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Hi:

I'm currently extracting entries concerning coastal voyages of
Clovelly sailing ships from some early 18th century Port Books for
Padstow, Cornwall held at the National Archives, Kew. I undertook a
similar exercise using Bideford Port books some time ago - the
results are at:

http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Clovelly/PortBooks.html

Lots of the Padstow entries concern arrivals from across the Bristol
Channel, from Neath in particular, with "chalders of coal". (Chalder
is I find from the OED an "obsolete dry measure of capacity [which
for coal] varied from 32 to 64 imperial bushels".)

However, the description of the cargo often takes a form such as "20
chalders of Coals London". I don't think this relates to London as an
ultimate destination for the coal - I'm pretty sure the sailing ships
used would not have undertaken voyages to London. That I assume had
to await a further century and the coming of steam - and I wondered
whether it refers to a type of coal. (Another typical cargo
description might be "10 chalders of coal & 5 chalders of culm", i.e.
contain no mention of London - culm is I understand anthracite.)

Can anyone suggest the meaning of such references to London? (A
colleague wondered whether London related to the unit of measure,
rather than the type of coal.)

Cheers

Brian Randell




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