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| + | Michael Dunkin was a former assistant treasurer of the English East India Company.<ref>'A Court of Committees, July 35, 1645' (''Court Book'', vol. xix, p. 311), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm03sainuoft#page/92/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), pp. 92-93]</ref> He was made free of the Company on August 27th, 1647, "having served many years."<ref>'A Court of Committees, August 27, 1647' (''Court Book'', vol. xx, p. 142), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm03sainuoft#page/220/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), p. 220]</ref> | ||
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| + | "Officers for the Company's service are chosen as follows : Jeremy Sambrooke to be book-keeper or general accountant ; Adam Bowen, writer and ' register of letters ' to foreign parts, and keeper of the calico warehouse ; Valentine Markham, auditor ; John Blount, warehouse-keeper of indigo and cinnamon, etc. ; James Acton, solicitor ; Thomas Rilston, husband ; John Young, purser-general ; William Hurt, paymaster of the mariners ; Samuel Sambrooke, assistant to Bowen ; John Spiller, beadle and porter ; Michael Dunkin, assistant to the Treasurer ; Richard Swinglehurst, secretary and keeper of the Exchange cellar"<ref>'A Court of Committees, July 35, 1645' (''Court Book'', vol. xix, p. 311), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm03sainuoft#page/92/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), pp. 92-93]</ref> | ||
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March 1665/66, Letter from Michael Dunkin to Sir GO
BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 60
Editorial history
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Abstract & context
Michael Dunkin was a former assistant treasurer of the English East India Company.[1] He was made free of the Company on August 27th, 1647, "having served many years."[2]
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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 60]
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English East India Company
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, July 35, 1645' (Court Book, vol. xix, p. 311), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), pp. 92-93
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, August 27, 1647' (Court Book, vol. xx, p. 142), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), p. 220
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, July 35, 1645' (Court Book, vol. xix, p. 311), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649 (Oxford, 1912), pp. 92-93
