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PROB 11/320/440 Will of Sir Samuel Mico, Mercer of London 24 May 1666

PROB 11/320 Mico 47-91 Will of Sir Samuel Mico, Mercer of London 24 May 1666 (See also PROB 11/321 Mico 92-138 Sentence of Samuel Mico or Micoe of Saint Andrew Undershaft, City of London 05 July 1666)

Editorial history

01/12/11: Created page & posted completed transcription to wiki
07/12/11: Substantially revised abstract & context
27/12/11, CSG: Added hypertext Table of Contents

Suggested links

See PROB 5/840 Inventory & probate accounts of Samuel Mico, 1666, ff. 1-27
See Lady Jane Mico will (wife of Samuel Mico)
See Aaron Mico will (relative and Alicante factor of Samuel Mico)

See Alexander Bence senior II will
See Sir Alexander Bence will
See Nathaniell Withers will (brother-in-law of Samuel Mico, alias Nathan or Nathaniel(l) Wythers)
See Nathan Wright will (possible partner of Samuel Mico early in Mico's career)

Abstract & context

Sir Samuel Mico was quite deeply involved in trade with Spain as well as with the Levant.^[1] In the early 1650s, his kinsman, Aaron Mico, acted as his factor in Alicante, Spain.^[2] In 1650 Mico was exporting woollens from England to Alicante, in Spain, and importing "Raisins, Anniseeds, Almonds, Figs, and some Wines, &c".^[3]

Pauline Croft comments in her study of the Spanish Company on the close link between Spain and the expanding (east) Mediterranean trade in the early C17th, and notes that the puchase of currants from Zante was dependent on trade with Spain, since currant purchase was "largely financed by the dollars and pieces of eight picked up en route at ports such as Lisbon, Cadiz, Malaga and Alicante". Crofts adds "A third of the charter members of the revived Levant Company of 1605 were also members of the Spanish Company, and the proportion would probably have been higher had not the latter been abolished soon after the incorporation of the former."^[4]

Robert Bargrave, a contemporary merchant, who kept a travel diary, identified Aaron Mico, together with Alexander Bence, Calthrop Parker, Robin Lang, and XXXX as the five English merchant families active in Alicante, and lists commodities they dealt in.^[5] There are archival index records referring to a settlement of Sir Samuel Mico’s estate with Alexander Bence, one of the five families Barker refers to in Alicante.^[6] Aaron Mico himself makes reference to Alexander Bence the younger in his own will, and appears to have been in partnership with him at his death in 1659.^[7] They both appear to have been located in Alicant in the early 1650s, both possibly acting as factors for their London based fathers. Bence the younger was the future Sir Alexander Bence of Dublin, son of the non-conformist London merchant, Alexander Bence, from a long established of Aldburgh, Co. Suffolk, merchants, who dealt in XXXX.^[8]

The extent of Samuel Mico’s Eastern Mediterranean/Levant trading activities is unclear. He was mentioned together with Nathan Wright, Thomas Bludworth, and Henry Spurstow, in a petition to the House of Commons, dated February 3rd 1652.^[9] This petition concerned "certain Silk, and Silks, laden before the late Act of Prohibition, aboard a Dutch Vessel, called The Prophet Jonas, at Misena, Naples, and Leghorn, bound for Amsterdam."

Samuel Mico traded in currants and raisins as well as in silks. However, it is hard from the available primary evidence to assess the relative weighting of these commodities, and whether his commodity and geographical trading patterns changed over time. His 1669 inventory accounts contains a significant number of references to receipt of cash for sales of currants and raisins, but also for silks. These accounts show significant trading with merchants in Leghorn, specifically with Thomas Dethicke & co.^[10]

As regards exports from London, Samuel Mico had a significant involvement in the export of woolen manufactures. A complaint by Samuel Mico to the Council of State was reported by Alderman Pennington in 1651, and appears to suggest that Samuel Mico directly employed "Thousands of the People of this Commonwealth in making of Manufactures of Wool, to be transported beyond the Seas".^[11] Given Samuel’s close interest in the son of John Mico, clothier, of Croscombe, Co. Somerset, it seems quite possible that Samuel Mico and John Mico, who may have been cousins, had a similar family trading relationship to those of the Ashes clothier and merchant family with France and Antwerp, the Dawes family, and the Dashwood family. Furthermore, Samuel Mico’s Alicante factor, Aaron Mico, was the son of Aaron Mico, clothier of Croscombe, Co. Somerset, the father of John Mico of Croscombe. The ODNB entry on Samuel Mico simply states that there were two branches of the family, with the junior one staying in Taunton, Somerset, and is unclear whether Samuel Mico himself was born in London or elsewhere, but it is likely that he was born in Weymouth, Co. Dorset, with a secondary source states that his father was Richard Mico of Weymouth, Co. Dorset.^[12]

Robert Brenner describes Samuel Mico as a leading "New Merchant".^[13] He also lists him as one of ten Levant merchants he had been able to discover who were significant traders in Spain during the 1630s, and argues that prior to the development of the Virginia and West Indies trade from the mid-1620s onwards, that Spain was the only unregulated market available which retailers, captains and others could participate in.^[14] A secondary source, drawing on a primary source, states that Samuel Mico was in partnership with the Grocer, Nathaniel Wright, early in his career (without giving a date or range of dates), which seems to match an apparent High Court of Admiralty record (which I cannot read properly in Google Book).^[15] Interestingly Nathan Wright had been Sir Stephen White’s master, and Stephen White was involved in the Portuguese trade.^[16] Nathan Wright was involved in both the Levant and East Indies trade, and was a significant investor in the Williams Venture. The names of Nathan Wright and Samuel Mico appear adjacent in a petition of February 3rd 1651, which reports that Wright and Mico, together with others, had bales of silk loaded upon a Dutch ship ship which was found to contravene the newly introduced Navigation Act.^[17] So it is possible that they were still in partnership then. The same petition mentions the merchants having factors at Mesina, Naples, and Leghorne. "Samuell Micott" was one of the signators to a September 1654 opinion, with Maurice Thomson, that the East India trade should be conducted differently.^[18] Other signators included Moses Goodyear, with whom Mico may have been commercially linked, as well as ‘O. Bence’ (brother of Alexander Bence, with whom Aaron Bence was partnered. The Wright and Thomson links seem consistent with a loose “New Merchant” description, though this author has found no evidence of trading with America and the West Indies other than a mention of payment for Barbados sugar in his post-mortem inventory.

According to a non-academic secondary source, Samuel Mico was an assistant of the Levant Company from 1647-49, and was a member of both the Levant and East India Companies.^[19] Primary sources that Samuel Mico was an investor, together with Sir John Bankes and others, in one or more of the Postilion, Fredrick, Francis, John and the Bantam Frigate, which had been seized by the Dutch in 1658.^[20] His involvement in these ships links him with interloping in the far East Indies, and associates him with fellow investors Sir Richard Ford, Sir John Bankes, and XXXX.^[21] Through the Postillon it links him with Thomas Breton and Simon Delboe.

Samuel Mico was mentioned to Sir George Oxenden in a letter from Thomas Papillon, 19 March 1662/3.^[22] Mico also acted as a referee in the SVJS litigation in 1662 for the Lord Chancellor, together with John Buckworth, Richard Holworthy,Thomas Tyte, and Michael Godfrey.^[23]

It is likely that Samuel Mico had a trading relationship with Moses Goodyear.^[24]

It is also likely that Samuel Mico had a trading relationship in the early 1650s with his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Withers, who he mentioned in his will, and who may have been Master of the Merchant Taylors in 1666. A TNA inventory exists for Nathaniel Withers.^[25]

A journal article on the composer Richard Mico, an older cousin of Sir Samuel Mico, has researched the Mico family extensively.^[26] The article states that Sir Samuel Mico’s father was Richard Mico of Weymouth, a merchant, that Samuel settled in London in the 1630s, and that he was a parliamentarian supporter during the Civil Wars. The same source gives his year of birth as 16XX (1610 CHECK) and year of death as 1665. The source states that Richard Mico was the eldest of three sons of Walter Mico of Taunton, parish of St. James, Co. Somerset (the others being Walter Mico, and Emanuel Mico). The writer suggests that the father, Walter Mico, was probably in the cloth trade, and that he had two close relatives in the trade – a cousin, Aaron Mico of Croscombe, Co. Somerset, and John Mico of Taunton, a sergemaker, who was the eldest son of the composer’s brother, Emanuel Mico.

A genealogist has noted the presence of a William Mico in Leghorn in the early 1660s, with whom the Earl of Winchelsea corresponded from Constantinople, but it is unclear how William Mico was related to Sir Samuell Mico.^[27] An academic secondary source states that William Mico resided in Leghorn in 1660.^[28] A letter from Winchelsea to William Mico in Leghorn, dated Oct 6-16th, 1665, speaks of a decline in William Mico’s prosperity and fortunes and offers "good wishes for the recoverie of you from instant pressures", noting "your present retirement deprives you of the ability, though not of the will to be as useful to me as formely".^[29]

There were clearly a number of related Mico merchants and clothiers connected with London in the 1640-1680 period. In addition to Samuel Mico, there was his kinsman and factor, Aaron Mico, whose father was Aaron Mico, a Croscombe clothier, and whose brother was John Mico, a Croscombe clothier. One of Aaron Mico Jnr’s sisters was married to a Croscombe clothier, as was an aunt. The younger Aaron Mico’s brother, Edward Mico (Sir Samuel Mico’s kinsman), was a London merchant, whose dealings included Malaga wines and collaboration in the late 1650s with Richard Ford and John Banks to attempt to bring pepper directly to Leghorn, bypassing London. Aaron Mico Jnr had a brother, William Mico, who may be the William Mico resident in Leghorn in the 1660s who corresponded with the Levant company and with Winchelsea. There was also a Walter Mico active in London in 1680, who corresponded with a merchant in Boston in America.^[30] A Richard Mico, who died ca. XXXX.

It is likely that Samuel Mico made significant use of the port of Weymouth in Dorset as well as the port of London. XXXX notes that he paid wharf fees in both ports in XXXX, and there is a primary record of him importing raisins, sack sherry, and Malaga and Smyrna raisins direct to Weymouth in 1650, possibly in a voyage routed from the Levant via Malaga.

Samuel Mico appears to have been on a Council of Trade (WHEN?)

To do

(1) Check Weymouth and Dorset archives to see what records exist for the port of Weymouth
(2) Take a close look at Chancery records involving the Mico name
(3) Sample HCA records in early, mid, and late 1650s for records involving the Mico name
(4) Look for primary source links in 1630s and 1640s between Nathan Wright and Samuel Mico, who may have been commercial partners

Transcription

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN THE Twenty fift day of September One thousand six hundred sixty five I Samuel Mico Citizen and Mercer of London being sound in body and mind God be praysed) doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following (that is to say)

FFIRST I Commend my soule into the hands of God my maker hoping assuredly through the only merritts of Jesus Christ my saviour to be made partaken of life everlasting, And I comend my body to the earth to be buryed at the discrecion of my Executor hereafter menconed

To Jane my wife over and above her due according to the Custome of London I give all my householdstuffe Plate and Jewells To my kinsman Edward Mico I give One thousand pounds lawfull money of England to be payd him when he hath a final discharge from all his Creditors of all that he owed them To my Nephew Nathaniell ?Withers I give twenty shillings of like money To Alice ?Barrett my Aunt I give Tenn pounds yearly to her daughter Lucy five pound yearly, And to Sarah Barnard my Aunt I give ten pound yearly during their natural lives to be payd the quarterly after my decease To Thomas Barnard my Kinsman sonne to the said Sarah Barnard I give twenty pounds To my Kinsman Robert Stone I give ten pounds, and to John Stone his sonne my servant five hundred pounds, To ffrancis Stone Ten pounds, To Nicholas Stone his Brother five pound. To Margarett ffooke (?) their sister five pound, to ffrances Conyard (?) their sister five pounds, To Mary Winter their sister five pound, To Bridgett Stone their sister five pound, And to Anne Rosier (?) their sister now a servant in my house two him (sic) xxxx pound To my Cosen Thomas Allen of Dorchester I give Tenn pounds To my sister Dashwood^[31] of Dorchester five pound To my sister Russell of Weymouth or Melcombe Regis five pounds, To my kinsman William Hawkes now in my house I give One hundred pounds To my Brother Peter Robinson^[32] of Cheshunt I give ffifty pounds, To my Brother William Robinson^[33] of Cheshunt ffifty pounds, And Winifride his wife Tenn pounds To their Daughters Mary and Elizabeth Tenn pound a peece And to their Daughter Jane my wives God daughter twenty pounds To Andrew Barker Esquire my Brother in Law I give fifty pounds, To Elizabeth his wife twenty pound, To their sonne Samuel Barker my Godsonne One hundred pound To their daughter Elizabeth Barker Tenn pounds, And to their daughter Mary Tenn pound, To my Cousen Thomas Barrow^[34] I give Tenn pound To Anne his wife five pound, To my Cousen Stephen ?Fearne five pound, and to Katherine his wife five pound, To my Cousen William Stratford Tenn pound, To my Cousen John Hawkins five pound, To John Mordant now in my [seems to be a missing word in orginal copy] I give fifty pound, To Bernard Michell my Apprentice I give fifty pound, To my other servants not herein menconed that are my servants at the tyme of my death I give forty shillings a peece To M:r George Baker^[35] CHECK SPELLING of Billingsgate at Greenwich I give tenn pound To the Towne of Melcome Regis in the County of Dorset I give my house standing on the East side of the Key of that Towne called the George Taverne or Inne with the yarde or any other grounds thereunto belonging with the profitt thereof to putt out three poore Children Apprentices yearly To the Corporacon of Weymouth and Melcome Regis in the County of Dorsett I give ffive hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to be layd out in land, the profitts whereof to be bestowed Twenty shillings yearly or some good summe that they shall yearly choose when he hath preached a sermon in the Church of Melcombe aforesaid on the ffryday immediatly before Palme Sunday every yeare, The rest to bee payd that day to Tenn poore decayed seamen of that Corporacon of the age of Threescore yeares or upwards in equall proporcons or soe many of them within that number that are soe qualified who are

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soe qualifyed who are to be at the hearing of that sermon as soe many of them as are able Moreover I give to the the President and Governor of Christs Hospitalll in London ffive hundred pounds to be layd out in land to the benefitt yearly of the poore Children of that hospitall, To the Company of Mercers in London whereof I am a member I give five hundred pounds to be lent five young men of that Company One hundred pounds to each for three yeares gratis on good security to the liking of the Assistants of that Company, and soe to other five young men every Three years successively gratis on the like security And I give to the poore of the parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft where I am an Inhabitant ffifty pound to be disposed of as the Minister Churchwardens and those of the Vestry shall thinke fitt, Alsoe I give to Nathaniell Wythers senior My Brother in Law Twenty shillings, And to Richard Mico^[36] son to John Mico^[37] of Crowscombe in the County of Somersett I give Two hundred pounds

The remaynder of my Estate I give to my Kinsman Samuell Mico sonne also to the said John Mico to be disposed of by my Executor for his use and benefitt, as they shall think fitt untill he be of age and can give them a right discharge in Law, And of this my last Will and Testament, I make and ordaine Jane my wife, my Brother in Law Andrew Barker^[38] of ffairford in the County of Gloucester and William Robinson of Cheshunt aforesaid to be my Executors, And desire the aforesaid ?S:r John Mordant John Stone Bernard Michell and William Hawkes to be assistant to them in the Recovering in of my Estate And doe revoke and adnull any other former will

IN WITNES whereof I have hereunto, and to two more of the same tenor and date being all written with my owne hand subscribed my name and affixed my seale the day and yeare above written in the presence of the witnesses hereafter mentioned, the one accomplished the other to be voyd and of none effect:

SAMUEL MICO

Signed sealed and published in the presence of

JO:o MORDANT NATHANIEL BARROW THO. BARROW JOHN HAWKINS NATHANIEL BARROW MINOR W:M HAWKINS JOHN STONE

PROBATUM fuit huismodi Testamentum suprascriptum Apud London coram honorabili vivo Thomas Read legum Doctore Surrogate venerabilis et egregij vivi domini Guilielem Merrick militis legum etiam Doctoris Curiae Prerogative XXXX XXXX Magistri Custodis XXX Commisarij etxxx Constituti Viresimo quarto die Mensis May Anno due Millesimo sex centesimo sexagessimo sexto Juramentis XXX Jana Mico Relicta defuncti et William Robinson Duoxxx Executori in dicto Testamento nominatorum Quibus Commissa fuit Administrato omni et singXXXX bono XXXX et creditor XXX defuncti de bone et fideter administrando eadem Ad sancta dei Evangelia in debita Juris forma Hurat Reservatta XX Executori in XXX Testamento XXXX mommat cum venerit XXXX XXXX in debita Juris forma: admisser

Notes

Spanish trade

"Friday, the 9th of January 1651.:....Merchants Complaints. Alderman Pennyngton reports, from the Council of State, Four Narratives, containing the State of the Cases of the Eastland Merchants; of Mr. Samuel Mico; of the English Merchants trading to Bordeaux; and of Wm. Anderson; as the same have been sworn before the Council.....The Case of Samuel Mico of London, Merchant, was this Day read; as followeth.

THAT he employeth some Thousands of the People of this Commonwealth in making of Manufactures of Wool, to be transported beyond the Seas.

That he sent a great Quantity of those Manufactures to Alicant in Spaine that lies within the Streights of Gibrallar; in ordering his factor Aaron Mico in March last, to send him Returns the Beginning of this Vintage, in Raisins, Anniseeds, Almonds, Figs, and some Wines, &c.

That in Pursuance thereof his said Factor, not finding any English Ship in those Parts to get Tonnage in, on the Tenth of September last, was necessitated to freight the Ship Hope, John Van, Linen Master of Hamborough, to bring for England his said Returns: And sent them a Copy, in Spanish, of the Charter-Party, dated the 20th, which is the 10th of September, English Style.

That in the same Month of September, and some Part of October, his said Factor laded the said Ship with those Commodities in Denia, Shauia and Alicant; but the just Quantity of each he knows not yet, for want of some Letters not yet come to hand.

That those Commodities are for him, the said Samuel Mico, his proper Accompt; save some small Part for Accompt of his Brother-in-Law, Nathaniel Wythers, an English Merchant now beyond the Seas: And no Part of the Ship's Lading that he knoweth of, belongeth to the People of any other Nation.

That the said Ship came away from Alicant, her last Port of Lading, as he hath heard by Letters, the Twentyfifth Day of October 1651, having been so crossed by Winds, that she arrived not in the Downes till the 28th of this present Month of December.

That he believeth the said Factor had no Notice of the Publication of the Act forbidding the Importation of Goods in Foreign Bottoms after the First of December, before such her Departure; nor that it was possible he should have it so soon; nor hath he written him the said Samuel, to this Hour, of any Knowledge of it; so it was not possible for him, the said Samuel Mico, to give his Factor Notice of it, to prevent the Lading of Goods in Foreign Bottoms, before the coming away of the said Ship.

Sworn at the Council, the 31th of December 1651.

Resolved, That the Commissioners for the Customs be authorized and required, to take off the Seizure of the Ship Hope, John Van, Linen-Master of Hamborough, and the Lading of the said Ship, made by Virtue of the Act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for Increase of Shipping, and Encouragement of the Navigation of this Nation; and that the said Ship and her Lading be restored unto the Owners, freed and discharged of and from any Seizure or Confiscation, by Force of the said Act; as if the same had come in before the First Day of December last: And that all Officers, and other Persons concerned, do take Notice hereof, and yield Obedience hereunto, accordingly."^[39]

Moses Goodyeare & Portuguese trade

There is no direct evidence of Samuel Mico being involved in trade with Portugal. However, he appears to have had a commercial or family link to Moses Goodyeare, who was involved in Portuguese trade:^[40]

"329, 15 March 1656. Trade with Portugal. Calendared

John Lucas of Bristol, mariner, deposed that he knew the ship Ann Pinck of Bristol, burden 90 tons, of which High Jones was master in her last voyage from Bristol to Lisbon in September, October or November 1654. She was laden in Bristol with Bank fish and some other goods by John Stone of Bristol, merchant, who declared it to be for the account of Mr Moises Goodyeare of London, merchant, and Company. The deponent was quarter-master in the ship. She arrived at Lisbon about 10 or 11 days after leaving Bristol, and discharged her cargo. She was reladen by order of their factor with pipes and other casks, clapboards, tobacco and other goods, and was ordered by their factor to sail to Faro in Portugal. After leaving Lisbon they met with foul weather and were driven on the rocks between Cadiz and St. Lucar where the ship bulged. The casks of tobacco and other goods were seized by the chief officers of the place. Some of the ground timber of the ship was broken.

B.R.O., depositions 1654-1657^[41]

Eastern Mediterannean/Levant trade

"[3 February 1652] Merchants Complaints: The Narrative of the several Merchants trading into the Levant Seas, whose Names are subscribed, concerning certain Silk, and Silks, laden before the late Act of Prohibition, aboard a Dutch Vessel, called The Prophet Jonas, at Misena, Naples, and Leghorn, bound for Amsterdam.

THEY humbly present unto your Honours, that the Petitioners Nicholas Gould, Nathan Wright, John Gould, Robert Burdett, Charles Tharell, Thomas Bludworth, Henry Spurstow, Richard Wynne, Humfry Hill, and John Hill, Andrew Hopegood, Michael Custell, Edward Bovery, and others, had several Bales of Silk laden aboard the said Dutch Vessel, called The Prophet Jonas, on or about the Seventh of September, New Stile, which is our 28th of August, according to the English Computation.

They humbly remonstrate, that these Silks so laden, were for the proper Account of Themselves and Company, all People of this Nation:

That the said Goods being of small Bulk, there was no Charter-Party made between the Freighters and Master of the Ship; but only Bills of Lading formed: Which Bills of Lading or Invoice, affirmed by the respective Factors, declare the said Silks are for the Account of Themselves and Company, all People of this Nation.

They humbly remonstrate, that, presently after the Lading of the said Goods at Mesina, the Ship forthwith parted from that Port; and, since the Knowledge of the late Act prohibiting Importation, they had no Opportunity or Means to unlade or relade the said Goods in English Ships.

The Petitioners Nathan Wright, Robert Burdett, Samuel Mico, James Stavere, and George Poyner, and others, had several Bales of Silk, and Cases of Silk, laden aboard the said Ship, on or about the 10th of September last, at Naples; and, in the latter End of September, and Beginning of October, at Legorne.

They humbly remonstrate for themselves as before,

That the said Goods were for themselves and Company, all People of this Nation: And that the said Goods could not be taken out of the aforesaid Ship, to be laden aboard any English Ship, after Knowledge of the late Act of Prohibition.

Resolved, That the Commissioners for the Customs be authorized and required to forbear to make any Seizure of the Dutch Ship, called, The Prophet Jonas, bound with Convoy for Amsterdam, from thence to be sent to London; and of the divers Sorts of Silk, and Silk Ware, laden therein by virtue of the Act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for Increase of Shipping, and Encouragement of the Navigation of this Nation: And that the said Ship, and the Silks, and Silk Ware, laden in the said Ship, be freed and discharged of and from any Seizure or Confiscation, made or to be made by force of the said Act, as if the same had come in before the First Day of December last: And that all Officers, and other Persons, concerned, do take Notice hereof, and yield Obedience hereunto accordingly."^[42]

East Indies trade

In August 1632 Nathan Wright appears in the Court Minutes of the English East India Company, buying pepper both with Alderman Clitherowe and Mr. Mico (probably Samuel Mico).^[43]

Samuel Mico inventory extracts

"Item received of Andrew Barker for Currants XXXX^[44]
Item reced of George Hawking In full owing for Currants The 19 of June a forsd XXXX
Item reced of Willia Webb In full owed for Currants the seaventh of July afors:d XXXX

Item reced of John Buckworth and Company owed for Wooll the nyneth of July aforesaid

Item reced at Customs house for Impost of Barbadoes Sugar shipped of the 11:th of July aforesaid"

See PROB 5/840 Inventory & probate accounts of Samuel Mico, 1666, ff. 1-27

Possible primary sources

Review of primary sources

There are a large number of Chancery records for the period 1650-1680 which plausibly involve Samuel Mico and/or his relative and factor Aaron Mico, or his widow, Lady Jane Mico. These records do not appear to have been examined by writers on Mico, or the Spanish and Levant trades.

Several of the records following the date of Samuel Mico's decease appear to involve his relative ([Andrew] Barker. Several more of the records pre Samuel Mico's decease appear to involve possible trading relationships or estate matters with merchants such as [?John] Fenn, [?Aaron and/or Alexander Bence], Daniel and Jonathan Andrewes.

There are also published letters addressed to or mentioning Samuel and/or Aaron Mico in collection of correspondence of Richard Houncell.^[45]

TNA

C 2/ChasI/A51/16 Short title: Andrewes v Mico. Plaintiff: Andrewes and others. Defendant: Mico. Document type: Replication. Between 1625 and 1660

C 5/32/3 Andrewes v. Micoe: Middlesex 1657
C 5/37/36 Drawater v. Mico: Middlesex. 1661

C 5/52/63 Mico v. Mico: Middlesex. 1668
C 5/411/133 Micoe v. Bence 1665
C 5/446/127 Bence v. Mico: Middlesex 1669
C 5/446/128 Bence v. Mico: Middlesex 1667
C 5/446/129 Benzee v. Mico: Middlesex 1669
C 5/524/15 Mico v. Gardner: Middlesex. 1651
C 5/524/16 Micoe v. Bence: Middlesex. 1669
C 5/591/53 Bence v. Mico: Middlesex 1667
C 5/620/5 Mico v. Bence: Middlesex. 1664

C 6/146/120 Short title: Micoe v Holworthy. Plaintiffs: Edward Micoe. Defendants: Richard Holworthy. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1659
C 6/118/38 Short title: Campion v Mico. Plaintiffs: Edward Campion. Defendants: Samuel Mico and Hugh Forth. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer, schedule. 1653
C 6/184/13 Short title: Benzee v Bence. Plaintiffs: John Baptista Benzee and John Bueno Guipponi. Defendants: Sir Alexander Bence kt, John Penrice, Richard Adams, Robert Shaw, Alexander Milborne, Dame Jane Mico and others. Subject: money matters. Document type: bill, answer. 1669
C 6/214/50 Short title: Mico v Barker. Plaintiffs: Samuel Mico. Defendants: Andrew Barker and William Robinson. Subject: money matters, Somerset. Document type: bill, answer. 1674

C 9/30/83 Mico v. Andrewes and Culling 1663
C 9/45/7 Barker v. Mico 1666

C 10/24/34 Carleton v. Carleton, Micoe & Andrewes v. Oxon. 1653
C 10/24/68 Fenn v. Mico & Cockcroft: Middx. 1654
C 10/51/9 Daniel Andrewes, William Strange, William Murthwaite and Edward Mico v Giovanni Andrea Zanardi, and Francesco Pardini: money matters, Middx 1658
C 10/55/121 Mico v Thwiston: Middlesex 1659
C 10/56/90 Fenn v. Mico 1658
C 10/60/3 Jonathan Andrewes, Thomas Cutting, and Giffard Ball v Samuel Mico: money matters, Middx. Bill and two answers 1660
C 10/75/3 Daniel Andrewes v John Buckworth and Hester his wife, Samuel Mico, Moses Goodyeare, Aaron Goodyeare and Hester Goodyeare: personal estate of Moses Goodyeare, deceased, of London, Middx 1664
C 10/476/28 Brorne v. Mico: Middx 1663
C 10/164/81 Mico v Barker, Robinson, Mordant, STone, Mitchell, Hawkes: Middlesex 1670

C 22/273/48 Mico v Barker. Between 1558 and 1714
C 22/284/31 Pennye v Micoe. Between 1558 and 1714
C 22/492/6 Fenn v. Micoe. Between 1558 and 1714
C 22/783/34 Fenn v. Mico. 1659

PROB 11/121 Capell 1-65 Will of Alexander Bence, Merchant of Aldeburgh, Suffolk 25 February 1613
PROB 11/290 Pell 200–248 Will of Aaron Mico, Merchant of London 20 April 1659
PROB 11/311 Juxon 52-102 Will of Alexander Bence of London 14 July 1663
PROB 11/320 Mico 47-91 Will of Sir Samuel Mico, Mercer of London 24 May 1666 (See also PROB 11/321 Mico 92-138 Sentence of Samuel Mico or Micoe of Saint Andrew Undershaft, City of London 05 July 1666)
PROB 11/334 Penn 129-184 Will of Dame Jane Mico, Widow of London 09 December 1670 (See also PROB 11/333 Penn 67-128 Sentence of Jane Mico, Widow of Saint Andrew Holborn, Middlesex 09 December 1670)
PROB 11/351 Bence 55-108 Will of Sir Alexander Bence of Dublin, County Dublin 20 July 1676
PROB 11/390 Exton 1–44 Will of Robert Lang, Merchant and Trader Keeping House of Marseille, France 04 October 1688
PROB 11/432 Bond 87-130 Will of John Micoe, Serge Maker of Taunton Saint James, Somerset 17 July 1696
PROB 11/459 Dyer 1–45 Will of Andrew Barker of Fairford, Gloucestershire 03 March 1701

PROB 5/840 Inventory & probate accounts of Samuel Mico, 1666, ff. 1-27

Possible secondary sources

Epstein, Morton, The early history of the Levant Company (London, 1908)

1. ↑ "Marmaduke Rawden, Samuel Mico, Richard Middleton and Thomas Hodges were prominent Levant Company merchants, all except Hodges significantly involved in trade with Spain." (Keith Lindley, Popular Politics and Religion in Civil War London (XXXX, 1997), p. 64)
2. ↑ PROB 11/290 Pell 200–248 Will of Aaron Mico, Merchant of London 20 April 1659
3. ↑ 'House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 9 January 1652', Journal of the House of Commons, vol. 7: 1651-1660 (London, 1802), pp. 65-67. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23929 Date accessed: 05 September 2010. >
4. ↑ Pauline Croft (ed.), 'Introduction: The revival of the company, 1604-6', The Spanish Company, London Record Society 9 (?London, 1973), pp. XXIX-LI. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63965 Date accessed: 07 December 2011, citing Morton Epstein, Levant Company (London, 1908), pp. 158–60.
5. ↑ Michael G. Brennan (ed.), The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave: Levant Merchant (1647-1656) (London, 1999), item notes: 1, p. ? NNED TO LOOK AT PHYSICAL TEXT TO CHECK REFERENCE
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7. ↑ PROB 11/290 Pell 200–248 Will of Aaron Mico, Merchant of London 20 April 1659
8. ↑ PROB 11/121 Capell 1-65 Will of Alexander Bence, Merchant of Aldeburgh, Suffolk 25 February 1613; PROB 11/311 Juxon 52-102 Will of Alexander Bence of London 14 July 1663; PROB 11/351 Bence 55-108 Will of Sir Alexander Bence of Dublin, County Dublin 20 July 1676
9. ↑ Petition to House of Commons, Tuesday, the 3rd of February, 1651, from a number of merchants "trading in Levant Seas". They included Samuel Mico, Nathan Wright, Thomas Bludworth, and Henry Spurstow. ('House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 3 February 1652', Journal of the House of Commons, vol. 7: 1651-1660 (London, 1802), pp. 79-83. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23943 Date accessed: 30 January 2009)
10. ↑ PROB 5/840 Inventory & probate accounts of Samuel Mico, 1666, ff. 1-27
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12. ↑ John Bennett and Pamela Willetts, ‘Richard Mico’, Chelys, vol. 7 (XXXX, 1977), pp. 24-46, The Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society
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17. ↑ 'House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 3 February 1652', Journal of the House of Commons, vol. 7: 1651-1660 (London 1802), pp. 79-83. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23943 Date accessed: 30 January 2009)
18. ↑ 'Opinion of Maurice Thomson and others as to the best way of carrying on the east India trade, September 21, 1654' (PRO: C.O. 77, vol. vii, no. 80), cited in CCM, 50-54, p.340
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21. ↑ "About the end of July, 1660, Sir Richard Ford and other merchants presented a petition to the King, praying for compensation in the case of the Bantam Frigate, which in 1657, while trading at Indrapura (in Sumatra), had been seized and taken to Batavia, where she was released." (CCM 1660-1663, Introduction, p. xi)
22. ↑ BL, MSS: XXXXX, Letter from Thomas Papillon to Sir George Oxenden, 19 March 1662/3 ff. 20-23
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26. ↑ John Bennett and Pamela Willetts, ‘Richard Mico’, Chelys, vol. 7 (1977), pp. 24-46, The Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society
27. ↑ Web article by George Mico, USA, ‘William Mico, Leghorn, Italy’, http://www.oocities.com/micogenealogy/earl.html, viewed 06/09/10). Regarding Mico’s political views in the 1640s, there is a separate primary source, reported on the web, which appears to show a loan in the late 1640s by Samuel Mico to Prince Charles, the future Charles II. XXXX
28. ↑ "In 1660 in Leghorn there were residing Henry Brown, Walwin Gascon, Thomas Goddard, Gilbert Searle, Joseph Kent, Thomas Dethick, William Mico, Humphrey Sidney, Benjamin Child, Mellish, Charles Longland, and the consul Morgan Read" in Journal of Mediterranean studies, vol. 12 (XXXX, 2002), p. 283, FN. 39
29. ↑ 'The Earl of Winchelsea to William Mico, 1665, Oct.6-16. Pera.', in Report on the Manuscripts of Allen George Finch, Esq., vol. 1 (London, 1913), p.399
30. ↑ Letter from Walter Mico to Isaac Waldron, Walter Mico. London, March 5, 1680; letter to Isaac Waldron of Boston, printed in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (?Boston, MA, 1877), cited by Nuala Zahadiah in XXXX, XXXX (XXXX, XXXX), p. ?
31. ↑ An Edmond Dashwood, mercer of Dochester (1588-1642) invested in New England ventures (Michael Russell , ‘Members of the Dorchester Company 1624-1626’), May 2010, web source, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fordingtondorset/Files/FordingtonDorchesterCo2.html, viewed 06/09/10)
32. ↑ William Robinson of Cheshunt was the brother of Sir Samuel Mico’s wife, Dame Jane Mico (née Robinson). Therefore presumably Peter Robinson was a brother of Jane Mico and William Robinson
33. ↑ William Robinson of Cheshunt was the brother of Sir Samuel Mico’s wife, Dame Jane Mico (née Robinson)
34. ↑ Lady Jane Mico also mentions Thomas Barrow, her cousin, in her will
35. ↑ Presumably George Barker of Billingsgate at Greenwich was related to Sir Samuel Mico’s brother-in-law, Andrew Barker, Esquire
36. ↑ Just possibly PROB 11/624 Brook 242–283 Will of Richard Mico, Merchant of London 05 September 1728
37. ↑ Possibly related to PROB 11/432 Bond 87-130 Will of John Micoe, Serge Maker of Taunton Saint James, Somerset 17 July 1696
38. ↑ A secondary source states that Andrew Barker, a descendant of William Barker of Colchurst, Co. Shropshire, with subsequent links to Hopton Castle, Co. Shropshire, purchased the Manor of Fairford. Co. Gloucester in 1660. The original source of this is likely to be A.L. Barker, The Barkers of Alston XXXX, 1932) and is cited in a web page ‘Barker Family’, http://www.vnla.com/vnl/gen/mcq/Barker.htm, viewed 06/09/10). There is a PRC will which is likely to be related: PROB 11/459 Dyer 1–45 Will of Andrew Barker of Fairford, Gloucestershire 03 March 1701. Andrew Barker appears to have built a new mansion house, Fairford Park. Hayton, Cruickshanks and Handley suggest that Elizabeth Robinson, daughter of William Robinson of Cheshunt, Herts, married Andrew Barker of Fairford Park, Gloucestershire. (‘Samuel Barker’, The House of Commons 1690-1717, vol. 2 (Cambridge, 2002), p.134. The same source states that Andrew Barker’s father had been a merchant in and Member of Parliament fro Bristol, though the family was originally from Shropshire
39. ↑ 'House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 9 January 1652', Journal of the House of Commons, vol. 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 65-67. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23929 Date accessed: 05 September 2010
40. ↑ TNA, C 10/75/3 Daniel Andrewes v John Buckworth and Hester his wife, Samuel Mico, Moses Goodyeare, Aaron Goodyeare and Hester Goodyeare: personal estate of Moses Goodyeare, deceased, of London, Middx 1664
41. ↑ Patrick McGrath, Merchants and merchandise in seventeenth-century Bristol (XXXX, 1955), p. 241
42. ↑ 'House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 3 February 1652', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 79-83. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23943 Date accessed: 29 November 2011.
43. ↑ W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'East Indies: August 1632', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies and Persia, vol. 8: 1630-1634 (1892), pp. 276-285. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=71451 Date accessed: 30 November 2011.
44. ↑ Andrew Barker was probably Samuel Mico’s brother-in-law, through the marriage of the sister of Lady Jane Mico (née Williamson) to Andrew Barker
45. ↑ José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Perry Gauci, Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co (Alicante, 2008)