MRP: Tobell Aylmer

=Tobell Aylmer=
b. ?, m. 1627 (TBC), d. prob.1663

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Tobell (alias Tobel) Aylmer was a citizen of London and free of the drapers. He was from the long established Lincolnshire family of the Aylmers of Revesby. He was the son of the eponymous Tobell Aylmer of Writall, Essex, and Mary Sammes, daughter of John Sammes of Toppingshall in Hatfield Peverell, Essex. His wife, Margaret Casinghurst, was from Leatherhead, Surrey. He was, however, a widower by the 1660s, when we encounter Tobell Aylmer the younger in Sir George Oxenden's correspondence.

Elizabeth Dallison referred to Tobel(l) Aylmer, or Mr. Aylmer, several times in her correspondence with Sir George Oxenden, and in one letter identifies him as her cousin. It is not clear the exact degree of this cousinship, and whether it was through birth or marriage.

A letter from Tobell to Sir George Oxenden suggests that Tobell may himself have been in India, perhaps in the late 1650s with Richard Oxinden, also a cousin of Elizabeth Dallison, who was definitely in the East Indies during that period. Certainly Tobell mixed with merchant relatives of Sir George Oxenden, including Richard Masters, a merchant of Antwerp, and Richard Oxinden, miltary man, adventurer, and merchant, writing:

This day M:r Rich:d Masters M:r Rich:d Oxinden & my Selfe are gooing to y:e Shipp to Drinck to & Rememb:r o:r Indian Freinds in pticuler yo:r owne w:th a or Gunn of Ale

Although Elizabeth Dallison states in the letter identifying him as a cousin that Tobell was not free of the East India Company, neither was Richard Oxinden.

For a period or periods in the late 1650s Elizabeth Dallison lodged at Tobell Aylmer's home in Ludgate Hill, though by the early 1660s she was lodging in Throgmorton Street, which was more convenient for the Exchange and East India House. In an answer to a bill of complaint brought by Elizabeth Dallison an agrieved Lincolnshire lawyer stated that Elizabeth was living in 1658 or early 1659 as a lodger in Tobell Aylmer's house in Ludgate. Others in the house included Elizabeth's servant, Sarah Waynman, Tobell Aylmer himself, his daughter Mary Grigg, a Mrs Perrin, who may have been Aylmer's widowed sister, and who is probably "my goode freinde Edith perin of London Widdow" made the sole executrix in his will, and Edward Kelke, a Gray's Inn lawyer.

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Background secondary material

Woodhead (1966)

AYLMER, Tobel

Dep Farringdon Without (St Bride), 1660-3 Ludgate Hill, 1641, 1657, St Martin Ludgate, 1628, 1661, ? St Bride, 1660 (1) DR, fr, 1627, by John Ayre, W 1659 (2) Will PCC 113 Juxon pr, 17 Feb 1662/3 f Tobel Aylmer of London and Writtle, Essex, gent, m Mary, da of John Sommes of Hatfield Peverel, Essex, mar 1628, Margaret, da of John Casinghurst of Leatherhead, Surr (3) City and Southwark property (4) Commsr for Lieut, 1660

(1) Johnson, DR, IV, p 134, Boyd 9010, VBk, St Martin Ludgate, VBk, St Bride (2) Will, Boyd 9010 (3) Boyd 9009, 9010, f was s of John Aylmer, Archdeacon of Lincoln and Bishop of London (Boyd 9009) (4) Will

Lincolnshire Pedigrees, vol. 1 (1902)

THE PEDIGREE OF AYLMER OF REVESBY IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE INFORMATION IN WOODHEAD (1966) REGARDING TOBELL AYLMER SENIOR AND JUNIOR

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Primary sources

BL

BL, MS. XXXX, Letter from Tobell Aylmer to Sir GO, Old Corner, nr. Ludgate, 20th March 1662/63, ff. 30-31
- "I am Silent leaving all to y:e Penn of y:e Lady Dallyson, onely say they take up her whole time, y:t I feare I shall lose my Acquaintance w:th her at home..."
- "My Sister Perin, my Sonn & Daughter Sone [possibly Lone], & yo:r Serv:t Mary Grigg Desire w:th me to give theire hearty prayers (& Service) to God for yo:r Prosperitie"
BL, XXXXX, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir George Oxenden, 1st April 1663, ff. 74-82
-"if I had putt it in my Cozin To:b Aylmers name, it would have cost me 5:ll to make him free of y:e East India Comp:a"

TNA

C9/243/65, f. 1
- "these defts further say that the sayd Edward Kelke then lodging as these defts hope will appeare to this honoble Court in the course of one M:r XXXXX the compl:t also lodged & wherein one who is called ?M:rs Grigg daughter as it is sayd of the sayd M:r Aylmer & one who is called Sarah Waynman the comp:lts servant & the sayd M:r Aylmer then ?there & did all reside...And these def:ts further say that they beleive that the complt & the sayd M:r Aylmer M:rs Grigg M:rs Pewyn & Sarah Waynman of some of them the sayd Edward Kelke Xf speaking or having XXXX intenccon of makeing any will did unduly instigate incite & psuade him the sayd Edward Kelke thereto & of their or some of their XXXX free will did thinking & seeing the sayd Edward Kelke to be far decayed spent & not likely to live send for M:r Raworth a counsellor at lawe to make a writeing as being or to be the [?will] of sayd Edward Kelke But these def:ts further say that they doe not beleive that the sayd Edward Kelke did rightly understand wXXXX the supposed will was so makeing..."

PROB 4/7909 Aylmer, Tobell, of St. Martin Ludgate, London, Citizen and Draper 1664 30 Apr.
- There are 9 PROB 4/ and 1 PROB 5/ records for St Martin Ludgate, 1640-1670

PROB 11/293 XXXX Will of Edward Kelke of Grayes Inn, proved XXXX
- "To M:r Tobyell Aylmer Twentie pounds"
PROB 11/312 Juxon 103-150 Will of Tobell Aylmer, Draper of London 16 September 1663
- " ITEM I give to my dear daughter Margarett Grigg all my Lands in Southwoode [OR, Southwould] after y:e decease of Edith perin with twenty Shillings yearely to be paid by the said Edith perin unto my daughter Margarett whose Estate is only for her life upon the payment of the XXXXXXX Part of the twenty shillings yet owing (?) And to her heirs forever

ITEM I give moore unto my dear daughter Margaret to whom I have already given a portion and to her Eyres forever all my Lands att Snowmill in Holbourne conduit But my Will and Meaning is that the full proffitt or Rent shall be paid unto my Executrix for seven years after my death for and towards the payment of my debts

ITEM I give to my Grandchild Mary Grigg and to her Eyres forever my five little houses in Clarke Raven Alley in Christ church prsh if she shall attaine to the age of one and twenty yeare or day of Marriage...

ITEM my mind & will is And I make and ordaine my goode freinde Edith perin of London Widdow my sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament And I give unto her All my Goods and householdestuffe whatsoever as shall my house on Ludgatehill and the house where now I dwell And the Rent and proffitt of my lease of the chequer at Doughgate And my Lease in Carter Lane so long as shee shall live for and towards y:e true payment of my iust debts some of which shee the said Edith is ingagedd with me for and hath promised payment of the Residue being in all abought thurten hundred pounds or ther abouts and for her better security long since I have by deed conveyghed unto her my Lease where now I live and all my householdstuffe & goods whatsoever w:ch now I doe confirme unto her Also I give and bequeath unto Edith my Executrix for the better Inabling her in paying my debts I give and bequeath all debts Bills Bonds Statutes Doquets whatsoever and oweing unto me of what person soever in this world not ommitting of her care and ffaithfulness in pformeing of this my Will and some as her trust not heare expressed concerning my daughter and Grandchild especially As also concerning some other relations which I wholely leave to her mind and after my debts are iustly paid..." (probate granted to Edith Perin, 1663)

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Secondary sources

Maddison, A.R., 'Aylmer of Redesby, etc.' pedigree in Lincolnshire pedigrees, vol. 1 (London, 1902), pp. 53-55
Woodhead, J.R., 'Aylmer, Tobel', in The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (London, 1966), p. ?

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Potential primary sources

TNA

C 2/JasI/A1/19 Samuel Aylmer v Stephen Downing. Messuage in the manor of Cleyden, Suffolk, purchased by the plaintiff and his late father John Aylmer bishop of London, from Sir Robert Southwell. Between 1603 and 1625
- Samuel Aylmer is probably the eldest brother of Tobell Aylmer, who was a significantly younger brother
C 6/10/206 Short title: Phillipps v Aylmer. Plaintiffs: John Phillipps clerk and others. Defendants: Theophilus Aylmer. Subject: recovery of deeds, Middlesex. Document type: answer only. 1648
C 10/5/21 Edward Clovyle and Anne his wife, Tobell Aylmer, John Higden, Edward Shelton, Edmund Burton and others v Thomas Barker: West Hanningfield, Essex 1649
C 10/12/128 Anne Vallentine widow v Tobell Aylemer, Joshua Walters, Thomas Sparkes, Anne Saywell and John Dansey: parish of St Sepulchre, London, Middx. Bill and two answers 1651
C 25/107/46 Martha Wilson widow v Theophilus Aylmer or Aylemer. Interrogatories 1667

PROB 11/171 Pile Quire Numbers: 43-89 Sentence of Samuel Aylmer of Akenham, Suffolk 28 May 1636
- Probably the eldest brother of Tobell Aylmer
PROB 11/177 Lee 52-114 Will of John Acton, Goldsmith of London 07 September 1638
- Possibly brother-in-law of Tobell Aylmer the younger
PROB 11/203 Essex 1-52 Will of John Acton, Goldsmith of London 04 February 1648
- Possibly brother-in-law of Tobell Aylmer the younger
PROB 11/255 Berkeley 15-206 Will of Edward Aylmer, Doctor of Divinity of Claydon, Suffolk 13 May 1656
- Possibly a nephew of Tobell Aylmer (a son of Samuell Aylmer, Tobell Aylmer's eldest brother)
PROB 11/389 Foot 133-172 Will of Edith Peryn or Perrin, Widow of Saint Andrew High Holborn, Middlesex 08 November 1687

- Possibly Tobelly Aylmer's executrix and main beneficiary