Simon Driver
| Simon Driver | |
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| Person | Simon Driver |
| Title | |
| First name | Simon |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Driver |
| Suffix | |
| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Cooper |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Marke |
| Has opening text | Simon Driver |
| Has signoff text | SD |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
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| Birth parish | |
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| Birth county | |
| Birth province | |
| Birth country | |
| Res street | |
| Res parish | Saint Botolph Billingsgate |
| Res town | London |
| Res county | |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1606 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | |
| Probate date | |
| First deposition age | 41 |
| Primary sources | |
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| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.299v Annotate |
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| Act book date(s) | |
| Personal answer date(s) | |
| Allegation date(s) | |
| Interrogatories date(s) | |
| Deposition date(s) | Mar 22 1655 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
| Ship classification | |
| Type of ship | Shore based trade |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Simon Driver (alt. Symon Driver) (b.ca.1615; d.?1667). Cooper.
Resident in parish of Saint Botolph Billingsgate in 1655.
"Master Simon Driver" appears in the 1638 list of inhabitants of Saint Botolph Billingsgate with a rent of £7.[1]
J.C.Whitebrook (1910) states that "Simon Driver was Churchwarden of S. Botolph's Billingsgate in 1659, and was still living in 1669."[2] He may be the Simon Driver cooper, of Saint Olave in Southwark, whose will was proven on October 26 1669.[3]
His seventeen year old daughter, Mary Driver, married Erasmus Cholmeley, a twenty-five year old brewer of Saint Olave Southwark. The marriage allegation is dated September 28th 1661 and was with the consent of Simon Driver, who is described as "of Saint Botolph Billingsgate, Wine Cooper."[4]
Simon Driver may well have been related to the forty year old widower Thomas Driver (b.ca.1625; m.1665; d.ca.1673), who was a cooper of Saint Botolph Billingsgate, and whose marriage was alleged in September 1665 to Anne Brocke of Barnet, Hertfordshire.[5] Thomas Driver is listed in the 1666 hearth tax returns for Saint Botolph Billingsgate with an address at Fresh Wharf, where he had a property with five hearths.[6]
Simon and Thomas Driver may well have both been related to another Thomas Driver, wine cooper of Billingsgate, whose will was proved in September 1661.[7]
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Simon Driver deposed on March 22nd 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on a libel on behalf of Tether in the case of "Tether against Bryan and shipp Julian.[8]
"Symon Dryver", cooper, is mentioned in the deposition of XXX XXXX. Dryver, by order of the father of XXX the deponent, disposed of the remaining hogshead and a half of copperis and sold it for the account of Anthony Tether.[9].
List of depositions in case of Tether against Bryan and shipp Julian
- Simon Driver of the parish of Saint Buttolphe Billingsgate Cooper aged 49. yeares, March 22nd 1655[10]
Comment on sources
Possible record links to Simon Driver, cooper, of this biography
PROB 11/305/438 Will of Thomas Driver, Wine Cooper of Billingsgate, City of London 23 September 1661
PROB 11/331/224 Will of Simon Driver, Cooper of Saint Olave in Southwark, Surrey 26 October 1669
PROB 11/343/241 Will of Thomas Driver, Cooper of London 03 November 1673
"File 998. Item 3 William GEFFEREY, doctor of the Arches, v. [Simon DRYVER of Southwark and the sheriffs of LONDON], Action in respect of a decree given by complainant in a spiritual cause in the diocese of Winchester, whereby he is compelled to attend in London in spite of the plague. [Certiorari and subpoena.]
Mutilated. London."[11]
C 7/444/15 Short title: Bowes v Cholmeley. Plaintiffs: Robert Bowes. Defendants: Erasmus Cholmeley and another. Place or subject: property in St Margaret Westminster, Middlesex. Document type: bill and answer. 1657.
Definite related record
1665. Sep. 4 Thomas Driver, of St Botolph, Billingsgate, Cooper, Widr, abt 40, & Anne Brocke, of Barnett, Herts, Spr, 35, at own disp.; alleged by John Crane, of St Botolph's afsd, Cit. & Weaver; at Barnett or St Botolph's afsd."[12]- ↑ T C Dale, 'Inhabitants of London in 1638: St. Botolph, Billingsgate', in The Inhabitants of London in 1638 (London, 1931), pp. 42-43. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-inhabitants/1638/pp42-43, viewed 06/08/2016
- ↑ J.C.Whitebrook (ed.), London citizens in 1651, being a transcript of Harleian MS. 4778 (London, 1910), p.26, viewed 06/08/2016
- ↑ PROB 11/331/224 Will of Simon Driver, Cooper of Saint Olave in Southwark, Surrey 26 October 1669
- ↑ George John Armytage (ed.), Allegations for marriage licences: issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1668 (London, 1892), p.13, viewed 06/08/2016
- ↑ George John Armytage (ed.), Allegations for marriage licences : issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1668 (London, 1892). p.147, viewed 06/08/2016
- ↑ 'Fresh Wharf' in 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666, St Botolph by Billingsgate ', in London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-hearth-tax/london-mddx/1666/st-botolph-by-billingsgate, viwed 06/08/2016
- ↑ PROB 11/305/438 Will of Thomas Driver, Wine Cooper of Billingsgate, City of London 23 September 1661
- ↑ HCA 13/70 f.299v
- ↑ HCA 13/71 f.234r
- ↑ HCA 13/70 f.299v
- ↑ List of early Chancery proceedings preserved in the Public Record Office, vol.8 (New York, 1963), p.104, viewed 06/08/2016
- ↑ George John Armytage (ed.), Allegations for marriage licences : issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1668 (London, 1892). p.147, viewed 06/08/2016
