MRP: C6/36/77 f. 2

C6/36/77 f. 2

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C6/36/77 f. 2 is the Answer of Thomas Noell and George Robinson, two of the three executors of the deceased London merchant Sir Martin Noell, to the Bill of Complaint of Hugh Upton (C6/36/77 f. 1). Thomas Noell was Sir Martin Noell's second son, whereas George Robinson was a former servant who had traded independently since at least 1656.^[1]

Hugh and Gilbert Upton, possibly brothers, appear to have been past commercial partners of Sir Martin Noell. For example, the two Uptons were co-defendants with Sir Martin Noell and Augustine Perry in a suit brought running from at least 1661 to 1664 by Vincent and William Amcotts and Vincent Lawson over lands in Lincolnshire^[2] The Uptons were involved in further suits as co-defendants with Sir Martin Noell, for example a Chancery suit in 1660 concerning the office of collector of the excise on salt in Middlesex.^[3] The Upton family were close commercially to the London merchant Christopher Boone, who used their brother, Anthony Upton as his Seville factor in the 1650s, and who remembered "his loving friend" Gilbert Upton in his will.^[4]

The Answer lays out the known assets and liabilities of Sir Martin Noell's complex estate, and records the cash receipts and disbursements, as well as non-cash transactions, conducted by the two executors on behalf of the estate in the three years since the testator's death (from the plague in October 1665 to the date of the Answer in ?December 1668). The assets identified in the Answer include and expand on those listed in Sir Martin Noell's own will (see Martin Noel will).

No reference is made to debts oweing by the deceased London merchant and former partner Nathaniel Temms (alias Tems), who died in 1659, and whose debts and estate was the subject of a suit brought by Sir Martin Noell at Chancery in 1663 (C10/473/135 f. 1). Thomas Noell, Sir Martin Noell’s son and co-executor, had married Nathaniel Temms’ daughter, Martha, in December 1662. At the time of Upton’s Chancery suit Thomas was about 27 years of age.^[5]

The complexity of Sir Martin Noell's estate is recognised by Sir Martin in his will in that he awards £100 per annum for seven years to George Robinson in return for his "paines and trouble in the execucion of this my last will & testament."

Several individuals mentioned in Sir Martin Noell's will are also mentioned in Noell and Robinson's Answer. For example, George Blake, described by Sir Martin as "my loveing Brother M:r George Blake" and appointed one of two overseers, appears in the Answer in connection with a bond and a judgement. He was presumably married to Jane Noell, Sir Martin's sister, whom he refers to in his will as "my sister Jane Blake." A John Blake is mentioned in Noell's will as the third life after his son Martin Noell and George Robinson for the "reversion of the Baronie of Cary in Ireland." George Blake was involved in litigation with Thomas Noell, probably regarding Sir Martin Noell's estate. The litigation appears to run from 1666 to 1672.^[6]

John Bence and Sir George Smith are both described in Noell's will as worthy friends ("my worthy friend Alderman John Bence"; "my worthy friend Sir George Smyth"). John Bence appears in the Answer as a co-partner with Noell in the farm of "Additional Dutie and profitts accrued therby". Smyth appears in the Answer, by then deceased, with an old debt of his being repaid to Noell's estate by [Alderman] John Fenn, who had married Smith's daughter shortly after her father's death. A John Baker is mentioned in Noell's will as one of two occupants of two small tenements Noell had built in Petty France. This Baker may be the same John Baker mentioned in the Answer as having a small debt. Richard Morley is mentioned both in Noell's will and in the answer in regard to a part share in the Secretaryship to the Governor & Counsell of the Island of Barbadoes. Edward Bradbourne is mentioned in Noell's will, but a John Bradborne is mentioned in the Answer as XXXX.

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//XXXX Jurat ?9 ?Dec 1668//
//Na: Hobart//
//XXXXX//

//The Joynt and sewall Answeres of Thomas Noell and George Robinson Two of the Executo:rs of S.r Martin Noell Knight deceased//
//to the Bill of Complaint of Hugh Upton Complaynant//

//All and all manner of Advantages and benefitt of Excepcons unto the Incertainties untrueths and other imperfecconns and insufficeincies of the said complaynants bill of Complaint to the said defendants now and att all tymes//

//hereafter saved and reserved The said defendants for themselves for Answeare unto all and every the matters and things materially concerninge them or either of them to Answere and say in manner as hereafter followeth And XXXX//

//the said defendts Joyntlie say That they beleeve that the said S:r Martin Noell in the Bill named was in his life tyme and att the tyme of his death lawfully seized in his Demeasne as of ffee or of some other ??estate of Inheritance of and in the Moytie or halfe//

//part of the Plantaconn called Hornehall in the Island of the Barbadoes And of and in the Moytie of the Cattle goods and stocke of what nature or Qualitie soever upon the same beinge And of and in the Moyetie and disposall of the Office of ?Secretaryshipp//

//to the Governor and Councell of the said Island of Barbadoes And of the Moytie and the disposall of the Clarkshipp of all the Courts of the said Island and of the Moytie of the ffees and profitts whatsoever X the said Two Offices belonginge or XXXXX//

//appteyninge And ?also was seized in ffee or some other estate of and in one other Plantacon Lands howses and stocks thereupon called Hilcotte lyinge and beinge in the said Island of Barbadoes mortgaged unto him the said S:r Martin Noell by ?Edward//

//?Bradborne of the said Islands merchant for a greate summe of money oweinge by the said Edward unto the said S:r Martin And also of and in the Revercon after the decease of S:r John Tufton knight of and in divers Lands in Warwickshire and Yorkshire XX//

//And also was owner of some shipps or parts of Shipps with others pticularly in the defend:ts Answeare hereafter sett forth And also that the said S:r Martin Noell had some part or share in the stocke with the Royall Company of Merchants tradeinge into Africa//

//And also was possessed and Interested for some terme of yeares of and in the manner of ?Villers and of diverse Lands thereunto belonginge lyinge & beinge in the Queenes Countie in the Kingdom of Ireland And as the said S:r Martin Noell had some Interest//

//with others in the ffarme of the Customes and Imported Excise of all Ireland And alsoe with others of and in the ffarme of Excise of Beare and Ale and Lycences for Alehowses in the said Kingdome of Ireland And also the said S:r Martyn had an Interest by way of ??deputXXX//

//to him and John ??Bence of London Merchant made of and in the ffarme of the Additionall Dutie granted unto them by the late ffarmers of his Ma:ties Customes of England And also hadd some Interest of and in the ffarme of Tymber deales glasse stone & stone//

//wares And of and in the Reverton of the Baronie of Cary in the Kingdome of Ireland And also the said Sir Martin Noell and Dame Elizabeth Noell his wife were by virtue of one Indenture of Lease beareinge date the ffive & Twentieth day of April in the yeare of the//

//Lord One Thousand six hundred sixty Two and in the ffowerteenth yeare of his nowe Ma:ties Raigne over England x:r made unto them by Robert ??Pery (Or, ??Pory) Clerke Doctor of Divinity Parson of the Parish of S:t Buttolph without Bishopsgate London) were lawfully//

//possessed and Interressed of and in All that Capitall Messuage or Tenement with appurtenances scituate and beinge within the said Parish of S:t Buttolphs with out Bishopsgate London To have & to hold the said Messuage & p:rmisses to them the said Sir Martin Noell//

//and the said Dame Elizabeth and the Longer liver of them theire Executo:rs Administrato:rs and Assignes from the ffeast of the Annunciaccon of the blessed Lady Mary the Virgin last past before the said Indenture of Lease for and duringe ?a Tearme of ??nine and Thirty yeares from thence//

//fully to be compleate and ended And also the said S:r Martin Noell was also lawfully possessed of a psonall Estate consistinge in goods and chattells of A good value And the said def:ts say That the said S:r Martin Noell beinge as they beleeve of & in all the before menconned p:rmisses//

//Lands Leases Offices stocke of goods lawfully seized and possessed The said S:r Martin Noell on or about the Three and Twentieth day of September w:ch was in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand six hundred sixty ffive and in the Seaventeenth yeare of his nowe Ma:ties Raigne made//

//his last will and Testam:t in writinge and in and by his said last will and Testam:t did will and devise his Moytie of the said Plantacon in the Barbados called Hornehall and also all his Moytie of the appurtenances thereunto And of the Moytie of the goods stocke and other//

//things thereupon or thereunto belonginge unto Nathaniell Noell Theodore Noell Grace Noell and Elizabeth Noell his younger children in such manner as in and by his said will is lymmitted and appoynted as by his said ?will filed in the Prerogative Court of the//

//Archbishop of Canterbury unto which the said defts doe for the more certaintie thereof referr themselves it doth and may appeare And also by his said last will hee did give and bequeath unto James Noell one of his younger sonnes his moytie of the said Office of Secretary//

//to the Govnor and Councell of the said Island of Barbadoes And his Moytie of the Clerkshipp of the Courts of the said Island in such manner as in his the said S:r Martins said last will is also menconned and declared to where will filed as aforesaid in//

//the prerogative Court the said defts doe referr themselves And the said defendts say That the said Sir Martyn Noell did further thereby will and declare his minde and will to bee That the said Plantacon called HXXXX and the Lands howses stocke and other//

//things thereupon And the Reverton of the Lands in Warwickshire and Yorkshire And his interest of and in all and singular the ffarmes before menconned should (as soone as conveniently might bee) bee sold and disposed of by his Executo:rs in his will//

//named for and towards the payment of his iust and due debts and for the performance of his said last will and Testament And further by his said last will and Testament did declare his his minde to bee That whereas hee the said S:r Martyn Noell and//

//Dame Elizabeth Noell engaged the said Lease of the said Capitall Messuage with thappurtenances scituate and beinge without Bishopsgate London to a widdowe woman for Three hundred pounds principall monyes That it was his expresse order//

//and desire That the said Three hundred pounds with the damages for forbearance thereof bee paid and the said Mortgage discharged with the ffirst conveniency after his decease and that the same now XXX part thereof should bee charged to his said wife//

//Dame Elizabeth And of his said last will and Testament hee did make ordaine and constitute Martin Noell his Eldest Sonne (then Esq:r, now knight) And the said defendants Thomas Noell and George Robinson his Executo:rs and shortly afterwards the XXX XXXX//

//on or about the Nyne & Twentieth day of the said Monethe of September One Thousand six hundred sixty and ffive the said S:r Martin Noell dyed And the said defendants say that they beinge called upon by diverse of the Credito:rs of the said S:r Martin Noell the Testato:r for the//

//payment of diverse greate summes of money then oweinge unto them by theire (sic) Testato:r And they not haveinge then Assetts of the Testato:rs estate in there hands sufficient to satisfy and pay the said Creditors there said debts The said defend:ts did give forth speeches that they//

//the said defend:ts accordinge to the direction and desire of theire said Testato:r in his said last will would sell and dispose of the said Plantaccon called Hilcott in the Barbadoes and the stocke thereupon And of theire Estate & Interest of and in all other the ffarmes//

//above menconned for and towards the payment of there Testato:rs debts and the pformance of his last will and Testament And the said defendants say That (as they beleeve) One John ?Armand of London merchant takeing notice thereof That the said John ?Armand//

//in the Monnthe of ffebruary in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand Six hundred Sixty Six reparied unto the def:t George Robinson and earnestly solicited and importuned him the said defend:t George Robinson That hee the said John Armand might bee the purchasser//

//thereof and after diverse meetings and treaties betwixt the said John Armand and the said defendant George Robinson to that purpose The said def:t George Robinson saith That on or about the Eighteenth day of the said Mounth of ffebruary One Thousand six//

//hundred sixty six the said John Armand and the said George Robinson as the said defendant conceaveth came to a full Agreement for a purchase thereof for the summe of Two Thousand pounds And the said John Armand did then pay ??downe//

//unto the said defendant the summe of ffive hundred pounds and afterwards Three hundred pounds more as in the Accompt hereafter is expresst beinge pte of the Two Thousand pounds agreed to bee the purchase money And the said def:t//

//George Robinson saith That hee the said defend:t did on or upon the said Eighteenth day of ffebruary One Thousand six hundred sixty six deliver into the hands of the said John Armand certaine Deeds and Evidences concerninge & relateinge//

//the said Plantaton for the said John Armand and his councell to Advise thereupon and to draw upp a conveyance or an Assignement of the said Plantaccon Lands and p:rmisses to the said plantacon belonginge But the said Armand hath not paid//

//the Remainder of the said Two Thousand pounds but hath occasioned the said defend:t to sue him for the same and there are suits now dependinge thereupon And as to the Revton of the Lands in Warwickshire & Yorkshire by the Testato:rs will//

//appoynted to bee sold Both the said defend:ts say That (as they beleeve) the same was mortgaged by there Testato:r in his life tyme to one John Colvile of London Goldsmith or to some other in trust for him for further securitie of payment of the summe of ffive//

//Thousand pounds or such like sume (for which the defend:ts stood bounden with theire Testato:r with Interest) of which the summe of Two Thousand pounds or thereabouts was satisfied or payd by theire Testato:r in his life tyme And for the//

//remayninge sume of the said ffive Thousand pounds beinge Three Thousand pounds with Interest for the same the said defend:ts say That they hadd Labored to gett the same satisfied by sale of the said Reverton but could not pcure a purchaso:r for the same att such a//

//valuable consideraccon as they thought fitt until of late (the said Reverton beinge as the said defend:ts conceive forfeited) One Morrice and Sanders bought it (as the said defend:ts conceive) of the mortgaged ?for the summe of Three Thousand pounds//

//And the defend:ts have Joyned in the conveyance thereof with S:r Martyn Noell the heire att Lawe accordinge as they were advised by theire councell att Lawe And the said Three Thousand pounds purchase money hath beene paid or allowed unto//

//the said John Colvile on Accompt of his said debt And the said defend:ts say That they the said defendants doe stand engaged for the Remainder of the said debt unto the said John Colvile And as to the Shipps and pts of Shipps as appoynted by the//

//Testato:rs will to bee sold The said George Robinson saith That what Shipps or parts of Shipps there said Testato:r was possessed of or Interested in and how the same have beene disposed and when and to whom and for what sume or sumes of money paid, the said defendants//

//saith it doth appeare in his the said defendants Answere followinge where hee setteth forth how the psonall estate of the Testato:r hath beene disposed of This only excepted That the said defendant George Robinson saith That hee hath heard that XXXXXX of the Shipps XXX//

//which theire Testato:r had a part (called the Love) was lost in the Redd Sea as the defend:ts have heard in the life tyme of theire Testato:r to the greate losse of the said S:r Martin Noell theire Testato:r and the other partners thereof And as to the Share or part of Stocke w:ch the//

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//said Sir Martyn Noell there Testato:r hadd in the Royall Company tradeinge into Affrica The defend:t George Robinson saith That the said Royall Company did demand more money to be due unto them from the said Sir Martin Noell than the said Sir Martin Noells share or shares in//

//the stocke of the said Royall Company is worth And for that cause the said Company did & doe keepe the said shares of the said Sir Martin in there hands and have refused and doe refuse to satisfie or deliver the same or any part thereof unto the defendants Executo:rs of the said Sir Martin Noell//

//although this defend:t George Robinson in friendly manner hath required the said Companie soe to doe And as to the Lease of the Manner of Villers in the Kingdome of Ireland made by the hono:ble the Duke of Buckingham and appoynted by the Testato:r will XXXX be sold The said def:ts say//

//that they are and were enformed That the said Duke since the decease of the said Sir Martin Noell entred into and upon the said Manno:r and Lands soe leased to theire Testato:r for non payment of the Rent reserved to bee paid upon the said Lease w:ch was behinde in the life of theire Testato:r//

//And the said def:ts say That since therie Testato:rs death they have & rent nothinge to therie knowledge for or by reason of the said Lease And therefore cannot now make any sale or disposicon thereof for and toward the paym:t of therie Testato:rs debts as by his last will and Testament//

//is required And as to the Interest which the Testato:r hadd in the Additional Dutie and profitts accrued therby appoynted by theire Testato:rs said will to bee also sold The said defendants say That the Interest w:ch theire Testato:r hadd therein as by way of a deputacon only made from //

//XXXXXX more of his Ma:ties Customes unto theire said Testato:r and John Bence^[7] of London Merchant and to the Executo:rs of them which Interest of theire Testato:r did determine by his decease And as to any profitts thereof ariseinge to theire Testato:r or which were due unto him, and//

//what the same doe Amount unto The said defendants say That the same if any there bee are remayninge in Accompt betweene his Ma:ties then or late ffarmers of the Customes of England and the said defend:ts the Executo:rs of the said Sir Martin Noell not as yett pfected or Accepted (though this//

//defend:ts have endeavoured the same soe as the said defendant cannot dispose thereof or of any pte thereof or Towards the paym:t of theire Testato:rs iust debts And as to the ffarme of Tymber glasse stone and stone ware appoynted by there Testato:rs will also to bee sould//

//The said defend:t George Robinson saith as in his Accompt here?after is menconned And as unto the Interest which theire Testator hadd in the ffarme of Beere Ale and Licences for Alehowses in the Kingdome of Ireland (which to the best of the said defendants//

//knowledges was not XXXXXXXXmed by any deed or writeing but by a verball Agreement betweene the Partners therein (as the said defendants are enformed) appoynteds also to bee sould and dysposed of for and towards the payment of theire Testato:rs said iust debts The said//

//defend:ts say That (as they beleeve) about the sixth of ffebruary last past One Thousand six hundred sixty seaven The same was disposed of by them to one Alexander ??Bence (Or, Beare) for the summe of One Thousand pounds out of which said some of One Thousand//

//poundes The said Alexand:r ??Bence doth XXX and after (as they beleive paid unto one John Ayres the summe of six hundred and ffiftie pounds for the principall money Interest And charges of a suite upon a Bond wherein hee the said Alex Bence stood bounden with theire//

//Testato:r for the proper debt of theire Testato:r soe as the nete money receaved by the defend:ts for the same was the summe of Three hundred and ffiftie pounds for the principall money and noe more And as and to the said Lease of the said Capitall Messuage and Garden with Thappurtenances scituate//

//and beinge without Bishopsgate London The said defendants say That it appeareth in the Indenture of Lease thereof as theise defd:ts beleeve that the said Lease was made unto the said Sir Martin Noell and Dame Elizabeth Noell his wife and the Longer liver of them for the terme of//

//One and Thirty yeares And the said defend:ts say That the said Sir Martin Noell about the tyme in the def:ts Answere before menconed dyed and the said Dame Elizabeth his wife him survived by reason whereof the Estate Terme of yeares and Interest of and in the said Capitall//

//Messuage Garden and Appurtenances the XXXX belonginge lawfully came as theise defend:ts are advised) and was vested in the said Dame Elizabeth And thes said defendants further say That the said Dame Elizabeth [rest of line obscured by fold in original manuscript]//

//her said last will did give and bequeath all her estate reall and personall unto Nathaniell Theodorus Grace and Elizabeth Noell her younger Children and her said last will and Testament made and Constituted [rest of line obscured by fold in original manuscript]//

//said def:ts say that accordinge to the direccon and desire of the said Sir Martin Noell his Executo:rs did pay unto the woman to whence the said Lease of the said Capital Messuage garden and appurtenances [rest of line obscured by fold in original manuscript]//

//money and all Interest and Damage for the forbearance thereof And afterwards all the defendants her Executo:rs and the said woman the Mortgage did Joyne in an Assignm:t of the said Lease of the said Messuage and p:rmisses unto ffrancis Dashwood of London Merchant as was//

//lawfull for them to doe who as the said defendants beleeve is nowe in the possession thereof And as the defendts say and beleeve and as they are enformed by theire Councell Learned in the Lawes of England is not in any part of the said Sir Martin Noells estate either reall or//

//psonall and soe not lyable or chargeable to the payment of the said S:r Martin Noells debts And the said Defend:ts say That they doe beleeve That the Complaynant did in ??Trinite Terme which was the Eighteenth yeare of his [rest of line obscured by fold in original manuscript]//

//XXX the Court of Kings Bench the summe of Two Thousand Two Hundred and ffiftie pounds and Costs of Suite upon an Accon of Covenant there brought by the Complaynant against the defend:ts Executo:rs of the said S:r Martin Noell there Testato:r upon a Covenant broken by//

//the XXX Testato:r in his life tyme provt by the said Judgment it may appeare Butt the said defend:ts each of them for himselfe said That they as Executo:rs of the said Sir Martin Noell neither att the tyme of the said Judgment hadd or ever since have hadd Assetts in theire//

//hands or in the hands of other psons for theire use to satisfie and pay the Complaynant his moneys upon the said Judgment And therefore the said defendants say That whereas in any by the Complaynants Bill it is required that the defendants sett forth and//

//XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX of what personall Estate theire said Testato:r dyed possessed of or interessed in and how much thereof hath come to the defend:ts hands or to the hands of either of them or for theire uses and when [rest of line obscured by fold in original manuscript]//

//XXXXXXXXXXXX due to theire Testato:r and [three or four words concealed by fold in manuscript] And what Reall estate hee hadd what provision hee made for the payment of his debts and how and in what manner, what debts theire Testato:r owed at his death when payable how//

//XXXXXXXX and from whome and for what they grewe due and what monyes have beene paid by them the defendants upon the said Securities and when and by whom And what monyes they have receaved and XX the Testato:rs estate, and when & of whome they//

//receaved the same The said defendants for Answere unto all and every the pticuler requests aforesaid severally Answere and say as herein after is expressed And ffirst the said George Robinson for himselfe and by himselfe Answereth and saieth//

//That what Summe or Summes of money arisinge out of the Testato:rs psonall Estate or by reason thereof or oweinge to theire Testato:rs psonall Estate have by hym receaved by him the said George Robinson or by any other person or persons for his use to his knowledge or hath//

//come unto the hands of him the said George Robinson and how and for what and to whome and when hee paid the monyes receaved by him or disposed of the same or of any other part of the Testato:rs personall Estate And what debts of the Testato:r hee hath paid, And for what//

//and to whome And when he paid the same hee the said defendant doth render and give a pticuler Accompt thereof herein as a part of his Answere which is in manner as hereafter followeth That is to say the said defendant saieth That hee findeth by his//

//Accompt that hee hath receaved the ffollowinge summes as herein after is expressed wherein hee hath not committed any wilfull mistake or wittingly or wittingly ommitted any thinge That is to say The Appraysem:t of the goodes belonginge to the Testato:rs Accompt//

//Unto the summe of One Thowsand One hundred Eighty Seaven pownds six shillings and a penny ffor Gold and Silver coyne in the hand One hundred and ffowerteene pownds Twelve shillings Of and from John Osborne Thomas Hart and my Coexecuto:r//

//Sir Martin Noell the Three and Twentieth of June One Thowsand six hundred sixty six the Three and Twentieth of November and Eighth of January One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Six the Sixteenth of July One Thowsand six hundred sixty seaven The sixteenth of//

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//ffebruary One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven on Accompt for the psonall estate in Ireland and for our Interest as Executo:rs in the Customes and Excise of Ireland the summe of One hundred Eighty Eight pownds Six hundred [fold in manuscript obscures six to eight words to end of line]

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//[four or five words obscured by fold in original manuscript] money six hundred XXXX is in full of our said Interest as Executo:rs in the said Customes and XXXX Excises of Ireland to John Osborne Nyne hundred and Eight pownds & six shillings Of Alexander Bence^[8] the Sixth of ffebruary One Thowsand six//

//hundred sixty Seaven for the Testato:rs Interest in the ffarme of Excise and Lycences for Alehowses in Ireland which to the best of this defendants knowledge was not ascertayned by any deed or writinge only by verbal Agreement amonnge the Partners in the Testato:rs//

//life tyme as this defendant is enformed One Thowsand pownds Out of which the said Alexander Bence deteyned and paid unto John Ayres Six hundred and ffifty pownds on Accompt of the principall Interest and charges of suite of a Bond hee stood bound in with//

//the Testato:r and for his proper debt soe the nett money received by this defendant was but Three hundred and ffifty pownds Of John ?Annand the Eighteenth of ffebruary adn Thirteenth of March One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Six as in this Answere is sett forth ffive hundred//

//pownds and Three hundred pownds besides an Obligacon under his hand and Seale to pay ffive hundred pownds on demand Eight hundred pownds Of Don Dommingo Grillo and Don Ambrosia Lomelyn of Madrid the Nyne and Twentieth of January One Thowsand six and Sixty ffive the//

//Third of May One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Six The Three and Twentieth of June the One and Thirtieth of July the Second of November One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Six and the Nynth of March One Thowsand Six hundred Sixty ffive and the Nyne and Twentieth of March//

//One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Six One hundred ffifty Seaven pownds tenn shillings: Two hundred and ffiftie pownds; ffifty pounds fforty ffive pownds Seaven hundred pownds ffive hundred pownds and ffort ffive pouwnds Ten Thowsand peeces of Eight more were charged by the Testato:r//

//on the ?said persons and receaved by John Colvile in part of his debt of ffive Thowsand pounds as in the payments appeareth One Thowsand Seaven hundred fforty Seaven pownds Tenn shillings Of William Willett in full on Bond the Tenth of Aprill & Eleventh of January One//

//Thowsand six hundred Sixty six and Tenth of June One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven One hundred Eighty Three pounds Two shillings and ffower pence ffor a Seaventh part of the Shipp Ormond ffrigatt and her stocke sould to Peter Hayles & Company^[9] the Thirds of March the//

//Three and Twentieth of December One Thowsand Six hundred Sixty ffive One hundred and Tenn pounds and fforty Two pounds Seaventeene shillings One hundred ffifty Two pounds Seaventeene shillings ffor one ??Sixteenth part of the Shipp Amity sold to John Seaman ?hee

//to pay the Executo:rs part of her debts the Twentiet of ffebruary One Thowsand Six hundred Sixty ffive Twenty pounds ffor one Sixteenth part of the Shipp Loyall Subject Sold Captaine Porter hee to pay the Executo:rs part of her debts the ffifth of May One Thowsand six//

//hundred sixty six One hundred pounds Of Sir Peter Harvey on Accompt for Arrears in Ireland the Eighth of March One Thowsand six hundred Sixty ffive And Six and Twentieth of Aprill One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Six Two hundred pownds and One hundred//

//pownds Three hundred pownds Of Ann ?Brifco upon Accompt of the Salt ffarme the Eigth of March One Thowsand six hundred Sixty ffive Seaventy ffive pownds Eleaven shillings Of Captaine ?Bowen (?lent him XXX) the Nynteenth of May One Thowsand sixe//

//hundred Sixty Sixe ffive pounds Of Edward Selwyn of Oates p Bill of Thomas Hambleton dated att Ostend the Twelth of December theire Stile by Assignem:t of Joseph ffrith on Henry Loades to the Executo:rs of Sir Martin Noell att ??Bzance due the Eigth of January One//

//Thowsand six hundred Sixty ffive Eighty Eight pounds Tenn shillings Of Richard Morley one halfe for pte of the nett money remitted from Barbados on Accompt of the Secretaryshipp of that Island the Eighteenth of June One Thowsand six hundred sixty six Seaventy//

//ffower pounds Seaven shillings Of John Bradborne (for money lent) the Three & Twentieth of July One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Sixe One hundred pounds by Jonathan Basse (in parte of a Bond) the second of ?November One Thowsand six hundred sixty and [one word obscrued by fold in manuscript]

//Twenty pounds ??Of Thomas ??Hotoer for Ballance of an Accompt the ffower and Twentieth of December One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Sixe Eight pownds Twelve shillings six pence Of Thomas Buckner and George Blake in full of the Eight part of the//

//profitt on the wood ffarme the One and Thirtieth of December the Eighteenth of ffebruary One Thowsand six hundred sixty sixe and the One and Thirtieth of August One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven ffifty pownds and ffifty pownds and One hundred pownds Two hundred pownds//

//Of Edmond Lee of an old debt an Accompt the Eighteenth of ffebruary One Thowsand six hundred sixty sixe Two pounds Tenn shillings Of the Chamber of London by Assignem:t to John Ayres (being money lent his Ma:ties XXXX XXXorth Interest) the sixth of May One Thowsand Six//

//hundred sixty six One Thowsand Eight pounds Tenn shillings Of Priscilla Noell (for money lent her) the Thirtieth of August One Thowsand sixe hundred sixty sixe Twenty pownds Of John Baker deducted out of his ?Salary in the paym:t for money lent him the Nyne and//

//Twentieth of September One Thowsand Six hundred Sixty Six Twenty ffive pounds Of George Toriano by him retayned in his owne hands in pte of a Bond of ffive Thowsand pownds besides Interest It due to him from the Testato:r the One & Thirtieth of July one Thowsand six hundred sixty six ?Two Thowsand ffive hundred pownds Of Abraham//

//?Gaggard on Accompt of the Salt ffarme the Twelth and Nyneteenth of ffebruary One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven Thirty ffive pownds and Thirty ffive pownds Seaventy pownds Of John Osborne on Accompt and in full for debts oweinge by the Earle of Antrime and money//

//one XX of the Barony of Cary in Ireland the Nyneteenth of ffebruary One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven ffive hundred and ffifty pownds of John ffenn on Accompt of moneyes due from Sir George Smyth^[10] on Accompt the Seaventh of March One Thowsand six hundred sixty//

//Seaven Two hundred and ffifty pounds Of Edward Lowe (Or, Rowe) upon Bond and on Accompt The Seaven and Twentieth of August One Thousand six hundred Sixty Seaven One hundred Twenty ffower pownds Of Thomas Wright in full of an old debt for salt Excise the Sixth of March One//

//Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven ffower pounds of the Lord Andover for Interest of ffifty pounds on bond for three yeares to the Eight and Twentieth of May One Thowsand Six hundred Sixty Seaven Received the Nyneteenth of November One Thowsand Six hundred Sixty Seaven//

//the Third of April One Thousand Six hundred Sixty Seaven Eight pounds of William Shires an old debt on Bond the Second of July One Thowsand Six hundred Sixty Seaven Seaven pownds Tenn shillings More of John Colvill for the overplus of Tenn Thowsand//

//peeces of Eight above menconned being y:e ballance of that Accompt of the Two Thowsand pounds paid himselfe out of them (as aforesaid) deducted with the charges disbursed by his Correspondents in recovery of the same and remitting it by exchange Twenty Seaven pounds Eighteene shillings and Two pence Of William Ryder//

//and Company in part of a debt due upon Accompt The Three and Twentieth of May One Thowsand sixe hundred Sixty Eight ffifteene pounds of Richard Morley on Accompt of the profitts of the Secretaryshipp of Barbadoes (of which to bee deducted for pt of charges) the Eight//

//and Twentieth of June One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Eight Two hundred pounds of Sir ?Raphe de la Vall in part of a debt upon Accompt the ffirst of July One Thowsand six hundred sixty Eight Twenty pounds Of him more the Twentieth of August One Thowsand//

//six hundred Sixty Eight fforty pounds Of Robert Linton in full of an old Accompt the Third of November One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Eight ffive pounds of Lewis ffrost in full of an Accompt the Six and Twentieth of September One Thowsand//

//hundred Sixty Eight Sixty pounds of Thomas Parminter in full of an old Accompt the Third of November One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Eight Two pounds Of George Torriano in full of an Accompt the Thirteenth of November One Thowsand six hundred Sixty XXX//

//One hundred Thirty Nyne pounds six shillings and sixe pence of Edward Hamond in full of an old Accompt of Excise the Thirteenth of November One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Eight Twenty ffive pounds And this defendant George Robinson saieth that hee XXXXX//

//And there is due to him and by and for the followinge debts due upon Bond by the Testato:r wherein the said defendant was and standeth bound as by the Testato:r Counterbond to this defendant may appeare which Counterbond were forfeited att the death of the Testato:r That is XXXX//

//To George Rogers principall money Two hundred and ffifty pounds Interest of the same from the sixteenth of July One Thousand Six hundred Sixty ffive to the sixteenth of Aprill One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Eight att six pounds p Centum fforty One pounds ffive shillings ?charges XXXX//

//sued by the said Rogers One pound in all Two hundred Nynety Two pounds ffive shillings To Ann and James Hickford principall money Two hundred pounds Interest of the same from the Thirtieth of May One Thowsand Six hundred sixty ffive to the Thirtieth of November One Thowsand//

//hundred sixty seaven Thirty pounds Charges of the same ffive pounds in all Two hundred Thirty ffive pounds To James Mayo principall money Two hundred pounds Interest of the same from the seaven and Twentieth of March One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive to the Seavent ?and ?Twentieth//

//of March One Thousand six hundred Sixty Eight att six pounds p Centa Thirty Six pounds Charges of the same Sixe pounds in all Two hunded fforty Two pounds To John Colvill for Interest of ffive Thowsand pounds till the Two and Twentieth of September One Thowsand [?six]//

//hunded Sixty ffive ffower hundred Sixty Eight pounds ffive shillings and Eight pence or thereabouts with Charges ffrom which tyme the said Colvile ??discounteth Two Thowsand pounds of the principall money for Tenn Thowsand pounds of Eight XXXX XXXX//

//Grillo and Lomelin as in the Receipts is sett forth More for the Interest of Three Thousand pounds from the said Two and Twentieth of September to the Two and Twentieth of March One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven ffower hundred & ffifty pounds ?for the XXXXXX//

//from w:ch tyme the Remayninge Three Thousand pounds principall money is extinguished by sale of the Mortgage of the Revercon of the Lands bought of the hono:ble Edward Noell as in this Answere is sett forth ffower hundred and ffifty pounds in all Nyne hundred & eighteene pounds//

//ffive shillings and Eight pence To Priscilla Noell principall money Three hundred pounds Interest to the same from the ffifteenth of January One Thousand six hundred sixty ffower to the ffifteenth of January One Thousand six hundred Sixty Seaven att six pounds p Centa ffifty//

//ffower pounds in all Three hundred ffifty ffower pounds To John Hammond principall money One hundred pounds Interest of the same the ffourth of May One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive to the ffowrth of November One Thowsand six hundred sixty Seaven att six//

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//pounds p Centa ffifteene pounds Charges of the same Two pounds Tenn shillings in all One hundred and Seaventeene pounds Tenn shillings To John

//of March One Thowsand six hundred Sixty ffive to the Seaven and Twentieth of March One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Eight att Six pounds p Centa

//Shillings To Sir Robert Cordwell principall money Three hundred pounds Interest of the same from the Six and Twentieth day of July One Thousand six hundred sixty

//pounds Charged of the same Three pounds

//of November One Thousand six hundred sixty seaven att six pounds p Centa Thirty pounds in all Two hundred and Thirty pounds To Jeremy Coppinge

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//sixty ffower to the second of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty Seaven att six pounds p Centa Thirty six pounds in all Two hundred Thirty six pounds
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//of December One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffower to the Three and Twentieth of December One Thowsand six hundred sixty seaven att six pounds Eighteene pounds in all One hundred and Eighteene pounds To Henry ?Cutts principall money Two hundred XXXXXXXXXXXXX

//of the same from the Twelth of ffebruary One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffower to the Twelth of ffebruary One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven att Six pounds p Centa Thirty six pounds in all Two hundred Thirty Six pounds To John Ayres principall money One Thowsand//

//pounds Interest of the same from the Eighth of May One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive to the Tenth of November One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Seaven att Six pounds p Centa One hundred and ffifty pounds charges of the same Tenn shillings in all One Thowsand one hundred//

//ffifty pounds and Tenn shillings To Tymothy Taylor principall money ffower hundred pounds Interest of the same from the ffowerteenth of July One thowsand six hundred sixty ffive to the ffowerteenth of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty seaven att six pounds XXXXXXXXX//

//sixty pounds in all ffower hundred and sixty pounds To Rebecca ffowler principall money Two hundred pounds Interest of the same from the Eight and twentieth of July One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive to the Eight & Twentieth of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty seaven//

//att six pounds p Centa Thirty pounds in all Two hundred and Thirty pounds All which foregoeinge Summes this defendant is advised by his Councell that hee may charge in this Accompt of payment and reteyne for the same as Assetts shall come XXXXX//

//hands for that were all the proper debts of the Testato:r as may appeare by the Counterbonds aforesaid being long since forfeited And this defendant hath not otherway to pay himselfe (as his Councell doth advise him) with Interest & charges till hee shalbee reimburst the same XXXXXXXx//

//haveinge beene fined and forced to borrow money for payment of severall of the said debts to his damage and disrepute Paid the Testato:rs ffunerall charges (as p Accompt may appeare) soone after his death Two hundred Thirty ffower pounds ffowerteene shillings and Nyne pence Paid the XXXXXXXXXXX//

//Protestants of Piedmont by Bond and Act of Parliam:t the Nyneteenth of ffebruary and the ffower and Twentieth of December and Nynth of March and the Three and Twentieth of June One Thowsand six hundred sixty six One hundred Thirteene XXX//

//six shillings ffower pence, One hundred pounds, One Thowsand Sixty Two pounds Thirteene shillings and Eight pence in all One Thowsand Two hundred Seaventy Six pounds Paid to the Kings Ma:tie by Bond & Act of Parliam:t for Arreares of Excise with charges in that XXXXXXXXXXXXX//

//about the ffive & Twentieth of June One Thowsand six hundred sixty six by money and Bonds paid and entred into by both theise defendants One Thowsand and Twenty pounds Paid Don Juan ?Ximenes de ?Bohorgnes (for goods sold by the Testato:r in trust for him) XXXXXXX//

//King and Councell, And after detencon of theise defendants in Custody of a Serjeant at Armes and ffive Monethes Attendance on this Affaire with charges the Tenth of May One Thowsand six hundred sixty six One Thowsand ffower hundred ffifty Nyne pounds ffifteene shillings [?to]//

//John Colvill for the Ballance of an Accompt of One hundred ffifty Two pounds Nyneteene shillings Nyne pence of which the Testato:r paid him One hundred and Thirty pounds the ffourth of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive Twenty two pounds Nyneteene shillings XXXXX//

//Paid Richard Balme for principall of a Bond where in the defend:t Thomas Noell stood bound for the Testato:r Three hundred pounds for Interest of the same from the Sixt of May One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive to the One & Twentieth of July One Thowsand six hundred sixty XXXX//

//pounds p Centa Twenty One pound ffifteene shillings charges of the same ffower pounds seaven shillings in all Three hundred Twenty six pounds Two shillings Paid Elizabeth Griffith for principall of a Bond Three hundred pounds and for Interest of the same from the ffive & TweXXXXXXX//

//January One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffower to the ffive and Twentieth of January one Thowsand six hundred sixty six att Six pounds p Centm Thirty Six pounds for Charges of the same ffower pounds Tenn shillings in all Three hundred and fforty pounds & Tenn shillings paid George XXXXXX//

//in the Receipts is menconed Two Thowsand ffive hundred pounds and Servants Wages soone after the Testato:rs death as by the Accompt may appeare ffifty six pounds Paid the charges of the ffamily during the Contagion and before it could bee discharged by reason thereof besides maXXX XXXXXXXXXX//

//by the Butcher One hundred and Seaventeene pounds ffowerteeene shillings and Seaven pence Paid Sundry Officers employed by the Testato:r in his Affaires of the Additional Dutie in part for wages or Sallary as by Accompt may appeare One hundred Nynty Three pounds Nyneteene shillings XXXXXXXX//

//On the will and the Appraysment as by the pticulers may appeare Sixty Two pounds Sixteene shillings and ffive pence Paid James Noell Third sonne of the Testato:r on Accompt of his Mayntenance from the Testato:rs death to the Third of Aprill One Thowsand six hundred sixty XXXXXXXXX//

//ffive pounds Paid Elizabeth Cooke in part of her Annuity of ffifty pounds per Anm the ffower & Twentieth of November the ffourth of January and the Thirteenth of March One Thowsand six hundred Sixty ffive Twenty Seaven pounds tenn shillings Paid Lyddia ??Warres her XXX//

//Lynnen the Nyneteenth of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive ffower pXwXXXXds Seaven shillings and six pence Paid the Testato:rs Barber his Quarterage for one quarter the Nyne & Twentieth of October One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive Tenn shillings Paid Jean TappXX XXXX//

//Bill of Exchange the Eight & Twentieth of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive Six pounds Paid John Velan (Possibly, Belan) in pte of his bill for candles the ffifteenth day of September One Thowsand six hundred sixty six Two pounds Paid charges on the ffarme of the Addiconall duty and being carried to Oxford & XXXXX//

//there in the Custody of a Serjeant att Armes on this Accompt as by the Accompt may appeare the One & Twentieth of December One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive Two hundred Eighty ffive pounds Eleaven shillings and ffive pence Of which the ffarmers of the Customes howse have XXXXXXXX//

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//unto this defendant the ffirst of August and ffourth of October One Thowsand six hundred sixty seaven ffifty pounds and one hundred and Nyne pounds ?rest One hundred Twenty six [three or four words obscured by horizontal fold in manuscript] Nine pence Paid Richard Jackson Taylor his bill for cloathes the ThrXXXXX//

//Twentieth of ffebruary One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive fforty pounds sixteene shillings and Eight pence Paid Thomas ??Lancelett for ?Braceletts the ffowerteenth of March One Thousand six hundred sixty ffive Eight pounds Paid Sir Thomas Strickland in full of a Rent charge of XXXX//

//hundred pounds p Annm yssuinge out of the said ffarme the Seaven & Twentieth of March One Thowsand six hundred Sixty six Twenty pounds Paid Samuell Hartlibb for solicitinge buissnes relateinge to the personall estate of the Testato:r in Ireland the Seaven & Twentieth of XXXXXX//

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//One Thowsand six hundred Sixty ffive Twenty pounds paid by soe ??much due to this defend:t for Three yeares allowance to the Nyne & Twentieth of September One Thowsand six hundred sixty eight accordinge to the will XX Three hundred pounds Paid Peter Brayth?waite [two or thre words obsured by vertical fold in manuscript]

//of Exchange accepted by the Testato:r with charges the Tenth of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive One hundred pounds Tenn shillings Paid George Smith a Bill of Exchange accepted by the Testato:r with charges the Twentieth of October One Thowsand six [?hundred]//

//sixty ffive One hundred and ffowerteene pounds ffifteene shillings Paid George Torriano in full of a Bill of Exchange accepted by the Testato:r about the Twentieth of October One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive One hundred pounds Paid for and made good to the ??CompXXXX XXXXXX//

//of Royall Adventure:rs of England tradeing into Affrica on or about the Tenth of Aprill and ?Seaventh of May One Thowsand six hundred sixty six in part of a Bill of Exchange accepted by the Testato:r for ffowerteen Thowsand Seaven hundred Twenty one pounds ffive XXXXXXXXX//

//shillings Nyne hundred Eighty ?Two pounds eight shillings and ffower pence Paid John Baker Accomptant & William ffalconer for two yeares and a halfes sallary for keeping the Bookes & otherwise to the ffive and Twentieth of March One Thowsand six hundred XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX//

//Eight Seaventy ffive po[six to eight words obscured by fold in original manuscript] for charges of suits against sundry psons as by his Accompt) the Tenth of Aprill One Thowsand
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//XXXXXXXXXXXXX??equitie for writings and other charges of sundry suits in Three yeares and Two monethes or thereabouts Six hundred and Seaven pounds and Eight shillings Paid Jonas Highnell in full for board and school schoolinge for Two of the Testato:rs Children XXXX and XXXXX//

//XXXXX [left blank in original manuscript for an insertion] of Aprill One Thowsand six hundred sixty six Twenty ffive pounds Paid to Thomas Noell my CoExecuto:r
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//?paid out in sundry XXXXXXent charges for carrying on the buisiness of the Estate as by ?maney pticulres may appeare to the ffive and Twentieth of M
//March One Thowsand six hundred sixty XXXXXXXXXXX
// XXX NOT SURE NEXT TEXT IS CORRECTLY ALIGNED Tenn shillings and six pence XXXXXX//

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//XXXX hundred pounds on Bond from the Nyne [major fold in original manuscript obscures many words]
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//[one or two words missing due to damage to LG edge of manuscript] the Complaynant against the Estate of the Testato:r on an Action of Covenant [major fold in original manuscript obscures many words]
/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Thowsand six hundred sixty
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//??which shee hath a pticular Bond from the Testato:r from the Twentieth of ??January One Thowsand sixty Eight XXXXXXXXXXX Twenty one pounds Paid ??XXXX Cocke
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//XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX shillings Paid Nicholas ??Cloughberry and Thomas Atkins for Interest of ffive hundred pounds on Bond from the Eight and
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//ffive pounds Paid ?Jane Sheapard for Interest of Twenty ffive pounds on bond from the Twentieth of Aprill One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive to the Twentieth of Aprill One Thowsand six hundred sixty six One pound Ten shillings Paid James ?fflecher (Or, ???fflehher) for Interest of One hundred pounds XXXXXX//

//from the Six and Twentieth of March One Thowsand six hundred sixty five to the XXXXXXX & Twentieth One Thowsand six hundred sixty six sixe pounds paid for ffrancis Corbett for Interest to One hundred pound on Bond from the first of July One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive to the first of July One//

//Thowsand six hundred sixty six ?six pounds Paid George Blake for Interest of Six hundred pounds to witt ffive hundred pounds and One hundred pounds on Bond and a Judgm:t of the hundred pound from the Seaven and Twentieth of Aprill One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffower XXX//

//??Seaven & Twentieth of October One Thowsand six hundred sixty six ffifteene pounds and Thirty pounds for the ffive hundred pounds from the Twentieth of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffower to the Twentieth of January One Thowsand six hundred sixty ffive fforty ffive pounds Paid XXXX//

//??Minchard Scrivener his bill for writeings for the Testato:r the ffower & Twentieth of October One Thousand six hundred sixty ffive Eight pounds sixe shillings Eight pence paid Leonard Bates Scriveneno:r for the like the Eight & TXXieth of December One Thousand six hundred sixty ffive one pound//

//[?one word missing due to damaged edge of manuscript] Charles ??Ceazer for Interest of Two hundred pounds on Bond from the Eleaventh of November One Thousand six hundred sixty ffower to the Eleaventh of November One Thousand six hundred sixty ffive with charges ffifettene pounds Paid Charges in Spaine and otherwise to the ffower and//

//[two or three words missing due to damaged edge of manuscript] June One Thousand six hundred sixty six One hundred ffifty one pounds six shillings nyne pence or thereabouts upon drawinge and getting in the money in the Receipts menconed of ?Grillo and Lomelin att XXXXside and paid ?our ffacto:r there and att Cadi?se for ?prosecution of the//

//[two or three words missing due to damaged edge of manuscript] to that tyme and otherwise about ??since relatinge to the same ??More as by pticulars may appeare besides other disbursemen:ts since of which the Accompt is not come from Spaine One hundred ffifty one pounds six shillings Nyne pence paid Richard Ph?ripp on Accompt of SXXXX and//

//[?one word missing due to damaged edge of manuscript] in the Salt ffarme the ffowerth of January and Nyneteenth of ffebruary One Thousand six hundred sixty seaven Twenty pounds paid Richard Morley for part of the Charges by him expended out of the XXXX hundred pounds of him in the receipts measured Three pounds Two//

//shillings six pence more for Interest of the debt afore menconned to George Rogers to the Sixteenth of October One Thousand six hundred sixty Eight Seaven pounds Tenn shillings paid Interest more of the debt to ?Ann and James Hickford to the Thirtieth of November One Thowsand//

//six hundred sixty Eight with charges ffowerteene pounds paid more of the debt due to James ?Mayo to the Seaven and Twentieth of September One Thousand six hundred sixty Eight with charges Seaven pounds?worth the debt due to Priscilla Noell to the ffifteenth of November One//

//Thowsand six hundred Sixty Eight ffifteene pounds Interest more for the debt due to John Ayres to the Tenth of November One Thousand six hundred Sixty Eight Sixty pounds more of the debt due to Tymothy Taylor the ffowerteenth of November One Thowsand six hundred sixty Eight XXX//

//[two or three words missing due to damaged edge of manuscript] pounds more of the debt due to Robert ffowler to the Eight & Twentieth of November One Thowsand six hundred Sixty Eight Tenn pounds By which payments & Receipts aforesaid (which this defend:t beleeveth bee very just & right) it appeareth XXX the said defendant XXXXXXXXXX//

//[two or three words missing due to damaged edge of manuscript] summe of money And hopeth hee shalbee pmitted to pay himselfe with Interest for forbearance of the same as Assetts shall come to his hands And as unto the Rewccon of the Lands in Yorkshire and Warwickshire bought of XXX Noell in the Testato:rs will menconed it was mortgaged by the XXXX//

//[two or three words missing due to damaged edge of manuscript] appoyntm:t to John Colvill (or some in trust for him) for further Security of ffive Thowsand pounds or some such summe for which theise defendants stood bound with the Testato:r with Interest of w:ch Two Thousand pounds or thereabouts was paid or Assigned to bee paid by the XXX//

//Testato:r in his life tyme as by the Receipts appeares ffor the remayninge Three Thousand pounds & Interest the defend:ts have XXXX to gett ?the ?same satisfied by sale of the said Reverton and could not procure a XXX XXX for the same att a valuable consideraccon as they thought XXX//

//now of late that one Morrice and Sanders have bought it of the Mortgages for the summe of Three Thousand pounds And theise defend:ts did Joyne n the Conveyances (with theire Coexecuto:r Sir Martin Noell) accordinge to the Advise of theire Councell And the said purchasse//

//money is (or is to bee) Assigned unto the said John Colvill on Accompt of his said debt and theise defend:ts stand Engaged for the remaynder of the said debt to the said John Colvill as aforesaid and as in the payments also XXX ??appeareth And the said defend:t George Robinson saith That in ?thes//

//his Answers hee hath given in a iuste & full Accompte aswell of all the psonall Estate of the Testato:r which hath come into his hands as Executo:r of his last will & Testament as into the hands of any other pson or psons for himselfe to his knowledge from the tyme of the death of the Testato:r [?to ?the]//

//tyme of his Answere filed & putt in by all w:th Receipts & payments herein before menconned (w:ch the sd def:ts beleeveth to bee very iust & right) It will appeare unto the comp:lt that the sd defendant George Robinson is out of his purse a very greate summe of money of his owne proper estate and//

//also farther as yett standeth bonnden for the Testato:r for the payments of greate summes of money And therefore the said def:t George Robinson hopeth that the ffavour of this hono:ble Court & accordinge to the Lawe of the Realme that hee shall bee pmitted to reimburse secure & pay himselfe the said XXX//

//withInterest for the forbearance theire of soe soone as Assetts of the said Testato:rs estate shall come into his hands And the sd Thomas Noell the whereof the two def:ts to the Compl:ts bill for himselfe & by himselfe sewally answereth & saieth that hee hath very little ???intended with the receivinge or disposinge of any pte of the//

//Testato:rs psonall Estate otherwise or in any other manner ?than in Joyninge with the other Executo:rs of the Testato:r in the disposecon of some pte thereof as before in his Answere to the Complaynants bill hee hath Answered Nor hath hee hadd or any other pson for his XXXX ?hadd any pte thereof Butt the said defend:t hath left and//

//Comitted the whole management orderinge trust and disposicon of all the Testato:rs said psonall estate to the Care trust & disposicon only of the other def:t George Robinson save only that the said defendant Thomas Noell saith That hee the said Thomas Noell since the decease of theire Testato:r bought sewall of/

//XXXXXXXXXX of therie Testato:rs howsehold goods to the value of ffive hundred pounds or thereabouts accordinge to the appraysement therof made of w:ch said ffive hundred pounds payable for the sd goods the sd defendant saieth That on or about the Tenth day of July w:ch was in the yeare of our Lord One Thowsand six hundred sixty six XXXX//

//XXXXXXXXXXXX the summe of Two hundred pounds thereof to one M:r Robert ffolio a Credito:r of theire Testato:r for a iust debt oweinge unto him the said Robert att the decease
//of theire Testato:r And as to the residue of the said ffive hundred pounds payable for the said howseholdgoods the said defend:t Thomas Noell saieth that theXX XXXXX//

//XXXXXXXXXXXX the tyme of his death was indebted on a penall bond of One Thousand pounds unto one Thomas Atkins Esq:r condiconned for the paym:t of ffive hundred pounds att a day certaine in the Condicon of the said Bond menconned w:ch money was not paid by theire Testato:r in his life tyme & soe the sd Bond became XXXXXXX//

//XX the said defendant saith That on or about the Nyne & Twentieth of August One Thowsand six hundred sixty five hee the said defend:t paid unto the sd Thomas Atkins the summe of ffive hundred and ffifteene pounds And tooke upp the said bond And soe the said defend:t saieth that he hath paid more for the sd howseholdgoods bought by XXX XXXX//

//aforesd than was payable for the same And therefore what monyes or other pte of theire Testato:rs psonall estate have beene ?sent hadd or paid & by whome received and by whome & to whome paid & for what & when paid the said def:t Thomas Noell for the Certainity thereof doth refer himselfe to the Answere of this XXXXX George Robinson//

//And the said def:ts and either of them doe deny that they or either of them have raised or received greate sommes of monyes of the Testato:rs psonall estate or have accepted of securities covenants of Agreem:ts for paym:t thereof other than as here in these Answeres before is sett forth or declared w:ch said monyes soe XXXXX to XXXXX//

//bee paid them together with the estate of theire Testato:r w:ch is already come to theire hands is sufficient to satisfie & pay the Complaynant his said debt with an overplus as in the Complaynants bill is sett forth And the said def:ts for a further Answere unto the Complaynants bill say That they doo veryly beleeve that some pte [three or four words obscure by fold in original manuscript]//

//psonall estate doth more remayne in the hands of sewall psons beyond the seas vizt in Europe Asia Affrica & America but what y:e pticulars of the sd estate are or in whose hands the sd estate is or what the value thereof the said defend:ts nor either of them doe yett knowe nor can as yett discover XXX as to give pfect//

//Inventory or Accompt thereof Butt they hope that they shall shortly bee enabled to give in an Inventory thereof to the Prerogative Court of Canterbury And also because many of the debts oweinge to the Testato:rs estate upon Accompts are not as yett stated & adjusted although that the said defend:ts have endeavoured as much as in them pte XX//

//have setled the same And the said defend:ts doe deny all manner of combinations fraudes & confederacies whatsoever charged in the bill ?without that the said defend:ts doe keepe and reteyne the reall & psonall estate of the said Sir Martin Noell in theire hands and disposed of & ought thereby ?have raised monyes when XXXX//

//to satisfie and discharge all the Testato:rs iust debts & money oweinge att the tyme of his death Or that they refuse to call in for the debts oweinge to theire Testato:r or others in trust for him or to sell his estate for the payment of his debts or that any payment of debts by them were but ??colourable of XXXXXX//

//XXed to defraude the Complaynante & other the Credito:rs of the said Sir Martin Noell theire Testato:r of theire Just debts of theire Testato:r as have byn paid by them the same have byn payd to them the sayd defendants And without that XXX any other matter or thing materiall for XXsaid def:ts//

//[one or two words missing due to manuscript damage] of them to make answere unto and which here in hath not beene sufficiently Answered unto confessed and avoyded traversed or denyed is true to the knowledge of the said defendants or either of them the said defendants All which matters and things the said defend:ts doe & will ?averre & may XX & ?prove//

//[two or three words missing due to manuscript damage] Court shall award And therefore the said defedts pray to bee dismissed out of this Hono:ble Court with theire Costs and Charges by them on this behalfe wrongfully susteyned//

//JXXX Hughes [Signature, bottom RH corner]

Notes

Creditors and debtors of Sir Martin Noell identified by executors

Lord Andover ("on Bond")
Thomas Atkins Esq:r ("on Bond")
John Ayres ("principall money")
John Baker Accomptant & William ffalconer ("for two yeares and a halfes sallary for keeping the Bookes & otherwise": "Of John Baker deducted out of his ?Salary in the paym:t for money lent him")
Richard Balme ("for principall of a Bond")
the Testato:rs Barber ("his Quarterage")
Leonard Bates Scriveneno:r ("for the like")
Alexander Bence ("deteyned and paid unto John Ayres")
George Blake ("on Bond"; "a Judgm:t")
Don Juan ?Ximenes de ?Bohorgnes ("for goods sold by the Testato:r in trust for him")
John Bradborne ("for money lent")
Peter Brayth?waite ("Bill of Exchange")
Ann ?Brifco ("upon Accompt of the Salt ffarme")
Charles ??Ceazer ("on Bond")
Chamber of London (???)
Nicholas ??Cloughberry ("on Bond")
John Colvile (alias Colvill), London goldsmith ("of John Colvill for the overplus of Tenn Thowsand peeces of Eight above menconned being y:e ballance of that Accompt of the Two Thowsand pounds paid himselfe out of them (as aforesaid) deducted with the charges disbursed by his Correspondents in recovery of the same and remitting it by exchange". Note that this transaction appears to be related to Sir Martin Noell's dealings with Don Dommingo Grillo and Don Ambrosia Lomelyn of Madrid)
Elizabeth Cooke ("in part of her Annuity")
Jeremy Coppinge^[11]
ffrancis Corbett ("on Bond")
Sir Robert Cordwell ("principall money")
Henry ?Cutts ("principall money")
Sundry Officers employed by the Testato:r in his Affaires of the Additional Dutie ("in part for wages or Sallary")
John ffenn (??)
Lewis ffrost ("an accompt")
Robert ffolio ("a iust debt")
Rebecca ffowler ("principall money")
Robert ffowler
Abraham Gaggard
Elizabeth Griffith ("for principall of a Bond")
Don Dommingo Grillo and Don Ambrosia Lomelyn of Madrid ("obligation" under Sir Martin Noell's hand and seal
Edward Hamond ("an old Accompt of Excise")
Sir Peter Harvey ("on Accompt for Arrears in Ireland")
Samuell Hartlibb ("for solicitinge buissnes relateinge to the personall estate of the Testato:r in Ireland")
?Ann and James Hickford ("debt")
Thomas ??Hotoer ("for Ballance of an Accompt") (See "Thomas Holder at the African-House, Little London Directory, 1677, no pagination)
Richard Jackson, taylor ("his bill for cloathes")
Edmon Lee ("an old debt")
Robert Linton ("an old Accompt") (See "Humph. Linton, Broadstreet, Little London Directory, 1677, no pagination)
?Grillo and Lomelin
Edward Lowe (Or, Rowe) ("on Bond")
Kings Ma:tie ("by Bond & Act of Parliam:t for Arreares of Excise with charges")
James Mayo ("debt"; "principall money")
Richard Morley ("on Accompt of the profitts of the Secretrayshipp of Barbadoes"; "one halfe for pte of the nett money remitted from Barbados on Accompt"; "for part of the Charges by him expended")
James Noell Third sonne of the Testato:r ("on Accompt of his Mayntenance")
Thomas Noell
John Osborne ("Of John Osborne on Accompt and in full for debts oweinge by the Earle of Antrime and money one XX of the Barony of Cary in Ireland")
Thomas Parminter ("an old Accompt")
Protestants of Piedmont ("by Bond and Act of Parliam:t")
George Robinson
George Rogers ("debt")
William Ryder & Company ("a debt"; "Of William Ryder and Company in part of a debt due upon Accompt")
Servants Wages
Edward Selwyn ("Of Edward Selwyn of Oates p Bill of Thomas Hambleton dated att Ostend the Twelth of December theire Stile by Assignem:t of Joseph ffrith on Henry Loades to the Executo:rs of Sir Martin Noell")
?Jane Sheapard ("on Bond")
William Shires (on bond; an old debt)
Sir Thomas Strickland ("rent charges")
Jean TappXX ("Bill of Exchange")
Tymothy Taylor ("principall money")
George Torriano (alias Toriano) ("an Accompt"; "Bill of Exchange"; "by him retayned in his owne hands in pte of a Bond") (See "George Toriano, Nicholas lane", Little London Directory, 1677, no pagination)
Sir ?Raphe de la Vall ("in part of a debt upon Accompt ")
John Velan (Possibly, Belan) ("in pte of his bill for candles")
Lyddia ??Warres ("her Lynnen")
William Willett ("on Bond")
Thomas Wright ("Of Thomas Wright in full of an old debt for salt Excise")

George XXXX

("a debt")

Debtors of Sir Martin Noell identified by executors

John ?Armand

Purchasers of Sir Martin Noell's assets identified by executors

John ?Armand (Or, ??Annand), London merchant
Alexander Bence ("for the Testato:rs Interest in the ffarme of Excise and Lycences for Alehowses in Ireland")
Peter Hayles & Company (bought one seventh part in the Ormond ffrigatt and its stock)^[12]
Thomas Buckner and George Blake ("Of Thomas Buckner and George Blake in full of the Eight part of the profitt on the wood ffarme")
Morrice and Sanders
John Osborne (sold "in full of our said Interest as Executo:rs in the said Customes and XXXX Excises of Ireland to John Osborne"; "Of John Osborne on Accompt and in full for debts oweinge by the Earle of Antrime and money one XX of the Barony of Cary in Ireland ")

Individuals with commercial links to Sir Martin Noell identified by executors

John Bence, London merchant

Bills of Exchange paid on Sir Martin Noell's behalf by executors

George Smith
George Torriano (alias Toriano)

Ships mentioned by executors as part owned by Sir Martin Noell

The Amity ("one ??Sixteenth part of the Shipp Amity sold to John Seaman ?hee to pay the Executo:rs part of her debts")
The Love (lost in Noell's lifetime in the Red Sea)
The Loyall Subject ("one Sixteenth part of the Shipp Loyall Subject Sold Captaine Porter hee to pay the Executo:rs part of her debts")
The Ormond ffrigatt ("One hundred Eighty Three pounds Two shillings and ffower pence ffor a Seaventh part of the Shipp Ormond ffrigatt and her stocke sould to Peter Hayles & Company")^[13]

Investments and assets of Sir Martin Noell, including documentation and security

"the Testato:rs Interest in the ffarme of Excise and Lycences for Alehowses in Ireland which to the best of this defendants knowledge was not ascertayned by any deed or writinge only by verbal Agreement amonnge the Partners in the Testato:rs life tyme...One Thowsand pownds Out of which the said Alexander Bence deteyned and paid unto John Ayres Six hundred and ffifty pownds on Accompt of the principall Interest and charges of suite of a Bond hee stood bound in with the Testato:r and for his proper debt soe the nett money received by this defendant was but Three hundred and ffifty pownds"

Sir Martin Noell's family

Sister: Jane Noell. Jane married George Blake. According to a familysearch.org community tree for Jane Noel this was Jane's third marriage and Blake's second marriage. Jane had allegedly been previously married to Stephen Tickner in 1624 (St. Benet, Paul's Wharf). Tickner dying in 1635 (bur. 28 Sep 1635, St. Matthew, Friday Street), she allegedly married Simon Maton in 1637 (m. 21 May 1637, Stepney, Middlesex). Maton dying in ?, she allegedly married George Blake in 1653 (m. 14 Mar 1653, St. Augustine, Watling Street, London). The same source states that Jane Noel died in 1674.^[14]

Edward Bradbourne

"On 7 January 1657. Povey wrote to his brother William that a Mr Edward Bradbourne was coming to Barbados as a servant and factor to Mr Noell. Severall months later Povey wrote to Bradbourne..."^[15]

"1661?: 94. Petition of Edward Bradbourne, the elder, to the King. Sets forth his services and losses in the royal cause from the first beginning of the late troubles to the value of 30,000l. ; that Thos. Noell who is in possession of the office of Secretary in Barbadoes is willing to surrender his grant which his Majesty upon a petition delivered by Lord Culpeper promised to the petitioner ; prays for a confirmation of the office to John Dawes, one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, for his life, in trust to the use of the petitioner and his assigns, to be executed by Edw. Bradbourne the younger, who is on the place, or any other deputy whom Dawes may appoint. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XV., No. 57.]"^[16]

"The firm of Martin Noell & Company became exceedingly prosperous, and Noell himself one of the mainstays of the government. He became a member of the Trade Committee in 1655, of the committee for Jamaica in 1656, and was frequently called in by the Council of State to offer advice or to give information. He was on terms of intimacy with Cromwell, and because of the Protector's friendship for him and confidence in his judgment, his recommendations for office, both in England and the colonies had great weight. Povey speaks of the " extraordinary favor allowed him (Noell) by his Highness." He had a brother, Thomas Noell, who was prominent in Barbadoes and Surinam and in charge of his interests there. He was also represented in other islands by agents and factors, of whom Edward Bradbourne was the most conspicuous, while Major Richard Povey in Jamaica, and William Povey in Barbadoes, brothers of Thomas Povey, had for a time charge of his plantations in those islands. Noell indirectly played no small part in politics, particularly of Barbadoes, where Governor Searle held office largely through his influence. Besides his Jamaica holdings he had estates at Wexford in Ireland, and in April, 1658, wrote to Henry Cromwell that he had "transplanted much of his interest and affairs and relations " to that country, seeming to indicate thereby that his colonial ventures were not prospering satisfactorily. Noell was a politic man, shrewd and diplomatic, asserting his loyalty to the house of Cromwell, yet becoming a trusty subject of King Charles, from whom he afterward received knighthood."^[17]

Ships in which Sir Martin Noell had invested

The Amity

"Even before they had obtained this charter the organizers of the new company induced the king to lend them five of his Majesty's ships. The vessels, the Henrietta, Sophia, Amity, Griffin and Kingsale, were loaded with goods, tools and chemicals necessary for the working of the projected gold mines. Captain Robert Holmes, who had been with Prince Rupert in 1652, was given charge of the expedition, but the goods and necessities were consigned to William Usticke and two other factors of the company. In December, 1660, the five vessels set out on thier voyage to the Gambia River, where they arrived in the following March..In July [1661] as much of the cargo as possible was loaded on the Amity which finally arrived in England, after its crew had been depleted by disease....The small cargo carried back by the various ships, most of which seems to have been on the Amity, probably represents the only tangible results of the expedition. These goods, consisting of elephants' teeth, wax and hides sold for £1,567.8s., whereas the outlay for the expedition was probably between £4,000 and £4,500."^[18]

"Admiralty Papers, Navy Board, In-Letters, 6, loose leaf order of the factors of the Royal Adventurers on the Gambia River, July 19, 1661. With this order there is a certificate dated January 3, 1661/2, to the effect that thirty-eight of the crew of the "Amity" had died on the way to Guinea and during the time they were on the Gambia River"^[19]

The Love

"patam junk by Mr. Andrews's ship the Love in the Red Sea, and the ..."^[20]

The Love was used by the EEIC in the late 1650s to ship goods to Bantam

The Loyall Subject

"Also on the 6th, the new Loyall Subject was launched at Limehouse and in due course became the 20th ship. By May all the merchantmen except the last two had been fitted out to Fortescue's satisfaction, so that his task was essentially completed. As a reward for his services, he was given command of the Loyal Subject....only 11 more merchantmen were needed to attain the desired 130-ship force in 1666. Captain George Erwin, assigned to manage the hirings, began with four vessels which had been employed but released the previous year: the East India Merchant, Castle Frigate, George (of London, and the very large Loyall Subject..."^[21]

Customs Farm

"1662: Oct. 25. Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Receipt for the 8,000l. warranted to Sir William Ryder, Sir Richard Ford and Sir Martin Noell, to be by tallies to be struck upon the farmers of the Customs as part of their rent payable on their first year to end Michaelmas next. (Early Entry Book III. p. 528.)"^[22]

Complexity and value of Sir Martin Noell's estate

"Sunday 8 October 1665: ...And one thing more, Sir Martin Noell’s lady is dead with griefe for the death of her husband and nothing else, as they say, in the world; but it seems nobody can make anything of his estate, whether he be dead worth anything or no, he having dealt in so many things, publique and private, as nobody can understand whereabouts his estate is, which is the fate of these great dealers at everything."^[23]

Sir Thomas Strickland

"Sir Thomas Strickland, 2nd Baronet (c 1639 – 20 November 1684) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659.

Strickland was son of Sir William Strickland, 1st Baronet of Boynton, East Riding of Yorkshire, and his second wife Frances Finch, daughter of Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea.[1] In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Beverley and for Hedon in the Third Protectorate Parliament and chose to sit for Beverley.[2] He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1673. Strickland married Elizabeth Pile, daughter of Sir Francis Pile, 2nd Baronet of Compton Beauchamp, Berkshire, on 19 November 1659. They had ten children."^[24]

Grillo and Lomelin

"Fearful that the illicit importation of slaves might become standard practice, the Spanish government reinstated the asiento in 1662...This time the asiento was granted to two wealthy Genoese merchants, Domingo Grillo and Ambrosia Lomelin, who agreed to supply the Spanish colonies with 24,000 slaves during the next seven years....Like their predecessors, Grillo and Lomelin had to rely on northern Europeans to ship the slaves to the West. Initially, they contracted with both the English Royal African Company and the Dutch WIC to obtain the needed slaves, but increasingly they began to rely on their Dutch suppliers."^[25]

"In the mid-seventeenth century, these slave warehouses were located in Portobello's La Galeria neighborhood, near the Cross of Humilladero. First, officials noted the sex, approximate age, and sometimes origin of each of the captives. Men, women, and children from all parts of Western Africa shared the continued misery of the holding pens. One group imported by the asentistas Domingo Grillo and Ambrosio Lomelin in 1666, for example, included ninety-one men, women, and children from the Bight of Biafra (sixty-one carabalies and thirty ibos), fifty-one from the Slave Coast (aradaes), thirty-seven from the Gold Coast and/or Upper Slave Coast (minas), one man from West Central Africa, and five girls of unidentified origin. The inspectors also verified that the captives had already been scarred with the brands of the Royal Asiento, in this case, the "RC" of the Real Corona burned into the left breast, confirming that they were legally imported. Some of the group had suffered additional tortures, and were missing eyes, ears, and limbs. Next a surgeon examined them and separated the sick and dying from the healthier captives. Those too ill for the forced march to Panama City - such as two men suffering from smallpox, one from a wounded leg (apostema en una pierna), and one from a swelling of the throat — went to an infirmary, but the worthless medicines they received, such as sugar and sarsaparilla, could have done little to ease their suffering. Slave traders kept their human cargoes in Portobello from a few days to several months, where they "refreshed" the Africans with food, fresh water, and clothing. Healthier - or at least healthier-looking - Africans commanded higher prices."^[26]

"23. Durante el segundo año entraron unas 1.500 piezas, aproximadamente, procedentes del primer contrato con la Compañía Holandesa y de otro establecido con un particular - Martin Noel -, firmado el diá 15 de marzo de 1664, en la Corte de Holanda. La escritura se otorgó ante Pedro Padthysem, escribano público de Amsterdam, por lo cual se obligó a Martin Noel a entregar en Barba-...."^[27]

"Uno de estos casos lo tenemos en el Asiento de Grillo. Este habiá firmado un contrato con el mercador inglés Martin Noel, el 15 de marzo de 1664, para entregar en Barbados, en mayo del mismo año, 600 negros. De este contrato lleggaron a Veracruz 510 piezas de esclavos el diá 28 de julio en el barco del Asiento ...."^[28]

"Francisco Ferroni, merchant from Brussels but based in Amsterdam, was a case in point. Ferroni had connections in England, the English West Indies, Spain, and the Spanish West Indies, as well as in the Republic, the southern Netherlands, and the Dutch Caribbean. In London, Ferroni's contact person was Martin Noel, a merchant and investor in the Royal Company of the Adventurers of England. In 1664, Ferroni had granted Noel power of attorney to sign a contract with the agents of Domenico Grillo and Ambròsio Lomellini in Barbados for the supply of 600 to 1,000 "black Indians or Moors" to the Spanish West Indies.91 At the time, Grillo and Lomellini were the holders of the Spanish asiento (1662-1669), in Madrid. Given the connections of Noel with the Royal Company and the involvement of Grillo and Lomellini's agents in Barbados, it is most likely that the slaves referred to in the contract had been transported under the English flag, from an English slave post in western Africa to Barbados and then re-exported to the Spanish West Indies.

By the late 1660s, Ferroni had made another agreement to supply slaves to Cartagena, this time via Curaçao. This contract was signed directly with Grillo and Lomellini. In 1669, to fulfill his obligations in the deal, Ferroni freighted the Sta. Catarina. Captained by Anthony Collombij, the vessel was to sail between the Republic, Ardra (present-day Allada, in the Gulf of Benin), and Curaçao. Some 420 slaves arrived in Curaçao, where they were resold to a merchant from Cartagena, certainly the agent of Grillo and Lomellini.92 To run this venture, Ferroni relied on commercial credit provided by several businessmen, among them Joseph de Castillo, a Brussels merchant. In 1669, De Castillo had provided Ferroni with 10,000 ducats on behalf of Grillo and Lomellini."

A few years later, Ferroni would himself become a representative of Grillo and Lomellini in the Republic, together with Estevan d'Andrea. In this capacity, he negotiated an agreement between the asentistas and the directors of the Company for the Chamber of Amsterdam to supply slaves to the Spanish West Indies and mainland, using Curaçao as a transfer point. The deal was signed in 1675."^[29]

Sir Raphe (alias Ralphe) de la Vall

Possibly of Seaton Delavall, or Seaton de la vall, in Northumberland.

Upton family and Boone family

A genealogical source suggests that there was a close connection between the Upton and Boone families

- "The marriage of Dorothy Upton, daughter of John Upton of Lupton, to Thomas Boone, who owned Mount Boone, which was located on a hill above the western bank of the Dart River, just north of the village of Dartmouth. There also appear to be an extensive business relationship between Thomas Boone, John Upton and several of John's sons -- Arthur and Anthony, specifically. They appear to be involved in import - export trade with Spain, and perhaps America; their residences vary from Devon, to London, to Sevilla."^[30]
- See PROB 11/187 Evelyn 105-155 Will of John Upton of Lupton, Devon 06 December 1641

Inspection of a range of Upton and Boone wills suggests that this may be true, and is probably due to CHristopher Boone's as well as Thomas Boone's links to the Spanish trade

- The will of Anthony Upton, merchant of Seville, mentions Christopher Boone as a friend (PROB 11/332 Penn 1-66 Will of Anthony Upton of Seville 25 January 1670). It also identifies Anthony Upton's partner as Benjamin Bathurst

- The will of Christopher Boone, merchant of London, mentions "my loveing ffriend M:r Gilbert Upton of London Merchant", leaving him £100, and requesting him and Richard Goodall to place out £4000 at interest on behalf of Boone's son Thomas, and that both men assist in placing out Thomas according to his abilities and inclination. Christopher Boone's will also mentions "my loveing friend S:r Benjamin Bathurst of London Kn:t"

Possible primary sources

PROB 11/271 Ruthen 499-543 Will of Thomas Atkins, Merchant of London 24 December 1657
PROB 11/311 Juxon 52-102 Will of Alexander Bence of London 14 July 1663
PROB 11/324 Carr 59-116 Will of John Upton 07 August 1667
PROB 11/332 Penn 1-66 Will of Anthony Upton of Seville 25 January 1670^[31]
PROB 11/344 Bunce 1-53 Will of Peter Bowen, Commander of His Majesty's Ship Leopard 16 February 1674
PROB 11/350 Bence 1-54 Will of George Bowen, Mariner of Saint Olave Southwark, Surrey 10 April 1676
PROB 11/351 Bence 55-108 Will of Sir Alexander Bence of Dublin, County Dublin 20 July 1676
PROB 11/355 Hale 96-141 Will of Thomas Atkins, Gentleman of Saint Andrew Holborn, Middlesex 07 December 1677
PROB 11/379 Cann 1-51 Will of John Osborne, Merchant of London 19 January 1685
PROB 11/398 Dyke 1-44 Will of John Upton of City of London 24 January 1690
PROB 11/422 Box 187-224 Will of Gilbert Upton, Merchant of London 28 February 1694
PROB 11/392 Exton 87-130 Will of John Bence of London 16 March 1688 (+ PROB 11/393 Exton 131-172 Sentence of John Bence of All Hallows London Wall, City of London 05 April 1688)
PROB 11/435 Bond 220-264 Will of Henry Loades, Merchant of the Company of Fishmonger's and Merchant Adventurers of London 10 December 1696
PROB 11/445 Lort 92-135 Will of Henry Loades, Doctor of Physic of London 05 April 1698

PROB 4/19299 Noell, James, at the Indies, beyond the seas 1664 26 Jan.
PROB 4/23524 Noell, James of the East Indies, widower 20 Aug 1663 (20 Aug 1663)
PROB 36/1 Name of deceased: Noell, James St Mary, Staines, Middx 1669

"354 The Accompt of the Estate of Sir Martin Noell, late of London, Knight, and of the supposed Estate of Elizabeth Noell, his Wife, 1677"^[32]

Possible secondary sources

Thornton, A.P., 'Spanish slave-ships in the English West Indies', The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 35, No. 3 (Aug., 1955), pp. 374-385
Vega Franco, Marisa, El tráfico de esclavos con América (Asientos de Grillo y Lomelin, 1663-1674) (Seville, 1984)

Web source on slave links to Seville, Spain: http://personal.us.es/alporu/histsevilla/esclavos_sevilla.htm, viewed 18/11/11

Bibliographies

'Biographical Notes' in XXXX, XX?? (XXXX, XXXX), pp. 273
- Ch. 1: Origins of the American Slave System
- Ch. 2:
- Ch. 3:
- Ch. 4: Slavery in Portuguese and Spanish America in the 18th Century
- Ch. 5:
- Ch. 6: Slavery and the Plantation Economy in Brazil and the Guyanas in the 19th Century
- Ch. 7: Life, Death, and the Family in Afro-Amercian Slave Societies
- Ch. 8:
- Ch. 9:
- Ch. 10: Freedmen in a Slave Society

- Ch. 11: Transition from Slavery to Freedom

↑ HCA 13/71 f. 214r. 'Clayme of George Robinson', deposition by Martin Noell, June 4th, 1656 in High Admiralty Court
↑ See C 6/159/3 Short title: Amcotts v Perry. Plaintiffs: Vincent Amcotts, William Amcotts, Vincent Lawson and Mary Lawson his wife. Defendants: Augustine Perry, Martin Noell and Hugh Upton. Subject: property in Amcotts, Lincolnshire. Document type: two bills, two demurrers, four answers. 1661; and West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds: Ingilby Records [WYL230/2934 - WYL230/Acc4080]: LEGAL PAPERS: LINCS. [no ref. or date]: Brief for plaintiffs WYL230/3267 1664: Contents: In suit of Vincent and William Amcotts and Vincent Lawson v. Sir Martin Noell, Augustine Perry and John, Hugh and Gilbert Upton, concerning an annuity from lands in Amcotts, Lincs.
↑ C 6/147/168 Short title: Walker v Noell. Plaintiffs: John Walker. Defendants: Martin Noell, Hugh Upton, John Upton and Gilbert Upton. Subject: office of collector of the excise on salt in Middlesex. Document type: bill, two answers. 1660
↑ HCA 13/71, f. f.372v: 'The clayme of Christopher Boone of London merchant for severall parcells of silver and XXX heretofore specially claymed by Adrian Goldsmith of Antwerp...', 29th August 1656; XXX; PROB 11/385 Lloyd 136-181 Will of Christopher Boone, Merchant of London of All Saints Lee, Kent 29 July 1686
↑ George J. Armytage (ed.), Allegations for marriage licences issued from the Faculty office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London, 1543 to 1869 (London, 1886), p. 68
↑ C 5/56/57 Noel v. Blake 1670; C 5/63/45 Noel v. Blake: Middlesex. 1671; C 5/530/26 Noell v. Blake 1670; C 5/530/28 Noell v. Blake 1672; C 5/531/56 Noell v. Blake: Middlesex. 1670; C 6/64/23 Short title: Blake v Noell. Plaintiffs: George Blake. Defendants: Thomas Noell and George Robinson. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1666; C 10/473/131 Noell v. Robinson, Dashwood, Blake and Noell: Middx 1669
↑ John Bence was MP for Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in XXXX. Jeremy Copping, who is also mentioned in C6/36/77 f. 2, was MP for the neighbouring constituency of Orford, Suffolk. See PROB 11/392 Exton 87-130 Will of John Bence of London 16 March 1688 (+ PROB 11/393 Exton 131-172 Sentence of John Bence of All Hallows London Wall, City of London 05 April 1688)
↑ Alexander Bence, later Sir Alexander Bence, was the eldest son of Alexander Bence, mariner, of London. The Bence family was a family of mariners and ship owners, with strong Suffolk connections. One of the later Sir Alexander Bence's brothers was John Bence, a London merchant, with whom Sir Martin Noell had dealings through the farm of XXXX. See PROB 11/351 Bence 55-108 Will of Sir Alexander Bence of Dublin, County Dublin 20 July 1676, PROB 11/392 Exton 87-130 Will of John Bence of London 16 March 1688 (+ PROB 11/393 Exton 131-172 Sentence of John Bence of All Hallows London Wall, City of London 05 April 1688), and PROB 11/311 Juxon 52-102 Will of Alexander Bence of London 14 July 1663
↑ Peter Hayles was possibly a Bermondsey mariner. See PROB 11/363 Bath 60-123 Will of Peter Hayles, Mariner of Saint Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, Surrey 18 August 1680
↑ This debt of £550 settled by John ffenn on the behalf of Sir George Smith took place after the death of Sir George Smith, which was ca. July 1667. See PROB 11/324 Carr 59-116 Will of Sir George Smith 06 July 1667. John ffenn (Alderman Fenn) married Sir George Smith's daughter shortly after her father's death. See: "Yo:e hearty Serv:t S:r George Smith is dead. His friends reporte him worth 20000:ll but ye more moderate say it was but 11000:ll his daughter hath married Al:d Fen ..." (Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden: [1667]: ff. 47-51)
↑ Jeremy Copping, Esq. was MP for Orford, Parliament, Anno II Car. II
↑ Peter Hayles was possibly a Bermondsey mariner. See PROB 11/363 Bath 60-123 Will of Peter Hayles, Mariner of Saint Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, Surrey 18 August 1680
↑ Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: Carte Papers [MS. Carte 49 - MS. Carte 52]: Ormond to Carteret: written from Dublin MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 325 17 February 1666: Copy. Contents: Desires the payment [in London] of a sum of £960, according to an Order in Council, for reimbursement of a like sum "laid out of this Treasury, upon the 'Ormond' [frigate], taken on here, at a time when by inconsiderable privateers of the enemy, the King's subjects received great damage upon this coast, & his Majesty's dishonour"...
↑ http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I87596&tree=London
↑ Richard B. Sheridan, Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 (Baltimore, MA, 1974), pp. 91-92
↑ W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'America and West Indies: May 1661', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, vol. 5: 1661-1668 (1880), pp. 27-35. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76439 Date accessed: 16 November 2011
↑ Charles McLean Andrews, British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675 (Baltimore, MA, 1908), pp. 50-51
↑ 'The Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa, 1660-1672', ch. 2, in The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4 (XXXX, 1919), p. 85. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/2399655/The-Journal-of-Negro-History-Volume-4-1919-by-Various, viewed 18/11/11
↑ 'The Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa, 1660-1672', ch. 2, in The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4 (XXXX, 1919), fn. 7, p. 91. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/2399655/The-Journal-of-Negro-History-Volume-4-1919-by-Various, viewed 18/11/11
↑ XXXX, Calendar of the court minutes of the East India Company, 1663-1667 (Oxford, XXXX), p. ?
↑ Mariner's mirror, vol. 84 (?London, 1998), pp. 15-16
↑ William A. Shaw (ed.), 'Entry Book: October 1662', Calendar of Treasury Books, vol. 1: 1660-1667 (London, 1904), pp. 436-446. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=80060 Date accessed: 16 November 2011
↑ http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1665/10/08/, viewed 16/11/11
↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Strickland,_2nd_Baronet, viewed 17/11/11
↑ Johannes Postma, The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815 (Cambridge, 1990), p. 33
↑ Kent Russell Lohse, Africans and Their Descendants in Colonial Costa Rica, 1600-1750, PhD Dissertation, August 2005, open source publication (University of Texas at Austin, TX, 2005), pp. 156-157
↑ Marisa Franco Vega Franco, El tráfico de esclavos con América (Asientos de Grillo y Lomelin, 1663-1674) (Seville, 1984), p. 47
↑ Marisa Franco Vega Franco, El tráfico de esclavos con América (Asientos de Grillo y Lomelin, 1663-1674), (Seville, 1984), p. 85
↑ Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, 'Crossing Empires: Portuguese, Sephardic, and Dutch Business Networks in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1580-1674', in The Americas, July 1, 2011, viewed at http://periodicals.faqs.org/201107/2402365801.html, viewed 18/11/11
↑ http://www.boonefamily.org/lupton1.html, viewed 18/11/11
↑ An abstract of Anthony Upton's will makes it clear that Gilbert and Thomas Upton were his brothers, who he appointed his executors. The abstract notes that the will was dated in Seville. It mentions Christopher Boone of London as a friend, John Upton's partner Benjamin Bathurst, and his bookkeeper Joseph Gilbert. See Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica (London, 1890), p. 31); a separate genealogical source suggests Anthony Upton b. 1621, d. 1669
↑ Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum, vol. 3 (London, 1743), p. 22

[1] HCA 13/71 f. 214r. 'Clayme of George Robinson', deposition by Martin Noell, June 4th, 1656 in High Admiralty Court

[2] See C 6/159/3 Short title: Amcotts v Perry. Plaintiffs: Vincent Amcotts, William Amcotts, Vincent Lawson and Mary Lawson his wife. Defendants: Augustine Perry, Martin Noell and Hugh Upton. Subject: property in Amcotts, Lincolnshire. Document type: two bills, two demurrers, four answers. 1661; and West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds: Ingilby Records [WYL230/2934 - WYL230/Acc4080]: LEGAL PAPERS: LINCS. [no ref. or date]: Brief for plaintiffs WYL230/3267 1664: Contents: In suit of Vincent and William Amcotts and Vincent Lawson v. Sir Martin Noell, Augustine Perry and John, Hugh and Gilbert Upton, concerning an annuity from lands in Amcotts, Lincs.

[3] C 6/147/168 Short title: Walker v Noell. Plaintiffs: John Walker. Defendants: Martin Noell, Hugh Upton, John Upton and Gilbert Upton. Subject: office of collector of the excise on salt in Middlesex. Document type: bill, two answers. 1660

[4] HCA 13/71, f. f.372v: 'The clayme of Christopher Boone of London merchant for severall parcells of silver and XXX heretofore specially claymed by Adrian Goldsmith of Antwerp...', 29th August 1656; XXX; PROB 11/385 Lloyd 136-181 Will of Christopher Boone, Merchant of London of All Saints Lee, Kent 29 July 1686

[5] George J. Armytage (ed.), Allegations for marriage licences issued from the Faculty office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London, 1543 to 1869 (London, 1886), p. 68

[6] C 5/56/57 Noel v. Blake 1670; C 5/63/45 Noel v. Blake: Middlesex. 1671; C 5/530/26 Noell v. Blake 1670; C 5/530/28 Noell v. Blake 1672; C 5/531/56 Noell v. Blake: Middlesex. 1670; C 6/64/23 Short title: Blake v Noell. Plaintiffs: George Blake. Defendants: Thomas Noell and George Robinson. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1666; C 10/473/131 Noell v. Robinson, Dashwood, Blake and Noell: Middx 1669

[7] John Bence was MP for Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in XXXX. Jeremy Copping, who is also mentioned in C6/36/77 f. 2, was MP for the neighbouring constituency of Orford, Suffolk. See PROB 11/392 Exton 87-130 Will of John Bence of London 16 March 1688 (+ PROB 11/393 Exton 131-172 Sentence of John Bence of All Hallows London Wall, City of London 05 April 1688)

[8] Alexander Bence, later Sir Alexander Bence, was the eldest son of Alexander Bence, mariner, of London. The Bence family was a family of mariners and ship owners, with strong Suffolk connections. One of the later Sir Alexander Bence's brothers was John Bence, a London merchant, with whom Sir Martin Noell had dealings through the farm of XXXX. See PROB 11/351 Bence 55-108 Will of Sir Alexander Bence of Dublin, County Dublin 20 July 1676, PROB 11/392 Exton 87-130 Will of John Bence of London 16 March 1688 (+ PROB 11/393 Exton 131-172 Sentence of John Bence of All Hallows London Wall, City of London 05 April 1688), and PROB 11/311 Juxon 52-102 Will of Alexander Bence of London 14 July 1663

[9] Peter Hayles was possibly a Bermondsey mariner. See PROB 11/363 Bath 60-123 Will of Peter Hayles, Mariner of Saint Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, Surrey 18 August 1680

[10] This debt of £550 settled by John ffenn on the behalf of Sir George Smith took place after the death of Sir George Smith, which was ca. July 1667. See PROB 11/324 Carr 59-116 Will of Sir George Smith 06 July 1667. John ffenn (Alderman Fenn) married Sir George Smith's daughter shortly after her father's death. See: "Yo:e hearty Serv:t S:r George Smith is dead. His friends reporte him worth 20000:ll but ye more moderate say it was but 11000:ll his daughter hath married Al:d Fen ..." (Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden: [1667]: ff. 47-51)

[11] Jeremy Copping, Esq. was MP for Orford, Parliament, Anno II Car. II

[12] Peter Hayles was possibly a Bermondsey mariner. See PROB 11/363 Bath 60-123 Will of Peter Hayles, Mariner of Saint Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, Surrey 18 August 1680

[13] Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: Carte Papers [MS. Carte 49 - MS. Carte 52]: Ormond to Carteret: written from Dublin MS. Carte 49, fol(s). 325 17 February 1666: Copy. Contents: Desires the payment [in London] of a sum of £960, according to an Order in Council, for reimbursement of a like sum "laid out of this Treasury, upon the 'Ormond' [frigate], taken on here, at a time when by inconsiderable privateers of the enemy, the King's subjects received great damage upon this coast, & his Majesty's dishonour"...

[14] ttp://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I87596&tree=London

[15] Richard B. Sheridan, Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 (Baltimore, MA, 1974), pp. 91-92

[16] W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'America and West Indies: May 1661', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, vol. 5: 1661-1668 (1880), pp. 27-35. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76439 Date accessed: 16 November 2011

[17] Charles McLean Andrews, British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675 (Baltimore, MA, 1908), pp. 50-51

[18] 'The Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa, 1660-1672', ch. 2, in The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4 (XXXX, 1919), p. 85. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/2399655/The-Journal-of-Negro-History-Volume-4-1919-by-Various, viewed 18/11/11

[19] 'The Company of Royal Adventurers of England trading into Africa, 1660-1672', ch. 2, in The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4 (XXXX, 1919), fn. 7, p. 91. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/2399655/The-Journal-of-Negro-History-Volume-4-1919-by-Various, viewed 18/11/11

[20] XXXX, Calendar of the court minutes of the East India Company, 1663-1667 (Oxford, XXXX), p. ?

[21] Mariner's mirror, vol. 84 (?London, 1998), pp. 15-16

[22] William A. Shaw (ed.), 'Entry Book: October 1662', Calendar of Treasury Books, vol. 1: 1660-1667 (London, 1904), pp. 436-446. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=80060 Date accessed: 16 November 2011

[23] ttp://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1665/10/08/, viewed 16/11/11

[24] ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Strickland,_2nd_Baronet, viewed 17/11/11

[25] Johannes Postma, The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815 (Cambridge, 1990), p. 33

[26] Kent Russell Lohse, Africans and Their Descendants in Colonial Costa Rica, 1600-1750, PhD Dissertation, August 2005, open source publication (University of Texas at Austin, TX, 2005), pp. 156-157

[27] Marisa Franco Vega Franco, El tráfico de esclavos con América (Asientos de Grillo y Lomelin, 1663-1674) (Seville, 1984), p. 47

[28] Marisa Franco Vega Franco, El tráfico de esclavos con América (Asientos de Grillo y Lomelin, 1663-1674), (Seville, 1984), p. 85

[29] Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, 'Crossing Empires: Portuguese, Sephardic, and Dutch Business Networks in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1580-1674', in The Americas, July 1, 2011, viewed at http://periodicals.faqs.org/201107/2402365801.html, viewed 18/11/11

[30] ttp://www.boonefamily.org/lupton1.html, viewed 18/11/11

[31] An abstract of Anthony Upton's will makes it clear that Gilbert and Thomas Upton were his brothers, who he appointed his executors. The abstract notes that the will was dated in Seville. It mentions Christopher Boone of London as a friend, John Upton's partner Benjamin Bathurst, and his bookkeeper Joseph Gilbert. See Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica (London, 1890), p. 31); a separate genealogical source suggests Anthony Upton b. 1621, d. 1669

[32] Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, in locos communes distributus cum indice auctorum, vol. 3 (London, 1743), p. 22

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