an excellent sort transcending y:t of Callicutt, Cochin, Zeilon, Achine, Siam, Etc:a & itts price reasonable viz:tt 61:x:[“x” in original manucript, presumably "ten"]ss y:e Candy of this place, I adventured on it, & allready paid downe upon it 2000:x:ss y:e whole quantity amounting to a bout 300: Cands, bebesides 100: Candys more of Dom francisco de Lima who desires y:t hy may accompany y:e Rest wheresoever it is sent without altering its property"[1]
Dye wood
Sir Nicholas Crispe, Hammersmith
Edward Gaville, woodmonger vs Sir William Ryder, 1671
Edward Gavile, a woodmonger of St Clements Dane, Middlesex, brought a suit in Chancery against the executors of the deceased London merchant, Sir William Ryder. In his Bill of Complaint dated 1671 Gavile alleges that Ryder had in 1668 contracted with Gavile to supply him with a quantity of faggots from woods Ryder owned in Kent (C10/160/47 f. 1). These, Gavile contended, would be suitable to make into ostrey faggots, for which he had customer demand. However, Gavile alleges that Ryder failed to perform the contract in a timely manner with suitable quality faggots. As a result most did not arrive for winter 1668, a particularly severe winter in which there was high demand for fuel, but one in which the rivers were closed due to frost and ice. Ryder eventually shipped the faggots to the desired wharves of "Woolwich Dartford or Deptford", but on Gavile's inspection the faggots proved rotten and unmerchantable. Gavile alleges that he subsequently made a "collateral agreement" with Sir William Ryder, in which Ryder offered to make an abatement to the original contract terms, which Gavile claims was originally priced at eight shillings per faggot. However, following Ryder's death, his executors examined his papers and books, which appeared to show that the contract had not been fully satisfied by Gavile. Moreover the books showed a sale price of ten shillings, not eight shillings. Samuel Heron (named as "Herne" in the bill of complaint), who was Ryder's servant, together with a Francis Gunne, a Greenwich baker, are alleged to have been involved as book keepers or agents in Ryder's dealings with Gavile.
See C10/160/47 f. 1
Woodyards
See C5/485/75 Inventory of M:r Thomas Gaskins yard ff. 1-7
- Dated 1678
Possible primary sources
TNA
E 367/2869 The Company of Woodmongers: The Woodmongers' Bargehouse at Thames Wall, Lambeth. 16 Chas.II.
