Whalers exempt from impress, 1654
Whalers exempt from impress, 1654
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C17th Arctic whaling
Listed in original order as in document
Stephen Richards
Thomas Dobson
William Goddwin
Edward Pearson
Peter Fisher
John Han?eson
Lancelot Russell
Abraham North
Robert ?Jones
John Gage
Alexander De?r?ry
Richard Blake
William Humphrey
Thomas Damerell
Edward Goslyn
Richard Parker
Thomas Hea?th
William Welch
William Baker
James Goulding
Miles Fri?th
John Sedge
Nicholas Perkins
Thomas Wates
William Harries
John Watson
Jonas Symonds
Nathaniel BirXe
Edward Comfort
William Parkins
William N?e?e?f?fe
Leonard Hewer
John Maundry
Robert Sayers
Abraham Duke
Joseph Lamb
William Sweeting
John Barefoote
John OrpeXh
William Lawrence
John Lawrence
John Cressy
Roger CXXXXX
Martyn Crocket
John King
Allan DXbXs
Edward Hunt
Richard Mandry
Gowen Ramsey
John Humphrey
John Harris
Stephen HareX junior
John Hamond
Himphry Perry
Christopher Pibus
John Fox
Richard Littlefeild
Thomas Davies
Christopher Wise
Richard Langborne
William Jackson
John Andrewes
John BelX
John Symonds
George Carter
Richard Kennick
Thomas Semper
Walter Hickings
Philip Lane
Edward Lee
Richard Mann
Thomas Etherington
William Danby
John Creasy
Robert Williamson
Edmond Farro
William Morris
Relisted by CSG in alphabetical order
John Andrewes
William Baker
John Barefoote
- Alexander Barefoote, cooper, mentioned in Edmund Halley's personal answers to a libell given in on the behalfe of Captain William Thomas
"and thereupon Alexander Barefoote
Cooper to ye sd goods for preservacon of them hyred warehouse
=roome for twenty tonns or thereabouts of ye said Oyles"
(HCA 13/128 no fol. nos.)
John BelX
Nathaniel BirXe
Richard Blake
George Carter
Edward Comfort
John Creasy
John Cressy
PROB 4/1615 Cressy, John, of Blakeney, Norfolk, merchant 1669 26 June
Martyn Crocket
Roger CXXXXX
Thomas Damerell
- PROB 11/160/460: Will of James Damerell, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex; 24 October 1631
William Danby
Thomas Davies
Alexander De?r?ry
Thomas Dobson
Allan DXbXs
Abraham Duke
Thomas Etherington
Edmond Farro
Peter Fisher
John Fox
Miles Fri?th
John Gage
William Goddwin
Edward Goslyn
James Goulding
John Hamond
John Han?eson
Stephen HareX junior
William Harries
John Harris
Thomas Hea?th
Leonard Hewer
Walter Hickings
John Humphrey
William Humphrey
Edward Hunt
William Jackson
Robert ?Jones
Richard Kennick
John King
Joseph Lamb
Philip Lane
Richard Langborne
John Lawrence
William Lawrence
Edward Lee
Richard Littlefeild
Richard Mandry
Richard Mann
John Maundry
- PROB 11/298: Will of John Mandry, Mariner of Leigh, Essex 17 April 1660; Nabbs 52-105
William Morris
William N?e?e?f?fe
Abraham North
John OrpeXh
Richard Parker_
"16. the sayd Gosling and one Richard Parker the Boatswaine ˹and one William humphrey˺ of the
17. Owners Adventure and ˹william humphrey˺ having as harponeeres stricken the sayd whale
18. and fastned their warps..." (HCA 13/71 f.471v)http://marinelives-transcript.org/scripto/scripto/?scripto_action=transcribe&scripto_doc_id=909&scripto_doc_page_id=1048
William Parkins
Edward Pearson
Nicholas Perkins
Humphry Perry
Christopher Pibus
- PROB 11/524/234: Will of John Pybus, Mariner of East Greenwich, Kent; 02 November 1711
Gowen Ramsey
Stephen Richards
Lancelot Russell
- "[March 8. (1653-4)] 39, Petition of Richard Childe, master, Wm. Fishman, part owner,
mate, and pilot, and the mariners of the Peace of London, to the
Protector. On a fishing voyage to Greenland, surprised the Frinte
of Rotterdam, laden with lead, hemp, 'and oil for Rochelle, and
brought her to England; but Hum. Beane and the rest of the
freighters have obtained an order from the late Council of State
[see 10 June 1653], whereby petitioners are deprived of any benefit
of the prize, though the Court of Admiralty can show no precedent
of freighters or merchants having an interest in such prizes, because
if they are injured, the owners are bound to make good to them.
Beg consideration of their pains and danger in taking the ship, and
an order for the proportion allowed to Beane, to avoid a tedious
suit in the Admiralty, which their employment in the service will
not allow them to attend. With order by the Protector, 22 Feb-
ruary 1653-4 that Council revoke the order of 10 June 1653, and
distribute the prize amongst the master, seamen, and mariners. [1 page.]
Annexing,
39. i. Certificate by Lancelot Russell and 14 others to the truth
of the petition, and also that the merchants concerned
were much profited by the voyage, Childe having killed
three whales before the other ships came. [1 page, 12
signatures.]"[2]
Robert Sayers
John Sedge
Thomas Semper
William Sweeting
- PROB 11/317/634 Will of William Sweeting, Grocer of London 16 September 1665
- PROB 11/394/400 Will of William Sweeting, Merchant of London 19 March 1689
Jonas Symonds
John Symonds
Thomas Wates
John Watson
William Welch
- PROB 11/289/39: Will of William Welch, Mariner; 01 March 1659
Robert Williamson
Christopher Wise
Possible sources of English whalers names, 1640-1660
SP 46/96/fo19-20 The names of the Adventurers in the present joint stock for Greenland Copy. [1651/2 Jan.]
- TO DO: make a copy and transcribe this
SP 46/96/fo23-24 Description of the present state of the Greenland fishing and the methods employed, and conclusions drawn therefrom [by the Muscovia Company]Copy. [1651/2 Jan.]
- TO DO: make a copy and transcribe this
E 178/5525 Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Special Commissions of Inquiry. NORFOLK: Yarmouth Certificate as to the accounts of the profits of a voyage to Greenland (Hoarth v. Attorney-General and Lady Slingsby). 9 Chas. I. (27 March 1633 - 26 March 1634)
- TO DO: make a copy and transcribe this
SP 46/96/fo21-22 Address to the Committee for Foreign Affairs of several Adventurers for Greenland, in answer to the petition of the Muscovia Company [see ff.15-20, 23-24]. [1652]
- TO DO: make a copy and transcribe this
- TO DO: Search for "Fellowship of Merchants for the Discovery of New Trades"
Linked to adventurers in present joint stock for Greenland
Linked to Richard Childe
- PROB 11/333/539 Will of Richard Childe, Mariner of Saint Botolph without Algate, Middlesex 12 September 1670 (pp. 2)
Linked to Thomas Horth
Main Papers HL/PO/JO/10/1/58 25 May 1641 - 31 May 1641: 26 May 1641 -- Petition of the fellowship of English merchants for discovery of new trades against Thomas Horth and others.
Other sources linked to Thomas Horth
- PROB 11/322/468 Will of Thomas Horth 07 December 1666
- SP 46/96/fo143-144: Answers of Thomas Horth to the claims of the Greenland Company: 1649 Dec. 31
- SP 46/96/fo145: Petition to the Committee for Foreign Affairs by Thomas Horth asking that no decision should be taken on the suggestions of the Greenland Company until his answers thereto have been considered. (Enclosure at f.145).: [1651/2 Feb.]
- E 214/642: Parties: Charles I. The Society of Coal Merchants trading to Newcastle, Sunderland, Blyth, Hook and Berwick, and Thomas Horth, Squire Pence, Edmund Morgan and others (named). Place or Subject: Licence to trade and convenant to supply the cities of London and Westminster and their suburbs with coal at a fixed price for 10 years; to pay duty; to appoint a surveyor; and to admit to the Society any person who agrees to pay 13 s 4 d and to submit to the orders of the Society.: 2 Jul 1638
- "April 28 (1637) 102. Petition of Thomas Horth, of Yarmouth, merchant, to the Council. The Corporation of "Sopers" of Westminster contracted with petitioner for 350 or 400 tons of Greenland train oil to be last year delivered for his Majesty's service, in regard the Greenland merchants of London did not import a sufficient quantity. Most of the oil was long since delivered, and the Soapers compelling petitioner to deliver the rest, petitioner has made provision of the same to be brought to London, his Majesty's customs and duties for the same being paid on the 4th of March last. By order of the 8th March last, the Lords ordered all oil brought in by any save the Greenland merchants should be exported again or seized to his Majesty's use. By virtue of that order Newman and Measer, two of his Majesty's officers, have hung locks on petitioner's warehouse doors, and pretend to have petitioner's oil exported or seized, although it was at Yarmouth, and there the custom was paid before the 8th March, but it was detained by contrary winds. Petitioner prays order to the officers that he may be suffered to deliver the oil to the soap-boilers, the quantity being 140 tons, brought in the ship Relief. [1 p.] Endorsed,
102. i. Order for Mr. Gage, governor of the Corporation of Soapmakers of Westminster, and one or two of the Greenland Company to attend the Board on the morrow. Star Chamber, 28th April 1637. Annexed,
102. ii. Contract made by George Gage, governor of the Company of Soapmakers, with Thomas Horth, of Yarmouth, for 350 or 400 tons of whale train oil, to be delivered at London, in the Thames, at 20l. per ton. 10th January 1635–6. [Attested copy. ½ p.]
102. iii. Lord Treasurer Juxon to the Officers of the Customs. Thomas Horth paying his Majesty's customs and duties is to be permitted to land such quantity of oil as he has contracted with the Company of Soapmakers to deliver for that year. 18th June 1636. [Attested copy. 1 p.]
102. iv. Order of Council upon the petition of Edmond Manning, praying licence to bring hither out of Holland 60 tons of whale oil. On reading the answer of the Muscovy Company, the Lords ordered that if Manning or any other should bring over any such oil or whale fins, that they should forthwith transport the same, otherwise it might be seized according to his Majesty's proclamation. Whitehall, 8th March 1636-7. [Copy. 1 p.]
102. v. Certificate of William Barrett, comptroller and collector of customs at Yarmouth, that Thomas Horth had paid the subsidy and impost for 130 tons of Greenland train oil in the Relief, of Ipswich, Thomas Cleecher, master, and is to be suffered to pass to London. 4th March 1637 [i.e., 1637–8, sed qu. 1636–7.] [Attested copy. ½ p.]"[3]
Whale oil/Train Oil
- Importing Whale Oil, &c.
"Die Martis, Decembris 3, 1644.
PRAYERS.THE humble Petition of the Fellowship of English Merchants, for Discovery of new Trades, desiring, That the Importation of Whale Oil, and Whale Fins, from any Parts beyond Seas, except from Greenland, might be prohibited, was this Day read; and ordered to be referred to the Consideration of the Committee for the Navy: And all the Burgesses of the Out Ports are added to this Committee, as to this Business."
('House of Commons Journal Volume 3: 3 December 1644', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 3: 1643-1644 (1802), pp. 712-713. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=11164 Date accessed: 31 January 2013.)
"Ordinance about the Importation of Train Oil.
The Ordinance for prohibiting Train Oil to be brought in by Strangers, was read the Third Time, and Agreed to.
(Here enter it.)
"An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for freeing and discharging the Vintners from any Demand, for or concerning any Delinquency, concerning the Imposition of Forty Shillings per Tun on Wines, or any Thing concerning the same, except the Persons herein."
"Ordinance to prevent the Importation of Train Oil, &c. by Foreigners.
"The Lords and Commons assembled in the High Court of Parliament of England, taking into Consideration that nothing more enricheth this Kingdom than Commerce, whereby the Navigation thereof is much increased, especially in Fishing Voyages, and therefore ought to be encouraged; upon the humble Petition presented from the Fellowship of Merchants of England for Discovery of new Trades, Adventurers to Greenland; shewing, That they were the First Discoverers of that Country, and, for many Years successively, have maintained the Fishing there, which hath been a great Increase of many Seamen and many Ships Yearly employed, to the great Benefit of this Kingdom; but of late Years have been much prejudiced, for that great Quantities of Whale Oil of Strangers Fishing are permitted to be imported into this Kingdom, more than it can spend; by Means whereof, the said Petitioners, and others His Majesty's Subjects trading thither, have not Vent for theirs, which, without some speedy Prevention, will disable them from continuing their Fishings into those Parts, to the Hazard of the Loss of that Country unto Strangers (so long desired by them), being Subjects to the Crown of England; and likewise taking into Consideration, that, in other Kingdoms and States, the Importation of Whale Oil and Fins are not permitted to any but the Subjects of those Kingdoms and States of their own Fishing; do therefore Order and Ordain, That no Whale Oil nor Fins, nor Gills, commonly called Whale Bone, either Wrought or Unwrought, shall hereafter be imported into any Port, Haven, or Creek, of this Kingdom, from any Foreign Parts whatsoever, other than what are immediately fished in Greenland by the Subjects of this Kingdom, and in Ships set out from hence, under Penalty of Confiscation; and all Customers, Comptrollers, Searchers, Waiters, and all other Officers, in their several and respective Places, are hereby required to attend the due Execution thereof, and not to permit or suffer any Whale Oil, nor Fins, nor Gills, as aforesaid, to be imported into this Kingdom, or colourably customed for any other Goods or Merchandize; but that they do forthwith seize and take the same into their Custody, One Moiety for the Use and Benefit of the State, and the other Moiety for the said Fellowship, towards their Charges; and all Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Bailiffs, Sheriffs, Constables, Headboroughs, and all other His Majesty's Officers, in their several and respective Places, are hereby commanded and required to be aiding and assisting therein, as they will answer the contrary at their Perils."
('House of Lords Journal Volume 7: 6 May 1645', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 7: 1644 (1767-1830), pp. 354-356. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33302 Date accessed: 31 January 2013)
"Thursday, the 12th of October, 1654.
Prayers.
Whale Fishery.
RESOLVED, by the Parliament, That it be referred to a Committee, to call before them the Company of Greenland and Eastland Merchants; and thereupon to consider how and in what Manner there may be a present Supply of Whale Oil for this Nation; and how the Trade of Fishing for Whales may be regulated for the Advantage of the Commonwealth; and report their Opinion.
Resolved, That it be referred to the Committee, to whom the Business for Transportation of Cor And Mr. Lilburne, Lord Commissioner Widdrington, Alderman Richards, Sir Henry Vane, Lord Lambert, Mr. John Ash, Mr. Beale, Mr. Tho. Gorges, Mr. Minors, Mr. Wm. Lister, Commissary General Whaley, Colonel John Birch, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Brandlin, Captain Howard, Mr. Long, Mr. Dun, Mr. Goff, Mr. R. Cheshire, Sir Anth. Ashley Cooper, Mr. Grove, Mr. Wakering, Mr. Thelwall, Colonel Wastell, Sir Charles Wolsley, Lord Broghill, Alderman Dickenson, be added to that Committee: And they are to meet upon this Business this Afternoon, at Two of the Clock, in the same Place where they sat."
('House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 12 October 1654', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 375-376. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24367 Date accessed: 31 January 2013.)
"Friday, the 25th of November, 1653.
Excise.
Captain Stone reports from the Committee to whom the same was referred, The List of all Rates of Excise, on Commodities of Inland Making or Growth:
For all Linseed-Oil, Whale-Oil, Blubber-Oil, Rape-Oil, Pilchard-Oil, and all other Oils within this Commonwealth, upon every Barrel, to be paid by the Maker 5s 0d"
('House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 25 November 1653', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 356-358. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24320 Date accessed: 31 January 2013. )
"September 9-16, 1666.
Sept. 9.
Plymouth., 1666.
7. Sir Jo. Skelton to Williamson. The Constant Warwick and Victory have brought in three French ships from Greenland, laden with whale oil, and one Dane laden with brandy; also five merchantmen from Lisbon, and two from Scanderoon," laden with galls and silks.
('Charles II - volume 171: September 9-16, 1666', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1666-7 (1864), pp. 108-133. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=54869 Date accessed: 31 January 2013)
"Martis, 10 die Januarii; 4° Gulielmi et Mariæ. 1693
Greenland Trade.
A Petition of Sir William Scawen, and others, touching the Greenland Trade of Fishing, was read; setting forth, That the Trade to Greenland for Whale Fishing hath formerly been very beneficial to this Kingdom, not only for the great Quantities of Whalebone and Oil which hath been imported from thence; but also a Nursery for Seamen, and the Expence of Provisions for victualing the Ships: That the said Trade, for many Years past, having been wholly lost to this Nation, and engrossed by Foreign Nations, some London Merchants, about Twenty Years ago, did attempt to regain the said Trade; and, for their Encouragement therein, an Act was passed in the Twenty-fifth Car. IIdi, whereby it was Enacted (inter alia), That it should be lawful for any Vessel belonging to England (whereof the Master should be an Englishman, employed for the Catching of Whales, till the Twenty-fifth March 1683,) to be navigated with One Moiety of the Mariners only English; and yet to pay no other Custom for the Oil Blubber or Fins, than if the Ships had been navigated with Three-fourths of the Mariners English: That, during the Continuance of the said Act, several Merchants did, on their separate Accounts, fit out divers Ships; and some small Quantities of Whalebone and Oil were imported, and the Foreign Markets kept at reasonable Rates; but those Merchants, meeting with many Losses and Difficulties, were wholly discouraged and disabled to proceed therein; and could never bring the said Trade to any Perfection: That, since the Year 1683, when the said Act expired, there hath not been one Ship sent from England to Greenland; so that Whalebone, which, about 1683, was sold at Sixty Pounds per Ton, is now sold for Four hundred Pounds the Ton; whereby Holland and Hamburgh draw out of this Kingdom above One hundred thousand Pounds for Whalebone and Whale Oil: That, it being now impossible to regain the said Trade otherwise than by a joint Stock, the Petitioners have agreed and, undertaken to raise a joint Stock of Forty thousand Pounds, to be wholly employed in the said Trade: And praying Leave to bring in a Bill for incorporating the Petitioners, and granting to them the sole Privilege of navigating such Ships as shall be employed in the Greenland Trade; and that the House would take the same into Consideration.
Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Petition be referred to a Committee: And that they do prepare and bring in a Bill for encouraging the Greenland Trade of Fishing.
And it is referred to Sir Sam. Bernardiston, Sir Richard Onslow, Sir Math. Andrews, Mr. Burrard, Serjeant Tremaine, Mr. Mountague, Mr. Scobell, Sir Edward Abney, Mr. Onslow, Sir Edward Seymour, Sir Tho. Clarges, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Waller, Mr. Blowfield, Mr. Pitts, Sir Robert Rich, Mr. Colson, Sir Rich. Temple, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Piggott, Mr. Baile, Mr. Sandford, Mr. Cook, Mr. Papillion, Mr. England, Mr. Hutchinson, Sir Sam. Dashwood, Sir Stephen Evans, Colonel Perry, Sir John Moreton, Mr. Stokes, Sir John Dorrell, Sir John Key; and all the Merchants of the House: And they are to meet this Afternoon at Four a Clock, in the Speaker's Chamber."
('House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 10 January 1693', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 10: 1688-1693 (1802), pp. 773-774. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=29284 Date accessed: 31 January 2013. )
Bibliographical suggestions
Chesley W. Sanger, 'The Origins of British Whaling: Pre-1750 English and Scottish Involvement in the Northern Whale Fisheryy' in The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord, V, No. 3 (July 1995), 15-32
- http://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol05/tnm_5_3_15-32.pdf, viewed 27/11/13
http://archive.org/stream/dennorskenordhav01mohn#page/n222/mode/1up, viewed 29/01/13
POULTY COMPTER:
Corporation of London Records Office: Sheriffs' Court, City of London: General court records CLA/025/CT [n.d.]: Court proceedings CLA/025/CT/02 [n.d.]: Minutes of Plaints in Compters CLA/025/CT/02/002 1653-1666
Leith Local History Society:
- Sources for research into the shipping of Leith, 1600-1850
__ SEE: High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland, Records 1627-1750, a CD, Sue Mowat. Edinburgh, 2005
http://www.leithlocalhistorysociety.org.uk/research_sources/shipping_research.htm, viewed 27/01/13
'Letters to Elizabeth': A blog about William Scoresby Jr., the Greenland Whale Fishery, and Arctic exploration in the early nineteenth century
