Richard Cawthorne

Richard Cawthorne

Richard Cawthorne
Person	Richard Cawthorne
Title
First name	Richard
Middle name(s)
Last name	Cawthorne
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Spouse of
Widow of
Occupation	Stationer
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation
Associated with ship(s)
Training	Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen	Unknown
Literacy	Signature
Has opening text	Richard Cawthorne
Has signoff text	Richard Cawthorne
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Language skills	English language
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Res street
Res parish	Saint Mildred Bread Street
Res town	London
Res county
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Res country	England
Birth year	1629
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Probate date	December 10, 1687
First deposition age
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/70 f.596v Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Sep 14 1655
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Has infobox completed	Yes
Has synthesis completed	No
Has HCA evidence completed	No
Has source comment completed	No
Ship classification
Type of ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation

Biographical synthesis

Richard Cawthorne (b. ca. 1619; d. ?1687). Stationer. Possibly apprenticed as a merchant tailor.

Resident in 1655 in the parish of Saint Mildred Bread Street (descibed in the deposition as Saint Mildreds in the Poultry). Had been resident in that parish for the last 11 years, since ca. 1644.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Thirty-six year old Richard Cawthorne deposed on September 14th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel in the case of "Complaine against Brandlin and others".

Cawthorne stated that he knew Titus Complaine, the producent, well, and that Complaine had been Cawthorne's customer for "stationary=wares" for many years. On October 15th 1652 Complaine had bought paper worth £2-12-4d. The paper was packed up at Complaine's order and sent by Cawthorne to the shop of a tobacconist named John Appleton, who was resident in Cornhill, London, to be sent with other goods on a ship for Ipswich, where Complaine was resident.

Thomas Wilson Coldham (1984) identifies an earlier deposition by Richard Cawthorne of Saint Mildred Bread Street, when he was thirty-one years of age

J R Woodhead (1966) identifies a Richard Cawthorne, merchant tailor, of Saint Mildred Bread Street, who appears to be the same man.

Comment on sources

SP 46/97/fo33 Bill of Richard Cawthorne for stationery supplied to the Committee for Claims for Lands in Ireland; and his receipt. 1653 Dec. 6

"Richard Cawthorne of St. Mildred Poultry, London, citizen and stationer of London aged ?31. After the return of the Increase to London he went with Douglas Burton to Thomas Varvall's house in Ratcliffe to demand an account of her husband's ..."

Probably same (despite being described as merchant tailor, not stationer) as "CAWTHORNE, Richard

Co Co Cheap, 1676 Poultry, 1645/6, St Mildred Poultry, 1673, 1677, St Olave Hart Street, 1687 (1) MT, appr, 1635, to Oliver Neave, W, 1683 (2) b 1619, d Nov-Dec 1687, bur ? St Mildred Poultry (3) Will PCC 148 Foot pr, 10 Dec 1687 f Richard Cawthorne of Darfield, Yorks, tanner, mar (B) Anne, wid of Thomas ABRAHALL (4) Employed on work at the Tower of London goods and services cost £500 (5) ? Tory, not Whig (6)

(1) MT, Appr Bindings, XII, f 345, Boyd 34669, VBk, St Mildred Poultry, will (2) Will, MT, Appr Bindings, XI, f 18, Boyd 34669 (3) LVP, 1664, p 1, will (4) MT, Appr Bindings, XI, f 18, Boyd 34669, 26181, LVP, 1664, p 1 (5) Will (6) H of L, MS 154 (f)"

PROB 11/389/281 Will of Richard Cawthorne, Merchant Tailor of London 10 December 1687