'Ship Rooke Friggot'

Title:

'Ship Rooke Friggot'

Date:

1694/1707

Description:

Ledger of the Rooke(Captain George Simmons), to accompany her voyage to Surratt [Surat] and China, 1699-1702. The ship called at Gombroon [Bandar Abbas] in December 1701.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crewmembers.The ledger includes a list of the ship's crew, giving 'quality' [rank or occupation], and account of the two months' imprest paid [advance of wages], dated London, 21 July 1699 (folio 12r); a list of the ship's crew, giving quality, and account of river pay paid [a sum paid to the crews of ships that were ready to sail], dated Gravesend, August 1699 (folio 12v); a list of men entered on board the Rookesince her arrival in the East Indies (folio 13r); and a list of all the men that are dead, run, and discharged from the Rooke(folios 13-14).1 volume (65 folios)There is an alphabetical index of names on folios 4-10, which refers to the accounts of individual crewmembers within the volume, in accordance with the original foliation.Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 67; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Accounts ledgers
Wages

Extent:

1 volume (65 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000001320.0x00002d_ar
81055/vdc_100000001320.0x00002d_en
IOR/L/MAR/A/CXXXIIIA

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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