MRP: Leonard Bushell will - Revision history

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 The following IGI entries are to be treated with caution until confirmed from an identified primary document.  They appear to contradict the alleged Bushell link to Bushell of Whitby discussed above:
 "Leonard Bushell
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 "Leonard Bushell
 Spouse: Mary Bennett, Marriage: 31 Aug 1626, Saint Dunstan Stepney, London"<ref>IGI Batch No.: M055761 http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=500136217562&lds=1&region=2&regionfriendly=British+Isles&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=&regionfriendly=&juris1friendly=&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=, viewed 13/02/12</ref>
 "Leonard Bushell
-Christening: 8th November 1632, Sain Dunstan, Stepney
+Christening: 8th November 1632, Saint Dunstan, Stepney
-Father: Leonard Bushell; Mother: Mary"<ref>Batch No.: C055766; http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=500067667184&lds=1&region=2&regionfriendly=British+Isles&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=&regionfriendly=&juris1friendly=&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=, viewed 13/02/12</ref>
+Father: Leonard Bushell; Mother: Mary"<ref>Batch No.: C055766; https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NPHJ-HB5, viewed 13/02/12</ref>
 "Henry Bushell
 Marriage: 24th April 1634, Limehouse, Stepney
 Spouse: Unnamed (possibly to Rose Greenwood)"<ref>Film no.: 170763: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=700084312576&lds=1&region=2&regionfriendly=British+Isles&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=&regionfriendly=&juris1friendly=&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=, viewed 13/02/12</ref>
 "William Bushell

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 No references are made in the mariner Leonard Bushell's will to any locations other than Scanderoone and Lymehouse.  There is no mention of Whitby or Yorkshire.
 Leonard Bushell estimated his residual estate, after legacies paid, to be about £1,000, assuming debts oweing to him in India are recovered.  It is these debts in India which were pursued by the London linen draper William Wild (OR, Weld), and which were also mentioned by Thomas Tomlins.  The debtor was the English East India Company factor who was either at Carwar or at Calhe Velhe.<ref>[[MRP: 10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London|10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London]]; [[MRP: 26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley|26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley]]</ref>  The residual estate was to go to his mother, with the request that she would bequeath the remainder at her own death to the children of his sisters.
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 ===Captain William Bushell, Limehouse, 1636/1637===

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 See [[MRP: 10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London|10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London]]
 See [[MRP: 26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley|26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley]]
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-my Executors of this my last Will and Testament; dated thhis Second day of July One Thousand Six hundred Sixtie and One, Aboard the ''Societie'' in Scanderoone Road:
+my Executors of this my last Will and Testament; dated this Second day of July One Thousand Six hundred Sixtie and One, Aboard the ''Societie'' in Scanderoone Road:
 LEO: BUSHELL

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 ==Abstract & context==
-Leonard Bushell (alias Bushill) was a mariner and master of the ''Society'', the ship he commanded from at least 1657 till his death. A dramatic account exists, under Bushell's attestation, of a Dutch attack upon the ''Society'', when under his command, on April 25th, 1657.  The ship was about two hundred leagues south of the Cape of Good Hope on its return from Masulipatam, and was accosted by a Dutch ship on its outward voyage from Amsterdam to Batavia.<ref>'A Brief Relation of several Abuses received from the Dutch in the East Indian Seas, January 18, 1658 (''Letter Book'', vol. ii, p. 36), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00east#page/216/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659  (Oxford, 1916), pp. 216-317]</ref> He made his will whilst sick and weak in Scanderoone Road in the eastern Mediterranean on July 1st, 1661.  His will was proved on December 10th, 1661.
+Leonard Bushell made his will whilst sick and weak in Scanderoone Road in the eastern Mediterranean on July 1st, 1661.  His will was proved on December 10th, 1661.
 A pedigree exists for the Bushell family of Whitby, which includes "Leonard Bushell, of Limehouse in co. Middlesex."  This Leonard Bushell is described as a second son of Leonard Bushell of Whitby (b. ?, d. 1608, bur. 1610 (sic), and of Jane Lambe of Newcastle upon Tine (b.?, bur. 1629).  He is shown with several brothers, including "Henry Bushell, of Limehouse in co. Middlesex", who is shown as the third son of the family.  These data broadly match the will of Leonard Bushell transcribed below, which includes a reference to Henry Bushell deceased, and a cousin, Henry Bushell, who was son of Henry Bushell deceased.  However, Leonard Bushell's will makes reference to his mother Marye Bushell, who was alive, not to a Jane Bushell, and to his sisters, one of whom is described as Mary Browne, wife of Zachary Browne,<ref>Possibly PROB 11/416 Coker 134-174 Will of Zachary Browne, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 27 October 1693</ref> mariner.  No such sister Mary appears on the pedigree - the three sisters shown are Elizabeth Barnard, Jane Porter, and Ruthe ?Boyse.<ref>'Bushell of Whitby' in [http://www.archive.org/stream/dugdalesvisitati03dugd#page/508/mode/2up J.W. Clay (ed.), Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, vol. 3 (Exeter, 1917), pp. 508-510]</ref>

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 ==Possible primary sources==
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 PROB 11/172 Pile 90-123 Will of William Bushell, Mariner on the Palsgrave 03 December 1636
 PROB 11/306 May 158-210 Will of Leonard Bushell, Mariner of Limehouse, Middlesex 10 December 1661
 PROB 11/315 Bruce 97-143 Will of Richard Weld, Fishmonger now riding at Anchor in the good Ship Good Hope of City of London 03 September 1664
-PROB 11/386 Foot 1-44 Will of Leonard Bushell, Master of the good Ship or Vessel called the Mary of London 	31 March 1686
+PROB 11/386 Foot 1-44 Will of Leonard Bushell, Master of the good Ship or Vessel called the Mary of London 31 March 1686
 PROB 11/416 Coker 134-174 Will of Zachary Browne, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 27 October 1693
 PROB 11/450 Pott 45-85 Will of William Weld, Gentleman of Ware, Hertfordshire 17 March 1699
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 ==Possible secondary sources==
 [http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeofrobertfair00mark#page/n5/mode/2up Markham, Clements R., Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton vice-admiral, alderman, and member for York A.D. 1666-1735 : compiled from original letters and other documents (London, 1885)]

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 ===Captain William Bushell, Limehouse, 1636/1637===
-'''Extract, CSPD, 1636/37
+'''Extract, CSPD, 1636/37'''
 "[1636-1637] Feb. 11.  102.  Petition of Thomas Methwold to the Lords of the Admiralty.  Petitioner was employed as purser in his Majesty's service for the late expedition in the ''Great Neptune'', Capt. Bence Johnson, and there is due to him 14/. which without their assistance he is not likely to recover.  Prays that he may receive satisfaction. - P.S. The victualler and paymaster is Capt. William Bushell, of Limehouse. [1/2 p.] ''Underwritten'',
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 '''Extract, Memorials of Stepney Parish'''
-"[Footnote] Captain William Bushell, in 1635, commanding the ''Neptune'', was employed in redeeming captives at Argier. On his way home he and another captain, Thomas Scot, of Ratcliffe, were fined £500 and £100 respectively, at Dunkirk, by Admiral the Earl of Lindsey, for 'presuming to wear their flags in full view of The Fleet.' This apparently was considered an open insult to the assembled 200 ships, and was aggravated by the culprits attempting to escape. A month later the relatives of other captives ' at Argier and Sallee ' petitioned the Lords of the Admiralty to send William Bushell to redeem others after his success in bringing home thirty. He was probably sent, and next year, on the recommendation of the Trinity House, he and his ship, the ''Neptune'' (400 tons, 32 guns, and 160 men), were employed for the Navy. In spite of a dispute with his purser, in which he was condemned by the Officers of the Navy for making money out of his stores, he seems to have continued in the service of the Crown till his death, which is thus entered in the Registers : 'March 7, 1637. William Bushell, of Limehouse, mariner, died at Morbein, in France - a Captain.' He seems to have been unmarried, as he left most of his possessions to his father. - State Papers, Domestic; Stepney Registers ; Will at Somerset House. There was another Wm. B., a rope-maker, in Shadwell (see the Map), who died in 1653. - Stepney Court Rolls, Roll C."[[FootNote([http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924091024475#page/n171/mode/2up G.W. Hill, W.H. Frere (eds.), Memorials of Stepney parish that is to say the vestry minutes from 1579 to 1662 (Guilford, 1890-91), fn. 1, p. 139]
+"[Footnote] Captain William Bushell, in 1635, commanding the ''Neptune'', was employed in redeeming captives at Argier. On his way home he and another captain, Thomas Scot, of Ratcliffe, were fined £500 and £100 respectively, at Dunkirk, by Admiral the Earl of Lindsey, for 'presuming to wear their flags in full view of The Fleet.' This apparently was considered an open insult to the assembled 200 ships, and was aggravated by the culprits attempting to escape. A month later the relatives of other captives ' at Argier and Sallee ' petitioned the Lords of the Admiralty to send William Bushell to redeem others after his success in bringing home thirty. He was probably sent, and next year, on the recommendation of the Trinity House, he and his ship, the ''Neptune'' (400 tons, 32 guns, and 160 men), were employed for the Navy. In spite of a dispute with his purser, in which he was condemned by the Officers of the Navy for making money out of his stores, he seems to have continued in the service of the Crown till his death, which is thus entered in the Registers : 'March 7, 1637. William Bushell, of Limehouse, mariner, died at Morbein, in France - a Captain.' He seems to have been unmarried, as he left most of his possessions to his father. - State Papers, Domestic; Stepney Registers ; Will at Somerset House. There was another Wm. B., a rope-maker, in Shadwell (see the Map), who died in 1653. - Stepney Court Rolls, Roll C."<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924091024475#page/n171/mode/2up G.W. Hill, W.H. Frere (eds.), Memorials of Stepney parish that is to say the vestry minutes from 1579 to 1662 (Guilford, 1890-91), fn. 1, p. 139]</ref>
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 ==Abstract & context==
-Leonard Bushell (alias Bushill) was a mariner, master of the ''Society''.  He made his will whilst sick and weak in Scanderoone Road in the eastern Mediterranean on July 1st, 1661.  His will was proved on December 10th, 1661.
+Leonard Bushell (alias Bushill) was a mariner and master of the ''Society'', the ship he commanded from at least 1657 till his death. A dramatic account exists, under Bushell's attestation, of a Dutch attack upon the ''Society'', when under his command, on April 25th, 1657.  The ship was about two hundred leagues south of the Cape of Good Hope on its return from Masulipatam, and was accosted by a Dutch ship on its outward voyage from Amsterdam to Batavia.<ref>'A Brief Relation of several Abuses received from the Dutch in the East Indian Seas, January 18, 1658 (''Letter Book'', vol. ii, p. 36), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00east#page/216/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659  (Oxford, 1916), pp. 216-317]</ref> He made his will whilst sick and weak in Scanderoone Road in the eastern Mediterranean on July 1st, 1661.  His will was proved on December 10th, 1661.
 A pedigree exists for the Bushell family of Whitby, which includes "Leonard Bushell, of Limehouse in co. Middlesex."  This Leonard Bushell is described as a second son of Leonard Bushell of Whitby (b. ?, d. 1608, bur. 1610 (sic), and of Jane Lambe of Newcastle upon Tine (b.?, bur. 1629).  He is shown with several brothers, including "Henry Bushell, of Limehouse in co. Middlesex", who is shown as the third son of the family.  These data broadly match the will of Leonard Bushell transcribed below, which includes a reference to Henry Bushell deceased, and a cousin, Henry Bushell, who was son of Henry Bushell deceased.  However, Leonard Bushell's will makes reference to his mother Marye Bushell, who was alive, not to a Jane Bushell, and to his sisters, one of whom is described as Mary Browne, wife of Zachary Browne,<ref>Possibly PROB 11/416 Coker 134-174 Will of Zachary Browne, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 27 October 1693</ref> mariner.  No such sister Mary appears on the pedigree - the three sisters shown are Elizabeth Barnard, Jane Porter, and Ruthe ?Boyse.<ref>'Bushell of Whitby' in [http://www.archive.org/stream/dugdalesvisitati03dugd#page/508/mode/2up J.W. Clay (ed.), Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, vol. 3 (Exeter, 1917), pp. 508-510]</ref>
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 No references are made in the mariner Leonard Bushell's will to any locations other than Scanderoone and Lymehouse.  There is no mention of Whitby or Yorkshire.
-Leonard Bushell estimates his residual estate, after legacies paid, to be about 1,000, assuming debts oweing to him in India are recovered.  It is these debts in India which were pursued by the London linen draper William Wild (OR, Weld), and which were also mentioned by Thomas Tomlins.  The debtor was the English East India Company factor who was either at Carwar or at Calhe Velhe.<ref>This is the footnote text; 26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley</ref>
+Leonard Bushell estimated his residual estate, after legacies paid, to be about £1,000, assuming debts oweing to him in India are recovered.  It is these debts in India which were pursued by the London linen draper William Wild (OR, Weld), and which were also mentioned by Thomas Tomlins.  The debtor was the English East India Company factor who was either at Carwar or at Calhe Velhe.<ref>[[MRP: 10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London|10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London]]; [[MRP: 26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley|26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley]]</ref>  The residual estate was to go to his mother, with the request that she would bequeath the remainder at her own death to the children of his sisters.
 As reported by a researcher into the Greenhill families of London and Virginia, the will of William Greenhill, clerk of Stepney, proved in 1671, mentioned a "Mary Bushell, spinster daughter of Henry Bushell, late of Limehouse", together with a Henry Bushell, mariner and Sarah Bushell, and William Greenhill's cousin "Zachary Bourne- son of my cousin William Bourne."<ref>http://genforum.genealogy.com/greenhill/messages/404.html, viewed 30/01/12</ref>
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 NYNTHLY I give To every Head Officer in the Shipp a peice to buy them a Ring to weare for my sake,
-TENTHLY I bequeath to my Sister Mary Browne<ref>Mary Browne (née Bushell), wife of Zachary Browne, mariner</ref> the wife of Zachary Browne<ref>Leonard Bushell's brother-in-law.  Possibly PROB 11/416 Coker 134-174 Will of Zachary Browne, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 27 October 1693.  According to a researcher into the Greenhill name, Zachary Browne (transcribed by the researcher as "Bourne", is mentioned in the will of William Greenhill, clerk of Stepney: "Couzen Zachary Bourne- son of my cousin William Bourne ...Henry Bushell? (mariner) 5 pounds & Sarah Bushell 5 pounds ...William Bourne (cousin) 20 pounds; Sarah Bushell spinster;  Mary Bushell, spinster daughter of Henry Bushell, late of Limehouse. " (http://genforum.genealogy.com/greenhill/messages/404.html, viewed 30/01/12; PROB 11/337 Duke 102-158 Will of William Greenhill, Clerk of Stepney, Middlesex 01 November 1671</ref> Mariner All my Plate, my dyamond Ringe, my ?Cheasts and Screators and what ever XXXX else is usefull for her,
+TENTHLY I bequeath to my Sister Mary Browne<ref>Mary Browne (née Bushell), wife of Zachary Browne, mariner</ref> the wife of Zachary Browne<ref>Leonard Bushell's brother-in-law.  Possibly PROB 11/416 Coker 134-174 Will of Zachary Browne, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 27 October 1693.  According to a researcher into the Greenhill name, Zachary Browne (transcribed by the researcher as "Bourne"), is mentioned in the will of William Greenhill, clerk of Stepney: "Couzen Zachary Bourne - son of my cousin William Bourne ...Henry Bushell? (mariner) 5 pounds & Sarah Bushell 5 pounds ...William Bourne (cousin) 20 pounds; Sarah Bushell spinster;  Mary Bushell, spinster daughter of Henry Bushell, late of Limehouse." (http://genforum.genealogy.com/greenhill/messages/404.html, viewed 30/01/12; PROB 11/337 Duke 102-158 Will of William Greenhill, Clerk of Stepney, Middlesex 01 November 1671</ref> Mariner All my Plate, my dyamond Ringe, my ?Cheasts and Screators and what ever XXXX else is usefull for her,
 ELEVEANTHLY I give to my Cousen Henry Bushell Twentie Poundes I say the Sonne of Henry Bushell deceased
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	PROB 11/416 Coker 134-174 Will of Zachary Browne, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 27 October 1693		PROB 11/416 Coker 134-174 Will of Zachary Browne, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 27 October 1693
	PROB 11/450 Pott 45-85 Will of William Weld, Gentleman of Ware, Hertfordshire 17 March 1699		PROB 11/450 Pott 45-85 Will of William Weld, Gentleman of Ware, Hertfordshire 17 March 1699
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		+	==Possible secondary sources==
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		+	[http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeofrobertfair00mark#page/n5/mode/2up Markham, Clements R., Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton vice-admiral, alderman, and member for York A.D. 1666-1735 : compiled from original letters and other documents (London, 1885)]