1423 - Inventory of Keeper of King's Ships (1)
| Record | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1423 |
| Topic | Inventory of equipment belonging to the royal balinger 'Petit John' |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-07-30.
Record
Foreign receipts lately coming from the royal ballinger called Petit John for the safe-keeping of this ballinger, that is to say:
| Anchor | 1 [p. 156:] | |
| Purchases from previous years, that is to say: | ||
| Iron chains for the same | 4 weighing 24 lb | |
| Hawser for making bacsteyes | 1 weighing 1 cwt 9 lb | |
| Cable for the same ballinger | 1 weighing 3½ cwt 18 lb | |
| Hawser for yerdropes and takkes for the same | ||
| 1 weighing 1 cwt 1 qua 7 lb | ||
| Oars for the same ballinger | 6 | |
| Lanterns | 2 | |
| Anchor for the same ballinger | 1 | |
| Hawsers of white Bridport yarn for foresteyes, wynd-y-ng hauncer | ||
| and boyropes for the same | 2 weighing cwt 3 qua 5 lb | |
| [F.64r.] Cable for the same ballinger] | 1 weighing 2 cwt 1 qua | |
| A certain sondynglyn | 1 | |
| Small rope called crenelyn | 1 | |
| Large oars for the same ballinger | 15 | |
| Mast for the same ballinger | 1 | |
| Hawsers for hedropes and takkes | 2 weighing 2 cwt 1 qua 3 lb[1] | |
Source notes
Italic type as in printed source. First brackets IRHB's, second as in printed source. One half fraction has horizontal stroke in printed source. The inventories were compiled by or on behalf of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships.[2]
The editor provides glosses for most of the technical terms occurring in the passage:
Bakstay] A "[s]tanding rigging leading aft"[3]
Takkes] Ropes for confining the "foremost lower corner of a course in a fixed position when the wind crosses the ship's course obliquely, leading forward"[4]
Hauncer] Also 'hawser', large rope or, more properly, middle sized cable.[5]
Boyrope] Rope with which a buoy was attached to an anchor.[6]
Sondynglyn] A sounding-line.[7]
IRHB comments
Susan Rose's translation. The editor of the inventories dates them 1422–27,[8] but since a reference to letters patent dated 5 March 1423 occurs in the preamble to the inventories,[9] I date them 1423–27. At least during the period in question, the home port of the Petit John was Southampton. For discussion see Petit John (Southampton).
Lists
- Not included in Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.
Sources
Studies and criticism
Background
Also see
- 1416 - Expenditure on ship repairs
- 1423 - Inventory of Keeper of King's Ships (2)
- 1423 - Inventory of Keeper of King's Ships (3)
- Ship names.
Notes
- ↑ Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), pp. 155-56.
- ↑ See Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), pp. 6-27: 'The career of William soper', and The History of Parliament: Soper, William (d. 1458/9), of Southampton and London.
- ↑ Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), p. 253 s.n Bakstay.
- ↑ Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), p. 260 s.n Takkes.
- ↑ Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), p. 257 s.n Hauncer.
- ↑ Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), p. 254 s.n Boyrope.
- ↑ Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), p. 259 s.n Sondynglyn.
- ↑ As per sub-title: Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), and see e.g. p. 3.
- ↑ Soper, William, compil.; Rose, Susan, ed. The Navy of the Lancastrian Kings: Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427 (Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 123) (London, 1982), p. 133.