MRP: Charles Smeaton will
Charles Smeaton will
PROB 11/309 Laud 108-162 Will of Charles Smeaton, Mercer of London 09 August 1662
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EEIC, 1660-1663
"... Charles Smeaton, Senior, and John Pory in 1,000/. for Charles Smeaton, Junior…"[1]
"[November 27, 1661] The following securities are accepted : Thomas Green and Thomas Townsend for Gabriel Townsend ; John Pory and Henry Hampson for Charles Smeaton ; Sir William Thomson and M. Thomson for Thomas Sprigg ; Thomas Agg and Benjamin Coles for Francis Thomson.... Sprigg and Thomson are sworn and directed to proceed in the performance of their duties. Order is also given for all porters employed by Seaborne to be dismissed and for Sprigg to engage others in their stead, having regard to old servants of the Company who are suitable"[2]
"[December 18, 1661http://www.example.com] The following men are entertained for Surat: John Spiller at 100/. a year to go as second to the President ; John Goodyear at 100 marks a year ; Gerard Aungeir, Charles Smeaton and Strensham Maisters, ' now at Suratt ', at 30/. each a year; Caesar Chamberlen, John Pettit, Charles Bendish, and Richard Francis at 25/. a year ; William Jones, William Blackman, Henry Chune, and Henry Oxinden at 20/. a year."[3]
EFI 1665-1667
"…at Karwar (Robert Master, Philip Giffard, and Caesar Chamberlain), at Porakad (John Harrington and Alexander Grigby), and at Calicut (Charles Smeaton and Robert Barbor"[4]
EFI 1668-1669
"and towards the end of 1666 Smeaton and Barbor, the two merchants at Calicut, finding it impossible to satisfy the demands of the Zamorin for further loans of money, had fled secretly to Tanur, a place on the sea-coast twenty miles to the southwards, where the local chief..."[5]
"…Smeaton was to be sent to Surat as "altogether unfit"[6]
EFI 1670-1677
"Charles Smeaton, an "able accomptant," was sent down to keep the books and succeed Giffard (sic) as his "Second" in Council [The Bombay Council, second to Aungier], but died within two months of his appointment"[7]
Mr. Smeaton, 1663
"I begg from you of a few words in answer, it is to know if ?Girden [Firdon?] Brok:e2 [OR Broke:s] hath satisffied either to yo:e selfe or to M:r Smeaton,3 theare for mee y:d m:a 1329: w:ch was left w:th him by M:r Rob:t Duke4 a:o 1659: to bee retourned to mee by y:e shipp you came home in y:t yeare w:ch I hope hee hath done w:th interest by y:d goods meanes w:ch you will have used; If not I pray S:r lett M:r Smeaton have all y:e Countenance & assistance you can give him for recovery of it"[8]
Possible primary sources
C 6/28/36 Short title: Humphrey v Smeaton. Plaintiffs: John Humphrey and others. Defendants: Susannah Smeaton widow. Subject: personal estate of the deceased Thomas Smeaton, of London. Document type: answer, schedule. 1664
- ↑ CCM 60-63, p. 146
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, November 27, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 430), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 161)
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, December 18, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 439), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 167-168
- ↑ EFI 65-67, p. 75
- ↑ EFI 68-69, p. 101
- ↑ EFI 68-69, p. 105
- ↑ EFI 70-77, p. 5
- ↑ 30th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Rastell to Sir GO, London
