Hide
hide
Hide
Customs Port Books 1647
Port of: Barnstaple
Book for: Overseas trade
Type of book: Searcher
Transcribed by David Carter 2019
Taken from Port Books in National Archives ref: E 190/952/4
Surname index:
Ackland
Adrianson
Amorie
Ashfoorde
Bake, Baker, Beacher
Beaple
Beard
Beckner
Berriman
Boole
Britton
Browninge
Champlin
Clearke
Cocke
Coffin
Cooke
Cox
Croscombe
Darracott
Debbridge, Delbridge
Dennis
Doddridge
Dorrocott
Down, Downe
Flemming
Frost
Gaie
Gardiner
Garland
Gerwill
Gettings
Gibson
Gribble
Griffith
Guillevers
Hall
Hammett, Hammott, Hamott
Hanberd
Harris
Hill
Hilman
Hocking
Horwood
Kinge
Legge
Limbery
Lovering
Luxon
Martin
Middleton
Milles, Mills
Molton
Monckman
Moore
Mulys
Nicholl, Nicholls
Nottle
Palmer
Pearce, Pearse
Peeterson, Peterson
Pennicott
Perriman, Perryman
Prance
Quance
Ramsey
Roe
Rolland
Selly
Sherman
Short, Shurt
Simons
Smale
Smith
Snowe
Stenning
Stephens
Strange
Sweete
Tailer
Tallyn
Tatnell
Thomas
Tucker
Vizard
Wadland
Walker
Waskey
Westacott
White
Whitfill
Williamson
Wise
Woolfe
Wrenne
Yeo
Youston
| Import or Export | Date | From / To | Vessel | Belonging | Master | Merchant | Goods | Paperwork |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port of Barnstaple | ||||||||
| Goods and merchandises discharged inwards in the port aforesaid from the XXXth December 1646 until the XXXth December 1647, viz as followeth: | ||||||||
| Import | 28 Dec 1646 | Rochelle | New Phillip | Bideford | William Garland | Anthony Dennis | 13 weighes of French salt, 6 hogsheads of vinegar. | Discharged by warrant |
| Import | 28 Dec 1646 | Nauntes | Swan | Bideford | John Clearke | George Strange | 7 weighes of French salt, 3 tons of vinegar, 2 tons of French wines. | |
| Import | 28 Dec 1646 | Rochelle | Bonadventure | Ilfracombe | William Hamott | William Hamott | 60 quarters of wheat, 30 quarters of barley. | By warrant |
| Import | 28 Dec 1646 | Bilbao | Hopewell | Ilfracombe | William Roe | William Roe | 18 bags of Spanish cloth wool containing 27 hundred. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 28 Dec 1646 | Rochelle | Amitye | Bideford | John Boole | Anthony Dennis | 25 weighes of salt, 3 hogsheads of meale, 6 hogsheads of vinegar, 3 casks containing half a ton of aquavita. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 28 Dec 1646 | Rochelle | Providence | Barnstaple | Robert Molton | John Palmer | 5 quarters of wheat, 15 cwt of hemp, 10 cwt of white starch, 3 hogsheads of vinegar, and 1 hundred awnos? of vittery canvas. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 28 Dec 1646 | Rochelle | Seaflower | Bideford | John Kinge | Richard Sherman | 13 weighes of French salt, 1 ton of vinegar. | |
| Import | 28 Dec 1646 | Rochelle | Marie Rose | [blank] | William Hilman | William Hilman | 14 weighes of French salt, 40 quarters of wheat, 1 ton of vinegar. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 29 Dec 1646 | [As before] | Amitie | [As before] | [As before] | Henry Gettings | 8 small rolls of St Christopher tobacco containing 4 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 31 Dec 1646 | Rochelle | William | Barnstaple | Richard Pearse | William Palmer | 14 weighes of salt, and 2 tons of vinegar. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 Jan 1646/47 | Lanion | John | Lanion | William Guillevers (alien) | William Guillevers (alien) | 5 tons & half of Bordeaux wine, & half a ton of vinegar. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 30 Jan 1646/47 | Dublin | Mary | Northam | John Cocke | John Cocke | 20 quarters of wheat. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 Feb 1646/47 | Cadiz | Dove | Bideford | Roger Whitfill | George Short | 31 butts of sacke, 135 barrels of raisins solis, containing 140 hundred. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 17 Feb 1646/47 | Rochelle | Providence | Ilfracombe | Henry Baker | John Dennis | 10 rolls of St Christopher tobacco containing 5 cwt. | |
| Import | 26 Feb 1646/47 | Naunts | Exchange | Barnstaple | John Perriman | John Down | 30 quarters of wheat, and 30 quarters of rye. | |
| Import | 1 Mar 1646/47 | Rochelle | Speedwell | [blank] | John Mulys | William Darracott | 9 weighes of salt. | |
| Import | 1 Mar 1646/47 | St Osbastians | Christopher | London | Thomas Tatnell | Richard Harris | 7 tons of iron, and 3 tons of pitch. | |
| Import | 9 Mar 1646/47 | [As before] | Mary | Northam | [As before] | Ralph Vizard | 40 barrels of Irish beef, 74 barrels of herrings. | |
| Import | 15 Mar 1646/47 | Rochelle | Susan | Northam | John Selly | Walter Tucker | 45 quarters of rye. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 1 Apr 1647 | Rochelle | Speedwell | Bideford | Henry Hocking | Robert Dennis | 34 quarters of barley, and 17 quarters of wheat. | |
| Import | 2 Apr 1647 | Rochelle | Prosperous | Bideford | Christopher Snowe | Thomas Wadland | 16 quarters of barley, 1 weighe of salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 Apr 1647 | Rochelle | Providence | Northam | Alexander Nicholl | James Smith | 12 bags of Irish wool containing 17 hundred 2 hogsheads of vinegar, 2 tierces of French wines, 2 hogsheads of wheat meal. | |
| Import | 3 May 1647 | Rochelle | William | Barnstaple | Richard Pearce | John Palmer et socii | 100 quarters of barley. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 3 May 1647 | Amsterdam | Blewe Bore | Amsterdam | William Peeterson | William Peeterson (alien) | 275 quarters of rye, 30 quarters of wheat, 40 cwt of rough hemp, 200 Norway deal boards. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 May 1647 | Bilbao | Patience | Barnstaple | Robert White | John Downe | 4 tons of iron, 1 bag containing 114 lbs of felt wool. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 May 1647 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer & others | 11 tons of iron, 18 bags of wool containing 25 cwt, 3 bags of felt wool containing 303 quarters. | |
| Import | 5 May 1647 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Horwood | 3 bags of cloth wool containing 3 cwt, 1 tons & a quarter of iron. | Landed |
| Import | 5 May 1647 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | Walter Tucker | 6 bags of cloth wool containing 7 hundred & half, and 1 ton of iron. | Landed |
| Import | 5 May 1647 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Cox | 1 ton & half of iron. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 8 May 1647 | Rotterdam | Charity | Scarborough | William Monckman | John Smith | 80 quarter of wheat, and 40 quarters of rye. | Landed |
| Import | 8 May 1647 | [As before] | Charity | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Wrenne | 40 rolls of cable yearne containing 10 thousand weight, 13 bundles of hemp containing 9 thousand weight, 4 lasts & half of small band tar. | Landed |
| Import | 8 May 1647 | Rotterdam | Paule | Rotterdam | Adrian Youston | John Smith | 60 quarters of wheat, 30 quarters of rye. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 8 May 1647 | [As before] | Paule | [As before] | [As before] | John Smith | 3 bundles of dust flax containing 4 hundred & 1 quarter. | Landed |
| Import | 17 May 1647 | Rochelle | Nicholas | Ablabillia | Gregorius Gardiner | Joseph Amorie | 14 quarters of rye, 40 quarters of barley, 22 weighe of salt, 1 ton of vinegar, 2 hogsheads of wheat meal. | Landed |
| Import | 30 Jun 1647 | Morbeun | Grace | Dartmouth | William Ashfoorde | Alice Sweete | 30 quarters of wheat, and 30 quarters of rye. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 July 1647 | Hanebone | Seraphim | Pennarth | Francis Rolland | Elizabeth Roddridge | 100 quarters of French rye. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 July 1647 | Ireland | Christopher | Northam | Thomas Waskey | William Palmer | 1500 hogshead staves, 1000 barrel staves, 10 bags of irish wool containing 15 cwt. | Landed |
| Import | 9 July 1647 | Rochelle | Exchange | Barnstaple | John Perriman | Edward Debbridge | 16 quarters of French rye. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 9 July 1647 | Rochelle | Patience | Barnstaple | Robert White | William Palmer | 50 quarters of rye, & 4 tons of vinegar. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 2 Aug 1647 | Youghall | Elizabeth | Bideford | Phillip Prance | George Shurt | 15 tanned hides, 12 Irish bullocks. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 23 Aug 1647 | Amsterdam | Carricke | Amsterdam | Christian Thomas | Peter Williamson (alien) | 3750 Norway deale boards, 5 great masts, 17 middle masts, 58 small masts, 50 small spars, 7 great balkes, 10 middle bulks, 150 small balkes. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 23 Aug 1647 | [As before] | Carricke | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 750 Norway deals, 1 great mast, 3 middle masts, 12 small masts, 10 small spars, 3 great balkes, 3 middle balkes, 30 small balkes. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 9 Sep 1647 | Olleron | Patience | Barnstaple | Robert White | John Palmer | 9 weighes of French salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 20 Sep 1647 | Rochelle | Elizabeth | Bideford | Phillip Prance | Job Beard | 4 dicker of tanned hides. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 30 Sep 1647 | Newfoundland | Amitie | Ilfracombe | John Frost | Thomas Wadland | 10 tons of traine. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 30 Sep 1647 | [As before] | Amitie | [As before] | [As before] | John Stenning | 5 tons of traine oil. | Landed |
| Import | 4 Oct 1647 | Newfoundland | William | Barnstaple | Richard Pearse | William Palmer | 15 tons of traine oil, 10,000 of fish. | Landed |
| Import | 4 Oct 1647 | [As before] | Amity | [As before] | [As before] | Lionel Beacher & others | 6 tons & half of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 Oct 1647 | [As before] | William | [As before] | [As before] | Robert Flemming | 8 tons of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 6 Oct 1647 | Newfoundland | Mary | Appledore | William Croscombe | William Croscombe | 1 ton of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 9 Oct 1647 | Newfoundland | Amitie | Bideford | John Boole | Anthony Dennis | 6 tons of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 9 Oct 1647 | Newfoundland | Truelove | Bideford | Vivian Limbery | George Short | 10 tons of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 9 Oct 1647 | Newfoundland | Confidence | Northam | Edmond Yeo | Anthony Dennis | 4 tons of traine oil. | Landed |
| Import | 9 Oct 1647 | [As before] | Confidence | [As before] | [As before] | George Shurt | 4 tons & 1 hogshead of traine oil. | Landed |
| Import | 11 Oct 1647 | [As before] | Confidence | [As before] | [As before] | Lionel Beacher | 5 tons of traine oil. | Landed |
| Import | 11 Oct 1647 | Newfoundland | Margarett | [blank] | [blank] | John Boole & others | 13 tons & 2 hogsheads of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 12 Oct 1647 | [As before] | Confidence | [As before] | [As before] | Walter Tucker | 9 tons of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 12 Oct 1647 | [As before] | Confidence | [As before] | [As before] | Miles Kinge | 6 tons of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 12 Oct 1647 | Newfoundland | Phenix | Barnstaple | David Baker | John Downe | 5 tons of traine oil, 83,000 of fish. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 15 Oct 1647 | [As before] | Confidence | [As before] | [As before] | William Croscombe | 3 tons of traine oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 21 Oct 1647 | Olleron | Exchange | Barnstaple | John Perryman | Richard Coffin | 7 weighes of French salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 3 Nov 1647 | Fayall | Prosperous | Bideford | Christopher Snowe | William Champlin | 3 buss & half of hand wine, 1 small fitch & one chest of sugar containing 6 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 3 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Prosperous | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Wadland | 7 tons of hand woade, 2 chests of white sugar containing 8 cwt, 1 chest of muscavadoes containing 5 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 3 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Prosperous | [As before] | [As before] | William Pennicott | 6 tons of hand woade. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 3 Nov 1647 | Bilboa | Deliverance | Northam | Christopher Thomas | William Palmer | 559 double bars & half of iron containing 7 tons, and 8 pipes of old canarie wines. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 3 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Nicholas Cooke | 138 double bars of iron containing 1 ton & 3 quarters. | Landed |
| Import | 4 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Lawrence Gaie | 400 double bars of iron containing 5 tons. | Landed |
| Import | 4 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Horwood | 4 bags of Segovia cloth wool containing 4 hundred and half weight, 2 packets of felt wool containing 2 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 5 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Cox | 2 tons & 5 hundred of iron containing 204 double bars. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 8 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Prosperous | [As before] | [As before] | John Downe & others | 5 tons of yland woade. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 8 Nov 1647 | Bilboa | Phillip | Bideford | William Garland | George Strange | 1190 double bars of iron containing 10 tons, 6 bags of Segovia cloth wool containing 7 hundred & half. | Landed |
| Import | 8 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Phillip | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 6 bags of Spanish cloth wool containing 8 hundred 2 quarters. | Landed |
| Import | 9 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Phillip | [As before] | [As before] | John Palmer | 6 bags of Spanish cloth wool containing 8 hundred 2 quarters. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 9 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Phillip | [As before] | [As before] | Richard Harris | 1600 double bars of iron containing 20 tons, 8 bags of Spanish cloth wool containing 10 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 9 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Phillip | [As before] | [As before] | John Downe | 366 double bars of iron containing 3 tons & half, 3 bags of Spanish cloth wool containing 3 hundred neat. | |
| Import | 9 Nov 1647 | Bilboa | Providence | Ilfracombe | Henry Baker | Lawrence Gibson | 219 double bars & half of iron containing 2 tons & half. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 9 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Providence | [As before] | [As before] | William Nottle | 5 tons of iron containing 558 double bars. | Landed |
| Import | 10 Nov 1647 | Bilboa | Phillip | Bideford | William Garland | George Shurt | 5 tons of iron, 12 bags of Spanish cloth wool containing 15 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 10 Nov 1647 | [blank] | Amitie | Bideford | [blank] | Robert Britton | 7 hogsheads of traine. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 11 Nov 1647 | Cork | Hopewell | Tenby | Richard Moore | William Hill | 4000 barrel staves, 3000 hogshead staves, 2 bags containing 2 cwt of uncombed wool. | Landed |
| Import | 11 Nov 1647 | Bilboa | Phillip | Bideford | William Garland | John Palmer | 10 pipes of Canary wines. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 11 Nov 1647 | Bilboa | Providence | Ilfracombe | Henry Baker | John Palmer | 8 tons of Spanish iron in 640 double bars. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 12 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Providence | [As before] | [As before] | Walter Tucker | 7 tons & half of iron, 13 bags of Segovia cloth wool containing 16 hundred and 1 quarter. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 12 Nov 1647 | Bilboa | Phillip | Bideford | William Garland | Walter Tucker | 8 bags of Segovia cloth wool containing 10 hundred. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 12 Nov 1647 | Rochelle | Eagle | Bideford | Phillip Luxon | George Shurt | 15 weighes of salt and 3 tons of vinegar. | Landed |
| Import | 12 Nov 1647 | Rochelle | Seraphim | Barnstaple | Robert Gerwill | Robert Flemming | 19 bags of Spanish cloth wool containing 23 hundred, 25 weighes of French salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 12 Nov 1647 | Rochelle | George | Barnstaple | Etheldred Beaple | Etheldred Beaple | 17 weighes of French salt, 8 bags of Segovia cloth wool containing 10 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 12 Nov 1647 | Bilboa | Phillip | Bideford | William Garland | Etheldred Beaple | 8 bags of Spanish cloth wool containing 10 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 13 Nov 1647 | Rochelle | Consent | Ilfracombe | John Luxon | John Luxon & others | 18 weighes of salt, 6 hogsheads of vinegar, 2 hogsheads of aquavita, 2 thousand of pitch, 5 barrels of tar. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 13 Nov 1647 | Rochelle | James | Northam | Richard Westacott | James Legge | 7 weighes of French salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 15 Nov 1647 | Bordeaux | Susan | Northam | John Selly | Walter Tucker | 18 tons of French wines, 1 ton of vinegar, 16 pieces of prunes containing 72 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 16 Nov 1647 | Rochelle | Greene Lion | [blank] | Marke Beaple | John Palmer | 16 weighe of salt, 14 hogsheads of vinegar, 6 cases of glass. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 26 Nov 1647 | Rochelle | George | [As before] | [As before] | Christopher Hanberd & Comp. | 1 weighe & 3 quarters of salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 30 Nov 1647 | Rochelle | Hannah | Barnstaple | Samuell Milles | Walter Tucker | 8 weighes of French salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 8 Dec 1647 | Viana | Pleasure | Bideford | Robert Garland | Thomas Wadland | 7 chests of white sugar containing 32 hundred, 4 chests of Muscavadoes containing wtt 19 hundred, & 10 weighes of Spanish salt. | Landed |
| Import | 9 Dec 1647 | Avera | Speedwell | Northam | Thomas Tallyn(?) | William Darracott | 8 weighes of Spanish salt, 6 chests of white sugar containing 27 cwt, 2 chests of Muscavadoes containing 9 cwt, 1 pipe of Portugal oil. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 21 Dec 1647 | Avera | Flower | Bideford | William Hammott | Lionell Beacher & others | 7 chests of sugar containing 28 hundred, 3 chests of muscavadoes containing 12 hundred, 10 pipes of Portugal oil, 12 weighes of Spanish salt, 3 cwt of shumacke, and 1 pipe of wine. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 21 Dec 1647 | [As before] | Flower | [As before] | [As before] | William Hammett & others | 2 chests & a small fitch of sugar containing 9 cwt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 23 Dec 1647 | Lisbon | Seaflower | Bideford | John Kinge | Anthoine Dennis & others | 4 chests of sugar containing 16 hundred, 2 chests of muscavadoes sugar containing 8 hundred, 9 weighes of salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Import | 23 Dec 1647 | Lisbon | Susan | Bideford | Thomas Hammott | Anthony Dennis | 3 chests of white sugar containing 12 cwt, 7 weighes of Spanish salt. | Landed by warrant |
| Goods and merchandises loaden outwards in the aforesaid port, from the XXXth December 1646 until the XXXth December 1647, viz as followeth: | ||||||||
| Export | 2 Feb 1646/47 | Bilboa | Happie Encrease | [blank] | Edmond Yeo | Walter Tucker | 8 weighes of sea coals. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 6 Feb 1646/47 | Rochell | Prosperous | Bideford | Christopher Snowe | Thomas Wadland | 7 weighes of sea coals. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 9 Feb 1646/47 | Rochell | Hopewell | Ilfracombe | William Yeo | Thomas Horwood | 2 packets of Barnstaple single baies each containing 5 pieces, & 11 bundles of calf skins containing 51 dozen. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 10 Feb 1646/47 | Rochell | Gift | Northam | Richard Quance | William Dorrocott | 2 weighes of sea coals. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 12 Feb 1646/47 | [As before] | Hopewell | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 8 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 50 pieces & 1 packet containing 3 pieces of Barnstaple single baies, 2 bundles containing 6 dozen of calf skins. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 13 Feb 1646/47 | Rochell | Eagle | Bideford | Phillip Luxon | George Shurt | 3 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 22 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 16 Feb 1646/47 | [As before] | Eagle | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 2 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 16 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 17 Feb 1646/47 | Rochell | William | Barnstaple | Richard Pearse | William Palmer | 5 weighes of sea coals. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 6 Mar 1646/47 | [As before] | William | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 2 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 12 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 8 Mar 1646/47 | Rochell | Hannah | Barnstaple | Samuell Mills | Walter Tucker | 2 weighes of sea coals, the custome whereof was formerly paid out of ward in the Happie Encrese 2nd February ultimo & then not transported and therefore allowed free. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 8 Mar 1646/47 | Newfoundland | Jonathan | Minehead | John Dorrocott | [blank] | 1 pipe of Iland wine with paid custome inwards in the Dove from Fayall and therefore allowed free. | |
| Export | 19 Mar 1646/47 | Fayall | Julian | Bideford | William Wise | George Shurt | 3 ends containing 59 pieces of streights, 2 ends containing 11 pieces of Barum single baies, 1 end containing 20 pieces of 7 dossens, 1 bag Spanish felt wool containing 2 hundred & hald wgt, 2 casks of yellow English wax containing 1 hundred & 2 quarters, 1 chalder of grindstones, 1 hundred of glue, 1 hundred & half of Commin: seales, 3 ends of Perpetuanes containing 31 pieces, 2 packets containing 8 pieces of Spanish cloth, 1 packet containing 6 pieces of Dunsters, 1 packet containing 6 pieces Devon dossens. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 20 Mar 1646/47 | Bilboa | Patience | Barnstaple | Robert White | William Palmer | 24 little packets of Barnstaple single course baies containing 182 pieces, 1 little packet containing 4 half pieces of Barum single baies and 1 piece of Devon dossens. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 20 Mar 1646/47 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | Lawrence Gaie | 4 packets of Barnstaple course baies containing 36 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 20 Mar 1646/47 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Horwood | 5 packets of Barum course baies containing 42 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 24 Mar 1646/47 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | John Martin | 6 packets of Barum course baies containing 48 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 24 Mar 1646/47 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | Richard Harris | 5 packets of Barum course baies containing 50 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 26 Mar 1646/47 | [As before] | Patience | [As before] | [As before] | Walter Tucker | 8 packets containing 56 pieces of Barum course baies, and 6 pieces for wrappers. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 14 May 1647 | Cork & Fergus | Speedwell | Bideford | John Nicholls | Anthony Dennis | 300 bushels of French salt, & 5 hogsheads of vinegar the custom whereof was satisfied in the Amitie inwards 26th of December last. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 18 May 1647 | Kinsale | Christopher | Northam | Thomas Walker | John Lovering | 2 butts of sacke, & 6 hogsheads of French wines whereof the custom was satisfied in the Port of Bristol as per Certificate there dooth appear. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 20 May 1647 | [As before] | Christopher | [As before] | [As before] | John Downe | 5 fardles of dowlas containing 24 pieces & half, & 3 butts of Malligo wine whereof the custom was satisfied inwards in the Port of Plymouth by Certificate thence dooth appear. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 21 May 1647 | [As before] | Christopher | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 1 packet containing 6 dozen of woolen tardes, 1 weighe of coals, 5 hogsheads of vinegar, 2 bags of hops containing 3 cwt, 3 hogsheads & 3 barrels of rye and barley, 120 bushels of French salt. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 28 May 1647 | Ireland | Grace | Barnstaple | William Simons | George Shurt | 8 butts of sack, 1 barrel of green ginger, 5 cwt of Braziiletto, 100 bushels of French salt, 3 tons of vinegar whereof the custom was paid intra & is now allowed. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 28 May 1647 | [As before] | Grace | [As before] | [As before] | Anthony Middleton | 28 rolls of Barbados tobacco containing 15 cwt. | Shipped by coquett |
| Export | 29 May 1647 | Rochell | Blue Boar | Sardan | William Peterson | William Palmer | 12 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 84 pieces, & 2 packets containing 10 pieces of barum single baies. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 1 Jun 1647 | Ireland | Elizabeth | Northam | Philip Prance | George Shurt | 12 butts of Spanish wines, & 3 barrels of raisins solis. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 2 Jun 1647 | [As before] | Elizabeth | [As before] | [As before] | George Shurt | 100 bushels of French Salt, 5 cwt of shumackes, 5 cwt brazilletto whereof the subsidy was paid inwards, also 3 tons of beans, 10 cwt of hops. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 2 Jun 1647 | Rochell | Patience | Northam | Robert White | William Palmer | 3 weighes & half of sea coals. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 1 July 1647 | Amsterdam | John | Tenby | John Hall | Peter Adrianson (alien) | 8 tons & half of lead ore. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 7 July 1647 | Ireland | Christopher | Northam | Thomas Walker | William Palmer | 300 bushels of Dantzikerie which paid custom inwards. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 7 July 1647 | [As before] | Christopher | [As before] | [As before] | Richard Harris | 2 pieces of Dowlas & 2 bundles of vittery canvas. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 14 July 1647 | Cork | Margaret | Northam | Christopher Browninge | 400 bushels of rye. | Loaden | |
| Export | 24 July 1647 | Odierne | Joseph | Odierne | [blank] | Christopher Larm: (alien) | 6 pieces of Barnstaple single baies, 2 pieces of Double Devon dossens, & 2 pieces of Bridgwater adds. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 7 Aug 1647 | Kinsale | Elizabeth | Bideford | Phillip Prance | Nicholas Woolfe | 1 weighe of coals, 8 dozen of earthenware. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 24 Aug 1647 | Rochell | Green Lion | [blank] | Mark Beaple | Thomas Horwood | 7 packets containing 54 pieces of Barnstaple single coarse baies. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 26 Aug 1647 | [As before] | Green Lion | [blank] | [As before] | William Hill | 8 packs of Barnstaple baies containing 48 pieces, 3 packets single baies containing 12 pieces, & 1 packet containing 3 pieces ditto baies. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 26 Aug 1647 | [As before] | Green Lion | [blank] | [As before] | Walter Tucker | 12 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 72 pieces, & 2 packets of Barum course baies containing 18 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 26 Aug 1647 | [As before] | Green Lion | [blank] | [As before] | William Palmer for John Lovering | 20 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 143 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 26 Aug 1647 | [As before] | Green Lion | [blank] | [As before] | John Downe | 15 weighes of sea coals, 3 packets containing 30 pieces of Barnstaple single coarse baies, & 3 ends containing 18 pieces of Barnstaple single baies. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 27 Aug 1647 | [As before] | Green Lion | [blank] | [As before] | Lawrence Gaie | 3 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 17 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 30 Aug 1647 | Kinsale | Fortune | Bideford | Even Bake | Francis Stephens | 1 weighe of sea coals, & 8 dozen of earthenware. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 30 Aug 1647 | Kinsale | Honor | Barnstaple | John Roe | John Gribble | 4 weighes of sea coals, 8 dozen of earthenware, 200 gross of tobacco pipes, 1 hogshead containing 2 cwt of wrought iron. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 1 Sep 1647 | Ireland | Constant | Northam | William Griffith | Edward Delbridge | 3 half pieces of Engs (English?) Fustians, 5 pieces of course sarges, 3 half peices of Isnighams, 1 piece of Duretto, 20 yearns of coarse Barum baies, 40 dozen of earthenware, half a ton of beare, 40 gross of tobacco pipes, 8 dozen of wool cardes. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 2 Sep 1647 | Ireland | Handmaid | Northam | Christopher Tailer | William Palmer | 2 weighes & half of sea coals, 4 tons of iron, 1 hundred of deal boards. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 2 Sep 1647 | [As before] | Green Lion | [As before] | [As before] | John Palmer | 2 fardles of Barum coarse baies containing 12 pieces. | Loaden by warrant |
| Export | 21 Sep 1647 | Bilboa | Deliverance | Northam | Christopher Thomas | John Lovering | 9 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 72 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 21 Sep 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 15 packets of Barnstaple single coarse baies containing 126 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 22 Sep 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Horwood | 5 packets of Barnstaple coarse baies containing 40 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 22 Sep 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Lawrence Gaie | 6 packets of Barnstaple coarse baies containing 60 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 23 Sep 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Cox | 2 packets of Barnstaple coarse baies containing 13 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 24 Sep 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Walter Tucker | 6 packets of Barnstaple coarse baies containing 48 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 24 Sep 1647 | [As before] | Deliverance | [As before] | [As before] | Nicholas Cooke | 4 packets of Barnstaple course baies containing 38 pieces. | Loaden by warrant |
| Export | 21 Oct 1647 | Cork | Constant | Northam | William Griffith | William Hill | 2 tons & half of Beere, 3 weighes of sea coals, 30 dozen of earthenware, 12 hogsheads of French wine, & 1 butt of sack. Also 1 weighe of coals more loaden. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 24 Oct 1647 | [As before] | Handmaid | [As before] | [As before] | Richard Harris | 30 pieces of dowlis, & 4 balletts of canvas. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 2 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Handmaid | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 3 weighes of sea coals, 4 barrels of beere, half a hundred of delboordes (deal boards?). | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 8 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Handmaid | [As before] | [As before] | William Palmer | 6 pipes of Canarie wine. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 11 Nov 1647 | Dublin | May Flower | Bideford | Christopher Smale | Anthonie Dennis | 4 hundred bushels of French salt, 2 tons & half of traine oil, 4000 of dry fish. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 23 Nov 1647 | Rochell | William | Barnstaple | Henry Ramsey | William Palmer | 6 packets of Barnstaple single baies containing 36 pieces, & 6 weighes of sea coals. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 23 Nov 1647 | [As before] | William | [As before] | [As before] | William Nottle | 3 packets of Barum course baies containing 26 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 26 Nov 1647 | Dublin | Sparrowhawke | Bideford | William Beckner | Tristram Dennis | 120 bushels of salt, 2 hogsheads of vinegar, 6000 of Newfoundland fish, 6 tons of beere, 40 dozen of earthenware. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 26 Nov 1647 | Fayall | William | Ilfracombe | William Kinge | George Shurt | 4 ends containing 70 pieces of streights, 4 ends containing 40 pieces of Devon Dossens, 2 ends containing 6 pieces of Spanish cloaths English making, 4 pieces of Devon Dossens, 3 ends containing 35 pieces of Burget~an~es, 1 end containing 8 pieces of Barum single baies, 94 suites of cloathes, 33 shirts, 66 of Hamborough cloth, 1 barrel containing 2 cwt of English wax, 3 tons of Spanish iron, 1 ton of resin pitch, 1 ton of vinegar. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 29 Nov 1647 | Rochell | Honor | Barnstaple | John Roe | William Palmer | 7 packets of Barum single baies containing 46 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 30 Nov 1647 | [As before] | Honor | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Horwood | 2 packets of Barum coarse baies containing 20 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 30 Nov 1647 | [As before] | William | [As before] | [As before] | Thomas Horwood | 3 packets of Barum course baies containing 30 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 1 Dec 1647 | [As before] | William | [As before] | [As before] | John Cooke | 1 packet of Barum coarse baies containing 5 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 1 Dec 1647 | Rochell | Honor | Barnstaple | John Roe | John Cooke | 1 packet of Barum coarse baies containing 10 pieces. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 3 Dec 1647 | Bilboa | Margaret | Bideford | Thomas Berriman | Anthonie Dennis | 67,000 Newfoundland fish. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 3 Dec 1647 | [As before] | Margaret | [As before] | [As before] | John Ackland | 1 packet containing 6 pieces of Barum single baies. | Loaden by coquett |
| Export | 10 Dec 1647 | Rochell | Truelove | Bideford | Vivian Limbery | George Short | 5 ends of Barum coarse baies containing 48 pieces, & 18,000 dry Newfoundland fish. | Loaden by coquett |
| Signed Fra: Role, searcher | ||||||||
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 1647 contains 21 pages, mostly written in English, but with some Latin.
In the case of this document, the tonnages of the vessels were not recorded.
Details of the names and cargoes have been transcribed here as accurately and in as much detail as possible.
No values appear in this ledger.
Some commodities and units of measurement may not be obvious, so here are some definitions:
• Acquavita – Distilled wine, eg: Brandy
• Baies (Baise) – A coarse woollen cloth
• Braziletto – Wood from the Brazilwood tree.
• Bridgwater adds – Unknown (presumably a cloth from Bridgwater.
• Coquette (Cocket) - A document issued by Customs Officials certifying payment of duties.
• Dantzikerie – Unknown (presumably a cloth)
• Devon dozens – A coarse lightweight cloth usually 12 yards long - hence the name ‘dozens’.
• Dowlas – A plain cloth chiefly for used aprons, pocketing, soldiers' gaiters, linings and overalls.
• Dunsters – Cloth woven at Dunster in Somerset.
• Duretto – Unknown (presumably a cloth)
• Fustian – A heavy woven cotton cloth.
• Malligo wine – Wine from Mallega in Spain.
• Muscavadoes - Unrefined brown sugar.
• Perpetuano – A strong woollen fabric.
• Raisins solis – Sun dried grapes (raisins).
• Sack – Fortified wine imported from mainland Spain or the Canary Islands.
• Sea Coal – Coal of high quality worth transporting by sea.
• Serge – A type of twill fabric with diagonal ridges on both sides. French serge was softer and finer than English serge.
• Shumack – Dried berries of the Sumac plant, used in dying and tanning.
• Staves - Shaped wood used for constructing barrels and hogsheads.
• Streights – Unknown (presumably a cloth.
• Train [oil] – Drained fish oil, usually from cod.
• Vittery canvas – A light sail-cloth canvas, originally from Vitré in Brittany.
• Woad – A plant used to produce a blue dye.
Similarly, some destinations may not be spelt as we expect today:
• Avera = Aveiro, Portugal
• Fayall = Faial, Azores
• Haneborn = Hennebont, France
• Lanion = Lannion, France
• Morbeun = Morbihan, France
• Olleron = Oleron, France
• Rochell = La Rochelle, France
• St Osbastians = (San Sebastian), on north coast of Spain
• Viana = Viana do Castelo, Portugal
• Westchester = unclear
= = = = = = = =