Captured ship: Valentine of London (master Roger Keate). History: an English merchant...

Captured ship: Valentine of London (master Roger Keate).

History: an English merchant ship (200 tons), bound from Barbados to London (originally Amsterdam, but altered on receipt of news of outbreak of war) laden with sugar, cotton and ginger, the goods of Englishmen and Jewish merchants resident in Barbados, all specified in the ship's papers; came into Falmouth on [1/11-2/12] September 1672, and was there seized.

Court Papers, numbered CP 1-22:-

• [CP 1]: one examination [taken at Falmouth], 3 September 1672;
• [CP 2]: list of claims (Luis Dias and Isaac Perera; Joseph Senior and Rebecca Valverde; Moses Baruh Louzada, Aaron BL, David BL, Abraham BL; Jacob Baruh Louzada; David Raphael de Mercado; David Israel; Paulo de Vrede; Jacob Abaas of Hamburg; Abraham and Gideon Cohen Lobato of Hamburg);
• [CP 3]: copy of CP 2;
• [CP 4-5]: claims of Joseph Senior and Rebecca Valverde;
• [CP 6]: claim of David Israel;
• [CP 7]: claims of Abraham and Gideon Cohen Lobato (also in Speedwell of London), Jacob Abaas, Paulo de Vrede;
• [CP 8]: claims of Abraham and Gideon Cohen Lobato, Jacob Abaas, Paulo de Vrede;
• [CP 9]: claim of Jacob Abaz [Abaas];
• [CP 10]: translation of letter of Isaac Pereyra Coutinho [Perera] to Jacob Masahod;
• [CP 11]: list of claims (Rentzick Barents and Co, John Wittebol, Wilhelm Zilcken, Abraham Struys, Lucas Scholten, Abraham Sena) [all Valentine, see SP 103, 105-109, 111-112, 174];
• [CP 12]: list of claims (John Toppin; John Barnes);
• [CP 13]: letter of John Toppin;
• [CP 14]: bill of lading, John Toppin;
• [CP 15]: letter of John Barnes;
• [CP 16]: claim of William Deane;
• [CP 17]: claim of John Hayne, Arthur Holesworth and Co;
• [CP 18]: claim of widow and heirs of Constantine Silvester;
• [CP 19]: bill of lading, estate of Constant Sijlvester;
• [CP 20]: bill of lading, Benjamin Scott;
• [CP 21]: HCA wrapper;
• [CP 22]: declaration of Binjamin Israel Frances.

Ships Papers, numbered SP 1- 178:- a large original file, numbered by Charles Moore CM 43-178, with many missing (presumably restored). Remaining papers are SP43-44, 84-95, 101-120, 132-136, 158-160, 164, 168, 174-175, 178, of papers, letters, 8 bills of lading, in Dutch and English.

Extra information:-

• See the allegation and claim (18 February 1673) of Jacob Abaz [Abaas], 10pp, at HCA 24/147/74;
• See also IND 1/9012 f.86: see especially for summary of progress of claims.
• See also HCA 32/1953/6 Speedwell of London, seized at Falmouth at the same time.
• A report on denization of Moses Pereyra [Perera] was moved to HCA 32/1949/18Katherine of London in 2024.