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10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 14-15

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Abstract & context

William Wild wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 10th 1662/63, sent from London.

In the letter, William Wild XXXX

William Wild was a London linen draper.

Thomas Tomlins, a London merchant and also a correspondent of Sr George Oxenden, wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated march 26th, 1663. In this letter he mentioned William Wild's efforts to recover debts oweing to the deceased Captain Bushell:

I was likewise desired by M:r W:m ?Wild [or Weld], lynen draper in Cornhill, and executor to y:e Deceased Cap:t Leonard Bushell,^[1] to desire you on his behalfe to call M:r Walter Travers ffactor of Carwarr to acco:t for y:e amo:t of £560: sterling w:ch he was oblidged to pay Cap:t Bushell when hee was last in India Now M:r Weld tells mee part of y:e money was comitted unto M:r Jn:e Lambton,^[2] please to make Enquiry into y:e Busienesse, & w:t moneyes are in his hands to send it y:e Executor by first opportunity^[3]

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Bushell of Whitby arms

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'Bushell of Whitby arms' in J.W. Clay (ed.), Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, vol. 3 (Exeter, 1917), p. 508^[4]
- No proof made of these arms
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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 14-15]

[f. 14]

Right Worp:ll

S:r I hope I may congratulate yo:r Sagfe Arrivall att Surr:tt where I heartily wish you á Confluence of all happiness, Att yo:r departure from England, you were pleased to ffavo:r mee soe farr as to receive some paperrs from me Relating to Cap:t ?Leon:d Bushill^[5] deceased, w:ch if you pleased to give yo:r Trouble as to ?puse you will find by them á considerable sum:e of Money oweing by M:r Walter Travers^[6] ffacto:r for y:e hon:ble East India Comp:a at ?Cailevelab^[7] unto y:e Said Leon:d Bushill, Now I humbly beg y:e ffavo:r of yo:r Assistance in y:e behalfe of his Relations to whome he left his Estate I am Informed by á lre rcvd from M:r Matthew Gray^[8] dated y:e 20:th Jan:r 1660: y:t M:r Jn:o Lambton^[9] has recvd on Acco:t 900: Mam:ds the w:ch be pleased to demand of him, & if y:t or any other be rcvd by yo:r order be pleased to returne it, in y:e first Shipp bound for England either by bill of Exch:a or in such goods as yo:r Worp: shall Judge fitting, & in Soo dooing, you will Infinitely Oblidge all his relations they haveing great expectations to receive much benefitt, being undertaken by soe hon:ble a pson as yo:r selfe; S:r I shall not Trouble you any farther butt humbly beggging á

[f.15]

Line from you by y:e Next Shipp, & leave to Subscribing my Selfe

London, y:e 10:th March 1662/3

Yo:r most humble Servant
W:m Wild

Notes

Bushell family of Yorkshire & Stepney

"I. ROBERT BUSHELL, of Whitby in com. Ebor., merchant.
Will, 15 Apr. 1584, pr. at York 8 Sept. 1585 (vol. xxiii, 77),
to be bur. in Wliitby church ; mar. Isabel (? Browne). WiU,
3 Nov. 1595, pr. 1 Jan. 1601-2 (vol. xx^dii, 525), to be bur.
in Whitby church. They had issue —

Henry, eldest son, named in his mother's will ;
married, and had issue —

eorge. / jjg^^^g^ jjj ^^eir grandparents' %vills.

Leonard (II).

James, named in his mother's will ; ? bur. 15 June 1610,
and admon. 17 Jan. 1610-11.

DU(;i)ALES VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE. 509

Nicholas.!

Isabel, named in her father's will, mar. . . . Sparowes.
Elizabeth, named in her father's will, mar. . . .
Winteringham.

II. LEONARD BUSH ELL, of Whitby, died in a' 1608 vel circa,
bur. at Whitby, 24 Oct. 1610 ; mar. Jane, daughter of . . .
Lambe, of Newcastle upon Tine, bur. at Whitby 10 Aug. 1629.
They had issue —

1. Richard (III).

2. Leonard Bushell, of Limehouse in co. Middlesex.

3. Henry Bushell, of Limehouse in co. Middlesex ; ? if

mar. at Whitby 15 Sept. 1634 to Isabel Blenkhorne.

4. Samuell Bushell, of Whitby in co. Eborii.

5. Daniell Bushell, of Middleton in com. Ebor. ; ? mar.

Alice Foster, at Kildale, He. 1629 there or Midleton.

1. Elisabeth, ivife unto William Barnard, of Kingston upon

Hull; mar. at Whitby, 26 Oct. 1612 (C.B.N.).

2. Jane, wife of George Porter, of Warthall in com. Ebor.

3. Ruthe, bp. at Whitby, 22 May 1608, ivife of WilPm

Boyse, in Virginia.
? Isabella, bp. at Whitby 23 Dec. 1610 (posthumous).

III. RICHARD BV SHELL, of Whitby, died a" 1644 ; marr. Isabell,
daughter of Robert Ellys, of Rudston in com. Eborum, at St.
Cuthbert's, York, 4 Aug. 1618 (C.B.N.), bur. at ^¥hitby
4 Mar. 1656-7. They had issue—
Robert (IV).

1. Euphemia, bp. at Whitby 28 Dec. 1625, wife of Will.

Wood, of Galloway in Ireland.

2. Isabell, bp. at Whitby 14 Feb. 1635-6, ivife of Robert

Winge, of Skiplam in com. Eboru.

3. Jane, bp. at Whitby 15 Mar. 1639-40, y' wife of John

Rymer, of Whitby.

IV. ROBERT BUSHELL, of Whitby, and Ruswai-p, wtat. 39 ann.
28 Aug. a' 1665, a slupowner,^ bp. at Whitby 18 Apr. 1624,
? bur. there 12 Nov. 1698. Will, 26 Sept. 1595 (vol. Ixii,
219) ; mar. Isabell, daughter of William Wigginer, of Whitby
in com. Ebor. They had issue —

1 In Glover's Visitation, Nicholas Bushell married Dorothy, daughter of Sir
Henry Cholmley, of Roxby. Nicholas Bushell was buried at Whitby 1 Nov.
1632. It is presumed these particulars refer to the above Nicholas. They
Beem to have had a son, Capt. Brown Bushell, who was busy at the sieges of
Scarborough and was executed.

• He had a son, Capt. Bushell, commanding a ship, the " Mary," under whom

Bobert Fairfax served. (See " Life of Admiral Robert Fairfax .")

510

DUGDALES VISITATION OK YORKSHIRE.

Leonard, cut. 10 ann. 28 Aug. 1663, bp. at Wliitby
22 Jan. 1654-5.

Mary, co-exix. of her father.

Esther, mar. first Charles ThomUnson, of Whitby ;
secondly, Admiral Eobert Fairfax, of Newton Kyme,
20 Nov' 1694. They had issue. She was bp. 1 July
1656, died 1735, bur. at St. Mar}', BishophiU, York.
(See Markham's Life of Admiral Robert Fairfax.)"
^[10]

"From: starbuck95@hotmail.com (John Brandon)
Subject: Possible origin of Ruth (Bushell) Mitchelson of Cambridge, Mass.
Date: 7 Jan 2003 21:13:40 -0800

Rev. Thomas Shepard, immigrant to Cambridge, Massachusetts, is covered
in both the _DNB_ and the _DAB_. These sketches agree that he was
chaplain to the wealthy Puritan family of Darley of Buttercrambe,
Yorks., for a time before he came to New England in the mid-1630s.
Thomas Shepard's "Memoirs," or spiritual biography, has long been
available in Alexander Young, ed., _Chronicles of the First Planters_
(Boston, 1846). He speaks of his special Puritan comrades in the
Darley household at Buttercrambe: "I found in the house three
servants, (viz. Thomas Fugill, Mrs. Margaret Touteville, the knight's
kinswoman, that was afterward my wife, and Ruth Bushell, who married
to Edward Michelson,) very careful [solicitous] of me; which somewhat
refreshed me." Of course Mrs. Margaret Shepard joined her husband in
New England, and footnotes in Young indicate that Thomas Fugill and
Rush Bushell also came to New England. Savage's _Genealogical
Dictionary_ gives a biographical sketch of an Edward Mitchelson of
Cambridge (like Rev. Shepard), who was later the Marshal-General of
the Massachusetts Bay colony. His wife is shown as "Ruth Bushnell
[sic], who came 1635, aged 23, in the Abigail."

_NEHGR_ 14:318 shows a Ruth Bushell, aged 23 on 2 July 1635, who was
to be a passenger on the _Abigail_ "pr Certificate from ye minister of
Shoreditch p'ish and Stepney p'ish bound to New England." If she was
23 in 1635, this yields a birthyear of 1611 or 1612.

The 1665 _Visitation of Yorkshire_ is available online, as Chris
Phillips has pointed out (see
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/updates/update.shtml ). Page 82,
a pedigree chart of the family of "Bushell of Whitby, [Yorks.]" shows
a "Ruthe [Bushell], wife of Will'm Boyse in Virginia" in 1665. She
was the daughter of "Leonard Bushell of Whitby, died in ao 1608, vel
circa," and his wife, "Jane, daughter of ... Lambe of Newcastle upon
Tine."

Apparently, the informant has gone wrong in stating that Ruth Bushell
was married to a Boyse in Virginia; there are good reasons for
thinking that this person is actually Ruth (Bushell) Mitchelson of
Massachusetts.

First, I note two extracted records from the IGI:

"Saint Nicholas Parish Reg and Nonconf," Newcastle upon Tyne,
Northumberland.

14 Oct. 1588, Leonard Bushell to Jane Lambe

[I give the name of the church as it is rendered in the IGI.
"Nonconf" is presumably short for "Nonconformist," indicating that
Leonard and Jane may have been Puritans.]

Whitby, Yorkshire.

22 May 1608, baptism of Ruthe Bushell, daughter of Leonard.

This record is compatible with the Visitation pedigree, which states
that Leonard died in the year 1608, "or thereabouts" [vel circa], but
disagrees slightly with Ruth's age of 23 in 1635. (These sorts of
mistakes happen in record keeping from time to time.)

Buttercrambe in the East Riding, where Shepard, Touteville, Fugill,
and Bushell were servants of the Darley family, is about forty (?)
miles distant from Whitby in the North Riding. However, Ruth
Bushell's brother, the Puritan minister Rev. Daniel Bushell, had
served at Withernsea and Aughton, considerably closer to Buttercrambe.
See Ronald A. Marchant, _The Puritans and the Church Courts in the
Diocese of York, 1560-1642_ (London, 1960), p. 237:

"BUSHELL, Daniel.
Son of Leonard, of Whitby. Pensioner King's (Cantab.) 1620. B.A.
1624. [Ordained deacon] 1624, [ordained priest] 1628 (York diocese).
[Vicar of] Middleton-in-Cleveland 1627-32. [Vicar of] Hollym with
Withernsea 1632-4. [Vicar of] Aughton, succeeded W. Alder; first
reference March 1636 ..., last reference April 1644 ... [Vicar of]
Egglescliffe 1645-61, and member of classis at Stockton-on-Tees.
[Rector of] Normanby 1661-71 (ob.), subscribed 12 Aug., 1662.
Presented to Withernsea by Sir John Hotham ...

Other children of Leonard and Jane (Lambe) Bushell shown in the
Visitation pedigree were "Leonard Bushell, of Limehouse in co.
Middlesex," and "Henry Bushell, of Limehouse in co. Middlesex." So
Ruth Bushell of Whitby would have had ties in the London area; this
might explain her "certificate" from ministers in Shoreditch and
Stepney, Middlesex.

The following webpage apparently gives a bit of the ancestry of
Leonard Bushell: http://www.brian.stormhosts.co.uk/bulmer/pafg45.htm
. See also the ever-venerable Ancestral File."^[11]

EEIC, 1650-1654

"A small ship or frigate being wanted to send to the Coast in December, the Brazil frigate, burden 270 tons, Anthony Tutchin master, and the Castle frigate, burden 240 tons, Mr. Wall master, are tendered. One of the owners of the former, Mr. Bushell, and the master of the latter are called in and hear the Company's conditions for freighted ships read. Bushell agrees to his frigate serving on these conditions, but desires some better allowance for freight ; it is therefore decided that, if his vessel is
found suitable, she shall be freighted at 20/. per ton for pepper and 24/. per ton for all other goods, that she shall leave Gravesend on the 1st December, go direct to Guinea and take in what gold shall be ready for her, stay there a month or six weeks, and then proceed to the Coast and be there employed as the factors shall direct, but be dispeeded thence by the last day of January, 1652. The said frigate is to be double- sheathed, and to carry 20 men to every 100 tons, and certain Committees are requested to examine and report on her"^[12]

EEIC, 1655-1659

"Relating how on the 25th April, 1657, the ship Society, being about 200 leagues to the south of the Cape of Good Hope homeward-bound from Masulipatam, was attacked by the Orange, a Dutch vessel of about 1,400 tons coming from Amsterdam and bound for Batavia, commanded by Rikelof with 400 men aboard. The attack was quite unprovoked and very fierce and the English ship was soon so disabled that her sails had to be lowered and she was forced to await the approach of her opponent. Her captain and some of her men were then ordered aboard the Dutch vessel, and on the captain asking the reason of such unwarrantable usage, he was told that at sea it is the custom for the weakest to submit to the strongest. The English ship was then searched for Portuguese goods, but none being found, some books of accounts and letters directed to men in Holland were taken, and the English commanded to return to their ship. The men declared that rather than venture in such a sea they would prefer to lose their wages and be carried captives to Batavia, but the Dutch threatening to throw them overboard, they were forced to go. Four men were washed overboard by the heavy seas but eventually rescued by ropes. Signed by Hugh Squier and attested by Leonard Bushell, commander of the Society, on the 6th January, 1658, before the Right Worshipful Charles Cock, Esq., Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, in the presence of Edmund Arnold, examiner of the said Court"^[13]

Walter Travers

"[January 13-13, 1658] The following men to be disposed of as the President shall see cause: John Berrisford, Robert Carleton, Ephraim Widdrington, John Gray, Walter Travers, Thomas Atkins, and John Mould. To be writers : Thomas Rolt, John Harrington, Matthew Gray, Robert Santill, Richard Bladwell, Richard Wild, and Philip Gifford."^[14]

"[At Calha Velha (CHECK)]...Walter Travers, John Harrington, and Alexander Grigsby. At Mokha: Anthony Smith. In Persia: Nicholas Buckeridge (Agent), Stephen Flower, and Edward Swinglehurst..."^[15]

Sir William Wilde, recorder of London

"1660, May 16-26. William Wilde, recorder of London, a commissioner as above [to the King at Breda]"^[16]

Possible primary sources

TNA

PROB 11/194 Rivers 111-157 Will of Samuel Wilde, Draper of Saint Mary Abchurch, City of London 04 December 1645
PROB 11/306 May 158-210 Will of Leonard Bushell, Mariner of Limehouse, Middlesex 10 December 1661
PROB 11/321 Mico 92-138 Will of William Wilde, Gentleman of Saint Michael Queenhithe, City of London 14 June 1666

1. ↑ Captain Leonard Bushell was commander of the Society and a resident of Limehouse, Middlesex. He died in 1661 (BL, East India Company Letter Book: E/3/85 f 53v 14 Apr 1658; PROB 11/306 May 158-210 Will of Leonard Bushell, Mariner of Limehouse, Middlesex 10 December 1661)
2. ↑ John Lambton, warehouseman at the Surat factory
3. ↑ 26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley
4. ↑ 'Bushell of Whitby' in J.W. Clay (ed.), Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, vol. 3 (Exeter, 1917), pp. 508
5. ↑ Captain Leonard Bushell, commander of the Society. His will was proved in late 1661 (PROB 11/306 May 158-210 Will of Leonard Bushell, Mariner of Limehouse, Middlesex 10 December 1661)
6. ↑ Walter Travers was XXXXX
7. ↑ Calle Velha, near XXXX
8. ↑ Mathew Gray was XXXX
9. ↑ John Lambton was XXXX
10. ↑ 'Bushell of Whitby' in J.W. Clay (ed.), Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, vol. 3 (Exeter, 1917), pp. 508-510
11. ↑ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2003-01/1042002820, viewed 30/01/12
12. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, September 20, 1650' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 10), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 63
13. ↑ '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 Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), pp. 216-317
14. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock', January 13-13, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 51), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 212
15. ↑ EFI 61-64, p. 27
16. ↑ W.A. Shaw (ed.), Knights of England, vol. 2 (London, 1906), p. 225