MRP: Nathaniell Withers will - Revision history

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 See also his inventory: TNA, PROB 4/8600 Withers, Nathaniel, the elder of St Giles without Cripplegate, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, 1670 13 Aug (1669)
 See also London Metropolitan Archives: Indexes to Probate Inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral: MS. 19504/07/123, Withers, Nathaniel, St Giles Cripplegate, 03/11/1665
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-See [[MRP: Aaron Mico will|Aaron Mico will]] (Nathaniel Withers witnessed Aaron Mico's will. Both had been factors in Alicante)
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-See [[MRP: PROB 4/8600 Inventory of Nathaniel Withers the elder, 1669 XXX|PROB 4/8600 Inventory of Nathaniel Withers the elder, 1669 XXX]]  (Still need to scan this document)
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 ==Abstract & context==
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 He rose to senior roles in the company of merchant taylors in the 1650s and 1660s, serving in 1656 as second warden, and in 1666, the year of the London fire, as master.<ref>Clode, Charles M., ''The early history of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London, with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members'', pt. 2 - the lives (London, 1888), pp. 347-348. See http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofgu00cloduoft#page/347/mode/1up, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
-His surviving inventory provides the impression of a modestly wealthy merchant [TBC], though his will lists a remarkable range of London tenaments and houses whose rentals he collected.<ref>TNA, PROB 4/8600 Withers, Nathaniel, the elder of St Giles without Cripplegate, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, 1670 13 Aug (1669)</ref> His will also lists a number of outstanding bonds owing to him, specifying bonds with the brewer William Dashwood,<ref>William Dashwood was possibly William Dashwood, brewer and merchant, eight heraths, 'White Lion Yard, White lyon yd,' in St Giles without Cripplegate ('White Lyon yard,' in [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118774#s1 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Giles (without) Cripplegate : White Lion Yard', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011)], viewed 21/02/12); (PROB 4/16781 Dashwood, William, of the City of London ob. at Chesthunt, Herts. 1680 2 Feb.)</ref> with a M:r Munns and with a M:r ?Goldum.  Nathaniel named William Dashwood one of his overseers, together with a Mr. John Warner and a Mr. Edward Munns (possibly he of the outstanding bond).  The John Warner named as overseer may himself have been a merchant taylor, also of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, who died the following year.<ref>PROB 11/334 Penn 129-184 Will of John Warner, Merchant Tailor of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 11 November 1670; 'John Warner  7 hearths,' in 'Rose Alley,' 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Giles (without) Cripplegate : Rose alley', [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118738#s1 'London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011)], viewed 21/02/12 </ref>
+His surviving inventory provides the impression of a modestly wealthy merchant [TBC], though his will lists a remarkable range of London tenaments and houses whose rentals he collected.<ref>TNA, PROB 4/8600 Withers, Nathaniel, the elder of St Giles without Cripplegate, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, 1670 13 Aug (1669)</ref> His will also lists a number of outstanding bonds owing to him, specifying bonds with the brewer William Dashwood,<ref>William Dashwood was possibly William Dashwood, brewer and merchant, eight heraths, 'White Lion Yard, White lyon yd,' in St Giles without Cripplegate ('White Lyon yard,' in [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118774#s1 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Giles (without) Cripplegate : White Lion Yard', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011)], viewed 21/02/12); (PROB 4/16781 Dashwood, William, of the City of London ob. at Chesthunt, Herts. 1680 2 Feb.; see 'June 6, 1667: William Dashwood, brewer; nominated by Alderman Sir W. Bolton (Lord Mayor) and Sir J. Frederick, J. Baron. Sworn and discharged June 18, 1667; fine of £300 and 20 marks (Rep. 72, fo. 120) ('Vintry Ward,' in [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67214#s1 Alfred P. Beaven, 'Aldermen of the City of London: Vintry ward', The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III - 1912 (1908), pp. 205-215], viewed 21/02712)</ref> with a M:r Munns and with a M:r ?Goldum.  Nathaniel named William Dashwood one of his overseers, together with a Mr. John Warner and a Mr. Edward Munns (possibly he of the outstanding bond).  The John Warner named as overseer may himself have been a merchant taylor, also of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, who died the following year.<ref>PROB 11/334 Penn 129-184 Will of John Warner, Merchant Tailor of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 11 November 1670; 'John Warner  7 hearths,' in 'Rose Alley,' 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Giles (without) Cripplegate : Rose alley', [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118738#s1 'London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011)], viewed 21/02/12 </ref>
 Records of his commercial activities are patchy.  No business papers nor partnership accounts survive.  However, the voyage accounts of a 1637 joint stock venture survive of a London to Virginia bound ship, in which Nathaniel Withers owned one eighth of the shares, and there are a number of letters of commercial advice directed to him in London from [[MRP: Alicante|Alicante]], Spain, in the 1646-1652 period.<ref>For tobacco, see Michael Tepper (ed.), ''New World immigrants: a consolidation of ship passenger lists and associated data from periodical literature'', vol. 1 (XXXX, Reprint 1988), pp. 96-108; For Alicante activities see, for example, [380] London. Nathaniel Withers (Alicante, 18-7-1649)' in José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Perry Gauci, ''Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co'' (Alicante, 2008), pp. 231-? CHECK</ref>  In addition there are a number of possible court cases, in the High Court of Admiralty and in the Court of Chancery, dating from 1637, 1650 and 1654, which provide insights into his commercial activities.<ref>Dorothy Olivia Shilton, Richard Holsworth, ''High Court of Admiralty examinations (ms. vol. 53) 1637-1638'' (?London, 1932), p. 176, 199, 250; C 6/44/99 Withers v Knapp. Plaintiffs: Nathaniel Withers. Defendants: Thomas Knapp. Subject: assurance policy, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1650; C 5/396/182 Withers v. Limbrey 1654</ref>  Synthesising the various sources results in a partial impression of Nathaniel Withers commercial strategies and business approach from the later 1630s until his death in 1669.
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 Nathaniel Withers combined trade with the Mediterranean coast of Spain (and Italy) with the tobacco trade to [[MRP: Virginia|Virginia]].  There is no evidence of involvement in the triangular London to Guinea to Barbados trade in general goods, slaves, and sugar.  Unlike some of his fellow merchants involved in the Spanish trade, such as Thomas Boone and Samuel Mico, he had no close family connection to the south-west England clothier industry.  From the limited evidence available, he appears to have exported XXXX to Spain, and to have sourced wine, and presumably other goods, from Spain to export to Virginia, in return for tobacco, which he sold in London and re-exported to Spain.
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-Unto my other loveing sonne Nathaniel That house of myne with the yard and stable and out houses thereunto belonging now in the tenure of Elizabeth XXXX widdow  Alsoe the house and yard wherein ?John Wilson dwells  Alsoe those houses That stand in the East side of the Same Comonly Called ParkXXX Rents being ffourteene tenements  Alsoe the house in the possession of M:r ?Elstone one Shedd adjoyning in the possession ofone Williams with a garden to the samebelonging Alsoe the house and garden in the possession of one??Parlous  Alsoe the house and Garden in the possession of M:r Wilson Glover The little house where the widdow Cooper dwells And alsoe the house and Garden in the Possession of ffrancis Cooper
+Unto my other loveing sonne Nathaniel That house of myne with the yard and stable and out houses thereunto belonging now in the tenure of Elizabeth XXXX widdow  Alsoe the house and yard wherein ?John Wilson dwells  Alsoe those houses That stand in the East side of the Same Comonly Called ParkXXX Rents being ffourteene tenements  Alsoe the house in the possession of M:r ?Elstone one Shedd adjoyning in the possession of one Williams with a garden to the samebelonging Alsoe the house and garden in the possession of one??Parlous  Alsoe the house and Garden in the possession of M:r Wilson Glover The little house where the widdow Cooper dwells And alsoe the house and Garden in the Possession of ffrancis Cooper
 ITEM I give and bequeath unto my said Loveing sonne Nathaniell the house which I lately built in the possession of one M:r XXXXX Taylor Alsoe those six houses in Grubstreete in the severall occupationsof M.r?Quinton M:rAldridge M:r Humfrey Ballard Thomas Manne widdowe Walton and M:r Algxxx
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 ITEM I give and bequeath unto my said loveing daughter Sarah The Three pounds Tenn shillings a yeare which I receive of M.r Alcocke for the ground holdeth of me
-ITEM I give and bequeath unto every one of my Poor Tennants in the Parkers Rents Twelve pence a peece
+ITEM I give and bequeath unto every one of my Poor Tennants in the Parkers Rents<ref>Parkers Rents. Possibly 'Parker's rents. Whitecross street, Cripplegate' (XXXX, ''London and its environs described: Containing an account of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity or use, in the city and in the country twenty miles round it. Comprehending also whatever is most material in the history and anitquities of this great metropolis,'' vol. 5 (London, 1761), p. 109)</ref> Twelve pence a peece
 ITEM I give and bequeath unto my said Loveing sonne William (To make up his Legacie bequeathed unto himby his sister Mary ffish the summe of ffoure hundred and sixty pounds

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 He rose to senior roles in the company of merchant taylors in the 1650s and 1660s, serving in 1656 as second warden, and in 1666, the year of the London fire, as master.<ref>Clode, Charles M., ''The early history of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London, with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members'', pt. 2 - the lives (London, 1888), pp. 347-348. See http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofgu00cloduoft#page/347/mode/1up, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
-His surviving inventory provides the impression of a modestly wealthy merchant [TBC], though his will lists a remarkable range of London tenaments and houses whose rentals he collected.<ref>TNA, PROB 4/8600 Withers, Nathaniel, the elder of St Giles without Cripplegate, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, 1670 13 Aug (1669)</ref> His will also lists a number of outstanding bonds owing to him, specifying bonds with the brewer William Dashwood, with a M:r Munns and with a M:r ?Goldum.  Nathaniel named William Dashwood one of his overseers, together with a Mr. John Warner and a Mr. Edward Munns (possibly he of the outstanding bond).  The John Warner named as overseer may himself have been a merchant taylor, also of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, who died the following year.<ref>PROB 11/334 Penn 129-184 Will of John Warner, Merchant Tailor of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 11 November 1670; 'John Warner  7 hearths,' in 'Rose Alley,' 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Giles (without) Cripplegate : Rose alley', [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118738#s1 'London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011)], viewed 21/02/12 </ref>
+His surviving inventory provides the impression of a modestly wealthy merchant [TBC], though his will lists a remarkable range of London tenaments and houses whose rentals he collected.<ref>TNA, PROB 4/8600 Withers, Nathaniel, the elder of St Giles without Cripplegate, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, 1670 13 Aug (1669)</ref> His will also lists a number of outstanding bonds owing to him, specifying bonds with the brewer William Dashwood,<ref>William Dashwood was possibly William Dashwood, brewer and merchant, eight heraths, 'White Lion Yard, White lyon yd,' in St Giles without Cripplegate ('White Lyon yard,' in [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118774#s1 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Giles (without) Cripplegate : White Lion Yard', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011)], viewed 21/02/12); (PROB 4/16781 Dashwood, William, of the City of London ob. at Chesthunt, Herts. 1680 2 Feb.)</ref> with a M:r Munns and with a M:r ?Goldum.  Nathaniel named William Dashwood one of his overseers, together with a Mr. John Warner and a Mr. Edward Munns (possibly he of the outstanding bond).  The John Warner named as overseer may himself have been a merchant taylor, also of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, who died the following year.<ref>PROB 11/334 Penn 129-184 Will of John Warner, Merchant Tailor of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 11 November 1670; 'John Warner  7 hearths,' in 'Rose Alley,' 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Giles (without) Cripplegate : Rose alley', [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118738#s1 'London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011)], viewed 21/02/12 </ref>
 Records of his commercial activities are patchy.  No business papers nor partnership accounts survive.  However, the voyage accounts of a 1637 joint stock venture survive of a London to Virginia bound ship, in which Nathaniel Withers owned one eighth of the shares, and there are a number of letters of commercial advice directed to him in London from [[MRP: Alicante|Alicante]], Spain, in the 1646-1652 period.<ref>For tobacco, see Michael Tepper (ed.), ''New World immigrants: a consolidation of ship passenger lists and associated data from periodical literature'', vol. 1 (XXXX, Reprint 1988), pp. 96-108; For Alicante activities see, for example, [380] London. Nathaniel Withers (Alicante, 18-7-1649)' in José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Perry Gauci, ''Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co'' (Alicante, 2008), pp. 231-? CHECK</ref>  In addition there are a number of possible court cases, in the High Court of Admiralty and in the Court of Chancery, dating from 1637, 1650 and 1654, which provide insights into his commercial activities.<ref>Dorothy Olivia Shilton, Richard Holsworth, ''High Court of Admiralty examinations (ms. vol. 53) 1637-1638'' (?London, 1932), p. 176, 199, 250; C 6/44/99 Withers v Knapp. Plaintiffs: Nathaniel Withers. Defendants: Thomas Knapp. Subject: assurance policy, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1650; C 5/396/182 Withers v. Limbrey 1654</ref>  Synthesising the various sources results in a partial impression of Nathaniel Withers commercial strategies and business approach from the later 1630s until his death in 1669.

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 He rose to senior roles in the company of merchant taylors in the 1650s and 1660s, serving in 1656 as second warden, and in 1666, the year of the London fire, as master.<ref>Clode, Charles M., ''The early history of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London, with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members'', pt. 2 - the lives (London, 1888), pp. 347-348. See http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofgu00cloduoft#page/347/mode/1up, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
-His surviving inventory provides the impression of a modestly wealthy merchant [TBC], though his will lists a remarkable range of London tenaments and houses whose rentals he collected.<ref>TNA, PROB 4/8600 Withers, Nathaniel, the elder of St Giles without Cripplegate, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, 1670 13 Aug (1669)</ref> His will also lists a number of outstanding bonds owing to him, specifying bonds with the brewer William Dashwood, with a M:r Munns and with a M:r ?Goldum.  Nathaniel named William Dashwood one of his overseers, together with a Mr. John Warner and a Mr. Edward Munns (possibly he of the outstanding bond).  The John Warner named as overseer may himself have been a merchant taylor, also of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, who died the following year.<ref>XXXX; PROB 11/334 Penn 129-184 Will of John Warner, Merchant Tailor of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 11 November 1670</ref>
+His surviving inventory provides the impression of a modestly wealthy merchant [TBC], though his will lists a remarkable range of London tenaments and houses whose rentals he collected.<ref>TNA, PROB 4/8600 Withers, Nathaniel, the elder of St Giles without Cripplegate, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, 1670 13 Aug (1669)</ref> His will also lists a number of outstanding bonds owing to him, specifying bonds with the brewer William Dashwood, with a M:r Munns and with a M:r ?Goldum.  Nathaniel named William Dashwood one of his overseers, together with a Mr. John Warner and a Mr. Edward Munns (possibly he of the outstanding bond).  The John Warner named as overseer may himself have been a merchant taylor, also of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, who died the following year.<ref>PROB 11/334 Penn 129-184 Will of John Warner, Merchant Tailor of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 11 November 1670; 'John Warner  7 hearths,' in 'Rose Alley,' 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Giles (without) Cripplegate : Rose alley', [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118738#s1 'London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011)], viewed 21/02/12 </ref>
 Records of his commercial activities are patchy.  No business papers nor partnership accounts survive.  However, the voyage accounts of a 1637 joint stock venture survive of a London to Virginia bound ship, in which Nathaniel Withers owned one eighth of the shares, and there are a number of letters of commercial advice directed to him in London from [[MRP: Alicante|Alicante]], Spain, in the 1646-1652 period.<ref>For tobacco, see Michael Tepper (ed.), ''New World immigrants: a consolidation of ship passenger lists and associated data from periodical literature'', vol. 1 (XXXX, Reprint 1988), pp. 96-108; For Alicante activities see, for example, [380] London. Nathaniel Withers (Alicante, 18-7-1649)' in José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Perry Gauci, ''Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co'' (Alicante, 2008), pp. 231-? CHECK</ref>  In addition there are a number of possible court cases, in the High Court of Admiralty and in the Court of Chancery, dating from 1637, 1650 and 1654, which provide insights into his commercial activities.<ref>Dorothy Olivia Shilton, Richard Holsworth, ''High Court of Admiralty examinations (ms. vol. 53) 1637-1638'' (?London, 1932), p. 176, 199, 250; C 6/44/99 Withers v Knapp. Plaintiffs: Nathaniel Withers. Defendants: Thomas Knapp. Subject: assurance policy, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1650; C 5/396/182 Withers v. Limbrey 1654</ref>  Synthesising the various sources results in a partial impression of Nathaniel Withers commercial strategies and business approach from the later 1630s until his death in 1669.

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 ===Family history===
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 . Elizabeth Withers,   c. 23 May 1636, St. Dunstan in the East, London
 . Nathaniel Withers,   c. 29 Nov 1637, St. Giles without Cripplegate, London"<ref>http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I68741&tree=London, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
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 ===Member of Company of Merchant Taylors===
 "List of Masters and Wardens:
 Date of election: 1656: John Ellis [Master]; Thomas Nevile, Nathaniel Withers [1st and 2nd Wardens]; Charles Chamberlain, Richard Latham [3rd and 4th Wardens]"<ref>Clode, Charles M., ''The early history of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London, with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members'', pt. 2 - the lives (London, 1888), p. 347. See http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofgu00cloduoft#page/347/mode/1up, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
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 ===London merchants trading with Alicante, Spain===
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 C 6/145/52 Short title: Chudleigh v Pole. Plaintiffs: Sir George Chudleigh baronet. Defendants: Sir John Pole baronet and Moses Goodyeare. Subject: money matters, Devon. Document type: bill, answer. 1656
 '''C 10/75/3 Daniel Andrewes v John Buckworth and Hester his wife, Samuel Mico, Moses Goodyeare, Aaron Goodyeare and Hester Goodyeare: personal estate of Moses Goodyeare, deceased, of London, Middx 1664'''
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 ===Virginia tobacco trade===
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 [Mr. Green's share was in "strong waters"; Captain Batten's share was in "candy oyle"; Mr. Steed's share was in "powdered sugar, loaf sugar, marmalade of quince, conserves of sloes, roses, and barberries, and bare 8shelled) almonds"; Daniell Hopkinson's share was in raisins; Abraham Hopkinson's share was in "clothes, shirts, etc."; James Pickering's share was in fish]
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 ===High Court of Admiralty===
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 Thomas Biam of the precincts of St. Peter ad Vincula in XXXX"<ref>Dorothy Olivia Shilton, Richard Holsworth, ''High Court of Admiralty examinations (ms. vol. 53) 1637-1638'' (?London, 1932), p. 250</ref>
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 ===Committee of compounding===
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 Oct. 1651.  Being summoned by the County Committee to produce their discharge on pain of sequestration, they beg dismissal, being no delinquents and not informed against. Noted, "the other parties to produce their discharges.
 Dec. Hester, wife of Nath. Withers, merchant, he being beyond seas, — produces his discharge by the Camden House Committee in 1644; he was sequestered on ...CHECK THIS QUOTATION AND BACKGROUND"<ref>Mary Anne Everett Green, ''Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding, & C., 1643-1660: Cases, July 1650-Dec. 1653'' (London, 1892), p. 2880 (sic)</ref>
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 ==Possible primary sources==
+===TNA===
-'''TNA'''
 C 5/18/87 Withers v. Seaman: Middlesex. 1654
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 PROB 11/341 Pye 1-52 Will of John Warner, Haberdasher of London 02 April 1673
-'''London Metropolitan Archives'''<ref>http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/invent.htm, viewed 07/12/11</ref>
+See [http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/invent.htm Indexes to Probate Inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral]
 Indexes to Probate Inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral: MS. 19504/23/67, Muns, Nathaniel, St Giles Cripplegate, 19/11/1678
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 Indexes to Probate Inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral: MS. 19504/29/32, Warner, John, St Giles Cripplegate, 22/05/1683
 Indexes to Probate Inventories of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral: MS. 19504/07/109, Warner, John, St Giles Cripplegate, 22/05/1683
+===Derbyshire Record Office===
-'''Derbyshire Record Office'''
 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BJuKHcC8iecC&printsec=frontcover&vq=mico#v=onepage&q=withers&f=false Letter from Richard Houncell, Alicante to Nathaniel Withers per William Neuill, London, May 17th, 1649]<ref>'[315] London. Nathaniel Withers per William Neuill (Alicante, 17-5-1649)' in José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Perry Gauci, ''Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co'' (Alicante, 2008), pp. 213</ref>
 [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BJuKHcC8iecC&printsec=frontcover&vq=mico#v=onepage&q=withers&f=false Letter from Richard Houncell, Alicante to Nathaniel Withers, London, July 18th, 1649]<ref>'[380] London. Nathaniel Withers (Alicante, 18-7-1649)' in José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Perry Gauci, ''Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co'' (Alicante, 2008), pp. 231-231 CHECK</ref>

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 See [[MRP: Aaron Mico will|Aaron Mico will]] (Nathaniel Withers witnessed Aaron Mico's will. Both had been factors in Alicante)
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-'''Family history'''<ref>http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I68741&tree=London, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
+===Family history===
-Father: William Withers (b. Menedownes, Hampshire)
+"Father: William Withers (b. Menedownes, Hampshire)
 Mother: Jane Webb (b. Henley on Thames TBC)
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 . William Withers,   c. 23 Sep 1633, St. Giles without Cripplegate, London
 . Elizabeth Withers,   c. 23 May 1636, St. Dunstan in the East, London
-. Nathaniel Withers,   c. 29 Nov 1637, St. Giles without Cripplegate, London
+. Nathaniel Withers,   c. 29 Nov 1637, St. Giles without Cripplegate, London"<ref>http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I68741&tree=London, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
-'''Company of Merchant Taylors'''
+===Member of Company of Merchant Taylors===
 "List of Masters and Wardens:
 Date of election: 1656: John Ellis [Master]; Thomas Nevile, Nathaniel Withers [1st and 2nd Wardens]; Charles Chamberlain, Richard Latham [3rd and 4th Wardens]"<ref>Clode, Charles M., ''The early history of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London, with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members'', pt. 2 - the lives (London, 1888), p. 347. See http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofgu00cloduoft#page/347/mode/1up, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
-"List of Masters and Wardens:
+===London merchants trading with Alicante, Spain===
-Date of election: 1666: Nathaniel Withers [Master]; Robert hall, Jonathan Andrewes [1st and 2nd Wardens]; Roger Alsopp, Robert Chilcott [3rd and 4th Wardens]"<ref>Clode, Charles M., ''The early history of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, London, with notices of the lives of some of its eminent members'', pt. 2 - the lives (London, 1888), p. 348. See http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyhistoryofgu00cloduoft#page/348/mode/1up, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
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-'''Spanish trade'''
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-'''London merchants trading with Alicante, Spain'''
 <u>Principales beneficiarios de las remesas metálicas efectuadas por Richard Houncell y cia</u><ref>José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz, Perry Gauci, ''Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co'' (Alicante, 2008),</ref>
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 '''C 10/75/3 Daniel Andrewes v John Buckworth and Hester his wife, Samuel Mico, Moses Goodyeare, Aaron Goodyeare and Hester Goodyeare: personal estate of Moses Goodyeare, deceased, of London, Middx 1664'''
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+===Virginia tobacco trade===
 "'A Book of Accounts for the Shippe called the ''Tristram and Jeane'' of London which came from Virginia Anno Domini 1637' (Public Record Office, London, HCA 30 635, 13 sheets)...is the  earliest account of a trading voyage to Virginia that this writer has seen...it was a joint stock venture with each member putting up either a certain amount of money or of commodities, repayable at the end of the voyage with a proportionate share of the profits. In this case there were eight shares divided among seven persons as follows: Mr. Nathaniel Withers, one-eighth; Mr. Henry Greene, one-eighth; Captain Batten, one-sixteenth; Mr. Thomas Steed, one-eighth; Mr. Daniell Hopkinson, the so-called "Merchant" but acting more like a supercargo, three-eighths; his brother Mr. Abraham Hopkinson, one-eighth, and Mr. James Pickering, one-sixteenth.  Daniell Hopkinson died in Virginia  testate leaving his brother-in-law, Joseph Clifton, his executor. Hopkinson's will was probated in London (P.C.C. (52)) Goard 1636...The account book was among the papers filed in the settlement of the estate.
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 [Mr. Green's share was in "strong waters"; Captain Batten's share was in "candy oyle"; Mr. Steed's share was in "powdered sugar, loaf sugar, marmalade of quince, conserves of sloes, roses, and barberries, and bare 8shelled) almonds"; Daniell Hopkinson's share was in raisins; Abraham Hopkinson's share was in "clothes, shirts, etc."; James Pickering's share was in fish]
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+===High Court of Admiralty===
 "26 October 1637
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 Thomas Biam of the precincts of St. Peter ad Vincula in XXXX"<ref>Dorothy Olivia Shilton, Richard Holsworth, ''High Court of Admiralty examinations (ms. vol. 53) 1637-1638'' (?London, 1932), p. 250</ref>
-'''Committee of compounding'''
+===Committee of compounding===
 "George Vaux, Datchet, Nathaniel Withers, and Anne Horne, Bucks.

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 Nathaniel Withers, merchant taylor, was the brother-in-law of the London merchant, Sir Samuel Mico, through his marriage to Hesther (alias Esther) Mico.<ref>http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I68741&tree=London, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
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 (1) Image and transcribe Nathaniel Withers inventory
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 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN the Nyne and Twentieth day of August In the yeare of our Lord God one Thousand Six hundred Sixty and Nyne And in the one and Twentieth yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King defender of the ffaith xcr. I Nathaniell Withers the elder Cittizen and Merchant=taylor of London being att this tyme sicke and weake in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory (Thanks be therefore given unto Almighty God) And calling to remembrance the uncertaine Estate of this Transitory Life And that all fflesh must yeild unto death when it shall please God  to call Doe make and ordainethis my last Will and Testament in manner  and forme following Revoaking and annulling by these presents All and every Testament and Testaments will and wills heretofore by mee made and declared either by word or by writing And this to be taken only for my last Will and Testament And none other
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 '''Family history'''<ref>http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I68741&tree=London, viewed 01/12/11</ref>
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-==Nathaniell Withers will==
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 PROB 11/331 Coke 108–166 Will of Nathanaell Withers, Merchant Tailor of London 15 September 1669
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