Can someone help please. Ive lost a couple of little grey cells. ******************************************************************************* The date is 1388. [Permit granted] notwithstanding the late prohibition against any vessel, barge or balinger passing out of any port in the Kingdom, for Richard Nevill of London, grosser, to pass out Faversham with his three crayers laden with fruit, one for Boston, one for Hull, and the third for London....after discharging them at the said places, the said Nevill will with all haste bring them to the Dounes at Sandwich, there to await the Kings commands. ******************************************************************************* A Balinger carried about 100 tons, single mast and sail but early on up to 30 oars. Wiki must not be relied on here - they date the balinger as 15th/16th century whereas we have a raft of official documents showing mid-late 14th c. A crayer was a tubby little craft carrying probably 70-100 tons, horribly unhandy in bad weather as they were built for capacity not speed. Dounes = Downs, but the Cinque Ports were still in use. *********************************************************************************** What was the prohibition please? And why hang about the Kent coast?
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:20:45 +0000
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