No 61. Captured ship: Peace , otherwise Vrede of Rotterdam (master Johannes Williamson...

No 61.

Captured ship: Peace, otherwise Vrede of Rotterdam (master Johannes Williamson Stoope, otherwise Pierr Wilhelms, Pieter Willemson Stoop).

History: a Dutch merchant ship, bound from Rotterdam to London, laden with steel consigned by a subject of Cologne; seized in the River Thames on 1 March 1671/1672.

Allegation and claim (undated) of Peter van Overscheld (otherwise Overschelde) for goods in ship Vrede otherwise Peace of Rotterdam, master Peter Williamson Stoope, taken by HMS Dunkirk.

Peter van Overschelde for 10-20 years has been an inhabitant of London, trading to Haarlem and elsewhere in Holland, and trading from the latter in thread and other goods on his own account, having his father's agents and correspondents. In December 1671 he instructed his factor at Haarlem, John Westerhove, to buy 2 barrels of thread and send them to Peter and John van Hele (otherwise Heele, Heel), his factors at Rotterdam. At Rotterdam on 14 March 1671/1672 they laded these barrels in the Vrede bound for London.

The following 4 dcouments were attached [none are here]:-

• 1/ 1 of the 3 original bills of lading. At the time of lading goods [at Haarlem] Westerhove sent the Van Heeles a letter for Van Overschelde, together with an invoice. Paid by bills of exchange, by moneys remitted, or guarantees.
• 2/ translated from Dutch from his letter copy book, a letter from Van Overschelde to Westerhove, 22 December 1671.
• 3/ invoice from Westerhove (in Dutch, with translation; undated)
• 4/ original letter in Dutch from Westerhove (with translation; undated)

See also HCA 32/1951/9, HCA 24/147/59 and HCA 24/147/60.