Scarborough cargo 17th century
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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