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HCA 1/50

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HCA 1/50 introduction

HCA 1/50 is a volume of records from criminal cases which came before the English High Court of Admiralty between 1634 and 1653.

The record below is from the criminal trial of John Lockier, master of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant. For background on John Lockier and his ship see: Cannibal tales. Lockier was accused of inadequately victualling his ship before departing London for Virginia. Of the thirty-five seamen and over one hundred and thirty passengers who embarked upon the voyage, some sixty-two passengers and four seamen were alleged to have starved to death before the ship came to Virginia.

In addition to this criminal case, John Lockier was a party to two additional civil cases. The first, brought in August 1650, was for the unpaid wages of six of his crew members. The second, brought in January 1652 (1651 old stile), was for unpaid freight by the freighters Richard Batson, Thomas Jancey, Valentine Austin and John Lockier, to the owners of the ship (Captain Elias Jourdaine and company).

The record from the criminal case is in C17th legal Latin. You will find an extremely rough transcription of the record by a non-latinist below. We would appreciate help in perfecting the Latin transcription, and in making an accurate English translation.

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Background on individuals mentioned in this and other related Admiralty Court records

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Dr William Clerke; Dr John Exton; Dr William Stephens

Three judges of the High Court of Admiralty active in 1649, 1650 and 1651.

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John Lockier

Thirty year old Master of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant, aged thirty or thereabouts age in August 1650. One of the freighters of the ship. Resident in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in August 1650, after returning from Virginia, where he abandoned his wrecked ship. Deponent in a civil case concerning the unpaid wages of six of his crew, brought before the High Court of Admiralty in August 1650 in the names of Hugh Lockier, George Spurgeon/Spurgin, Richard Paile, Nicholas Paddocke and Thomas Reason.

Lockier appears (following the wreck of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant) to have been appointed master of the ship the Thomas and John. The latter ship is recorded as having made a voyage from Barbados to London, arriving in London in August or September 1653. The ship presumably departed London for Barbados, either directly, or via West Africa, in the second half of 1652. As of yet, no record has been discovered of this outward voyage. Deliveries of sugar were made out of the ship to the very same Richard Batson, merchant of London, who was the principal freightor of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant. So, if there were a prison sentence resulting from the criminal case in October 1650, Captain Lockier was free again by the second half of 1652.

Patrick McGrath, Merchants and Merchandise on Seventeenth-Century Bristol, vol. 6 (Bristol, 1955), p.256 Right click on image for full size image in separate window

A John Lockier is recorded as master of the ship the Negro, "from Dublin, Kinsale and Cork Ireland" carrying indentured servants to the West Indies in a series of Admiralty Court depositions in February and March 1657 (1656 old stile). This John Lockier, who signed his name "Lockyer", gave his age on March 12th 1657 as "thirty five years of thereabouts" and gave his residence as Limehouse, making it highly likely that this is the same man, who was master of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant.

Case: Samuel Edwards and Roger Whitfeild against the Negro and goods.

Examined upon an allegation given on the behalfe of the said Edwards and Whitfeild

See: 1. Deposition of Thomas Morgan of Redriff in the County of Surrey Mariner, aged 36 yeeres HCA 13/71 f.555v
- Thomas Morgan shipped boatswaine on the ship the Negro (master and commander: Captain John Lockier) in February 1654 at Dunquirke, bound via Dover, Rochell, Dublin, Kingsale, and Corke for Barbados. However, the ship missed Barbados and arrived at Saint Christophers, where it remained eleven months, before being refitted and sailing to Jamaica. The ship remained three months at Jamaica and then sailed to New England, where she remained from May 1656 till August 1656, before departing for the Maderas, where she stayed for two months, before departing in October 1656 for England, arriving in London in January 1657.

See: 2. Deposition of Albert Johnson of Massdam in Norway Mariner, aged 45 yeeres HCA 13/71 f.556r

Exámined upon an allegation on the behalfe of the said Bushell and others

See: 1. Deposition of George Byrne of dublin in Ireland Chyrugeon aged nineteene yeares HCA 13/71 f.617v
- George Byrnes deposed that Samuel Edwards and Roger Whitfeild on the voyage in question on the ship the Negro were "many times drunken and distempered and over taken with drinke and the said Edwards being in drinke did misbehave himselfe stubbornely and disobediently towards the Captaine of the said shipp, disobeying his orders". According to Byrne, when at Saint Christophers "the said Edwards said and affirmyed in the presence and hearing of this deponent said that upon the deck that Captaine Lockier her commander was a knave and a rogue and a banquetting or bankrupt fellow, and hee and the said Whitfeild then said then the shipp was insufficient to goe to sea, and that they would not adventure their lives in her saith that upon these words, severall of the shipps company deserted and left her declaring that if the carpenter and Gunner (which the said Whitfeild and Edwards were) reported soe of her, they had noe reason to venture themselves in her. howbeit hee saith that hee cannot affirme such speeches and behaviour of the said whitfeild and Edwards to be the cause of the freighters giving over the voyage, for notwithstanding the same the said shipp proceeded on the said voyage with the said goods from Saint Christofers to goe to Montserrat where shee was to have taken in fiftie other tonnes of goods of the Governour there for England, but in her course after three times setting out shee proved soe leakie, that shee was faine to returne againe into the Roade of Saint Christofers, and soe the Captaine got them laden in other shipps for England, all which hee knoweth being one of her company" [HCA 13/71 ff.617v-618r) Lockier seems to have had problems controlling his crew on Saint Christophers. Byrnes reported that: "the said Captaine Lockier while the said shipp was at Saint Christofers missing some saile that were purloined or taken out of the shipp, this deponent being after at a planters house there and seeing a woman one of the said planters servants (who use to have nothing on their armes but their under-garments) have one of the said shirts which this deponent well knew, (having worne some of them by the Captaines permission) upon her, hee asked her howe shee came by it or whence shee had it, to which shee answered that her master had it of mr Wetherall the steward of the said shipp, which Wetherall hee saith frequented that house" (HCA 13/71 f.618v)

See: 2. Deposition of James Carter of Limehouse in the County of Middlesex Mariner, aged 23 yeeres HCA 13/71 f.620r

See: 3. Deposition of Thomas Wetherall of Ratcliffe in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex late steward of the shipp the Negro aged fifty nyne yeares HCA 13/71 f.620v
- Wetherall deposed that: "there was at Kingsale in Ireland a pye of about two shillings sixe pence price (which was sent as hee hath heard on board by a bakers wife who baked bread for the shipp Negro to the officers in generall of the sayd shipp) brought on board the sayd shipp, which pye hee saith was found by John Gouldsborough the Cooke of the sayd shipp after it came aboard and by him the sayd Cooke (as hee confessed to this deponent and others of the sayd shipps company) put into this deponents stewards roome in the sayd shipp which by vertue of his oath hee saith was done without his this deponents knowledge thereof And that the same being enquired after by Samuell Bushell one of the Company of the sayd shipp and brother to Captain Lockier the Commander of the sayd shipp who pretended right therein hee this deponent not knowing of the being thereof in his roome, did (as hee might safely in such case doe denye the same and beleeveth that the same was afterwards found there and eaten by the sayd Bushell and this deponent and some others of the Company of the sayd shipp " (HCA 13/71 f.622v) Wetherll also commented that: "when the arlate Lockeere was sayleing to Saint Christophers the Interrogate Whitfeild did tell him that hee mistooke his way to the Barbadoes" (HCA 13/71 f.623r) Wetherall identified "Mr Alexander howe and Mr Robert Rich the Merchants and Owners of the sayd shipp the Negro (HCA 13/71 f.623r)

See: 4. Deposition of John Lockier of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney and County of Middlesex Mariner Master of shipp the Negro aged thirty five yeares HCA 13/71 f.623v-625r)
- Lockier stated: "hee hath bin a seaman sixteene or seaventeene yeares last past and hath bin a master and Captaine of shipps for tenn yeares of that tyme" (HCA 13/71 f.624v)
- He signed his deposition "John Lockyer" (HCA 13/71 f.625r)

Caution is needed in attempting to link references to Captain John Lockier from different sources. For example, there is a reference in the House of Lords Journal, dated December 18th 1645 to:

Captain Lockier to command a Prize Vessel.

"On the Recommendations of Captain Batten, Vice Admiral of the Fleet; this Committee doth Order, That Captain John Lockier, formerly employed in the Parliament's Service, be presented to both Houses, for their (fn. 2) approving him to be Commander of the Prize Ship at Weymouth, lately taken from Captain Browne Bushell."

Ordered, To desire the Concurrence of the House of Commons herein.

We know from Lockier's deposition in early 1657 that he had been master of a ship for tenn years and a seaman for some sixteen or seventeen years, so a reference to a Captain John Lockier in 1645 is pushing it as a match.

A Dorsetshire connection?

The surname Lockier/Lockyer appears to be a Dorsetshire name, as seen in the Dorset Protestation Returns, 1641-2

We know that Hugh Lockier married his wife Priscill[?a] in Dorset. See "Marriage of Hugh Lockier and Prisella [Maiden name is obscured in the parish record], on February 4th 1640 at Hampreston, Dorset, England"

A daughter of the above couple, named Priscilla, was baptised on January 6th 1641 in the parish of Saint Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney. In the parish record Hugh Lockier is described as "of Greenbanks Shipwright". The whole entry reads:

"Christenings: 1641: January 6 Priscilla daughter of Hugh Lockier of Greenbanks Shipwright & Priscilla uxor 3 days old"

Greenbank appears to have been in the hamlet of Wapping in the parish of Saint Dunstan, Stepney, near Wapping Church. In the 'Four shillings in the pound' taxation records from 1693/4, Greenbanck is listed immediately before Gunn Alley. The record of criminal proceedings in HCA 1/50 from October 1650 refers to "per uxor hugonis Lockier de Gunn Ally in Wappinge".

There is an index record of the Death of Priscilla Lockier in the parish of Saint Dunstan in 1646, dated 25 Mar. 1646, daughter of Hugh and Priscilla Lockier.

There is a further index record of the Baptism of Mary Lockyer (sic), dated May 5 1644 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney; fther: Hugh Lockyer; Mother: Priscilla

Other Stepney records of Lockiers in the mid-C17th are:

• "Marriages: 1638: August 7 Thomas Locker (sic) of Ratcliffe Maryner and Rebeccah Gray ibem maid"

• "Burial: Margaret Lockier: Burial date: 24 Nov 1640: Burial Place: St Dunstan, Stepney: Father: Thomas Lockier: Mother: Judith Lockier: FHL Film no. 597248: Ref ID: 238"

• "Christenings: 1641: April 7 Rebeccah daughter of Thomas Locker (sic) of Ratcliffe Maryner, and Rebeccah uxor" FHL Film no. 597248: Ref ID: 238"

• "Burialls At Stepney [1641]: July 21 Mary daughter of Thomas Locker (sic) of Poplar Maryner, and Rebeccah uxor" FHL Film no. 597248: Ref ID: 238"

• "Baptism: William Lockier: Baptism date: 13 Aug 1658: Burial Place: St Dunstan, Stepney: Father: William Lockier: Mother: Alice Lockier: Parish Register". The digital image of the parish entry shows: "Christenings Anno 1658: August 13 William Sonne of William Lockier of Ratcliff Mariner and Alice"

• "Burial: Robert Lockier: Burial date: 1661: Burial Place: St Dunstan, Stepney: Father: William Lockier: Mother: Alice Lockier: FHL Film no. 597248: Ref ID: None"

• Will of Richard Lockier [Richardi Lockier], probate date 27 Jul 1663 [PRC]

- Describes himself as "Richard Lockier of Ratcliffe in the Parrish of Stepney alias Stebenheath in the County of Middlesex marriner"
- Makes his "trustie and loving sister Alice Lockier the wife of William Lockier Marriner my true and lawfull deputie and attorney
- Refers to his estate after all money wages or remaynder of wages debt and debts goods commodities adventures things duties and demands that may be due oweing payable or belonging unto him have been collected
- Refers to "this my next or any other succeding voyage"
- Gives "all my wages And all other my personall estate whatsoever unto my saod Attorney my debts only being first deducted and payd And her only doe I make and ordaine to be the whole sole executrix of this my present last will and testament"
- Set his hand and seal to his lastw ill and testament on the second day of March in the Thirteenth yeares of the raigne of our soveraigne Lord Charles the second ...Anno domini 1661 The marke of the said Richard Lockier Sealed signed and delivered in the presence of The marke of William Creaton Roberd Mallerd"
- Probate was granted to "Alicia Lockier"

• "Burial: Rebecca Lockier: Burial date: 5 Feb 1665: Burial Place: St Dunstan, Stepney: Father: N/A: Mother: N/A: FHL Film no. 597248: Ref ID: None"

• "Burial: Mary Lockier: Burial date: 3 Apr 1665: Burial Place: St Dunstan, Stepney: Father: N/A: Mother: N/A: FHL Film no. 597248: Ref ID: None"

There is at least one Rederiffe (Ratcliffe record):

Will of Edward Lockier (sic), made December 21st 1644 [PRC]
- Describes himself as "Edward Lockier living in the Parish of Reddrife in the Countie of Midlesex Gunner" and was "sick in bodie"
- The will is just ten lines long
- Makes his wife Elizabeth his whole Executor, and bequeaths the sum of £20 to "Elizabeth Loker (sic) my daughter..and a house that I have in Queenshead Alley in Wapping after my wifes decease"
- The marke of Edward Locker (sic)
- Probate granted to Elizabeth Lockier (sic) on March 9th 1646

Interestingly, a William Lockier appears in the Dorset Protestation Returns, 1641-2, listed as one of fifteen recusants in Hampreston in the Cramborne Hundred.

Further Lockiers (John Lockier, James Lockier, Ralph Lockier, Richard Lockier and William Lockier appear in West Fraley in the same Crambrone Hundred, with John Lockier listed as "gar".

Examination of "Lockier" births in the Family Search genealogy service suggests that there were several concentrations of Lockier families to the north west and north east of Poole in Dorset in the C17th and C18th.

Edward Alexander Fry (ed.), Dorset Protestation Returns, 1641-2 (XXXX, 1912), p.132 Right click on image for full size image in separate window

Name variants: Lockier = Lockyer, Locker [Colonel Henry Norwood refers to "Captain John Locker" in his account of the voyage], Lockear

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Richard Batson

Highly litigious London merchant, with a record of defaulting on terms of charter parties and failing to pay mariners' wages. Born ca. 1601. d. 1667. Citizen and cutler of London. Active in the 1640s and 1650s in trade with West Africa (slaves), Barbados (sugar), Virginia, and Spitzbergen (whales). Batson was one of the principal freighters of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant, together with Thomas Jancey, another London merchant.

For more on Richard Batson see: Richard Batson and PROB 11/424 Carr 59-116, Will of Richard Batson, cutler, June 16th 1667

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Thomas Jancey

London merchant active in the Virginia trade. He was one of the principal freighters of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant, together with Richard Batson.

A report on an Ancestry bulletin board suggests that the name Thomas Jauncey appears in the volume of witness depositions with the catalogue mark HCA 13/54 (March 1637/8-April 1639), but gives no more information.

Probably deceased by 1656, without leaving a surviving will. A Mr Thomas Marsh (possibly of Virginia) appears to have been the deceased Thomas Jauncey's administrator. Thomas Jauncey appears to have died possessed of all the estate of a Richard Blunt in Virginia, who himself died in 1656. Jauncey appears to have made loans to Blunt, and presumably a charge was made upon Blunt's estate, Marye Blunt was the relict of Richard Blunt. A further genealogical source states that Thomas Jauncey and Richard Blunt (b.1616, d.1656) of Surry County, Virginia, jointly owned a plantation, presumably in Virginia [ADD SOURCE]

Thomas Jancey may well have been a grocer, and may have been related to James Jauncy, grocer, of the parish of St Lawrence Jury, London. The HCA 1/50 record states [pardon the poor latin transcription]: "Thomam Jancey parochia Sancti Laurentij in [?XXeri] [?Judeasimo] mercatorum" (HCA 1/50 f.155r] Indeed. there is a record of a Thomas Jauncy, citizen and grocer of London, aged about 30 years in May 1648, in which he deposes about the Virginia trade.

"22 (7) 1649 Tho: Jauncy Citizen & grocer of London
aged about 30 yeares sworne this 6th day of May 1648, before
me Robt Aylet Dr. of Law & one of the Masters of the
Chauncery maketh oath & Deposeth as followeth, vizt, that
the sd Tho: Jauncy being at the time specifyed in the two
Schedules hereunto annexed, servant & apprentice unto
Michael Charlton of Lond. grocer, did know one Clement
Campion then mr of the good ship the Constance of London
bound for Virginia wch sd Clement Campion did come to the
shop & dwelling house of the sd Michael Charleton & did
there at that time aforesd, buy bargaine and agree of &
wth the sd Charleton the severall & respective pcells of wares
& goods nominated & specifyed in the first annexed Schedule
marked wth the tre A wch sd goods & wares hee this Depo-
nent by the order and comand of his then Master did De-
livr into the hands custodie and possession of the sd Clement
Campion, who upon the receipt of the sd wares did then give
a note under his hand to this Deponent for the use of the
sd Charleton, testifying & acknoledging the receipt of the
sd goods & wares as aforesaid, & pmiseing in the sd note to pay
and be accountable unto the sd Charleton for the same, the wch
note is now remaineing in the handes of the sd Michael Charl-
ton; all wch wares & Goods he this Depont. entred pticularly &
severally in his then Masters Debt booke, & did also give a bill
of pcells of the same unto the sd Campion wch wares & goods
amounted in all unto the sume of fourty & two pounds fyve

[page 216]

shillings & foure pence sterling wch the sd Campion pmised
to pay & to Account for as aforesaid.

And ffurthe the sd Thomas Jauncy maketh oath that the
aforesd Clemt Campion did at the same time receive from
the sd Mich: Charlton severall other pcells of wares & goods
consigned by him the sd Charleton unto Thomas Wilkenson
then liveing in Virginia, wch he the sd Clement Campion
(being master of the ship aforesaid) undertooke & promised
either to Delivr unto the sd Mr Tho: Wilkinson, or to pay
and make returne of the same unto the sd Micha: Charleton
(the danger of the seas excepted) wch sd last severall pcells
of wares (specifyed pticularly) in the second annexed Sched-
ule (marked wth the tre B) amount unto the summe of three
& twenty pounds seventeene shillins eight pence wch he the
sd Campion pmised to pay or make returne thereof as afore-
said. Tho: Jauncy.

Jurat sexto May 1648. coram me lepis Doctore Magistre
in Cancellenia Anglie. Robt Aylett"

The above entry continues with a not of "the severall goods and wares debited to Clement Campion Master of the good ship the Constance bound for Virginia, and by him to be debited to Thomas Wilkinson in Virginia:

Aspinall Notarial Records (Boston, 1903), pp.238-239: Right click on image for full size image in separate window

James Jauncey/Jancy

ET Davis, Surrey County Records, Virginia, 1652-1684 (Baltimore, 1980) Right click on image for full size image in separate window

"JAUNCYE, James

Co Co Cheap, 1671 Cateaton Street, 1669, 1675, St Lawrence Jewry, 1663 (1) GR (2) b Stretton Grandison, Herts (2) Will PCC 36 Dycer pr, 17 Apr and 17 May 1675 f ? John Jauncye of Whitwicke, psh Stretton, Herts, gent (3) Plantation in Bermuda (2)

(1) VBk, St I awrence Jewry, will, will of Thomas BARNES (2) Will (3) GR, Appr Reg, 1629-66, f 13d f of Thomas Jauncye, GR, appr, 1630"[J R Woodhead, 'Jackson - Justice', in The Rulers of London 1660-1689 A Biographical Record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (London, 1966), pp. 96-101 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-rulers/1660-89/pp96-101#h3-0010 [accessed 5 March 2015].

See: Deposition of James Jauncy of the parish of Saint Lawrence Jury London citizen and grocer of London aged 34 yeares. HCA 13/72 f.463v
See: "In Cateaten Stret: James Joncey Total hearths: 11 Listing status: s"
See: PROB 11/347/420 Will of James Jancy, Grocer of Saint Lawrence Jewry, City of London 17 April 1675
See: PROB 4/11914 Jauncey, James, citizen and grocer of London 1675, 31 May
See: Herefordshire Archive Service AP 39/456/2 Various deeds of Jauncey, James, citizen and grocer of London 7 March. 1675

John Jauncey

"Abstracts of Herefordshire Probate Records

Unless otherwise stated, original copies of Wills dated prior to 1858 are usually found in the appropriate Diocesan Record Office for the court where the Will was proved - for Herefordshire, this is the Hereford Record Office. Wills which were proved in the Archdeaconry of Brecon may be found at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Copies of Wills for which Probate was granted at the PCC (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) may be obtained via the National Archives Wills website.

1666 DEEME FREEMAN JAUNCEY WALTON: JAUNCEY, John - gent., of Whitwicke i/t/p Stretton Gransome [Stretton
Grandison], 9 Aug 1664. (#) to the poor of Stretton Gransome £10; to my servant John WALTON 20s.; to my daughter Anne JAUNCEY £300 when 21; to my son John JAUNCEY aged 11; to my daughter Elizabeth aged 12; to my son Francis aged 13; to my son James aged 15; to my son Edward aged 17 rents from lands in Stretton Gransome for 40 years or my son Thomas JAUNCEY to pay £250 each to them; my brother James JAUNCEY; to my sisters Alice & Ellinor; all lands to my son Thomas JAUNCEY*.
Witnesses: Fr: FREEMAN & Margaret DEEME & John WALTON.
Proved (PCC) 1 Sep 1666. TNA Ref: PROB 11/321 f135.

1666 JANCEY JAUNCEY JAUNCY WALTON: JAUNCY, John - of Whitwicke, Stretton Grandison, gent, 9 Aug 1644.
servant John WALTON; daur Anne JAUNCEY - 300£, son John JANCEY, daur Elizabeth, sons Francis, James and Edward, brother James JAUNCEY; sisters Alice and Ellinor, son Thomas.
Proved 1 Dec 1666 - PCC/Folio 135; Ref FHL#92287." viewed 05/03/15

1675 BEAUCHAMPE BROWNE BURCH CHAMBERLAINE COLLICK CUST FOX FREEMAN GERONS JANCEY JANCY JAUNCEY MARCH SAMPSON YOUNG: JAUNCEY, James - of Cateaton street, St. Laurence in Old Jewry, London, citizen and grocer, 26 Mar 1675.
To the poor of Stretton Grandison where I was borne; To such children of Richard YOUNG, gent by my late kinswoman Margaret YOUNG his late wife deceased as shall be living at my decease to begin their apprenticeships / otherwise to sons at age 21 or to daurs on day of marriage; kinswoman Elizabeth FOX relict of Roger FOX and to her children by the said Roger FOX; Margaret MARCH daur of my late kinswoman Alice MARCH deceased - at 21 or day of marriage; brother in lawe John FREEMAN and Alice his wife my sister; brother in law Edward CHAMBERLAINE - 5£ to buy apparel for funeral; nephews William and Richard BEAUCHAMPE - 100£ ea; niece Mary SAMPSON - 100£; nephews John and Francis FREEMAN sons of John and Alice FREEMAN - 50£ ea and to their sisters Anne the wife of ---- BROWNE and Elinor and Mary FREEMAN 50£; nephew Richard COLLICK - 10£; Thomas, Anne, Mary and Elizabeth COLLICK: children of my sister Anne COLLICK, deceased 100£ ea; nephews John, Edward, Henry, Francis, and William CHAMBERLAINE: sons of Edward CHAMBERLAINE and my sister Elinor; nephew Thomas JAUNCEY; John, Francis, James and Edward JANCY: sons of my late dear brother John JANCY and Anne his wife deceased and their sisters my nieces - Anne and Elizabeth JANCY - 50£ ea.
To my nephew John JANCEY son of my late brother John JANCY - all that my share and land in the Bermudas which I purchased of John CUST now or late in occupation of John BURCH; nephew James JANCEY - my farm and lands purchased of Edward GERONS of Kington called Mill-haugh in parish of Whitney in Hereford;
Executors: nephews Richard BEAUCHAMPE and Thomas JANCY; brother in law Edward CHAMBERLAINE and nephew William BEAUCHAMPE.
Note: This is a very key will and links the Jauncey family of Whitwick in Stretton Grandison with the Jauncey family in Bermuda which went from there to New York City and is clear evidence of the origin of the New York/ Bermuda family of Jauncey. For an account of the Bermuda/New York Jauncey family see The Jaunceys of Bermuda by Joseph Outerbridge Brown-copy available at the FHL in Salt Lake City, Utah - sjk.
Proved 1675 - PCC/1675: Folio 36; Ref FHL#92313."viewed 05/03/15

Possibly related:
See: PROB 11/296/314 Will of Richard Jauncy, Vintner of Drury Lane, Middlesex 08 December 1659
See: C 6/169/67 Short title: Jauncey v Powle. Plaintiffs: John Jauncey and Thomas Jauncey. Defendants: Francis Powle, John Keyse and Ursula Keyse his wife. Subject: property in Yatton, Herefordshire. Document type: bill, two answers. 1664

The family of the grocer James Jauncey was from Stretton Grandison in Herefordshire. Father was John Jauncey (b.1580, d.1644). James Jauncey was christened in 1624, and died before 1675. He had several elder brothers, including elder brothes John Jauncey (chr. before 1610) and Thomas Jauncey (chr.1615).

Michael Charleton/Charlton

"22-7 mo., 1649. Michael Charleton of London, grocer, makes
his trusty friends Joshua Hues and Caleb Foote both of Roxbury,
merchants, his attorneys to recover debt due him from Clement
Campion late master of the ship Constance, now living in Boston.
Dated 8 May, 1648."

See: PROB 11/112/422 Will of William Charleton, Grocer of London 14 November 1608
See: PROB 4/21095 Charleton, Michaell, of St. Michaell, Woodstreete, London 1675 27 July
See: PROB 11/392/433 Will of Mathew Carleton, Merchant of Edmonton, Middlesex 28 September 1688 [This appears to be will of a mercer, not a grocer, as per:
J R Woodhead, 'Cade - Cutler', in The Rulers of London 1660-1689 A Biographical Record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (London, 1966), pp. 42-56 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-rulers/1660-89/pp42-56#h3-0009 [accessed 2 March 2015].

Note: Name variants for "Jancey" = Jauncey, Jauncye, Joncy, Joncey, Jancy, Jauncie, Johncey

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Prescilla Lockier

Wife of Hugh Lockier, one of the unpaid mariners on the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant. One of two petitioners to the Judges of the High Court of Admiralty.

See 'The humple petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and George Spurgeon two of the Marriners of the Shipp the Virginia Merchant (whereof John Lockier was Captaine or Commander)'. The document can be found at the National Archives, in Kew, England (HCA 15/5 f.99). See: Petitio Prescilla Lockyer, September 28th 1650

See "Marriage of Hugh Lockier and Prisella [no maiden name given], on February 4th 1640 at Hampreston, Dorset, England"

Note: Dorset name variants for "Lockier" = Locker, Lockyer, Lokyar, Lokier

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Sara Spurgeon

Wife of George Spurgeon, one of the unpaid mariners on the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant. One of two petitioners to the Judges of the High Court of Admiralty.

See 'The humple petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and George Spurgeon two of the Marriners of the Shipp the Virginia Merchant (whereof John Lockier was Captaine or Commander)'. The document can be found at the National Archives, in Kew, England (HCA 15/5 f.99). See: Petitio Prescilla Lockyer, September 28th 1650

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Hugh Lockier/Hugonis Lockier

One of the unpaid mariners on the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant. It is unclear whether Hugh Lockier was related to the ship's master, John Lockier, though Colonel Norwood refers to an unnamed kinsman of Captain Lockier coming with Norwood to the island on which they were abandoned by Captain Lockier. If this unnamed kinsman was indeed Hugh Lockier, the detailed account of starvation and cannibalism on the island could have come from Hugh Lockier by letter or by word of mouth through returning mariners to his wife, and subsequent incorporation in the Humble Petition.

See "Marriage of Hugh Lockier and Prisella [no maiden name given], on February 4th 1640 at Hampreston, Dorset, England"

Note: Dorset name variants for "Lockier" = Locker, Lockyer, Lokyar, Lokier

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Phillip Stephens/Phillippus Stephens

London merchant. Deponent in both civil trials involving Captain John Lockier. Described in September 1650 as a 28 year old merchant of the parish of Saint Jacobs Dukes Place, London, and in January 1652 as "Esquire", Stephens had been a passenger on the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant, and had returned to London after the wreck of the ship in the James River in early 1650. In his second deposition in the Admiralty Court in January 1652 (1651 old stile), Stephens stated that "hee this examinate was sworne and examined as a witnes against the interrogated John Lockier at the sessions of Oyer and Terminer [criminal sessions] held before the judges of this court at which tyme the sayd Lockier was indited for starveing his passengers and people abord the sayd ship during the voyage in question".

It is unclear whether Phillip Stephens was abandoned on the coastal island off Virginia with Colonel Henry Norwood. A "Major Stephens" is mentioned in Norwood's account, but without a forename. Norwood (a former cavalier, who had fled England following the King's death) is highly critical of Stephens' conduct on the island (influenced perhaps by Stephens having served the parliament). Norwood writes that:

"I cannot omit a passage of one major Stephens, who had been an officer in the late civil war, under Sir William Waller, and was now one of our fellow-sufferers. He could not be persuaded by any means to give his vote for prosecuting the way we were in for our relief, but differ'd as much in judgment with us, in this our design of going to the king of this country, as he had done in England, by engaging against his natural sovereign; he cry'd out these rogues would draw us into their power, and take away our lives, advising, rather than to put our trust in this king, we should put ourselves into one of these canoes, and taking advantage of the calm time, we should try to get the north cape. His fears and objections were so unreasonable, that they were not worth an answer, and his project of going thus by sea was so ridiculous, that it did exceed all chimera's of knight-errantry, and his apprehending the king would ensnare us, we all esteemed vain, as nothing could be more childish: We had been in the king's power (though we knew it not) ever since we set foot on that ground, so that had his mind been that way bent, he need use no other stratagem to end our lives, than to have forborn the sending us relief; every one dissented to the main project, and I did unfeignedly profess, for my own part, that I would much rather expose my life to the honour of a king (tho' never so mean) than to the billows of the sea, in such a bottom; which would be to tempt God to destroy us, and punish our presumption by his justice, at the same time that he was saving us by a miracle of his mercy. I should not have remembred this passage of major Stephens, had he only shew'd his antipathy in this single instance, but because he repeated the rancor of his mind, in two other very small occasions, which will follow, 'tis just that the malignity of so ill an humour should suffer some reprimand."

Norwood gives further examples of Stephens' supposed poor judgement of the Indians, then states:

"His humour and constitution in prosperous times been any way suitable to this wary temper; but because his habits on shore were scandalously vicious his mouth always belching oaths, and his tongue proving him the vainest hector I had seen, I thought it was pity to lose such a strong confirmation of that known truth, (viz.) That true innate courage does seldom reside in the heart of a quarrelling and talking hector."

A footnote to an article in The William and Mary Quarterly by Lothrop Withington, mentions the return of the Virginia planter Jenkin Price to London in 1656, and states that "Jenkin Price was a resident of Accomac, and in 1660 the General Assembly gave him 500 pounds of tobacco for preserving the life of Col. Henry Norwood, Major Francis Moryson, Major Philip Stevens, and Major Francis Cary, fugitive Cavaliers who were abandoned in January. 1650, on an island in Assateague Bay." Withington is clearly wrong in describing Major Stephens as a cavalier, since Norwood states that he was a parliamentarian. But is he right in naming him as "Major Philip Stephens"?

In contradiction to Withington's footnote, which identifies Major Stephens as Major Philip Stevens, Jennings Cropper Wise (writing two years earlier) identifies "Major Stevens" as "Major William Stevens", speculating that he settled in Somerset County, Maryland.

For background on Sir William Waller see John Eric Adair, Roundhead Generall: the campaigns of Sir William Waller (XXXX, 1997). If Norwood's "Major Stephens" is indeeed the twenty-eight year old Phillip Stephens, merchant of Dukes Place and former passenger on the Virginia Merchant, his return (in contrast to Norwood, Morrison and Cary) would have been possible due to his earlier parliamentary allegiance.

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George Putt/Georgius Putt

Mariner, chief mate and pilot of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant, and resident in Shadwell. Mentioned in criminal case as a witness, alongside the passenger, Phillip Stephens.

George Putt's name is also mentioned in the humble petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon. He appears to have criticised the poor victualling of the ship, The humble petition states that: "The sayd Captaine Lockier had not layd in above 6 weekes victualls in his said shipp when she sett saile from Gravesend outward bound; which Mr George Putt cheife Mate and pilot of the said Shippe taking notice of, asked the said Captaine why he had soe slenderly victualled the shipp telling him, it would not serve halfe way; he replyed that he would take in more victualls at the Downes which he did not at all performe notwithstanding there were 35 seaman and above 130 passengers neere upon 200 persons in all in the said Shippe, whereof 62 passengers and 4 Seamen by reason of the want of provisions were starved to death before the shipp came to Virginia."

Colonel Henry Norwood, in his account of the voyage, refers to George Putt as "mate Putts", calling him "a stout seaman".

Norwood describes Putt's strength of character in adversity:

"Mate Putt was then on the watch, and did not want his apprehension of what did soon ensue, which in all likelihood was to end in our utter perdition; for about the hours of twelve or one at night, we heard and felt a mighty sea break on our fore-ship, which made such an inundation on the deck where the mate was walking, that he retired back with all diligence up to his knees in water, with short ejaculations of prayers in his mouth, supposing the ship was foundering, and at the last gasp. This looked like a stroke of death in every seaman's opinion: the ship stood stock still, with her head under water, seeming to bore her way into the sea. My two comrades and myself lay on our platform, sharing liberally in the general consternation. We took a short leave of each other, men, women, and children. All assaulted with the fresh terror of death, made a most dolorous outcry throughout the ship, whilst mate Putts perceiving the deck almost freed of water, called out aloud for hands to pump. This we thought a lightning before death, but gave me occasion (as having the best sea legs) to look and learn the subject of this astonishing alarm, which proved to arise from no less cause than the loss of our forecastle, with six guns, and our anchors (all but one that was fastened to a cable) together with our two cooks, whereof one was recovered by a strange providence."

According to Norwood's account, Putt remained on the ship while Captain Lockier, Colonel Norwood and others went ashore to a coastal island off Virginia.

George Putt, Masters Mate of the ffreeman, aged 48 years

A George Putt appeared as a witnesss in an unrelated Admiralty Court case Yaxley against Delavall and others. The date of the deposition was September 21st 1655, when Putt described himself as a mariner of the paarish of Stepney, who went "Masters Mate of the shipp the ffreeman aged 48 yeares". The ffreeman was a large ship, of 500 tons burthen, whose master was Captain John Whittie [alias Witty]HCA 13/70 f.510v. The ffreeman was returning from Virginia with a cargo of tobaccoe when she was involved in a collision with a ship named the Mary, which was coming down the Thames HCA 13/70 f.512r

Although we do not know the age of George Putt who went chief mate and pilot of the William and Ralph alias the Virginia Merchant, it is plausible that the two George Putts are the same man. The earlier George Putt gave his residence as Shadwell, which is indeed in the parish of Stepney, though the parish was of course a large one. If they are indeed the same man, then he would have been forty-one years or thereabouts in 1650.

See also possible marriage:

"Marriage: 1644 Sept. 19 George Putt of Ratcliffe Maryner & Elizabeth Bowen of Shadwell, W." CHECK - I think there is a remarriage of Elizabeth Bowen of Ratcliffe, W. to an Edmund Call of Poplar around 1695 [CHECK DATE]

See also possibly related record: SP 46/137/526 Masters' certificates granted by Trinity House: Master: George Putt of New Gravell Lane Signatures: William Wildeys and 2 others [named] 24 Feb. 1666

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Thomas Raisin

Colonel Henry Norwood, in his account of the voyage, mentions "Thomas Reasin and John Smith, men of innate courage, who, for their good resolution on that and divers other occasions in the various traverses of this voyage, deserve to have their names kept in lasting remembrance". According to Norwood they were both foremastmen on board the Virigina Merchant.Interestingly, Thomas Reason (sic) was one of the six named mariners whop brought a civil suit in the High Court of Admiralty for their unpaid wages. the others being Hugh Lockier, Edward Wood, George Spourgin (sic), Richard Paile and Nicholas Paddocke.

Following a powerful storm, Norwood wrote that:

"Tom Reasin, seeing the ship go a-head in the likeliest water for a channel, and ordering the helm accordingly, heaved the lead; and after a little further advance into that new channel, wholly against his hopes, he had a good deal of water more than the ship drew, which soon mended upon us, the next cast of the lead affording eighteen or twenty foot. We stood to this channel, and the light of the morning enabling the quarter-masters to con the ship, we were by this miraculous mercy of God, soon clear of the breaches at cape Hatteras, and got out to sea."

Later, Norwood describe's Tom Raisin scaling the foremast:

"The fore mast, all this while (as much as was of it) stood its ground: and as it was without dispute, that a yard must in the first place be fixed to it, so was it a matter of no small difficulty how to advance to the top of that greasy slippery stump, since he that would attempt it, could take no hold himself, nor receive any help for his rise, by other hands. This was a case that put all the ship's crew to a nonplus, but Tom Reasin (a constant friend at need, that would not be baffled by any difficulty) shewed by his countenance, he had a mind to try his skill to bring us out of this unhappy crisis. To encourage him the more, all passengers did promise and subscribe to reward his service, in Virginia, by tobacco, when God should enable us so to do. The proportions being set down, many were the more generous, because they never thought to see the place of payment, but expected to anticipate that by the payment of a greater debt to nature, which was like to be exacted every hour by an arrest of the merciless sea, which made small shew of taking bail for our appearance in Virginia. The manner of Tom Reasin's ascent to this important work, was thus. Among the scatter'd parcels of the ship's stores he had the luck to find about half a dozen iron spikes fit for his purpose. His first onset was to drive one of them into the mast, almost to the head, as high as he could reach; which being done, he took a rope of about ten foot long, and having threaded the same in a block or pulley, so as to divide it in the middle, he made both ends meet in a knot upon the spike, on both sides of the mast; so that the block falling on the contrary side, became a stirrup to mount upon for driving another spike in the same manner: and thus from step to step, observing the best advantage of striking with his hammer in the smoothest sea, he got aloft, drove cleats for shrouds, to rest upon, and was soon in a posture of receiving help from his comrades, who got a yard and sails (with other accommodation) such as could be had, and thus we were enabled, in few hours time, to make some sail for our port."

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Individuals abandoned on coastal island

Colonel Norwood identifies by name only three of the circa twenty-three persons allegedly abandoned with him on the coastal island off Virginia. One was Francis Cary, a cousin of Norwood's. Another was Major [Francis] Morrison, "on whose counsel I had reason to rely most", but who "was extremely decayed in his strength, his legs not being able to support him." A further abandonee was "one major Stephens", who had served as an officer in the late civil war under Sir William Waller. Norwood's evident antipathy to Stephens may be in part due to Norwood having fought for the King and Stephens for Parliament.

Major Francis Morrison [alt. Moryson] has been identified as a fellow cavalier of Norwood's, and son of Sir Richard Moryson, secretary of state to King James I. He later became speaker of the house of burgesses in 1655, and acting governor (1661-1662) of Virginia, while Governor William Berkeley visited England. On Berkeley's return to Virginia, Morrison was sent to England as agent, remaining there until 1677.

Francis Cary has been tentatively identified as the youngest brother of Henry Cary of Cockington in Devon, Henry Cary being described as a "ruined cavalier". Francis Cary would have been twenty-one in the year 1649.

Norwood identifies a Major Richard Fox as one of his travelling companions at the start of the voyage, and refers to the Governor of Virginia's hospitality to Major Fox when they had all arrived in Virginia. But Nowood never directly states that Major Fox was abandoned on Assateague Island. James Wallace Fox discusses the identity of Major Richard Fox, Norwood's companion.

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Colonel Henry Norwood

Henry Norwood (b. ca. 1614, d.1689) was a passenger on board the William and Ralphe alias the Virginia Merchant. His detailed account of the voyage was apparently first published posthumously in 1732, in Awnsham Churchill, A Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1732), and was reprinted in various collections in both the C18th and C19th. The account, usually referred to as A Voyage to Virginia appears to be based upon a contemporaneous diary, which has not survived. The discovery in the High Court of Admiralty records of the Humble Petition of two of the mariners' wives dated September 28th 1650, but with similar details to Norwood's account, is an important broad confirmation of Norwood's account.

B.D.Henning's biographical profile of Norwood suggests that Norwood had returned from Virginia to Scotland by 1652, and was imprisoned from 1655 to 1659, prior to a career renaissance following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. P.H.Hardacre provides a more dated biographical profile.

Samuel Pepys mentions Henry Norwood over twenty times in his diary, between 1660 and 1669. Pepys did not hold a favourable opinion of Norwood, commenting in January 1669 on Norwood's answer to the propositions of John Bland regarding Tangier that Norwood made answer to them: "in the most shitten proud, carping, insolent, and ironically-prophane stile, that ever I saw in my life, so as I shall never think the place can do well, while he is there."

The overall dates and events of the voyage as described by Norwood are confirmed in a range of High Court of Admiralty records from 1650 and 1652. These records confirm the high death toll amongst passengers and some mariners on board the William and Ralphe alias the Virginia Merchant. Francis Turley, a thirty-six year old cooper, had been a passenger on the ship. Turley gave evidence in January 1652 that there was "a great sicknes and mortality amongest the passingers and company aboard which soe came and happened meerely for want of food". Another witness, Phillip Stephens Esquire (described in an earlier deposition as a merchant), had also been a passenger on the ship. He reported in January 1652 that he had been "sworne and examined as a witnes against the interrogated John Lockier at the sessions of Oyer and Terminer held before the Judges of this Court at which tyme the sayd Lockier was indited for starveing his passengers and people abord the sayd ship dureing the voyage in question."

Finally, the Humble petition of Priscilla Lockier and Sara Spurgeon wifes of Hugh Lockier and George Spurgeon two of the Marriners of the Shipp the Virginia Merchant (whereof John Lockier was Captaine or Commander provides similar (but not identical) detail to that of Norwood regarding the ship's inadequate victualling. The petition states that "within a fortnight next after the said Ship set saile from Gravesend both Seamen and passingers were put to their allowance videlicet the Seamen to two, and the passingers each man to one biskett a day, afterwards to halfe a biskett a day and at length to halfe a pint of parched pease a day betweene 2 men, they having neither beere nor water in the shippe to drincke but what they were Constrayned to drinke of strongwaters of their owne which they Carried with them for adventures: and the famine came soe violently upon them that divers in the said Shippe would willingly have given 10: s for one of the Shipps ratts (which some of the Seamen catched) to have eaten, their being but one small fish of the value of 6: d allowed for a meale to 15 or 20 men". It also describes the starvation of twenty three persons set ashore by Captain Lockier "upon an unknowne Island to gett freshwater promising to fetch them on board againe: but after they were soe sett on shoare the sayd Captaine Lockier presently carried the Shippe away to Virginia and most in humanely and barbarously left all the said 23 persons in that unknowne place to be starved there noe manner of food to be found soe that they were forced to live a whole 3 weekes with water and the leaves of trees: And at the length the rage and violence of their famine soe much increasing and being not able to eate those leaves and longer they cast lotts which of them should be shott the next day to serve for food for the rest; which was miraculously prevented by the suddaine and unexpected fall of a great tree that night which killed 2 men and a woman of their Company: which the rest of the Company left alive were forced to eate and live upon"

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Captain Elias Jourdaine

Captaine Elias Jourdaine and Company are specified in HCA records as the owners of the William and Ralphe alias the Virginia Merchant. The owners of the ship brought suit in the Admiralty Court in January 1652 against Richard Batson and the other freighters, who had failed to pay the due freight for the failed voyage.

A record exists from 1635 of an "Elias Jordaine (sic), mariner, who together with John Alabaster, clothier, Samuel Leddoz, ropemaker, and Charles Hawkins, mariner, with others, owners of the Elias and Elizabeth of London, of 180 tons" were to be allowed by the Lords of the Admiralty to be supplied for their ship with iron ordnance"

A record exists much later of an Elias Jourdain (sic), commander of the ship the Love bound from "from Sillebar and Bantam, originally intended for Leghorn" which in 1656 "had reached London only two-thirds laden, owing to the death of her commander, Elias Jourdain, and thirty-two of her crew."

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Francis Turley

Francis Turley was a cooper who had been a passenger on the William and Ralphe alias the Virginia Merchant, He was deposed in the suit brought by the owners of the same ship in early 1652, having returned to London. He gave his residence as the "precincts of the Tower of London" and his ahe as thirty six or thereabouts.

A person of the same name appears in a later Admiralty Court case as one of two half owners of a ship named the Recovery of London. The other owner was William Parratt. The ship had been on a voyage from London to Norway and back. According to a mariner named John Driver, who was deposed in December 1656, and who went master's mate on the ship on that voyage, Francis Turley went on that voyage, and:

the sayd Cutberd was and is a man well
acquainted with the Ports of Norway and the custome and manner of
trade of that countrie and that the sayed Cutberd did assist the
arlate Turley (who was halfe owner of the sayed shipp and her
outward and homeward Cargoe and went in her the sayd voyage)
in selling and tracking away the outwards ladeing of the sayd
vessell that voyage and buying the goods for her reladeing homeward
the sayed Cutberd being versed in the trade of that
country and able to speake the language thereof very well and
the sayed Turley being altogether ignorant of the language and
manner
of trade of that Countrey haveing never bin there before as hee hath
heard the sayd Turley confesse And saith that hee this deponent
was present in Company of the sayd Turley and Parrat after the
returne of the sayd vessell to London with her sayd homeward Cargoe and
heard the sayd Turley and Parratt discourse togeather touching what the
sayd Cutberd was to have for his paines in assisting the sayd Turley
in selling off the outward cargoe aforesayd and buying and
providing the homeward Cargoe aforesayd and the sayd Turley
telling the sayd Parr[?o]tt that the sayd Cutbord did informe him that
hee the sayd Parratt had promised to allowe him twelve pense in the
pound for such his assistanse of the sayd Turley the sayd
Parr[?o]tt thereto answered that hee did not promise him the sayd
Cutberd twelve pense in the pound, but sayes that hee did promise
him the sayd Cutberd to give him satisfaction for what
assistance hee should give the sayd Turley about the selling the
sayd outward Cargoe and buying the sayd homeward[?s] Cargoe, or
they the sayd Turley and Parratt spake words to the like effect in
presense of this deponent And this deponent very well knoweth the
sayd Cutberd did assiste the sayd Turley in the sale of the outward
and buying of the homeward[?s] Cargo aforesayd and laye on shoare
to watch the same and to sell and buy it about sixe or seaven weekes
And further to these articles hee cannot depose not being at the
agreement made belwixt the sayd Cutberd Parratt and Turley touching
the sayd Cutberds assistence to be given as aforesayd HCA 13/71 f.441v-442r

There is no evidence to link this second Francis Turley with the cooper, though it cannot be ruled out HCA 13/71 f.441v

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Offay duorum con Capitany}
John Lockier}

Die Jovis decimus
die mensis Octobris
Anno domini 1650 Coram
doctoribus Clerke et Exton et Willimus
Stephens [?Ar] Judicbus [?a] [?XX] [?Camera]
doctoris Exton [?puXX] John Martyn notorio
publica [?XX] comparuit dictus Capitaneus John
Lockier et produ[?xit] in fide[XX] [?XXores] Richard
Batson parochia sancti Botulphi Billingsgate mercator
et Thomam Jancey parochia Sancti Laurentij in [?XXeri]
[?Judeasimo] mercatorum qui submitten se [?Xe]
obligarunt [?se] [?qe] Custodibus sivertats Anglei
[?qe] pro dicto John Lockier in summa quinqentaru[?m]
[?XXbrazu] legalis [?qe] quod [?XXXs] Lockier [?per] [?XXXX]
[?conspebit] cora Judicibus pred etalijs [?JusitXXXs]
supreme Curia Admirallitats Anglia
proxima sessione [?XXXla] deliberaconus Apud
Pretoriu in Burgo de Southwarke [?XXXX]
[?XXXXX] [?hys] quXXei] [?sume] et ibij obijrient[?s] et
[?XXXX]

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[?tunc] non recedit absqr venia [?qe] et dictus
Lockier [?XXXX] submittens se [?qe] obligavit
se [?gie] in [?summa] atqr ad o[XXXX] pred et da
[?conservande] [?dros] fidem [?XXXres] [?Xuos] indem pues et
ne[?susu] Et tunc comparueru?it Prescilla
Lockier [?nunc] [?XXX im] per uxor hugonis
Lockier de Gunn Ally in Wappinge et
Sara Spurgen nunc [?ves] [?nu] per uxor Georgij
Spurgeon habitans prope [?ha] Greene bancke
in Wappinge et submitten se [?qe] obligart
se [?qe] Custodibus libertats [?Augsue] [?e] da
prosequo?nd proxima sessione goale deliberationis
pro [?hac] Curia Apud Pretorim in Burgo
de Southwarke [?XXXX], con prefatum Capitaneus
John Lockier Et [?in ?se ?qe]. Et ipso et eodem
tempore quidam Phillippus Stephens
parochia Sancti Jacobi dukes place [?XX] et Georgius
Putt de Shadwell in Comitatu Middlesex nauta
presentes in [?indico] obligarunt se [?qe] [?XXX et ?XXXXX ?cora per se ?XXXij] Custodibus
[?XX] in summa Centum libraru segulis [?XX] de
[?com XXXX] et per [?XXXX] omnem quam [?neveruit] [?veritatem]
[?his] que prefato Capitaneo Johanni Lockier
proxima Sessedue goale deliberatonis coram
Judicibus et Justitiarijs pro Admirallitata
Apud Protorud in Burgo de Southwarke
[?seXXX] [?obijcients et [?nesesa]./

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