[Sca-cooks] Confiscated Goods was 100 Mile Feast

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:

Could be almost anything. Actually, I'm more interested in what the  
"corne" was, if not barley or wheat. Bear in mind, though, that this  
is listed as "Victual", and not as cargo. IOW, strictly speaking, not  
necessarily direct evidence of import or export, and perhaps merely  
that sailors had to eat.

My response:

Regards "corne" I'm confused as to what it was.  Side note the listing "Victual" was preceded by "Munityon" which contained as one would expect callyvers, muskettes, armour, powder, brimston, saltpeter, bulletts, copper, leade and matche as well as cables, masts, anchors, cordage, pitch, tarre, tallow and pitchstone.  It also included "Ordynance not belonginge to the shipps, canvas and Danske Poldavyers".   Does anyone recognize what "Danske Poldavyers" were?

Was further written:

The German ships mentioned are very probably from the Hanse (Hanseatic 
League) which formally began in 1241 and held its last meeting in 1669.  The 
Hanse controlled much of the trade in Northern Europe from the Baltic to 
Spain and all points in between.

My response:

The ships were from Konigsberg, Dantzig, Stralsund, Rostock, Stettin, Wismar, Lubeck, and Hamburg. The court declared that although the ships and their cargoes might justly be confiscated, the queen nevertheless intend only to take the munitions of war and victuals contained in them, leaving the vessels themselves with all their other commodities to their owners.  

Ultimately in response to protests of the Hanse towns. the court instructed on 8 August of that year that the captured goods be divided into three categories; contraband goods, "mere merchandise" not useful for purposes of war and goods belonging to subjects of the king of Spain.  The first and third were confiscated the second was to be either returned or sold and the result paid to the ship owners. 

Was further written:

Corn, in the British usage, tends to be the major grain grown in a region. 
This was very likely rye, if coming out of Northern Europe headed to Spain.

Rye was listed separately but as this list was intended to not just include what was on the ships but also "...articles which then and in the future should be subject to confiscation if taken by a neutral into the dominions of any of England's enemies..." perhaps the term was included for completeness.  Alternatively they might have been going from one or more of the ships cargo manifests and that was how such was listed.

Daniel