James Stanier
| James Stanier | |
|---|---|
| Person | James Stanier |
| Title | |
| First name | James |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Stanier |
| Suffix | |
| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Merchant |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | James Stanier |
| Has signoff text | James Stanier |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
| Birth street | |
| Birth parish | |
| Birth town | |
| Birth county | |
| Birth province | |
| Birth country | |
| Res street | |
| Res parish | Saint Andrew Undershaft |
| Res town | London |
| Res county | |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1606 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | December 1663 |
| Probate date | December 29, 1663 |
| First deposition age | |
| Primary sources | |
| Act book start page(s) | |
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| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/63 f.391r Annotate, HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.2r Annotate |
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| Allegation date(s) | |
| Interrogatories date(s) | |
| Deposition date(s) | Sep 5 1650, Dec 6 1653 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
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| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
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Biographical synthesis
According to James Stanier's own testimony in the High Court of Admiralty in 1653, James Stanier was born in London.[1]
Resident in 1650, in 1653, and in 1654 in the parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft.[2]
James Stanier was buried in the parish church of Saint Helen Bishopsgate on December 17th 1663.[3]
His will was proved on December 29th 1663.[4]
Married Thomasin(e). Surname and date of marriage unknown. Thomasin(e) was buried in the parish of Saint Helen Bishopsgate on November 19th 1676.[5] Her will was proved on January 7th 1676.[6]
Thomasin Stanier appears in the hearth tax returns for the parish of Saint Andrew Undershadft in 'Leadenhall Street north' and with a total of six hearths.[7]
Two separate engravings were made by Wenceslaus Hollar of James Stanier, dated 1643 and 1650.[8]
Records from the High Court of Admiralty in the 1650s show that James Stanier had trading relationships with Antwerp, Bruges, Amsterdam and Cadiz in the late 1640s and throughout the 1650s. For example, James Stanier was the London correspondent of Bruges based merchant Paulus Cobrisse in the late 1640s and early 1650s.[9]
Robert Demetrius was James Stanier's cashier and bookkeeper, as Demetrius states in a deposition in the High Court of Admiralty dated July 27th 1659.[10]
Ezechiel Lampen was James Stanier's apprentice from ca. 1651 to at least May 1654, when Lampen deposed in the High Court of Admiralty on an allegation in "The clayme of the sayd Cornelius and Henry Hillewervin for their sylver in the Sampson.[11]
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-four year old James Stanier deposed on September 5th 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on interrogatories "Quoad navem the Peace da home".
James Stanier stated that John Cornelison Yonge John was the commander of the ship the Pease of Home and that the ship ran aground near Portland, and after refloating, ran aground again in Cornwall in 1648. At the second grounding the ship was allegedly "staved a peeces by the souldiers and countrey people". The ship's lading consisted largely of silk, with ninety odd bales belonging to "Cornelius Gysbertson von Gore and other merchants of Holland."[12]
James Stanier gave his age on November 25th 1652 as forty-six, describing himself as a merchant of London, when he was examined on interrogatories on behalf of the State in the case of "The keepers of the Libertie of England by authoritie of Parliament against the Sampson, Salvador, Peter et cetera and goods therein".[13]
On August 5th 1653 ffrancis Boesdonck, cashier and bookkeeper of the Antwerp merchant James Pincquett, was examined on an allegation in support of "The clayme of James Pincquett merchant of Antwerpe for the plate and sylver in the shipp the Morning Starr whereof Michael van Lupkin (sic) is master taken by some of the Parliaments shipps".[14] Referring to bills of lading for Pincquett's goods, Boesdonck stated that "the said bills of ladeing were sent in a letter by the post or passage boat from Antwerp to Mr Stanier a merchant at London."[15]
On March 12th 1654 Robert Demetrius, cashier and bookkeeper of James Stanier, was examined on an allegation in support of the claim of Pedro Michelson of Antwerp for silver and goods on board the Sampson, the Salvador and the Saint George. Demetrius stated that James Stanier had been requested to make a claim for the silver by Pedro Michelson. Stanier appears to have had a trading relationship with Michelson and on behalf of Michelson with Cadiz in Spain. Demetrius stated that "in the yeare 1649. and about the 19th day of January of the same yeare this deponents master James Stanier did send to Cadiz consigned to one of the producents factors there whose name att present he remembreth not 840. peices of Norwich stuffes. and ten packes of Bayes amounting in value to the summe of 2720 li 14 s. sterling, and the same were laden att this port of London on board the shipp Maydenhead of London Captaine James Lutton commander one third part of which stuffes and bayes were for the sole accompt of the producent Pedro Michaelson, and putt and stated to and upon his accompt by the sayd James Stanier, in his bookes of accompts which this rendent hath laetely consulted, which goods came safe to the hands of the sayd foresayd factor att Cadiz".[16]
A further Admiralty Court case in 1656 led to depositions "On the behalfe of Mr Stanier and others touching the Saint Phillip.[17]
A further Admiralty Court case in 1657 led to depositions "Touching goods in the Santa Maria John Van Lynen captaine". Twenty-eight year old London merchant Robert Demetrius stated that he was the bookkeeper of James Stanier, London merchant. ("That the last past master James Stanier of London merchant (with home this deponent liveth in the quality of booke keeper) did reeive letter from Mr Phillip Van Hulten of Amsterdam merchants, wherein the said Phillip Van Hulten adviseth the said Mr Stanier, that hee hath given order to his ffreinds at Marsellis for the ffreighting of a ship, to take on board all the goods that are or shalbe unladen out of the ship the Santa Maria at Tollon and to bring the same to Amsterdam, but by the way to touch at Cadiz in Spaine, there to dispose of a parcell of cacoa part of the said lading."[18]
James Stanier was the London correspondent of Paulus Cobrisse (alt. Paul Cobrisse; Paul Cobrysse; Pauwels Cobrysse), a merchant living in Bruges in Flanders. Giving his age as forty-eight, Stanier deposed on December 6th 1653 in the High Court of Admiralty that "Paulus Cobrisse was by common repute borne in fflanders, and for these 12 yeares last past of the knowledge of this deponent being his correspondent hath bene a merchant of great accompt living att present in Bridges, and so hath done five or six yeares now past and before that for six or 7 yeares he lived in Spaine and was and is a subiect of the King of Spaine"[19]
Comment on sources
1644
London Metropolitan Archives: Reference: ACC/0088/81 Title: Copy of covenant to levy fine. 1. Richard Deardes of Dunmowe, Essex, gent. 2. James Stanier of London, merchant and Peregrine Herbert of Stanwell, gent. Description: Premises: 23½ acres of freehold arable, meadow and pasture in common fields of West Bedfont and Stanwell; 5 acres meadow in Southmead, Denham, Bucks.; 23 acres of arable in common fields in Denham (14 acres in Long Furlong and 9 acres in Marnefield); cottage and 2 acres meadow in Southmead, Denham. (1) to levy fine to (2) for use of (1) and wife Jane for life and then their heirs; annual income of £100. being guaranteed to Jane for life. Date: 1644/5 Jan. 23
1656
C 5/27/42 Short title: Forth v Stanier. Plaintiffs: Hugh Forth. Defendants: James Stanier and others. Subject: money matters, London or Middlesex. Document type: bill, plea, schedule. 1656.
1663
"James Stanier, Merchant of this City, Dec. 16, 1663. And Thomasin, his Wife, Nov. 19, 1676."[20]
PROB 11/312/556 Will of James Stanier, Merchant of London 29 December 1663
1676
PROB 11/350/32 Will of Thomasin Stanier, Widow 07 January 1676- ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.3r
- ↑ HCA 13/63 f.391r; HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.2r; HCA 13/69 Silver 12 f.5r
- ↑ John Stow, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent (London, 1733), p.365
- ↑ PROB 11/312/556 Will of James Stanier, Merchant of London 29 December 1663
- ↑ John Stow, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent (London, 1733), p.365
- ↑ PROB 11/350/32 Will of Thomasin Stanier, Widow 07 January 1676
- ↑ 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666, St Andrew Undershaft ', in London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-hearth-tax/london-mddx/1666/st-andrew-undershaft, accessed 15 October 2016
- ↑ James Stanier by Wenceslaus Hollar etching, 1643 5 1/2 in. x 3 3/4 in. (141 mm x 95 mm) plate size Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931 Reference Collection NPG D27905; [XX]
- ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.2r
- ↑ HCA 13/73 f.730r
- ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 12 f.5r
- ↑ HCA 13/63 f.391r
- ↑ HCA 13/66 Silver IMG 118 07 2466
- ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.31v
- ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.32v
- ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 12 f.1v
- ↑ HCA 13/71 f.391r
- ↑ HCA 13/73 f.730r
- ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.2r
- ↑ John Stow, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent (London, 1733), p.365
