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Whalers exempt from impress, 1654


People linkage data


Anderson


"Lancelott Anderson was a whalng captain of
Hull. He was on the whaling ship which rescued
in May, 1631, the eight English whalemen who had
been left behind on Spitsbergen the previous year,
and were the first to winter there. He is also
mentioned in a list of those engaged in the whaling
in 1654."[2]

"4 An account of Greenland from Capt. Lancelott Anderson, a Hull merchant who has made thirty-three voyages thither. British Museum, MS. Sloane, 3986, ff. 78, 79."[3]

"[p. 470] Know all men by these prsents that wee Lancellott Anderson of Hull Mariner and Thomas Mount fort of London Mecht doe make Ordaine Authorize and appoint Our trusty and Well beloued freind Thomas Sprigge of Caluert County Gentn to be our true and lawfull Atturney and for us and in Our names to aske sue for leuie or demand all such debt or debts as doe rightly appertaine to either of us the said Lancellott Anderson or Thomas Mountfort (on behalfe and uppon accompt of Mr Edmund Custis of London Merchant) Our heires or Assignes, and further it shall and may (by uertue hereof) bee lawfull for Our said Atturney upon all Occasiones whatsoeuer to Constitute one or more Atturney or Atturneys to act undr him in and upon the behalfe of Vs Lancellott Anderson and Thomas Mountfort and his or his said Atturneys actions on Our behalfe shall be as Authentick as if wee Our selues were there personally present in ratificacon whereof wee Joyntly Obleige Our selues and heires as wittnes Our handes and seales this 23d of May 1664—
Signed sealed & deliuered Lancellott Anderson Seale
In the ptsence of Vs Thomas Mountfort Seale
Edwd Richardson
John Emerson

Sworne Benjamin Rozer and Edward Richardson this 5th of Octobr 1664 as wittnesses to the aboue said letter of Atturney which was by them acknowledged to be deliuered as the Act & deed of
Lancellott Anderson and Thomas Mountfort to the said Thomas Sprigge, in open Court Daniel Jenifer Clk
On the back side of the said letter of Atturney thus follows I doe hereby depute my Louing freinde Wm Caluert to act in my behalfe in any bussines or suite in the behalf e of Lancelott Anderson
or Thomas Mountfort and doe giue him as much power as I haue uertue of the wthin letter of Atturney, Wittnes my hand this first of
March 1664
Tho: Sprigg
Wittnes
Daniel Jenifer
Willm Hollingworth"[4]


Ashmore


4. Edward Ashmore of Saint Mary Matsellon alias Whitechappell London Butcher aged 42 yeares


Avery


Deposition of John Avery, chirugeon, of Ratcliff in Stepney, aged 22 (HCA 13/71 ff.599r-601v

Boyd’s Inhabitants of London John Avery Surgeon of St Giles Cripplegate married 3 Nov 1656 to Mary Jackson at St Giles Cripplegate (Janet Few)

PROB 11/348/283 Will of John Avery 20 July 1675 (DOWNLOADED AND EMAILED TO JANET FEW, 11/05713)


Barefoote



  • BIRTH/CHRISTENING: Alexander Barefoote; Date: 29 Jul 1638; Father: Alexander Barefoote: Mother: Ellen

("England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N55P-HXT : accessed 01 Feb 2013), Alexander Barefoote, 29 Jul 1638; citing ST MARY WHITECHAPEL,STEPNEY,LONDON,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 94691.)

Hearth tax, 1966: Middlesex

"Richard Barefoote 1 (hearth) b
John Barefoote 1 (hearth) b"

'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Whitechapel: Whitechapel hamlet (1 of 3)', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119280 Date accessed: 02 February 2013.

Hearth Tax, 1664: Surrey

"Brixton Hundred
Rotherhithe
Redrith

...Mr Barfoote 3 hearths (persons chargeable)"

(http://www.hearthtax.org.uk/communities/surrey/surrey_1664L_transcript.pdf, viewed 03/02/13)

  • BIRTH/CHRISTENING: John Barefoote: Date:14 Sep 1642 ; ST BOTOLPH WITHOUT ALDGATE,LONDON,LONDON,ENGLAND; Father: Alexander Barefoote ; Mother: Ellinor

("England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JMWM-LPL : accessed 01 Feb 2013), Alexander Barefoote in entry for John Barefoote, 14 Sep 1642; citing ST BOTOLPH WITHOUT ALDGATE,LONDON,LONDON,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 370929, 370930.)

-- SEE: PROB 11/112/252 Will of Julian Barefoote of Saint Botolph without Aldgate London. 07 September 1608
-- SEE: PROB 11/140/284 Will of Henry Barefoote of All Hallows Bread Street, City of London. 6 October 1622
-- SEE: PROB 11/999/151 Will of John Barfoot, Wharfinger of Saint Botolph without Aldgate , Middlesex. 07 July 1774
-- SEE: PROB 11/716/320 Will of Richard Barfoot, Cooper of Saint Michael Crooked Lane , City of London. 23 March 1742
-- SEE: PROB 11/649/240 Will of Robert Barfoot, Wine Cooper of Porto, Portugal. 22 September 1718
-- SEE: PROB 11/322/210 Will of John Barfoot, Mariner of Saint Botolph without Algate, Middlesex. 8 November 1666
-- SEE: PROB 11/1284/14 Will of Richard Barfoot, Livery Man of the Coopers Company's and Marshall Man of City of London. 09 January 1797
-- SEE: PROB 11/710/293 Will of Henry Barfoot, Wine Cooper of Saint Dunstan in the East , City of London. 21 July 1741
-- SEE: PROB 11/674/239 Will of Richard Barfoot, Wine Cooper of Basingstoke , Hampshire. 03 December 1735
-- SEE: PROB 4/24564 Barfoote, Nicholas of St Botolph without Aldgate, London, but d. at New York in the parts beyond the seas. 14 December 1682

Surrey Quarter Sessions

Surrey, Record Society, Surrey Quarter Session records: the order book and session rolls (XXXX, 1934), p. 164

- A Google snippet shows a hit for an Alexander Barefoote, cooper, and a number of other Barefoot names (Michael barefoote; George Barefoote). No e-book available so need to look at a hard copy.

--"Alexander Barefoote", cooper, Thomas Bayly, carpenter, Mary Metherill6, Anne Saward, widows, Joseph Dawkins, gent., (all) late of Redrith, Edward Amary, late of the Upper Ground, St Saviour, yeoman, and David Hatchett, Thorpe, labourer, ..."

History of the Coopers Company

SOURCES:

http://www.coopers-hall.co.uk/history

- "Many of our members hold a keen interest in the history of the Coopers Livery Company, and we maintain a fascinating collection of artefacts of the Company and the trade in the small museum in Coopers Hall, which members are cordially invited to visit

Museum Gallery (Images): http://www.coopers-hall.co.uk/museum-gallery

Contact: clerk@coopers-hall.co.uk

George Elkington, The coopers: company and craft (XXXX., 2011)
James Francis Firth, Historical memoranda, charters, documents, and extracts from the records of the corporation and the books of the company, 1396-1848 (London, 1848) https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=xaoKAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-xaoKAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1, viewed 02/02/13

  • BIRTH/CHRISTENING: Josephe Barefoote: Date: 17 Mar 1646; ST BOTOLPH WITHOUT ALDGATE,LONDON,LONDON,ENGLAND; Father: Alexander Barefoote ; Mother: Ellinor

("England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JQL7-D6F : accessed 01 Feb 2013), Alexander Barefoote in entry for Josephe Barefoote, 17 Mar 1646; citing ST BOTOLPH WITHOUT ALDGATE,LONDON,LONDON,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 370929, 370930.)

PROB: Cooper related

PROB 4/16276 Scott, Arthur, of Peckham, Surrey, cooper. 28 February 1681
PROB 11/364/128 Will of Arthur Scott, Cooper of Surrey. 04 October 1680

PROB 11/327/427 Will of John Scott, Soap Boiler of London. 15 July 1668
PROB 11/309/573 Will of William Scott, Factor of London. 15 December 1662
PROB 11/321/332 Will of Charles Scott, Vintner of Saint Clement Danes, Middlesex. 20 July 1666
PROB 11/258/394 Will of Caleb Scott, Cooper of Saint Saviour Southwark, Surrey. 20 October 1656

Soapboilers_

  • "But in another case the Eastland Company did not escape so easily. The trade in potashes, one of the chief imports of the Eastlanders, was completely disorganised by the institution of a new London Company of Soapboilers. Although the manufacture by new methods was not really established until 1631, the patent was granted by James I., and as, under the new system, no potashes were used, the Merchants at once raised the cry of ruin. To convince them of the superiority of the new soap, the Council ordered that ' the laundresses who made trial of it are to be examined in the presence of the Eastland Merchants, who are the parties the most interested.'*[5]


  • "YEAR? April 19. 30. Petition of John Revell, soapmaker of London, to the Council. About December 1630 petitioner, at 400?. fine and 50?. rent per annum, took a soap- house for 21 years, of John Leminge, and covenanted to continue it a soap-house, and was bound in 500?. to perform covenants. Being disabled by decree from making soap, he desired Leminge to relinquish that covenant or take in his lease, giving petitioner such part of his fine as two Eastland merchants should appoint, both of which offers he refused. Although petitioner has laid out 800?. in fine, reparations, and dead rent, yet Leminge for 7 1 i. rent behind has arrested petitioner and declared in the King's Bench in five actions against him. Prays that Leminge may relinquish that covenant, and gi^'e in the bond of oOOl. to be cancelled, and suffer petitioner to demolish the utensils for soap, and let the house to some other use, or if it is to be continued a soaphouse, that he may make petitioner some further estate in the premises. [Copy. | p.'] Underwritten,


30. I. Order that this petition be put into the hands of John Leminge, and that he answer thereunto, that the Lords at their next meeting may take further order. Whitehall, 19th April 16S7. Copy. ^ p.][6]

  • "YEAR? April 28. 102. Petition of Thomas Horth, of Yarmouth, merchant, to the Council. The Corporation of "Sopers" of Westminster contracted with petitioner for 350 or 400 tons of Greenland train oil to be last year delivered for his Majesty's service, in regard the Greenland merchants of London did not import a sufficient quantity. Most of the oil was long since delivered, and the Soapers compelling petitioner to deliver the rest, petitioner has made provision of the same to be brought to London, his Majesty's customs and duties for the same being paid on the 4th of March last. By order of the 8th March last, the Lords ordered all oil brought in by any save the Greenland merchants should be exported again or seized to his Majesty's use. By virtue of that order Newman and Measer, two of his Majesty's officers, have hung locks on petitioner's warehouse doors, and pretend to have petitioner's oil exported or seized, although it was at Yarmouth, and there the custom was paid before the 8th March, but it was detained by contrary winds. Petitioner prays order to the officers that he may be suffered to deliver the oil to the soap-boilers, the quantity being 140 tons, brought in the ship Relief [1 p.] Endorsed,


102. I. Order for Mr. Gage, governor of the Corporation of Soapmakers of Westminster, and one or two of the Greenland Company to attend the Board on the Tnorrow. Star Chamber, 28th April 1637. Annexed,

102. II. Contract made by George Gage, governor of the Company of Soapmakers, with Thomas Horth, of Yarmouth, for 350 or 400 tons of whale train oil, to be delivered at London, in the Thames, at 20?. per ton. Kith January 1635-6. [Attested copy. \ p.]

102. III. Lord Treasurer Juxon to the Officers of the Customs. Thomas Horth paying his Majesty's customs and duties is to be permitted to land such quantity of oil as he has contracted with the Company of Soapmakers to deliver for that year. 18th June 1636. [Attested copy. 1 p.]

102. IV. Order of Council upon the petition of JEdmond Manning, praying licence to bring hither out of Holland 60 tons of whale oil. On reading the answer of the Muscovy Company, the Lords ordered that if Manning or any other should bring over any such oil or whale fins, that they should forthwith transport the same, otherwise it might be seized according to his Majesty's proclamation. Whitehall, 8th March 1636-7. [Copy. 1 p.]

102. V, Certificate of William Barrett, comptroller and collector of customs at Yarmouth, that Thomas Horth had paid the subsidy and impost for 130 tons of Greenland train oil in the Relief, of Ipswich, Thomas Cleecher, master, and is td%e suffered to pass to London. 4th March 1637[i.e., 1637-8, sed qu. 1636-7.] [Attested copy. ^ p.J "[7]

  • May 2. 17. Order of the King in Council. Upon consideration of the Whitehall, great quantity of potashes brought in from foreign parts, and that a great proportion is at present in the hands of undue makers of soap, and of grocers, salters, and others who have bought the same to furnish the undue makers, it was ordered that no merchant or others should sell any part thereof before notice given to the lord mayor, Thomas Overman, or such others as they shall appoint, who are to take special care that none be disposed of to undue makers of soap.

[Copy. 1 p.l

  • May 2. 18. Draft of the same order. [IJ p.]


  • May 2. 1 9. Brief notes or draft of the contents of the same, endorsed as received from Mr. Lightfoot, and being probably the application upon which the order was made. [| p.][8]


  • "May. 171. Abstract of a grant of incorporation to the soapmakers of England and Wales, by the name of the "Governor, Assistants, and Commonalty of the Society of Soapmakers of London," with various powers for well ordering their trade. \_5^ pp.J"[9]


  • "July 2. 17. Minute of a petition of the Soapmakers of Bristol, in which they alleged that articles were agreed to in November 16.35, by which they were permitted to make 600 tons yearly of soap from olive oil, and to sell the same at 3d. per pound, paying 4L per ton to his Majesty. They complained that the soapmakers of London hindered their trade, and prayed that it might be settled in accordance with the said articles. The soapmakers of London were thereupon ordered to attend the Lords, which they did with the answer which is here set down. The agreement alluded to was made without their privity. They leave the Bristol proposal to his Majesty, with certain suggestions for restraining the quantity of soap to be made to the 600 tons above mentioned, [^^'•l Underwritten,"[10]


  • "25. Similar order on petition of Thomas Horth, of Great Yarmouth, merchant, desiring that the soapboilers of London might be enjoined to take off his oils which he provided on a contract with

the late soapboilers of Westminster, and that the Muscovia Company might permit him to land his oils. Upon hearing the answers of the soapboilers of London and the Muscovia Company, it was ordered that, for what concerns Horth's agreement with the Company of Soapboilers of Westminster, he may take his course against those with whom he contracted, the Lords not conceiving the soapboilers of London any ways obliged to make good the agreement made with the soapboilers of Westminster. Touching Horth's landing his oils in this kingdom, the Muscovia Company having more oils than they can vend in this kingdom, and Horth having had leave to trade to Greenland only for the service of Scotland, it is ordered that he shall either serve Scotland with his oils or seek a vent in foreign parts. [Draft. 1 jd.]"[11]

Company of Soapboilers of Westminster


Batson


(Richard, Henry, Thomas)

DRAFT TEXT:

Richard Batson (b. ca. 1601, d. ?1667) was a citizen and cutler of London.[12]

He was the son of XXXX and XXXX. He married XXXX in XXXX and had at least one child - Martha Batson, who in 1663 married the London merchant and draper, John Bendish, son of Sir Thomas Bendish.


Family background


The Batson family was connected to Highworth in Wiltshire. A trade token survives from the mid to later C17th for a Richard Batson in Highworth (presumably related to Richard Batson of London), and Richard Batson of London's nephew, Thomas Batson, was buried at Highworth. IS HIGHWORTH MENTIONED IN RB'S WILL?

Richard Batson had at least one brother, and was uncle to Thomas Batson (of Barbados and Stepney), whose will was proven in 1701, [13] and of Henry Batson. In Richard Batson's will he describes Thomas and Henry Batson, his nephews, as his factors in Barbados. He refers also to his brother, William Batson, who was father of Thomas and Henry, and to Richard, another of William's sons.[14]

The nephew, Thomas Batson, appears to have resided in Barbados in the late 1650s and to have acted as Richard Batson's agent there.[15] Thomas Batson was resident in Barbados with at least one other Batson family member, the merchant Henry Batson, with Thomas and Henry acting together in 1652, when appointed as attornies concerning a financial obligation signed by Thomas Applewhaite of London, merchant, to John Cooke, citizen and fishmonger of London, on November 2nd, 1652.[16] Thomas and Henry Batson are also recorded exporting goods from Barbados in 1664.[17]

A William Batson, possibly the brother of Richard Batson (or other relation), was mentioned by Hotten in a list of land holdings in the parish of Saint Johns, Barbados. He is listed with 14 negroes and 58 acres of land.[18] An Elizabeth Banfield, daughter of Phillip Banfield , a planter of Saint Phillips parish, Barbados, married a William Batson before 1674 (the date of Phillip Banfield's will.[19]

It is possible, but speculative, that Richard Batson married Sarah Ford, daughter of the ?London ?merchant, Richard Ford.[20]

If so, this may explain the apparent linkage in Barbados of the Ford and Batson families.

There are some primary records of a Batson family in Lydiard Millicent in the mid-C17th, which is ca. 10 miles to the south-west of Highworth, Wiltshire.[21]

Coat of Arms, Batson family, Highworth, Wiltshire[22]

Batson Highworth Coat Of-Arms DL CSG 030613.JPG

Residence


It is possible, but not confirmed, that the Richard Bateson of the parish of Saint Dunstan's in the East listed in T.C. Dale's The Inhabitants of London in 1638 at a rate of 16 pounds sterling is the same Richard Batson who is listed in 1648 in Billingsgate Ward and in 1657 in the parish of Saint James Garlickhithe in Vintry Ward.[23] The parish of Saint Dunstan in the East was located in Tower Street Ward.

A Richard Batson is listed in Billingsgate Ward in an April 1648 'Ordinance for the speedy bringing in the Arreares of the Assessements in the City of London and Liberties thereof'.[24] A deposition dated May 5th 1651 of a fifty year old merchant named Richard Batson gives his parish of residence as "Saint Buttolph Billingsgate London."[25] This age is consistent with the age of Richard Batson the whaling entrepreneur in HCA depositions later in the 1650s.

Sometime after 1651 he moved his residence to the parish of St. James Garlickhithe in Vintry ward, which he gave as his residence in a 1657 HCA deposition, when he was 56 years of age.[26]

Richard Batson's hearth tax return for 1662 shows a large residence, with 20 hearths, in the sixth precinct of Vintry ward, and four entry places after Peter Bulteele (6 hearths).[27] Interestingly, a 1657 HCA deposition by Richard Batson states that he and Peter Bulteele were both part-owners of the Dover Merchant. It is also interesting to see an earlier HCA case in 1651, touching the assurers and the assured of the Eagle, which was believed lost at sea en route from Guinea to the Barbados. In this case the name of Humphrey Beane and Company appears to be that of the Assurer, but the names of "Richard Battson" and "Peter Bultteele" are also mentioned (see HCA 13/65 P1170464, P1170465, P1170467)

He was still resident in Saint James Garlickhithe in 1663, when his daughter, Martha, was married in the same parish).[28]


Glass making


It is possible, but unconfirmed, that Richard Batson was involved in glass making in London in the early 1640s.[29]


Virginia connection


Robert Brenner suggests that Richard Bateson (sic) was a major player in the Virginia tobacco trade in the late 1630s and early 1640s, in partnership with Samuell Vassall.[30]


Barbados connection


Richard Batson's trading activities in Barbados in the 1640s and 1650s are well documented in primary (and secondary sources). There are primary sources linking Richard Batson to Barbados dated 1641, 1648, 1652, 1653, 1658, 1661[31].

- Larry Gragg cites evidence of Richard Batson issuing instructions to Humphrey Kent, in 1641, who was on his way to Barbados to act as his agent.[32] XXX Kent referred to a number of Batson family members in his will of XXX, some residing in Barbados.[33]

- "1646 March 2

Planters, &c. of Barbadoes, Petition, concerning the Government of the Island; and for their Tenures to be settled in Common Soccage.

To the Right Honourable the Committee of Lords and Commons for Foreign Plantations.

The humble Petition of the Merchants and Planters adventuring to the Island of Barbadoes, whose Names are subscribed;

Shewing,

"That the Island of Barbadoes, in The West Indies, was either totally, or at least principally, planted and settled by the Petitioners and such as they employed, and at their great Hazards, Costs, and Charges; and being now, by God's Blessing, brought to some Maturity, so that as well this Kingdom may reap some considerable Benefit by the Customs and Trade from thence, and the Petitioners receive some Recompence towards the Charge and Expence by them sustained, if the same be carefully managed, and a right Government settled, and Peace aud Quietness maintained; but, on the contrary, the whole Plantation would in Likelihood perish, if Disorders should there arise, and that the Planters and People there, instead of labouring the Ground, and employing themselves about the Fruits there growing, should be vexed and turmoiled by Suits or Quarrels.

For Prevention thereof, (fn. *) the Petitioners do humbly beseech this Honourable Committee, in respect they understand that there are several Claims made several Ways to the Propriety, Revenue, or Government of the said Island, to be pleased so to look upon the Petitioners and their Charge, as that their Tenure of their Lands may in the First Place be settled in Free and Common Soccage, by such speedy Means as the Wisdom of this Honourable Committee will please to direct; and also to hear the Petitioners to offer their Reasons touching the Manner of the Government, as may best stand with the Quiet of the Place; always submitting themselves to the Order and Direction of this Honourable Committee:

And they shall pray, &c.
"Thomas Andrewes.
Elias Roberts.
Maurice Thomson.
Jeremy Blackman.
Rob't Wilding.
Tho. Peade.
Roger Peele.
George Pasfeild.
James White.
John Rowe.
Thomas Walker.
John Webster.
Nicho. Butler.
Rich'd Lee.
Thomas Walklinge.
Tho. Frere.
Wm. Pennoyer.
Ric'd Batson.
John Worsam.
Michall Davison.
Michaell Spencer.
Stephen Thompson.
James Cooke.
Lawrence Chambers.
Martin Noell.
Tho. Cooke.
John Vincent.
Henry Williamson.
Henry Quintyne."[34]

- Russell Menard records Richard Batson purchasing 40 acres of land in Barbados in 1647 on July 1st of that year.[35]

- "22 November (1648). Customs certificate for shipment by Richard Batson of goods for Barbados in the Hart of London, Mr. Mathew Wynnell. (PRO: E122/226/14)(Peter Wilson Coldham, The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660 (Baltimore, MA, 1987), p. 238)

- "Oct. 3 (1652) Order of the Council of State. For a warrant for Richard Batson to transport 20 draught nags to Barbadoes for the use of his sugar mills there (Interegnum, Entry Bk., vol. LXI., p.71"[36]

- "June 11. (1653) Orders of the Council of State. For a warrant for Martin Noell, Richard Batson, John Manniford, Wm. Chamberlaine, Wm. Draxe, and Sam. Cox, merchants and planters in Barbadoes, to transport thither 30 horses upon the usual terms...." (Interregnum, Entry Bk, Vol. XCVIII., pp. 273-5)"[37]

- "17 December (1660). Declaration by Richard Batson, merchant of London, that he has appointed his nephew Thomas Batson of Barbados, merchant, to confirm a sale made by him on 7 May 1658 thorugh his attornies William Tickell and Nicholas Martin of Barbados, merchants, of 200 acres known as Springf Plantation to Daniel Searle, Governor of Barbados. (MCD 10)" (Peter Wilson Coldham, The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660 (Baltimore, MA, 1987), p. 482)

In Barbados, the Ford, Kent and Batson families appear to have been related by marriage, and to have had commercial linkages.[38]

Francis Ford, in a will dated July 17, 1654, in Barbados, mentioned "John Ford my brother and Humphrey Kent", who were to be executors in Trust. "Mr. Tho. Batson" and "Mr. Henry Batson" together with others, including Humphrey Kent, were to receive "a suit of mourning." The will was proved by "John Foord" on May 2, 1657, "the letters of administration formerly granted to Richard Batson, a creditor".[39]. A Thomas Foorde of Barbados in a surviving probable fragment of his will dated September 28th, 1654, gives to a "Mrs. Batson" and a "Mrs. Mary Batson" 10 lbs per peece for "mourneinge gownes", and gives to "Mathew Batson, Elizabeth Batson and Mary Foord the younger each 5 lbs per peece for diamond rings. "Mr. Thomas Batson" was to receive "i peece of gould for a ring". The first of two witnesses to the will was "Tho. Batson". Administration was granteed on April 7th, 1666 to "Richard Batson, attorney to the executors named."[40]


Whaling connection


In the 1650s he was active in the whaling trade in Greeneland (Spitsbergen) in partnership with the London merchant Humphrey Beane, and in 1656 also with the London woodmonger Gowen Goldegay.


East India connection


There is evidence of Richard Batson trading in the East Indies, and possibly having been a subscriber to English East India Company stock in 1649[41] Batson was part-owner with Simon Turgis of the William, a ship which was freighted by William Courteene in 1643 for a voyage to the Barbary Coast and the East Indies and back to London.

Richard Battson, part-owner of the Little William, to be paid 750/. according to a Chancery decree made in the last Hilary term."[42]

Robert Brenner highlighted the Bateson link with William Courteene

- "Brenner finds direct evidence that by 1641-1642, Thomson and his partners was working with Courteen. For example, Jeremy Blackman was captain of ship William owned by Richard Bateson, Simon Turgis and Thomas Cox - sent out by Courteen. (Brenner, Merchants and Revolution, p. 175.) SOURCED FROM http://www.merchantnetworks.com.au/timelines/timelines0.htm, VIEWED 08/06/13
- NOTE: Merchantnetworks is INCORRECT in stating that Jermey Blackman was master of the William. It was Thomas Cox according to HCA 13/65
- NOTE: Robert Brenner, p. 175 does NOT state that Jeremy Blackman was master of the William when it went out to Barbary and the East Indies, but does state, referring to the years 1641-1642) "In those years Maurice Thomson's long-time partner Jeremy Blackman was serving as the master of the ship William, owned by the colonial merchants Richard Bateson, Simon Turgis, and Thomas Cox (also partners of Thomson's), and sent out by Courteen" (citing HCA 24/108/50/54, and HCA 24/110/117)


Selected Robert Brenner references to Richard Bateson


"PRO, HCA 24/94/155
44.
Partnership:
Richard Bateson
Edward Wood
Richard Cranley
Purpose:
Barbados tobacco and provisioning trade (using ship Diamond owned by Maurcie Thomson)
Year: 1638-1640"[43]


Commercial links and partners


  • Humphrey Kent, Richard Batson's agent in Barbados (1641)
  • Simon Turgis (1643: 165X)
  • Thomas Cox (1643)
  • William Courteene (1643)
  • Samuell Vassall (16XX)
  • Edward Wood (1638-40, & ?)[44]
  • Michaell Davison (Poss. 1649, 1650)
  • Paul Painter (1650)
  • Mr Fenwick (1650)
  • Peter Bulteele (Poss. 1651)
  • Humphrey Beane (165X)
  • Humphrey Beane and Gowen Goldegay, whaling (1656)
  • William Tickell and Nicholas Martin of Barbados, merchants, acted as attorneys for Richard Batson in sale of a plantation on Barbados (1658)
  • Thomas Batson, Richard Batson's nephew, confirmed sale of plantation on Barbados (1658)


  • William Pennoyer (Unclear, Undated as of yet) - Michael Davison was a former servant of William Pennoyer
  • Phillip Perry, Humfrey Farley (with Simon Turgis and Richard Batson) (Date unclear, details unclear)

Shipping connections


  • 1638-1640: Brenner records a partnership of "Richard Bateson, Edward Wood, Richard Cranley" involved in "Barbados tobacco and provisioning trade (using ship Diamond owned by Maurcie Thomson) Year: 1638-1640" (PRO, HCA 24/94/155, cited in Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution (2003), p.189


  • 1640: Edward Wood, Richard Batson and George Minifie freighted the Dove from London to Virginia, of which Robert Gurling of Ipswich, Suffolk, was Master. Tobacco was brought back from Virginia. (1640) [45]


  • 1643: Richard Batson, Thomas Cox and Simon Turgis were part owners of the William, which in 1643 was freighted by William Courteene for the Barbary coast and for the East Indies, but was cast away and lost near Cape of Good Hope (HCA 13/65 P1180115-P1180118)


  • 1648: Mathew Wynell, Master (CHECK) of the Hart of London: Richard Batson shipped goods to Barbados in the Hart (November 1648).[46]


  • 1650: Richard Batson appears to have been involved in an HCA case regarding unpaid wages to the master (Clement Starr) and company of the Constant. Batson may well have been a part-owner of the Constant with fellow merchants Michael Davison, Paul Painter, and Mr. Fenwick. Indeed, Richard Batson may have had a broader commercial relationship with Michael Davison in 1649 and 1650, since Batson and Daviuson's names are adjacent in the list of signatories of a letter to the Governor and committees of the Fourth Joint Stock of the EEIC in 1649.


- "September 10. (1650) Order in the Admiralty Committee that Richard Batson, Michael Davison, Paul Painter, and Mr. Fenwick, merchants, attend tomorrow, concerning a petition against them by the master and company of the Constant. [I. 123, p. 458.]"[47]

- September 11 (1650) Admiralty Committee to the Masters of Trinity House. By an order of the Council of State of the 10th instant, it was referred to us to consider the enclosed petition of Clement Starr and company, of the Constant of London, concerning wages, and to send for the merchants, and if possible, to mediate an agreement between them, when Richard Batson, Mich. Davison, and Paul Painter appeared on the one side, and Clement Starr and the ship's company on the other, and all agreed to leave the matter to you. You are to hear them, determine it according to right and justice, and return us the result. [I. 123, p. 459)[48]

Interestingly, Robert Brenner identified both Bateson (sic) and Davison as "New Merchants". Brenner's researches show Michael Davison in a number of ventures, including a Barbados plantation with William Pennoyer in the 1640s (Brenner, 2003:191), the Guinea-Barbados slave trade in 1646-47, with "William Pennoyer, Robert Thomson, Elias Roberts, Samuel Pennoyer, William Fletcher, Michael Davison, Joseph Terringham, Richard Bateson" (citing HCA 24/108/362) (Brenner, 2003:191), and East Indian interloping and Aassada plantation, with a large number of people, but not mentioning Richard Bateson (Brenner, 2003:193). Brenner states that Michael Davison was a former apprentice of William Pennoyer, and suggests that he may have represented Pennoyer in Barbados from around 1640. Brenner, drawing I believe on Woodhead, states that Davison was the son of a Plumber of London (Brenner, 2003: 163)

Michael Davison appears to have been ca. 36 years of age in 1655, according to a record identified by Peter Wilson Coldham. This would suggest that he was ca. 27 years old when made free of the Clothiers (the date givenm by J.R. Woodhead (1966), citing Beaven, II, p 99, CLO, Fr and Appr records, which is plausible, if a little on the old side.

- 1655 23 January. John Dewye of London, merchant aged 35, and Michael Davison of London, merchant aged 36, depose that Charles Stobart deceased, formerly apprentice to William Pennoyer of London, merchant, assigned a plantation of 60 acres with a house and servants to his master on 20 February 1644...(MCD 6)." (Coldham, 1987: 283)

  • 1651: "Richard Battson" involved in some way with the Eagle, believed lost at sea between Guinea and Barbados. Batson was possibly a freighter. Humphrey Beane and Company appear to have been assurers. Peter Bulteele may also have been a freighter.[49]


  • 1654: Part-owner of the Little William (1654)


- "Richard Battson, part-owner of the Little William, to be paid 750/. according to a Chancery decree made in the last Hilary term."[50]

- "A messenger comes from the Commissioners of Bankruptcy with a decree of Chancery under the broad seal, ordering the Company to pay 4.547l for the golds and guns received at the Coast belonging to Mr. Courteen, but out of this Mr. Bateson is to be paid 750l. and teh Company 214l. 9ss. 5d. for money disbursed for Mr. Courteen's account, so that the sum to be paid the Commissioners is 3,582l. 10s. 7d.; Mr. Acton desiring that the payment be stayed until it is known what Mr. Kenniston is going to do, the messenger is told that he shall receive an answer at the end of term.""[51]

  • 1656: Part-owner of the Owners Adventure (1656) CHECK


  • Part-owner of the Dover Merchant with Peter Bulteele, London merchant (1657)[52]


" Undated: "Shertril on behalfe of Symon Turgis, Phillip Perry, Richard Batson, and Humfrey Farley assured of the late ship America (NO DATE VISIBLE)[53]
- Linked reference to "HCA 13/115 1 June 1640 Personal Answer of Joseph SAUNDERS to the libel of Simon TURGIS, Humfrey FARLEY & Company." (Currer-Briggs, 1969: 546)
- A separate secondary source suggests that Simon Turgis and Humfrey Farley were commercially active from a London base, and were also associated with William Claiborne in the Kent Island venture in the 1630s ("He (can't see who in snippet was closely associated with Simon Turgis and Humfrey Farley, two merchants of London who were also business associates of William Claiborne in the Kent Island venture of the 1630s." (The Callaway Journal, 1979, vol. 4, p.57)
- Brenner (2003, p.183, notes) lists Humfry Farley as a New Merchant 2 (defined as a trader of 10,000 + lb of tobacco in 1627-8, 1630, 1633, 1634, or 1640, as recorded in London Port Books for Imports). Brenner (2003, p.183, notes) records Simon Turgis as a New merchant 1 (defined as a member of an American colonial partnership through 1640, derived from Brenner's own data displayed in table 4.2). Richard Bateson is identified as both a New Mwerchant 1 and 2 by Brenner, using this methodology.
- Ship appears to have visited Bermudas, Antigua and Virginia
- One respondent believed that Richard Orchard was the master of the America
- Lists interrogatories in Court (presumably HCA). One respondent believed that the America was worth at that time 40 pounds a month sterling to be let for freight
- The Turgis/Batson connection is interesting in the light of new HCA evidence (HCA 13/65) that Simon Turgis and Richard Batson were part-owners of the William, which was freighted by William Courteene in 1643 for a voyage to the Barbary Coast and the East Indies and back to London
- Andrewes (1991: 57) identifies a commercial relationship between Maurice Thompson and Simon Turgis, describing Turgis as "tobacco-trader and part owner of ships", observing that the two men each took a one third share in a joint stock to settle Kent Island off the Virginia coast together with the other shareholders, who were William Cloberry, William Cleborne and John Delabarr.[54]
- See also 'Turgis' in The Visitation of London: Anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635 (XXXX, XXXX), pp. 300-X. Apparently Simon Turgis, Samuel Vassall, William Clobery and William Pennoyer were "all of Hugenott stock" (Noel Currer-Briggs, Royston Gambier, Huguenot Ancestry (XXXX, 2010), p.59)


Background on Michael Davison


"DAVISON, Michael

Ald Farringdon Without, 20-26 Aug 1666, disch, F £520 (1) St Olave Hart Street, 1664, ? the 'Wheatsheaf', Paternoster Row, 1676, Highgate, Middx, 1676 (2) CLO, fr, 1646, by William Pennoyer, M, 1669 (3) d Jun-Jul 1676, bur St Benet Sherehog (4) Will PCC 89 Bence pr, 10 Jul 1676 mar (A) 1644, at St Nicholas Coleabbey, Mary Dunmar, (B) Judith, da of Daniel Shetterden of Eltham, Kent (5) Merchant Comm EIC, 1663-4, 1666-76 (6) Personalty, Apr 1677, £8,462 EIC stock (7) City property, land Middx (8) ? Nonconformist (8) Broin-law Charles HILLYARD and Geoffrey THOMAS (9)

(1) Beaven, I, p 163 (2) Boyd 24933, CSB, IV, 67, PCC, PAB, 1676 (3) Beaven, II, p 99, CLO, Fr and Appr records (4) Will, Boyd 24933 (5) Boyd 24933, CSB, IV, 67, will of Geoffrey THOMAS, will of John Saunders PCC 130 Laud, 1662 (6) Will of John Saunders, Beaven, II, p 99 (7) CSB, IV, 67, Cal Min EIC, 1660-3, 1664-7 (8) Will (9) Will of Charles HILLYARD, will"[55]


New Merchant?


Robert Brenner identifies "Richard Bateson" as a "new merchant" and a trading partner of Maurice Thompson: "In his more prosaic trading ventures with Virginia and the West Indies, Vassall often worked in partnership with a number of leading colonial traders who were also working with the Thomson connection. Two of these, Richard Bateson and Edward Wood, were, as noted, Thomson's privateering partners"[56]


Municipal activity


J.R. Woodhead records Richard Batson as a Common Councilman for Vintry Ward in 1664, and footnotes a Richard Batson, Common Councilman, Billingsgate ward, 1654. He gives as his source for the Billingsgate data "VBk, St Botolph Billingsgate, 1654)"[57]


Richard Batson and Company: involved with William Courteene, 1643


HCA 13/65 PXXXX, XXX

  • During the months of September to March 1642/42) and for some time afterwards the owners of the shipp the William were "the arlate Simon Turgis and Thomas Cox (since deceased) or their administrators or assignes and the arlate Richard Batson"; Thomas Cox was the Master of the William; in the month of September 1642 "the said Simon Turgis and Thomas Cox did let the said shipp to freight to William Courteene Esquire who tooke her to fraight from her part owners for a voyage to be therewith made from this port of London to Saphee, Santa Cruse and MXXX on the coast of Barbary...and thence to goe to the East Indies" and to return to London; deponengt was on the voyage and attests that he heard on the voyage both Mr Cox and the Cape Merchant appoinmted by Mr Courteene that Courteene would pay freight of 150 pounds per month; vessell left Gravesend at the beginning of November 1642 and safely arrived at Saphee on the ocast of Barbary on November 16th 1642, traded from port to port on the Coast of Barbary from then untill April 1643; set sail from Santa Cruse in Barbary on April 14th 1643 bound for the East Indies; carried several large baggs of Barbary gold worth 4500 pounds sterling (HCA 13/65 P1180115)


  • The ship was cast away in the night of June 19th 1643 in fowle weather "to the Eastwards of Cape da Bonne Esperanza" and the ship was utterly lost; Cox and Crew escaped in long boat, and took the Barbary gold with them; also saved a couple of brass cannon, "the said Cox and Companie not being able to subsist in the place where they were soe cast away, put themselves to sea in their boate and with extraordinarie danger and hardshipp sailed and went therewith many hundred leagues by sea, and at last by the mercie of God they came and arived in safetie with the said gold and two brasse gunnes in Saint Augustine in the Island of saint Laurence, a place inhabited by the heathens, and there remained from about the fifth of August 1643 (the time of their arivall there) till about the middle of May then next following, during which space they endured greate misery and hardship and were constrained for their livelihood to serve and fight for one partie of the said heathen against the other whom they were in hostilitie during which space twelve of the said shipps company there died and the rest were all sick whereof this deponent was one, and they were all in danger of perishing through the unwholesomness of the foode they gott to eate." The ship the Endeavour, in the service of the East India Company, arrived in the Bay, in which they got passage for themselves and for the said golds and guns to the fort of Saint George upon the Coast of Coromandell, where they arrived towards the end of June 1644; the gold was put in to the custody of Captaine Bowen, commander of the Endeavour, who gave it to ffrancis day, the agent of the EEIC (HCA 13/65 P1180116)


  • The most part of the crew of the William died by the hardship, the rest took passage from Fort Saint George to Bantam and thence to England, including the deponent; the William was of the burthen of 150 tonnes and carried ?10 gunns; had a crew of "27 men and two boys" on the said voyage and was victualled and furnished on her going out for 22 months; deponent was a Common man on the said ship (HCA 13/65 P1180117)


  • Goods carried out from England to Barbary were "iron, steele Linnen cloth, woollen cloth, and other goods, which wer landed and trucked away in Barbary saving about six small barrells of ?steele which were lost"; "To the third hee saith hee did not ??heare Mr Batson and company or any of them named upon the delivery up of the said gold to mr Day"; "hee hath received satisfaction of the Owners for his wages for the time that the said shipp ?reigned, which hee receaved from Mr Batson, and saith hee knoweth not whether by lawe there are any wages due to him for the time after the casting away of the said shipp" (HCA 13/65 P1180118)


  • The records of the EEIC confirm that the ship the Endeavour was disptached by the EEIC in 1642 for the Coromandel Coast:


"In counting the vessels dispatched during this season by the East India Company, we ought also to reckon the Endeavour, which had started for the Coromandel Coast at the end of November, 1643. All these ships were sent out on behalf of the Fourth Joint Stock."[58]

  • Discussion of William Courteene's claim on his Barbary gold also appear in the EEIC minutes:


- "George Jackson, a servant of Mr. Courteene, presents a letter he has received from his master, desiring him to move the Company concerning 9,000 ducats of Barbary gold and two brass guns, which were saved from the wreck of Courteen's ship, the William and with the master [Mr. Cox], a merchant [Mr. Hills], and others were taken on board the Company's ship the Endeavour; he desires that the gold and guns may be delivered to the first of his ships which shall arrive on the Coast. Mr. Day is called into court, and the papers which passed between the Company's factors and Messrs. Cox and Hills are read ; by these it appears that both parties agreed that the gold should be paid in England. Jackson is told that money was lent to Cox and Hills, and that they and others were provided with food and clothing; and that, when Courteen shall make a just demand for the value of the said gold and guns, with an account of what is due to the Company for money, diet, and clothing, the balance shall be paid here."[59]

  • "Samuel Gott presents a deed signed and sealed by William Courteene in 1643, showing that the latter had made over to him and to Peter Farneden all goods whatsoever laden or to be laden in the Bone Esperanze, the Planter, the William and the Little William empowering them to seize the said lading, or any part of it, when and where they could find it, in satisfaction of 810/., with the interest accruing, owing to them. Of this sum Gott has already received 400/., and, hearing that the Company's factors have in their possession some gold belonging to Courteene saved from the wreck of the Little William, he demands payment from the Company of what remains due to him. He is told that he must obtain some legal restraint to prevent the Company paying the money away, and the Court advises him to confer with their solicitor. Cordage to be examined at Blackwall. John Thomas, an old servant of the Company, is appointed porter at Blackwall. The Lady Katherine [Courteen], Maurice Thomson, and Mr. Harris come into court and the Lady Katherine presents a note signed by Messrs. Hales and Newdigate, in which they state their opinion that the money may be paid to Mr. Courteene. Thomson declares that by advices received from India it appears that, if the gold is paid there, it will enable Courteen's ships to be laden home ; therefore he entreats that this may be done. By request he and the others withdraw to the parlour, and the Court after serious debate resolves that counsel has been mistaken and that nothing must be paid until they have consulted again ; to enable them to understand this business more fully, the Secretary is directed to draw up a detailed account of it, and Acton is desired to arrange for Messrs. Hales and Heme to meet Mr. Newdigate to consult together again as soon as possible, and on hearing their further opinion the Court will act on it. The Governor and Mr. Ashwell promise to meet with them. This resolution is told to the Lady Katherine and her companions."[60]


" "Francis Day, who is summoned to London to answer a bill exhibited against him and others of the Company by Richard Bateson touching Mr. Courteene's gold, is desired to wait on Mr. Acton and give in his answer to the best of his knowledge, and his charges shall be paid."[61]


Batson sources


Genealogical

  • "Richard Batson of Saint Dunstan in the East[62]


- Wife: Sarah (no maiden name given)



	1. Anne Batson,   c. 24 Aug 1628, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England  d. Yes, date unknown
	2. Sarah Batson,   c. 1 Jan 1628/29, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England   d. Yes, date unknown
	3. Richard Batson,   c. 30 Dec 1631, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England   bur. 8 Jan 1630/31
	4. Mary Batson,   c. 17 Feb 1631/32, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England   d. Yes, date unknown
	5. Rebecca Batson,   c. 14 Feb 1633/34, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England  bur. 16 Feb 1633/34
	6. Richard Batson,   c. 10 Apr 1636, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England d. Yes, date unknown
	7. William Batson,   c. 14 Feb 1637/38, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England  bur. 19 Jan 1639/40
	8. Martha Batson,   c. 8 Jan 1640/41, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England  d. Yes, date unknown
	9. Thomas Batson,   c. 7 Jul 1643, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England bur. 17 Aug 1643
	10. Elizabeth Batson,   c. 27 Feb 1636/37, St. Dunstan in the East, London, Middlesex, England  d. Yes, date unknown"


PROB

  • PROB 11/329/511 Will of Henry Batson, Merchant of London 13 May 1669


Wiltshire and Swindon History centre

- BODENHAM and BATSON of Hilldrop, Ramsbury. Deeds 1614-1828. (2934)[63]

Saint James Garlickhithe, Vintry Ward

  • "MARRIAGE: Martha Batson to John Bendish (later Sir John Bendish, baronet), draper, 30 June 1663, marriage license Bishop of London, at St. James, Garlickhythe, London, Middlesex (sic)[64]


"Case: A busines of exámination of Witnesses on the behalfe of Roger Phillips against one two and thirtieth part of the dover Marchant and against Peter Bultele.; Deposition: Richard Batson of the parish of Saint James Garlick hithe, London, Merchant, aged 56 yeeres: Date: 12/06/1657)

"17. The same day. CENTRE HEADING
18. Exámined upon the foresaid allegation.
19. Rp. 2.
20. Richard Batson in the parish of Saint James Garlick hithe
21. London Merchant, aged 56 yeeres or thereabouts sworne and exámined.
22. To the first and second árticles 56 yeeres or thereabouts sworne
23. and exámined."[65]


  • The church of Saint James Garlickhithe lies near Garlick Hill, just to the north of the modern Upper Thames Street and a little to the north of the Vintry Hall. It is relatively close to the Thames


" "The Parish Registers of St James Garlickhythe are the oldest in England....The full name of the present parish is: St James garlickhythe with St Michael Queenhithe and Holy Trinity-the-Less. However, Holy Trinity-the-Less, whilst rebuilt in 1673 as the first Lutheran Church in London, was later destroyed and St Michael Queenhithe was pulled down in 1894. In the redrawing of parish Boundaries in 1954 four more ancient Parishes were acquired. Of the seven churches originally in the parish, only St James Garlickhythe and St Michael Paternoster Royal exist today....The ancient registers and other City records can be seen in the Guildhall Library." (http://stjamesgarlickhythe.org/parish, viewed 04/03/13)

  • " Records of the parish of Saint James, Garlickhithe (or Garlickhythe), Garlick Hill, City of London. The archive includes an arbitration in a dispute involving the parish of St. James Garlickhithe dated 1436, but the main archive dates from the 16th century with parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials, banns, confirmations, preachers) surviving from 1535; churchwardens' accounts from 1555 and vestry minutes from 1615. The bulk of the archive is 17th century or later, including poor rate and tithe rate assessments; and papers relating to parish charities and estates (properties).Also records of St James' Guild: the records comprise: minute book, 1910-14 (Ms 10795), and ledger 1907-12 (Ms 10796)." (AIM 25: http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=15317&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2=, viewed 04/03/13)


" ST. JAMES GARLICKHITHE. 1638 Inhabitants List (no sign of Richard batson or variants)
(http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32015, viewed 04/03713)

" Parish boundaries of St James Garlickhithe (from Family Search Research Wiki) (https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/File:St_James_Garlickhithe.png, viewed 04/03/13)

St James GarlickhitheFamily Search Map CSG DL 040313.png

A2A

  • "21 July 1641 -- Petition of Sir Robert Mansell, Vice-Admiral of England: notwithstanding the order of the 13th of May last, confirming to petitioner the sole right of making glass, Richard Batson and others have in contempt imported great quantities of glasses." (Parliamentary Archives: Main Papers HL/PO/JO/10/1/67 17 Jul 1641 - 26 Jul 1641)


Trade Tokens

Wiltshire Heritage Museum - Numismatics
DZSWS:2003.1.139
Token / farthing
trade token, issued by Richard Batson, Highworth, Wiltshire, 1649-1672, Williamson Wilts 85
No image available

Wiltshire Heritage Museum - Numismatics
DZSWS:2003.1.140
Token / farthing
trade token, issued by Richard Batson, Highworth, Wiltshire, 1649-1672, Williamson Wilts 85
No image available

(SOURCE: http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/museums/index.asp?page=results&mwsquery=%28{Phrase%20search}=*{token}%29&mwsquery=%28{Place2}=*{Highworth}%29&filename=WiltshireTreasures&hitsStart=1, viewed 20/04/13)

Secondary

  • "1641 William Chamberlain of London, merchant v. Samuell Vassall re partnership formed in 1637 between defendant, Richard Battison, Edward Wood, and George Menifie, of London, merchants, to freight the Dove to Virginia and to return with tobacco (C2/Chas.I/C90/28) (National Genealogical Society Quarterly, vol. 72 (XXXX, 1984), p. 202)


CHECK FOR CONNECTIONS:

PROB 11/316/323 Will of John Vassall, Merchant of London. 30 March 1665
PROB 5/1625 VASSALL, Henry, of London, merchant [Administration act: PROB 6/42]. 1667
C 9/229/90 Vasall v. Vasall. 1665

NOTE: "(Edward Kingswell of London, Esquior. Will 30 January 1635-6; proved 6 April 1636.)...The results of a suit depending before the Lords Commissioners for Plantations in my name against Samuell Vassall, merchant, and Peter Andrewes (his brother in lawe)..." (The Virginia magazine of history and biography (Volume yr.1907-1908), p.297)(http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/virginia-historical-society/the-virginia-magazine-of-history-and-biography-volume-yr1907-1908-gri/page-27-the-virginia-magazine-of-history-and-biography-volume-yr1907-1908-gri.shtml, viewed 22/04713)

  • Secondary sources show that Samuell Vassall was still alive in 1660


" "Amonst the individuals (promoting New England), the Vassall family are of particular interest. The brothers Samuel (1586-1667) and William (1593-c.1655- were founder members of the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1629; collectively the brothers held a stake of 18.3 per cent in this venture. William Vassall resided in New England during the yeares 1628-30 and 1635-43, whereas samuel spent most of his career as a London merchant (though hee too is thought to have settled in massachusetts towards the end of his life).//

The Vassalls were active in nearly all aspects of English Atlantic colonization during the first half of the seventeenth century. Samuel Vassall (a London alderman and one of the City's four members of parliament in 1640 and 1641) launched his career as a Leveant Company merchant. Yet by the later 1620s he had formed partnerships to supply provisions to Virginia and Barbados, becoming in the process one of the leading London importers of Chesapeake tobacco...In 1664, brother William's son John (1625-88) formed a Barbados-based consortium and made a second attempt to settele the areas around Cape Fear (South Carolina), this time in partnership with his cousin Henry Vassall...

...Slavery formed an integral part of the Vassalls colonial operations...

...involvement of the Vassall family in Barbadian affairs dates from around 1648, when William is known to have settled on the island...At the time of his death (c.1655-7), William was owner of a plantation in St Michael, as well as substantial New England property.

...the dynasty was established in England by John Vassall (1544-1625), a Hugenot mariner and refugee from Normandy. Gentry pretensions arose early, however, in the family's English history. John Vassall was granted a coat of arms by Elizabeth I for his role in the defeat of the Armada...despite their involvement with miltant Puritans, the Vssalls were not religious radicals. In New England, William Vassall opposed strict Calvinism and was among the merchants of the colony to petition for a widening of church membership and the civil franchise during the early 1640s. Successive generations of Vassalls, however, retained a commitment to Protestant orthodoxy..."

(S. D. Smith, Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834, pp. 22-25)

  • "VASSALL.


Mr. William Vassall, the father of Mrs. Resolved White and Mrs. James Adams, was probably the most wealthy of the Plymouth colonists. He came to New England with Gov. Winthrop, 1630, and returned the same summer. In June, 1635, he reembarked for New England in the ship Blessing, Joseph Lecester, master, accompanied by his wife Ann, and his children, Judith, Frances, John, Ann and Mary, ranging from one to sixteen years of age.

"The Vassalls were of Italian origin. They came to London in the reign of James and Charles the First, and possessed great wealth and influence in that city." They also held immense estates in New England and the West Indies.

William Vassall had lands both in Marshfield and Scituate. He settled near the banks of North River, on the Scituate side thereof. He denominated his plantation "West Newland," his house, erected 1635, "Belie House," the whole neck of land, "Belle House Neck," and a field on the north side of the neck, "Brook Hall Field." In 1646 Mr. Vassall returned to England, went from thence to Barbadoes, where he deceased, 1655, aged 62.

The families of this name early in Massachusetts Colony were descended from Samuel, the brother of William Vassall, who was a merchant of London. A monument to the memory of Samuel Vassall was erected in King's Chapel, Boston, 1766, by his great-grandson, Florentius Vassall of Jamaica. The town of Vassalborough, Me., was named in honor of the Vassall family, and was included with other towns in an early grant to the same."[66]

- CONSIDER LOOKING AT:

-- PROB 11/316/323 Will of John Vassall, Merchant of London. 30 March 1665
-- E 163/19/25Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Miscellanea of the Exchequer. Copies of depositions, etc, in suits (with original covenant of partnership, dated 1647): 1 Vassall v Jackett 2 Vassall v Allen 3 Hickman v Jackett relating to misdemeanours at sea. 1650

  • "22 November (1648). Customs certificate for shipment by Richard Batson of goods for Barbados in the Hart of London, Mr. Mathew Wynnell. (PRO: E122/226/14)(Peter Wilson Coldham, The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660 (Baltimore, MA, 1987), p. 238)




  • "Richard Battson, part-owner of the Little William, to be paid 750/. according to a Chancery decree made in the last Hilary term." (A Court of Committees, March 8, 1654 [Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 346) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes of the East India company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p.303 (http://archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00sainuoft#page/302/mode/2up, viewed 20/04/13)


  • "14 December (1660). John Langston of london, silkman aged 30, deposes that on 30 July 1650 Abraham Robinson of Rochester, Kent, gent, signed a financial obligation to Thomas Plamplin of London, merchant tailor,. Henry Batson of Barbados, merchant, appointed merchant. (MCD 10)" (Peter Wilson Coldham, The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660 (Baltimore, MA, 1987), p. 482)


  • "14 December (1660). John Cooke, citizen and fishmonger of London aged 60, deposes that on 2 November 1652 Thomas Applethwaite of London, merchant, signed a financial obligation to him. Thomas and Henry Batson of Barbados, merchants, appointed attornies. (MCSD 10)" (Peter Wilson Coldham, The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660 (Baltimore, MA, 1987), p. 482)


  • "17 December (1660). Declaration by Richard Batson, merchant of London, that he has appointed his nephew Thomas Batson of Barbados, merchant, to confirm a sale made by him on 7 May 1658 thorugh his attornies William Tickell and Nicholas Martin of Barbados, merchants, of 200 acres known as Springf Plantation to Daniel Searle, Governor of Barbados. (MCD 10)" (Peter Wilson Coldham, The complete book of emigrants, 1607-1660 (Baltimore, MA, 1987), p. 482)


  • "12 May 1660. Robert Wynn of London, merchant aged 22, deposes that on 23 September 1657 his then master John White of London, merchant, became a creditor of Robert Hooper of London, merchant, and their bond went to Daniel Farvacks of London, merchant, as bailee. Thomas Seaman of London, gent aged 60, deposes that on 12 November 1658 Farvacks, at the request of Robert Hooper who now resides in Barbados, became his bailee in an action brought by John White. Thomas Mayhew, citizen and grocer of London aged 66, deposes that Robert Hooper, Daniel Farvacks and Richard Batson of London, merchants, signed a financial obligation to George Wilmer Esq of Stratford le Bow,Middlesex, on 30 October 1658. John Farvacks aged 26, and Daniel Farvacks aged 56, both merchants of London, depose similarly. Mr. John Lear and Mr.Gregory Mathews of Barbados, merchants, appointed attornies. (MCD 10)."Emigrants in Bondage: [Many Mays & other variations such as Mathews,

Matthews, Mattison, etc. omitted]" (http://genealogyforme.blogspot.co.uk/)

  • "March 1st 1661: 39. Petition of Planters of Barbadoes inhabiting in and about London, to the King.—Whilst petitioners were endeavouring to lay before His Majesty some disadvantages that arose in Barbadoes by the Patent of the Earl of Carlisle, and praying either for no change of Governor or a disinterested person to be appointed, and were addressing certain proposals to the Lord Treasurer, letters from His Majesty were procured which have removed the Governor and given countenance to some settlement intended by Lord Willoughby, which tends much to the grief of petitioners and many of the ablest planters. Having stated to the Lords Chancellor and Treasurer the illegality of the Earl of Carlisle's Patent, and the advantage to His Majesty in sovereignty and revenue, in case the Planters have an immediate dependence on His Majesty, petitioners pray that fresh letters may be sent to Barbadoes, intimating His Majesty's resolution of taking the Plantations in America, and particularly Barbadoes, into a more immediate dependence on the Crown ; what the Crown will do for them ; and what it expects from them. Petitioners are confident that if no such despatch speedily be made the present power may be so made use of as many of the best planters may be forced to withdraw. Signed by Peter Lear, And. Riccard, Richard Batson, Jno. Colleton, Wm. Williams, Thos. Middleton, Martin Noell, Tobias Frere, Thomas Kendall, John Roberts, Will. Chamberlaine, Jona. Andrewes, & Thos. Parris. Indorsed : Read in Council, Mar. 1, 1660-1. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XV., No. 25.]"[67]


  • "The Batson Charity" SEE: House of Commons, Further report of the Commissioners for inquiring concerning charities(London, 1835), pp.1280-1281. Wiltshire

- refers to gifts by Richard Batson, Henry Batson and Thomas Batson

  • "Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Eng. hist. b. 122, exports of Henry Batson and Thomas Batson from Barbados, 1664" (identified in FN 60, p. 26 of S. D. Smith, Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 (Cambridge, 2996) (AVAILABLE AS GOOGLE E-BOOK)


  • "HIGHWORTH. 58. O. RICH. BATSON. HIGHWORTH = R.B.

R. EDWARD . FORDER = E.F."
(William Boyne, 'Wiltshire Tradesman's Tokens' in Rg Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine, vol. VI (Devizes & London, 1860), p. 84, https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=FAcVAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA84, viewed 16/02/13)

- Note that separately the Batson charity source above suggests a link between the Batson family and Highworth of Wiltshire

- Note that a member of the Yorkshire/Barbados linked Lascelles family had connections with the batson family of Highworth Wiltshire in the mid-C18th. George Lascelles (d. 1728/29) had as his third child Elizabeth Lascelles, who married Edmund Davis of Highworth and Ramsbury, Wiltshire, who "took the name Batson". "He died December 1st, 1770, and was buried at Highworth." (Egerton Brydges, Collin's Peerage of England, vol. VIII )London, 1812), p.511, https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=jj0JAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA511, viewed 16/02/13)

- "HIGHWORTH, a parish in the hundred of HIGHWORTH, CRICKLADE, and STAPLE, county of WILTS, comprising the maket town of Highworth, the chapelries of Broad Blundsdon, South Marston, and Sevenhampton, and the tythings of Freedon, and Eastrop with Westrop, and containing 3005 inhabitants... (the town is) 48 miles (N. by E.) from Salisbury, and 77 (W. by N.) from London." (Samuel Lewis, A topographical dictionary of England, vol. II (London, 1831), p.393),

  • "THOMAS BATSON of pr. Steteheath als. Stepney, 23 Oct. 1700. to be burd. Highworth chyd. Estate in Barbados. Cousin Rochard Batson. Richard Guy, a legacy given the tes'or by will of Edward Pye. Sister Harris. Nieces Sibill Greenhill, Marian Burroughs, Anne Church. Lady Bendyshe wife of Sir John Bendyshe Bt. Kinsman Richard Batson son of the late uncle Thos: Batson Mortgage at Shadwell Docks assigned to tes'or..NO MORE VISIBLE IN GOOGLE SNIPPET." (The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, vols. 11-12, (XXXX, 1943) p.199)


  • "On the tomb near the S. Porch.

Here lyeth the Body of Thomas Batson, late of Stepney, in the County of Middlesex, Esq. who departed this life the 28th day of April, BLANK IN ORIGINAL. Aged 6?9 years. And within the Church, near this Place, lyeth his Father and Mother, and several of his near Relations. Interred 26th of the same month, 1701" (The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, vol. 53 (XXXX, 2000), p.65)

Possible links to English East India Company

  • "A letter addressed to the Governor and Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock is presented, * being the desires of divers of the adventurers in the Voyage.' It suggests that all the goods now come from Bantam in the William, Dolphin, and Advice ought to be for the account of the Second General Voyage, these ships being freighted and imprest money paid to them by the said Voyage and the Governor having often been heard to say in court ('although this be not booked downe ') that ' wee might not expect to have our shipps come home full fraight, but that the Joynt Stock had a good quantity of pepper and other goods ready at Bantam and other adjacent parts, which should be laden for accompt of the said Voyage, they allowing interest to the Stock for the time they should be out of purse of their moneys in providing the said goods. If it had been expected otherwise, the Stock would no doubt have provided its own shipping and not laid the burden upon the Voyage. Yet wishing to comply with the desires of the Stock rather than to create a difference, the subscribers will waive the undoubted right of the Voyage to the said goods, provided that a like quantity of goods may be laden for account of the Voyage in the Endymion and Anne this ensuing year, which cannot in justice be denied, since letters from the factors report that they go on buying goods for account of the Voyage ready to lade on the ships. It is further proposed that no advantage should be taken of the order for turning over the remains of the Voyage to the Joint Stock at pounds s. 6d. the rial, and that it be understood that, when the Ruth, Endymion, and Anne are laden, what remains, if it does not exceed 10,000 or 12,000 rials, may be transferred to the account of the Stock, 'for that we desire to putt a period to the Voyage. (SEE FOOTNOTE BELOW)'


Footnote: The following names are appended: John Robinson, Nicholas Corsellis, William Pennoyer, Thomas Hall, Robert Thompson, Samuel Pennoyer, William Harris, Richard Batson, Michael Davison, William Thomson, John Woods, Martin Noell, Cornelius Mounteney, James Houbolon, John Casier, Adam Laurence, Hugh Norris, William Boene, Thomas Harris, and Ahasuerus Regemont."

SOURCE: (A Meeting of the Committees for the Second General Voyage, August 17, 1649 (Court Book vol. xxii, p. 97). (Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A calendar of the court minutes, etc. of the East India company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), pp. 342-343)http://archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00eastrich#page/342/mode/2up, viewed 19/04/13

Chancery

  • C 5/425/103 Short title: Jordain v Batson. Plaintiffs: Elias Jordain and others. Defendants: Richard Batson and others. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill. 1651


  • C 2/ChasI/B107/28 Short title: Batson v Godfrey. Plaintiff: Batson. Defendant: Godfrey. Document type: Replication, rejoinder. 01 January 1625 - 31 December 1660


  • C 5/397/71 Short title: Hewett v Batson. Plaintiffs: Ralph Hewett. Defendants: Richard Batson. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: answer. 1658
  • C 5/427/10 Short title: Lloyd v Batson. Plaintiffs: Charles Lloyd. Defendants: Richard Batson. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: answer. 1652


  • C 6/136/169 Watkins v Merchants of London. Plaintiffs: Mary Watkins widow. Defendants: Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies [East India Company] and Richard Batson. Subject: money matters, London, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. SFP. 1657.

- SEE ALSO: C 10/57/150 East India Co. v. Batson 1650

  • C 6/140/90 Short title: Mackleir v Batson. Plaintiffs: Sir John Mackleir kt. Defendants: Richard Batson and William Chamberlayne . Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, two answers. 1656
  • C 6/140/88 Short title: Mackleir v Batson. Plaintiffs: Sir John Mackleir kt. Defendants: Richard Batson and William Chamberlayne . Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer, inventory. 1657
  • C 3/433/118 Short title: Batson v Beaumont. Plaintiffs: Richard Batson . Defendants: Joseph Beaumont and another. Subject: money matters in Middlesex . Document type: [pleadings].01 January 1642 - 31 December 1660
  • C 6/163/3 Short title: Batson v Bendish. Plaintiffs: Richard Batson. Defendants: Sir Thomas Bendish baronet and John Bendish. Subject: property in Haverhill, and Helions Bumpstead, Essex. Document type: bill, answer. 1663.


  • Short title: Batson v Ayre. Plaintiffs: Richard Batson and Dorothy Batson his wife. Defendants: Balthazar Ayre and others. Subject: money matters, Devon. Document type: bill, answer. 1656

- SEE ALSO: C 22/329/1 Bateson v. Ayre. v

  • C 6/114/33 Short title: Davies v Cheyney. Plaintiffs: Edward Davies . Defendants: Thomas Cheyney , Edward Arlibeare and Richard Batson . Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1651

- WORTH CHECKING THIS DOCUMENT. I THINK ARLIBEARE WAS A MAST BROKER

  • C 10/13/142 Peter Thelwall v Richard Batson: money matters 1651
  • C 10/48/9 Batson v. Phillipps 1657
  • C 10/57/150 East India Co. v. Batson 1650

- WORTH CHECKING THIS DOCUMENT.
- SEE POSSIBLY "Richard Battson, part-owner of the Little William, to be paid 750/. according to a Chancery decree made in the last Hilary term." (A Court of Committees, March 8, 1654 [Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 346) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes of the East India company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p.303 ([WWW]http://archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00sainuoft#page/302/mode/2up, viewed 20/04/13)

  • C 10/61/147 Hewet, Symons v. Batson: Middx 1660

- SEE: C 5/397/71 Short title: Hewett v Batson. Plaintiffs: Ralph Hewett. Defendants: Richard Batson. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: answer. 1658

  • C 22/764/9 Bateson v. Hodgkins. 1661-1662


  • C 6/41/60 Short title: Bateson v Hodgekins. Plaintiffs: William Bateson. Defendants: Nicholas Hodgekins. Subject: manor of Moreton in Marsh, and property in Bourton-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire. Document type: answer only. . 1658
  • C 10/92/93 Nevill v. Lenthall, Bateson and Ayliffe: Middx. 1660


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Short title: Batson v Waters. Plaintiffs: Sibyl Batson widow. Defendants: John Waters and William Street ...


Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Collins. Short title: Batson v Waters. Plaintiffs: Sibyl Batson widow. Defendants: John Waters and William Street . Subject: messuage in the High Street, Highworth, Wiltshire. Document type: bill, answer. 

   Collection: Records created, acquired, and inherited by Chancery, and also of the Wardrobe, Royal Household, Exchequer and various commissions
   Date range: 01 January 1669 - 31 December 1669
   Reference:C 6/55/33
   Subjects:Litigation


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Reference:
E 115/17/106
Description:

Certificate of residence showing William Bateson to be liable for taxation in Gloucestershire, and not in the hundred of [Highworth, etc.], [Wiltshire], the previous area of tax liability.

(Any information not given in this certificate comes from its old pouch, no 296.)

Date: 16 Charles I
Date:
1641
Held by:
The National Archives, Kew

Court of Delegates

  • DEL 2/7 Batson v. Walker (Registrar of the High Court of Delegates and of the High Court of Admiralty: Cause and Miscellaneous Papers. ) 1666


--LOOK AT THIS DOCUMENT URGENTLY

Miscellaneous to follow up on

  • "...Davison, Joseph Terringham and Richard Bateson, 1646-47, HCA 24/108/362" (as a footnote in Jeremy Black (ed), The Atlantic slave trade: Seventeenth century (Ashgate, 2003), p.226

--NOTE: brenner identifies Joseph Terringham as an apprentice of William Pennoyer in the 1645-47 period (Brenner, 2003:165)

  • Brenner identifies Richard "Bateson" as a new merchant and a trading partner of Maurice Thompson: ""In his more prosaic trading ventures with Virginia and the West Indies, Vassall often worked in partnership with a number of leading colonial traders who were also working with the Thomson connection. Two of these, Richard Bateson and Edward Wood, were, as noted, Thomson's privateering partners" (Brenner, 2003: 136). In Brenner's earlier comments on bateson he states: ""bateson was from an obscure Wiltshire family. But by 1640, he had established himself among the significant traders with America, importing in that year 15,000 pounds of Virginia tobacco. Well before the, Bateson had helped his career by establishing a partnership with Samuel Vassall, one of the greatest figures in the colonial trades during the pre-civil war period" (Brenner, 2003, p.135)


  • HEARTH TAX: The Hamlett of Shadwell in the Parish of Stepney./ Upper Shadwell Northside./ Cutthroate Lane

- Tho: Battson 5 HEARTHS (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119171&strquery=battson)

  • "September 10. (1650) Order in the Admiralty Committee that Richard Batson, Michael Davison, Paul Painter, and Mr. Fenwick, merchants, attend tomorrow, concerning a petition against them by the master and company of the Constant. [I. 123, p. 458.]"[68]


"September 11 (1650) Admiralty Committee to the Masters of Trinity House. By an order of the Council of State of the 10th instant, it was referred to us to consider the enclosed petition of Clement Starr and company, of the Constant of London, concerning wages, and to send for the merchants, and if possible, to mediate an agreement between them, when Richard Batson, Mich. Davison, and Paul Painter appeared on the one side, and Clement Starr and the ship's company on the other, and all agreed to leave the matter to you. You are to hear them, determine it according to right and justice, and return us the result. [I. 123, p. 459)[69]

Hughes, The natural history of Barbados In ten books (London, 1750) (XXX, 1750)
Robert Reece, Hints to young Barbados-planters (Bridge town, Barbados, 1857)


Beane



  • "BEANE, Humphrey


Ald Bread Street, 14 May-6 Jun 1667, disch, F £420 (1) Ebisham, Surr, 1679 (2) CORD, M, 1677 (3) b 1613, d 17 Jan 1679/80, bur Bunhill Fields (4) Will PCC 1 Bath pr, 14 Jan 1679/80 mar 1649, at Holy Trinity the Less, Catherine Vincent (5) Merchant, at Turkey walk in Exchange, 1677, great interest in Greenland whale fisheries (6) City property, land Surr, Wales, and elsewhere in Eng c £500 p a (2) Dissenter, member of the sect of the "Sweet Singers" (7) Farmer of Hearth Tax (8) Da Elizabeth mar John PARSONS (9)

(1) Beaven, I, p 52 (2) Will (3) Beaven, II, p 100 (4) Strype, IV, p 56 (5) Boyd 14249 (6) Directory, 1677, CHW Mander, A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Guild of Cordwainers of the City of London (1931), p 82 n (7) Strype, IV, p 56 For the sect see, C E Whiting, Studies in English Puritanism from the Restoration to the Revolution, 1660- 1688 (1931), pp 291-3 (8) C M W Mander, op cit, p 82 n (9) Boyd 14249, 15796"[70]

  • "On 6 April 1670, Humphrey Beane had purchased several areas of real estate in the district which are variously described in The Residential Copyholds of Epsom but some areas of land held freehold do not appear in the manorial Court Rolls. It appears, however, that Beane had a new residence built on New Inn Lane to the east of what became Sir Richard Rooth's house [Lehmann 1B28 & 3A7/3B7]


Humphrey Beane had married Katherine Vincent at Holy Trinity the Less in 1649 and their daughter, Elizabeth, became the first wife of John Parsons. A London merchant and alderman, Beane was appointed Master of the Cordwainers' Company in 1677.

In a will dated 15 September 1679, Humphrey Beane, 'late of London and now of Ebbisham' [PROB 11/362, 14 January 1679/80], left the new house in which he resided with his son Parsons to the relict Katherine Beane. A record of the latter's demise was made in a Court Roll of 19 October 1695 [Will proved 24 October 1695, PROB 11/427] and the property then descended to Sir John (rather than, as suggested by Pownall, William) Parsons.

John Parsons, a wealthy brewer who owned the Red Lion Brewery Co., purchased Reigate Manor in 1681. Having been knighted at Windsor Castle 15 August 1687, he became Lord Mayor of London 1703-4. On his death 25 January 1717/8 [PROB 11/556], he was succeeded by a third and only surviving son, Humphrey Parsons."[71]

  • Family: John Parsons/Elizabeth Beane (F21120)[72]


- Married: Elizabeth Beane, Feb 7 1676/77 Saint Bottolph without Aldersgate
- Father of spouse: Humfry Beane
- Mother of spouse: Catherine Vincent
- Father: William Parsons
- Mother: Mary (Parsons)
- Elizabeth Parsons (Beane): Buried at Saint Olave, Southweark (no date given)

  • William Parsons[73]


- Born: Saint Catherines Coleman, London
- Occupation: Brewer, citizen of London
- Will: 1638, PCC 131 Rivers
- Wife: Mary, of Saint Catherines Coleman, London

  • "PARSONS, John


Ald Castle Baynard, 6-15 Aug 1687 removed to Portsoken-3 Oct 1688, superseded on restoration of Charter Bassishaw, 7 May 1689-25 Jan 1716/17 (d) (1) Well close, near Radcliffe Highway, Middx, 1708, ? East Smithfield, St Botolph Aldgate, 1716/17, The Priory, Reigate, Surr (2) BREW, adm, 16 Oct 1688, M, 1687 Transl to FISH, 19 Oct 1703, PW, 1706-8 (3) d 25 Jan 1716/17 (4) Will PCC 42 Whitfield, pr, 7 Feb 1716/17 f William Parsons, BREW, of St Catherine Coleman, m Mary, mar 1678, at St Botolph Aldersgate, Elizabeth, da of Humphrey BEANE (5) Brewer (6) City and London property, land Surr (6) Kt, 15 Aug 1687 Sheriff, 1687-8, LM, 1703 (7) MP Bramber, 1661 (void), Reigate, 1685-7, 1688-9 (void), 1690-5, 1695-8, 1700/1, 1701-2, 1702-5, 1705-8, 1710-13, 1713-15 City Tory (8) Farmer of Excise 1670s Commsr for Victualling Navy, 1683-8 Held mortgage of City markets (9) Son John Parsons, MP Reigate, 1690-5, 1695-8 Da Elizabeth mar Sir Anthony Sturt, MP Stockbridge, 1695-1701, Hants, 1713-15 (10)

(1) Beaven, I, pp, 96, 185, 20 (2) Hatton, View of London, p xxxiii, will, Walcott, MPs Tempus Anne (3) Beaven, II, p 113 (4) Boyd 15796 (5) Boyd 15796, 49881, 14249 (6) Will (7) Beaven, II, p 113, I, p 185 (8) Beaven, II, p 113, Pink MS 319 (9) Walcott, MPs Tempus Anne, Beaven, II, p 113, will (10) Pink MS 319, will, Walcott, MPs Tempus Anne"[74]

  • POTENTIAL SOURCE: XXXX, A descriptive and historical account of the Guild of Cordwainers of the city of London (XXXX, 1931)pp. 82, 204


  • "1657. Dec. ? 103. Petition of David Young to the Admiralty Commissioners.


Some time since, I sent you a petition and reference from his Highness, showing that being employed by merchants beyond seas, and ordered to follow their instructions, I met a fleet of Spaniards at Santa Cruz. From affection to his Highness and my country, I neglected my owners' affairs, and gave intelligence to the English fleet under Gen. Blake, which proved to be of great concern.

On my return, my owners, finding I had not carried my commodities to the market directed, whereby they were much damaged, turned me out of the ship, so that I cannot maintain my family and pay my debts. Thereupon you desired me to give the names of the owners, who are : —

Col. Thos. Middleton, Stratford.
Hum. Beane, Thos. Colvert, Crutched Friars.
Thos. Gould, Redriffe Wall.

I beg compensation, and a command in the service. In the war with the Dutch, I recovered the Golden Sun of Horme, and lost my right hand, but had no recompense beyond surgeon's pay. [I sheet]
Annexing,

103. I. David Young to Col. Clarke and the rest of the Commissioners on his case. His Highness referred to you my petition about the discovery of the Spanish fleet which was destroyed at Santa Cruz by Col. Blake. I attended you four months for an answer, and have been absent in the west of England 2 months, during which time you called for me. Pray remember me. [1/2 page.[75]

  • Friday, October 7th, 1659.


Colonel White reports from the Commissioners for bringing in the Arrears of the Revenue, The Proposition of Humfrey Beane, laid down in his Petition to the said Commissioners; That having addressed himself to the said Commissioners; and having adjusted his Accompt, where there is due to Balance Three thousand Nine hundred and Fifty Pounds; he promises to pay Two thousand Pounds in to the Treasury in Two Days; and the remaining Sum of One thousand Nine hundred and Fifty Pounds, in One Month's time after the Fifth of October 1659; provided he have his Liberty: With the Opinion of the said Commissioners, That they conceive it may be for the Service of the State, to accept of the Payments therein proposed; and that he be set at Liberty, upon Security given, with good Securities, to be taken by the said Serjeant at Arms, to render himself Prisoner to the said Serjeant, when he shall thereunto be required from the Parliament, or these Commissioners.

Ordered, That Humfrey Beane, Farmer of Excise in the Counties of Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland, and Westmerland, now in Custody of the Serjeant at Arms attending the Parliament, upon Payment of the several Sums of Money, in his Proposals, to the Commissioners for bringing in the Arrears of the Treasury due to the Commonwealth; that is to say, the Sum of Two thousand Pounds, within Two Days time; and, upon his giving Security, with good Sureties, to the said Serjeant at Arms, to render himself Prisoner to the said Serjeant, when he shall thereunto be required from the Parliament, or the said Commissioners; shall be set at Liberty, paying his Fees. And, It is further Ordered, That the said Humphrey Beane do pay the remaining Sum of One thousand Nine hundred and Fifty Pounds, within One Month, according to his said Proposal. And the said Commissioners for bringing in the said Arrears are to see this Order put in Execution."[76]

  • "1661: Oct. 7 A memorial of the 27th ult., read and entered in full, from the Commissioners for the Arrears of Excise, concerning the arrears of rent due from Humfry Beane and Thomas Calverd, late farmers of Excise for Nor humberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and Durham, Carlisle, Newcastle and Berwick, who paid in their arrears to 1659, Sept. 29, when said farm was actually reassumed to the State, since which time they did not intermeddle therewith. Ordered: that they be recommended to the Barons of the Exchequer for a complete discharge to them and their sureties. [Ibid. XI. pp. 55–6.]"[77]


  • (Dec. 18. 1661) "Petition from Sir Henry Carey read and entered (on reference from the King of Oct. 26 last) praying Privy Seals for the sums of money in arrear and due upon accompt by Richard Best, Esay Risby, Humphrey Beane, Thomas Maurice, William Hickman, and William Turner for duties of Excise [and other sums due from them as] receivers of Crown rents and duties for the late usurper. With Treasurer Southampton's minute. "The arreares of Excise are all already granted to severall persons by the two Houses of Parliament and by Privy Seales since in confirmation thereof from His Majesty. So as the petitioner cannot bee relieved from them. But for the other part of it which concernes Crowne rents and other duties for the late usurper let the peticoner acquaint Sir Edmund Sawyer with the particulars hee can make forth charging the persons herein menconed for the same." [Early Entry Book VII. p. 168.]"[78]


  • "1668: Oct. 29 Same to [the Grand Commissioners of Excise] to pass a lease under their seal to Peter Calverd and Sam. Vincent of the Excise of North-umberland, Durham, Newcastle and Berwick for three years from June 24 last at 5,170l. per an. rent: with the usual covenants: the King to be secured from all demands for imported liquors out of one county into another. All by reason that Thomas Calverd, late Farmer of the same, is lately deceased. (The like letter for a lease to the said Peter Calvered and Sam. Vincent of the Excise of Westmorland, Cumberland and Carlisle.) Out Letters (Customs) VI. pp. 122-123."[79]


  • "1668/69 Jan. 22. The Treasury Lords to the Attorney General. Complaint is made to us by Mr. Beane, Farmer of Excise of Essex, that great quantities of beer and ale have been brewed in London and Middlesex and carried into Essex during the last farm [of the Essex Excise] ending 1668, June 24. The Farmers of the London Excise have covenanted by their lease to pay [the duty on such imported beer]. Beane alleges that they refuse to give him satisfaction, although he has made due proof thereof and often desired them to pay it. You are to call the said Farmers and Mr. Beane before you and compose the matter that so the King may be answered his rent which is detained for want thereof. If you cannot compose it you are to sue the London Farmers upon their covenants. Out Letters (Customs) VI, p. 128"[80]


  • "1669/70 Feb. 23. The Treasury Lords to Visct. Fanshaw, [King's Remembrancer], to suspend process "until the last sealing day for issuing process of the last term" against Humphry Beane, late Farmer of Excise for co. Suffolk, for not having yet passed his account for that farm; his said account being now before the Treasury Lords for consideration. Out Letters (Customs) VI, p. 150."[81]


  • "1670. Mar. 30. The Treasury Lords to [the King's Remembrancer] to suspend till the end of Easter term process against Humphrey Beane, late Farmer of Excise for co. Suffolk, his accounts being at present before the Treasury Lords for consideration as to pretences for defalcations. Out Letters (Customs) VI, p. 153."[82]


  • "[940] Whitehall, 5 June (1672):


West Indies. It is this day ordered by their Lordships that a Copie of the Petition of William Wood and Humphrey Beane Esqres. on the behalfe of themselues and the rest of the Owners of the Shipp Wilham and Nicholas seized in AnguiUa with her lading by Sir Charles Wheeler should be sent vnto Henry Slyngsbey Esqr who is hereby prayed and required to certify this Boord on ffriday the 7th of June Instant the State of the case of the said Shipp and her lading, and if there be any cause why the Petitioners may not be heard before his Majestie in Councell in this matter as they desire."[83]

  • "[no title] DD/TB/36/112 1672

1 doc.

Contents:
A case heard in the Exchequer against Sir Richard Biggot, Perient Trott and Humphrey Beane, farmers of the Hearth Tax, concerning their pretended power to sub farm the tax for Somerset."[84]

  • (August 7th, 1674) "Humphrey Beane, one of the owners of the Massingberd, offers that ship for further service""[85]


  • Strype records burial of Humphrey Beane at Bunhill fields:


"Humfrey Beane of London, Esq; Jan. 17. Anno salvationis Mundi 1679. ætat. suæ 66.

Who after he had liv'd to see
In two Worlds much Vanity:
But in the Third he is at Rest
With the Eternal, and there blest.
A God he did believe to be
Triune in one and Veritie.
His Form is ceast, his Life cant dy;
But's gon from Time into Eternity.
So that blest Soul hath tane his Flight
From earthly Body into Heaven's Light.
Where he in Glory now's at Liberty,
To praise the Lord to all Eternity.

[This Beane fined for Alderman, and was of the Sect of the Sweet Singers; and some of that Society, I suppose, made these Verses for him.]"[86]

Thomas Calverd/Calvert

  • "CALVERT, Felix (1664-1736) of Albury, Herttys. and White Cross Street, St. Giles without Cripplegate, London


READING 1713-30 May 1716

bap. 9 May 1664, 2nd s. of Thomas Calvert of St. Giles without Cripplegate by Anne da. of William Ambrose of Reading, Berks...

Calvert was a member of a large family of London brewers that dominated the trade in the capital. The dynasty began with Calvert's grandfather, also Felix, whose three sons Felix jnr (d.1699), Thomas (d.1668) and Peter (d.1676) were concerned in brewing and farming the excise during the Protectorate and Restoration, an association which only ended with Felix jnr.'s dismissal as an excise commissioner in February 1688. Calvert's father may have been a Dissenter, including in his will a Calvinist preamble which spoke of inheriting "among the elect the joys...of eternal life". Calvert himself seems to have taken over his father's interest in the Peacock brewery in White Cross Street, which in turn provided the centre of operations for his sons and grandsons..."[87]

Beane: TNA


C 2/ChasI/D63/44 Short title: Devereux v Beane.Plaintiff: Devereux kt and others.Defendant: Beane and others.Document type: Replication

C 5/416/24 Short title: Beane v Vincent. Plaintiffs: Robinson Beane. Defendants: Francis Vincent. Subject: unspecified messuage. Document type: bill. 1656

C 6/127/8 Short title: Battson v Girling. Plaintiffs: Richard Battson . Defendants: Robert Girling , James Salmon and Humphrey Beane . Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, plea. 1655
C 6/285/29 Short title: Capell v Wade. Plaintiffs: Gamaliel Capell. Defendants: Timothy Wade, Humphrey Beane, Richard Cooke and [unknown] Rory. Subject: money matters. Document type: bill, three answers, schedule. 1670

C 10/10/18 Humphrey Beane v John Bewe and John Lambert: parish of St Olave, Southwark, Surrey. Bill and two answers. 1651
C 10/17/70 Horth, Braggs v. Tompson, Beane, Bassett: Middx. 1652
C 10/58/38 John Lewis and John Meade v James Stonier, Samuel Foote, Roger Halton and Humphrey Beane: money matters, Middlesex. Bill and answer. 1659

E 133/19/56 Beane v Attorney General. 17 November 1558 - 22 January 1901
E 133/19/57 Beane v Attorney General. 17 November 1558 - 22 January 1901
E 133/19/58 Beane v Calverd. 17 November 1558 - 22 January 1901
E 134/20Chas2/East15 Humfrey Beane, Thomas Calverd Henry Partridge, Samuel Vincent, Thomas Williams, Roger Turnsly. v. Sir Jeffrey Palmer, Knt. and Bart. (Attorney-General), Sir George Benyon, knight, Francis Finch, Edward Wingate.: Excise (and the farming thereof) on beer brewed in London and Middlesex, and consumed and spent in Essex, &c., &c.: London; Middlesex; Essex. 20 Chas 2 1669
E 134/21Chas2/East14 Humfrey Beane, Thomas Williams, Thomas Collyer, Thomas Calverd, Robert Davis, John Webb, Robert Adson, John Gosling, Owen Arthur, John Wilson, Samuel Vincent, William Powney. v. Sir Jeffrey Palmer, Knt. and Bart. (Attorney-General), Sir Denny Ashburnham, Bart., Sir George Benyon, Knt., Francis Finch, Edward Wingate (late Commissioners of Excise), William Forth, Dr. of Lawes, Robert Huntington, Richard Kingdon, John James (present Commissioners of Excise).: Lease between said Sir Denny and others (Commissioners and Governors of Her Majesty's Receipt of Excise) and plaintiff Humfrey Beane, dated 17 Chas. 2., of the farm of the duty of excise. Touching the loss occasioned to the revenue of excise in consequence of the infectious disorder called the plague, and claim of allowance (from the Government) made by the farmers of the revenue, according to the covenants of such lease, &c., &c.: Suffolk; Norfolk. 21 Chas 2 1670
E 134/24Chas2/Mich28 Bevis Lloyd, Richard Gwynne, Sir John Hanmer, Knt., Timothy Wade. v. Sir Heneage Finch, Knt. and Bart. (Attorney-General), Sir Richard Piggott, Knt., Perient Trott, Humfrey Beane.: Collecting and receiving, &c., the duty and revenue arising by fire hearthsand stoves in the county of Somerset (except the"cittie of Bristol"), of which revenue the plaintiffs were sub-farmers. Arrears 1667-8-9. Resistance made to the levying of duty, to suppress which one witness says,"There were three companies of foote souldiers sent (as this dep't beleeveth) from London into the said com' of Som'sett to assist the said collector to leavy the said duety, some whereof soe employed were payed xijd. p' diem by the said collectors. Nevertheles the arreares soe charged to be in arreare are, as this dep't beleeveth, still in arreare," &c., &c.: Carmarthen
24 Chas 2

PROB 4/1778 Engrossed Inventories Exhibited from 1660. Beane, Humphrey, of Epsum alias Ebisham, Surrey, esq. 06 September 1680

PROB 11/362/72 Will of Humphry Beane of Ebbisham, Surrey. 14 January 1680

Calverd/Calvert: TNA

C 6/203/14 Short title: Calverd v Calvert. Plaintiffs: Anne Calverd widow and Felix Calverd. Defendants: Ambrose Calvert, Peter Calvert and William Ambrose.Subject: will of the deceased Thomas Calverd, of Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1668.

E 133/19/58 Beane v Calverd. 17 November 1558 - 22 January 1901

PROB 4/63 Engrossed Inventories Exhibited from 1660. Calverd, Thomas, of London, brewer. 28 May 1669

PROB 11/328/123 Will of Thomas Calverd, Gentleman of Saint Giles without Cripplegate London, City of London. 13 October 1668


Chauntrell/Chauntry


3. Thomas Chauntrell of the parish of Saint Bottolphe Algate London Cooper, and Coopers Mate of the Owners Adventure the voyage in question aged twenty five yeares


Child(e)


"Mar. 18. (1645)
Senato, Secreta. Dispacci, Firenze. Venetian Archives.....Enclosure 203. Names of English ships extracted from list of those at Leghorn :
Success, Captain James Scarle, of Plemua, 1,000 salme, (fn. 1) 32 sailors.
Talent, Captain Robert Pickles, of London, 1,500 salme, 77 sailors.
William, Captain Thomas Giames, of London, 1,500 salme, 47 sailors.
Charles, Captain William Vuldieri, 1,500 salme, 52 sailors.
Buonaventura, Captain Richard Childe, 1,500 salme, 39 sailors.
John Buonaventura, Captain Samuel Camellet, 1,200 salme, 37 sailors.
Scipio, Captain Thomas Guit, London, 2,000 salme, 57 sailors.
Leopard, Captain Thomas Caro, 1,500 salme, 37 sailors.
Hope, Captain Thomas Sanford, England, 1,000 salme, 24 sailors.
Edward, Captain Thomas Dersi, London, 1,500 salme, 35 sailors.
Phœnix, Captain Matthew Carmen, 1,000 salme, 36 sailors.
Merchant, of Leghorn, Captain Robert Barcher, 1,200 salme, 49 sailors.
Dragon, Capt. George Etton, Dover, 1,500 salme, 59 sailors.
Henry (Enrigho), Captain James Hatton, London, 1,300 salme, 38 sailors.
Luke Buonasperanza, Captain William Guasato, England, 1,500 salme, 45 sailors.
Natumberlan, Captain Thomas Transfil, London, 2,000 salme, 59 sailors.
Golden Fleece, Captain Thomas Davis, London, 2,500 salme, 62 sailors.
Green Field (Campo Verde), Captain Henry Pauel, London, 1,700 salme, 52 sailors.
London, Captain John Steven, London, 2,000 salme, 70 sailors.
[Italian.]"

Allen B. Hinds (ed.), 'Venice: March 1645', Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 27: 1643-1647 (1926), pp. 176-178. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=89604 Date accessed: 01 February 2013.

HEARTH TAXES, 1666

Saint Botolph Aldgate Holy Trinity Minories UofCam East Smithfield 110513.JPG

(Source: http://www.londonlives.org/static/LSDSPAR.jsp, viewed 11/05/13)

For background on Saint Botolph Algate see: http://www.londonlives.org/static/StBotolphAldgate.jsp, viewed 11/05/13

NOTE: Richard Child in his will of 1670 (PROB 11/333/526 Will of Richard Childe, Mariner of Saint Botolph without Algate, Middlesex 12 September 1670) states that he is of East Smithfield in the parish of Saint Botolph without Algate in the County of Middlesex. This matches the 6 hearth Richard Child in the 1666 London/Middlesex Hearth tax assessment ( St. Botolph Aldgate: Street Side:...Richard Child 6 (hearths)", since according to the location notes of the Centre for Metropolitan Studies/IHR/University of Cambridge study of Saint Botolphs Algate as part of the broader "Life in the Suburbs project" "the Street" (as in "Street side, I presume") was in East Smithfield. See location section of introductory article of St Botolp Algate (http://www.londonlives.org/static/StBotolphAldgate.jsp, viewed 11705/13):

"Location

St Botolph Aldgate is located on the eastern edge of the City of London, straddling the border with Middlesex; part of the parish was in the City (in Portsoken Ward), and part in Middlesex (East Smithfield). A long, thin parish, it stretched from Gravel Lane (off Houndsditch) in the northeast all the way to the Thames in the south. The northern part of the parish, located in the City, was bordered by Petticoat Lane, Somerset Street and Mansell Street on the northeast side, and Houndsditch and Vine Street on the west, continuing south down the Minories and bypassing the Liberty of Trinity Minories towards Tower Hill and Rosemary Lane. The southern part, only attached to the rest of the parish across a short stretch of Rosemary Lane, was in Middlesex, and located east of the Tower of London and the parish of St Katherine by the Tower. With King Street and Ditch Side on its western border, its eastern boundary went along Darby Street, Church Yard Alley, Black Dogg Alley, and Nightingale Lane down to the Hermitage Dock. On the west, it was bordered by East Smithfield (the street), Butcher Row, and Red Cross Street."

St. Botolph Aldgate: Street Side

"Richard Child 6 (hearths) s"

('Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: St Botolph Aldgate : Unknown', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118916 Date accessed: 01 February 2013)

PARISH RECORDS: SAINT BOTOLPH ALDGATE

St. Botolph Aldgate Parish Clerks' Memorandum Books

"Richard Child, Sonne to Edward Child Needle-maker, & Joane his wife of Gravell lane

Christned on Sunday the fifteenth day of August, 1619"

(http://www.rescript.org/article.aspx?p=2&a=4739, viewed 01/02/13)


"ST. BOTOLPH, ALDGATE.

MS. p. 354.

The Names, Rents, Tithes, of St. Botolph without Aldgate, London,which parish consists of the ward of Portsoken within London and of EastSmithfield in the Countie of Middlesex.

From: 'Inhabitants of London in 1638: St. Botolph, Aldgate', The inhabitants of London in 1638 (1931), pp. 210-224. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32076&strquery=richard childe Date accessed: 11 May 2013.

Rents
Lawrence Childe £3

John Childe £2

Mathew Childe £3"


Chapman


  • Robert Chapman Citizen and Woodmonger of London (C6/125/pt1/24 f.1r)


  • Born ca. 1608 (SEE REMARRIAGE, 1672, AGED CA. 64)


  • DEFINITE MATCH: C 6/125Pt1/24 Short title: Chapman v Goldegay. Plaintiffs: Robert Chapman . Defendants: Gower Goldegay and Giles Ray . Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1652


  • POSSIBLE MATCH: C 5/33/37 Giles Ray. Subject: money matters, London or Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1657


  • POSSIBLE MATCH: C 6/175/59 Short title: Turbervill v Brice. Plaintiffs: Anthony Turbervill, John Ferrers, William Weldon, Francis Crawly, Nevill Kidwell and John Ray. Defendants: Nicholas Brice, John Austen, Giles Ray, John Dodson, William Mattingly, Noah Barnard and others. Subject: property in Cookham, Berkshire. Document type: bill, answer. 1662


  • DEFINITE MATCH OF LITIGANT AGAINST GILES RAY AND GOWEN GOLDEGAY: PROB 11/355/344 Will of Robert Chapman, Woodmonger of Saint Bride, City of London. 05 December 1677


  • DEFINITE MATCH: Marriage Allegation: "(1672) Aug. 26 Robert Chapman, of Bridewell Precinct, Lond., Woodmonger, Wid:r ,

ab:t 64, & Joane Switing, of Greenwich, Kent, Wid., ab:t 60 ; at S:t
Dunstan's in the West, Lond."[88]

  • PROBABLY RELATED:"(1672/3) Feb. 4 William Chapman, of S:t Bride's, Lond., Cit. & Cheesemonger, Bach:lr,

ab:t 26, & Sarah Guy, of S:t Botolph's, Aldgate, Lond., Sp:r , ab:t 23;
in the Church next Merch:t Taylors' Hall, Bishopsgate Street,
Lond."[89]

  • DEFINITE MATCH: Hearth tax: Bridewell precinct, Middlesex, 1666:

"Bridewell Precinct: Robert Chapman 5 hearths...
...Bridewell Precinct: William Chapman 1 hearth"[90]

Tradesmans' Tokens

"299. ROBERT CHAPMAN AT. A sword with a crown on the
 point. R. BRIDEWELL DOCKE. In the field, R. E. C.

300. GILES RAY, WOODMONG. The Woodmongers' arms. R.
 AT BRID WELL DOCKE. In the field, G. I.R.

301. THO. TEMPLEMAN. A fleur-de-lis on a fagot. R. AT
BRIDWEL DOCK. In the field, T. M. T.

302. AT THE SVN TAVERN. The SUn. R. VPON BRID-
WELL STEPS. In the field, A. E. C.

303. AT Y:E PYD. BVLL IN. A bull. R. OVLD BRID WELL,
1652. In the field, M. A. E.

304. THIS HALFPENY BELONGING TO Y E . The city arms.
R. HOSPITAL OF BRIDEWELL, LONDON. The City
arms."[91]

"195 ROBERT CHAPMAN AT BRIDE — Woodmongers' arms,
 in the field. Rev. Well Dock . his half peny
— In the field, R. E. C.

196 ROBERT CHAPMAN AT — Woodmongers' arms, in the
 field. Rev. BRIDEWELL DOCKE — In field, R. E. C.

The farthing ; of less size than the preceding.

197 GILES RAY.WOODMONG — Woodmongers arms, in field.
 Rev. AT BRIDWELL DOCKE — lu the field, G. I. R.

Bridewell dock was formerly a landing-place used by the Thames watermen ;
hence the many houses of entertainment. In Lodowick Barry-'s Ram Alley, or
Merrie Trickes, printed in 1611, 4to., Will Smallshankes and the rest of his fellows,
while being conducted after supper by torchlight, from the Mitre in Fleet street
to the Savoy, are set on, swords drawn, by Throat and his desperadoes, who carry
oflF the pretended heiress unperceived towards St. Giles's ; Thomas Smallshankes,
nettled at this scurvy luck, affirms she had run off towards Fleet bridge ; but
Will asserting it as a thing not possible, Thomas reiterates —

" Upon my life.
They went in by the Greyhound, and so strooke
Into Bridewell, — to take water at the dock." — Sign. E i.

The Greyhound was a well-known tavern on the south side of Fleet street.
Bridewell dock, described by Pope, in his caustic lines —

" — where Fleet ditch with disemboguing streams
Rolls its large tribute of dead dogs to Thames,"

was that portion of New Bridge street from Tudor street to Chatham place. The
now road-way for carriages and horses being then water issuing into the Thamea
from Fleet ditch. See Whishaw's Plan of London before and after the Fire."[92]



Clarkson

3. William Clarkson of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Shipwright Carpenter of the Owners Adventure aged twenty nine yeares

  • William Clarkson, shipwright


WILD GUESS: PROB 11/373/478 Will of William Clarkson, Shipwright of Romford, Essex 18 August 1683

  • SP 46/136/406 State Papers Domestic: Supplementary. ADMIRALTY. Certificate that William Clarkson is not a shipwright. 3 Feb.1666 [4 signatures].

Colvile


2. John Colvile of Ratcliff in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner Gunner of the Owners Adventure aged thirty sixe yeares

  • John Colvile, of Ratcliff, in the parish of Stepney, Middlsex, was Gunner of the Owners Adventure, aged 36, when he deposed in Batson against Gosling et al on 29/12/1656


  • Robert Colvile, presumably a brother, father, or uncle, was a (?part) owner and pilot of the Owners Adventure, and went on the whole whaling voyage in the summer of 1656. Robert Colvile was the principal defendant in a suit brought by Richard Batson and Gowen Goldagne in Chancery against Robert Colvile John Colvile and William Clarkson. Just the answer of Robert Colvile et al appears to have survived in the Chancery records at TNA


Possible sources

  • C 5/419/101


Short title: Colvile v Cooze. Plaintiffs: John Colvile and others. Defendants: Peter Cooze and others. Subject: money matters. Document type: bill, answer, three schedules Date: 1667

  • C 10/153/20 Bence, Crispe, Colvile, Hoare, Warring, Graves v. Hnyvett, Saywell: Middx 1670


  • C 10/470/94 Maynard v Colvile, Portman, Cutler, Royle and Bradford: Middlesex. 1670


  • C 5/588/4 Ash v. Colvile: Middlesex. 1672

- COULD THIS BE FRANCIS ASH?

  • C 6/210/67 Short title: Roberts v Colville. Plaintiffs: Gabriel Roberts . Defendants: Dorothy Colville , John Colville and Robert Bowes . Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1673


  • C 5/480/51 Fenne v. Colvile: Middlesex. 1673


  • C 22/186/2 Snell v. Colville. 1674


  • C 9/127/23 Fenn v. Colville. 1677


  • C 5/536/93 Pecke v. Colville. 01 January 1613 - 31 December 1714


  • C 22/335/17 Collville v Colville. 3 commissions. 01 January 1558 - 31 December 1714


  • C 22/336/28 Colville v Colville. 01 January 1558 - 31 December 1714


  • E 133/27/50 Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Barons' Depositions. Broome v Colville. 17 November 1558 - 22 January 1901


Definite sources

  • C 6/134/15 Short title: Batson v Colvile. Plaintiffs: Richard Batson and Gowen Goldagne. Defendants: Robert Colvile, John Colvile and William Clarkson. Subject: money matters.Document type: answer only.



Damerell


Thomas Damerell of Lymehouse in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner Master of the shipp the Owners Adventure and Commander alsoe of the Greyhound aged 37 yeares

Parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney, marriage register, 1640-1692_

Damerell (and variants)

"1652. Aug. 14 William Damerell of Lymehouse, Marriner & Elizabeth Berwick. M."[93]

Trinity House of Deptford

"381. [Before 4 Feb. 1630] James Moyer, William Knight, Bence Johnson, Daniel Gatts and James Dammarell [to Trinity House. See 382.]

Trinity House are asked to establish a consul in this port of Leghorn. The post being void and leaving no one to speak for them, 'our' nation is much slighted by the ministers of the duke [of Tuscany], and 'much exacted upon' to the prejudice of shipping coming to the port. Morgan Read is willing to accept the place, being honest and able, of good repute with the duke, with sufficient means, and much respected by shipmasters and merchants. He has promised to write to Trinity House about the post [380]."[94]

"228. [f.78v. ? Before 15 March 1625] Shipmasters and owners to Trinity House [See 229–30.]

In 1617, the writers agreed to an imposition of £1,000 a year for 2 years to suppress Turkish pirates and to ensure more safety in trade and southern navigation. Trinity House promised that it would be levied for only 2 years. It has now continued for 4 years and double the agreed sum has been paid (namely £4,000), but they are still liable. Trinity House are requested to petition the duke of Buckingham to end the imposition. Bernard Motam, Thomas Browne, William Reickes, John Tomson, William Goodlard, John Hide, George Lissant, William Ball, Thomas Breadcake, James Ireland, Robert Tockly, Thomas Tomson, Humphrey Sallowes, William Craiford, John Wetherly, Edward Robertes, Thomas Davis, James Damarell, Tristram Wise, John Badiley, John Miller, John Goodwyn, William Peirson, Thomas Nicholles, John Mote, John Lingwood, Robert Bence, Robert Swyer, John Wharey, Thomas Martin, Thomas Gibbes, Roger Twiddy, Anthony Tichen, William Knight, John Ewers, Daniel Cadman, Henry Tawton, Anthony Wood, James Moyer, John Dennis, George Bodham, John Jenken, Edmond Grove, Richard Cooper, William Bushell, John Gibbs, Richard Hooper, Edward Acworth, John Hemmens, Richard Rassell, Squier Bence, William Grove, Jeremy Cornellis, Thomas Nelmes, John Gibbens, George Browne, John Bence, John Mason, Matthew Barret, Richard Broomfeild, Peter Milborn, Roger Sherman, George Clarckson, John Swanton, Robert Bowers, Edward Gardener, William Eeles, Matthew Wood, Richard Chamlet, William Mellowe, Thomas Addison, Thomas Sherwyn, John Andrewes, Thomas Foarde, William West, William Hill, John Ellman, William Low, Christopher Dunn, Henry West, John Stafford, William Smith, John Lowe, Robert Williams, John Arnold, William Goose, Richard Cole, John Johnson, William Smith, Henry West, Thomas Battell, Henry Page, John Bundocke, John Graunt, Martin Errington, John Sayer, John Doves, John Norwood, James Peterson, John Arnold, John Low, William Greene, Thomas Chall, Robert Rypinge, Nicholas Bradshow, Jonas Pereman, Thomas Montinge."[95]


Eccleston


  • Richard Eccleston


- "The free adventurers (Edward Whitwell and
Richard Eccleston of Hull being the leaders)
chiefly Hull men, commenced an agitation. They
appeared before the Committee of the Council of
State appointed to inquire into the question, and
in addition printed a broadside addressed to
Parliament and every member thereof."
(XXX, p.143)

WILD GUESS MATCH: PROB 11/317/244 Will of Richard Eccleston, Merchant of London. 20 July 1665


Ely


1. John Ely of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey in the County of Surrey Mariner aged twenty eight yeares


ffoarde


5. Maurice ffoard of Shadwell in the parish of Stepney and the County of Middlesex Brewer aged thirty yeares


Fishman


William Fishman, master and part owner of the Peace of London, on whaling voyage in ?summer 1653

  • "November 1653: Nov. 10:


7. The petition of Wm. Fishman, part owner and master of the Peace of London, referred to the Admiralty Judges, to state the matter of fact and report. Annexing,

133. i. Report thereon by the said judges that the petitioner owns ¼ of the ship, that the owners let it to Mr. Beane and others, and that Fishman went to look after the ship, and — Child as master, both on wages. That she took a Dutch prize, and the Council of State, on 10 June 1653, adjudged 2/3 thereof to Beane and the freighters, excluding Fishman and the mariners, because they were under wages.—Doctors' Commons, 30 Nov. 1653. [1 page.]"[96]

  • [March 8. (1653/54)] 39, Petition of Richard Childe, master, Wm. Fishman, part owner, mate, and pilot, and the mariners of the Peace of London, to the Protector. On a fishing voyage to Greenland, surprised the Frinte of Rotterdam, laden with lead, hemp, and oil for Rochelle, and brought her to England; but Hum. Beane and the rest of the freighters have obtained an order from the late Council of State [see 10 June 1653], whereby petitioners are deprived of any benefit of the prize, though the Court of Admiralty can show no precedent of freighters or merchants having an interest in such prizes, because if they are injured, the owners are bound to make good to them. Beg consideration of their pains and danger in taking the ship, and an order for the proportion allowed to Beane, to avoid a tedious suit in the Admiralty, which their employment in the service will not allow them to attend. With order by the Protector, 22 February 1653-4 that Council revoke the order of 10 June 1653, and distribute the prize amongst the master, seamen, and mariners. [1 page.]


Annexing, 39. i. Certificate by Lancelot Russell and 14 others to the truth of the petition, and also that the merchants concerned were much profited by the voyage, Childe having killed three whales before the other ships came. [1 page, 12 signatures.]"[97]

TNA evidence of a William Fishman of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

  • HCA 30/840/118 Obligation of William Fishman, William Palgrave, merchant, and William Catting, merchant, all of Great Yarmouth, Norf, to Algernon [Percy], earl of Northumberland, lord high admiral, in the sum of £1,000. Condition that William Fishman appear at the High Court of Admiralty in Southwark, London, to answer the charges of James Stander. Signed William Fishman, William Palgrave, William Catting and John Woodruff (ff. 272, 273) 1641 Jan 24.


  • SEE ALSO: HCA 30/840/154List of persons including: Vicente de Ayrolo, John Bassinew, Berkeley, Bewly, Birdsey, Robert Blewett, Bradley, Broughton, Burr, Thomas Burr, Thomas Burton, James Carrett, Tobias Curnett, Richard Dermott, Paul Dodd, Earlisman, Fishman, ? Foshman, Hargreaves, James Heath, Jacob Jacobson, merchant of London, William Seaman, Francis Searle, Michael de Spinoza, Stanley, Suckley, John Tinckler, Francis Topp, William Wilkinson, and ships including: Adventure, Beginning of Boston, Expedition of Plymouth, Fortune, George, Golden Star, Hart, Hope, James of Bordeaux, John, Mathias and Tobias, Michael, Nicholas, Nightingale, Panther, Royal, Sara, Speedwell, St John of Rotterdam, St Martin, St Sebastian, Stockholm, Walsingham (ff. 344, 345) c 1651


Secondary source evidence of William Fishman

  • A William Fishman identified by Dr Elaine Murphy as the master of the Adventure[98]


Mr Fishman in London merchant John Paige's letters

  • A Mr Fishman, master of a ship, appears twice in the merchant John Paige's letters.


e.g. "17. (fn. 4) to William Clerke
22 March 1650

… [H]ave received none from you, which makes me the briefer at present, having written you and Mr Paynter at large per several ships which have gone from hence.

Our principals here do lay load. I never knew such quantity of goods sent and now to go. I believe Mr [John] Turner hath £10,000 cargazon in this ship [the Island Merchant], Mr Steward, and Sidrake Blake will be ready to go 20 days hence, which ship will carry at least 400 packs of goods. Likewise Mr Fishman is making ready to carry a great cargazon to Mr [John] Webber and [Robert] Pearson. I was told yesterday for certain that Mr Garland and your cousin [George] Clerke hath freighted a ship of 150 ts which will be ready very suddenly. God send her well to you."[99]


[100]


Gilbert


Richard Gilbert

2. Richard Gilbert of Wapping in the parish of Stepney Shipwright aged 45 yeares : June 15th 1653 ("same day") (marke) [Inspection of this document shows detailed list of work done to the Dove at Thomas Taylor’s yard]

SEE POSSIBLE MATCH: PROB 11/321/134 Will of Richard Gilbert, Shipwright of Stepney, Middlesex. 23 June 1666


Girling


  • HCA 13/125: The personall answeares of Richard Batson made to the posicons or Artcles of a Libell given against him on the behalfe of Robert Girling" (dated August 29th 1653)


  • SEE ALSO: C 6/127/8 Short title: Battson v Girling. Plaintiffs: Richard Battson . Defendants: Robert Girling , James Salmon and Humphrey Beane . Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, plea. Date: 1655 Subjects:Litigation


Various

  • "> From: Lynn S. Teague <teague@u.arizona.edu>

> To: EFSS-L@rootsweb.com
> Subject: Re: [EFSS] Hazlewood
> Date: Sunday, May 07, 2000 9:44 PM

...The earliest 17th century Haselwood mariner reference that I've found:
> S.R. 05103, p. 1
> High Court of Admiralty. Instance and Proze Courts: Book of Acts.
> 1645-47.
> “. . . the suit which Robert Girling and other, owners of the Dove,
 > bring against William Hazelwood (see report No. 4205).”"

(http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/EFSS/2000-05/0957750621, viewed 13/02/13)


Goldegay


Various

"WOODMONGERS. A sword erect, hilled and crowned (or
entiled -with a dncal coronet) between twoflaunches each charged
with a faggot (or bundle of laths). On one token, that of Govin
Gouldegay, of Whitefriars, the arms are a chevron between three
faggots."

(XX, p. 86)

575 - Museum of London
Items 3445 - 3450 of 4046 ... Gawain Gouldegay, a woodmonger, issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in Whitefriars, in the ward of Farringdon ...
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/.../searchresults.aspx?...

Trade Token | Museum of London
Gawain Gouldegay, a woodmonger, issued this trade token, worth a farthing, for his business in Whitefriars, in the ward of Farringdon Without, City of London.
www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections.../object.aspx?...1

BHOL

"Goldegay (Goldegan, Gouldegay):
-, Gawen or Gaven, i. 1010; ii. 195.
-, Lieut.-Colonel Gawen, i. 1123."[101]

"(1649: March 27) 15. Luke Williams, living in Bermondsey Street, near to the
Christopher, and William Saul, in St. Olave's Street, near the water
gate, and Lieut.-Col. Gouldegay, near to Pickle Herring, summoned
for to-morrow."

(SOURCE: CSPD, 1649-50, p.56: http://www02.us.archive.org/stream/cu31924091770408#page/n139/mode/2up, viewed 30/01/13)

"(1649: March 29) 12. Luke Williams, William Saul, and Lieut.-Col. Gouldegay to
attend the Council. "

(source: CSPD, 1649-50,p.58) http://www02.us.archive.org/stream/cu31924091770408#page/n141/mode/2up, viewed 30/01/13

SEE: September 1647 - Ordinance to settle the Militia of Southwark. ...

... Pashfeild, Mr. James Burton, Mr. Samuell Lynne, Mr. Ambrose Andrewes, Mr. Robert
Banyard, Mr. Richard Luen, Mr. Peter Delanoy, Mr. Gowen Goldegay, Mr. William ...
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (1911)

"May 11. Council. Day's Proceedings {cont.)

24. Order on representatii >n by the Commissioners for Customs
and Excise, — that in trying to recover debts owing, and arrears for
prize goods, they find from the late Prize Goods' Commissioners that
in 1653, 53,000 lbs. of tobacco, now at Yarmouth, taken in the
Hollander of Flushing, was sold to Gowen Goldegay, and by him
transferred to others, who refuse to take it away, so that it is
perished, and none will buy it, as not being worth customs and
excise — that the buyers thereof may dispose of it here, or export it,
customs and excise free, but that no other tobacco is to be exempted
from payment of duty by colour of this order. Approved 3 June.
Annexing,

26. Representation on tcMch the said order is founded, sug-
gesting its free disposal, or nothing will be made of it,
and his Highness will have to pay rent for the ware-
house where it is, as he has done these 4 years. 27 April
1658. [1 page.]"[102]

"10. The report of the Customs' Commissioners on an order of
24 November 1657, concerning sums of money certified as due to
the State on several parcels of tobacco sold by the Prize Goods'
Commissioners, viz. : — 961l. 6s. 2d., the remains of 3,797l. 4s. Od.
for a parcel sold by Jas. Wainwright and John Jeffries ; and
1,109l. 16s. 3d., the remains of 8,829l. 5s. 9d. for a parcel sold to
John Day and transferred to Wainwright and Jeffries ; and 1,800l.,
the remains of 3,040l. 12s. 3d. for a parcel sold to Gowen Goldegay,
in trust for Jos. Drue, who transferred it to Day, and he to
Wainwright and Jeffries — with the reasons therein contained for
charging the said sums on Wainwright and Jeffries, as debts due to
the State, referred to the Treasury Commissioners, to order the
sums to be got in."[103]

Email to Philip, 27/01/13

  • SEE marriage of Mary Gouldegay (birthplace Whitefriars, same as residence of putative Gowen Goldegay at death) to Richard Barroe (birthpalce canterbury, Kent). marriage date (popst death of putative father): 03 May 1660 , St. Dunstan In The West, London, England to "England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NJ7B-DH9 : accessed 27 Jan 2013), Richard Barroe and Mary Gouldegay, ; citing St. Dunstan In The West, London, England, reference yr 1645-1739; FHL microfilm 396196.. NOTE: Whitefriars was in or near parish of Saint Dunstan in the West, London (though disputed in parliament at the time)


  • SEE marriage of Anne Gouldegay to Ralph Smith, 27 Dec 1658 , St Dunstan In The West, London, England (It is just possible that this is Gowen Goldgaye's widow, whow as called Anne)


- "England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NJ7B-Z8W : accessed 28 Jan 2013), Ralph Smith and Ann Gouldegay, ; citing St. Dunstan In The West, London, England, reference yr 1645-1739; FHL microfilm 396196.

- PROB 11/320/58 Will of Ralph Smith of Saint Dunstan in the West, City of London 05 March 1666 (DOWNLOADED, 28/01/13)

-- This is a nuncipative will, dictated on Ralph Smith's death bed on May 23rd 1665 at the house of his brother and his brother's wife, Mr Francis Smith and Mary Smith, at Pond Streete in the parish of Hemsted (i.e. Hampstead), Middlesex. he instructed that he should be buried in the church of hempstead and that the bulk of his estate (bo details or value) should be left to "his loving wife Anne Smith". Mentions two brothers. Does not mention any children of his own. The will was administered and granted to "Anna Piman als Smith uxor Jacobi Pitman relict et residuar legatarX nominate in testamento Radulphi Smyth"

- HEARTH TAX, Hampstead, 1666

"Hamsted:
Ld Wotton 36 hearths s "Empty then"
Fro: (sic) Smith 11 hearths s
Mr Davenport 10 hearths s
John Wilde 17 hearths s"

'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Hampstead ', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118848 Date accessed: 28 January 2013.

(CSG: The above "Fro: Smith" is the only plausible Smith entry for Hampstead in the 1666 hearth tax-. The other Smiths are Thomas and John, with just 2 hearths each)

- C 6/196/81 Short title: Lee v Smith. Plaintiffs: William Lee. Defendants: Anne Smith widow. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer, schedule. 1671.

- IGI: BURIAL: Ralph Smith 23 Jul 1681 St. Dunstan In The West, London, England "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDQY-XNG : accessed 28 Jan 2013), Ralph Smith, 23 Jul 1681; citing [REFERENCE-ERROR], reference ; FHL microfilm 396197.

  • Note existence of an Edward Goldegay, London merchant tailor

Golding(Goulding


James Golding/Goulding


Halley


Name varians: Halley (alt. Hawley, Hally)

  • Edmund Halley, one of the three owners of the John of Berkshire and the Sarah may have been a prominent soap boiler of London. If the ship owner involved in litigation with Captain William Thomas in 1658 was the soap boiler, then his son, also named Edmund Halley, was Edmond Halley (1656-1742), MA, LLD, FRS, Capt. RN, Savillian Professor of Geometry and Astronomer Royall (see HCA 13/128 no fol.).


Most secondary sources writing on the astronomer Halley have not identified the first name of the astronomer's father, but have noted that he was a soap boiler.

A recent biographer of the astronomer son, Allan H Clark (1999), states that "Halley's father, in business as a soap boiler, was a Salter, although the Tallow Chandlers was possibly a more natural company for soap boilers, and his father had been a Vintner"[104]

- "(Edmund) Halley's father, in business as a soap boiler, was a Salter, although the Tallow Chandlers was possibly a more natural company for soap boilers, and his father had been a Vintner...Winchester Street, the Halley family home for twelve years or more, was in the inner ward of Broad Street. Relatives and associates of Halley lived in the adjacent parishes of St Peter-le-Poer and St Helen Bishopsgate, all wealthy districts."[105]

However, Sir James Bird's survey of Shoreditch, in discussing the astronomer's birthplace in Shoreditch, cites the London Gazette (1680), which referred to "Mr. Edmund Hally the elder" (March 6-10, 1683/84)and "Mr. Edmund Hally the elder" (20–24 March, 1683–4).[106]

If Clark (1999:6) is correct that the astronomer's father was a salter, then there are archival records of the Salters company which should be examined, especially

--Minutes of the Court of Assistants from 1627
--Membership records from 1636
--Accounts from 1659

See: Archives of The Salters’ Company, http://www.salters.co.uk/TheCompany/Archives/tabid/68/Default.aspx, viewed 31/01/13

Accessing the Archives

All the archives are kept at Salters’ Hall, with the exception of the archives of the Company’s former estates in Northern Ireland, which are held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast www.proni.gov.uk.

Research enquiries from both Company members and members of the public are always welcomed.

For further details on the archives and how they can be accessed please contact the Company Archivist, Katie George.

E-mail: katie@salters.co.uk
Telephone: 0207 588 5216 ext. 225

  • J. Steven Watson, A history of the Salters' company (Oxford, 1663)


  • Speculatively, an Edmund Halley appears in the hearth tax records for with 9 hearths for Finsbury: Artillery South, which is ca. 500 metres outh of Shoreditch


"Finsbury: Artillery South

...Edmund Halley 9 (hearths) s
John Farrington 10 (hearths) s
Samuell Smith 10 (hearths) s
Thomas Rice 6 (hearths) s
Thomas Rice 6 (hearths) s
Lawrance Hacket 10 (hearths) s..."'[107]

  • "Shoreditch in 1656 was a suburb of the City of London and the future Astronomer Royal was born there, the first of his parents’ three children. He was born at the right time for his talents and to the right background in a rich and prominent City family. His father was a soapboiler, a member of the Salters’ Company and a freeman of the City. His grandfather had been Master of the Vintners’ Company and an alderman, and the family owned substantial property in the City. The name was presumably pronounced Hawley, which is how it was frequently spelled. His parents seem to have married only two months before his birth, but there is some uncertainty about the exact dates.


The boy went to St Paul’s School, which was burned down in the Great Fire when he was ten. The family went to live in Winchester Street in the City, among a cluster of wealthy and influential neighbours. Halley was already keenly interested in astronomy and mathematics. His mother died in in 1672 and his father married again (he would be murdered in mysterious circumstances in 1684). The son went to the Queen’s College, Oxford, at sixteen in 1673. He published his first scientific papers there, started to collaborate with John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal, and made a good impression on Christopher Wren, Rob"ert Hooke and the King." [108]

  • "There seem to have been two large houses: (i) the "great messuage" attached to Burgoyn's, occupied in the beginning of the 18th century by Edmond Lidgold; and (ii) the capital messuage in Haggerston, occupied in the 16th century by Sir Roger Cholmley, and at the time of his death (1565) let to Paul Pope. The water-colour sketch by Shepherd of a gateway of brick and stone, mentioned in the issue of Notes and Queries for 23rd January, 1909, obviously represented the remains of one of these two houses. The mount bore an inscription to the effect that the picture represented the residence of Dr. Halley at Haggerston. The statement that Edmund Halley, the famous astronomer, was born (29th October, 1656) "in Shoreditch parish, at a place called Haggerston, the backside of Hogsdon," rests on the authority of Aubrey, (fn. 56) a contemporary. It has not been found possible to obtain confirmation of the statement. The house attached to Burgoyn's was in 1664 in the occupation of Allen Badger, who stated that he and his father-in-law, William Morris, had held the premises for 35 years. (fn. 57) That attached to Hickman's was left in 1612 to Margery Smith for life. She was living there in 1615, (fn. 58) and in the sale to Sir Thomas Byde in 1662 the house is described as "since in the occupation of Margery Smith and late in that of Elizabeth Wiseman." There is nothing in the above inconsistent with a short sub-lease to Halley's father, but any long occupation by the family is quite unlikely and any idea that Halley resided there when grown up must be relinquished. The town residence of the family was in Winchester Street. (fn. 59)"


FN. 56 = Lives of Eminent Men, Clark's edn., I., p. 282.

FN. 57 = Chancery Proceedings, ut supra.

FN. 58 = She is described as "de Haggerston" in the extent of the property of her late husband, Richard Smith, on 10 May 1615 (Court of Wards, Feodaries Surveys, Midd., 26).

FN. 59 = The facts concerning his father's death are obscure. The following extracts from the London Gazette do not seem to have been noticed in the biographies, and as they have some slight connection with Shoreditch, may be interesting:—

"Mr. Edmund Hally the elder went from his house in Winchester Street on Wednesday last, promising to return home the same evening, but hath not since returned, and upon all enquiries made after him cannot be heard of, which makes it feared violent hands have been laid upon him. He is a tall man, of about 60 years of age, had on a black cloth suit, with an iron gray cloth coat. Whoever gives notice of him to his wife in Winchester Street shall have twenty guineas reward." (March 6–10, 1683–4.)

"Mr. Edmund Hally, who went from his house in Winchester Street on Wednesday the 5th inst. about 1 of the clock, not having yet been heard of, otherwise than that it's thought he was seen that evening towards Hogsden with two men, the one a tall, the other a short man. The said Mr. Hally is a tall man of about 60 years of age, having a mole on his right cheek, with a plain Band, a brown short Perriwig, and a broad brim'd black Beaver, having a black cloth suit on, his Breeches wide at knees, and an iron gray cloth coat over it, and black worsted stockings on. Whoever brings true notice of the said Mr. Halley, to his wife, Mrs. Halley, in the said Winchester Street, where he is alive or dead, shall have £100 for a reward, which shall immediately be paid, by her, or at a goldsmith's." (20–24 March, 1683–4).[109]

- "EDMUND HALLEY.

The eldest son of (BLANK IN BOOK) Halley, a wealthy
citizen of the city of London, a soap-boyler. Of
the Halleys, of Derbyshire, a good family. He
was born in Shoreditch parish, at a place called
Haggerston, the backside of Hogsdon.

At 9 years old, his father's apprentice taught
him to write, and arithmetique. He went to
Paule's schoole to Dr. Gale, while he was there
he was very perfect in the Coelestial Globe, inso-
much that I heard Mr. Moxon (the Globe-maker)
say, that if a star were misplaced in the Globe,
he would presently find it out. At (BLANK IN BOOK) he stu-
dyed Geometry, and at 16 could make a dyall,
and then he said he thought himself a brave

fellow. At (BLANK IN BOOK) went to Queen's College, in
Oxon, well versed in Lat. Greek, and Hebr.
where at the age of nineteen he solved this useful
probleme, never done before, viz. "From 3 dis-
tances given from the Sun, and Angles between,
to find the Orbe;" mentioned in the Philosophical
Transactions, Aug. (or Sept.) 1676. No. 115,
for which his name will be ever famous.

A.° Dni (BLANK IN BOOK)tooke his degree of Bacc. Art.

A.° Dni (BLANK IN BOOK) tooke his degree of Master of
Arts.

A. left Oxon, and lived at London with his
father till (BLANK IN BOOK) at which time he gott leave, and
a viaticum of his father, to goe to the Island of
Sancta Hellena, purely upon the account of ad-
vancement in Astronomy, to make the globe of
the Southern Hemisphere right, which before was
very erroneous, as being done only after the ob-
servation of ignorant seamen. There he stayed
(BLANK IN BOOK) months ; there went over with him (among
others) a woman (BLANK IN BOOK) yeares old, and her husband
(BLANK IN BOOK) old, who had no child in (BLANK IN BOOK) years ; before
he came from the island, she was brought to bed
of a child. At his returne, he presented his Pla-
nisphere, with a short description, to his Majty
who was very well pleased with it ; but received
nothing but prayse.

A.° 1678, he added a spectacle-glass to the sha-
dow-vane of the lesser arch of the Sea-quadrant,
(or back-staffe) which is of great use ; for that


that spot of light will be manifest when you can-
not see any shadow.
He went to Dantzick to visit Hevelius, A.° 167(BLANK IN BOOK)
December 1, 1680, went to Paris."[110]

Chancery Records

C 5/367/19

Short title: Halley v Fuller.
Plaintiffs: Edmund Halley, Mary Halley his wife, and others.
Defendants: Francis Bostock Fuller, and others.
Subject: personal estate of the deceased Edward Tooke of St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex.
Document type: bill, answer
Date 1683

C 6/399/71
Short title: Cony v Halley.
Plaintiffs: George Cony esq, of London and Anne Cony (alias Anne Halley alias Anne Waller) his wife.
Defendants: Edmund Halley merchant of London.
Subject: Recovery of £600 paid to the defendant (who was described as a soapboiler) under the terms of the will of Dudley Lovell merchant, of St James Garlickhithe, London, deceased, for him to invest for the benefit of the plaintiff Ann and her children. He had failed to do so: mentions William Halley, of Peterborough, Northamptonshire and William Waller esq, of London,.
Document type: bill, answer.
Date: 1683

C 10/199/38
Halley v. Cony: Middlesex and Lincoln
1680

C 10/208/46
Halley v. Cony and Picke: Middlesex.
1680

++++

"SOME MATERIAL FOR A PEDIGREE OF DR. EDMOND HALLEY.

John Aubrey records that Dr. Halley's father belonged to "the
Halleys of Derbyshire, — a good family," and gives the coat
armorial: "Sable, a fret and a canton argent." Searches made
at London and Oxford for a manuscript account of the Halley
family have been unfruitful, and, unless such a document exists
in private possession, it would appear that no complete pedigree
of the famous second Astronomer Royal has ever been compiled.
The College of Arms has no record of any grant having been
made to any person bearing the surname Halley, but the assertion
that the coat : " Sa, fretty and a canton arg." was borne by the
families of Hales, Hauley, co. Devon ; Hawleys," has been deemed
suggestive of a possible relationship between the Halley and Hawley
families. Tn fact, some examples were discovered of the two
spellings having been used indifferently in one family. An
illustration of this is afforded by the name of Elizabeth Hawley,
daughter of Peter Hawley, son of Robert Hawley and Elizabeth
Kiddell, his wife, who are severally recorded under " Steward of
Pattishall," in the published " Visitations of Northamptonshire, made
in 1561 and 1618-19." Robert Hawley is described as "of
Wittering" in Harleian MS. 1553, folio 205, while the will of
Elizabeth Halley, of Whittering, is indexed as of record between
the years 1520-26, in the "Calendar of Wills . . . Northampton
and Rutland," edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A., B.C.L.
The village of Wittering, or Whittering, is situate about six miles
west of Peterborough, in which latter place William Halley, an
uncle of Dr. Halley, is known to have resided, circa 1673.

Amongst the wills and administrations recorded at Lichfield are
twenty one under the surname Halley. In seven instances the
place of residence is named, and out of these seven, five are in
Derbyshire. It follows, therefore, that of the total, probably about
fifteen relate to the latter county, between the years 1533 and
1630. From this collection the six entries next below are ex-
tracted : —

Will of Thomas Halley, Elmeton, 1533 (page 48).

,, ,, Henry Halley, Youlgreave, 1536 (page 49).

,, ,, liichard Halley, Ash borne, 1552 (page 54).

,, ,, Robert Halley, Youlgreave, 1558 (page 57).

„ ,, Robert Halley, Youlgreave, 1559 (page 58).
Adm. of Humphrey and Margaret Halley, 1597 (page 241).

Many of the early wills are unregistered. The last-named
Humphrey Halley may have been the grandfather or grand-uncle
of his namesake, an abstract of whose will now follows:

"Humphrey Halley, the elder, formerly citizen and vintner of
 London, now of Alconbury, Hunts. Whereas I had a lease from
 the city of London, of land in Candlewich Street, in the parish
of Eastcheap, assigned to son Humphrey, Apr. 25, 1669. Lease
from the company of fishmongers, of ground known by name of the
sign of the Unicorn, in parish of All Hallows, Lombard Street,
assigned to son William, Apr. 25, 1669. To son William, house
in Fore Street, More Land and Purse Alley, in parish of St. Giles,
Cripplegate. 40s./- to poor of parish of Alconbury. Daughter
Elizabeth Cawthorne, sole executrix ; residue to her. Dated May 7,
1672. Witnesses: Ambrose Cooker, Henery Aubrey, the mark of
Edw. Phillips, Anne Morte. Codicil same date (and same witnesses) ;
daughter Elizabeth to administer only for debts for which 1 have'
given security since Mar. 24, 1664. William Halley to administer
for obligations incurred before that date. Item : I give to my son
 Edmond Halley, having formerly had and received of me, a full
filial or child's portion, the sum of £5. Proved Oct. 23, 1672, by
 both executors. (P.C.C., reg. Eure, 122.)"

The year 1663 seems to mark the first purchase of land in
Alconbury by Humphrey Halley, 9 but it is not clear whether the
purchaser was the abovenamed testator or his son Humphrey, who
appears to have been buried at Alconbury, May 26th, 1676.' u It
seems reasonably, though not positively," certain, however, that
Humphrey Halley, vintner (who, in his will, describes himself as
" very aged ") married Katherine Mewce, daughter of Nicholas
Mewce and Elizabeth Morant, his wife. In the parish records
of Alconbury, is the entry of the burial of Katherine Halley, wife
of Humphrey, September 12th, 1668. Elizabeth Morant was a
daughter of Edmond Morant of London. Here we find the probable
origin of the astronomer's Christian name, Edmond, which he
always spelt thus, when he did not abbreviate it into " Edm.,"
as was his usual practice. The pedigree of Mewce of Holdenby,

tracing from John Mewce of Calais, is especially interesting
in tliis connection, for it gives a plausible explanation of the
names Francis, Elizabeth and [Catherine, as well as Edmond, in
the Halley family. Francis Mewce, a brother of Katherine, married,
26 May, 1615, Elizabeth Washington, daughter of Lawrence
Washington, of Sulgrave.

Of the three sons of Humphrey Halley, vintner, William and
 Humphrey, junior, made their wills as follows : —

" William Halley of the city of Peterborough. To son Francis
Halley, brick-built houses in Fanchurch Street in the OCCup'n of
John Hay ton and William Warrington, and to the hay res of his
body, and for want of such hayres, to my wife for tier natural]
life and after her decease to the hayres or assigns of loving wife
Ann Halley. To poor of Peterborough £5. To brothers Humphrey
and Edmund Halle}' £10 a piece To wife, her heires or assigns,
all houses in Moire Lane, Purs Alley and Fore Street, in Cripple
gate. Residue to wife. Wife sole executrix Dated Jan. 30, 1673.
Proved by Ann Halley, Mar. 6, 1674-5. (P.C.C., reg. Dycer,
fo. 146.)"

"Humfrey Halley, of London, gent. To two kinsmen Edmund
 Halley and Humfrey Halley £100 a piece. To kinswoman Catherine
 Cawthorne £60. To kinswoman Ann Cawthorne £100. To Ann
Partridge of Alconbury and her two daughters, Elizabeth Partridge
and Anne Monke £5 a piece. To kinsman Humfrey Cawthorne
£50. To Elizabeth Goodwin, wife of Joseph Goodwin, citizen and
goldsmith of London £30. To Elizabeth, daughter of above named,
£20. To Sarah Robson of London 40s/- per annum for life. Also
£o to Sarah Robson. To Susan Sandwith, widow, of Alconbury,
£3 per annum for life. To John Kersey £5. To Samuel Trott
40s/-. 1s/ a piece to the rest of my near relations (not in this
my will named) to be paid to him, her or them when he, she or
they, each, every or any of them shall come and demand the same
of my ex'ors, and not before. The rest and residue I do with a
free heart wholly give and bequeath to my loving and well beloved
 brother, Edmund Halley, Citizen and Salter of London and I do
hereby make and ordaine him, my said loving brother, my sole
ex'or. Dated Feb. 23, 1674-5. Witnesses : John Payne, John
 Plomer, Thomas Mewce. Proved by Edmund Halley, June 3, 1676.
(P.C.C., reg. Bence, fo. 66.)"

The fact that one Thomas Mewce was a witness to the will of
Humfrey Halley is significant. Elizabeth Cawthorne, wife of John,
was buried at Alconbury, Sept. 28, 1673, according to the parish-
register. She must have been identical with the elder Humphrey
Halley's daughter, whose death, presumably, took place between
October, 1672, when she proved her father's will, and February,
1671-5, when her brother, Humfrey Halley, made his will.

Edmond Halley, Salter, who was the father of Dr. E. Halley, was
 twice married, and died intestate, in April, 1684. Letters of ad-
ministration of his estate were; granted 30th June, 1684, to Sir John
Buckworth and Richard Young, " in utum et beneficium Joannae
 Halley relictae dicti defuueti et Edmundi H alley > Jilii dicti <U-
fuitcti." __Richard Young was the nominee of the widow, while Sir
John Buckworth was appointed by the astronomer to represent his
interests, as is shown by some Chancery proceedings, " Young vs.
Halley,"__ in the Public Record Office, 1693. The will of Sir John
Buckworth, as of the parish of St. Peter le Poer (1668, reg. Exton,
folio 2), makes no mention of Edmond Halley, and the document
affords no evidence of any relationship having existed between
them.

In the " Biographia Britannica " one finds concerning Edmond
Halley, Salter, these meagre remarks : —

" Possessed of an estate of a thousand pounds a year in houses,
before the fire of London, yet as he was a great sufferer by that
fire, so entriug into an imprudent second marriage he became
unable to renew the leases of his houses when the old ones expired,
whence it came to pass, that his fortune mouldring away by degrees,
sunk at last into a low ebb."

Among his possessions in 1666 was a house containing nine hearths,
 in Finsbury, St. Giles, Cripplegate.

Respecting the birth of Dr. Edmond Halley, the astronomer, we
have this record made by his contemporary, John Aubrey : —

"Mr. Edmund Hally, astronomer, born October 29, 1656, London —
this nativity I had from Mr. Hally himself . . . He was born in
Shoreditch parish, at a place called llaggerston, the backside of
Hogsdon."

A confirmatory and, in some respects, complementary, statement
appears in the " Biographia Britannica " : —

" Edmund Halley was born near London, October 29, 1656, in
the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, at a place called Haggerston,
which then consisted of little more besides a country-house belonging
to his father, Edmund Halley, who was a Citizen and Soapboiler
in 'Winchester Street." '--

As there is no record in the parish of Shoreditch of the baptism
of Dr. Halley, during the three months subsequent to his birth,
it seems possible that he may have been baptised in the parish of
St. Giles, Cripplegato, the church of which, by the way, is said
to be in one of the most interesting parts of London. On that
spot Oliver Crouiwoll took unto himself a wife, and there also,
was laid to rest all that was not immortal of John Milton.

The name of Dr. Halley's mother, the first wife of his father,
has not been discovered. This is most unfortunate, for it lias justly
been remarked that the pedigree of a genius is quite incomplete
without some record of his maternal ancestry. The astronomer has
been described as an only child, but .lohn Aubrey calls him "the
eldest son," and we now know that he had a younger brother,
Humphrey, who died circa 1684....."[111]

Soapmaker inventories

Somerset Archive and Record Service VARIOUS deeds, etc. DD\CHG/48 1674-1893 10 docts.
Contents: Probates of wills of Hugh Spiller, eld. of Donyatt, soapmaker, with inventory, dat. 1675, pr. 1679, and Hugh Spiller of Crock St., Ilminster, soapboiler, with inventory, dat. 1726 pr. 1728;



Horth

SEE THE FOLLOWING: (http://audio34.archive.org/stream/calendarstatepa04offigoog/calendarstatepa04offigoog_djvu.txt, viewed 21/04713)


CSPD, 1654 (London, 1886), p. 30

"March 15.(1653/54) 84. Order in the Committee for Greenland, on presentation of
names of persons to attend this Committee, that Fras. Ashe, John
 Dickons, and Hugh Norris attend for the Muscovy Company ; for
Edw. Whitwell and co., John Warner, and Edw. Whitwell ; for Thos.
Horth, and co., Thos. Horth, sen., and for Rich. Perkins, Fras. Pargiter.
 [Draft, 1 page.] Annexing,

84. I. List of Tui-Aies presemted hj the Muscovy Compwny for their
committee, viz., Ashe, Dickons, and Norris, Steven Whyte,
 and Phil. Colley. [Scrap.]

84. n. Note hy Rich. Hawkins of nameS drawn by the Hull
Adventurers for their committee, viz. : Roger Drayton,
 John Jolliffe, Geo. Poyner, Fras. Pargiter, Rob. Cumminge.
 [Scrap.]

March 15, 85. List of the names accepted, with orders to them to attend on
Friday, and note of Hum. Beane and Rich. Batson to attend for
Mr, Batson and co. [1 page.]"

  • "March 9. 48. List by Thos. Horth of adventurers for Greenland. Thos.

Meadowes of Yarmouth, Major Robert Huntingdon, Thos Horth,
sen., Thos. Horth, jun. [Scrap.]"

(CSPD, 1654, p. 17, http://www02.us.archive.org/stream/abd6186.0007.001.umich.edu#page/n65/mode/2up, viewed 30/01713))

  • March 9. 46. Edw. Whitwell to Wm. Jessop, Whitehall. I send you 4

London. names ; Arnold Beake, Thos. Muschamp, John Warner, and Edw.
Whitwell, in whom our friends are willing to confide. Also names
of 21 persons of such consequence to the [Greenland] voyage that
it would be overthrown without them ; they should be saved from
impress. Mr. Perkins has always been of the Muscovy company.
[ipage.']"

(CSPD, 1654, p. 17, http://www02.us.archive.org/stream/abd6186.0007.001.umich.edu#page/n65/mode/2up, viewed 30/01713))

"Nov. 27, 150. Petition of Arnold Beake, merchant of London, to Council,
for license to transport a horse to Bordeaux for his son Samuel,
who resides there as his factor, horses being scarce in those parts."

(CSP, 1655, p.33

"1655/56. Feb. 15. 62. Petition of Fras. Ashe, governor, and the Muscovy Company,
to the Protector, to free from impress the men whose names are
annexed, being experienced in the whale fishery, without whom the
voyage cannot be mannaged. Notwithstanding former losses, have
prepared 3 ships for Greenland in March, and the loss of their voyage
would be a loss to the State, whale oil and fins being necessary
commodities, [1/3 page)
62. I, List of 37 harpooners and steersman hired for Greenland
for the ensuing year.(1/2 page)

(CSPD, 1655-56 (London, 1882), p.183: http://archive.org/stream/calendarstatepa01offigoog#page/n219/mode/2up, viewed 30/01/13)


"1655/56. March 7.. 16. Petition of Capt. Wm. Thomas and Company to the Protector
and Council, for protection from impress of his two vessels, both of
London, bound for the Greenland whalefishery, the John of Berk-
shire, with 5 harpooners and 6 steersmen ; and the Sarah, with
5 harpooners and 6 steersmen ; 35 seamen are but sufficient to
manage the said vessels, and the time for their departure is fully
come, but by reason of the press for seamen, they cannot start.
[1 page.]

1655/56. March 7.. Order thereon in Council, granting 2 protections for the said
2 vessels, and a third for the Adventure, at request of Capt. Whitwell
and Co. I.76, p. 588 ; I.. 112, pp. 282-3.]"

(CSPD, 1655-56 (London, 1882), p.214: http://archive.org/stream/calendarstatepa01offigoog#page/n251/mode/2up, viewed 30/01/13)

"1655/56. March 13. 31. Note of a petition referred to the Committee for Petitions, of the
adventurers bound for the whale fishing in Greenland, for warrants
to keep from impress 25 harpooners and steersmen whose names are
given in, that the ships may proceed on their voyage. Order in
Council accordingly, [1/2 page. Also I. 92, No. 354 ; I. 76, p. 600.]"

(CSPD, 1655-56 (London, 1882), p.222: http://archive.org/stream/calendarstatepa01offigoog#page/n259/mode/2up, viewed 30/01/13))

"1656. April 3. 7. Petition of Roh, Browning, Edm. Halley, and Wm. Basset, for
the owners of the John of Berkshire, to the Protector and Council,
for letters of marque against the Spaniards, on giving security in
the Admiralty Court, and a just account of what prizes they
take. Have furnished the ship with 16 pieces of ordnance for a
Greenland voyage, but divers ships from Dunkirk, &c, do much spoil
to English ships, and lately carried from the Isle of Wight a ship, of
which Browning was part owner. [3/4 page.] "

(CSPD, 1655-56 (London, 1882), p.250: http://archive.org/stream/calendarstatepa01offigoog#page/n287/mode/2up, viewed 30/01/13))

"1656. April 28. 1656. 116. List by Edw. Whitwell and 2 others of 18 officers, har-
pooners, and steersmen for the Damosell, bound for Greenland, some
not being yet shipped.
Also list by Jas. Baker and 3 others of 8 for the Spinner (1 2/3 pages)"

(CSPD, 1655-56 (London, 1882), p.298: http://archive.org/stream/calendarstatepa01offigoog#page/n335/mode/2up, viewed 30/01/13))



Joffrey


Jeramie Joffrey, rope maker, of Ratcliff in Stepney, aged 38

Background on ropemakers

  • ADM 106/320/170 William Bodham, Clerk of the Ropeyard and Peter Russell, Master Ropemaker, Woolwich. Receipt of letter and answers the Board's queries in detail about the weight of the drag which is impossible to prescribe rules, but gives account of the length of warp and cable on the stakes. They mention one or two complaints by Captain Tinker of some long jawed cables laid by Bartrum. 1676 Feb 12


  • ADM 106/326/29 Henry Lee. He requests to be entered as ropemaker at Chatham, formerly employed there and has since been foreman of a rope ground in London. 1677 Apr 27


  • ADM 106/320/187 William Bodham, Clerk of the Ropeyard, Woolwich. He has seized a boat with junk and lodged it in the dock. The boatmen, Henry Williams and Thomas Gould, formerly ropemakers of the yard, say they bought junk and oakum from?Soaner, a taylor who had it from the Swallow about 2 years ago. Captain Chuseman searched the suspected places and found about 1 cwt. of knit yarn in the house of Pierce, a ropemaker here. He wants a warrant for searching suspected places and instructions about the boat the men say was hired. 1676 Sep 13


  • ADM 106/318/447 ?G. Peathy, Clerk to the Ropeyard. Receipt of letter, he cannot give an exact account of the weight of the press in laying cables as the master Ropemaker is sick and the foreman in London. He gives an account of the length of the warp and of each cable after being taken off the stakes. 1676 Feb 12


  • ADM 106/315/210 Captain A. Beare, Master Attendant, Woolwich. He has several times commented on the sails returned from sea made of Ipswich canvas, which is rotten within 7 or 8 months. The Ropemaker can make boltropes, requests twine for same and by an experiment found these are equal to Flemish boltropes. 1675 Sep 13


Inventories of ropemakers


  • PROB 4/9654 Watmer, William, of Lambeth, Surrey, ropemaker. 24 March 1666


  • PROB 4/1759 Terrell, William, of St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey, ropemaker. 15 November 1673



Kirton


Deposition of Richard Kirton, overseer of the land men on the Owners Adventure and the Greyhound, of Ratcliff in Stepney, aged 40

  • Went (by time of depositions) on 16 or 17 voyages to Greenland

Luckett


Deposition: 4. Lovewell Luckett of the parish of Saint Olave Southwarke Mariner aged twenty two yeares (HCA 13/71 ff,578r-581v)

SEE:
Surrey Hearth Tax, 1664: Bermondsey:

Rot 6D
"Love Luckett 4 hearths"
(http://www.hearthtax.org.uk/communities/surrey/surrey_1664L_transcript.pdf, viewed 26/01/13)


Messinger/Messenger


  • Symon Messinger (HCA 13/72 f.416v) (cf. the John of Barkshire and the Sarah


"19. ........................the arlate William Bassett
20. the arlate Edmund halley and William Thomas part Owners of
21. the three quarter parts of the sayd shipps, and Symon Messinger
22. John Tarleton and Robert Browning arlate part Owners of the other
23. quarter part of the sayd shipps"(HCA 13/72 f.416v)

  • "On 19 October 1658, testimony in the suit of Thomas Middleton vs Simon Messinger, Thomas Mather, purser of the Two Sisters in 1656, said Mr. Henry Thompson was Master. Owners were Simon Messinger, Robert Hooker, Samuell Hill, Thomas Thompson, William Thompson, Edward Thompson, and others. Henry Thompson (relationship unknown) died 10 December 1656, a week before the ship reached Jamaica." [112]


  • C 6/191/76 Messenger v Johnson. Plaintiffs: Ralph Messenger. Defendants: Richard Johnson, Thomas Johnson and Simon Messenger. 1670


  • C 10/488/159 Messenger and Bedysh v Symonds: Norfolk. 1664

- COULD THIS BY JOHN BENDYSH, LONDON MERCHANT?

  • C 5/523/141 Messenger v. Harvey: Middlesex. 1672


  • "The Hamlett of Shadwell in the Parish of Stepney./ Upper Shadwell Northside./ Cutthroate Lane

Simon Messenger 4 hearths (1666)" (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119171&strquery=shadwell, viewed 21/04/13)

  • (Family Search) MARRIAGE: Simon Messenger SPOUSE: Maudlin Powell DATE: 15 May 1634 PLACE: Stepney, Middlesex, England ("England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NJ86-RY5 : accessed 21 Apr 2013), Simon Messenger and Maudlin Powell, 15 May 1634.)


  • (Family Search) MARRIAGE: Symon Messenger SPOUSE: Dammeris Feringe DATE: 01 Jan 1644 PLACE: Saint Olave,Southwark,Surrey,England ("England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NVZZ-F5N : accessed 21 Apr 2013), Symon Messenger and Dammeris Feringe, 01 Jan 1644.)


  • (Family Search) CHRISTENING: Margaret Messenger FATHER: Simon MEssenger MOTHER: Maudlin CHRISTENING DATE: 10 Jun 1635 PLACE: SAINT DUNSTAN,STEPNEY,LONDON,ENGLAND ("England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JW88-3J9 : accessed 21 Apr 2013), Simon Messenger in entry for Margaret Messenger, 10 Jun 1635.)


  • (Family Search) CHRISTENING: Simon Massenger (sic) FATHER: Simon Massenger MOTHER: Maudlin CHRISTENING DATE: 12 Nov 1637 PLACE: SAINT DUNSTAN,STEPNEY,LONDON,ENGLAND ("England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JMVM-DJY : accessed 21 Apr 2013), Simon Massenger, 12 Nov 1637.)


  • * (Family Search) BURIAL: Simon Messenger DATE: 21 Jul 1638 PLACE: St. Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex, England FATHER: Simon Messenger ("England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JCVL-L42 : accessed 21 Apr 2013), Simon Messenger, .)



Parkins (?Perkins)



Pibus/Pybus


H.B. Guppy identified Pibus/Pybus as a county name and specifically coming from Yorkshie's North and East Ridings (XXX. pp. 318,539)[113]

  • (Family Search) CHRISTENING: John Pibus FATHER: John Pibus CHRISTENING DATE: 20 Sep 1613 PLACE: Sprotbrough, York, England ("England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J9B3-PJ4 : accessed 21 Apr 2013), John Pibus, 20 Sep 1613.)


  • (Family Search) MARRIAGE: John Pibus SPOUSE: Elizabeth Newsome DATE: 1607 PLACE: Mexborough, York, England ("England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NF6G-25D : accessed 21 Apr 2013), John Pibus and Elizabeth Newsome, 1607.)


Probable John Pibus marriage, Greenwich, 1639

(Family Search) MARRIAGE: John Pibus SPOUSE: Dougles Upcoate (sic) DATE: 28 Jun 1639 PLACE: Saint Alphage,Greenwich,Kent,England ("England, Marriages, 1538–1973 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V5VR-CZN : accessed 21 Apr 2013), John Pibus and Dougles Upcoate, 28 Jun 1639.)

Pybus christenings in Greenwich, 1642-1659

Elesebeth Peybuse
Father: John Peybuse
Christened: 30 Dec 1642
Place: ST ALPHAGE,GREENWICH,KENT,ENGLAND
Ref: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NL2W-Y3R : accessed 10 May 2013), Elesebeth Peybuse, 30 Dec 1642.

Mary Pibus
Father: John Pibus
Christened: 10 Aug 1645
Place: ST ALPHAGE,GREENWICH,KENT,ENGLAND
Ref: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NL2W-KPR : accessed 10 May 2013), Mary Pibus, 10 Aug 1645.

Rebbecca Pybus
Father: John Pybus
Christened: 09 Dec 1647
Place: ST ALPHAGE,GREENWICH,KENT,ENGLAND
Ref: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NL24-8Q2 : accessed 10 May 2013), Rebbecca Pybus, 09 Dec 1647.

John Pybus (IS THIS JOHN PYBUS JUNIOR WHOSE WILL PROBATE WAS IN 1711?)
Father: John Pybus
Christened: 01 Jul 1653
Place: ST ALPHAGE,GREENWICH,KENT,ENGLAND
Ref: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JQLQ-Q6G : accessed 10 May 2013), John Pybus, 01 Jul 1653.

Ann Pybus
Father: John Pybus
Christened: 15 Oct 1657
Place: ST ALPHAGE,GREENWICH,KENT,ENGLAND
Ref: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NL24-DVV : accessed 10 May 2013), Ann Pybus, 15 Oct 1657.

James Pybus
Father: John Pybus
Christened: 11 Oct 1659
Place: ST ALPHAGE,GREENWICH,KENT,ENGLAND
Ref: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JM7B-7BR : accessed 10 May 2013), James Pybus, 11 Oct 1659.

Marine related John Pibus/Pybus records, 1656-1673

"Warrants of the Protector and Council.
(1656; April 14: Protection from impress.
For Wm. Welsh, master, and 14 harpooners and steersmen of the William and Sarah, going to Greenland, for the Muscovy company.
For Jas. Goulding, master, and 27 " " Exchange, "
For John Mandrey, master, and 19 " " Mary Bonadventure, "
For Rob. Sares, master, and 7 " " Spinner, "
For%20%27%27%27John%20Pibus%2C%20master%2C%27%27%27%20and%2017%20%22%20%22%20Damasell%2C%20%22
%28%27Warrants%20of%20the%20Protector%20and%20Council.%20%27%2C%20Calendar%20of%20State%20Papers%20Domestic%3A%20Interregnum%2C%201656-7%20%281883%29%2C%20pp.%20580-588.%20URL%3A%20http%3A//www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx%3Fcompid%3D54509%20Date%20accessed%3A%2010%20May%202013%29

(Undated 1661 8. Grant to the Duke of Ormond of the forfeitures of John Pibus, condemned in the Admiralty Court for having seized a ship and goods belonging to merchants of the United Provinces." ('Charles II - volume 47: Undated 1661', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1661-2 (1861), pp. 200-213. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=54683 Date accessed: 10 May 2013)

"(1666:) May 9. Trinity House. 84. Masters and Wardens of Trinity House to the Navy Comrs. After conference with Capt. John Cox, Capt. John Pybus of Greenwich is appointed master of the Sovereign. [Adm. Paper.]" ('Charles II - volume 155: May 1-11, 1666', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1665-6 (1864), pp. 374-393. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=54839 Date accessed: 10 May 2013)

"1672: May 9.Dover Castle. The same to the same. I sent you an express this morning of the Dutch fleet sailing. They are now in Calais Road. I shall observe your orders in making a smoke from the South Foreland lighthouse as soon as our fleet is discovered, and will also give notice to all the ships in the Downs that they may fall westward if they please, without danger, and I believe this place safer than the Downs, and fitter for them to join with our fleet; but their orders, I believe, must come from you. I have just despatched the Fanfan, Capt. Pybus, with all the packets I have for the fleet, and put on board him Lieut. Tempest of the Edgar, and the 30 seamen marched hither, having two more vessels ready to send on occasion. I have ordered Capt. Pybus, if he should meet any Dutch scouts, and cannot escape, to throw overboard all his packets. Pray let the Prince know what I write. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 307, No. 208.]" ('Charles II: May 6-10, 1672', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1671-2 (1897), pp. 472-529. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=60256 Date accessed: 10 May 2013.)

"(December 1672): Dec. 3. Harwich. Silas Taylor to the same. I express my thankfulness for your signification to the Mayor and all military officers to forbear quartering in his Majesty's yard. There are spirits here, who, because they are not employed themselves, would make all things as uneasy as they could to those who are. Quartering on us was not only motioned but with arguments insisted on. However, the military officers are and were so civil to me that, had the town done it, I believe I should have prevailed with them to have been free. I finished long since the wharf between me and a neighbour, but, now I have gone so far, the neighbours only consult of contributing among themselves towards the filling of it, which they have hitherto neglected, so that a piece of the garden wall is fallen in, the repair of which will cost 40s. or 50s. I know of no way to get the boats but by the Fanfan. Capt. Pibus yesterday morning shewed himself very ready in it, so, as soon as he has taken in his victuals, I will write by him to the bailiffs of Aldeburgh. In the late storm the Fanfan got into Yarmouth Pier. Lieut. Consett went hence 24 or 25 November. Yesterday evening Capt. Page in the Portsmouth sent in a cable and anchor belonging to the Greyhound, and that evening came to her in a smack two more anchors and cables. 'Tis said Capt. Sadlington also came into Hollesley Bay last night. Other news given in his former letter of the same date. [Ibid. No. 13.]" ('Charles II: December 1672', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1672-3 (1901), pp. 233-343. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57203 Date accessed: 10 May 2013.)

"(1673: Jan. 28. The Fanfan, Harwich. Capt. John Pybus to the same. Enclosing the boatswain's and carpenter's notes of what is wanted, and desiring that they may be sent, as also an order to clean her, she being very foul. [Ibid. No. 163.] Enclosed, The said notes. [Ibid. Nos. 163i.–ii.]" ('Charles II: January 1673', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1672-3 (1901), pp. 380-503. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57211 Date accessed: 10 May 2013)

(1673: Feb. 14. List of ships and their present stations:—Rate: 6 Ship: Fanfan Captain: John PibusPresent stations: At Woolwich refitting." ('Charles II: February 1673', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1672-3 (1901), pp. 503-627. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57212 Date accessed: 10 May 2013. )

ADM 106/289 05 November 1673 Navy Board: Records. IN-LETTERS. Miscellaneous. Folio 263. Captain Pybus. Routine matters concerning his mate.

PROB 11/524/50 Will of John Pybus, Mariner of East Greenwich, Kent 02 November 1711 (Son? Nephew? Cousin? Grandson?)

There is a decent chance that the Adventure of Hull was financed in 1656 by Edward Whitwell (and more speculatively by Richard Eccleston), leaders of the Hull whalers.

- 1655/56. March 7.. Order thereon in Council, granting 2 protections for the said
2 vessels, and a third for the Adventure, at request of Capt. Whitwell
and Co. I.76, p. 588 ; I.. 112, pp. 282-3.]"

- "The free adventurers (Edward Whitwell and
Richard Eccleston of Hull being the leaders)
chiefly Hull men, commenced an agitation. They
appeared before the Committee of the Council of
State appointed to inquire into the question, and
in addition printed a broadside addressed to
Parliament and every member thereof."
(XXX, p.143)

- * March 9. 46. Edw. Whitwell to Wm. Jessop, Whitehall. I send you 4
London. names ; Arnold Beake, Thos. Muschamp, John Warner, and Edw.
Whitwell, in whom our friends are willing to confide. Also names
of 21 persons of such consequence to the [Greenland] voyage that
it would be overthrown without them ; they should be saved from
impress. Mr. Perkins has always been of the Muscovy company.
[ipage.']"

(CSPD, 1654, p. 17, [WWW]http://www02.us.archive.org/stream/abd6186.0007.001.umich.edu#page/n65/mode/2up, viewed 30/01713))

    • ON BEAKE FAMILY LINK TO GREENLAND TRADE SEE:

"BEAKE, Samuel

Co Co Billingsgate, 1674-6 Corner of Botolph Lane and Love Lane, 1682, St George, Botolph, 1671, 1682 (1) Will PCC 146 Cann pr, 2 Dec 1685 f Arnold BEAKE (2) Merchant, Hamburg and Greenland trade (3) Personalty, 1682, £9,000+ (4)

(1) Will, VBk, St George Botolph (2) Will of Arnold BEAKE (3) Will, SP/29/415/14 (4) Will"
(http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=31878#s50, viewed 21/04713)


Adventure of Hull (Pibus' ship in 1656)

('Acts of the Privy Council')[722.] Whitehall, 27 September : (1667)

"Vpon reading the humble Petition of Thomas Mountfort, Plantation
and Edward Richardson Merchants, Setting forth. That on
the 28th of January last the Petitioners did agree with
Lancelot Anderson of Hull Mariner for the Shipp the Adventure
 of Hull to Sayle from Kinsale to Mary Land, there to take
 in Tobacco, and returne via recta to Ireland, and there dis-
charge and dehver her Lading ; That in her returne with the
Virginia ffleet to the Lands-end, shee was Chaced by a Dutch
man of Warr above Londy, and forced into King-roade neare
BristoU for safe guard, where the said Shipp and Goods are
detayned by Order of the ffarmers of his Majesties Customes,
vnder pretence, that the said Shipp had not brought Cer-
tificate from the Governour of Mary Land of her entring into
bond there for Clearing, Landing, and Dischargeing her said

p.435 http://6ia_archiver-web.archive.org/stream/cu31924026356299#page/n477/mode/2up

Ladeing of Tobacco in some of his Majesties Dominions, and
vpon other Causes in the said Petition specifyed. [A copy
of the petition is directed to be sent to the Farmers of the
Customs who are required speedily to return to the Board
their answer thereto.] [p. 606. *[| 2.]

p. 436 http://6ia_archiver-web.archive.org/stream/cu31924026356299#page/n479/mode/2up

Acts if the Privy Council of England, vol. I 1613-1680 (London, 1908)

"1689 Oct. 16.Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to discharge the seizure of the ship Stockholme Merchant, on the petition of John Thompson, of Hull, mariner, on which petition the said Commissioners reported Aug. 13 last that said ship arrived in London with tar and iron, navigated with eight English and four strangers, but William John and William Benson, of London merchants, swore that said ship was English-owned, and the said Thompson, master of the said ship, swore that he sailed from Hull in Sept., 1678, as master of a pink called the Adventure of Hull, bound for the Narve with himself, eight English and one stranger, that from the Narve he sailed for Hull with the same company, but his ship was lost on the outrocks at the isle of Vannas, he lay 14 days on the rocks and saved the rigging, went to Stockholm and there bought the ship Stockholm Merchant, which being of greater burthen than the pink, he was obliged to hire four strangers, being able to get no English, and so returned to England, where said ship was seized by the Surveyor of the Navigation Act. Out Letters (Customs), p. 273."

William A. Shaw (ed.), Entry Book: October 1680, 11-20', Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 6: 1679-1680 (1913), pp. 700-714. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=83552 Date accessed: 01 February 2013


Ray


  • Giles Ray of London, citizen and woodmonger of London (C6/125/pt1/24 f.1r)


  • DEFINITE MATCH: PROB 11/307/473 Will of Gyles Ray, Woodmonger of Bridwell, Middlesex. 05 March 1662


  • DEFINITE MATCH: C 6/125Pt1/24 Short title: Chapman v Goldegay. Plaintiffs: Robert Chapman . Defendants: Gower Goldegay and Giles Ray . Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1652


  • POSSIBLE MATCH: C 5/33/37 Giles Ray. Subject: money matters, London or Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1657


  • POSSIBLE MATCH: C 6/175/59 Short title: Turbervill v Brice. Plaintiffs: Anthony Turbervill, John Ferrers, William Weldon, Francis Crawly, Nevill Kidwell and John Ray. Defendants: Nicholas Brice, John Austen, Giles Ray, John Dodson, William Mattingly, Noah Barnard and others. Subject: property in Cookham, Berkshire. Document type: bill, answer. 1662


  • DEFINITE MATCH OF LITIGANT AGAINST GILES RAY AND GOWEN GIOLDEGAY: PROB 11/355/344 Will of Robert Chapman, Woodmonger of Saint Bride, City of London. 05 December 1677


Tradesmans' Tokens

"299. ROBERT CHAPMAN AT. A sword with a crown on the
 point. R. BRIDEWELL DOCKE. In the field, R. E. C.

300. GILES RAY, WOODMONG. The Woodmongers' arms. R.
 AT BRID WELL DOCKE. In the field, G. I.R.

301. THO. TEMPLEMAN. A fleur-de-lis on a fagot. R. AT
BRIDWEL DOCK. In the field, T. M. T.

302. AT THE SVN TAVERN. The SUn. R. VPON BRID-
WELL STEPS. In the field, A. E. C.

303. AT Y:E PYD. BVLL IN. A bull. R. OVLD BRID WELL,
1652. In the field, M. A. E.

304. THIS HALFPENY BELONGING TO Y E . The city arms.
R. HOSPITAL OF BRIDEWELL, LONDON. The City
arms."[114]

"195 ROBERT CHAPMAN AT BRIDE — Woodmongers' arms,
 in the field. Rev. Well Dock . his half peny
— In the field, R. E. C.

196 ROBERT CHAPMAN AT — Woodmongers' arms, in the
 field. Rev. BRIDEWELL DOCKE — In field, R. E. C.

The farthing ; of less size than the preceding.

197 GILES RAY.WOODMONG — Woodmongers arms, in field.
 Rev. AT BRIDWELL DOCKE — lu the field, G. I. R.

Bridewell dock was formerly a landing-place used by the Thames watermen ;
hence the many houses of entertainment. In Lodowick Barry-'s Ram Alley, or
Merrie Trickes, printed in 1611, 4to., Will Smallshankes and the rest of his fellows,
while being conducted after supper by torchlight, from the Mitre in Fleet street
to the Savoy, are set on, swords drawn, by Throat and his desperadoes, who carry
oflF the pretended heiress unperceived towards St. Giles's ; Thomas Smallshankes,
nettled at this scurvy luck, affirms she had run off towards Fleet bridge ; but
Will asserting it as a thing not possible, Thomas reiterates —

" Upon my life.
They went in by the Greyhound, and so strooke
Into Bridewell, — to take water at the dock." — Sign. E i.

The Greyhound was a well-known tavern on the south side of Fleet street.
Bridewell dock, described by Pope, in his caustic lines —

" — where Fleet ditch with disemboguing streams
Rolls its large tribute of dead dogs to Thames,"

was that portion of New Bridge street from Tudor street to Chatham place. The
now road-way for carriages and horses being then water issuing into the Thamea
from Fleet ditch. See Whishaw's Plan of London before and after the Fire."[115]

Reynolds


Edmond Reynolds of the parish of Saint Botolph Algate Cooper and Cooper of the Owners Adventure, aged 50 in January 1656(57), so corn circa 1656 or 1657


(Mr) Scott(e)


Tarleton


  • John Tarleton (HCA 13/72 f.416v) (cf. the John of Barkshire and the Sarah


"19. ........................the arlate William Bassett
20. the arlate Edmund halley and William Thomas part Owners of
21. the three quarter parts of the sayd shipps, and Symon Messinger
22. John Tarleton and Robert Browning arlate part Owners of the other
23. quarter part of the sayd shipps"(HCA 13/72 f.416v)


(Mr) Tooke/Tucke


  • PROB 11/216/314 Will of John Tucke, Soapmaker of Bristol, Gloucestershire. 20 April 1651


  • C 10/155/8 Bromfeild v. Tuck: Middx. 1668



Welch


William Welch


West


3. Richard West of Wapping in the parish of Stepney Ship Calker aged 46 yeares : June 15th 1653 ("same day") (marke)

Background on ships' caulkers

PROB 11/264/181 Will of William Martin, Caulker of Wapping, Middlesex. 07 May 1657
PROB 11/306/343 Will of Stephen Boad or Boade, Ship Caulker of Stepney, Middlesex.26 November 1661
PROB 11/318/313 Will of Edward Johnson, Caulker of Stepney, Middlesex. 27 October 1665
PROB 11/332/419 Will of Thomas Linsey, Caulker of Stebonheath, Middlesex. 18 March 1670
PROB 11/342/705 Will of Thomas Leicester or Lester, Caulker of Stepney, Middlesex. 30 September 1673
PROB 11/353/144 Will of John Crisp, Caulker of Stepney, Middlesex.07 February 1677

PROB 5/1103 BOATE, Benjamin, of Deptford, Kent, [caulker] [Registered will: PROB 11/338]. 1673

ADM 106/305 Folio 136. John Shish. A long answer to various questions raised by the Master Caulker and the details of the problems he has had with him. Sheerness. 1674 Feb 17
ADM 106/309 Folio 40. Robert Lee, Master caulker. Matters concerning the pitch house and the possible dangers from fire. Chatham 1675 Apr 16
ADM 106/490/157 Jeremiah Jones. He was foreman of the caulkers in Mr. Robert Kirby's Dockyard, Lower Shadwell, was impressed by Henry Deal for Portsmouth Yard and requests his discharge so he can return to Mr. Kirby's yard and help his father, master caulker of the dockyard, who is very sick. 17 Aug 1696



Whitwell


  • Edward Whitwell appears to have been in partnership with Richard Eccleston, known as "Whitwell and partners", and probably of Hull. Whitwell appears to have backed the Adventure of Hull in 1656, but this needs to be confirmed from a true primary source.


- "The free adventurers (Edward Whitwell and
Richard Eccleston of Hull being the leaders)
chiefly Hull men, commenced an agitation. They
appeared before the Committee of the Council of
State appointed to inquire into the question, and
in addition printed a broadside addressed to
Parliament and every member thereof."
(XXX, p.143)

- "The free adventurers (Edward Whitwell and
Richard Eccleston of Hull being the leaders)
chiefly Hull men, commenced an agitation. They
appeared before the Committee of the Council of
State appointed to inquire into the question, and
in addition printed a broadside addressed to
Parliament and every member thereof."
(XXX, p.143)

" Worth digging to see if the names of some of their ships can be identifed (try Appleby)

  • "Warner, Whitwell, and other "free adventurers"

sent up in 1652 "a small Pinke of 50 or 60 tun," and after-
ward " a shipp and a small Vessell intrudeing into the
harbours formerly kept and frequented by the Company and
them of Hull and Yarmouth, and refusinge to come in with
them in consorteshipp and to joyne offensive and defensive
to keepe the Dutch and French out of those Harbours."
Worse still they impudently brought in Dutchmen and other
strangers to manage their stock and adventure

To these internal troubles the uncertainties and alarms
of European war were now added. The Dutch having
neither men nor men-of-war to spare for protection of the
whalers, the whale-fishery was suspended for the season of
1653 ; but the English went up as usual. The Peace of
London, on her way to Spitsbergen, belied her name and
captured a small vessel of Rotterdam, which she brought
into Newcastle. Then she sailed on to the fishing and
killed three whales before the other whalers arrived — a
smart piece of work 2 . Two other ships, the Louisa and the
Hunter, on their way from Spitsbergen to Havre', were
taken by some Parliament ships and carried into Yarmouth,
and divers French mariners taken out of them were sent
with other Dutch prisoners to Chelsea College, but were
ordered to be discharged. It afterwards appearing that the
two ships themselves had had special passes from the
Council of State for the said voyage, they also were let go
after a month's detention.

While the peoples of Western Europe were falling out,
Denmark, in a quiet way, took a notable step in the north,
for the King in 1653 sent out what may be called the first
scientific Arctic expedition. He despatched three ships to
explore the polar ocean and to make observations as to the
products and characters of lands and seas. These ships
visited Novaja Zemlja and then sailed to Spitsbergen 1 .
Possibly some account of their doings may still exist in the
archives of Copenhagen. More information about early
Danish Arctic expeditions is much wanted. Some patriotic
Dane may find this subject worth investigation. "[116]

Economics and yields

"We learn moreover that in
Bell Sound the whales only frequented the broad part and
did not (in any quantity) " goe up the branch bays ; soe that
30 or 40 shallopps well man'd is sufficient to fish that
harbour, if not disturbed by others, and may kill as many
whales as if there were doble the nomber of boats." The
Greenland Company state that during five years they made
with three ships 500 tons of oil each year in Bell Sound
alone ; but that when the interlopers came there, double
the number of ships made only half that amount of oil, so
that the price of oil has risen from £\% to ,£30 per ton, and
the price of whalebone from £\ to £% per cwt.

The best harbours, we learn, did not yield a profit
every year. The profit came from an extraordinarily good
year, which could only be expected once out of three to five
years. Then, many shoals of whales coming in, the whalers
might make as much as 400 tons of oil and whalebone
more than they could carry home. The overplus was left
in the storehouses and brought home afterwards as there
was room for it in the ships. The free-traders claim that
they possessed in Spitsbergen a warehouse even larger than
the Greenland Company's, which we know to have been
80 ft. long by 50 ft. wide. They also had many hundreds
of tons of casks stored there. Unfortunately we are with-
out any information as to the position of this great ware-
house."[117]


"The English fleet in 1656 consisted of very few ships,
perhaps six in all. One was Whitwell's Adventure. It is
known that Ice Sound was Whitwell's station. Probably
Adventure Bay was named from this ship. Of late years
the name has been misunderstood and changed into Advent
Bay. It was proposed to the Admiralty that four or five
good frigates should ply off Cape Clear at a suitable season
to prey upon the Biscay fleet of Spitsbergen whalers "who
are generally many and make good voyages," but as no
captures are recorded the advice was probably not taken.

In 1657 at least five English ships went up. But the
adventurers seem to have had little hopes of much success.
Dutch oil came freely into England, the Customs officers
being bribed to let it pass ; and the London traders could
not sell their own stuff. In 1658 the London Company
were still urgent that the Government should help them to
keep outsiders from coming into Bell Sound. They sent in
an important but unfortunately inaccurate list of 2 1 Spits-
bergen harbours, to show that there was room enough else-
where for other interests.

The Dutch fishery was suspended in 1659. Of the
 English we hear nothing. Henceforward it is the rarest
 thing to find mention of English whalers in our State-
papers. Yet it is probable that the fishery dragged on, for
 in Macpherson's Annals of Commerce (11. p. 544) it is re-
corded that in 1668 no English whalers went out, and in
1669 only one ship. When the Royal Society of London
 was founded, one of the first subjects to which it devoted
its rather rudimentary enquiries was Spitsbergen and the
whaling there. In 1662 it published a series of " Enquiries
for such as goe to Greenland, by Mr Hoskins 1 ." It is clear
therefore that some English ships still frequented the
Greenland {i.e. Spitsbergen) fishery. Such answers as
were received came, I believe, from Hull whalers. Those
preserved were supplied by Captain Lancelott Anderson
and Mr Grey 2 . Grey's notes are here reprinted with some
of the slight but spirited illustrations that accompany them.
They prove that to the last the fishery in Bell Sound was
pursued in the old-fashioned way, long ago given up by the
Dutch and French. The account is entitled " The manner
of the Whale-fishing in Greenland Given by Mr Gray to
Mr Oldenburg for the Society.[118]


"We have according to the bignesse or smalnesse of
our ships, the more or fewer Boates ; a ship of 200 tuns,
 may man six boats ; A vessel of 80 or 100 tuns, 4 boats ;
A Vessel of 60 tuns, 3 boats or more, not lesse ; 3 boats
being as few as may be with convenience to kill a whale.
 Each boat hath 6 men ; A Harpeneir, Steersman, and four
' Oars ; to which men the merchant giveth, (besides their
wages) for every 13 tuns of Oyle (which we call a Whale)
when there is so much for each boate, to the Harpenier
6/z. \os., the Steersman 3/2'., and to each Oar 305., in all for
each boat 15/2'. \os., which we call whale-money.
"We have several men and boats upon several convenient
places, which we call Look-outs\ that constantly remain
looking out by turnes for the Whale, which when we fish in
Harbour, cometh into a smooth Bay, where is a good
Harbour for our ships : And having discovered the Whale,
which swimmeth with her back above the water, or is
descried by the water which she bloweth into the Air, one
Lookout maketh signes to another, by hoysing up a basket
upon a Pole, and then all the boats row after her, and
having opportunity to row up with her, before she goeth
down, strike a Harping-iron into her, to which is a staffe
joyned being about 6 foot long, called a harping-staffe, to
the Socket of which Iron is a white rope, with an eye
seazed very fast : This Rope is about 5 fathoms long, which
Lying upon the forepart of the Boat (which we call a
Shallop) always coyled over a little pin, ready to take up,
to give scope to the Iron, when it is thrown at the Whale ;
and to this hand-rope is a warpe of 300 fathoms seazed, to
veer after the whale, lest, when she is struck, by her swift
motion (which is often down to the ground, where the water
is 60, 70, or 80 fathom deep) she should sink the boat.

"Thus having gotten our Iron into her, our boats row
where they think she will rise (after she hath been beating
her selfe at ground) and get 2 or 3 more irons into her, and
then we account her secure. Then when she is neer tired
with striving and wearied with the boats and ropes, we
lance her with long Lances, the Irons and stands wereof are
about 12 or 14 foot long, with which we prick her to death ;
and in killing her, many times she staveth some of our
boats, beating and flourishing with her tayle above water,
that the boats dare scarce come nigh her, but oftentimes in
an hours time she is dispatched.
" Thus having killed her, our boats tow her (all of them
rowing one before another, one fast to another like a team
of Horses) to the ship's stern, where, after she hath layn
24 hours we cut off the Blubber, and take the finns (which
we commonly call the whalebone) and her tongue out of
her mouth, and with a great pair of slings and tackle, we
turn her round, and take all that is good off her, and then
we turn her carcass adrift and tow the blubber (cut in pieces)
to the shore where works stand to mannure (sic) it.

"Having made fast the blubber to the shore, we have
a Waterside-man who stands in a pair of boots, to the
middle leg in water, and flaweth such flesh as is not clean
cut from the blubber : Then we have two men with a
Barrow 1 , that when the Watersideman hath cut it in pieces
about two hundred weight, carry it up to a stage standing
by our Works, like a Table ; then we have a man with
a long knife, who we call a Stage-cutter, who sliceth it into
thin pieces about halfe an inch thick, and a foot long or
longer, and throws it into a Cooler, we call a slicing-cooler,
betwixt which and another Cooler (called a Chopping-cooler)
we have men we call choppers placed ; five or six men, who
upon blocks cut about a foot and halfe square (made of the
tayle of the Whale, which is very tough) do take the sliced
blubber and chop it very small and thin, not above a quarter
of an inch thick, and an inch or two long ; and thrust it off
from the blocks into the Chopping-Cooler, which holds two
or three tuns : Then upon a Plat-forme is built a Copper-
hole, about 4 foot high, to which there is a stokehole, and
on this Copperhole is a broad Copper, which containeth
about a Butt, hanged with Mortar and made tight round
the edges. And over the Stokehole, upon an Arch, stands
a Chimney, which draws up the smoke and flame. And we
have one we call a Tubfiller, who with a Ladle of Copper,
whose handle is about 6 foot long, taketh the Chopt blubber
out of the chopping-cooler and puts it into a hogshead made
with' strapps for that purpose, and he drawes this hogshead
from the chopping-cooler's-side to the Copper and putteth it
in ; under which having once kindled a fire of wood and
boyled a Copper or two of Oyle, the scruffe which remains
after the Oyle is boyled out of the blubber (which we call
Fritters) we throw under the Copper, which makes a feirce
fire, and so boyleth the Oyle out of the blubber without any
other fewell.

"Then when we find that it is boyled enough, we have
two men which we call coppermen who with two long-
handled copper ladles take both oyle and fritters out of the
Copper, about halfe, and put it into a Barrow (we call a
Fritter-barrow) made with two handles and barrell-boards
set about halfe a-quarter of an inch one from the other,
through which the oyle runneth and the Fritters remain ;
from which the Oyle being drained whilst another Coper of
Oyle boyles, they are cast into the Stokehole and burnt,
and the barrow stands ready again on the first Oyle-Cooler,
to receive what is taken out of the next Copper. Out of
this barroW the Oyle runs into a great thing we call a Cooler
made of Deal-boards, containing about five tuns, which is
filled within an inch of a hole (made in the side for the Oyle
to run into the next spout) with water to cool the Oyle, and
so the Oyle runs upon the water, through this hole into
a spout about 10 or 12 foot long, into another cooler filled
as aforesaid and out of that, through a long spout into a
third filled as aforesaid and out of that, in a long spout into
a Butt laid under the end of this spout, which being full, the
hole of the Cooler, next the Butt is stopt till another Butt
is laid under, and then the plugg being taken out, it filleth
another, till we have done boyling : Then we fill up our
Oyles, when they are thoroughly cold, and marke them and
roule them into the water, rafting 20 together, and so tow
them aboard, hoyst them into our ships, and stow them to
bring them home.

"And for our Finns, which grow in two Gumms in the
whales mouth (whereof in a whales mouth, great and small
are about 600, 460 whereof being merchandable) we cut
them one by one out of the gumms and having rubb'd them
clean we bind them up 60 in a bundle, and so taking account
of them ship them aboard in our Long-boat.

" Upon the shoar we have a Tent for our Land-men,
built of stone, and covered with Deals, and Cabbins made
therein for our Blubber-men to lodge ; And we have a
great Working-tent with a Lodging-room over it, where,
about 6 Coopers work, to get ready Cask to put the Oyle
into." [119]


"The only English reference I have been able to find to
the year 1663 is a warrant, issued to Robert Child and
 William Bowles, to make needful provision for such deer
 as might be brought alive by them from Spitsbergen 1 .
Whether any arrived is not recorded, but the warrant
implies that an English ship was intended for the fishery.
This year is however noteworthy in the Dutch Spitsbergen
annals, not for any new discovery, but for the first record of
a group of discoveries. Up to 1662 no chart (so far as
1 have been able to discover) depicted the east coasts of
Barentsz and Edge Islands, or marked Hinloopen Strait
and the islands farther east, excepting, of course, the Mus-
covy Company's map, published in 1625 by Purchas, which
tentatively marked the south point of North-east-land. It
is recorded that the Ryk Yse Islands were discovered about
1640-45, but until this year, 1663, they were not inscribed
on any chart. This year, however, Hendrick Doncker, of
Amsterdam, issued a new chart of Spitsbergen in many
respects far better than any that had gone before. In it
he not only clearly showed Liefde and Wijde Bays, giving
to the latter its full extension and marking a great glacier
at the head of it, but he plainly marked the "Straet van
Hindeloopen" and beyond it a piece of North-east-land
including " Brandewijns baij." Further on he also marked
the Seven Islands. He was vaguely informed about North-
east-land and only ventured to indicate it as a number of
small islands, nor was this inaccuracy corrected till after
Giles' voyage of 1707. The west shore of Hinloopen
Strait he marked decidedly, introducing the later-named
Treurenberg Bay under its earlier designation Beere Bay,
and likewise marking the east mouth of Heley's Sound by
the name " 't Schip d' Eenhoorn baij," perhaps after the
ship which discovered it. He names the hill immediately
south of it Lommeberg. The modern Lomme Bay, whose
entrance might be easily missed in a fog, is not marked at
all, and the result was some confusion in nomenclature at
a later date.
Still more noteworthy is the representation of Edge
Island, now clearly shown with the " Ryck Ysse Eylanden"
off its east cape. Two anchorages are marked on its east
coast. They, like the anchorage off Whales Head and
another off one of the Thousand Islands, undoubtedly repre-
sent whaling centres. There are ruins of Dutch cookeries
still existing not far from Whales Head, and Lamont noticed
others on Ziegler Island, which must therefore be the place
indicated by the last-mentioned anchor. Anchorages are
also marked off Hope Island. Here then we have almost
the only exact record of the Dutch fishery in the south-east.
We know it to have been extensively carried on. We may
perhaps conclude that it was in full swing about or shortly
before 1663, the year in which this important chart was
issued.

In 1665 and the two following seasons the whaling
voyage was prohibited by the Dutch Government, on
account of the war 1 ; but the French continued to venture
forth and several of their ships were captured by English
and Scotch privateers 2 . In 1668 the Dutch whaling fleet
 went up again and had bad luck, for 17 ships were wrecked.
That was the most icy season on record. The ice-pack
came down so far south that no ship could pass north of
the Foreland. The wrecked ships must have been destroyed
in consequence of these unusual conditions. As a result of
 the small import of train-oil into Holland, the price of rape-
seed rose fast and it was briskly exported from Hull 3 . The
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  22. ↑ Batson family coat of arms, Highworth, no further details, photograph credit: 'D. & M. Ball', viewed 03/06/13
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  26. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.58r Case: A busines of exámination of Witnesses on the behalfe of Roger Phillips against one two and thirtieth part of the dover Marchant and against Peter Bultele.; Deposition: Richard Batson of the parish of Saint James Garlick hithe, London, Merchant, aged 56 yeeres: Date: 12/06/1657
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  29. ↑ This is the footnote text
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