Difference between revisions of "MRP: The Exchange"

Revision as of 10:29, February 2, 2012

The Exchange

Editorial history

09/10/11, CSG: Created page

THIS ENTRY IS IN PREPARATION

Suggested links

See Places

To do

Images

Image credits & copyright information

Notes

Exchange Cellar

"[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"^[1]

Reputation on the Exchange, 1663

"[May 20, 1663] Sir Richard Ford complains that some reflection has been made upon his reputation by a report circulated on the Exchange concerning saltpetre, which it is alleged he took away by collusion with Richard Seaborne without order ; this he denies, and asserts that he and Peter Proby were allowed by ballot to receive the said petre on their own security, and that the bond supposed to have been given by him to Richard Seaborne was in reality given to the Company and dated in 1657 for saltpetre bought of the United Stock, as appears by the Company's books ; therefore he requests that an order of court to vindicate his reputation may be recorded and a copy of the same delivered to him. Hereupon the Court expresses regret that such a groundless report, which must have arisen from some mistake, should have been spread abroad, also their satisfaction that Sir Richard has acted in all his transactions as a man of honour and fidelity, and done the Company many good and acceptable services, which they have and will always acknowledge with thanks."^[2]

Mentions of the Exchange in Wiki primary sources=

Inventories

Law suits

Sir George Oxenden correspondence

See 13th April 1667, Letter from Christopher Boone to Sir GO, London

- "As I was closeing this, I reced y:e accompan:d from S:r Henry Oxinden wherin I wish yo:w good news all bee it wee this exchange reced very bad viz:t y:e losse of o:e Dorcase coming from y:e bay, God send us better tydeings of y:e rest"

See 20th April 1667, Letter from Samuel Barnardiston to Sir GO, London

- "I had this day some Conference w:th yo:e brother S:r Henry Oxinden upon y:e exchange who hath had much trouble in yo:e law sutes w:th M:r Briton^[3] & peirce^[4], w:ch after a hard verdict e last terme in yo:e disfavour is removed into Chancery, where this next terme they are to have a hearing, but to bring it into Chancery at y:t time y:e monny might not be paid according to y:e verditt of Merchants, was a very hard matter & for this removall I stand engaged w:th yo:e said brother in a recognisence twixt 4 in five thousand pounds in y:e Court of Common please by w:ch meanes I hope that a faire will be bought to some good Conclusion, yo:w having equity on yo:e side"

See 7th October 1667, Letter from Henry Oxenden to Sir GO Letter 2

- "These are to give yo:w notice y:t since ye writing of my lre M:r Jolliffe hath altred his mind concerinng ye hamper of wine, mentioned in my last letter for M:r Garalld Aungier so y:t now all y:e three hampers are for yo:e selfe, this he acquainted me w:th, at y:e Exchange since y:e Sealing of my letter"

Wills

See PROB 11/259 Berkeley 363-412 Will of Symon Edmonds, Alderman of Saint Mary Aldermansbury, City of London 06 November 1656

- Edmonds structures his estate so that three annuities are chargeable on the manor. They total £220 and are payable in half year equal payments, to be paid out at the Insurance Office, Royal Exchange, to his eldest son Symon Edmonds (£100), to his third daughter Sarah Edmonds (£100), and to Sarah Byfeild (£20)

See PROB 11/244 Aylett 51-106 Will of John Lamott of City of London 08 August 1655

- " I committ the same unto the Earth to be decently buried in the Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew the Little neare the Royall Exchange in London where I now inhabitt"

Possible primary sources

Possible secondary sources

Freshfield, Edwin (ed.), On the parish books of St. Margaret-Lothbury, St. Christopher-le-Stocks, and St. Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, in the city of London (London, 1876)
Freshfield, Edwin (ed.), The vestry minute books of the parish of St. Bartholomew Exchange in the City of London 1567-1676 (London, 1890)

1. ↑ '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
2. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, May 20, 1663' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 625), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 312
3. ↑ Thomas Breton, London merchant and SVJS subscriber
4. ↑ Edward Pearce, London merchant and SVJS subcriber