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'''26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley'''

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 54-55

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==Abstract & context==

Thomas Thomlins (alias Tomlins) (b. ?, m.1. 1641, m.2 ?, m.3 (post 1654), d. 1677) wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 26th, 1663.

He wrote the letter from St. Leonards, Bromley, in Kent.  The parish of St. Leonards Bromley was also the residence Thomas Tomlins gave when he wrote his will in 1676.<ref>PROB 11/354 Hale 44-95 Will of Thomas Tomlins of Saint Leonards Bromley, Middlesex 01 May 1677.  Thomas Tomlins' eponymous son died just a few years later, murdered, allegedly, by his coachman; he also gave St. Leonards Bromley as his residence in his will (Robert Edmond Chester Waters, ''Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield'' (London, 1877), p. 49; PROB 11/385 Lloyd 136-181 Will of Thomas Tomlins, Merchant of Saint Leonard Bromley, Middlesex 02 December 1686</ref>  A post-mortem inventory has survived for the house in St Leonard Bromley.<ref>[[MRP: PROB 4/3008 Tomlins, Thomas esq., of St. Leonards, Bromley, Midd. 1678 3 Sept. (1677)|PROB 4/3008 Tomlins, Thomas esq., of St. Leonards, Bromley, Midd. 1678 3 Sept. (1677)]]</ref>

A Justice of the Peace for Middlesex, he appears as "Justice Tomlins" in the 1666 hearth taxes for Bromley with a house assessed at thirteen hearths.<ref>'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Bromley ', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118823 Date accessed: 25 January 2012</ref>

In his letter Tomlins solicited Sir George Oxenden's favour on behalf of his cousin Gervaise Maplesden, who was travelling to Surat on the ''Loyal Merchant'', as a mate in the crew of Captain Millett.  According to Tomlins, Gervaise Maplesden was down in his fortunes, and was seeking now to rebuild them.  He was the son of the respected Captain Maplesden, who had been active in the Turkey trade.

Just one day earlier, Captain Nicholas Hurlestone had also written to Sir George seeking favour for Maplesden, who he described as the son-in-law of Mr. Goodlad.<ref>[[MRP: 25th March 1663, Letter from Nicholas Hurlestone to Sir GO, Redriss|25th March 1663, Letter from Nicholas Hurlestone to Sir GO, Redriss]]</ref>

Thomas Tomlins married three times, and his cousinship with Gervaise Maplesden was through his first wife from the Goodlad family of mariners.  His deceased wife's aunt, also a Goodlad, was the widow of Captain Gervaise Maplesden and the mother of Gervaise Maplesden junior. Though Tomlins did not name his first and second deceased wives in his will, Thomas Tomlins did leave a bequest for "my brother Richard Goodlad, Woollen Draper," who was the son of Captain William Goodlad, of Leigh, Essex.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/46/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), p. 47]; PROB 11/399 Dyke 45-90 Will of Richard Goodlad, Merchant Tailor of Saint Dionis Backchurch, City of London 23 June 1690; PROB 4/11993 Goodlad, Richard, Mr., of St. Dionis Backchurch, London 1690 7 Feb. Undated; [http://books.google.co.uk/ebooks/reader?id=P2suAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA364 Philip Benton, The history of Rochford hundred (Rochford, 1867), p. 364]</ref>  Tomlins first wife was Anne Goodlad, who he wed on September 30th, 1641; he giving his residence as Stepney, and she recording her residence as Leigh, Essex, being the daughter of the prominent deceased mariner William Goodlad.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/marriageregister02step#page/n49/mode/2up Thomas Colyer-Fergusson (ed.), The marriage registers of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, vol. 2, 1640-1696 (?London, 1699), p. 19]; William Goodlad was "Chief Commander of the Greenland Fleet' for twenty years, who was also Master of the Trinity House, and who died in 1639 and was buried in Leigh" (PROB 11/182 Coventry 1-53 Will of William Goodlad, Mariner of Leigh, Essex 13 March 1640)</ref>

Tomlins also solicited on behalf of a London linen draper, William Wild, who separately had written to Sir George Oxenden about the estate of Captain Leonard Bushell (b. ?, d. ?1661).  Wild was the executor of the estate of the Captain, who was the former commander of the ''Society'' and who had been resident in Limehouse.<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]]; PROB 11/306 May 158-210 Will of Leonard Bushell, Mariner of Limehouse, Middlesex 10 December 1661</ref>

Tomlins appended to his letter a short set of accounts, dated January 9th, 1661/62, which included mention of [Nathaniell] Wyches' share of the ''London''.  It is possible that Tomlins had a trading relationship with Wyche, since there is a record of a posthumous transfer of English East India Company stock from Wyche to Tomlins in May 1661.<ref>"[1661] 22 May Nathaniel Wyche to Thomas Tomlins, 1,000/."[[FootNote('Transfers of stock, 1660-3: New General Stock', [http://www.archive.org/stream/courtminutesetc00east#page/370/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1661-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 371]</ref>

Tomlins certainly had a relationship through marriage with Nathaniel Wyche, since both men had married daughters of the Rotterdam based English merchant William Cranmer.  Susanna Cranmer, Tomlins' third wife, was the eldest of William Cranmer's six children, whereas Nathaniel Wyche's wife, Anne Cranmer, who he married in 1657, was the youngest. Wyche was appointed President of the English East Company in Surat on April 17th, 1658, but died at Surat on May 17th, 1659.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/50/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), pp. 51-52]</ref>

Thomas Tomlins' family origins remain unclear.  In his will, written in 1677, he mentioned two sisters: Elizabeth, wife of Gamaliel Palmer, and an unnamed second sister, wife of John Webb.  He also mentioned cousins Elizabeth and Thomas Hamond, and an Aunt Eleanor Church of Hereford.<ref>PROB 11/354 Hale 44-95 Will of Thomas Tomlins of Saint Leonards Bromley, Middlesex 01 May 1677; for a published summary of the will see [http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/46/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), p. 47]</ref>

The first sister, Elizabeth, appears to have been a widow, who married a widowed mariner, Gamaliel Palmer, in November 1662.  Both gave their place of residence as Stepney, with Elizabeth aged about forty-six and Gamaliel about fifty.<ref>G.J. Armytage (ed.), ''Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1668'' (London, 1892), p. 55</ref>

Given Thomas Tomlins' first marriage to a mariner's daughter, and the marriage of his widowed sister to a mariner, together with Tomlins' attachment to Stepney, it is possible that he himself was from a mariner's family, though there is no direct primary evidence to support this suggestion.  Caution is advised in assessing the social implications of such a background.  Thomas Tomlins he laid claim to a coat of arms, which he had displayed in the windows of the new chapel in Poplar, when it was completed in 1654.<ref>Daniel Lysons, 'Stepney', The Environs of London: volume 3: County of Middlesex (1795), pp. 418-488. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45447 Date accessed: 16 January 2012</ref>  Similarly, his first wife's father, Captain William Goodlad, laid claim to armigerous status.

There is only limited information about Thomas Tomlins' commercial activities.  Between January 1640 and ?early 1644 Tomlins was purser of the ''Crispiana'', making ?two, possiby three, return voyages to India.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  In December 1644 a Court of Committees of the English East India Company chose "Thomas Tomblings, who came home purser in the ''Crispiana'' as purser for the ''Eagle''.<ref>'A Court of Committees, December 20, 1644' (Court Book, vol. xix, p. 244 in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, ''A calendar of the court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649'' (Oxford, 1912), pp. 58-59</ref>

By the 1650s he was a merchant of some apparent substance, acting as a major donor to the building of the new chapel at Poplar, along with Henry Johnson, and Maurice Thompson, and subscribing XXXX to the ''Williams Adventure''.

Since Tomlins was never a factor, which was the typical route to accumulate capital, it is likely that Tomlins collaborated with his captains and with factors in the East Indies to trade privately. The English East India Company was concerned enough in January 1661/62 to instruct counsel to draw up a bill of complaint against Thomas Tomlins, the captain and the purser of the ''East India Merchant'', wishing to discover who supplied a large quantity of calicoes and who were the real owners.  They had earlier tried arbitration, but without satisfaction.<ref>'A Court of Committees, January 29, 1662', (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 454). [http://www.archive.org/stream/courtminutesetc00east#page/176/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 177]</ref>

Jarvis Cartwright, the purser, answered the bill of complaint in Chancery.  His answer, dated February 21st, 1661/62, stated that Thomas Tomlins was one of the part-owners of the ''East India Merchant''.<ref>[[MRP: C10/99/64 f. 1|C10/99/64 f. 1]]</ref>  In his further answer to the same bill of complaint, he alleged that Thomas Tomlins ordered the landing at Plymouth of "eight pcells containing foure hundred single peeces of ??pculles w:ch were laden at forte Sainte George by Thomas Chamber."  The suppliers were alleged to be XXXX<ref>[[MRP: C10/99/68 f. 1|C10/99/68 f. 1]]</ref>

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==Suggested links==

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: 20th March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Tomlins to Sir GO, London|20th March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Tomlins to Sir GO, London]]
See [[MRP: 25th March 1663, Letter from Nicholas Hurlestone to Sir GO, Redriss|25th March 1663, Letter from Nicholas Hurlestone to Sir GO, Redriss]]
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==To do==

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==Transcription==

'''This transcription has been completed, but needs to be checked'''

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 54-55.

[f.54]

Hono:ble S:r

I have binn very much solicited by y:e mother (& my first wives Aunt) of y:e bearer M:r ?Garuco Maplesdon,<ref>Thomas Tomlins described Jarvis (alias Jervis) Maplesden as his cousin, the son of his first deceased wife's aunt (at the time of writing Tomlins was onto his third wife, Susanna Cranmer, widow of Edward Kenrick, by whom he had acquired seven step-children).  It was this aunt, Maplesden's mother, the widow of Captain Maplesden, who had asked Tomlins to put in a good word for her son.  Captain Nicholas Hurlestone wrote on the same day to Sir George Oxenden and also mentioned Jarvis Maplesden.  He described him as a "man of pts" and mentioned Jarvis' mother's desire that her son serve the Company in India.  Hurlestone described Maplesden's father-in-law as Mr. Goodlad.  This Mr. Goodlad may have been the mariner Nathaniel Goodlad, who, like Captain Nicholas Hurlestone, was of Rotherhithe, Surrey, and with whom Hurlestone had been involved in a property transaction in 1649.  If so, then Maplesden's mother was a daughter of Nathaniel Goodlad.  Alternatively Mr. Goodlad may have been a relative of Nathaniel Goodlad.  Hurlestone's recommendation was more cautious than Tomlins', noting that Maplesden had commanded a good ship, but that he had been "something Extravagant" and that he appeared to have run from his debts.  He recommended one trial voyage.  ([[MRP: 25th March 1663, Letter from Nicholas Hurlestone to Sir GO, Redriss|25th March 1663, Letter from Nicholas Hurlestone to Sir GO, Redriss]]; PROB 11/314 Bruce 49-96 Will of Jarvis Maplesden, Mariner of Rotherhithe, Surrey 13 August 1664); PROB 11/279 Wootton 363-416 Will of Nathaniell Goodlad of Rotherhithe, Surrey 22 July 1658; [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-acc928&cid=1-65#1-65 London Metropolitan Archives: Wood Family: THE MANOR OF LITTLETON (Gilbert Lambell's Title Deeds)  ACC/0928/001  1419 - 1652: Assignment of Trusteeship. Hurlestone and Mosse to 3. to the use of 2. ACC/0928/001/69 1649]</ref> as well as by him selfe, who gooth one of Cap:t Milletts<ref>Captain Nicholas Millett, commander of the ''Loyal Merchant''</ref> mates in y:e ''Loyall Merch:t'' to intreate yo:r favour on his behalfe, & I doe make it my humble request if there should bee any occasion to exchange á Masters mate, y:t hath lived any time in y:e Country & desires to come home.  That then my Coz. Maplesden may stay in his place his abilities for a Mate have beene tryed, & I suppose Cap:t Millett will satisfie you well enough touching his experience in y:e knowledge of Navigation.  He had á good fortune left him 600:ll by his ffather but Crosses in y:e World hath eaten it out, & is forced to beetake himselfe to begin to sett up ágaine I beg yo:r favour towards him His father was y:e gallant, honest, upright, Cap:t Maplesdon,<ref>Jarvis Maplesden's father may have been Edward Maplesden.  A captain of that name appears in Trinity House records in the late 1620s, and also in Levant Company records.  However, it is not clear whether the PRC will proved in 1633 is his father's (PROB 11/163 Russell 1-57 Will of Edward Maplesden, Mariner of Rotherhithe, Surrey 31 May 1633)</ref> y:t used the Turkie trade á bout 30: yeares since.  Generally well knowne & beloved of y:e best Merch:ts of England please to doo him w:t kindenesse you can w:ch I shall take as done unto myselfe

[f. 55]

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,<ref>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)</ref> to desire you on his behalfe to call M:r Walter  [XXXX] [?Taves?}[?Taudres] ffactor of [[MRP: Carwar| 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,<ref>John Lambton, warehouseman at the Surat factory</ref> please to make Enquiry into y:e Busienesse, & w:t moneyes are in his hands to send it y:e Executor by first opportunity;  And if you will give me incouradgem:t to send a small adventure for one of my daughters, to bee retourned in short ends, please to advise mee by y:e first , & you will further oblidge mee to begg yo:r pardon & to subscribe my selfe

Yo: most affectionate ffreind
And Serv:t
Thomas Thomlins

St Leonards Brumly y:e 26:th March 1663

[Below the date and signature is a three column tabular set of Debit and Credits]

Swally Marine Jan:y 9:th 1661/2:
1660/1	M:r Tho: Thomlins (sic)
D:r M:a Pice	P Contra
C:r M:a Pice:a
Ffeb: y 25	To Cust:a of y:e p Contra being y:e halfe of foure duo (sic) 2:p Cont: is M:a


414:23	Ffeb:y 23: By Gold for peeces 964:ll 3s: 0d

Weatt 24: M:a peece is M:a

20739:-:
P Mathew Andrewes
Aprill 11: 	To M:r Wychees share p :d y:e ''?London'' as appeares by his note according to order at her departure for England

1949:09
1661:	To P:r Wyches share p:d Tulcidas in p:t of his debt

2593:-:
X:ber 29:	To Ambergrease for To:s 591/4: at 211:s [I think this is correct] 9:p told is rup:s (sic) 474:& is Mamodees

1066:26
Jan:ry 6:	To sead Pearles at soul:ll prises Viz:t

Cochin oz:s 7971/2 at 9:49: tabar p oz is z:s 1527:4:la

Cochin oz:s 43: at 3/1/2 p oz is zos 143:9

[the numbers above are then totalled as follows]
25 940 ½ (sic) oz:s at sow:ll prises cost 1679:0

Is rupees 12531/4 & is mamode:s 2919:26
149:-	To Dymonds: 210: Stones p:z catt:s 173 ½
At 14: rup:s p catt:d is rup:s 2429:-:
[X?]	To Dymonds: 29: Stones p:z a
Catt:s 10: at 10:rup:s p catt:d is rup:s 100:-

Stones: 231:p:e cat:s 1931/2 is ru:s 2529:-

[I think next number is mamodee equivalent] 5690:-9:
To taffetyes (sic) for 100: pr:s at 63LM:a p pre is 6300:-:
To charges of parking (sic) mesurdage (?) Etc:a M:a 4:14
[GRAND TOTAL] M:a 20739:-:

T: [inverted triangle]: T: The prementiondd goods are all m:ked as p marg:t y:e Amber, & Sead pearles is in á Scinda Srcotore (sic) y:e Tafseties (sic) made up in á Bale & y:e Dyamonds in á small Ivory Box w:th 4: Cornelian Rings sent home p y:e Eagle
M:r Tho: Thomlins
D:r M:a Pice	P Contra
C:r M:a Pice:a
To A Scinda Screetore

M:a 50:-:	Ffeb:ry 19: By a Bearer [?] hatt rat:d worth

100:-:
To Mare [?] for 3:S:r: at 9:rup:s p sear is rup:s 24: and -:-

M:a 54:-:	By Ballance to even y:s Acco:t

4:-:
M:a 104:-:	M:a 104:-:
M.A.

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==Notes==
===Thomas Thomlins, Richard Blome===

"Nobility and Gentry, Which are, or lately were, related unto the COUNTY of MIDDLESEX And CITY of LONDON: With their Seats and Tules by which they are, or have been, known.

Thomas Thomlins of Bromley Esq."<ref>[http://dl.tufts.edu/view_text.jsp?urn=tufts:central:dca:UA069:UA069.005.DO.00057&chapter=s54 Richard Blome, Britannia: or a Geographical description of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the Isles and Territories thereto belonging (London, 1687), p. 404]</ref>
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===Thomas Tomlins, Justice of the Peace, Bromley by Bow===

"Edward Kenrick's widow Susanna was only 33 years old when her husband died in 1654, and being amply provided for soon married again in spite of her seven children. Her second husband, Thomas Tomlins,  was a rich merchant of London, who resided at Bromley-by-Bow, and was a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex.  Susanna was his third wife, and he had two daughters by a former marriage (These two daughters were : 1. Elizabeth Tomlins, who married John Lewyn, the widower of Mary
Kemick ; and 2. Anne Tomlins, who married, after her father's death, Griffith Vaughan B.D., and died before 1686).  He had issue by his third marriage a son and a daughter, who were both under age at the time of his death.  He was buried at Bromley, 14th April 1677."<ref>Robert Edmond Chester- Waters, ''Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood bishop of Lichfield. Two chapters from the unpubl. Memoirs of the Chesters of Chicheley'' (XXX, 1877), pp. 46-47</ref>

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===Thomas Tomlins will, written July 4, 1674===

"To my son Thomas Tomlins, £10,000 at 21, all my books and military arms, my seal ring and my best table diamond ring. To my daughter Elizabeth Tomlins, £2400, to be paid to her within six months after my death, but I hereby strictly charge and enjoin her never to intermarry with John Lewin, of London, merchant, who, without my knowledge and contrary to my will and inclination, hath endeavoured to steal my said daughter from me. Also to my said daughter, the silver basin which her grandfather gave at her baptizing, and also one Hose Botkin Jewel of Diamonds. To my daughter Anne Tomlins, £2100, to be paid within six months after my decease and the peece of plate given at her baptism by Dr. Wilson deceased, also a Rose Bodkin Jewell of Diamonds after my wife's death. To my daughter Sarah Tomlins, £2400 at 21 or marriage, and sundry jewels and plate. To my dear and loving wife Susanna Tomlins, £5000 and the use of all my goods and household stuff for life and sundry jewels, &c. If my said son Thomas die before 21 his portion to be equally divided among my said three daughters.

To Rebecca and Dorothy Kenrick and to John and Matthew Kenrick, £50 each. To my wife's 2 married daughters, Mrs. Susanna Peake and Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, £50 each. To my sister Elizabeth Palmer, £20; and to her husband Gamaliel Palmer, £5. To my cousin Elizabeth Hamond, £20 ; and the same to her brother Thomas Hamond. To Sir John Cloberry and his lady, £12 each for mourning. To my brother John Webb and my sister his wife, £10 each. To my son-in-law William Williams, £20 for a ring. To my brother Thomas Evans and Mary his wife, £10 each for mourning ; and to my brother William Cranmer, £20. To my aunt Eleanor Church in Hereford, £5 and an annuity of £6 for life. To the poor of Poplar in Middlesex, £25 ; and to the poor of St. Leonard's, Bromley, £25. To my brother Richard Goodlad. Woollen Draper, £10. To the children of my sister Young lately deceased, £10 each. To each servant, £3. To Justinian and Mary Lewen, two motherless children of my daughter-in-law Mary Lewen deceased, £50 each at 21 or marriage. The residue of my estate to my said children, Thomas. Elizabeth, Anne, and Sarah Tomlins, in equal shares. My wife Susanna to be my Executrix. My son in-law Major William Williams and my brother-in-law Mr. William Cranmer to be verseers (sic) of my Will.

Will confirmed by testator, 6 April 1077.

Will proved in C.P.C. by widow, 1 May 1077. [55 Hale.]" (p. 47)<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/46/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), p. 47]</ref>
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===Susanna Tomlins will, written September 1679===

"Susanna Tomlins survived her second husband nearly five years, and was buried in the same vault with him at Bromley, 5th Jan. 1681-2. (217)

Susanna Tomlins, of St. Leonard's, Bromley, Middlesex, Widow, Executrix of my former husband Edward Kenricke, late of London, deceased, and also relict and Executrix of my late husband Thomas Tomlins, late of Bromley aforesaid, Esq., deceased. Will dated Sept. 1679.

Whereas by Indenture dated 3 Sept. 1679 and made between me of the one part. Sir John Clobery of Winchester Kt., William Williams, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, William Cranmer of London, merchant, and John Kenrick of London, merchant, of the other part, I agreed that my Executors should pay £1200 within 6 mouths after my decease to the Trustees thereof for the purposes therein mentioned, I now direct £1200 to be so paid.

To my son Thomas Tomlins when he is 21, £1500, also his late father's picture set with diamonds, my gold watch, my best diamond ring with seven diamonds, sundry plate, all my books and his father's coat of arms ; but if he die before 21 years of age the same are to go to my daughter Sarah Tomlins his sister. To my said daughter Sarah. £800, sundry jewels, furniture, &c. ; but if she die unmarried or under age then the same are to go to my said son Thomas. My said two Children are not to interfere in any agreements or proceedings between me and my children by my former husband Edward Kenrick or the children of my last husband Thomas Tomlins by his former wives; if both my said children Thomas and Sarah Tomlins die unmarried or before 21, then their said legacies are to go to my children John Kenricke, Matthew Kenricke, Elizabeth Williams, now wife of William Williams Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, Rebecca Kenricke and Dorothy Kenricke spinsters, and be divided among them equally. To my daughter-in-law Elizabeth Tomlins, daughter of my said last husband Thomas Tomlins and now wife of John Lewyn of London Esq., sundry plate engraved with her father's and my arms. To my daughter-in-law Anne Tomlins daughter of my said late husband Thomas Tomlins, my biggest silver bason and ewer. To my four daughters which I had by my said former husband Edward Kenricke, viz. Susanna, now wife of Benjamin Peake of London Gent.; Elizabeth, now wife of the aforesaid William Williams ; Rebecca Kenricke, and Dorothy Kenricke, all the plate and linen which belonged to my said former husband. To my said daughter Rebecca Kenricke, £50. To the poor of St. Leonard's, Bromley, £15. To my grandchildren, viz. Susanna, William, Elizabeth, Robert, John, Edward, and Rebecca Peake; Susanna, Selina, and John Williams; and Justinian and Mary Lewyn, each, £20 at 21. To my son John Kenrick, a diamond ring. To my son Matthew Kenrick, a diamond ring and £100. To my brother William Cranmer, a diamond ring, and I appoint him and my son John Kenrick to be my Executors. The residue of my estate to my said children Thomas and Sarah Tomlins in equal shares.

Codicil, dated 10 Aug. 1681, refers to the payment of £650 to said William Cranmer and John Kenrick as Trustees of an indenture dated 15 Aug. 1681.

Will and Codicil proved in C.P.C. on 8 Feb. 1681-2 by William Cranmer, John Kenrick the other Executor renouncing. [25 Cottle.]" (pp. 47-48)"<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/46/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), pp. 47-48]</ref>

"Susanna had issue by her second marriage two children, Sarah and Thomas.

I. Sarah Tomlins married about 1684 Sir Robert Jenkinson, the second Bart., of Walcot in Oxfordshire, who sat in ten Parliaments as M.P. for Oxfordshire, (232)
and died 30th Jan. 1709-10. (233) Sarah inherited a considerable fortune on the death of her brother Thomas in 1686, and died 8th Aug. 1709, six months before her
husband. (233)..."<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/48/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), p. 48]</ref>

"II. Thomas Tomlins was still under age when his mother died, and was bred to his father's business of a merchant ; but he did not long survive his majority, for he was murdered by his own coachman, who robbed him and threw him into a ditch. (221) He died unmarried, and was buried at Bromley 29th Nov. 1686.(217) ..."<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/48/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), p. 49]</ref>
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===Thomas Tomlins junior will, written August 9th 1686===

"Thomas Tomlins of St. Leonard's, Bromley, Middlesex, Merchant. Will dated 9 Aug. 1686.

To be buried in the Parish Church of St. Leonard's, Bromley, hi the Vault where my father Thomas Tomlins Esq. lies buried.

£1000 to be paid to the trustees of a certain Indenture, dated 5 Aug. 1686, and made between myself of the one part, and Sir Robert Jenkinson of Walcot, Oxon, Bart., William Cranmer of St. Leonard's, Bromley, Esq., and John Kenrick of London, merchant, of the other part, for the purposes declared in the said Indenture, £1000 to be paid to the trustees of another Indenture, of the same date and made between the same parties, for the trust declared therein.

To my sister Dame Sarah Jenkinson, now wife of the said Sir Robert Jenkinson, £3000. To my sister Mrs. Elizabeth Lewyn, £200. To my sister Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, £200. To my sister Mrs. Rebecca Moore, £200. To my sister Mrs. Dorothy Kenrick, spinster, £200. To my brother John Kenrick of London, merchant, £200 ; and to his now wife Mrs. Sarah Kenrick, £100. To my brother Matthew Kenrick, merchant at Oporto in Portugal, £200. To my uncle William Cranmer of St. Leonard's, Bromley, Esq., £1000. To my uncle Gamaliel Palmer, £200 ; and the same to my aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer, his wife. To my cousin Mrs. Elizabeth Shattock, £100. To my cousin Mrs. Hester Perkinson, £100. To my cousin Mrs. Sarah Bone alias Peake. £20. To my cousin Richard Young, £200. To my cousin Thomas Haniond, £20. To my cousin Selena Palmer als. Hill, £20. To my brother-in-law Sir Robert Jenkinson Bart., husband of my sister Dame Sarah Jenkinson, all my books, a diamond ring, and £200 ; and to my said sister Dame Sarah his wife, sundry plate, pictures, and jewels. To Dame Mary Jenkinson, mother of the said Sir Robert, £10. To Sir John Cloberry Kt., and Dame Anne his wife, £10 each. To Sir Charles Holt Bart., and Dame Anne his wife, £10 each. To my cousin William Bromley Esq., £10. To my cousin Susanna Cloberry, £10. To my cousin Mary Cloberry, £10. To my aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, widow, £10. To my aunt Mrs. Mary Eyans, widow, £10. To my brother John Lewyn Esq., £10. To my brother Griffith Vaughan Clerk, £10. To my brother William Williams, £10. To my brother Mr. John Moore, £10. To my cousin the Hon:ble William Maynard Esq. and Dame Susanna his wife, £50 each; and to each of their children, £5 for mourning. All legatees to release their claims against the Estates of my late father and mother Thomas Tomlins Esq. and Susanna his wife, both deceased; and of Edward Kenrick. late of London, merchant, deceased, the former husband of my said late mother Susaima Tomlins. To the poor of St. Leonard's, Bromley, £50. My uncle William Cranmer Esq. and Sir Robert Jenkinson Bart, to be my Executors and residuary legatees.

Will proved 2 Dec. 1686 in C.P.C. [172 Lloyd.]"<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/48/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), p. 49]</ref>
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===John Lewyn, widower, m. Elizabeth Tomlins, dau. of Thomas Tomlins, 1677===

"John Lewyn had issue by Mary Kenrick two children, JUSTINIAN and Mary, who were both very young when their mother died, for their father was in July 1676 paying his addresses to Elizabeth Tomlins, the daughter of his late wife's stepfather Thomas Tomlins of Bromley. This match was highly distasteful to Elizabeth's father, who strictly enjoined his daughter by his Will ' never to intermarry with Lewyn, who, without my knowledge and contrary to my will and inclination, hath endeavoured to steal my daughter from me.' This injunction was coupled with the bequest of a considerable fortune ; but love was stronger than filial gratitude, and Elizabeth married Lewyn six weeks after her father's death. Her marriage license is dated 23d May 1677.  Lewyn had no issue by his second wife, and resided at Fulham, where he died intestate in 1691, for letters of administration were granted to his widow Elizabeth on 20th October in that year. His widow and her two stepchildren are mentioned in Sir William Cranmer's Will in 1697."<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalmem00inwate#page/44/mode/2up Robert Edmond Chester Waters, Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Thomas Wood, Bishop of Lichfield (London, 1877), pp. 45-46]</ref>
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===Williams Adventure===

Thomas Tomlins was a subscriber to the ''Williams Adventure'', subscribing at least 1,000 to the joint stock.<ref>'List of bonds sealed and of dividends delivered, 1658 to 1659' (''Home Miscellaneous'', vol. xxvi, pp. 1-15), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00east#page/206/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), fn. 2, pp. 206-207]</ref>
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===EEIC, 1640-1643===

"[January 15, 1640] The following officers are appointed: Thomas Thomblins, as purser of the ''Crispian'', with Edward Kinnersly as mate: John Jefferies as purser of the ''Jonas'', with William Garth as his mate; George Byle, servant to Mr. Cramporne, of Plymouth, as purser of the ''Swan'', with Bell Porter as his mate; Thomas Fitch as steward of the ''Crispian'', with Henry Bassano, as his mate; Thomas Taylor as steward of the ''Jonas'', with John Hodgeson as his mate; and John Bourne as steward's mate in the ''Swan''.<ref>'A Court of Committes, January 15, 1640' (''Court Book'', vol. xvii, p. 111), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16401643sainuoft#page/4/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1640-1643 (Oxford, 1909), p. 4]</ref>

"[December 10, 1641] Thomas Thomblins chosen Purser for the ''Crispian'', with Luke Pynn as his mate, and Thomas Fitch as steward."<ref>'A Court of Committes with the Mixt Committees, December 10, 1641' (''Court Book'', vol. xviii, p. 95), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16401643sainuoft#page/216/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1640-1643 (Oxford, 1909), p. 217]</ref>

"[December 15, 1643] Thomas Thomblyns purser in the ''Crispiana'', and Felix Wombwell, master's mate, to receive all money due to them on payment of 20/. each for private trade."<ref>'A Court of Committes with the Mixed Committees, December 15, 1643' (''Court Book'', vol. xix, p. 93), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarof16401643sainuoft#page/368/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1640-1643 (Oxford, 1909), pp. 369-370]</ref>
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===EEIC, 1644-1649===


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===EEIC, 1650-1654===

"[August 20, 1652] Thomas Tomblings is accepted as security for Richard Swinglehurst, Christopher Willoughby for Samuel Sambrooke, Richard Swinglehurst for Thomas Tomblings, and Thomas Peaps for Percival Aungeir, and each officer is ordered to enter with his security into a bond of 1,000/"<ref>'A Court of Committees, August 20, 1652 (''Court Book'') vol. xxiii, p. 149), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/courtcalendar00eastrich#page/184/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1912), p. 185]</ref>
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===EEIC, 1655-1659===

"[May 9, 1655] Richard Seaborne, who has been seven years with Tomblings in the Company's service, is entertained to land and look after the Company's goods at the waterside, with promise of payment according to his deserts ; Tomblings is accepted as his security."<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, May 9, 1655' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiii, p. 418), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), ''A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659'' (Oxford, 1916), p. 22

"[November 28, 1655] John Lovell complaining of short weight in some sugar which came in the East India Merchant, Tomblings is directed to settle with him."<ref>'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, November 28, 1655' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiii, p. 481), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), ''A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659'' (Oxford, 1916), p. 67</ref>

"[January 19, 1656] Of the saltpetre returned in the ''Dove'', fifteen tons is sold to Captain Birkine at 3/. 16s. per cwt., five tons to Thomas Thomblings at 3/. 17s. 6d. per cwt. and the remainder to Captain Ryder and Blackman at 3/. 17s, and 6d. per cwt., all at three six months from the 1st of February next."<ref> 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, January 19, 1656' (''Court Book'',  vol. xxiii, p.  489), in  Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 77</ref>

"[April 25, 1656] The following securities are accepted ; Thomas Tomblings for Walter Gollipher and Edward Swinglehurst, William Buckeridge for Nicholas Buckeridge, and Paul French for Henry Revington ; each security is directed to seal a bond of 500/. penalty."<ref>'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, April 25, 1656' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiii, p. 513), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00east#page/98/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 98]</ref>

"[January 2, 1658] Christopher Willoughby and Thomas Tomblings are accepted as securities for Thomas Chambers, resident at the Coast."<ref>'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, January 2, 1658,(''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 40)  in [XXX Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 207]</ref>

"[January 22, 1658] Captain Curtis promises his best service and requests that on his return he may be employed by them at home, for as Mr. Tomblings is going to resign there may be an opening."<ref>'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, January 22, 1658' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 62), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 220</ref>

"[March 5, 1658] Davidge, Cranmore, Thomblings, and Willoughby are accepted as securities for Nathaniel Wyche."<ref>'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 5, 1658' (Courl Book, vol. xxiv, p. 83),  in [XXX Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 236]</ref>

"On the death of John Symonds, who was employed as keeper of the Blue Warehouse in the frequent absence of Thomlins (who intends to give it up), John Harbert applies for and is given the post, and certain Committees are desired to direct him in taking an inventory of everything remaining in the said warehouse and to give him possession of the same"<ref>'A Court of Committes from the United Joint Stock, March 8, 1659' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiii, p. 659), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 316</ref>

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===EEIC, 1660-1663===

"In March, 1660, the ''Smyrna Merchant'', ''East India Merchant'', and ''Concord'' started for Madras ; while in April three ships - the ''Eagle'', ''Richard and Martha'', and''American'' - departed for Surat, and the ''Castle Frigate'' for Guinea and Bantam (in Java)."<ref>'Introduction', in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. iii-iv</ref>

"[1661] 22 May Nathaniel Wyche to Thomas Tomlins, 1,000/." <ref>'Transfers of stock, 1660-3: New General Stock', [http://www.archive.org/stream/courtminutesetc00east#page/370/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 371]</ref>

"[October 25, 1661] Four arbitrators are named to settle the dispute between the Company and the owners of the ''East India Merchant'' by the last day of November, under a penalty of 6,000/., and certain Committees are desired to attend their meetings and inform them rightly in the business. A warrant is signed for payment of 2,000/. to the owners of the ''East India Merchant'' on delivery of the two chests sent by Traveisa, and certain Committees are requested to try and discover the real owners of the same."<ref>'A Court of Committees, October 25, 1661 (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 417), in [XXXXEthel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 142]</ref>

"[January 29, 1662] Certain Committees are directed to draw up a bill to be exhibited in Chancery against Thomas Thomlings and the captain and purser of the ''East India Merchant'', to discover who supplied their calicoes, and who are the real owners of the same here."<ref>'A Court of Committees, January 29, 1662', (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 454). [http://www.archive.org/stream/courtminutesetc00east#page/176/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 177]</ref>

"[March 21, 1662] John Goodyear is given 10/. for fresh provisions, and Thomas Thomlings is accepted in 1,000/. as his security."<ref>'A Court of Committees, March 21, 1662 (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 473), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/courtminutesetc00east#page/192/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 192]</ref>
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===Chapel at Poplar: Major contributors Maurice Thompson, Thomas Tomlins & Sir Henry Johnson, 1650-54===

"The hamlet of Poplar and Blackwall lies on the south side of the parish, is seven miles in circumference, and contains about 600 houses. The chapel at Poplar was begun before the year 1650, and finished in 1654, when Thomas Walton was appointed chaplain by William Greenhill, vicar of Stepney. The subscription for building it was begun by Gilbert Dethick, Esq. with a benefaction of 100l.; the whole expence was above 2000l. Mr. Maurice Thompson, Mr. Thomas Tomlins, and Sir Henry Johnson, were among the principal contributors. It is a brick structure, consisting of a nave, chancel, and two aisles. At the west end is a small wooden turret. The whole chapel was nearly rebuilt by the East India Company in 1776. On the front of the gallery are the arms of Johnson , and in the windows those of Dethick, Thompson, and Tomlins"<ref>Daniel Lysons, 'Stepney', The Environs of London: volume 3: County of Middlesex (1795), pp. 418-488. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45447 Date accessed: 16 January 2012</ref>
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===Captain Leonard Bushell, the Society attacked by Dutch, 1657===

"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"<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>
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===Marriage of Thomas Tomlyns to Anne Goodlad, 1641===

"1641.  Sept. 30.  Thomas Tomlyns of Stepney & Anne Goodlad the daughter of William Goodlad late of Leigh in Essex Esq. deceased.  L.F.O."<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/marriageregister02step#page/n49/mode/2up Thomas Colyer-Fergusson (ed.), The marriage registers of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, vol. 2, 1640-1696 (?London, 1699), p. 19]</ref>
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===Other Tomlyns (and variant) marriages in Stepney, 1640-1690===

"1642.  May 30.  John Tomlyns of Greenebancke Maryner & Jane Cooke, M."<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/marriageregister02step#page/n63/mode/2up Thomas Colyer-Fergusson (ed.), The marriage registers of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, vol. 2, 1640-1696 (?London, 1699), p. 26]</ref>

"1666/67.  Jan. 8. Henry Cosker of Ratcliff Mariner & Margrett Tomlin. M."
<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/marriageregister02step#page/n261/mode/2up http://www.archive.org/stream/marriageregister02step#page/n63/mode/2up Thomas Colyer-Fergusson (ed.), The marriage registers of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, in the county of Middlesex, vol. 2, 1640-1696 (?London, 1699), p. 125]</ref>
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===Marriage of Gamaliel Palmer and Elizabeth Haman, 1662===

"1662.  Nov. 19 Gamaliel Palmer, of Stepney, Midd., Mariner, Wid:r, ab:t 50, & Elizabeth Haman, of the same, Wid., ab:t 40; alleged by Edw:d Mountford, of S:t Andrew Undershaft, Barber Chirugeon; at S:t Olave's, Old Jury, or S:t Foster's, Lond."<ref>G.J. Armytage (ed.), ''Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1668'' (London, 1892), p. 55</ref>
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===Richard Goodlad, woollen draper, Saint Dionis Backchurch, 1668 - ?1690===

"[MARRIAGE] 1656 June 19 Nathaniell Goodladd, of Lee, & Kathren Whitetopp, of Benfleete, both in Essex"<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationshar00unkngoog#page/n42/mode/2up Joseph Lemuel Chester (ed.), The Reiecester booke of Saynte Denis Backchurch parishe for maryages, christenynges, and buryalles, beginning in the yeare of our Lord God 1538 (London, 1878), p. 32]</ref>
- See also PROB 11/279 Wootton 363-416 Will of Nathaniell Goodlad of Rotherhithe, Surrey 22 July 1658

"[CHRISTENING] 1668 Dec. 17 John, son of Richard Goodlad, woollendraper, & Elizabeth his wife"<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationshar00unkngoog#page/n128/mode/2up Joseph Lemuel Chester (ed.), The Reiecester booke of Saynte Denis Backchurch parishe for maryages, christenynges, and buryalles, beginning in the yeare of our Lord God 1538 (London, 1878), p. 119]</ref>

"[CHRISTENING] 1671 April 21 Mary Goodlad, dau. of Richard Goodlad, woollendraper, & Elizabeth his wife"<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationshar00unkngoog#page/n128/mode/2up Joseph Lemuel Chester (ed.), The Reiecester booke of Saynte Denis Backchurch parishe for maryages, christenynges, and buryalles, beginning in the yeare of our Lord God 1538 (London, 1878), p. 120]</ref>

PROB 11/399 Dyke 45-90 Will of Richard Goodlad, Merchant Tailor of Saint Dionis Backchurch, City of London 23 June 1690

"BURIAL 1719/20  Feb. 2 M:rs Elizabeth Goodlad, widow : carried away to Lee, in co. Essex"<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/publicationshar00unkngoog#page/n290/mode/2up Joseph Lemuel Chester (ed.), The Reiecester booke of Saynte Denis Backchurch parishe for maryages, christenynges, and buryalles, beginning in the yeare of our Lord God 1538 (London, 1878), p. 281]</ref>
- Widow of Richard Goodlad, who died in 1690

"[At Leigh, Essex] Upon another tomb is "Here lieth, expecting the second coming of his Saviour, Captain William Goodlad, Chiefe Commander of the Greenland Fleet 20 yeare, and Master of the Trinity-House in 1683 (isc).  ''ob.'' 13 Jan. 1639, ''aet'' 62.  here lieth interred the body of Mr. Richard Goodlad, Woollen-Draper, of London, the son of Captain William Goodlad and Ann his wife, of Leigh, ''Ob.'' 11 June, 1690, in 61 year of his age, Also of Eliz. Goodlad, his widow, ''Ob.'' 28 Jan. 1712, ''aet'' 81."<ref>[http://books.google.co.uk/ebooks/reader?id=P2suAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA364 Philip Benton, The history of Rochford hundred (Rochford, 1867), p. 364]</ref>

"[1671.] Nov. 10 Richard Goodlad, of S:t Dionis Backchurch, Woollen Draper, alleges marriage of Richard Goodlad, of Wapping, Widower, 36, & Mary Sale, of Ratcliffe, Middlesex, Spinster, 28; at S:t James, Duke's Place."<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/allegationsforma26byuches#page/298/mode/2up Joseph L. Chester, George J. Armytage (ed.), ''Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Bishop of London, 1611 to 1828'', vol. 2 (London, 1887), p. 298]</ref>

"[1675.] Oct. 7 Richard Goodlad, of Stepney, Widower, 40, & Elizabeth Pusy, of same, Widow, ?36, at Stepney or elsewhere in ?dicocese."<ref>Joseph L. Chester, George J. Armytage (ed.), ''Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Bishop of London, 1611 to 1828'', vol. 2 (London, 1887), p. 300</ref>

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==Possible primary sources==
===London Metropolitan Archives===

[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-acc928&cid=1-65#1-65 London Metropolitan Archives: Wood Family: THE MANOR OF LITTLETON (Gilbert Lambell's Title Deeds)  ACC/0928/001  1419 - 1652: Assignment of Trusteeship. Hurlestone and Mosse to 3. to the use of 2. ACC/0928/001/69 1649]
- Contents:
1. Nathaniel Goodlad of Rederith, Surrey, Mariner, and Nicholas Hurlestone of Rederith, Mariner, and Henry Mosse of London, Gent.
2. Gilbert Lambell of London, Merchant
3. Ellston Wallis of London, Goldsmith and Thomas Norton, Citizen and Clothworker of the City of London.
The manor of Littleton etc. as in Acc/0928/001/54.
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===TNA===

C10/72/23 Bornfold v. Andrewes, Winter, Edwards, Cranmer, Tomlins: Middx 1661
C 10/98/2 Thomas Andrewes, Thomas Winter, James Edwards and Thomas Tomlyns v Jane Bornford and Robert Cranmer: money matters, Middx 1663

PROB 4/11993 Goodlad, Richard, Mr., of St. Dionis Backchurch, London 1690 7 Feb. Undated

PROB 11/163 Russell 1-57 Will of Edward Maplesden, Mariner of Rotherhithe, Surrey 31 May 1633
PROB 11/182 Coventry 1-53 Will of William Goodlad, Mariner of Leigh, Essex 13 March 1640
PROB 11/279 Wootton 363-416 Will of Nathaniell Goodlad of Rotherhithe, Surrey 22 July 1658
- Possibly James Moyer senior's brother-in-law, who was one of the overseers' of James Moyer senior's will
- Dead by 1658, so cannot be the "Mr. Goodlad" of Thomas Tomlins letter to Sir George oxenden dated March 26th, 1663
PROB 11/314 Bruce 49-96 Will of Jarvis Maplesden, Mariner of Rotherhithe, Surrey 13 August 1664
PROB 11/318 Hyde 108-162 Will of Thomas Hammond or Hamond, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex 	26 October 1665
PROB 11/350 Bence 1-54 Will of Phebe Maplesden, Widow of Rotherhithe, Surrey 04 January 1676
PROB 11/354 Hale 44-95 Will of Thomas Tomlins of Saint Leonards Bromley, Middlesex 01 May 1677
PROB 11/385 Lloyd 136-181 Will of Thomas Tomlins, Merchant of Saint Leonard Bromley, Middlesex 02 December 1686
PROB 11/388 Foot 90-132 Will of Richard Goodlad, Commander of the good Ship Adventure 22 October 1687
PROB 11/399 Dyke 45-90 Will of Richard Goodlad, Merchant Tailor of Saint Dionis Backchurch, City of London 23 June 1690
PROB 11/417 Coker 175-222 Will of Richard Goodlad, Gentleman of Stepney, Middlesex 	07 November 1693
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==Possible secondary sources==

Cheryl A. Fury, ''Tides in the affairs of men: the social history of Elizabethan seamen, 1580-1603'' (Westport, CT, 2002)