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Customs Port Books 1616
Port of: Barnstaple
Book for: Overseas trade
Type of book: Customer
Transcribed by David Carter 2019
Taken from Port Books in National Archives ref: E 190/943/8
Surname Index:
Badcock
Beaple
Burgon
Colliber
Darracott
Davy, Davye
Dodridge
Dowes
Downe
Eastman
Gamin, Gamyn, Garren
Gaye
Hammer
Harris
Hauckridge
Hill
Mathewes
Palmer
Penrose
Salisbury
Shurte
Spicer
Strange
Tucker
Westcombe
Westlake
Import or Export | Date | From / To | Vessel | Belonging | Merchant | Goods |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Import | 7 Oct 1616 | Bilboa | Mermaid | Northam | John Hammer | Spanish wool. |
Import | 3 Oct 1616 | Rochell | Phillip | Northam | Phillip Strange | Vinegar. |
Import | 7 Oct 1616 | Bilboa | Flower | Northam | Nicholas Downe | Spanish wool. |
Import | 7 Oct 1616 | Bilboa | Flower | Northam | John Darracott | Spanish wool. |
Import | 7 Oct 1616 | Bilboa | Flower | Northam | Pentecost Dodridge | Spanish wool. |
Import | 7 Oct 1616 | Bilboa | Flower | Northam | William Gamin | Felt wool. |
Import | 7 Oct 1616 | Bilboa | Flower | Northam | John Hammer | Spanish wool. |
Import | 7 Oct 1616 | Bilboa | Flower | Northam | William Palmer | Spanish wool. |
Import | 7 Oct 1616 | Bilboa | Flower | Northam | George Gaye | Spanish wool. |
Import | 10 Oct 1616 | Terreas | Melchesadick | Northam | George Shurte | Indigenous woade. |
Import | 12 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | Falcon | Northam | Richard Beaple | Felt wool. |
Import | 12 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | Falcon | Northam | Justin Westcombe | Spanish wool. |
Import | 12 Oct 1616 | Avera | Phillip | Northam | Hugh Hauckridge | Shumacke. |
Import | 12 Oct 1616 | Lishbourne | Parragon | Barnstaple | Daniel Davy | Conserves, synamon, pepper, mace. |
Import | 12 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | Falcon | Northam | Robert Colliber | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | Robert Colliber | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | Pentecost Dodridge | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | William Gamin | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | John Darracott | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | Richard Beaple | Felt wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | William Palmer | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | Justin Westcombe | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | George Gaye | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | William Palmer | Spanish wool, shumack. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | George Shurte | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Sebastians | John | Northam | Nicholas Downe | Spanish wool. |
Import | 14 Oct 1616 | St Michaels | John | Northam | John Colliber | Greene woad |
Import | 21 Oct 1616 | St Michaels | John | Northam | John Penrose | Spanish wool. |
Import | 21 Oct 1616 | Rochell | Francis | Northam | Mathew Tucker | Prunes, vinegar. |
Import | 25 Nov 1616 | Cales | Bonaventure | Barnstaple | Edward Eastman | Figs, raisins, great raisins. |
Import | 25 Nov 1616 | Cales | Bonaventure | Barnstaple | Richard Burgon | Raisins solis, figs. |
Import | 21 Dec 1616 | St Sebastians | Blessing | Northam | William Palmer | Spanish wool. |
Import | 21 Dec 1616 | St Sebastians | Blessing | Northam | Richard Beaple | Spanish wool. |
Import | 21 Dec 1616 | St Sebastians | Blessing | Northam | Pentecost Dodridge | Spanish wool. |
Import | 21 Dec 1616 | St Sebastians | Blessing | Northam | John Hammer | Navarne wool. |
Import | 21 Dec 1616 | St Sebastians | Blessing | Northam | Justin Westcombe | Spanish wool. |
Import | 21 Dec 1616 | St Sebastians | Blessing | Northam | William Gamyn | Spanish wool. |
Import | 30 Dec 1616 | Rochell | Dyamond | Barnstaple | John Garren | Vinegar. |
Import | 7 Jan 1616/17 | Lishbourne | Phillip | Northam | Samuel Davye | Succatts, etc [illeg]. |
Import | 13 Jan 1616/17 | Marcellas | Samaritan | Northam | Mathew Tucker | Puincoyle, gaules, almonds, [illeg]. |
Import | 13 Jan 1616/17 | Lishbourne | Phillip | Northam | Nicholas Spicer | Synamon, pepper. |
Import | 13 Jan 1616/17 | Lishbourne | Phillip | Northam | John Badcock | Synamon. |
Import | 13 Jan 1616/17 | Lishbourne | Phillip | Northam | John Harris | Pepper. |
Import | 23 Jan 1616/17 | Bordiaux | Mary | Barnstaple | James Beaple | Prunes. |
Import | 11 Feb 1616/17 | Canaries | Vineyard | Barnstaple | Edward Eastman | Conserves, wet conserves, shumack. |
Import | 11 Feb 1616/17 | Canaries | Vineyard | Barnstaple | Robert Colliber | Suckets. |
Import | 11 Feb 1616/17 | Canaries | Vineyard | Barnstaple | James Beaple | Suckets. |
Import | 11 Feb 1616/17 | Canaries | Vineyard | Barnstaple | Thomas Westlake | Nil? |
Import | 12 Mar 1616/17 | Bordiaux | James | Northam | John Mathewes | Prunes. |
Import | 15 Mar 1616/17 | Rochell | Concord | Barnstaple | James Beaple | Prunes, vinegar. |
Import | 19 Mar 1616/17 | Rochell | Dashing | Barnstaple | James Beaple | Vinegar. |
Import | 19 Mar 1616/17 | Rochell | Dashing | Barnstaple | James Beaple | Vinegar the 24th day. |
Export | 12 Oct 1616 | Cales | Concord | Barnstaple | William Palmer | Double baise. |
Export | 18 Oct 1616 | Canaries | Endeavour | Barnstaple | John Hill | Pewter. |
Export | 16 Nov 1616 | St Sebastians | Falcon | Northam | Justin Westcombe | Double baise. |
Export | 15 Jan 1616/17 | [blank] | Swann | Northam | Nicholas Dowes | Double baise. |
Export | 15 Jan 1616/17 | [blank] | Swann | Northam | John Salisbury | Lead. |
Export | 31 Jan 1616/17 | St Sebastians | Blessing | Barnstaple | Nicholas Downe | Double baise. |
Export | 17 Feb 1616/17 | Bilboa | Richard | Barnstaple | Richard Beaple | Double baise. |
Transcriber’s notes:
Port Books survive for the ports of Appledore, Bideford and Barnstaple from 1565 to 1745. There are some gaps due to non-survival of records, and other gaps due to damaged documents.
Typically these books record:
• Date of entry
• Name of ship
• Tonnage of vessel
• Port where vessel is registered
• Port where vessel is going to, or coming from
• Name of the Captain or Master of the vessel
• Name of the merchant responsible for the goods
• Whether the merchant is English or foreign
• Description of the cargo, including the method of storage (barrels, casks, bags), the weight (hundredweights, pounds) and the value for the purposes of assessing tax to be paid.
The book for 1616 contains just 4 pages, mostly written in English, but with some Latin.
In the case of this document, the names of the Captains and the tonnages of the vessels were not recorded.
Details of the cargoes have only been transcribed in brief. Further information on quantity and value may be available from the original document.
Some commodities may not be obvious, so here are some definitions:
• Baise – A coarse woollen cloth
• Raisins solis – Sun dried grapes (raisins)
• Shumack – Dried berries of the Sumac plant, used in dying and tanning
• Succatts – Fruit preserved in sugar; sweetmeats
• Woad – A plant used to produce a blue dye
Similarly, some ports may not be spelt as we expect today:
• Avera = Aveiro, Portugal
• Bilboa = Bilbao, Spain
• Cales = Cadiz, Spain
• Lishbourne = Lisbon, Portugal
• Marcellas = [unclear]
• Rochell = La Rochelle, France
• San Sebastian = On north coast of Spain
• St Michaels = might be Sao Miguel, Azores
• Terreas = unclear, might be Terciera, Azores
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