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March 1662/63, Letter from Benjamin Glanville to Sir GO

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 113-114

Editorial history

29/05/09, CSG: Completed transcription
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Abstract & context


Benjamin Glanville was a London merchant, who was active in the trading of tin.[1] As a brother-in-law of the London merchant Sir George Smith, Benjamin Glanville probably supplied tin to Sir George Smith, which Smith exported to Aleppo.[2]

Glanville was probably also involved in the tin trade with the London merchant and alderman John Fenn, who married Sir George Smith's only daughter shortly after Smith's death.[3]

He was involved in the late 1650s and the early and mid-1660s in trade with goods from the East Indies, such as pepper & calico, and was an assistant of the Muscovy Company in the early 1670s.[4]

Records dating August 15th,1660 and May 13th, 1663 shows Benjamin Glanville associated with John Swift, who was his brother-in-law, as was Sir George Smith.[5] Both Glanville and Smith had married into the Swift family. In Sir George Smith's case, his wife was Martha Swift. However, the name of Benjamin Glanville's wife is unknown.[6]

Glanville claimed friendship with the Middle Temple lawyer Charles Porter, and the London merchants, Captain George Cocke and John Fenn.[7] George Cocke and John (Jack) Fenn were often guests of Sir George Smith, Benjamin Glanville's brother-in-law, as observed by Samuel Pepys, a fellow diner.[8] John Fenn was to marry Katherine Smith, Sir George Smith's only daughter, shortly after Sir George Smith's death.[9]

He appears to have been a long term resident of Greenwich, where a son of his was buried in 1656, and from whence he addressed a letter dated July 20th, 1672, to Joseph Williamson, the Secretary of State.[10]

His residence was listed as having twelve hearths in the 1664 hearth tax returns for Dock and Taverne Rowe in East Greenwich.[11] Captain George Cocke, a commercial partner of Sir George Smith, and a frequent drinking and dining partner of Samuel Pepys, lived in a fifteen hearth residence in Crane South, East Greenwich, a street which is listed immediately after Dock and Taverne Rowe.

A letter from Benjamin Glanville to Joseph Williamson, dated April 21st 1670, thanked Williamson for his past kindness, and continued that he had been "advised by our friends Chas. Porter, Capt. Cook, Jack Fenn, &c., to solicit your interest with Lord Arlington for some employment in the new commission for wines, coals, &c."[12] The Capt. Cook named in the transcribed letter is likely to have been Captain George Cocke, his neighbour in East Greenwich.

George Cocke, in his will written in 1678, acknowledged his friend "Mr. Charles Porter" and his goddaughter, Letitia Porter, who was Charles Porter's daughter. This Charles Porter may have been a lawyer, though engaged in some commercial activity. One piece of evidence for this is that Charles Porter was the lawyer preparing and signing of Bill of Complaint exhibited in Chancery by George Cocke and John Fenn in 1670 against the London merchant John Letten and against Thomas Hobart (alias Hobard), the master of the William.[13] It is probable that Benjamin Glanville's friend Charles Porter is the same Charles or Mr. Porter who appears in Elizabeth Dallison's correspondence with Sir George Oxenden, since Porter appears in her letters in the company of Sir George Smith and Sir William Ryder, with whom Benjamin Glanville had contact:

I must not pass my telling you y:t S:r Geo: Smith is w:t hee professed your very hearty serv:t & true ffreind, hee now & then dooth mee y:e favour to give mee visett & comes & bringes S:r Will:m Rider[14] w:th him, & Penington[15] & Porter,[16] & eate w:th mee but is soo Rightious as to send word over Night, I have bine many tymes invited to eate w:th him, but have beene theare but seldome[17]

George Cocke also acknowledged in his will "Mrs. Glanvill" and his goddaughter "Ann Glanvill, the daughter of the said Mrs Glanvill." This Mrs Glanvill may be the wife or more probably the widow of Benjamin Glanville, with George Cocke referring separately to "my good friends Mr William Glanvill and Mr William Porter."[18]

Latham & Mathews identify a number of references by Samuel Pepys to a Mr. Glanville as William Glanville, several of these in the company of George Cocke in Greenwich.[19] It is likely that at least some of these references by Pepys are actually to the merchant Benjamin Glanville.[20] In particular, the diary record for September 27th, 1665, which recounts Samuel Pepys placing prize goods obtained from Captain George Cocke at the house of "Mr. Glanville" in Greenwich, a friend of Cocke's, is likely to refer to the house of Benjamin Glanville, not William Glanville.[21] As shown above, Benjamin Glanville's twelve hearth house in Dock and Taverne Rowe, East Greenwich, was close to Captain George Cocke's house on Crane South. Basil Duke Henning in his profile of William Glanville explicitly cites this diary entry from Pepys as evidence of William Glanville's residence in Greenwich.[22] However, the 1664 hearth tax returns for Greenwich show only one entry for a Glanville, and that is for Benjamin Glanville.

Benjamin Glanville's family was probably from Devon or possibly Cornwall. According to an unverified genealogical publication on the Glanville family, Benjamin Glanville was the second of three sons of Nicholas and Elizabeth Glanville, of Halwell, Whitchurch, Devonshire. The eldest was John Glanville, who lived at Plymouth. The youngest was Joseph Glanville (b. ?1636, d. 1680). This source states that Joseph Glanville studied at Oxford, receiving an M.A. in 1658 from Lincoln College. He briefly became chaplain to Francis Rouse, the Provost of Eton.[23] The entry on Joseph Glanvill in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, states that Joseph Glanvill was an admirer of the Cambridge platonists, and was a prolific writer. In 1666 he became rector of the Abbey church in Bath, which is the location given in his will.[24] The entry states that Benjamin Glanville bought the living of Wimbish, Essex and presented it to his brother, Joseph Glanville.[25] Maurice Glanville, a clerk, was resident in Wimbish at his death in 1695 (?1695/96).[26]

Benjamin Glanville makes the case in his letter to Sir George Oxenden for his brother-in-law, John Swift, a London merchant. There is some evidence that they had a commercial relationship, with both being accepted for security on pepper by the English East India Company on August 15th, 1660.[27] At Swift's death, Swift appears to have had outstanding debts owing to his brother-in-law Benjamin Glanville.[28]


Suggested links


To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL

(2) Check whether Richard Swift, merchant of London, was related to John Swift and to his sister Dame Martha Smith (née Swift)[29]

(3) Look at the wills for John Glanville of Plymouth, and Joseph Glanville of Bath


Transcription


This transcription has been completed, but requires checking

[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 113-114]

[f. 113]

S:r Geo: Oxinden

S:r my often good wishes for yo:r health for yo:r prosperity I hope to heare in good tyme & yo:r mindfullnesse to answer y:e Defects of my ffreind, & Country man; M:r Ben: Clapton by yo:r favourable Encouragem:t preferm:t to y:t End you weare pleased to take á remembrance from S:r W:m Rider & my selfe, w:ch I presume you will not forgett; S:r I hope you have á Gallant Breed of game Cocks for yo:r recreation from those I presented you w:th & can at any tyme supply you if you fancy y:t sport; S:r My Brother Swift[30] presents his Humble service to you; who although hath endeavoured his utmost, & proferred all hee had to his Creditors; hath made noo end w:th them is now resolved to seeke his fortune w:th á small stock, hopeing in tyme to raise an Estate to pay his debts; & ifs resolved overland for psia; his ffreinds & relations request yo:r favour to call him thence into Imploym:t Hee takes this way because hee is unwilling to anger y:e Comp:a or put any Master of Shipp upon a penallty for his passage , & beleeveing you may y:e more freely favour him, because hee Breakes noo orders of y:e Comp:a – S:r I question not yo:r kindenesse heerein; soo farr as you Cann with hono:r to yo:r selfe Grattifye us. Hee will from Persia

[f. 114]

Sallute you & waite yo:r Call thence S:r w:th myne & my wives service to you presented; hopeing you will please in this to oblidge us, & freinds I cease yo:r farther trouble Craving yo:r pardon in this; & I remaine

Yo:r very humble serv:t at Comand
Benja: Glanvile [might just be Glainvile]


Notes

Benjamin Glanville, Greenwich, 1656


"In the old church...there were memorials...Richard, son of Benjamin Glanvill, merchant, 1656"[31]


Benjamin Glanville, tin, 1665, 1666, 1667, 1669, 1670, 1672


"Dec. 10. [1665] Ostend. [Item] 85. Benjamin Glanville to Sir Wm. Clarke. Alderman Backwell is embarked for England, intending to sail by way of Calais; being at Bruges with the Bishop of Munster's agent, hears that all things are in a good posture. Letters from Amsterdam state that Gen. Gorgas, with his wife and children, are taken, but such reports gain no credit. Has found some of the stolen tin. Salvage is required for the Martin's cables and anchors, which are taken up. [Adm. Paper.]"[32]

"Jan. 13. [1666] Cockpit. [Item] 9. Duke of Albemarle to Lord Arlington. Lord Berkeley will have the saltpetre out of the East India Company's hands; wishes he could pay for it, or they will be loath to part with it, as money is owing them for the former saltpetre; hopes they will accept of money on the new Act. The East India ships are preparing, so the instructions for Bombay should be considered of. Has received orders that all ships going to foreign plantations take one fifth Dutchmen. An explosion of gunpowder has injured the Convertine, a Dutch prize at Chatham. Asks if the King have any employment at Ostend for Benj. Glanville, an ingenious man who carried the tin over there."[33]

"April 30. [1666] Ostend. [Item] 99. Ben. Glanville to the Navy Comrs. Sends by Capt. Watson, of the Mermaid, the anchor and two cables belonging to the Martin. Has directed Capt. Watson, on his arrival, to acquaint the Surveyor of the Navy. [Adm. Paper.]"[34]

"Aug. 30. [1666] Dover. [Item] 89. Warham Jemmett, sen., to [Joseph] Williamson. Sends to Sir Phil. Frowde two or three times a week news about the Dutch fleet sent by Mr. Glanville and Mr. Custis. Quotes a French letter from Mr. Richard, master of the posts from France to England, thanking him for the news, and hoping for peace. The news sent was of the affair of the Vlie and Schelling, which has made the names of the generals terrible all over France. Sir Lewis Dives has arrived, leaving the Earl of St. Alban's at Calais, waiting an order for a convoy thence. Begs favour in his trouble by being bound for Sir Arthur Slingsby. The captain is still in prison; threatens to lay on him the whole 200l. unless he pay the 100l. to Mr. Banks. Mr. Carlisle has married a young widow. [2 pages.]"[35]

"May 20. [1667] Dover. [Item] 67. Warham Jemmett, sen., to [Joseph] Williamson. Forwards a letter from Benj. Glanville. The vessel with Lady Temple's coach has arrived; will send her servant with the coach and a guide to Knowlton, to Sir Thos. Peyton's, as her ladyship directs. Begs consideration for his great losses in the packet boat service, and in import and export of prisoners; also for the hazard of his life during the contagion, in receiving letters and packets from all parts of Christendom, sent under cover to him; this was not his duty, but done to serve King and country; his vessels have often been much plundered by the French taking away colours and small tackle and provisions."[36]

"Oct. 7. [1667] Treasury Chambers, Whitehall. [Item] 80. Sir G. Downing to [Joseph] Williamson. The Lords of the Treasury desire he will move Lord Arlington to write a letter to hasten Mr. Glanville from Flanders, as the whole account of the tin business is stopped till he comes. Alderman Backwell will send the letter to him. Asks for the King's warrant to the Lords of the Treasury, concerning Sir Stephen Fox's 68,000l.[37]

"Feb. 23. [1669] Treasury Chamber, Whitehall. Sir George Downing to [Joseph] Williamson. The Lords of the Treasury desire you to move Lord Arlington to recommend to Monsieur Ognati, in his Majesty's name, that Phil. Cornelissen may take the remainder of the tin sold to him by Benj. Glanville, on behalf of his Majesty, and pay for it, or that it may be freed from Cornelissen's arrest at Ostend, and be otherwise disposed of. [Copy. Ibid. No. 21.] Prefixing,

Case stating that Glanville sold to Cornelissen, in Oct. 1666, 20,000 lbs. of his Majesty's tin, at 59 guilders per cwt., to be paid in Flemish money. That part of the tin has been delivered, and paid for, upon the agreement, of which Glanville has rendered an account to his Majesty, and has also declared that the rest of the tin was weighed off to Cornelissen's order long since, but has been detained for want of payment of the rest of the money due; and that his Majesty expects that Cornelissen shall, upon demand and offer of the tin, pay the remainder of the money at the price he bought it at, or leave his Majesty to dispose of it in some other manner. [Copy. Ibid. No. 211.]"[38]

"April 21. [1670] London. Ben. Glanville to [Joseph] Williamson. Thanks for past kindness. I have been advised by our friends Chas. Porter, Capt. Cook, Jack Fenn, &c., to solicit your interest with Lord Arlington for some employment in the new commission for wines, coals, &c. I have faithfully served the King, and doubt not but your interest and willingness to serve me will prevail. [Ibid. No. 196.]"[39]

"July 20. [1672] Greenwich. Benjamin Glanville to [Joseph] Williamson. As his frequent applications to him have ever been frustrated by press of business, sending him the enclosed account, which has been ready ever since he came to England, and requesting him to peruse it and show it to Lord Arlington, if necessary, and to appoint him any time to wait him, he being above 200l. in disburse, besides the reward for his services as his Majesty's agent. [S.P. Dom., Car. II. 313, No. 18.]"[40]


Benjamin Glanville, King's agent, Ostend, 1666


"If Lord Arlington did not always acknowledge or return the compliments which were paid to him, he respected the feelings of his friend, even when excited by insufficient causes. A Mr. Glanville had been sent over to Ostend, upon business connected with the recovery of the tin which had been lost: the jealousy of Temple was excited, and he complained in his usual style of affected indifference:-

I had resolved never to mention Mr. Glanville more, since he takes occasion to publish at Ostend and Bruges that I have done all I can to oppose his being the King's agent at Ostend. but that the copies of my letters are sent him still be the next post, though they have been to so little purpose, that his commission is now prepared, and will come next week; which, God knows, I trouble my head so little about, and if his Majesty thinks fit to have his residency here broken into so many splinters, I shall repent it no otherwise than is due to the present unwillingness of the resident.[41]


Pepys, September 27th, 1665, Mr. Glanvill's house, Greenwich


"27th [September, 1665]...So by water to Greenwich...I thence to Captain Cocke's [and] (he not yet coming from town) to Mr. Evelyn's, where much company; and thence in his coach with him to the Duke of Albemarle by Lambeth, who was in mighty pleasant humour....Back again the same way and had most excellent discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning; wherin I find him a very fine gentleman, and particularly of paynting, in which he tells me the beautifull Mrs. Middleton is rare, and his own wife fo brave things. He brought me to the office, whither comes unexpectedly Captain Cocke, who hath brought one parcel of our goods by waggons, and at first resolved to have lodged them at our office; but then the thoughts of its being the King's house altered our resolution, and so put them at his friend's, Mr. Glanvill's, and there they are safe. Would the rest of them were so too! In discourse, we come to mention my profit, and he offers me £500 clear, and I demand £600 for my certain profit. We part to-night, and I lie there at Mr. Glanvill's house, there being none there but a mayde-servant and a young man; being in some pain, partly from not knowing what to do in this business, having a mind to be at a certainty in my profit, and partly through his having Jacke sicke still, and his blackemore now also fallen sicke. So he being gone, I to bed."

28th [September, 1665] Up, and being mightily pleased with my night's lodging drank a cup of beer, and went out to may office, and there did some business, and so too boat and down to Woolwich..."[42]


East India Company


"[August 28, 1657] A letter is read, advising the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth from the Coast. Benjamin Glanveile (sic), John Swift, Samuel Moyer and John Langley are accepted as securities for pepper."[43]

"Cardamons bought by Sir William Rider and others to be examined. Calico bought by Benjamin Glanville to be resold, at his desire, and the loss made good out of his stock"[44]

"John Swift's account to be cleared, except what was engaged for by Benjamin Glanville."[45]


The Russia, or Muscovy Company, 1672: Benjamin Glanville & ?George Cocke, assistants


"The RUSSIA, or MUSCOVY COMPANY of Merchant Adventurers for discovery of new Trades, was first incorporated in the beginning 158 of the reign of King Philip and Queen Mary, upon the discoveries of Lands, Territories, Signiories, and Isles by Seas lying Northwards, Northeastwards, and North-westwards from England; and was afterwards confirmed by Act of Parliament in the eighth year of Queen Elizabeth so that now they enjoy several immunities and priviledges, as to raise arms for the subduing of Countreys in the limits aforesaid, and to enter thereon, and to set up the English Standards; to make Acts and Ordinances for the good of the said Society, (provided they are not repugnant to the Laws of England) to punish Offenders by fine or imprisonment, to use a common Seal, to bear a Coat of Arms, &c. And the benefit that this Kingdom receiveth from this, and other Companies of Merchants, is by the commodities by them exported and imported. Commodities exported and imported.

The commodities that this Company exporteth, are woollen-cloths of all sorts, both drest and dyed, kersies, bayes, cottons, perpetuances, fustians, Norwich-stuffs, lace, thread, lead, tynn, pewter, allom, copper, much defective wines and fruits, not fit to be spent in this Kingdom, together with most sorts of English commodities. And for these and the like they import pot-ashes, tarr, cordage, cable-yarn, tallow, wax, isinglass, several sorts of hides in the hair, goat-skins undrest, cordovants, tan'd-hides, hoggs-brissels, raw silk, corn, linseed, slood, bever-wool, and wombs; several sorts of rich furrs, seal-skins, ruberb, castorum, agarick, train-oyl, flax, hemp, linnen, caviare, salmon, stockfish, cod-fish, &c. The Government of the Company.

This Worshipful Company. or Fellowship of Merchants is governed by a Governour, four Consuls, and Assistants consisting of twenty four, who are annually on the first of March chosen out of the said Fellowship: and for this present year 1672. the management of the said affairs are committed unto the care of Jo. Jolliff Esq; Governour; Benjamin Albyn Esq; Mr. Daniel Edwards, Mr. Thomas Davies, and Mr. Charles Caryll Confuls; Mr. Thomas Hancox Treasurer, Charles Thorold Esq. Henry Spurstow Esq. Samuel Moyer Esq. John Gould Esq. Mr. Francis Pargiter, Mr. Richard Adams, Mr. George Dickons, Mr. John Ashby, Mr. Benjamin Glanvile, Mr. Benjamin Coles, Mr. Edward Lewes, Mr. Samuel Meverell, Mr. James Young, Mr. George Carew, Mr. Heritage Lenten, Mr. Henry Mordant, Mr. Edward Grace, Mr. Thomas Andrews, Mr. Edward Vickers, Mr. George Cooke, Mr. George Grove, Mr. John Porter, Mr. Edmond Davenport, and Mr. John Cowper Assistants Turkey Company of Merchants."[46]


Benjamin Glanville, special agent, Bruges


"The three agents in Flanders, Edmund Custis and Benjamin Glanville at Bruges and Jerome Nipho at Antwerp, were employed ostensibly for such tasks as the repatriation of prisoners taken by the Dutch from the English fleet, while being used to forward letters from the Secretaries' spies in Holland and to conduct a correspondence with spies which they found themselves. Nipho provided the bulk of Arlington's intelligence in 1666 with regard to the Dutch fleet."[47]

"Extracts from Joseph Williamson's 'Journal', 1672-3

1672
March 12th Major Scott taken, and sent away to Holland for intelligence, recommended by Custis, Glanville, etc., with ample instructions to view their state."[48]


Glanville: Recovery of debts from Henry Krevett, Russia, 1667


"March 25. [1667] Received letters from Mr. Benjamin Glanville, one dated Bruges, the fourteenth of February, the other dated Ostend, the sixteenth of February, with a full power to persue and recover his debts from Henry Krevett in Russia"[49]


Imprisonment of Benjamin Clapton & Sir Edward Winter, Metchlepatam, ?mid-1660s


"[Date? Place?] Wee have appointed Robert Sainthill (Second and to keepe the accompts), John Widdrington (Third), John Atkins, Benjamin Clapton, John Child (assistants)"[50]

"...Sir Edward Winter together with Mr. Benjamin Clapton, who was secured and kept close prisoner in Metchlepatam by M:r W:m Jearsey chiefe of that place , for the said English East India Company, being sent thether by the said S:r Edward Winter to deliver a protest (made in his Majesties name) against the said Mr. Jearsey for intercepting and detaining his Majesties Letters and others his Majesties Subjects..."[51]


William Glanville (b. 1618, d. 1702), of Wonford, Devon and Greenwich


"GLANVILLE, William (1618-1702), of Wonford, Devon and Greenwich, Kent.

QUEENBOROUGH ( jan. 1681, 1681

bap. 13 Sept. 1618, 1st s. of William Glanville, merchant, of Heavitree, Devon by w. Anstace. educ. Exeter, Oxf. 1634; M. Temple 1635. called 1642, steward 1677. m. c. 1647, Jane (bur. 19 Dec. 1651), da, of Richard Evelyn of Wootton, Surr., 1s. suc. fa. c. 1648.
Commr. for alienations 1689-d.

Glanville, according to his brother-in-law John Evelyn, came 'of an ancient family in Devonshire', though presumably of a cadet branch. Nothing is known of his activities furing the Civil Wars and Interregnum. It is not clear whether he was a practising lawyer, though 'by his prudent parsimony' he 'much improved his fortune'. By 1665 he was in possession of a house at Greenwich, where Samuel Pepys concealed some of his prize goods, but two years laterm when his son was admitted to the Middle Temple, his address was given as Wonford. He emerges from the pages of his brother-in-law's diary as a strong personality:

a great friend when he took a fancy, and as great an enemy when he took displeasure; subject to great passions, positive, well-spoken, of good natural parts...In person handsome; very temperate.

He probably stood for Queenborough on the interest of Edward Hales, whose daughter was later to marry his son. At the second election of 1679, he was defeated by the court candidate James Herbert, but seated on petition two days before the dissolution, whereupon he promised the corporation to 'forget all unkindness showed me at the last election', and took up residence in the house of a notorious local Whig. he was apparently re-elected unopposed, but was appointed to no committees in his brief parliamentary career. friend of Locke's since at least 1666, he was given minor government office at the Revolution. He was 'not a little proud' that Locke, as well as Sir Walter Yonge and Edward Clarke, called him 'father'.

On 7 Aug. 1701 Glanville was given permission, because of ill health, to appoint a deputy for his post in the alienations office, and under date of 12 Apr. 1702 Evelyn wrote in his diary that

this night died my brother-in-law Glanville, after a very tedious illness, in the 84:th year of his age and willed his body to be wrapped in lead and carried down to Greenwich, where it was put on board a yacht and buried in the sea...which made much discourse, he having no relation at all to the sea.

No doubt this eccentric disposition of his remains was due to his adoption of Socinian principles, which occasioned a quarrel with the diarist, who nevertheless considered that 'he might have been an extraordianry man, had he cultivated his parts.' His son was the last male of the family, but his granddaughter married another Evelyn, who assumed the name of Glanville, and sat for Hythe as a government supporter from 1728 to 1766. [Footnotes have been ommitted] B.D.H."[52]


Other notes


“Nicholas Glanville, son and heir, bap. 16 Jan,. , 1597, at St. Stephen’s-by-Saltash, and Elizabeth, baptized 1598. Nicholas left three sons: John Glanville, who lived at Plymouth; Benjamin Glanville, a merchant in London; and Joseph Glanville, who was born in Plymouth , 1630, and afterwards educated at Oxford, took the degree of M.A.in 1658. Having assumed the priestly office , he became Chaplian to Francis Rouse, who had been made Provost of Eton by Oliver Cromwell, but Rouse dying...” (p. 76, William Urmston Searle Glanville- Richards, Records of the Anglo-Norman house of Glanville from A.D. 1050 to 1880 (Mitchell and Hughes, 1882)

[A search of PRO Wills online confirms that "Glanvill" is heavily Devon (and some Cornwall) focussed, including possibly the will of Benjamin Glanvill(e)’s putative elder brother: Will of John Glanvill of Plymouth, Devon 02 July 1685 PROB 11/380 Cann Quire Numbers: 52 – 107 pp. 2 PDF; and possibly BG’s younger brother, Joseph: Will of Joseph Glanvill, Clerk, Rector of Bath, Somerset 31 December 1680 PROB 11/364 Bath Quire Numbers: 124 – 185 pp. 3 PDF]]

"In 1660 Benjamin Glanville, who had become a prosperous tin merchant, bought the living of Wimbish in Essex, and presented it to his brother Joseph. ...” (p. 57, Ferris Greenslet, Joseph Glanvill: a study in English thought and letters of the seventeenth century (The Columbia University Press, 1900)

"..Temple’s similar complaints in regard to Benjamin Glanville, who was sent over to Ostend in connection with the recovery of the tin, seem to have been fully justified: Glanville’s conduct was apparently discourteous and inconsiderate towards the man who had had the business in charge from the first.." (p. 74, Homer Edwards Woodbridge, Sir William Temple: the man and his work (The Modern Language Association of America, 1940)


Possible primary sources

BL


'Glanville (Benjamin), merchant, Letter to J. Fenn, concerning tin shipped to Ostend, Aug. 1666. 5753. f. 303'[53]
- "A long letter from Glanville to John Fenn, dated Bruges, Aug. 15, 1666, NS, is preserved in the British Museum. Glanville gives a full account of the transportation of the tin, of which he claims to have been ..."[54]


TNA


C 6/36/21 Short title: Cock v Letten. Plaintiffs: George Cock and John Fenn. Defendants: John Letten and another. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer, schedule. 1670
C 6/201/21 Short title: Cocke v Letten. Plaintiffs: George Cocke and John Fenn. Defendants: John Letten. Subject: money matters. Document type: answer only. 1670

C 10/74/15 Carew v. Langham, Carew, Milward, Spurstow, Roll, Glanvill, and others: Middx. 1660

PROB 4/5670 Glanvile, Maurice, of [Wymbish, Essex], [clerk] 1695 11 March

PROB 11/164 Russell 58-117 Will of John Glanvill, Merchant 14 November 1633
PROB 11/180 Harvey 66-135 Will of Sir Francis Glanvill of Tavistock, Devon 04 May 1639
PROB 11/194 Rivers 111-157 Will of Richard Swift, Merchant of London 09 September 1645
PROB 11/204 Essex 53-107 Will of William Glanvill, Merchant of Heavitree, Devon 20 May 1648
PROB 11/364 Bath 124-185 Will of Joseph Glanvill, Clerk, Rector of Bath, Somerset 31 December 1680
PROB 11/380 Cann 52-107 Will of John Glanvill of Plymouth, Devon 02 July 1685
PROB 11/485 Gee 223-265 Will of William Glanvill of Middle Temple , Middlesex 06 December 1705
- Possibly a relative of Benjamin Glanville, London merchant
PROB 11/538 Aston 1–43 Will of William Glanvil of Island of Antigua, West Indies 11 February 1714

SP 77/34 Sir William Temple, Benjamin Glanville, John Ford, etc 1666 Jan - July
SP 77/35 Sir William Temple, Benjamin Glanville, John Ford, etc 1666 Aug - Dec
SP 77/36 Sir William Temple, Benjamin Glanville, Thomas Downton, etc 1667 Jan - June

SP 77/37 Sir William Temple, Benjamin Glanville, Thomas Downton, 'JW', etc 1667 July - Dec
  1. ↑ XXXX
  2. ↑ This is the footnote text
  3. ↑ Glanville (Benjamin), merchant, Letter to J. Fenn, concerning tin shipped to Ostend, Aug. 1666. BL, XXXX, 5753. f. 303; XXXX
  4. ↑ XXXX; XXXXX, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1664-1667 (Oxford, 19XX), p. 1; Richard Blome, Britannia: or a Geographical description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the Isles and Territories thereto belonging (London, 1687), pp. 157-158
  5. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, August 15, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 281), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 29; 'A Court of Committees, May 13, 1663, (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 622), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 310
  6. ↑ This is the footnote text
  7. ↑ 'April 21. [1670] London. Ben. Glanville to [Joseph] Williamson,' in Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II: April 1670', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1670: With addenda 1660-70 (1895), pp. 144-193, viewed 18 January 2012
  8. ↑ This is the footnote text
  9. ↑ November 1667, Letter from Henry Oxinden to Sir GO
  10. ↑ Memorial in old church at Greenwich: 'Richard, son of Benjamin Glanvill, merchant, 1656' in Daniel Lysons, 'Greenwich', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 426-493, viewed 18 January 2012; 'July 20. [1672] Greenwich. Benjamin Glanville to [Joseph] Williamson', in Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II: July 1-20, 1672', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1672 (1899), pp. 296-370, viewed 18 January 2012
  11. ↑ 'East Greenwich: Dock and Taverne Rowe' in XXXX, Kent Hearth Tax transcription, 1664 (XXXX, XXXX). p. 22, viewed 18/01/12
  12. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II: April 1670', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1670: With addenda 1660-70 (1895), pp. 144-193, viewed 18 January 2012
  13. ↑ C6/36/21 f. 1
  14. ↑ Sir William Ryder, London merchant
  15. ↑ Daniel Pennington, a young London merchant
  16. ↑ Charles Porter, XXXX
  17. ↑ "1st April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO"
  18. ↑ George Cock will
  19. ↑ This is the footnote text
  20. ↑ Robert Latham, William Matthews, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 11: Index, p. 116
  21. ↑ Henry Benjamin Wheatley (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys ...: for the first time fully transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian library, vol. 9, July 1, 1665 - March 2, 1666, (London & New York, 1895), pp. 89-90
  22. ↑ Basil Duke Henning, The House of Commons, 1660-1690 (?London, 1983), pp. 395-396
  23. ↑ William Urmston Searle Glanville- Richards, Records of the Anglo-Norman house of Glanville from A.D. 1050 to 1880 (XXXX, 1882), p. 76
  24. ↑ PROB 11/364 Bath 124-185 Will of Joseph Glanvill, Clerk, Rector of Bath, Somerset 31 December 1680
  25. ↑ [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Glanvill,_Joseph_%28DNB00%29 Glanvill, Joseph', Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, vol. 21 (XXXX, XXXX), p. ?
  26. ↑ PROB 4/5670 Glanvile, Maurice, of [Wymbish, Essex], [clerk] 1695 11 March
  27. ↑ 'A court of committees, August 15, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 281, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 29
  28. ↑ CCM 64-67, p. 227
  29. ↑ PROB 11/194 Rivers 111-157 Will of Richard Swift, Merchant of London 09 September 1645
  30. ↑ John Swift, London merchant; brother of Dame Martha Smith. For a less favourable view of John Swift's attempts to satisfy his creditors see a letter from the London merchant Robert Cranmer, a former subscriber to the Smirna Venture Joint Stock (27th March 1663, Letter from Robert Cranmer, London). John Swift made his way out to Surat, chosing the overland route via Aleppo, which he reached in August (20th August 1663, Letter from Gamaliel Nightingale to Sir GO, Aleppo). By November 1663 he was in Goa, where he was the joint author of a letter with Robert Ferrand to Sir George Oxenden, dated November 24th 1663 and sent from Goa (24th November 1663, Letter from Robert Ferrand and Mr. John Swift, Goa). Sir George Smith, his brother-in-law, wrote from London to Sir George Oxenden in March 1665/66, having heard of Swift's death, regretting his past support for the now deceased Swift, who had disappointed him by his behaviour in the East Indies (March 1665/66, Letter from George Smith to Sir GO
  31. ↑ Daniel Lysons, 'Greenwich', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 426-493. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45486 Date accessed: 18 January 2012
  32. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II - volume 138: December 1-12, 1665', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1665-6 (1864), pp. 81-99, viewed 18 January 2012
  33. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II - volume 145: January 12-22, 1666', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1665-6 (1864), pp. 200-215, viewed 18 January 2012
  34. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II - volume 154: April 17-30, 1666', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1665-6 (1864), pp. 355-374, viewed 18 January 2012
  35. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II - volume 169: August 26-31, 1666', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1666-7 (1864), pp. 67-84, viewed 18 January 2012
  36. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II - volume 201: May 16-24, 1667', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1667 (1866), pp. 102-120, viewed 18 January 2012
  37. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II - volume 219: October 1-12, 1667', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1667 (1866), pp. 501-522, viewed 18 January 2012
  38. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II: February 1669', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1668-9 (1894), pp. 177-218, viewed 18 January 2012
  39. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II: April 1670', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1670: With addenda 1660-70 (1895), pp. 144-193, viewed 18 January 2012
  40. ↑ Mary Anne Everett Greene (ed.), 'Charles II: July 1-20, 1672', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1672 (1899), pp. 296-370. URL: viewed 18 January 2012
  41. ↑ 'May 7. 1666', Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (ed.), Memoirs of the life, works, and correspondence of Sir William Temple, bart, vol. 1 (London, 1836), p. 235
  42. ↑ Henry Benjamin Wheatley (ed.), The diary of Samuel Pepys ...: for the first time fully transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian library, vol. 9, July 1, 1665 - March 2, 1666, (London & New York, 1895), pp. 89-90
  43. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, August 28, 1657' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 591) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 160
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  47. ↑ Peter Fraser, The Intelligence of the Secretaries of State: And Their Monopoly of Licensed News (Cambridge, 1956), p. 75
  48. ↑ Peter Fraser, The Intelligence of the Secretaries of State: And Their Monopoly of Licensed News (Cambridge, 1956), p. 161
  49. ↑ Joseph Robertson (ed.), Passages from the diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries in the years 1635-1699 (Aberdeen, 1859), p. 100
  50. ↑ EFI, 1655-60, p. 303
  51. ↑ XXXX (ed.), The diary of William Hedges, esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), during his agency in Bengal: as well as on his voyage out and return overland (1681-1697), (London, 1888), p. cccxxiii
  52. ↑ Basil Duke Henning, The House of Commons, 1660-1690 (?London, 1983), pp. 395-396
  53. ↑ Index to the additional manuscripts: with those of the Egerton collection, preserved in the British museum, and acquired in the years 1783-1835 (London, 1849), p. 198
  54. ↑ Homer Edwards Woodbridge, Sir William Temple: the man and his work (XXXX, 1940), p. 74

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