'Ship Rooke Friggot'
IOR/L/MAR/A/CXXXIIIA
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The record is made up of 1 volume (65 folios). It was created in c 1699-c 1702. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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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 Rooke since 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).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (65 folios)
- Arrangement
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.
- Physical characteristics
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 The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
- Written in
- English in Latin script
- Type
- Archival file
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- Archive reference
- IOR/L/MAR/A/CXXXIIIA
- Date(s)
- c 1699-c 1702 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Accounts ledgersWages
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- Rooke
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- IOR/L/MAR/A/CXXXIIIA
- Title
- 'Ship Rooke Friggot'
- Pages
- front-a, front-a-i, front , back, spine , edge, head, tail, front-i, 3r:62v, 63ar, 63r:63v, 64ar:64av, 64r:65v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence