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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 dated August 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. ?1634, d. ??1714)[2] 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, who had held the post of Secretary since 1641.[3] In February 1658 he was also acting as keeper of the Exchange Warehouse on an annual salary of £100. In May 1663 he was described in the Court Minutes as "Secretary and keeper of the Exchange Warehouse," on an annual salary of £160. Lawrence Stanyan, presumably his brother, was by then acting as his assistant on £20 per annum.[4]

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.[5] Later, in 1659, George Smith and Benjamin Baron stood as securities for John Stanyan in the sum of £2,000, after the death of Abraham Stanyan.[6]

The role of Secretary involved XXXX.

There is a record of a John Stanyan's admission to the Merchant Taylor's school in September 1644. The admissions register describes him as the "eld. son of Abraham, plaisterer, b. in par. of Katharine Cree Church, 24 June, 1634."[7] This is a plausible match, given that his known six years as servant to Richard Swinglehurst would have started about 1648.

The plaisterer Abraham Stanyan (alias Stanyon) was a prominent member of the Worshipful Company of Plaisters, serving as its Master for the period 1657-1659, in succession to Edward Goodenough.[8] He was involved in a number of property transactions in the parish of St Katherine Creechurch, in which he was resident, and appears to have had connections with Jewish merchants such as XXXX.

John Stanian may have married Susan Prithett, or Pritchett (b. 1640, d. ?), of XXXX, in 1657, when he was ca. twenty three and she ca. seventeen. He may have had a younger brother, ??Lawrence Stanyan (b. 1642, d. 1725), who may have been a merchant.[9]

John Stanyan's wife may have been the daughter of John Pritchett, bishop of Gloucester, who at his death in 1681 left the reversion of the manor of Tibberton, Taynton, and Bulley in Gloucestershire to his son John and son-in-law John Stanyan of Harefield, Middlesex. Stanyan became the sole lord farmer of the manor in 1692 following the death of his brother-in-law.[10] Several Stanyans were buried in the parish of Harefield, in 1701 and earlier.[11]. John Stanyan, gent., sold "an ancient house called Ryes or Rythes and about 170 acres of land" in Harefield in 1704, which became the core of the later expanded Harefield estate.[12]

John Pritchett (b. ?, d. 1681) was a graduate of Oxford, achieving an M.A. in 1629. He was sequestrated in the first civil war from the joint rectory of St. Mary Undershaft and St. Mary Axe. He had a living at Harlington, Middlesex, under the Commonwealth, together with the curacy of the parish church of Harefield, Middlesex, from both of which he was removed. He was restored to his position at St. Andrew Undershaft after the Restoration, and was made vicar of St Giles Cripplegate in 1663. He became Bishop of Gloucester in 1672, while retaining his position at St Giles Cripplegate. He was buried at Harefield church in 1681.[13]

John Stanyan's father, and his possible brother, Lawrence Stanyan (b. ?1642, d. ?1625), appear to have been of Hadley, near Enfield, Middlesex, as well as of London.[14]



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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(1) Complete this partial transcription



Portrait, Abraham Stanyon, father of John Stanian, 1644


PORTRAIT Captain Abraham Stanyan Anon 1644 GoodWyfe BlogSpot DL CSG 270112.jpg



Image credits & copyright information


Anon., 'Portrait of Abraham Stanyan, aged 33', 1644, private collection[15]



Transcription


This partial transcription needs to be completed

[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[16] 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[17] & M:r Gray[18] 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[19] printed by y:e Comp:a to discover Private Trade in all places, alsoe a Copie of y:e Preamble,[20] 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."[21]



John Stanyan, Merchant Taylors


"[1644] September.

John Stanyan, eld. son of Abraham, plaisterer, b. in par. of Katharine Cree Church, 24 June, 1634."[22]



Abraham Stanyan, plaisterer, St. Katharine Kree Church


Excerpt

"Shortly after acquiring the Corner House in Creechurch Lane, William Whitbey, the cloth-worker, appears to have demolished it and to have erected in its stead to quote from a Guildhall mortgage 1213/3 of March 23, 1648 "those two greate bricke messuages or tenements lately new built." The principal house he occupied himself until the date of his death (unascertainable, but some time prior to 1640), when he was succeeded there by his son James Whitbey. The second or corner house (called in the Bevis Marks lease of July 20, 36 See Appendix V. c. 1, p. 92. 40 This is borne out by the endorsement on the conveyance of September 20, 1672 (Guildhall document No. 1213/8) "of two messuages in Creechurch Lane" which reads "the reciting deed inrolled in the hustings of London the {blank} day of April, 1622, when it was in one house." There is a similar reference in a much later deed, No. 1213/27. 1703, "a lesser house adjoyneing eastwards") was tenanted until 1648 or 1649 by the firm of Hill and Whittingham, and was then taken over by James Whitbey, probably for the use of his son William Whitbey, junior. The main residence of the Whitbey family was surrounded on two sides by a balcony. It was substantially built and fairly lofty, and it stood three storeys high. It occupied an " island site," and had ample yard space on the southern side, where there was open ground occupied partly by gardens and by big trees tt extending as far as the backs of the houses in Leadenhall Street. No doubt the three generations of the Whitbey family found excellent facilities in this pair of houses for exercising their hereditary trade as cloth- workers. James Whitbey, however, seems to have got into financial difficulties, as in 1648 we find him borrowing 200 for six months from James Fletcher, the haberdasher, on the security of the two buildings. Four years later he repays Fletcher by borrowing 300 on mortgage from Widow Aspley. It is on record, too, that he was then also owing 191 to a very prominent citizen and parishioner of Creechurch, Captain Abraham Stanyan, a plaisterer (whom we should to-day describe as a builder and architect), a comrade with whom he had served in the Artillery Company, 42 and a man whose nephew and namesake was later bo attain eminence in the public life of this country. 43 Soon Stanyan was to obtain control of the Whitbeys' two mansions, and on April 20, 1653 being doubtless in need of his 191 we find him mortgaging the houses to four of his leading fellow-parishioners. The consideration that passed was an amount of 500, of which Widow Aspley received 309 and Stanyan 191. This sum was not repaid, and it is to be inferred that from the summer of 1655 onwards the interest was allowed to fall into arrears. 44 Nevertheless, in December 1656 we find Abraham Stanyan suddenly possessed of the substantial sum of 550 coming forward to redeem the property. I have more than a suspicion where that money came from, because on December 19, 1656 which was the day following, James Whitbey and he granted a twenty-one years' lease "of th' one of the messuages," not the corner-house but the larger one, to "Antonyo fiernando Carawayall of London Merchant." 45 On the next day viz., December 20, 1656, James Whitbey, the cloth worker, Ellen his wife, and William Whitbey, also a cloth-worker, described as " heir apparant of the said James," did at the request of Abraham Stanyan transfer the family interest in the property to a barber-chirurgeon named Boone and a citizen and draper called Richard Mills. 46 These two individuals were not parishioners of St. Katherine Creechurch, nor do they play any further part in these dealings. I cannot help thinking that they were acting as "cover " for Carvajal, who had probably financed Stanyan's purchase. Carvajal and his brethren doubtless assumed that as Jews they were unable to hold property in England, and preferred to figure as leaseholders rather than as freeholders. Subsequently the Whitbeys appeared before the Lord Mayor and acknowledged the deed, which was enrolled in the Hustings of Pleas of Land, from which roll, I may add, I was able to obtain a fairer copy of the deed than would have been possible had I been obliged to depend on the somewhat battered counterpart that has been handed down in St. Katherine Creechurch's archives.The Churchwardens' Accounts for the years 1650 to 1656 contain many references to Carvajal. As Mr. Wolf has shown, he occupied a large house in Leadenhall Street at the foot of Creechurch Lane, 48 and it is now clear from the " receiptes of tithes " that he was one of the largest ratepayers in the parish, for the comparatively large tithe- payment of 1 is entered up each year against "Mr. fiardinando," or "Antonio Ferdinando." It is perhaps well to recall at this stage that

45 The Vestry Minute last referred to indicates that Whitbey and Stanyan were already at that date negotiating with Carvajal, since it fixes a basis for the redemption of the mortgage of April 1653 " upon ye request of Mr. James Whitbey."

46 Boone is mentioned again in the Churchwardens' Account Book under the payments for 1678. (Appendix V. a, p. 82.) Eichard Mills was an Alderman and a Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. (A. B. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London, 1908.)"[23]

Excerpt

"In the summer of 1657 the freehold of the two brick messuages in Creechurch Lane as well as the remainder of a ninety-nine years' lease were acquired by the parish, and the conveyance of the latter was

71 Trans, of Jewish Hist. Soc., vol. ii. p. 20. " Ibid. vol. i. p. 55.

73 L. Wolf, Menasseh Sen Israel's Mission, Intro, pp. Ixvi and Ixvii.
7 * Subsequently these particulars were transferred to a separate volume,
which is not now available at any rate, in the Guildhall Library.

signed on July 28, 1657 (MS. 1213/5), and is in existence to-day. 75 From this and the other documents it seems reasonable to conclude that the parish authorities, knowing that the Jews had installed a Synagogue in Mr. Whitbey's former mansion, decided to purchase the property out of church funds, and thus become the Jews' superior landlords. Mills and Boone, the nominal owners, would seem to have conveyed their interest the freehold in a deed of the same date which has not been preserved. The vendors who figure in the sale of the lease are again Abraham Stanyan, the plaisterer, together with James Whitbey and his son William, and the purchase-consideration is 840, of which Stanyan receives 650 and the Whitbeys 190. The parish of St. Katherine Creechurch as purchaser is represented by eleven citizens, the first trustees appointed to hold the property. By the other conveyance of even date not now available a second group
of eleven citizens and trustees, whose names have been preserved in a later deed (No. 1213/7 of September 20, 1672) appear to have derived their title from Mills and Boone. 76 A proportion of the purchase-money was provided by a loan from Alderman Bond. The parish was not granted " vacant possession "of the larger messuage, and the twenty-
one years' lease which Carvajal had secured seven months earlier is expressly "reserved." In point of fact the Churchwardens' Account Book shows later that the Jews must have surrendered this lease in 1663, when they already began to pay rent to the parish, and from that year until 1691, when the Account Book was closed, there is an almost unbroken series of entries "one yeares rent of the Sinagogue."

As has been mentioned, the will of Sir John Gayer was the motive which had led the parish to buy this property, and that knight's bequest of 200 was utilised for the purchase, together with sundry accumulated legacies from earlier benefactors. Sir John Gayer had been a famous Lord Mayor of London and a prominent member of the East India Company."[24]



Varied sources: the Worshipful Company of Plaisterers


"Past Masters...

1656-1657 Edward Goodenough
1657-1659 Abraham Stanyon"[25]

City of London Livery Companies' Commission: Report and Appendix: Volume 5

"Abraham Stanyon, who was to spend several years on the Common Council, also became a Tory" (p.164, Guildhall studies in London history, Volume 4 (XXXX, 1979)

"In the first year the work was sufficiently advanced for Lyminge to enter into a contract with a plasterer called Edward Stanyan or Stanyon for work in the gallery great chamber withdrawing chamber and parlour. Stanyon, who was probably the father of the Abraham Stanyon who became Master of the Worshipful Company of ...."[26]

"From James Whitbee, clothworker, Ellen his wife, & William son of the said James, also clothworker at the request of Abraham Stanyon, plasterer, to Henry Boone, barber surgeon, & Richard Mills, draper, Descp. of Property."[27]



Dr Clare Gapper: the Worshipful Company of Plaisterers

Edward Stanyon, father of Abraham Stanon


"The village of Nassington, Northamptonshire provides a particularly rich example of the way in which networks of relatives and neighbours could operate in furthering the careers of young men. Edward Stanyon, son of a tailor, left the village in 1598 for London and in 1608, having completed his own apprenticeship, he took over William Willingham, an apprentice already presented (on the same date) by Hugh Capp.[39] Willingham had been baptised in Nassington on 7 June 1590 and was therefore eighteen when he began to train as a plasterer with Stanyon, with whom he remained until 1615.[40] In 1619 Stanyon took as apprentice George Billington, another fellow-villager. Meanwhile, he may have been instrumental in placing three unrelated fellow-villagers, Thomas Avis (1607),[41] Matthew Holmes (1612) and Thomas Barnewell (1616), with separate London masters, whose own places of origin are not given. One of Edward Stanyon’s later apprentices was James Avis, who was not enrolled in regular fashion and for whom there are, therefore, no background details available; but Avis himself took as apprentice Thomas Avis II in 1632, son of Robert Avis, a yeoman of the neighbouring village of Stibbington, Northamptonshire. Another village close to Nassington, Fotheringhay, was the place of origin of a young man who came to ‘put himself apprentice’ to Stanyon in 1628.

The strength of this tendency to support neighbouring families should not, however, be over-stressed. Edward Stanyon also took apprentices from Bedfordshire and Berkshire, in addition to his own son; while George Billington’s only apprentice came from Scotland. The majority of masters who were not native-born Londoners accepted apprentices with whom they had no obvious connections by way or family, geography or profession.

What can be concluded from this evidence is that the wide geographical area from which apprentices were drawn may have played some part in the spread of London plasterwork to the regions. There is a possibility that a proportion of those who completed their training in London then left the capital and returned to their county of origin; if this were the case, the London style of plasterwork could have been spread across the country by such means. There is, however, no documentary evidence either to support or refute such a hypothesis.[42]"[28]

"Until 1616 the City Plasterer was William North and he was succeeded by John Allen. When Allen surrendered the post in 1627 it passed to one of the most accomplished plasterers of his day, Edward Stanyon.[165] Stanyon’s merits were sufficiently apparent for him to petition the aldermen, successfully, the following year to have the City Plasterer’s fee and livery upgraded to the same level as those of the City Bricklayer.[166] The year before he died Stanyon obtained the reversion of his post on behalf of his son, Abraham, and surrendered it to him.[167]

Abraham Stanyon lived to an even greater age than his father, who was fifty years old when he died, and Abraham’s tenure of the post of City Plasterer for thirty-eight years was unusually long. By the time he decided to surrender the position in 1668, when he was fifty-seven years old, he had also been Bridgehouse Plasterer for twenty-four years. He had acquired this post on the death of William Willingham, whose appointment in 1634 probably owed a good deal to the fact that he was one of Edward Stanyon’s ex-apprentices. When Abraham Stanyon finally decided to retire the two posts were once again bestowed on two individuals. Henry Hodgson (or Hodsdon) was appointed City Plasterer and Thomas Dalling (or Dalwen) took up the post of Bridgehouse Plasterer; and both of them had served their apprenticeship with Abraham Stanyon.[168] Such was the stranglehold of the Stanyons on the available patronage in the City that both posts were held by father, son or their apprentices for more than thirty-four years." [29]



Abraham Stanyon


"During the Civil War Abraham Stanyon, holder of the posts of City and Bridgehouse Plasterer, successfully petitioned the court of aldermen that, during his absence his wife ‘by her servants may be permitted to execute his place’ and receive payment of wages for himself and his men."[30]

"Social advancement – the example of Abraham Stanyon

The career of Abraham Stanyon exemplifies, in an admittedly exceptional manner, the possibilities for social advancement that were available to a successful artisan in seventeenth-century London. The wealthy esquire who was buried at the church of St Katharine Cree in 1683 was the grandson of a tailor from a small village in Northamptonshire. Although his father, Edward, left no will to indicate how much wealth he had been able to accumulate during his career as a successful plasterer, the fact that he had entered the livery and risen to be Senior Warden implies a certain level of affluence. Abraham presumably inherited a thriving business at the age of about twenty-three and rose to be Master of the company on two occasions. He also made a success of his position in the Trained Bands, the civil militia set up to protect London, in whose ranks he rose from Captain to Major and, finally, Lieutenant-Colonel in the Red Regiment. All captains of the Trained Bands joined the Honourable Artillery Company; and wearing the uniform of that august body he had his portrait painted in 1644, a sure sign of his rising status.[197]

Abraham Stanyon’s own material success is reflected by his ability to make bequests of money and plate valued at over £200, besides the interests in property and items of jewellery and silver left to his wife.[198] A leasehold interest in a house in Bury Street, near St Katharine Cree, was bequeathed to the two grandsons prudently named after their grandfather by his two sons. The residue of the estate passed to his son, Lawrence, whose marriage to Dorothy Knapp, the maternal aunt of Sir Richard Temple (the future 4th Baronet of Stowe and Viscount Cobham) must have given particular satisfaction of the upwardly-mobile plasterer.

It is noteworthy that neither Edward nor Abraham Stanyon was ever employed on task-work in the Royal Works; and their prominence in the City presumably guaranteed a clientele which was largely drawn from that quarter. In addition to his City posts, Abraham was involved in active service on the side of Parliament in the Civil War, in his position as a Captain of the Trained Bands, which might suggest that he was less likely to look to the court as a source of patronage.[199]"[31]



IGI


"Lawrence Stanyan Birth: 1642 Harefield; Marriage 4th September 1669 South Stoke, Oxford; Death: 3rd July 1725; Burial: Checkendon, Oxford"[32]

"MARRIAGE Abraham Stanyan; spouse: Elizab Goodenough, 14 Nov. 1671, Saint Giles Cripplegate, London"[33]
- An Edward Goodenough was master of the worshipful company of plaisterers prior to Abraham Stanyon



Portrait of Captain Abraham Stanyon, Red Regiment, London Trayned Bands


"Captain Abraham Stanyon of the Red Regiment, London Trayned Bands (parliamentarian regiment), unknown artist"
- Where is this located?
- Dr Gapper mentions that the portrait "was displayed at the Tate Gallery in 1972, in the exhibition 'The Age of Charles I – Painting in England 1620-1649,' curated by Oliver Millar. The portrait is described in the catalogue entry 169, where it is suggested wrongly, as it turns out, that Stanyon was a member of the Gentlemen Pensioners."[34]



Lawrence Stanyan, brother of John Stanyan


"Among the commissioners named in the later Survey [foot note states: 'Court of Survey of the Manor and Chace of Enfield, in the county of Middlesex, held at Enfield 8 Oct. 1685, 1 Jac. 2, and adjourned to 23 Oct. 1686, by virtue of a Commission from the Duchy Court of Lancaster, dated 6 Oct. 1685. MS. Volume in Hadley parish chest'] we find "Henry Coventry, esq., one of our Privy Counsel, William Bluck, of Hadley, in our county of Middlesex, esq.; John Chapman, of the same, gent and Laurence Stanyan, of the same, gent [footnote states Laurence Stanyan was 'Churchwarden in 1685. Abraham Stanyan, esq., also called Colonel Stanyan, of London and Hadley, was the father of John and Laurence]..."[35]



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."[36]

"[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."[37]



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."[38]

"[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."[39]

"Maurice Thomson, Thomas Papillon, and Robert Davies are accepted as securities in 2,000. for George Papillon; George Smith and Benjamin Baron in a like sum for John Stanyan;..."[[FootNote('A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, August 24, 1659' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 212) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 342)]



EEIC, 1660-1663




Stanyan, Harefield, Middlesex


The link between the Stanyan family of Harefield and John Stanian of the East India Company is circumstantial, but interesting:

"In Harefield Church, Middlesex, are the tombs of Abraham, second son of John Stanyan, Esq., aged 26: and John, this third son, aged 28, 1701."[40]

"Harefield Park. This Estate was the creation of George Cooke, Esq., Chief Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, the first of the Cookes who settled at Harefield, after his marriage in 1700. He was the youngest of twelve children of John Cooke, Esq., of Swifts and Cranbrook, County Kent, by Mary Warren of Cheshire. He commenced the formation of the present Estate by the purchase of an ancient house called Ryes or Rythes and about 170 acres of land from John Stanyan Gent., 1st February, 1704. Before his death, which occurred in 1740, he built the present house, planted the ornamental timber, made the garden, and added about 200 more acres of land purchased at different times."[41]

"MANOR OF TIBBERTON, TAYNTON, AND BULLEY

...the so-called manor of Tibberton, Taynton, and Bulley...John Pritchett, bishop of Gloucester, was lord farmer in 1679. At his death in 1681 he left the estate to his wife Katherine (fl. 1685) with reversion to his son John and son-in-law John Stanyan of Harefiled (Mddx) and in 1692 following the son's death, Stanyan became sole lord farmer.Thomas Burgis of Gloucester, owner of the lease in 1699, died by 1715..."[42]



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)



London Metropolitan Archives

London Metropolitan Archives: British Records Association (Q/UL/G - Q/UL/O): Property Records: Box L Q/UL/L 1667-1894: Assignments, Conveyance, Deeds and leases Q/UL/L1 1667-1894: Assignment in trust. (no ref.) 1674 28 April
- Contents:
Elizabeth Whiting
Abraham Stanyon The Master and Keeper of the Plaisterers' Company, to Thomas Offley, in trust for John Honeywood.
Woodstreete, London.
1930. B. S. & G. 1842

London Metropolitan Archives: British Records Association (Q/UL/G - Q/UL/O): Property Records: Box L Q/UL/L 1667-1894: Assignments, Conveyance, Deeds and leases Q/UL/L1 1667-1894: Receipt for purchase money. (no ref.) 1674 28 April
Contents:
Abraham Stanyon
Elizabeth Stanyon The Master and Keepers of the Plaisterers' Company, -to John Honywood.
London.
1930. B. S. & G. 1842



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 11/247 Aylett 210-263 Will of Henry Isaacson, Painter Stayner of London of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, City of London 02 February 1655
- Lengthy will; is he linked to Randall Isaackson, who was the second security, with Abraham Stanyan, plaisterer, for John Stanyan as Secretary to the English East India Company in 1654?
PROB 11/262 Ruthen 51-103 Will of Jacob Isaackson, Merchant of Saint Katherine Coleman, City of London 25 February 1657
- Is he linked to Randall Isaackson, who was the second security, with Abraham Stanyan, plaisterer, for John Stanyan as Secretary to the English East India Company in 1654?
PROB 11/329 Coke 1-56 Will of Mary Stanyan, Wife of London 10 February 1669
- Possibly the wife of Abraham Stanyan, and therefore the possible mother of John Stanyan, the correspondent of Sir George Oxenden. However, a receipt of purchase money exists with the names of Abraham and Elizabeth Stanyon exists, dated supposedly 1674[43]
- Possibly Abraham Stanyan remarried Elizabeth Goodenough, after the death of his wife Mary Stanyan in 1669. Elizabeth (speculatively) may have been related to Edward Goodenough, who was was Master of the worshipful company of plaisterers prior to Abraham StanyonSee "MARRIAGE Abraham Stanyan; spouse: Elizab Goodenough, 14 Nov. 1671, Saint Giles Cripplegate, London"[44]
- A secondary source states that Mary Stanyan was the second wife of Abraham Stanyan, and the widow of Robert Tayler. Her will was proved Feb. 10 1668/89 by Robert Tayler, her only son[45]
PROB 11/540 Aston 89-130 Will of John Stanyan, Gentleman of Eltham, Kent 17 June 1714
- May be the will of John Stanian, correspondent of Sir George Oxenden
PROB 11/654 Bedford 237-267 Will of Abraham Stanyan, at present His Majesty's Ambassador in Turkey of Saint Martins in the Fields , Middlesex 25 October 1732
- Is this a next generation Stanyan, e.g. son of Lawrence or John Stanyan?
reference PROB 11/707 Spurway 1-43 Will of Elizabeth Stanyon, Spinster of Eltham, Kent 31 January 1741



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.
Pray his Majesty's order to disallow the privilege aforesaid.



Possible secondary sources


Elona Cuthbertson, Gregory King's Harefield (?London, 1992)

- "Susanna Pritchett, christened in Harefield in 1640, married John Stanyan when she was about 17. At that time he lived in the parish of St. Katherine Cree, in the vicinity of East India House. The couple had many children but a large ..."" (p. ?)
- "While his deputy was hard at work in Gloucester, John Stanyan enjoyed country pursuits in Harefield. There's a glimpse of him..." (p. ?)

York Lowry Wilson, A Carolina-Virginia genealogy (XXXX, 1892), p. 25

- "John Stanyan, of Harefield, Middlesex, b. 1634; educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, 1644-1648; m. 1657, Susan Prithett, and had:
1a. Henry Stanyan, of Queens College, Oxford, 1683, b. 1665
2a. Abraham Stanyan, b. 1673, nominated by King James II...

... Lawrence Stanyan, of Harefield and of St. Katharine Cree, London, merchant, b. 1642, d. 1725; m. ..."

Middlesex Parish Records: Uxbridge 1538-1694, Harefield 1546-1837, Great Stanmore 1599-1837, Enfield 1550-1837 v. 5: Marriage Registers - Phillimore's Parish Register S.

HAREFIELD : M 1546, 1558-1837: Phillimore's parish register series - Middlesex, vol. 5 [CD-ROM.] (Society of Genealogists)

HAREFIELD : MIs in the churchyard: Middlesex monumental inscriptions, vol. 9 [Typescript.] & vol. 10 (ditto)

XXXX, City of London Livery Companies' Commission: Report and Appendix: vol. 5
  1. 22nd August 1667, Letter from William Ryder to Sir GO, Bethnal Green
  2. Possibly PROB 11/540 Aston 89-130 Will of John Stanyan, Gentleman of Eltham, Kent 17 June 1714
  3. '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. 326; 'Introduction', in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. xxii
  4. 'A Court of Committees, May 15, 1663 (Court Book), vol. xxiv, p. 623, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 311
  5. 'A Court of Committees, June 21, 1654' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 368), in A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. ?
  6. 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, August 24, 1659' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 212) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 342]
  7. Charles J. Robinson, A register of the scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors' school from A.D. 1562 to 1874, vol. 1 (Lewes, 1882), p. 163
  8. 'List of Past Masters', http://www.plaistererslivery.co.uk/past-masters.aspx, viewed 27/01/12
  9. York Lowry Wilson, A Carolina-Virginia genealogy (XXXX, 1892), p. 25; Elona Cuthbertson, Gregory King's Harefield (?London, 1992), no pagination visible
  10. Draft of VCH Gloucestershire XIII, Draft text, Bulley (Manors), copyright University of London, 2010, p. 4, http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/Mulley_Manors_6452.pdf, viewed 28/01/12
  11. Mark Noble, A biographical history of England, vol. 3 (London, 1806), p. 181
  12. William Frederick Vernon, Notes on the parish of Harefield (London, 1872), p. 28
  13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pritchett, viewed 28/01/12
  14. York Lowry Wilson, A Carolina-Virginia genealogy (XXXX, 1892), p. 25
  15. http://thegoodwyfe.blogspot.com/2011/10/silky-scarves-aka-sashes.html, viewed 27/01/12; Image only in photo viewed: www://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f4T8-UbLqTA/TpGsD07OoyI/AAAAAAAAAQs/N7viUUocpEs/s1600/Capt+Stanyan+.jpg, viewed 27/01/12
  16. 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
  17. John Goodyer
  18. Mathew Gray
  19. This is the footnote text
  20. This is the footnote text
  21. Daniel Lysons, 'Eltham', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 394-421, viewed 27 January 2012
  22. Charles J. Robinson, A register of the scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors' school from A.D. 1562 to 1874, vol. 1 (Lewes, 1882), p. 163
  23. Wilfred S. Samuel, The first London synagogue of the resettlement (founded in 1657, enlarged in 1674) (XXXX, 1924), pp. 19-20
  24. Wilfred S. Samuel, The first London synagogue of the resettlement (founded in 1657, enlarged in 1674) (XXXX, 1924), p. 30
  25. http://www.plaistererslivery.co.uk/past-masters.aspx, viewed 27/01/12
  26. XXXX, The Archaeological journal, vols. 137-138 (?London, 1981), p. 337
  27. XXXX, Transactions - The Jewish Historical Society of England, vol. 10 (XXXX, 1924), p. 93
  28. Dr Gapper's observations on Edward Stanyon cite: (39) GL MS 6122/1: 29th July 1608.; (40): Northampton CRO: Nassington 217 P/1 (Nassington Parish Register).; (41) Thomas Avis’s details were not provided when he was apprenticed to Anthony Sharpe in 1607 but the Nassington Parish Register shows that a boy of that name was born in 1589, which would make him eighteen when he arrived in London, a likely age for a non-London apprentice. A family surnamed Sharpe also existed in Nassington but the name is not sufficient; (42) Rappaport, 314-15. Clare Gapper, 'Ch. 3: The Plasterers’ Company of the City of London', web publication, based on Clare Gapper, 'Decorative Plasterwork in City, Court and Country 1530-1660', doctoral thesis, http://clairegapper.info/4.html, viewed 27/01/12
  29. Dr Gapper cites: (165) CLRO, Rep 41, f 222r. This entry names Stanyon as Richard, but this mistake is corrected in subsequent entries.; (166) CLRO, Rep 42, ff 273r-v.; (167) CLRO Rep 44, f 320r. The Index to the Repertories, Vol 4, cites an incorrect reference (f 339v) for the surrender of the post by Stanyon in 1630.; (168) CLRO Rep 73, f 300r-v. Clare Gapper, 'Ch. 3: The Plasterers’ Company of the City of London', web publication, based on Clare Gapper, 'Decorative Plasterwork in City, Court and Country 1530-1660', doctoral thesis, http://clairegapper.info/4.html, viewed 27/01/12
  30. Dr Gapper's observation on Abraham Stanyon cites CLRO Rep 57, f 223. Clare Gapper, 'Ch. 3: The Plasterers’ Company of the City of London', web publication, based on Clare Gapper, 'Decorative Plasterwork in City, Court and Country 1530-1660', doctoral thesis, http://clairegapper.info/4.html, viewed 27/01/12
  31. Dr Gapper cites: (197) I am indebted to Sally Hofmann, Archivist of the Honourable Artillery Company, for access to the records of the Company, which are not normally open for public inspection. The portrait of Abraham Stanyon was displayed at the Tate Gallery in 1972, in the exhibition ‘The Age of Charles I – Painting in England 1620-1649’, curated by Oliver Millar. The portrait is described in the catalogue entry 169, where it is suggested wrongly, as it turns out, that Stanyon was a member of the Gentlemen Pensioners.; (198) GL MF 9171/38, f 438.; (199) CLRO Rep 57, f 223 Clare Gapper, 'Ch. 3: The Plasterers’ Company of the City of London', web publication, based on Clare Gapper, 'Decorative Plasterwork in City, Court and Country 1530-1660', doctoral thesis, http://clairegapper.info/4.html, viewed 27/01/12
  32. Composite data submitted by a member of the LDS Church post 1991, with no references
  33. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=500035940182&lds=1&region=2&regionfriendly=British+Isles&frompage=99, viewed 27/01/12
  34. Clare Gapper, 'Ch. 3: The Plasterers’ Company of the City of London', web publication, based on Clare Gapper, 'Decorative Plasterwork in City, Court and Country 1530-1660', doctoral thesis, http://clairegapper.info/4.html, viewed 27/01/12
  35. Frederick Charles Cass, Monken Hadley (Westminster, 1880), p. 19
  36. '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. 326
  37. '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. 327
  38. '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
  39. '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
  40. Mark Noble, A biographical history of England, vol. 3 (London, 1806), p. 181
  41. William Frederick Vernon, Notes on the parish of Harefield (London, 1872), p. 28
  42. Draft of VCH Gloucestershire XIII, Draft text, Bulley (Manors), copyright University of London, 2010, p. 4, http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/Mulley_Manors_6452.pdf, viewed 28/01/12
  43. London Metropolitan Archives: British Records Association (Q/UL/G - Q/UL/O): Property Records: Box L Q/UL/L 1667-1894: Assignments, Conveyance, Deeds and leases Q/UL/L1 1667-1894: Receipt for purchase money. (no ref.) 1674 28 April
  44. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=500035940182&lds=1&region=2&regionfriendly=British+Isles&frompage=99, viewed 27/01/12
  45. Frederick Charles Cass, Monken Hadley (Westminster, 1880), fn. h, p. 19