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| − | == Sir George Oxenden ==
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| − | -->''"you haveing for y:e tyme past truely made your life a kinde of á pilgrimage, [[br]]
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| − | you have seene many of y:e great wonders of y:e Great God, Ocularly, w:ch wee [[br]]
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| − | have onely by Contemplation, & in y.t I (that have never beene out of my [[br]]
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| − | native Countrey) have taken great pleasur"''<--
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| − | -->(Robert Raworth to Sir George Oxenden, 1663)<--
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| − | As president of the English East India company in Surat between 1663 and 1669, Sir George Oxenden left a private correspondence with his sister, Elizabeth Dalyson, and with other kin,close friends, commercial partners. The correspondence, now in the British Library, provides a starting point from which to explore their lives. Bound in still bright red Indian leather, the volumes are the work of Oxenden’s copyists, his factory writers, rather than autograph manuscripts. The communication is largely one way, with Oxenden’s own voice often to be inferred from the tone and substance of his correspondents.
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| − | A careful reading of the correspondence reveals the existence of two connected joint stock companies formed in in the decade prior to Oxenden’s presidency by Sir George Oxenden and five former colleagues from Surat. Two slightly divergent lists of subscribers to the two ventures were subsequently discovered by this author in the National Archives in chancery papers related to the ventures. In 1655 the English East India company was in disarray, its monopoly had expired, and the eastern markets were up for grabs. Yet, the ventures have little visibility in the historiography, and are the subject of only a brief footnote by Sir William Foster.
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| − | ''Sources''
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| − | C10/109/102 (1663); C10/82/2 (1664)
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| − | IOR/H/MISC/32 Various letters relating to the Williams Venture
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| − | Letter from Robert Raworth to Sir George Oxenden, Grays Inn, 9th April 1663, ff. 106-107
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| − | The Oxenden papers, Vols. XIII-XVIII, Add. MSS. 40708-40713
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| − | William Foster (ed.), XXXX, citing Home Miscellaneous Vol. 26, 10 June 165[8?] (folio 5)
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| − | '''Sir George Oxenden, engraving, 1668''' | + | '''Overview''' |
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| − | [[File:Sir George Oxenden Engraving 1668_copy.png|thumbnail|279px]]
| + | This page provides a directory to names in relevant primary documents, to the names of key individuals in the commercial life of the Oxenden family, and to key family members in selected and related families |
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| − | == Elizabeth Dallison == | + | __TOC__ |
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| | + | ==To do== |
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| + | (1) Develop a template for biographical profiles |
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| | + | (2) Develop a template for thumbnail portraits to be submitted to the [[MRP: Dramatis Personnae|Dramatis Personnae]] page |
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| − | == Maximilian Dallison == | + | ==Biographical profiles== |
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| + | [[MRP: Tobell Aylmer|Tobell Aylmer]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Nicholas Buckeridge|Nicholas Buckeridge]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Francis Coventry|Francis Coventry]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Charles Dallison|Charles Dallison]] |
| | + | [[MRP: William Dallison I|William Dallison I]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Sir Maximilian Dallison|Sir Maximilian Dallison]] |
| | + | [[MRP: William Dallison II|William Dallison II]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Elizabeth Dallison|Elizabeth Dallison]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Margaret Dallison|Margaret Dallison]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Maximilian Dallison|Maximilian Dallison]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Frances Dallison, nee Stanley|Frances Dallison, nee Stanley]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins|Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Edward Kelke|Edward Kelke]] |
| | + | [[MRP: James Master of Yotes Court|James Master of Yotes Court]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Sir George Oxenden|Sir George Oxenden]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Sir Henry Oxenden|Sir Henry Oxenden]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Henry Oxinden of Barham|Henry Oxinden of Barham]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Sir George Oxenden|Sir George Oxenden]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Sir James Oxenden|Sir James Oxenden]] |
| | + | [[MRP: James Oxenden|James Oxenden]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Margaret Oxenden|Margaret Oxenden]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Richard Oxinden|Richard Oxinden]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Colonel Proud|Colonel Proud]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Robert Raworth|Robert Raworth]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Mary Smith, nee Dallison|Mary Smith, nee Dallison]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Sir George Smith|Sir George Smith]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Thomas Stanley|Thomas Stanley]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Sir William Ryder|Sir William Ryder]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Lady Mary Widdrington|Lady Mary Widdrington]] |
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| − | == Thomas Stanley == | + | ==Dramatis personnae== |
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| + | [[MRP: Dramatis personnae|Dramatis personnae]] |
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| − | C 9/49/48 Dalison v. Oxenden 1667
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| − | C 9/40/57 Oxenden v. Dallison and Stanley 1668
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| − | C 9/240/194 Stanley v. Walsall 1650
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| − | C 10/14/38 William Cane v Barnabas Walsall and Thomas Stanley: Rochester, Kent 1651
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| − | C 22/58/39 Dalyson v. Oxinden. Between 1558 and 1714
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| − | Inventory of Thomas Stanley, VH 96/6226
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| − | == James Master of Yotes Court == | + | ==Family resources == |
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| − | James Master of Yotes Court was the cousin of Sir George Oxenden’s sister’s husband, Richard Master, whose son James Master was Sir George Oxenden’s nephew. His expense books, which were published in four parts in Archaeologica Cantiania in the late nineteenth century, provide an insight into the life of a Kent relation of similar age to Sir George Oxenden. He visited East Langdon occasionally and used his cousin James for legal advice, in the 1650s and 1660s, as is seen in payments recorded in his expense book. Interestingly Thomas Stanley revised his will with a codicil which appointed James Master of Yotes Court, his close neighbour, in 166X to replace one of his deceased overseers.
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| − | James Master built Yotes Court in 1659, pulling down the previous mansion on the site, which had been the property of his step-father Sir Thomas Walsingham. In 1828 the property was described in some detail: “It consists of two stories surmounted by a high roof, with dormer windows, and is built of brick, with stone quoins and dressings: a small Corinthian porch opens to a Hall fifty-eight feet long by nineteen feet wide; having on the right, a Dining-Room, and on the left of the entrance, a Drawing-room. The whole of the grounds comprise about one thousand acres, of which the house, garden, and shrubberies, immediately adjoining, occupy six acres; the water in the park, from whence all the ponds in the neighbourhood are fed, extends over five or six acres, and there are about three hundred acres of cover. From the principal entrance to Yotes Court, in the Mereworth Road to Forge Gate, is a beautiful drive of nearly a mile.” An 1889 Order of the Land Commissioners scheduled the Yotes Court estate, then owned by Viscount Torrington, and described it as comprising nine hundred and forty acres, which the schedule broke into thirteen blocks, with land in both the parishes of Mereworth and West Peckham. However, no information is available on the size of the estate at the time of the construction of Yotes Court.
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| − | Yotes Court, built 1659
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| − | [[File:ENGRAVING_Yotes_Court_Kent.png|thumbnail|300px]]
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| − | ''Sources''
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| − | ‘The expense book of James Master, pt. II, A.D. 1655-57', Mrs. Max Dalison transcribed, Canon Scott Robertson, Archaeologica Cantiania, vol. 16 (London, 1886)
| + | [[MRP: Dallison family|Dallison family]] |
| − | ‘Expense-book of James Master, pt. III, A.D. 1658-1663', Mrs. Max Dalison transcribed, Canon Scott Robertson, Archaeologica Cantiania, vol. 17 (London, XXXX),
| + | [[MRP: Hardres family|Hardres family]] |
| − | ‘Expense-book of James Master, Esq. Pt. IV’, Archaeologica Cantiania, vol. 18, pp. 114-XXX
| + | [[MRP: Master family|Master family]] |
| − | ‘The life of James Master’, Archaeologica Cantiania, vol. 18, pp.157-168
| + | [[MRP: Oxenden family|Oxenden family]] |
| − | Mereworth and West Peckham document]: Scheduling of Yotes Court Estate: Official copy of an 1889 Order by the Lands Commissioners scheduling this 940 acre Estate owned by Viscount Torrington
| + | [[MRP: Piers family|Piers family]] |
| − | 'Yotes Court', in J.P. Neale, Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland,, vol. 4 (London., 1828), p. unnumbered
| + | [[MRP: Raworth family|Raworth family]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Stanley family|Stanley family]] |
| | + | [[MRP: Theobald family|Theobald family]] |
This page provides a directory to names in relevant primary documents, to the names of key individuals in the commercial life of the Oxenden family, and to key family members in selected and related families
