Article by John rushton on scarborough cargoes
William Lawson the master brought this cargo from Rotterdam for Francis Sollitt in the "Isabel" of Scarborough, on the 15th November 1643
- 3 hogshead of sack
- 4 cwt of prownes one hundred of raysines sollis
- three hundred of Mallegoe raisins
- four hundred of black Smirna Raisings
- three hogsheads of train oil of newland
- 5 hundred of Swedish iron(hound)
- half a last of tar
The same record appears to show goods brought for merchants of York ,Leeds, Stockton, Whitby and Scarborough. in that year.A London ship abandoned within two miles of the town had carried fur gloves,periwiggs, rich stuffs and petticoats in 1631-2.
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