MRP: March 1665/66, Letter from Michael Dunkin to Sir GO
March 1665/66, Letter from Michael Dunkin to Sir GO
BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 60
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Abstract & context
Michael Dunkin wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 1665/66.
In the letter, Dunkin XXXX
Michael Dunkin was a long serving officer of the English East India Company. In 1647 he was described in the Court Minutes as "assistant treasurer"[1] Two years later, on August 27th, 1647, he was made free of the Company "having served many years."[2] In 1659 he was described as "cash-keeper," on a salary of £150 per annum, ranking after the accountant-general, Jeremy Sambrooke; the writer of letters, Samuel Sambrooke; and the solicitor, James Acton.[3] In May 1663, Dunkin was described as "cashier-general", on an annual salary of 200/.[4]
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(1) Check PROB 11/347 Dycer 1-51 Will of Michaell Dunkin, Gentleman of London 02 March 1675
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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 60]
Notes
English East India Company
"[July 35, 1645] 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"[5]
Mary Dunkin, daughter of Michael Dunkin, marriage articles, 1671
"Marriage Articles of Thos. Waddington of Plaistow (co.Essex), gent., and Mary, dau. of Michl. Dunkin of London, merchant, of ppties [not details] to be purchd. in Essex, Kent, Hertford, Middlesex, Surrey or Bedford, 1671."[6]
"[1671] Dec. 13 Thomas Waddington, of S:t Andrew Undershaft, London, Gent., Bach:r ab:t 23, & Mary Dunkin, of Fenchurch Street, London, Sp:r, ab:t 18 ; consent of father Michael Dunkin, Merchant ; at All Hallows in the Wall, London."[7]
Possible primary sources
TNA
PROB 4/9559 Inventory of Michael Dunkin, 1676 5 Mar. [illeg.]
PROB 5/3214 DUNKIN, Michael, of St Katherine Coleman, London 1675
PROB 11/347 Dycer 1-51 Will of Michaell Dunkin, Gentleman of London 02 March 1675- ↑ '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 for the New General Stock, July 20, 1659 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 201), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1645-1659 (Oxford, 1916), pp. 335-336
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, May 15, 1663' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 623), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 311
- ↑ '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
- ↑ Somerset Archive and Record Service: Papers of the Combe Family of Earnshill, Curry Rivel: (17/4) VARIOUS COUNTIES deeds DD\CM/193 1610-1770
- ↑ Joseph L. Chester & George J. Armytage, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1558 to 1699 (London, 1886), p. 197
