Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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from L&M Companion
kt 1641, bt 1665 (?1599-1666). A wealthy merchant, who pioneered the W. African trade in the 1630s; a customs farmer (1640 and c. 1661-6); M.P. for Winchelsea Nov. 1640-1 (being expelled as a monopolist); member of the Council of Trade (from 1660) and for Foreign Plantations (from 1661); and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber from 1664. He was interested in inventions—Pepys mentions his proposals for a wet-dock. The superb mansion he built at Hammersmith was later the home of George IV’s Queen Caroline. In his will he directed that his heart should be buried in the chapel at Hammersmith and his body in St. Mildred’s, Bread Street, and that his monument should record that he had lost ‘out of purse about a Hundred Thousand pounds’ by his pioneering efforts in the Guinea trade.
best bib and tucker: Sir Nicholas Crisp, Bt (1599?-1666), Royalist. Sitter in 2 portraits. appears to be copied from earlier pix done by a non de script? or his [grand?] son, the date is to late for the Original, but style suggests other. [in many Families the genes are so cloning, ‘tis in mine {Bl**** spiting Images} thru 4 gens, apparenly no cuckoo effect]http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp15738&role=art
he made his brass from Brickworks in Hammersmtith then invested in other trade:
Sir Nicholas Crisp 1599-1666, English royalist received from Charles I the exclusive right to trade goods to the people of Guinea in 1632. In 1665 he was created a Baronet Crisp, Sir Nicholas (c 1598-1666) 1st Baronet MP Commissioner of the Customs
then “… The adjacent window depicts the Arms of Sir Nicholas Crisp (1598-1661), a prominent Royalist whose benefactions to the church and brick-making industry of Hammersmith had much to do with its growth.. “http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/council_services/Education/libraries/hammersmith_history.html
made his home at and there be a window here at Bromley Hall Manor??
He had a glass-bead factory producing trade goods for Red Indians at first English settlements (e,g, James Town) in Virginia. Many have been excavated from the site of his back garden in Hammersmith.