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 '''Thomas Clarke''' Merchant. Possibly a mercer. Resident in Rotterdam, 1645.<ref>[http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=mrc&event_id=MCEB3147 'Apprenticeship of Daniel Clarke, son of Thomas Clarke, to master Rowland Wynne, of the Mercer's company' in Records of London Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900, web resource], accessed, 27/01/2017</ref>
-'''Stephen Puckle''' (b. ca. 1595; d. >1652). Merchant of Estsmithfield, near London, and formerly Rotterdam. Deposed in the English High Court of Admiralty in November 1652. Puckle stated that "for the space of about twenty yeares next before the late warrs betwixt this Commonwealth and the United Provinces he did live, and reside with his family att Rotterdam in Holland, and by that meanes came to be well acquainted with the Dutch tongue".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.717v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.717v]]</ref>
+'''Stephen Puckle''' (b. ca. 1595; d. >1652). Merchant of East Smithfield, near London, and formerly Rotterdam. Deposed in the English High Court of Admiralty in November 1652. Puckle stated that "for the space of about twenty yeares next before the late warrs betwixt this Commonwealth and the United Provinces he did live, and reside with his family att Rotterdam in Holland, and by that meanes came to be well acquainted with the Dutch tongue".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.717v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.717v]]</ref>
 '''William Scapes''' (b. ca. 1606; d. ?). Merchant of Rotterdam. Deposed in English High Court of Admiralty in July 1651 regarding a ship in which he had ownership, which had gone to Norway to load deals, intended for sale in Newcastle for a return load of coal for Rotterdam.<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.26r Annotate|HCA 13/65 f.26r]]</ref>

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 '''William Cotton''' (b. ?1633; d. ca. 1655). Merchant Adventurer of Rottedam.<ref>PROB 11/250/566 Will of William Cotton, Merchant Adventurer of Rotterdam 31 October 1655</ref> William Cotton deposed in the English High Court of Amiralty in November 1653 in support of Hendry Baldero (''alt. '' Boldero). He stated that he was born at Colchester in Essex, but was now living at Rotterdam in Holland as servant and merchant cashier to Baldero. He gave his age as twenty-two. He added that "for many and divers yeares last past there hath bene an English Company of Merchant Adventurers resident in the Citty of Roterdam, and that the arlate Henry Baldero hath bene for a yeare now past and upwards treasurer of the sayd Companie of English merchants and so is att this present, and the sayd Henry Baldero was and is an Englishman and well affected to this nation and the government thereof, and that he hath of the certaine knowledge and sight of this deponent releived many English seamen that have bene taken prisoners in the service of this Commonwealth in the present troubles and hath procured the libertyes of many of them and provided shipping to transport them for England."<ref>[[HCA 13/68 f.235r Annotate|HCA 13/68 f.235r]]</ref>
 '''William Cranmer''' (b. ?; d. 1650). Merchant. Resident in Rotterdam.
-'''James Fenn''' Merchant. Possiblly a mercer. Resident in Rotterdam, 1648-9.<ref>C. Te Lintum, De Merchant Adventurers in De Nederlanden ('s-Gravenhage, 1905) pp. 264-5; [http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=mrc&event_id=MCML163 'Fen, James (male), merchant, now resident in Rotterdam, Mercer's archive. Event: Apprenticeship. Role: Father of apprentice. Apprentice: Richard Fen (male). Master: Samuel Mico, one of merchants trading into the Levant, member of Mercer's company' in Records of London Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900, web resource], accessed, 27/01/2017</ref>
+'''James Fenn''' Merchant. Possibly a mercer. Resident in Rotterdam, 1648-9.<ref>C. Te Lintum, De Merchant Adventurers in De Nederlanden ('s-Gravenhage, 1905) pp. 264-5; [http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=mrc&event_id=MCML163 'Fen, James (male), merchant, now resident in Rotterdam, Mercer's archive. Event: Apprenticeship. Role: Father of apprentice. Apprentice: Richard Fen (male). Master: Samuel Mico, one of merchants trading into the Levant, member of Mercer's company' in Records of London Livery Companies Online, Apprentices and Freemen 1400-1900, web resource], accessed, 27/01/2017</ref>
 '''Richard Ford''' (''alt.'' Sir Richard Ford) (b. ca. 1613, d. ca. 1678). Merchant. Resident in Rotterdam by 1644 and returned to London in 1652.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ford_(Southampton_MP) 'Richard Ford (Southampton MP), ' in Wikipedia , web resource], accessed 27/01/2018; C. Te Lintum, De Merchant Adventurers in De Nederlanden ('s-Gravenhage, 1905), pp. 264-5</ref> Younger son of Exeter merchant, Thomas Ford. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford and Gray's Inn. Member of Merchant Adventurers by 1644. Governor from 1660-1675. Active in 1650s as a naval supplier, working in partnership with his son-in-law, Peter Proby, who had married Grace Ford.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-rulers/1660-89/pp67-74#h3-0038 'Ford, Richard,' in J.R. Woodhead, 'Fabian - Fyge', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 67-74], viewed 27/01/2018</ref> Proby was the grandson of the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Peter Proby. Ford was an associate in the 1650s of Nathaniel Temms, John Dethick, John Bancks and Martin Noell, all men rising rapidly. He was one of the new subscribers to the New General Stock of the English East India Company in 1657 and was appointed to the six person committee which was established to negotiate with a six person committee of existing subscribers. His associates on the committee are revealing – they were Maurice Thompson, Alderman Temms, Alderman Noel, Thomas Kendall, and Samuel Moyer. He was thus an ally of Thompson, as Thompson inserted himself at the apex of the EEIC hierachy. Ford was appointed an EEIC committee in [?XXXX], knighted by Charles II in [?XXXX], and appointed by Charles to the Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations formed in 1660 under Charles II, together with his associate Martin Noell, who was similarly knighted. On March 14th [CHECK] 1662/3 he wrote with moderate familiarity to Oxenden, requesting a small favour. Steven Pincus asserts that Sir Richard Ford was one of the most important London merchants in the Restoration period.<ref>Steven C.A. Pincus, Protestantism and Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650-1668 (Cambridge, 1996), p. 250 CHECK PAGE NUMBER</ref>
 '''Edward Kendrick'''

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 C 8/52/38 Short title: Busfield v Frederick. Plaintiffs: John Busfield. Defendants: John Fredericke and Christopher Fredericke, Peter Ent and Thomas Canham. Subject: money. Document type: answer only. 1641
 C 8/294/21 Short title: Jeffery v Beane. Plaintiffs: Robert Jeffery. Defendants: Humphrey Beane, Thomas Canham and John Canham. Subject: money, Middlesex. Document type: answer only. 1674
 C 6/213/21 Short title: Canham v Bellamy. Plaintiffs: John Canham. Defendants: William Bellamy. Subject: money matters. Document type: demurrer. 1674
 PROB 11/433/325 Will of Thomas Canham, Merchant of London 05 August 1696

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 Warden of the worshipfull company of Barber Surgeons, 1665, and master of the same company, 1668.<ref>[https://jupiter.ai/books/25nE/ The Annals of the Barber Surgeons, compiled from their sources, by Sydney Young, One of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipfull Company of Barbers of London, with Illustrations by Austin T. Young (XXXX, ?1890), no pag.]</ref>
 Elected one of the twenty-four committees of the English East India Company in April 1671. Others included Sir William Thomson and Maurice Thomson.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.226378/2015.226378.A-Calendar#page/n57/mode/2up 'A General Court, April 20, 1671 (Court Book, vol. xxvii, p. 232), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1671-1673 (Oxford, 1932), p.30], accessed 31/01/2018</ref>
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 C 8/52/38 Short title: Busfield v Frederick. Plaintiffs: John Busfield. Defendants: John Fredericke and Christopher Fredericke, Peter Ent and Thomas Canham. Subject: money. Document type: answer only. 1641
 C 8/294/21 Short title: Jeffery v Beane. Plaintiffs: Robert Jeffery. Defendants: Humphrey Beane, Thomas Canham and John Canham. Subject: money, Middlesex. Document type: answer only. 1674
 PROB 11/433/325 Will of Thomas Canham, Merchant of London 05 August 1696

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 seals 2 signatures. 06 Jun 1651<ref>[http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/mkha/mkha/projects/catalogue/docs/catalogueg3000-g3200.html 'Bargain and sale of lands at Talland, Plynt Killigarth. John, Earle of Bathe and Lady Jane, his wife to Richard Shute of London, draper. John Lawrence, of London, merchant. 3 seals 2 signatures. 06 Jun 1651' in Northamptonshire Record Office, Grafton Estate Catalogue, G3001-G3200, web resource], accessed 02/02/2018</ref>
-Roll/case no: C 78/478, no. 6 John Bland v Benjamin Trynyman; Edward Walker; Gifford Bale; Richard Shute; Peter Jones; Benjamin Moorewood; Subject matter: Accounts re transport of chests of 'cockendale'. 24 July 1652<ref>[XX Roll/case no: C 78/478, no. 6 John Bland v Benjamin Trynyman; Edward Walker; Gifford Bale; Richard Shute; Peter Jones; Benjamin Moorewood; Subject matter: Accounts re transport of chests of 'cockendale'. 24 July 1652], accessed 02/02/2018</ref>
+Roll/case no: C 78/478, no. 6 John Bland v Benjamin Trynyman; Edward Walker; Gifford Bale; Richard Shute; Peter Jones; Benjamin Moorewood; Subject matter: Accounts re transport of chests of 'cockendale' (mistranscription of 'cochineale'). 24 July 1652<ref>[http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/C78/C78no478/IMG_0190.htm Roll/case no: C 78/478, no. 6 John Bland v Benjamin Trynyman; Edward Walker; Gifford Bale; Richard Shute; Peter Jones; Benjamin Moorewood; Subject matter: Accounts re transport of chests of 'cockendale' (mistranscription of 'cochineale'). 24 July 1652], accessed 02/02/2018; http://www.uh.edu/waalt/index.php/C78_1652, accessed 02/02/2018</ref>
 - Case in the Court of Chancery brought by John Bland (complainant) against John Tryniman or Triniman, Edward Walker, Giford Beale, Richard Shute, Peter Jones and Benjamin Moorewood (defendants). John Bland alleged that William Bland, the complainant's brother and factor, in September or October 1648, loaded seven chests of cochineale on board the ''Peregrine'' of London (master: John Triniman), worth £1100 and upwards, to be brought to London. The defendants Gifford Bale, Richard Shute, Peter Jones and Gilbert Moorewood ("since deceased") "being merchant did assure to the defendant Benjamin Triniman by their severall subscriptions to a pollicie of assurance bearing date the tenth day of July in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty nine the severall summes to the pollicy by them subscribed amounting to the summe of sixe hundred pounds". The amounts were: Gifford Bale , £100; Richard Shute, £200; Peter Jones, £100; Gilbert Moorewood, £200. The ship miscarried and was cast away. The complainant John Bland had a series of attachments issued to John Triniman for the sums owing from the assurers. The complainant alleges that the assurers combined to resist payment of the attached debts.

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 "On the behalfe of James Oiles Richard Shute Peter Bulteele and others", August 1651<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.45v Annotate|HCA 13/65 f.45v]]</ref>
 - Concerns ship named the ''Eagle'' trading from London to Guinea to Barbados
 "The personall answeares of John Moore made to the posicons of a libell given in against him on the behalfe of Jeremie Crowe"
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 "On the behalfe of John Cap[?a] and others touching the losse of the shipp ''Mathew and John'' of [XXXX] in a businesse of assurance", August 1651<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.46v Annotate|HCA 13/65 f.46v]]</ref>
 - Concerns the ''Mathew and John'' (master Edward Arlibeere), seized by Jersey men of war in early 1651, en route from the Canaries to London off the Scilly Isles
-- 'To the crosse interrogatories on the behalfe of Richard Shute and ffrancis Sayon assurers' [asssurers of the ''Mathew and John'', though not clear whether of ship or goods or both<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.47r Annotate|HCA 13/65 f.47r]]</ref>
+- 'To the crosse interrogatories on the behalfe of Richard Shute and ffrancis Sayon assurers' [asssurers of the ''Mathew and John'', though not clear whether of ship or goods or both]<ref>[[HCA 13/65 f.47r Annotate|HCA 13/65 f.47r]]</ref>
 'A busines of ensurance touching certaine losses of and in the shipp called the ''Rebecca'' of London promoted by Nathaniell Andrewes and Adam Jennings merchants against Richard Shute and Nicholas Skinner', August 1655<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.454r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.454r]]</ref>
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 <u>Other primary sources</u>
 G3144 Bargain and sale of lands at Talland, Plynt Killigarth. John, Earle of Bathe and Lady Jane, his wife to Richard Shute of London, draper. John Lawrence, of London, merchant
 seals 2 signatures. 06 Jun 1651<ref>[http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/mkha/mkha/projects/catalogue/docs/catalogueg3000-g3200.html 'Bargain and sale of lands at Talland, Plynt Killigarth. John, Earle of Bathe and Lady Jane, his wife to Richard Shute of London, draper. John Lawrence, of London, merchant. 3 seals 2 signatures. 06 Jun 1651' in Northamptonshire Record Office, Grafton Estate Catalogue, G3001-G3200, web resource], accessed 02/02/2018</ref>
 PROB 11/300/394 Will of Richard Shute, Merchant of London 25 October 1660
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 ===Mathew Skynner===

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 Surrey History Centre, G85/14/2 Admission as Freeman of London of John Worsam, son of Richard, who was apprenticed to John Thierry, clothworker 22 Sep 1638
 "[1654] 26 Jul. William Williams of London, draper, aged 22, deposes that on 28 February 1650 John Worsam of London, merchant, Richard Worsam of London, weaver, and Thomas Applethwaite of London, merchant, signed a financial obligation to George Nash, citizen and merchant tailor of London, who has appointed Daniel Searle, Governor of Barbados, as his attorney (MCD 5)."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vWDV4Fk7TmAC&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273#v=onepage&q&f=false Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660 (Baltimore, 1987), p. 273], accessed 01/02/2018</ref>
 "On 25 October 1655, Henry Simons of St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, citizen and tallow chandler of London, aged 53, deposed that on 20 August 1641, Richard Worsam, citizen and weaver of London, and his son John Worsam of London, merchant, signed a financial obligation to Mathew Wilton, citizen and tallow chandler of London, who had appointed John Fryer and William Fryer of Barbados, merchants, as his attornies. (Lord Mayor's Court of London, 6)."<ref>[https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~sfreer/johfrere.html 'Descendants of John of Sweffling Frere, Sr. and the Barbados', web resource], accessed 01/02/2018</ref>
-"[1658] 6 March. John Godscall of London , merchant, son and sole executor of John Godscall of Colchester, Essex, merchant deceased, deposed that on 5 February 1636 Thomas Peade of London, merchant, and on 6 August136 John Worsam and Thomas Peade of London, merchants, signed financial obligations to his father, and on 30 October 1652 Richard Worsam, citizen and weaver of London, made out an indenture to his son John Worsam, citizen and clothworker of London. John Leak of Barbados, Merchant, appointed attorney. (MCD 8)."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vWDV4Fk7TmAC&pg=PA378#v=onepage&q&f=false Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660 (Baltimore, 1987). pp.378-379], accessed 31/01/2018</ref>
+PROB 11/258/465 Will of James Godscall, Merchant of London of Saint James Colchester, Essex 23 October 1656
 Surrey History Centre LM/COR/6/48 Letter from Mr John Godschall to his nephew Mr Richard Worsam [otherwise Warsam], merchant at Mrs Bretton's house in Broad Street, London. - Godschall seeks confirmation of receipt of a bill of exchange to the value of £400 and made payable to his 'Uncle Basil'and endorsed as payable to him. 30 Oct 1679
 C 105/34 Original will of John Worsam: Barbados NOTE - Bundle 16 1680
 PROB 11/365/428 Will of Richard Worsam, Merchant of London 30 September 1681

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		+	"[1654] 26 Jul. William Williams of London, draper, aged 22, deposes that on 28 February 1650 John Worsam of London, merchant, Richard Worsam of London, weaver, and Thomas Applethwaite of London, merchant, signed a financial obligation to George Nash, citizen and merchant tailor of London, who has appointed Daniel Searle, Governor of Barbados, as his attorney (MCD 5)."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vWDV4Fk7TmAC&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273#v=onepage&q&f=false Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660 (Baltimore, 1987), p. 273], accessed 01/02/2018</ref>
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		+	"On 25 October 1655, Henry Simons of St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, citizen and tallow chandler of London, aged 53, deposed that on 20 August 1641, Richard Worsam, citizen and weaver of London, and his son John Worsam of London, merchant, signed a financial obligation to Mathew Wilton, citizen and tallow chandler of London, who had appointed John Fryer and William Fryer of Barbados, merchants, as his attornies. (Lord Mayor's Court of London, 6)."<ref>[https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~sfreer/johfrere.html 'Descendants of John of Sweffling Frere, Sr. and the Barbados', web resource], accessed 01/02/2018</ref>

	"[1658] 6 March. John Godscall of London , merchant, son and sole executor of John Godscall of Colchester, Essex, merchant deceased, deposed that on 5 February 1636 Thomas Peade of London, merchant, and on 6 August136 John Worsam and Thomas Peade of London, merchants, signed financial obligations to his father, and on 30 October 1652 Richard Worsam, citizen and weaver of London, made out an indenture to his son John Worsam, citizen and clothworker of London. John Leak of Barbados, Merchant, appointed attorney. (MCD 8)."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vWDV4Fk7TmAC&pg=PA378#v=onepage&q&f=false Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660 (Baltimore, 1987). pp.378-379], accessed 31/01/2018</ref>		"[1658] 6 March. John Godscall of London , merchant, son and sole executor of John Godscall of Colchester, Essex, merchant deceased, deposed that on 5 February 1636 Thomas Peade of London, merchant, and on 6 August136 John Worsam and Thomas Peade of London, merchants, signed financial obligations to his father, and on 30 October 1652 Richard Worsam, citizen and weaver of London, made out an indenture to his son John Worsam, citizen and clothworker of London. John Leak of Barbados, Merchant, appointed attorney. (MCD 8)."<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vWDV4Fk7TmAC&pg=PA378#v=onepage&q&f=false Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660 (Baltimore, 1987). pp.378-379], accessed 31/01/2018</ref>

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 ===John Cradock===
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+A 'John Cradocke, merchant tailor, Saint Mary at Hill, London, is listed in 1642.<ref>SP 28/131/3 f/30r</ref>
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 ===Peter Ducane (alt. Du Quesne)===
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 ===Maurice Thomson===