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Captured ship: Margery of Dover (master Walter Senserf otherwise Wouter Senserff)....
Catalogue reference: HCA 30/1070
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This record is about the Captured ship: Margery of Dover (master Walter Senserf otherwise Wouter Senserff).... dating from 1663-1672 in the series High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1663-1672
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Captured ship: Margery of Dover (master Walter Senserf otherwise Wouter Senserff).
History: an English merchant ship, bound from"Maryland in Virginia" to Dover, laden with tobacco, came into Kinsale on 19 May 1672 and was suspected of being an enemy ship: in a court of Vice-Admiralty for the Province of Munster, Ireland, the master was proven to be an inhabitant of Dover, as was the owner, Abraham Stock, merchant, as certified by the court on 8 June 1672.
Previous History: previously a Dutch merchant ship with a Swedish commission, the St John of Gothenburg otherwise St John of Amsterdam (master John Willemsen Leyl otherwise Johannes Willemsen Loyle), bound north-about from Sao Tome to Amsterdam, laden with sugar; taken in fight on 24 August 1667, south of the Dogger Bank, by HMS Oxford (William Basse commanding) and brought into Kingston upon Hull. Condemned as prize, but bought by Leyl, she returned to Amsterdam and was sold there in 1668 to Senserf and Nicholas Harris, acting for Stock, and renamed the Margery of Dover, after Stock's wife [this history was constructed from related documents: E 134/24Chas2/East 17; HCA 32/1/62; HCA 32/4/97; HCA 32/12/658].
Documents: Ship's books and papers, comprising a large original file of ship's books, papers, letters, bills of lading for Virginia, notebooks etc, dated from 1668 onwards, in Dutch and English: the notebooks are
- 7: Notebook (Dutch; ink, some pencil) contains manifests & notes but no dates until near the end (1663).
- 8: Notebook (Dutch, 2 notes in French, 1 in English; ink & much pencil) contains manifests, crew payments, expenses, miscellaneous notes and calculations, but no dates. Also contains calculations in red-brown coloured pencil, 1 on inside back cover [similar to coloured pencil elsewhere?].
- 9 : Notebook (Dutch; ink, little pencil). Many blank pages. Dates range 1668-1671. Contains manifests, notes, calculations, and some navigational exercises.
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High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court of Judicature: Admiralty Miscellanea
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