Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Sir Richard Ford was one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles II. to return to England immediately.
Read entry on Ford , Tuesday 25 September 1660 from Paul Brewster fri sep 2003
“..to have a peace with Spain and a war with France and Holland - where Sir R. Ford talked like a man of great reason and experience
In the interest of
kt 1660 (1631-78). Merchant, of Seething Lane…member of the Council of Trade 1660-8. He had been educated at Oxford, and had spent some time in Holland during the Civil War. As a Common Councillor 1659-61, he was active in promoting the Restoration. He was responsible for securing the publication in 1664 of Thamas Mun’s “England’s treasure by foreign trade”, which agrued the need for war against the Dutch….His connection with Pepys and the Navy Board was close—as a neighbour (his house abutted on the Navy Office to the south), as a contractor, a partner in privateering and as a member of the commission of enquiry into the Chatham Chest and of the Tangier Committee. He was an overseer of Batten’s will….His house, a large one, taxed on 18 hearths, was detroyed in the Navy Office fire of 1673….
Sir Richard Ford reports on the Navy Debt from 1658 to 1660, out of committee to the House of Commons. This is in 1665, and the tab is in the low six figures.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26709
Sir Richard was later Lord Mayor of London.
Ford, Sir Richard
As well as being a trustee of the RAC formed in 1672, he had much to do with the Guinney Company in 1663.
Coventry (who was secretary) says…
“The Company being much steered by Sir Richard Ford, Captain George Cocke and Mr. Gray of the Court Party as they called it: the first (though underhand) governing the merchants by the Dependence they had on him for trade and payment in the Navy…”
(Man of War…Ollard)