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Sunday, 16th October 2011

  • Tobell Aylmer was a successful merchant, as can be judged by the size, furnishing and interior decoration of his London house at the time of his death. Aylmer's business papers and accounts have not survived. However, a number of Chancery records have been located for several different legal actions in which he was involved. All of these actions involved property, and it appears that Aylmer was active in lending to agricultural property owners who were in financial distress. Furthermore, at the time of his death, Aylmer owned a number of urban properties, as can be seen in the Tobell Aylmer will. These were valued at £XXX in his inventory.


The bill of complaint of Edward Clovile, Tobell Aylmer et al C10/5/21 f. 1 (1649) is particularly interesting in that it shows Tobell Aylmer in a joint action with Edward Clovyle, the owner of a manor house and land in Essex, pursuing a series of writs and judgements in the court of the Upper Bench to obtain possession of the above property from a prior lessee of Clovyle. The lessee, Thomas Barker, a gentleman of West Hanningfield, had allegedly fallen into rental arrears, yet had refused to yield possession. The plaintiffs had successfully sought a writ of habere facias possessionem; possession was briefly achieved, only to be lost six weeks later due supposedly to the neglect of Aylmer's attorney to register in due time a favourable court judgement. The defendant was accused then of launching many frivolous and vexatious suits of clausem frigit designed to push up the plaintiffs legal costs, who sought an injunction in the Court of Chancery to halt these suits. A further complication was that Clovyle claimed to have lost the conterpart to his original lease of Barker, rendering a solution impossible under common law. Hence the plaintiffs sought a writ of subpoena in addition to the above mentioned injunction to require Barker to disclose the whereabouts of the lease.

The answer of Thomas Barker to Clovile and Aylmer et al's Bill of Complaint C10/5/21 f. 2 (1649) offers a different story. Barker claimed he had received a writ of elegit obtained by a Thomas Browne in the Court of Common Pleas against Edward Clovile, and after consulting counsel, had attorned to Browne, and had begun lawfully to pay him rent, rather than Ailmer. Following his ejectment by Clovile and Ailmer, Barker claimed that the court of the Upper Bench had reconsidered matters, appointing a Mr. Hoddesdon, secondary to the court, to meet with the parties and to consider the proceedings in the case. Hoddesdon had, it was claimed by Barker, found "the practizes in the businesse for gayninge of the said possession to bee soe undue and Indirect" that the court granted a writ of restitution, and possession was restored to Barker.

A later suit C6/130/5 f. 1 (1654) shows Tobell Aylmer complaining against his former co-litigant Edward Clovyle over the same property. Aylmer had still failed to achieve possession of the manor house and was seeking a writ of elegit to take possession of the lands, to be followed by the issue by a sherrif of a writ of fieri facias.


Friday, 7th October 2011

  • Profile of Tobell Aylmer, citizen of London and draper. A cousin and friend of Elizabeth Dallison, he may well have been with George Oxenden in Surat in the late 1650s. He kept a house in Ludgate Hill, on the corner of Old Bailey, visited by a number of the Oxenden and Dallison social group

Tuesday, 4th October 2011

  • Profile of Edward Kelke (junior), of Gray's Inn, a friend and contemporary of Sir George Oxenden, who chose Elizabeth Dallison as his sole executrix. He was lodging at the Ludgate Hill house of Tobell Aylmer when he fell sick and made his final will and testament. Other lodgers in the house at the time of his death included Tobell's daughter, Margaret Grigg, and Elizabeth Dallison and her maid servant, Sarah Waynman

Saturday, 1st October 2011

  • Profile of the Dover born Gray's Inn lawyer Robert Raworth, who served the Dallison and Oxenden family in legal matters for more than forty years. Whilst studying law he may have been a clerk to the Tenterden, Kent born lawyer, friend of the Eveleyn family of Wotton, and subsequently serjeant-at-law, Sir Ralph Whitfield, who was his brother-in-law. Later a barrister and ancient of Gray's Inn, he had a wide client list amongst gentry, aristocracy and merchants

Tuesday, 27th September 2011

  • Images of Canterbury from William Somner, 2nd ed. (1703), William Gostling (1777), and Edward Hasted (1801). Canterbury was an ecclesiastical and legal centre in the mid-seventeenth century. It lay within a half day's ride of the Oxenden homes in Deane and Barham.

Monday, 26th September 2011

  • Profile of Hardres Court, home of Sir Richard Hardres, cousin of Sir George Oxenden, Elizabeth Dallison and James Master. Sir Richard Hardres' son was in Surat with Sir George Oxenden in the early 1660s. The son's passage out to Surat was problematic, missing Sir George Oxenden's ship and requiring the assistance of Elizabeth Dallison and others to procure him a berth on a subsequent ship

Wednesday, 21st September 2011



Tuesday, 20th September 2011


Tuesday, 13th September 2011

  • Profile of Denton Court, home of Sir Anthony Percivall, friend of Henry Oxinden of Barham, who was imprisoned with Sir Thomas Peyton in 1643 in London. Denton Court lay close to Henry Oxinden home of Maydekin and Sir Basil Dixwell's home at Broome

Monday, 12th September 2011


Thursday, 8th September 2011


Wednesday, 7th September 2011

  • Profile of Theobald family of Stonepitt and Seale, Kent. Sir George Theobald was a cousin of Margaret Oxenden, Sir George Oxenden's and Elizabeth Dallison's mother, and helped Sir James Oxenden, Elizabeth's father, when William Dallison, Elizabeth's husband, experienced financial difficulties in the late 1630s

Tuesday, 6th September 2011

  • Map of the hundreds of Wingham and Kinghamford added to page on Deane, showing location of Deane house and of Broome Park
  • Updated profile of Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins, including review of extensive Hoskins family papers at the Surrey History Centre concerning his father, grandfather, and elder brother. Mainly estate related but include an inventory and administration accounts for his father, Sir Thomas Hoskins
  • New work on primary documents page accessible from wiki front page
  • House in St. John Street, Clerkenwell. Background on Dallison family links to Clerkenwell and house in St. John Street. Characterisation of Clerkenwell in 1563, 1619, and 1677. Proposed further research to better characterise the changing nature of Clerkenwell and its attractiveness to gentry and possibly to lawyers in 1620s and 1630s.

Monday, 5th September 2011

  • Profile of Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins, serjeant-at-law, friend of Elizabeth Dallison and provider of legal counsel to her and Sir George Oxenden
  • Profile of Francis Coventry, barrister and acquaintance of Elizabeth Dallison, who married Elizabeth's friend and merchant's daughter, Elizabeth Hoskins, following the death of her husband Sir Edmund Hoskins. Son of Sir Thomas Coventry (b.1578,d.1640), the prominent Inner Temple lawyer and Lord Keeper of the Seale , his brothers Henry and William Coventry played prominent diplomatic and political roles in the 1670s



Friday, 2nd September

  • Building history and character of the mansion house of Deane, the home of Sir Henry Oxenden, and birthplace of Elizabeth Dalyson and Sir George Oxenden

Friday, 26th August 2011


Monday 15th August 2011

  • Wiki launched
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