Captured ship: Peace otherwise Vrede of Rotterdam (master John Johnson Veldt or Helt...

Captured ship: Peace otherwise Vrede of Rotterdam (master John Johnson Veldt or Helt [sic: Veth; Jan Veth] otherwise Giovanni Giovanni Ved).

History: a Dutch merchant ship, bound from Villafranca (previously Messina then Livorno) to Rotterdam, laden with rice, figs, prunes, capers, wine, silk and indigo, soap and brimstone; in company with other ships, taken on 14/24 March 1671/1672 in the Smyrna Convoy action, by HMS Cambridge (Sir Frescheville Holles commanding), and brought into [London].

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-7:-

• [CP 1]: list of claims of the Duke of Savoy, Pinone Saniberto du Chane, Fransisco Donati, John Baptista and Diego Grosse, Andrea Caponi, Fransisco Venkettia and Carolo Poltri, Giovanni Phillippo Catanio, Augustine Bramoli and Petro Phillippo Dolfide, Giovanni Baptista Maganoni, Giacomo and Salvator Nasali, Jeronimo de Morales;
• [CP 2]: note of claim of M. Bartolis;
• [CP 3]: letter of attorney, Florence, 5 May 1672;
• [CP 4]: letter of attorney, Florence, 22 April 1672;
• [CP 5]: certificate at Amsterdam, 10 June 1672, with attached letter, 12 May 1672 (numbered Cha Moore No 2 and 5);
• [CP 6]: letter, Turin, 16 April 1672;
• [CP 7]: undated letter (Spanish) of Pedro de Nobles, endorsed as claim of Jeronimo Morales (10 May 1672) [added from HCA 32/1954/17 Misc].

Ships Papers, numbered SP 1-4:-

• SP 1-SP 4: bills of lading.

Extra information:-

• See the (23pp) allegation and claim of Giovanni Baptista Maganoni, at HCA 24/147/51, and the allegation in Holles v The Vrede at HCA 24/147/62.
• See Pertinent rapport, door den capiteyn Ysselmuyde.. gedaen, zijnde het gepasseerde in de attacque van de Engelse oorlogh-schepen (Amsterdam, 1672); and Tooneel des Oorlogs, opgerecht in de Vereenigde Nederlanden; door de Wapenen van de Konigen van Vrankryk en Engeland, Keulsche en Munstersche Bisschoppen, tegen de Staten der Vereinigde Nederlanden, en hare. Geallieerden (Amsterdam, 1675).
• See also IND 1/9012 f.65v. This gives the receiving port. Condemned (except for goods claimed) 20 June 1672. All remaining goods condemned by 9 January 1672/1673.