Peter Mathews
Peter Mathews | |
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Person | Peter Mathews |
Title | |
First name | Peter |
Middle name(s) | |
Last name | Mathews |
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Widow of | |
Occupation | Merchant |
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Associated with ship(s) | |
Training | Not apprentice |
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Had apprentice(s) | |
Citizen | Unknown |
Literacy | Signature |
Has opening text | Peter Mathewes |
Has signoff text | Peter Mathews |
Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
Language skills | English language |
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Res town | London |
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Res country | England |
Birth year | 1618 |
Marriage year | |
Death year | 1658 |
Probate date | March 8, 1658 |
First deposition age | 37 |
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Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/70 f.171v Annotate, HCA 13/73 f.202v Annotate |
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Deposition date(s) | Jan 10 1655, Apr 22 1659 |
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Has infobox completed | Yes |
Has synthesis completed | No |
Has HCA evidence completed | No |
Has source comment completed | No |
Ship classification | |
Type of ship | N/A |
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Peter Mathews (alt. Mathewes) (b. ca. 1618; d. poss. 1658). Merchant.
Elder brother of Middleburg and London merchant Baldwin Mathews.
Resident in 1655 in London.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
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Deposition of Samuel Beake, son of London merchant Arnold Beake. In his deposition Samuel Beake mentions Arnold Beake, his father, Mr Peter Mathews, and John Dolins, who were owners of the Saint John, which carryed 300 pigs of lead lead from London to Nantes, to be invested in wine and vinegar in Nantes, and then transported to Flanders.[1]
October 1653
Deposition of James Hedgethorne, servant to Arnold Beake, dated October 10th 1653
Deposition of Peter XXX, servant to Peter Mathews, dated October 14th 1653 in the "clayme of Beake and Mathews". The ship the S:t John was bought by Arnold Beake and Peter mathews for 490-07-00 sterling, and paid with a bill of exchange drawn from Holland on Peter Mathews by order of one M:r Anthins de ?Sondt. Peter ?Soen (OR, ?Som) was the servant and "cashere" of Mr Peter Mathews and saw his correspondence and books of accompt,[2]
January 1655
Thirty-seven year old Peter Mathews deposed on January 10th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the cause of "Peter Cock and Baldwin Matthewes for their silver in the shipp Saint John Baptist.[3]
October 1656
"Pesonall Answeres of Elias Beake made to the pretensed positions of a libell given against him and Peter Mathewes in the name of John Salter and others as marriners of the late ship called the James whereof James Hedgethorne was master"[4]
April 1659
Forty-two year old Peter Mathews deposed on April 22nd 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty. Ge was examined on an allegation in the cause of "XX".
The case concerned XX
Comment on sources
1645
Parliamentary Archives, Reference: HL/PO/JO/10/1/180 Description: 10 February 1645 -- Petition of Peter de la Salle and Peter Matthews, French merchants on the behalf of themselves, and the most excellent Prince Bernard Duke D'Espernon in the kingdom of France. James Pickering and others, brought an action against the Duke D'Espernon, and De la Salle, his bail, charged in execution, imprisoned and a commission of bankruptcy taken out against him.
1652
C 10/14/6 James Austen v Grace Savaidge [Savage], Peter Mathewes, John Lemknell and Anna his wife, and John Sporwood: St Saviour, Southwark, Surrey 1652
1658
PROB 11/274/94 Will of Peter Mathewes, Merchant of Saint Lawrence Pountney, City of London 08 March 1658
1664
East Sussex Record Office, Reference: ASH/4501/830 Description: By RICHARD RELF of Dallington, gent., to PETER MATHEWES of London, merchant, and BONDUIN MATHEWES, mercht., sons of Anna Regoot, widow, the relict of Paul Ganne, and PETER LYSTEN of London, merchant, son of Anne Mathewes, daughter of the said Anna Regoot, - for £1000 - of all that messuage or tenement called Griggs, with barn, stables & c belonging and lands, meadow &c. in Brightling and Dallington. Date: 1 Nov 1664
East Sussex Record Office, Reference: ASH/4501/832 DEscription: Between PETER MATHEWES, BOND' MATHEWES and PETER LISTEN, querent, and RICHARD RELFE, gent., deforciant, of a messuage, barn, garden, orchard, 33 ac. of land, 10 ac. of meadow, 66 ac. of pasture and 4 ac. of wood in Dallington and Brightlinge. Michs. term, 16 Chas. 1664
1675
C 6/84/10 Short title: Lodowicke v Mathewes. Plaintiffs: Francis Lodowicke. Defendants: Peter Mathewes. Subject: money matters. Document type: answer only. 1675
1677
PROB 11/354/138 Will of Peter Mathews, Merchant and Mercer of London 28 May 1677- ↑ hca 13/68 ADD REFERENCE
- ↑ HCA 13/68 ADD REFERENCE
- ↑ HCA 13/70 f.171v
- ↑ HCA 13/128 DD DETAILS