1423 - Inventory of Keeper of King's Ships (3)
| 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:
| Hawser for a forstey | 1 weighing ½ cwt |
| A certain trice pulley | 1[1] |
Source notes
Italic type 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 the technical terms occurring in the passage:
Hawser] Also 'hauncer' in these inventories, large rope or, more properly, middle sized cable.[3]
Forestay] A "[s]tanding rigging leading forward"[4]
IRHB comments
Susan Rose's translation. The editor of the inventories dates them 1422–27,[5] but since a reference to letters patent dated 5 March 1423 occurs in the preamble to the inventories,[6] I date them 1423–27. This entry partially duplicates one made on the preceding page of the MS; see 1423 - Inventory of Keeper of King's Ships (2). 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 (1)
- 1423 - Inventory of Keeper of King's Ships (2)
- Petit John (Southampton)
- 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), p. 174.
- ↑ 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. 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. 256 s. n Forestay.
- ↑ 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.