Welsh Journals

Incarceration close to the river indicated that the Scottish prisoners from the battle of Dunbar were to be transported to the New World plantations. Cromwell made use of penal transportation, commencing with the remnant of the prisoners remaining from the sack of Drogheda in 1649, continuing the practice with prisoners from Dunbar in 1650 and Worcester in 1651. Berkstead, Major General in 1654, was, according to John Buchan's biography of Cromwell, a thimble maker by trade, but C. Hill in God's Englishman classes him as goldsmith. He was a Leveller and by 1656 a member of the Upper House. B. SHIPOWNER (1) 1th February 1644. Order in Committee for affairs of Ireland for payment of £ 400 to Maurice Thompson and William Pennoyre for hire of ship to carry clothes for the army at Carrickfergus. (2) 28th December 1644. Request by Maurice Thompson and William Pennoyre that the Commissioners at Guildhall pay them £ 3,000 on account of ships provided by them for Ireland. (3) 25th May 1650. £ 300 to William Willoughby, M. Thompson and W. Pennoyre for freight of 3 ships. (4) 6th May 1653. Petition by William Pennoyre and Richard Hill to enable their two ships with 12 and 16 men laden with dried fish from Newfoundland to pass to Spain and Italy. They have twice taken up ships for transporting the fish but were detained and employed for the Service. They run the risk of losing the goods which are perishable. There is also a complicated and lengthy suit extending from 1649 to 1655 against two Glasgow merchants for the illegal seizure at Dumbarton of Pennoyre's ship, the William, and a valuable cargo. C. MERCHANT VENTURER (1) 1642 (no date). Petition of William Pennoyre and Peter Andrews, merchants, to Parliament to be allowed to sell part of their cargo of tobacco brought in their ship the William of London from St. Christopher's to Londonderry and bring the remainder to London. (2) 17th April 1649. The Irish Committee to prepare resolutions to be offered as security to the Committee of Adventurers for raising Money for Ireland. Mr. Pennoyre (amongst others) to attend. Presumably Pennoyre was an active member of the Committee of Adventurers. (33 5th June 1649. Council of State to Governor of Oxford. Regard- ing the stay of two horses en route for Barbados. These are part of 50 which the Council for better promotion of the plantation gave warrant to Maurice Thompson and William Pennoyre to transport thither.