The port of Bristol in the second half of the eighteenth century: An examination of the organisational structure of the port pertaining to the management and operation of its shipping with special reference to ships trading with the West Indies and America. Volume 2 of 2. General Appendices. Submitted by John Gilbert MacMillan to the University of Exeter as an appendix to the thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History in August 2015. This thesis is available for library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. I certify that all material in this volume which is not my own work has been identified and that no material has previously been submitted and approved for the award of a degree by this or any other university. Signature………………………………… 1 Introduction The period of this research is the second half of the eighteenth century and is aimed at a level where there are few surviving documents or publications describing the day to day work processes of the port of Bristol and its ships as a whole. However, many contemporary documents do survive which contain descriptions or data relating to specific operational practices, and when this information is extracted and brought together, a model of the integrated operational systems is obtained. To attain this, it was necessary to adopt a comparative method of research which involved cross-referencing primary documents and tabulating the results before analysis. In order to sustain the argument developed in the thesis from the use of this method it was essential to record the results for verification and this was done in the form of the appendices that follow. However, their magnitude meant that another volume, separate from the main body of the thesis, was necessary. In Volume 2, for convenience sake, all non-textual items such as the Bibliography, Illustrations and Glossary are included. 2 Table of Contents. Introduction. 2 Table of contents. 3 Abbreviations. 4 List of Appendices 5 List of Illustrations 10 Appendices. 12 Illustrations. 199 Bibliography. 227 Primary Sources. 227 Newspapers 229 Acts of Parliament consulted. 230 Printed Primary Sources. 231 Secondary sources. 233 Miscellaneous. 242 World wide web. 243 Glossary. 244 3 Abbreviations. Bristol Record Office. BRO Bristol Record Society. BRS Bristol Reference Library. BRL Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal FFBJ Mariner’s Mirror. MM National Maritime Museum NMM Society of Merchant Venturers. SMV 4 List of Appendices. Page Chapter 1. 1.001. Duties of the Haven Master, 1797. 12 1.002. Berths at Hungroad in 1728. 14 1.003. Ordinance for Hungroad, 1551. 15 1.004. The water supply at Pill, 1765-1790. 17 1.005. Rules, orders and instructions of the Quarter Sessions to be observed by the Ballast Master, 1786. 19 1.006. The construction of Merchants’ Dock, 1776-1784. 20 1.007. Rules for the better government of the Floating Dock, 1778. 26 1.008. Schedule to the act to remove the danger of fire amongst the ships in the Port of Bristol, 1776. 28 1.009. Memorial re the Floating Dock, 1788. 29 1.010. The results of three surveys ordered by the Committee regarding nuisances on the river, 1764-1783. 31 1.011. Chronology of harbour Improvements, 1240-1793. 32 1.012. The building of the new dock at the Grove, 1767-71. 34 1.013. List of cranes, slips and ladders with ports they served, 1785, 1794. 39 1.014. Ordinance of the Company of Porters, 1669. 40 Chapter 2. 2.001. Comparisons between traditional and professional shipowning. 41 2.002. Total number of ships for given years per shipping company, 1778-1792. 42 2.003. Bristol’s overseas trading areas in the eighteenth century. 43 2.004. Breakdown of ownership of Bristol shipping and cargoes carried by trade area, 1792. 44 2.005. Trading areas of Bristol shipping companies and numbers of ships Owned in 1792. 45 2.006. West Indian shipping companies and numbers of ships owned in 1792. 46 2.007. Shipping companies operating outside of the West Indies and the slave trade with ship numbers in 1792. 46 2.008. Shipping companies operating in the slave trade and ship numbers in 1792. 46 2.009. James Jones and Co. Number of ships per tonnage band in 1792. 46 2.010. James Jones and Co. Age of ships in 1792. 46 2.011. James Rogers and Co. Number of ships per tonnage band in 1792. 46 2.012. James Rogers and Co. Age of ships in 1792. 47 2.013. Trading areas of minor Bristol shipping companies and numbers of ships owned in 1792. 48 2.014. Fanny. Breakdown of crew composition at the beginning of all voyages, 1777-1788. 49 2.015. The methods of Liverpool merchants regarding the manning and trading of ships as compared to London and Bristol. 50 5 2.016. Sailing record of Fanny’s apprentices, 1777-1783. 51 2.017. Triton. Breakdown of crew composition at the beginning of all voyages,1777-1788 52 2.018. Fanny. List of crewmen, 1777-1788. 53 2.019. Triton. List of crewmen, 1777-1788. 57 2.020. Crewmen sailing more than one voyage on the Fanny and Triton, 1777-1788. 59 2.021. Fanny. Crew returning for consecutive voyages and moving between company ships, 1777-1788. 60 2.022 Exeter. Crew returning for consecutive voyages and moving between company ships, 1777-1788. 61 2.023 Triton. Crew returning for consecutive voyages and moving between company ships, 1777-1788. 62 2.024. Druid. Crew returning for consecutive voyages and moving between company ships, 1777-1788. 63 2.025. Crew movements in West Indies, 1777-1788. 64 2.026. Précis. Crew movements in the West Indies. 66 2.027. Articles of agreement for the ship Sybil, 1785. 67 2.028. Crew movements of Munckley’s ship Clifton, 1761-1762. 69 2.029. Letter from Captain Smith at Ilfracombe to Samuel Munckley and Co., 1762. 70 2.030. Breakdown of Fanny’s crews’ outsett wages for all voyages and the wage bill per insett, 1777-1788. 71 2.031. Breakdown of Triton’s crews’ outsett wages for all voyages and the wage bill per insett, 1777-1788. 72 2.032. Voyage by voyage breakdown of Fanny’s wage bills compared with the Sally, 1768. 73 2.033. Voyage by voyage breakdown of Triton’s wage bills compared with the Sally, 1768. 74 2.034. Percentage rise in wages by rank from peace to first war year to wartime peak, 1777-1788. 75 2.035. Ships Fanny and Triton. Total of portledge bills per month, 1777-1788. 76 2.036. Voyages of Deane’s London coasters, 1785-1787. 77 2.037. Crew movements on Deane’s ships, 1785-1787. 79 2.038. Regular crew members of Deane’s ships, 1785-1787. 81 2.039. Data regarding Thomas Deane and Co. ships, 1786-1792. 84 2.040. Voyages of the Bristol, 1785-87. 85 2.041. Bristol. Crew and ship-keeper numbers for seven voyages to Liverpool,1785-87. 86 2.042. Bristol. Examination of crew movements, 1785-87. 87 2.043. Ships operating in the general coastal trade, 1785-87. 88 2.044. General coastal trade. Examination of crew movements, 1785-87. 90 2.045. Details of Bristol ships trading to Ireland, 1787. 91 2.046. Bristol ships operating in the Irish trade, 1785-87. 93 2.047. Average itinerary of Irish ships, 1785-87. 97 2.048. Irish vessels. Examination of crew movements, 1785-87. 98 2.049. Irish ships. Men completing multiple trips per voyage, 1785-87. 103 6 Chapter 3. 3.001. Customs officers’ duties at Bristol, 1794. 104 3.002. List of ships’ papers and agency of origin. 106 3.003. Labour costs at King and Hung Roads, 1779-1786. 107 3.004. Incidental inward costs and fees, 1780-1791. 108 3.005. List of pilot rates, 1773-1799. 109 3.006. Cost of boat work, 1779-1786. 110 3.007. Total cost of incoming and outgoing pilot fees by ship and year, 1777-1791. 111 3.008. Mates disbursements for cargo handling. Sybil and Success, 1780,1785, 1786. 113 3.009. Comparison of discharge and loading costs for cargo handling on Triton and Druid, 1778-1791. 114 3.010. Tasks of the managing owner (ships husband) in the eighteenth century. 115 3.011. Rates of Anchorage and Moorage, 1792-1793. 116 3.012. Cost of inward customs clearance and reporting, 1778-1788. 117 3.013. Fanny. Harbour costs. 119 3.014. Account of Captain Mattocks of the ship Sybil, 1785. 120 3.015. Fanny/Triton. Profits from carrying freight against costs, 1777-1788. 121 3.016. Value of owners goods exported by the Fanny and Triton, 1777-1788. 122 3.017. Letter from Captain Smith at Barbados to Samuel Munckley and Co.,1762. 123 3.018. Fanny/Triton. Merchants' export commission in pounds sterling, 1777-1788. 124 3.019. Cost of insurance taken out on Fanny for Voyages 1-12 to Barbados,1777-1788. 125 3.020. Sale of 5 hhds sugar, 1779. 127 3.021. Merchant shipowner’s commission earned on the sale of imported sugar,1786-1792. 128 3.022. Annual income earned by Munckley and the Brights’ in their capacity of ship’s husbands of the Fanny and Triton, 1777-1788. 129 3.023. Estimated commission earned by secondary imports, 1792. 130 3.024. Estimated commission per year earned from importing sugar by Munckley and the Brights during the period 1775-1780. 131 3.025. Estimated commission earned from importing sugar by Munckley and the Brights for the year 1792.