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"On 7 January 1657. Povey wrote to his brother William that a Mr Edward Bradbourne was coming to Barbados as a servant and factor to Mr Noell. Severall months later Povey wrote to Bradbourne..."<ref>Richard B. Sheridan, ''Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775'' (Baltimore, MA, 1974), pp. 91-92</ref> | "On 7 January 1657. Povey wrote to his brother William that a Mr Edward Bradbourne was coming to Barbados as a servant and factor to Mr Noell. Severall months later Povey wrote to Bradbourne..."<ref>Richard B. Sheridan, ''Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775'' (Baltimore, MA, 1974), pp. 91-92</ref> | ||
| − | "1661?: 94. Petition of Edward Bradbourne, the elder, to the King. Sets forth his services and losses in the royal cause from the first beginning of the late troubles to the value of 30,000l. ; that Thos. Noell who is in possession of the office of Secretary in Barbadoes is willing to surrender his grant which his Majesty upon a petition delivered by Lord Culpeper promised to the petitioner ; prays for a confirmation of the office to John Dawes, one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, for his life, in trust to the use of the petitioner and his assigns, to be executed by Edw. Bradbourne the younger, who is on the place, or any other deputy whom Dawes may appoint. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XV., No. 57.]" | + | "1661?: 94. Petition of Edward Bradbourne, the elder, to the King. Sets forth his services and losses in the royal cause from the first beginning of the late troubles to the value of 30,000l. ; that Thos. Noell who is in possession of the office of Secretary in Barbadoes is willing to surrender his grant which his Majesty upon a petition delivered by Lord Culpeper promised to the petitioner ; prays for a confirmation of the office to John Dawes, one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, for his life, in trust to the use of the petitioner and his assigns, to be executed by Edw. Bradbourne the younger, who is on the place, or any other deputy whom Dawes may appoint. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XV., No. 57.]"<ref>W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'America and West Indies: May 1661', ''Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies'', vol. 5: 1661-1668 (1880), pp. 27-35. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76439 Date accessed: 16 November 2011</ref> |
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| + | "The firm of Martin Noell & Company became exceedingly prosperous, and Noell himself one of the mainstays of the government. He became a member of the Trade Committee in 1655, of the committee for Jamaica in 1656, and was frequently called in by the Council of State to offer advice or to give information. He was on terms of intimacy with Cromwell, and because of the Protector's friendship for him and confidence in his judgment, his recommendations for office, both in England and the colonies had great weight. Povey speaks of the " extraordinary favor allowed him (Noell) by his Highness." He had a brother, Thomas Noell, who was prominent in Barbadoes and Surinam and in charge of his interests there. He was also represented in other islands by agents and factors, of whom Edward Bradbourne was the most conspicuous, while Major Richard Povey in Jamaica, and William Povey in Barbadoes, brothers of Thomas Povey, had for a time charge of his plantations in those islands. Noell indirectly played no small part in politics, particularly of Barbadoes, where Governor Searle held office largely through his influence. Besides his Jamaica holdings he had estates at Wexford in Ireland, and in April, 1658, wrote to Henry Cromwell that he had "transplanted much of his interest and affairs and relations " to that country, seeming to indicate thereby that his colonial ventures were not prospering satisfactorily. Noell was a politic man, shrewd and diplomatic, asserting his loyalty to the house of Cromwell, yet becoming a trusty subject of King Charles, from whom he afterward received knighthood."<ref>Charles McLean Andrews, ''British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675 (Baltimore, MA, 1908), pp. 50-51</ref> | ||
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C6/36/77 f. 2
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//XXXX Jurat XXXXXX 1668//
//Na: Hobart//
//XXXXX//
//The Joynt and sewall Answeres of Thomas Noell and George Robinson Two of the Executo:rs of S.r Martin Noell Knight deceased//
//to the Bill of Complaint of Hugh Upton Complaynant//
//All and all manner of Advantages and benefitt of Excepcons unto the Incertainties untrueths and other imperfecconns and insufficeincies of the said complaynants bill of Complaint to the said defendants now and att all tymes//
//hereafter saved and reserved The said defendants for themselves for Answeare unto all and every the matters and things materially concerninge them or either of them to Answere and say in manner as hereafter followeth And XXXX//
//the said defendts Joyntlie say That they beleeve that the said S:r Martin Noell in the Bill named was in his life tyme and att the tyme of his death lawfully seized in his Demeasne as of ffee or of some other ??estate of Inheritance of and in the Moytie or halfe//
//part of the Plantaconn called Hornehall in the Island of the Barbadoes And of and in the Moytie of the Cattle goods and stocke of what nature or Qualitie soever upon the same beinge And of and in the Moyetie and disposall of the Office of ?Secretaryshipp//
//to the Governor and Councell of the said Island of Barbadoes And of the Moytie and the disposall of the Clarkshipp of all the Courts of the said Island and of the Moytie of the ffees and profitts whatsoever X the said Two Offices belonginge or XXXXX//
//appteyninge And ?also was seized in ffee or some other estate of and in one other Plantacon Lands howses and stocks thereupon called Hilcotte lyinge and beinge in the said Island of Barbadoes mortgaged unto him the said S:r Martin Noell by ?Edward//
//?Bradborne of the said Islands merchant for a greate summe of money oweinge by the said Edward unto the said S:r Martin
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Notes
Edward Bradbourne
"On 7 January 1657. Povey wrote to his brother William that a Mr Edward Bradbourne was coming to Barbados as a servant and factor to Mr Noell. Severall months later Povey wrote to Bradbourne..."[1]
"1661?: 94. Petition of Edward Bradbourne, the elder, to the King. Sets forth his services and losses in the royal cause from the first beginning of the late troubles to the value of 30,000l. ; that Thos. Noell who is in possession of the office of Secretary in Barbadoes is willing to surrender his grant which his Majesty upon a petition delivered by Lord Culpeper promised to the petitioner ; prays for a confirmation of the office to John Dawes, one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, for his life, in trust to the use of the petitioner and his assigns, to be executed by Edw. Bradbourne the younger, who is on the place, or any other deputy whom Dawes may appoint. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XV., No. 57.]"[2]
"The firm of Martin Noell & Company became exceedingly prosperous, and Noell himself one of the mainstays of the government. He became a member of the Trade Committee in 1655, of the committee for Jamaica in 1656, and was frequently called in by the Council of State to offer advice or to give information. He was on terms of intimacy with Cromwell, and because of the Protector's friendship for him and confidence in his judgment, his recommendations for office, both in England and the colonies had great weight. Povey speaks of the " extraordinary favor allowed him (Noell) by his Highness." He had a brother, Thomas Noell, who was prominent in Barbadoes and Surinam and in charge of his interests there. He was also represented in other islands by agents and factors, of whom Edward Bradbourne was the most conspicuous, while Major Richard Povey in Jamaica, and William Povey in Barbadoes, brothers of Thomas Povey, had for a time charge of his plantations in those islands. Noell indirectly played no small part in politics, particularly of Barbadoes, where Governor Searle held office largely through his influence. Besides his Jamaica holdings he had estates at Wexford in Ireland, and in April, 1658, wrote to Henry Cromwell that he had "transplanted much of his interest and affairs and relations " to that country, seeming to indicate thereby that his colonial ventures were not prospering satisfactorily. Noell was a politic man, shrewd and diplomatic, asserting his loyalty to the house of Cromwell, yet becoming a trusty subject of King Charles, from whom he afterward received knighthood."[3]- ↑ Richard B. Sheridan, Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 (Baltimore, MA, 1974), pp. 91-92
- ↑ W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'America and West Indies: May 1661', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, vol. 5: 1661-1668 (1880), pp. 27-35. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76439 Date accessed: 16 November 2011
- ↑ Charles McLean Andrews, British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675 (Baltimore, MA, 1908), pp. 50-51
