MRP: Philip Strode will
Philip Strode will
PROB 11/303 May Quire Numbers: 1 - 53 Will of Phillipp Strode, Merchant of Aleppo 20 March 1661
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Philip Strode (b. ?, d. ca. 1660 or 1661) was the son of Sir George Strode of St James, Clerkenwell.
Philip wrote his will in 1659, and described himself as "Phillip Strode of London Merchant now resident in Aleppo." Although he did not state that he was sick, he was probably on his death bed, the will being relatively short, and signed only with his mark.
His eldest brother was Nicholas Strode, who, in 1660, was knighted, after Philip wrote his will. Nicholas appeared in the 1666 hearth tax returns at St James, Clerkenwell, with a house of fifteen hearths.[1] In 1664 or 1665 he purchased Chepsted House in Chevening, Kent, a house of twenty-six hearths.[2]
One of Phillip's sisters, Anne Strode, had married Ellis Crispe, son of the customs farmer, Sir Nicholas Crispe. In his will, written in ?1663, Sir George Strode deeply regretted Sir Nicholas Crispe's failure to honour his daughter's marriage agreement, and accused Crispe of making free use of his daughter's money.[3] He pursued litigation against Sir Nicholas Crispe in the early and middle 1650s, presumably on his daughter's behalf.[4] A post-mortem inventory has survived for Sir George Strode, who died roughly two years after his son, Philip.[5]
Philip wrote his will in July 1659, describing himself as "Phillip Strode of London Merchant now resident in Aleppo."
In addition to Strode family members, Phillip Strode mentioned his brother-in-law, the London merchant Richard Holworthy, who was married to his sister Mary Strode. He made Richard Holworthy his sole executor.
Richard Holworthy was a brother of the London merchant and Smirna Venture Joint Stock subscriber, Mathew Holworthy. Like Philip Strode, Richard Holworthy was involved in trade with the Levant (CHECK).
Richard Holworthy was also one of the two referees selected in March 1662/63 by William Love and his fellow litigants, when an order of reference was made for five merchants to deliberate on the King Ferdinand dispute.[6]
Sir George Smith mentioned the death of Richard Holworthy by misadventure in a letter dated March 1665/66 to Sir George Oxenden.[7]
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Phillip Strode of London Merchant now resident in Aleppo The twenty ffifth day of July in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand six hundred fifty and Nine doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament
FIRST I give and bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God my Creator and Redeemer confessing my manifold sinnes for which if god should enter into Judgment with mee I were never able to abide it ?But my onely prayer and hope is that God will pardon my sinnes through the meritts death and mediacon of Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour into whose holy hands I Commend my spiritt besseching him to receive it to eternall happines my body I give to bee buryed in Christian Buryall decently accordinge to the rites of the Churche of England and pray to God to give mee a joyfull resurrection
my Worldy goods I dispose as followeth
FFIRST I give and bequeath unto my Brothers X M:r William Strode and M:r Nicholas Strode and my sister M.rs Elizabeth ??Hazlarkonden Twenty pounds stearlinge to each of them to buy mourninge
SECONDLY I bequeath and give unto my old ?Nurse Goodwife ??Gronestead Thirty pounds Starlinge and if shee bee dead to bee equally devided betweene her children
THIRLDY I give and bequeath to M:r Robert fframpton Minister in Aleppo one hundred ??Rix ??dollrs
FOURTHLY I give and bequeath to my brother in lawe M.r Richard Holworthie[8] Thirty poundes Starxx to buy him mourninge
FFIFTHLY I give and bequeath to my deare sister M:rs Mary Holworthy one Third part of my estate my debts and the aforesaid legacies beinge first paid
SIXTHLY I give and bequeath to my sisters M:rs Rebecca ??Harvey and M:rs Anne Crisp[9] one Thirde part more of my estate to bee equallie devided betweene them still provided that all my debts and legacies abovewritten bee first satisfied excepting that to my sister M:rs Mary Holworthy
SEAVENTHLY I give and bequeath to my Brothers M:r John Strode and M:r Edward Strode the remaininge third part of my estate to bee shared equally betweene them with the same provisoe misXXXXX in the foregoinge legacies (alsoe I desire that these my legacies may bee paid in two yeares time after my decease to the respective persons mentioned herein but if any of them should happen to depart this life before that this my will is that it shalbee equalie devided amongst their children But if they have no children That then it shall fall to my sister M:rs Mary Holworthy onely what legacies are to bee paid in Aleppo I desire then may bee satisfied immediately upon my death
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EIGHTLY I doe constitutre and ordaine M:r Thomas Stanton[10] my Assigne and lawfull attorney to take into his possession all goods and moneys belonging unto mee either by consignacon or otherwise to dispose of these which are for principalls accompts according to their order received or hereafter to be received And for my proper estate in the Country to give accompt thereof to my Executor hereafter named and to follow his order the disposall thereof
Lastly I doe ordaine and appoynt my brother M:r Richard Holworthy my sole Executor of this my Will
In Witnes whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the day and yeare aforesaid utterly renouncinge and avoydynge all other and former wills by mee made and establish this onely as my last Will and Testament being all written with my owne hand all contained in ffifty six lynes without any thinge interlyned or blotted out
PHILLIP STRODE
Signed and sealed in the presence of us
HENRY HUNTER JUN:R JOSPEH CAREW RICHARD ?SPRIGNEIL
ADDIITONS MADE BY MEE PHILLIP STRODE to my will above written in the yeare of our Lord 1660 Oct: 24
IMPRIMIS I give and bequeath to ?Naomn my warehouse man Twenty Ryals 8/8 and forgive him what he owes mee in accompt
SECONDLY I give and bequeath to George my Cooke Tenne Ryalls 8/8
THIRDLY I give and bequeath to my servant ??Naomn the younger Tenne Royalls 8/8
FFOWERTHLY I give and bequeath to Ramadan my ?sise tenn Royalls 8/8
FIFTHLY I give and bequeath to Abdalla ?M:r Sprigneils warehouseman five Royalls 8/8 provided hee first payes what hee oweth mee on accompt
SEAVENTHLY I give and bequeath to the poore of Aleppo Twenty Ryalls 8/8 and order it to bee distributed by M:r Robert fframpton
EIGHTLY I order M:r Thomas Stanton my Assigne to pay Naomn my warehouseman for one yeares washings Alsoe to pay George my Cooke and Naomn the younger what I owe them upon accompt These Addicons were all written by M:r Robert fframpton and acknowledged by mee Phillip Strode
The marke [Mark is reproduced in copy of will] Phillip Strode
Signed and sealed in the presence of us Thomas Betton Thomas ??Whaitop
FURTHER whereas it was my minde before I sealed those addicons to make M:r Hawly Bishop Joynt Assignee with M:r Stanton for all the purposes aforesaid Namely to take care of my whole estate with the estates of all my principalls to pay all the debts I owe and call in those which are owing to mee I declare by these presents that I doe constitute and ordaine the said M:r Hawley Bishop Joynt Assignee with M:r Stanton for the purposes aforesaid
Writt by the same M:r Robert fframpton and acknowledged by mee The writinge of Phillip Strode
M:r Phillip Strode
Signed and sealed in the presence of us Thomas ?Beton (Or Betcon) ?Ed: Bovey William Ashitie
WEE BENJAMYN LANNOY Consul for his Majestie of Great Brittain in Seria Palestina &c. Doe hereby ??conceive, whom it may concern that the writeing afore menconed is a true coppy of the originall last Will and Testament of M:r Phillipp Strode deceased and entered in our Consellarie at the request of M.r Thomas Stanton and M:r Hawley Bishop Merchants given under our hand and seale at our residence in Aleppo The Twenty Ninth of October one Thousand six hundred and Sixtie
BENJAMIN LANNOY
PROABTUM fuit Testamentum suprascriptum Apud London coram venerabili vire ??quilesimo Mericke legimi doctore Juria Prerogative Cant Magisters XXXXX comsarris legitime constituto diresimo die ??mensis Marty Anno dui iuxta ?Cursum Et computarornden ?Stlia Anglicasa
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Millesima XXXXXXXXXXXX sexagesiXXX Juramento Richard Holsworthy Executoris in XXXX testamenta XXXXat XXX comissa fuit Administraco ommium et singularum bonorem XXXX et creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fidliter Adminsitrand eadem Ad sancta dei Evangelia in deXXX Juris XXXX Jurat x:r
Notes
IGI
(1) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Richard Hollworthy, birth: abt. 1630. SPOUSE: Mary Strode Marriage: 16 FEB 1652 St Dionis, London Saint Dionis Backchurch, London
(2) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Mary Strode BIRTH: 08 OCT 1632, London
(3) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Mary Strode, birth 8 Oct 1632, London; chr. 16 Oct 1632, All Hallows Ch., London; Burial 1676; FATHER: George Strode MOTHER: Rebecca Crispe MARRIAGE 1: Essex Strode (sic), aft 1659, of London MARRIAGE 2: Richard Holworthy, 16 Feb 1652
(4) POSSIBLE RELATED RECORD: George Strode, birth abt. 1583, of Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire; death: 1663, ? London Marr. Rebecca Crispe, 11 Feb 1615, All Hallows Church, London, Middlesex; Burial: 2 June 1663, St James Church, Clerkenwell, Middlesex
(5) POSSIBLE RELATED RECORD: Rebecca Crispe, birth 1597, All Hallows Chur, London, Middlesex; chr. 17 Jul 1597, All Hallows Chur, London, Middlesex FATHER: Nicholas Crispe MOTHER: Rebecca Pake; SPOUSE: George Strode, marr. 11 Feb 1615, All Hallows Church, London, Middlesex
(6) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Mathew Hollworthy, christ. 03 May 1659 Saint Olave Hart Street, London FATHER: Richard Holworthy MOTHER: Marie
(7) POSSIBLE MATCHED RECORD: IGI Individual record: Richard Holworthy Birth: 08 Jul 1660 Chr: 17 Jul. 1660 Saint Olave Hart Street, London
Mary Strode
"Essex Strode...married...Mary Strode, dau. of Sir George Strode, knight, and widow of Richard Holworthy; bur. in St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London, 30 May 1676. Administration granted 7 June 1676 to her husband, Essex Strode. Will dated 14 May 1676 (P.C.C. 9 Hale) 20 January 1676/77, by her husband, Essex Strode. (see page 147)"[11]
"Essex Strode, bapt. at Shepton Mallet. co. Somerset, 7 November 1646; mentioned in his father's will 10 June 1665; living 22 May 1688; M.P. for Stockbridge, co. Hants, 15 February 1689/90 and 16 March 1684/85 (see page 47)"[12]
Possible primary sources
TNA
Chancery
C 6/112/88 Short title: Strode v Colwall. Plaintiffs: William Strode. Defendants: Thomas Colwall, Sir Nicholas Crispe kt, John Wood and Nicholas Strode. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: two answers. 1650
C 6/584/155 Short title: Strode v Crispe. First plaintiff: Strode. Defendants: Crispe. Document type: bill only. [1649-1714]
C 9/403/282 Baily v. Strode and Clutterbucke 1657
C 9/405/4 Clutterbooke v. Strode 1658
C 10/4/38 Richard Culme v John Veale, Edward Moulton, Adam Strode and Moses Goodyeare: money matters, Devon 1647
PROB
PROB 11/145 Clarke 1-63 Will of Jeffery Strode, Gentleman of Shepton Mallet, Somerset 31 January 1625
ROB 11/213 Pembroke 110-156 Will of Sagweridis Strode, Clothier of Warmewell, Dorset 04 July 1650
PROB 11/267 Ruthen 311-358 Will of Anne Strode, Widow of Shepton Mallet, Somerset 11 September 1657
PROB 11/303 May Quire Numbers: 1 - 53 Will of Phillipp Strode, Merchant of Aleppo 20 March 1661
PROB 11/311 Juxon 52-102 Will of Sir George Strode of Saint James Clerkenwell, Middlesex 03 June 1663
- ↑ 'St James Clerkenwell (Part One),' in'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Clerkenwell (1 of 2)', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011), viewed 14th February 2012
- ↑ 'Parish of Chevening,' in - Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664: CKS: Q/RTh Transcribed and computerised by Duncan Harrington, p. 37, viewed 22/02/12
- ↑ PROB 11/311 Juxon 52-102 Will of Sir George Strode of Saint James Clerkenwell, Middlesex 03 June 1663
- ↑ TNA, C 6/110/95 Short title: Strode v Martin. Plaintiffs: Sir George Strode kt, Nicholas Strode and William Strode. Defendants: James Martin, Sir Nicholas Crispe kt and Ellis Crispe. Subject: property in Fulham, and Hammersmith, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1650; TNA, C 6/43/171 Short title: Strode v Crispe. Plaintiffs: Sir George Strode kt. Defendants: Sir Nicholas Crispe kt and another. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: answer only. 1655
- ↑ PROB 4/21943 Strode, Sir George, kt. of St. James, Clerkenwell, Mdx. 1664 22 Oct.
- ↑ "y:e Issue was an order of Referrence to : 5: Merch:ts to heare & agree if they could or else to report, Two of w:ch were named by them viz:t John Buckworth & Rich:d Holeworthy, two by us to witt Tho: Tyte, & Michael Godfrey, & my Lord Chancell named ay:e fifth Alderman Samuell Mico" (19th March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Papillon to Sir GO, London)
- ↑ March 1665/66, Letter from George Smith to Sir GO
- ↑ Richard Holworthy married Philip Strode's sister, Mary Strode, Feb 1652 (?1653) (IGI); Mary Holworthy (née Strode) died in 1676 (Frederick A. Crisp, Fragmenta Genealogica, vol. 8 (Bowie, MY, repr. 1996), p. 150)
- ↑ Anne Strode had Ellis Crispe, son of Sir Nicholas Crispe. See C 6/110/95 Short title: Strode v Martin. Plaintiffs: Sir George Strode kt, Nicholas Strode and William Strode. Defendants: James Martin, Sir Nicholas Crispe kt and Ellis Crispe. Subject: property in Fulham, and Hammersmith, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1650
- ↑ Thomas Stanton, English merchant at Aleppo
- ↑ Frederick A. Crisp, Fragmenta Genealogica, vol. 8 (Bowie, MY, repr. 1996), p. 150
- ↑ Frederick A. Crisp, Fragmenta Genealogica, vol. 8 (Bowie, MY, repr. 1996), p. 150
