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1st April 1663, Letter from John Bankes to Sir GO, London

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 82

Editorial history

04/06/09, CSG; Completed transcription
14/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki




Abstract & context


The London merchant John Bankes (alias Banks) (b. 1627, d. 1699) wrote to Sir George Oxenden from London on April 1st 1663 on behalf of his kinsman, Alexander Grigsby.

John Bankes described Alexander Grigsby (b. 1638, d. 1673, at Surat) as a former servant of his, reporting that as his servant "hee was Injenyous & apt to busyeness & very honest."

Grigsby was was John Banks' first cousin; the son of his father's sister, Elizabeth, who had married Thomas Grigsby in 1622 in Maidstone. At the time of John Banks' letter, Alexander Grigsby's father was dead, having died ca. 1650, when Alexander was still a child.[1]

The first mention of Alexander Grigsby in English East India Company records is in 1658 in connection with a planned, but aborted, mission to establish a factory in China.[2] Grigsby was described then as "a youth," which matches a suggested birth date of 1638.[3]

Alexander Grigsby was later appointed a member of the eight man council at Surat, though stationed initially at the Keralan town of Cale Velha, a few miles south of Cochin.[4] Subsequent probably to John Banks' letter, though perhaps before the letter's arrival in Surat, Grigsby was moved to the coastal town of Porcat with fellow factor John Harrington, where he and Harrington were located in December 1663.[5] Grigsby was to die in Surat in his mid-thirties in 1673.

At the time of writing John Banks was about thirty-six years old. Son of Caleb Bankes, a Maidstone merchant,[6] John Banks he had built his commercial career in the 1650s. Unusually for a London merchant, he had attended university, being admitted a pensioner to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in May 1644.[7] His intellectual interests continued, with election as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1668.

1657 there were rumours of a new Excise farm involving a "syndicate of merchant financiers." D.C. Coleman commented in his biography of Sir John Banks that, although the deal was not consumated, "the leading members of the syndicate make an interesting group: Dethick, Noell, Ford, Banks, John Frederick and Nathaniell Temms."[8] Coleman suggests that key to the rise of such merchants were their close contacts with the Commonwealth government and their involvement in naval finance and procurement.

John Banks' career was assisted by marriage about 1657 to Elizabeth Dethicke, daughter of Sir John Dethicke (alias Dethwicke), London merchant and mercer.[9] John Banks successfully made the transition into the commercial world of the Restoration (as did his father-in-law), being made knight and baronet in 1661. However, Banks did not resume his political career started as M.P. for Maidstone, 1654-1659, until 1678, when he was elected M.P. for Winchelsea.

Sir John Banks acquired the manor of Shales-court, Aylesford, three miles to the North-West of Maidstone. Hasted stated that the manor had been alienated to him in the early 1660s from Sir Thomas Hendley of Coursehourne.[10] However, the official website of the Friars, Aylesford, known also as Aylesford Priory, states that Sir John Banks acquired the building in 1657 from the widow of the London merchant Sir Peter Rycaut and her son, Sir Paul Rycault.[11] The house was reported having twenty-five hearths at the Lady Day 1664 hearth tax assessment.[12] Banks carried out extensive building work on the house, transforming it, according to D.C. Coleman "from an only partially converted medieval priory into an elegant country house," with much of the expenditure in the late 1670s and early 1680s.[13] At his death in 1699, Banks gave his residence as Aylesford, Kent.[14] The main block of the Friars is now a listed building.[15]

The father-in-law of Sir John Banks, Sir John Dethwick, had a seventeen hearth house in Tottenham, Middlesex, as recorded in the 1666 Lady Day hearth tax returns.[16]


Suggested links


See Maidstone


To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL

(2) Summarise Latham & Mathews entry on Sir John Banks

(3) Look at Samuel Pepys' meetings with, and comments on, Sir John Banks[17]


Images

The Friars, near Aylesford, Kent


Possible images

Shepherd, George Sidney, 'The Fryars at Aylesford, the seat of Lord Aylesford,' engraver Benjamin Winckles, in XXXX, England's Topographer series (London, 1828-1831), steel line engraving on paper. Engraved surface 105 x 152mm (approx. 4-1/8" x 6")

Storer, J., 'The Friars near Aylesford, Kent,' 1812, Kupferstich, Blatt: 15,5 x 9,5 cm, Darstellung: 10 x 7 cm

- Try James Sargant Storer, John Greig (engraver), Antiquarian and topographical cabinet (London, 1807)


Transcription


This transcription has been completed, but needs to be checked

[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 82]


S:r

In y:e first place I wish yo:r health & happynesse & shall heartily rejoyce to understand y:e same by y:e next shipps not doubting but then the Comp:a expectations will bee fully answered & if you Can finde any opportunity wherein I may prove serviceable beleeve it S:r I shall bee willingly ready to serve you; as yo:r true ffreind and Countryman.

And next I wish my kindsman’s Alexander Grigsbyes[18] wellfare for whome (when I had y:e opportunity to kiss yo:r hand) I did acquaint you I had á kindness; The Comp:a haveing entertayned him upon my request, & I shall Rejoyce to understand hee prove á good servant, haveing beene soo to mee some yeares & was never sent thither upon any other acco:t than as aimeing at his prefrment I doo hope by y:e next shipp to understand y:e efforts of yo:r promised kindeness to him as knowing yo:r Countenance cann onely bee his happyness, & I may say while hee was heere, hee was Injenyous & apt to busyeness & very honest, & hope hee soo Continues By his last lres hee was at Cale Vela[19], whither to remove him, or Continue him ??replace him to any other imploym:t I wholy submitt to your good Judgem:t & long experience, it is onely my desire hee may doo well, & live to bless god, & ever show himselfe obedient too you for all yo:r kindnesse I begg yo:r favour y:t y:e inclosed may bee conveyed to him, whither at Cale Vela, or else wheare affarding [affording?] you I remaine.

S:r
Yo:r affectionate humble
Serv:t
John Banks

London y:e 1:st April 1663



Notes

Sir John Banks (b. 1627, d. 1699)


Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet (b. 1627, d. Oct. 18, 1699); English merchant and M.P. Son of Caleb Bankes and Martha Dann. He was admitted pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in May 1644.[20] Married Elizabeth Dethick, dau. of Sir John Dethwick, London merchant, ca. 1657. Children included Caleb, Mary and Elizabeth. Caleb was an M.P., but died before his father, in 1696. His daughter, Mary, married John Savile, and his daughter, Elizabeth, married Heneage Finch.

Appointed baronet in 1651. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1668.

Involved in trade with the East Indies and Africa. Governor of the EEIC, 1667-1674.

M.P. for Maidstone, 1654-1659, 1695-1698, for Winchelsea, 1678, for Rochester, 1679-90, for Queenborough, 1690-1695.[21]


Sir John Dethicke (alias Dethwicke) (b. ?, d. 1670)


"DETHICKE, John

Ald Queenhithe, 20 Jan 1648/9-5 Feb 1656/7 removed to Cornhill-4 Sep 1660 (1) St Nicholas Acon, 1634, Lime Street ward, 1640, Tottenham High Cross, Middx, 1671 (2) MER, fr, 1638, by R ("a gilt salt") (3) b West Newton, near Kings Lynn, Norf, d 31 Mar 1671, bur St Andrew Undershaft (4) Will PCC 4 Duke pr, 6 Apr, 1671 f John Dethicke of West Newton, Norf, m Alice, da of Edmund Chartres of West Newton, mar (A) Anne, da of Francis Smallpiece (Mayor of Norwich), and wid of Thomas Anguish of Norwich, (B) 1633, at Tottenham, Middx, Martha, da of Edmund Travers of London, merchant, and of Tottenham, gent, (C) Anne, da of Thomas Jolliffe of Leek, Staff, wid of Joseph Barker of St Andrew Undershaft, merchant (5) Merchant, trader to Norwich (6) Sheriff, 1650, LM, 1655-6 Kt (by Protector), 15 Sep 1656, (by King), 13 Apr 1661 (7) Treas at War, 1648 ("had 3d per £1") (8) Dissenter (9) Bro-in-law of John JOLIFFE Da Elizabeth mar Sir John Banks, the financier (MP Maidstone, 1654-9, Winchelsea, 1677/8, Rochester, 1679-90, etc) Da Susan mar Edward Rudge, merchant, MP Eversham, 1681, 1690-5, f of John Rudge, MP Eversham, 1698-1734 (10)

(1) Beaven, I, pp 194, 125 (2) Boyd 1126, MG et H, 2nd Ser, II, p 110, will (3) Beaven, I, p 125, MER, Fr List, p 145 (4) Will, Boyd 1126 (5) Boyd 1126, 14805, GHL, I'Anson MS (6) Boyd 1126, MG et H, 2nd Ser, II, p 110 (7) Beaven, I, p 125 (8) TLMAS, IV, p 149, A Second Centurie, 1648 [GHL, B's 1 2] (9) Will (10) GHL, I'Anson MS, Pink MS 304, f 91, Boyd 32311, GEC, III, p 228, Walcott, MPs Tempus Anne"[22]


Sir John Banks' references in Samuel Pepys' diaries, 1663/64-1668


"Friday 19 February 1663/64 Up in good order in my head again and shaved myself, and then to the office, whither Mr. Cutler came, and walked and talked with me a great while; and then to the ‘Change together; and it being early, did tell me several excellent examples of men raised upon the ‘Change by their great diligence and saving; as also his owne fortune, and how credit grew upon him; that when he was not really worth 1100l., he had credit for 100,000l. of Sir W. Rider how he rose; and others. By and by joyned with us Sir John Bankes; who told us several passages of the East India Company; and how in his very case, when there was due to him and Alderman Mico 64,000l. from the Dutch for injury done to them in the East Indys, Oliver presently after the peace, they delaying to pay them the money, sent them word, that if they did not pay them by such a day, he would grant letters of mark to those merchants against them; by which they were so fearful of him, they did presently pay the money every farthing."[23]

"Friday 13 October 1665 ...To-night come Sir J. Bankes to me upon my letter to discourse it with him, and he did give me the advice I have taken almost as fully as if I had been directed by him what to write."[24]

"Friday 26 January 1665/66...Thence with Sir J. Bankes and Mr. Gawden to the ‘Change, they both very wise men. After ‘Change and agreeing with Houblon about our ships, D. Gawden and I to the Pope’s Head and there dined and little Chaplin (who a rich man grown). He gone after dinner, D. Gawden and I to talke of the Victualling business of the Navy in what posture it is, which is very sad also for want of money."[25]

"Thursday 24 May 1666...Home, and Mr. Hunt come to dine with me, but I was prevented dining till 4 o’clock by Sir H. Cholmly and Sir J. Bankes’s coming in about some Tangier business. They gone I to dinner, the others having dined."[26]

"Monday 11 June 1666...Late comes Sir J. Bankes to see me, and tells me that coming up from Rochester he overtook three or four hundred seamen, and he believes every day they come flocking from the fleete in like numbers; which is a sad neglect there, when it will be impossible to get others, and we have little reason to think that these will return presently again. He gone, I to end my letters to-night, and then home to supper and to bed."[27]

"Wednesday 27 March 1667...But it comes into my mind here to observe what I have heard from Sir John Bankes, though I cannot fully conceive the reason of it, that it will be impossible to make the Exchequer ever a true bank to all intents, unless the Exchequer stood nearer the Exchange, where merchants might with ease, while they are going about their business, at all hours, and without trouble or loss of time, have their satisfaction, which they cannot have now without much trouble, and loss of half a day, and no certainty of having the offices open. By this he means a bank for common practise and use of merchants, and therein I do agree with him."[28]

"Saturday 4 April 1668...Thence home to the office by water, where we sat till noon, and then I moved we might go to the Duke of York and the King presently to get out their order in writing that was ordered us yesterday about the business of certificates, that we might be secure against the tradesmen who (Sir John Banks by name) have told me this day that they will complain in Parliament against us for denying to do them right. So we rose of a sudden, being mighty sensible of this inconvenience we are liable to should we delay to give them longer, and yet have no order for our indemnity."[29]

"Wednesday 23 December 1668 Met at the Office all the morning, and at noon to the ‘Change, and there met with Langford and Mr. Franke, the landlord of my father’s house in Fleet Streete, and are come to an arbitration what my father shall give him to be freed of his lease and building the house again. Walked up and down the ‘Change, and among others discoursed with Sir John Bankes, who thinks this prorogation will please all but the Parliament itself, which will, if ever they meet, be vexed at Buckingham, who yet governs all. He says the Nonconformists are glad of it, and, he believes, will get the upperhand in a little time, for the King must trust to them or nobody; and he thinks the King will be forced to it. He says that Sir D. Gawden is mightily troubled at Pen’s being put upon him, by the Duke of York, and that he believes he will get clear of it, which, though it will trouble me to have Pen still at the Office, yet I shall think D. Gawden do well in it, and what I would advise him to, because I love him."[30]


Sir John Banks monument, Aylesford parish church


"Aylesford church is a handsome building. It contains various memorials of the Aylesford branch of the Finch family; and of the Colpepper, Suke, Banks, Rycaut, and Sedley families. On the costly monument of Sir John Banks, Bart., who died in 1699, aet. 72, is his effigy in marble, with that of his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Dethick."[31]


Grigsby family


A genealogical web page suggests that Alexander Grigsby was born in Maidstone, Kent and christened on March 4th 1628 at Ashford, Kent. The same site suggests he died on June 25th 1673 at Surat, aged 35. This parents are given as Thomas Grigsby (b. 1599, d, ca, 1650) and Elizabeth Bankes (b. 1607, d. 1675).[32]

Elizabeth Bankes, alleged mother of Alexander Grigsby, is shown on the genealogical website as the sister of Caleb Bankes (and thus the aunt of John Bankes, who wrote to Sir George Oxenden on April 1st 1663 regarding his relative (that is his first cousin). Elizabeth Bankes marriage to Thomas Grigsby is given as June 9th 1622 at All Saints Church Maidstone.[33]


Cale Vela, East Indies


"...Walter Travers, John Harrington , and Alexander Grigsby. At Mokha: Anthony Smith. In Persia: Nicholas Buckeridge (Agent), Stephen Flower, and Edward Swinglehurst..."[34]

"...the arrivall of our shipping there, have drawne off from the factory at Cale-Velea two persons, vizt. John Harrington and Alexander Grigsby, well experienced in the trade of Porcat,[35] with intention to settle them there and provide such quantities of cleane pepper, to be shipt off in October, as wee shall furnish them with stockes from hence to effect; and have left only two persons at Cale_Velea, for..."[36]


English East India Company

EEIC, 1655-1659


"[January 12-13, 1658] For China : William Garway (to go there and settle a factory and then return as Agent for Persia if he so desires) to be Chief, Charles Goldsmith second, John Edwards third, Rowland Garway fourth, and Alexander Grigby, a youth."[37]

"[March 5, 1658] The names of Rowland Garway, Edmund Percivall, and Alexander Grigby to be put in the commission now ordered to be drawn up for the Welcome, as they are upon occasion to advise with Captain Hargrave"[38]

"[March 17, 1658] Forward two bills of exchange, amounting to 300/."[39]
- CCM, 1655-1659, notes that John Bancks was agent for the Company in Hamburg


EEIC, 1660-1663


"[December 4, 1663] By the commission given to James Snow, commander of the Hopewell, that vessel was only ordered to sail to Porcat or Quiloane, there take in her lading of pepper, cassia lignum, and such calicoes as should come from Cale Velha, and not go to Cochin or any other port or place. The Hopewell had on board eleven parcels of opium, and ' baggs of chicqueenes of gold ', consigned to John Harrington and Alexander Grigsby, the Company's factors at Porcat ; she carried no arms, ammunition, or contraband goods. Porcat is about fourteen leagues south of Cochin and is a place of no defence, having no garrison or fortifications ; only about five guns lying on a sandbank by the sea, and these are used more to salute friends than to offend an enemy. About 1649 the Company's ship, the Discovery, laded a large quantity of pepper at Porcat, and since then the English have traded there, being several times invited by the King or Rajah of that place and the country thereabouts, who is neither a Portuguese or Moor, but a Gentue, and tributary to the Samareene or Emperor, who lives up in the country and whose dominions extend from about Carwar to Cape Comorin and who is neither tributary nor vassal to the King of Cochin. The Dutch had not obtained any victory or conquest over the King of Cochin, who was not dependent upon, neither had he any protection from, the Portuguese, being a free Prince and only tributary to the above-mentioned Samareene. His residence is in the upper town of Cochin, up in the country, so that the pretence of the Dutch to the conquest of the King of Cochin appears to be but a fallacy, as they only obtained the conquest of Cochin, which was in the possession of the Portuguese. In 1660 the President and Council of Surat sent factors to settle a factory and to reside at Porcat. They were very courteously entertained by the Rajah, who undertook to build them a house (which he did), and give it freely to the English, who should only pay the ordinary customs and be free from all molestation and encumbrances.."[40]

"The Court therefore, appointed Sir George Oxinden to be President at SURAT, with a Council of Eight, viz. Mr. Gerard Aungier, Mr. Mathew Gray, Mr. Thomas Rolt, Mr. Henry Young, Mr. Streynsham Master, Mr. Charles James, Mr. Philip Gofford, and Mr. Alexander Grigsby, five of whom were constantly to reside at Surat, particularly Mr. Aungier, Mr. Gray, and Mr. James."[41]


EEIC, 1677-1679


"The account of Alexander Grigsby [Grigby] to be re-examined and reported."[42]


Possible primary sources

TNA


C 2/ChasI/B103/26 Short title: Banks v Ingram. Plaintiff: Banks. Defendant: Ingram kt. Document type: Answer. 1625-1660

C 5/1/15 Bankes v. Dixon: Kent 1644
C 5/499/99 Hinton v. Banks: Kent. 1673

C 6/18/38 Short title: Bancks v Hampden. Plaintiffs: John Bankes. Defendants: Richard Hampden and Grace Richaut widow. Subject: property in Aylesford, Kent. Document type: two answers. 1657
C 6/56/62 Short title: Hartridge v Banks. Plaintiffs: William Hartridge. Defendants: Sir John Bankes baronet and James Besbeech. Subject: property in Goudhurst, Kent. Document type: bill, two answers. 1670
C 6/57/56 Short title: Stroud v Fludd. Plaintiffs: Sir Nicholas Stroud kt, George Arnold and Richard Reeve. Defendants: Thomas Fludd, Thomas Alablaster, Levin Alablaster, Ralph Alablaster and Sir John Bankes baronet and others. Subject: property in Otham, Maidstone, Loose, East Farleigh, and West Farleigh, Kent. 1670
C 6/143/39 Short title: Billingsley v Westram. Plaintiffs: Richard Billingsley. Defendants: George Westram, Robert Hobart, John Bankes, John Highlord, Matthew Alexander, Robert Hales and others. Subject: property in St Olave, Hart Street, London. Document type: bill, answer. 1659
C 6/187/25 Short title: Backwell v Lydcote. Plaintiffs: Edward Backwell. Defendants: Giles Lydcote, Sir John Bankes baronet, Augustine Coronell, John Penrice and John Culling. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, five answers. 1668
C 6/210/53 Short title: Letten v Bankes. Plaintiffs: John Letten. Defendants: John Bankes, Charles Bankes and William Gilbert. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1674

C 9/46/12 Bankes, knt. v. Fludd 1669
C 9/55/15 Banks v. Dethick 1671
C 9/55/20 Bankes, knt. v. Dethick 1672
C 9/139/19 Bankes, knt. v. Ellan 1689
C 9/186/58 C 9/186/58 1706

C 10/66/93 Giles Littcott and Sarah his wife, Sir John Bankes baronet, John Thirloe and John Upton v Thomas Cullinge, Thomas Hill and Elizabeth Hill: marriage contract, Middlesex. Bill and two answers 1662
C 10/90/83 Myers, Edwards and Branden v Bankes and Frederick: Middlesex 1667
C 10/90/85 Myers, Edwards and Branden v Bankes and Frederick: Middlesex 1666

C 22/14/31 Banks v. Fludd. Between 1558 and 1714

C 142/273/92 Banks, Caleb: Kent 45 Elizabeth

C 202/65/2 Return of Writs: Ad quod damnum: Kent - John Banks, bart., road between Aylesford and Burham 33 Chas. II Mich.

PROB 11/230 Brent 269-318 Will of John Grigsby, Clothier of Tenterden, Kent 12 May 1653
PROB 11/331 Coke 103-166 Will of Caleb Bankes, Gentleman of Maidstone, Kent 09 November 1669
PROB 11/335 Duke 1-53 Will of Sir John Dethick, Mercer of Tottenham High Cross, Middlesex 06 April 1671
PROB 11/452 Pott 129-167 Will of Sir John Banks of Aylesford, Kent 11 December 1699


Possible secondary sources


Coleman, Donald Cuthbert, Sir John Banks, baronet and businessman: a study of business, politics and society in later Stuart England (Oxford, 1963)

O Carm, Wilfrid McGreal, The History of The Friars Aylesford (XXXX, XXXX)

A.A.H., 'Finch, Hon. Heneage I (c. 1649-1719)', in David Hayton, Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley (eds.), The House of Commons, 1690-1715, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 1031-1039

- Son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Elizabeth Harvey, daughter of Daniel Harvey, grocer and merchant; educated at Westminster, Inner Temple 1662, called to bar 1673, bencher 1673, matric. Christ Church, Oxford 1664, DCL 1683; m. Elizabeth Banks, dau. of Sir John Banks, 1678
  1. ↑ http://thestoms.com/StomTree/9393.htm, viewed 15/01/12
  2. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, January 12-13, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 51), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 213
  3. ↑ http://thestoms.com/StomTree/9514.htm, viewed 15/01/12
  4. ↑ John Bruce, Annals of the Honorable East-India Company: from their establishment by the charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the union of the London and English East-India Companies, 1707-8, vol. 2 (London, 1810), p. 252
  5. ↑ EFI 61-64, p. 72; 'The Company to Sir George Downing [at The Hague], December 4, 1663' (Letter Book, vol. iii, p. 324, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 363-364
  6. ↑ PROB 11/331 Coke 103-166 Will of Caleb Bankes, Gentleman of Maidstone, Kent 09 November 1669
  7. ↑ John Venn, J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, pt. 1, to 1751, vol. 1, Abbas-Cutts (Cambridge, 1922), p. 80
  8. ↑ D.C. Coleman, Sir John Banks, baronet and businessman: a study of business, politics, and society in later Stuart England (Oxford, 1963), p. 22
  9. ↑ 'Dethicke, John', J.R. Woodhead, 'Dakins - Dyer', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 56-63; PROB 11/335 Duke 1-53 Will of Sir John Dethick, Mercer of Tottenham High Cross, Middlesex 06 April 1671
  10. ↑ Edward Hasted, The History and topographical survey of the county of Kent, vol. 4 (London, 1798), p. 300
  11. ↑ http://www.thefriars.org.uk/history.htm, viewed 10/02/12
  12. ↑ 'The lathe of Aylesford: parish of Aylesford: Chargeable...Sir John Banks, 25 hearths', in Duncan Harrington (ed.), Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664: CKS: Q/RTh; pub. at http://www.hearthtax.org.uk/communities/kent/kent_1664L_transcript.pdf, viewed 10/02/12
  13. ↑ D.C. Coleman, Sir John Banks, baronet and businessman: a study of business, politics, and society in later Stuart England (Oxford, 1963), p. 51
  14. ↑ PROB 11/452 Pott 129-167 Will of Sir John Banks of Aylesford, Kent 11 December 1699
  15. ↑ 'Listing text for the Friars, Main Block, Aylesford, Kent, English Heritage Building ID: 179202: http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-179202-the-friars-main-block-aylesford, viewed 10/02/12
  16. ↑ 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Tottenham', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011), viewed 24 January 2012
  17. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/7290.php#references, viewed 20/01/12
  18. ↑ Alexander Grigsbye was XXXX. See Missing faces
  19. ↑ Cale Vela was XXXX
  20. ↑ John Venn, J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, pt. 1, to 1751, vol. 1, Abbas-Cutts (Cambridge, 1922), p. 80
  21. ↑ Summary of Sir John Banks biography based on 'Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet,' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Banks,_1st_Baronet , viewed 20/01/12
  22. ↑ 'John Dethiwcke', J.R. Woodhead, 'Dakins - Dyer', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 56-63
  23. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1664/02/19/index.php, viewed 20/01/12
  24. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1665/10/13/index.php, viewed 20/01/12
  25. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1666/01/26/index.php, viewed 20/01/12
  26. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1666/05/24/index.php, viewed 20/01/12
  27. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1666/06/11/index.php, viewed 20/01/12
  28. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1667/03/27/index.php, viewed 20/01/12
  29. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1668/04/04/index.php, viewed 20/01/12
  30. ↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1668/12/23/index.php, viewed 20/01/12
  31. ↑ James Dugdale, The new British traveller, vol. 3 (London, 1819), p. 115
  32. ↑ http://thestoms.com/StomTree/9514.htm, viewed 15/01/12
  33. ↑ http://thestoms.com/StomTree/9392.htm, viewed 15/01/12
  34. ↑ EFI 61-64, p. 27
  35. ↑ Porcat (alias Purakkad)
  36. ↑ EFI 61-64, p. 72
  37. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, January 12-13, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 51), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 213
  38. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 5, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 83), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 236
  39. ↑ 'The Company to John Bancks [at Hamburg], March 17, 1658' (Letter Book, vol. ii, p. 74), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 242
  40. ↑ 'The Company to Sir George Downing [at The Hague], December 4, 1663' (Letter Book, vol. iii, p. 324, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 363-364
  41. ↑ John Bruce, Annals of the Honorable East-India Company: from their establishment by the charter of Queen Elizabeth, 1600, to the union of the London and English East-India Companies, 1707-8, vol. 2 (London, 1810),p. 252
  42. ↑ Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company, 1677-1679 (Oxford, 1938), p. 8

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