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6th April 1663, Letter from John Stanian to Sir GO, London (poss. 1662/63)

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 18-19

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Abstract & context

John Stanian (alias Stanyan) wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated April 6th, 1663, sent from London.

In the letter he mentioned that the Committees were becoming very strict in London on private trade, especially "Callicoe & Black Pepper." Ironically Stanian himself was sacked in 1667 for alleged involvement in private trade.

Sir William Ryder reported to Sir George Oxenden in a letter fated Augusr 22nd, 1667, sent from Bethnal Green, that Stanian had been dismissed for:

Houlding correspondence and privatt trading with ye Comp:a Servants, Especially with S:r Edward Winter & also some of y:e factory^[1]

He was replaced by Mr. Robert Blackbourne.

John Stanian (b. ?, d. ?) was the Secretary of the English East India Company from June 1654 till his removal in XXX 1667. Prior to his appointment as Secretary he had been servant for six years to the Secretary Richard Swinglehurst.^[2] In February 1658 also acted as keeper of the Exchange Warehouse on an annual salary of £100.

He was the son of Abraham Stanyan, who provided a bond of 1,000 for his son, as did Randall Isaackson, on the appointment of John Stanian as Secretary in succession to the deceased Richard Swinglehurst.^[3]

Suggested links

See 25th August 1662, Letter from John Stanyan to Sir GO
See March 1665/66, Letter from John Stannian to Sir GO

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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 18-19]

Worp:ll S:r

[X] with you overland in double Copies last August w:ch I hope are come to yo:r hands^[4] wherein I breifly mentioned what in Soe little time after yo:r departure hapnded, & came to mind y:r might concerne you, Since when wee concluded w:th y:e Dutch , Copie of y:e Artciles ...

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The Comp:a doth allow theire Serv:ts libertie of Trading in India & in theire owne Shipps, if it be not such goods as they have therein y:e same for theire owne Acco:ts, soe you may make good Advantage from y:e Bay to Persia etc. as you best know, & if at any time M:r Goodjer^[5] & M:r Gray^[6] have any remaines of mine I will order them to deliver it to yo:r Worp: to imploy till y:e next yeare if they cannot doe it w:thout Trouble you."

Therewith I send you a Declaration^[7] printed by y:e Comp:a to discover Private Trade in all places, alsoe a Copie of y:e Preamble,^[8] by w:ch you may see y:e conditions of Subscriptions w:ch at Seaven yeares must come & to XXX att w:ch time if this Stock shall not have well XXXXX, I Question whither they will be encouraged to proceed againe in a Stock however if it should soo happen as y:t they leave aby Intermission betweene y:t abd of thus, beginning of y:e Next Stock, Ieave it to y’:r discretion what use to make of such an Opportunity…

Notes

[Mentions highly valuable trade in diamonds for and with Portugal.]

[Thinks Sir William Thompson will be Governor]

Yo: faithfull ffreind & humble Servant John Stanian

Notes

John Stanyan, Esq., Eltham, Kent

"The parish church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, consists of a chancel, nave, and two aisles. At the west end is a spire....

On the floor are the tombs of George Cooke, merchant, 1699; John Stanyan, Esq. 1714; and Mrs. Susan Stanyan, his daughter, aged 93, 1762.

The north aisle was built in 1667, by Sir John Shaw, Bart. who had a faculty for that purpose. Whilst the vault was digging under this aisle, the roof of the nave fell in, June 24, 1667; after this accident, it was rebuilt, new pewed, and a new pulpit was given, all at the expence of Sir John Shaw."^[9]

EEIC, 1644-1649

EEIC, 1650-1654

"[June 14, 1654] The Court is informed that the Secretary, Richard Swinglehurst, is lately dead and that the business of his office is at a standstill, the keys of his office and the warehouses having been given up to Mr. Thomas Andrew, Messrs. Cokayne and Riccard being then out of town ; also that John Stanyan, who has been servant to the late Secretary for six years, now petitions to be employed by the Company. The Committees give him one of the keys of the said office, and direct him to perform the business connected with it, and to deliver to Mr. Cokayne what papers concerning the Dutch business he shall require, taking a receipt for them. Stanyan is also given the keys of the Exchange Cellar and told to performe the daily busines there ', to make a full abstract of all that is in the cellar and present it with his security next Friday, and to apply to the proper Committees for directions concerning that warehouse."^[10]

"[June 21, 1654] John Stanyan presents the desired abstract of the goods remaining in the Exchange Cellar, and nominates as his security his father Abraham Stanyan and Randall Isaackson ; they are accepted and directed to seal two bonds of 1,000/. each."^[11]

EEIC, 1655-1659

"[February 27, 1657] A list of debts owing is read, and Spiller is directed to sue Prickman. John Stanyan is desired to go to John Arnold at Doctors' Commons and try to obtain an administration of the late John Day's affairs for recovery of his debt to the Company. Spiller is also directed to repair to the other debtors and endeavour to obtain satisfaction from them."^[12]

"[February 10, 1658] The following men are chosen as officers for this Stock : Michael Dunkin, to keep the cash book and do his usual work at the Treasury, at a salary of 150/. a year ; Richard Harris, as his assistant, at 80/. a year ; Samuel Sambrooke, to write letters and keep the calico warehouse, at 100/. a year ; John Herbert, to assist him at 30/. a year ; James Acton, as solicitor and attorney, at 20/. a year ; John Stanyan, as secretary and keeper of the Exchange Warehouse, at 100/. a year ; Percival Aungier, to pay the mariners and do such other work as shall be required of him, at 30/. a year, ' to be bourne equally betweene this Stock and the United Stock for this present yeere ' ; John Spiller, to be beadle and porter, at 30/. a year ; Bartholomew Holloway, to assist him at 30/. a year ; Jeremy Sambrooke, to be general-accountant and keep the books in such a way as certain Committees (now appointed) shall determine, upon whose report his salary shall be settled and an assistant chosen if necessary."^[13]

EEIC, 1660-1663

Possible primary sources

British Library

George Oxenden (Surat) to John Stanian, 24 November 1666, IOL, E/3/29, ff. 276v-277r (cited Steven C.A. Pincus, Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668 (Cambridge, 2002), f. 20, p. 292)

TNA

C 6/179/48 Short title: Stanian v Squire. Plaintiffs: John Stanian. Defendants: Hugh Squire, Henry Dacres and John Cholmley. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: answer only. 1667
C 6/556/27 Short title: Stanyan v [unknown]. First plaintiff: John Stanyan. Defendants: [unknown]. Document type: bill only. 1690

PROB 11/329 Coke 1-56 Will of Mary Stanyan, Wife of London 10 February 1669
PROB 11/540 Aston 89-130 Will of John Stanyan, Gentleman of Eltham, Kent 17 June 1714

Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts

Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: Carte Papers [MS. Carte 37 - MS. Carte 40: Petition of Thomas Sheridan, and John Wilson to the King MS. Carte 40, fol(s). 31 [March?] 1683]
- Contents: Recite that Laurence Stanyan [In MS.: "Stannion"], esquire, late one of the Farmers of his Majesty's Revenue in Ireland, is indebted to Petitioners in large sums of money, and on pretence of making up his accounts has obtained from the Barons of the Exchequer freedom from arrest, whereby Petitioners lose the benefit of having bail to their actions against him.

1. ↑ 22nd August 1667, Letter from William Ryder to Sir GO, Bethnal Green
2. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, June 14, 1654' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 366), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 325
3. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, June 21, 1654' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 368), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 325
4. ↑ John Stanian is referring to his previous letter, dated August 25th, 1662, in which he had suggested that war with the Dutch was unlikely. See March 1665/66, Letter from John Stannian to Sir GO
5. ↑ John Goodyer
6. ↑ Mathew Gray
7. ↑ This is the footnote text
8. ↑ This is the footnote text
9. ↑ Daniel Lysons, 'Eltham', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 394-421. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45484 Date accessed: 27 January 2012
10. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, June 14, 1654' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 366), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 325
11. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, June 21, 1654' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 368), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 325
12. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, February 27, 1657' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 563) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 146
13. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, February 10, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 71), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), pp. 225-226