Records of the High Court of Admiralty: 14 April 1631

The ship Peter Bonadventure (or Bonaventure)

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14 April 1631.  Evidence of John Farrington of Wapping (co. Middlesex), a mariner, aged about 21. He was at Somer Islands in March 1628 when the "Peter Bondaventure" of London was there; Thomas Sherwin was Capt. He witnessed the loading of 4 hogsheads and one cedar chest of tobacco on board the said ship at the Somer Islands, all for the account of Mathew Bateson, a London merchant. John Trimingham (whose testimony appears below) acted as factor for Bateson. However, the ship was captured off Dartmouth by Ostend pirates and carried off as a prize to Dunkirk.

15 April 1631. John Trimingham, of the Somer Islands, merchant, aged about 40, endorses much of what Farrington had said, adding that the value of the tobacco when loaded was L110. Farrington was purser of the ship.