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|Person=Francis Meare
|First name=Francis
|Last name=Meare
|Occupation=Merchant
|Training=Not apprentice
|Is apprentice of=Francis Meare
|Was apprentice of=ffrancis Meare
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Signature
|Transcription image={{#transcription-image: }}
|Language skills=English language,
|Res parish=Saint Michael Crooked Lane
|Res town=London
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1625
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.246v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Feb 28 1655
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
|Has source comment completed=No
}}
==Biographical synthesis==
Francis Meare (b.ca.1625; d.?). Merchant.

Resident in the parish of Saint Michael Crooked Lane in 1655.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Thirty year old Francis Meare deposed on February 28th 1655. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Prince against the goods in the ''Charitie''".

Meare stated that his personal net worth was £300 ("in his owne estate"). Francis Meare had known Mr Prince (Thomas Prince) for about twelve years and also knew Prince's servant [[Thomas Swinsen]]. Mr Prince had requested Meare to testify knowing him to be "a dealer in severall parts." Meare described the common practice in London, Flanders and Holland amongst merchants "to make entries of goods in the customehouses in one mans name, when as the proprietie thereof is in, and the said goods are belonging to another." As a result, Meare states "it is not amongest merchants accompted any signe or proofe that the goods belonge to the man in whose name they are entred."<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.246v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.246v]]</ref>

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		+	PROB 11/360/588 Will of Sarah Meare, Widow of London 13 September 1679
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		+	PROB 11/369/449 Will of William Meare, Merchant of London 06 April 1682
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		+	PROB 11/388/342 Will of John Meare, Merchant of London 28 September 1687

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	Meare stated that his personal net worth was £300 ("in his owne estate"). Francis Meare had known Mr Prince (Thomas Prince) for about twelve years and also knew Prince's servant [[Thomas Swinsen]]. Mr Prince had requested Meare to testify knowing him to be "a dealer in severall parts." Meare described the common practice in London, Flanders and Holland amongst merchants "to make entries of goods in the customehouses in one mans name, when as the proprietie thereof is in, and the said goods are belonging to another." As a result, Meare states "it is not amongest merchants accompted any signe or proofe that the goods belonge to the man in whose name they are entred."<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.246v Annotate\|HCA 13/70 f.246v]]</ref>		Meare stated that his personal net worth was £300 ("in his owne estate"). Francis Meare had known Mr Prince (Thomas Prince) for about twelve years and also knew Prince's servant [[Thomas Swinsen]]. Mr Prince had requested Meare to testify knowing him to be "a dealer in severall parts." Meare described the common practice in London, Flanders and Holland amongst merchants "to make entries of goods in the customehouses in one mans name, when as the proprietie thereof is in, and the said goods are belonging to another." As a result, Meare states "it is not amongest merchants accompted any signe or proofe that the goods belonge to the man in whose name they are entred."<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.246v Annotate\|HCA 13/70 f.246v]]</ref>

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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1625
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/70 f.246v Annotate,
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 |Occupation=Merchant
 |Training=Not apprentice
 |Citizen=Unknown
 |Literacy=Signature
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 |Language skills=English language,
 |Res parish=Saint Michael Crooked Lane
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 Meare stated that his personal net worth was £300 ("in his owne estate"). Francis Meare had known Mr Prince (Thomas Prince) for about twelve years and also knew Prince's servant [[Thomas Swinsen]]. Mr Prince had requested Meare to testify knowing him to be "a dealer in severall parts." Meare described the common practice in London, Flanders and Holland amongst merchants "to make entries of goods in the customehouses in one mans name, when as the proprietie thereof is in, and the said goods are belonging to another." As a result, Meare states "it is not amongest merchants accompted any signe or proofe that the goods belonge to the man in whose name they are entred."<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.246v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.246v]]</ref>
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