Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 The shipmaster and the law
- 2 The shipmaster and the rise and fall of the admirals' courts
- 3 The shipmaster as owner, partner and employee
- 4 The shipmaster's on-shore responsibilities
- 5 The shipmaster's off-shore responsibilities
- 6 The shipmaster at sea: navigation and meteorology
- 7 The shipmaster at sea – seamanship
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- 1 Transcription and translation of the MS Liber Horn copy of the Lex d'Oleron
- 2 Transcription and translation of the Inquisition of Queenborough
- 3 A partial transcription and translation of Les Bons Usages et Les Bonnes Costumes et Les Bons Jugemenz de la Commune d'Oleron
- 4 Transcription and translation of a 1323 charter-party
- 5 Transcription and translation of the chapter ‘de regimen transfretantium’ from Gilbertus Anglicus' Compendium Medicine
- Select Bibliography
- Index
2 - Transcription and translation of the Inquisition of Queenborough
from Appendices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 The shipmaster and the law
- 2 The shipmaster and the rise and fall of the admirals' courts
- 3 The shipmaster as owner, partner and employee
- 4 The shipmaster's on-shore responsibilities
- 5 The shipmaster's off-shore responsibilities
- 6 The shipmaster at sea: navigation and meteorology
- 7 The shipmaster at sea – seamanship
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- 1 Transcription and translation of the MS Liber Horn copy of the Lex d'Oleron
- 2 Transcription and translation of the Inquisition of Queenborough
- 3 A partial transcription and translation of Les Bons Usages et Les Bonnes Costumes et Les Bons Jugemenz de la Commune d'Oleron
- 4 Transcription and translation of a 1323 charter-party
- 5 Transcription and translation of the chapter ‘de regimen transfretantium’ from Gilbertus Anglicus' Compendium Medicine
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The history of the Inquisition of Queenborough and its importance in English maritime law are discussed in chapter 1. The fourteenth-century Anglo-Norman text was transcribed and translated by Twiss in his edition of the Black Book of Admiralty. Most of the articles in the Twiss translation are considered to be accurate and are reproduced either in full or in summary, depending on their relevance to the present work. Where the translation or interpretation of an article is in question, a retranslation and, if necessary, a retranscription, are given here.
Between 1375 and 1403, the Inquisition sat in three ‘sessions’, partially separated here as Sections 1, 2 and 3. Within each section, for continuity, the jurors' decisions have been grouped by subject.
Section 1: Terms of employment, wage rates and pilots
Article 1 (summary): If a fully victualled and paid crew bound for Bordeaux or elsewhere find anything of value at sea, the ship is to have two thirds and the crew one third.
Comment: None required.
Article 2: Item, dient des ditz jurez qune nef en alant devers Bordeaux ou ailleurs pour prendre sa charge, les mariners estantz a mengier et boire et prenants louyers et portage y prengne aucune avantage de freight en alant devers leur charge prendre sans geteson de leur last les mariners navront que stowage et levage, et se une nef prent sa plaine charge, soit il au port devant leur departir ou en leur voye, et facent geteson de leur last a cause de mesme la charge prendre chacun mariner de ce prendra demy louyer.
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- The World of the Medieval ShipmasterLaw, Business and the Sea, c.1350–c.1450, pp. 206 - 218Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009