Capt. Francis Willoughby was the son of Col. William Willoughby, and on his appointment as a Navy Commissioner, was sent to Portsmouth as the resident commissioner, the office recently held by his father.
A former Gov. of Connecticut, Edward Hopkins returned to England in 1653. The first mention of him was in June in a petition by Capt. Francis Willoughby and Hopkins asking for permission to send a ship, laden with powder and shot to New England, and to give notice to the colonies of the war between the Commonwealth and the United Provinces. The Committee for Foreign Affairs, in recommending that liberty be granted further suggested “that it be declared by the Council of State that, as the Colonies may expect all fitting encouragement and assistance from hence, so they should demean themselves against the Dutch, as declared enemies to the Commonwealth.”
Hopkins, now also a Navy Commissioner, and as of 1655 a Commissioner of the Admiralty, died in March 1657 and was buried at St. Olave’s. He left legacies to Major Robert Thomson and Capt. Francis Willoughby, both Commissioners of the Navy, who were the executors of his will. After his wife’s death £500 was to be made over to “his loving friends Robert Thomson and Francis Willoughby” for public ends in New England. This legacy was paid over to Harvard University.
In Capt. Francis Willoughby’s official correspondence with Major Nehemiah Bourne during the first Anglo-Dutch War, Willoughby usually subscribed himself “Your loving friend.” Around February 18, 1653 a letter from Capt. Francis Willoughby, the Navy Commissioner at Portsmouth, shows their long-standing friendship, and it is curious that this one, entirely personal to Major Nehemiah Bourne, should have been preserved amongst the State Papers; it is dated at Portsmouth, 20 February 1653: “I suppose you have a more full relation of our fleets engagement than I am able to give you, only you may please to take notice that the Assistance, whereof your brother is Commander, is come hither, being much torn, in which engagement Providence hath so ordered that your brother hath received some wound in his head, but I hope not mortal. Your loving friend, FRA. WILLOUGHBY.”
Early in life Capt. Francis Willoughby had been in command of a vessel, probably trading across the Atlantic, and in 1638 he moved to Massachusetts and settled at Charlestown where he became a prominent merchant, investing much money in building warehouses; he built the first wharf there, and in 1641 owned a shipyard as well.
In May, 1650, Willoughby was appointed to a committee to draw up a code of maritime laws for the colony. He was also the town magistrate.
Willoughby had relatives in America, possibly a brother, as New England records have Nehemiah Bourne writing a letter of attorney to a Thomas Willoughby, in Virginia. There was a close association between Bourne and Willoughby at Charlestown, Mass., and Francis Willoughby’s two elder children, born in Charlestown, bore the names of Bourne and his wife: Hannah, born in 1643, and Nehemiah in 1644.
Capt. Francis Willoughby returned to England in May, 1651, possibly to settle his father’s estate; no doubt the outbreak of the first Anglo-Dutch War soon involved him in national affairs, and eventually led to his appointment to the office so lately held by his father; however, in his sphere he was one of the most outstanding and capable administrators of his time. His many letters to the Admiralty during the war, and after, bear testimony to his zeal and energy.
In 1652 the depleted Navy Commissioners petitioned the Admiralty Commissioners calling attention to the deficiency and “desire timely remedy or dismissal from our employment.” The Admiralty approved — or accepted their ultimatum — and recommended Capt. Francis Willoughby, Major Nehemiah Bourne, and Capt. Edward Hopkins to be additional Commissioners of the Navy.
On 20 December, 1652 the Council of State approved the recommendation and ordered warrants to be issued to them as such.
Was it a coincidence that all three were New England colonists who had gone out to Massachusetts at about the same time (1637–1638)? Sir Henry Vane, the younger, a former Gov. of Massachusetts (1636–1637), was now a member of the Council of State as well as one of the Admiralty Commissioners. Whether Vane influenced the appointments in favor of the New Englanders cannot be asserted, but the number of colonists who obtained appointments in the navy is noticeable; however, they were always men of outstanding merit and ability.
I wish Grant Menzies had included source information, because the paper I have found with lots of information about Capt. Francis Willoughby says:
Francis Willoughby’s first wife died, and he married secondly, in England, Sarah Taylor (probably the daughter of Capt. John Taylor, shipwright of Wapping) and one of the children of this marriage was baptized at the Church of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, London (close by the Navy Office of that time) and the others in New England; but a third wife, Margaret, survived him.
Francis Willoughby had a large family, nine being mentioned in the New England records.
My citation is a 1952 paper presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, with quite a few references to Pepys and the Diary. https://www.colonialsociety.org/n…
Pepys' description of Lady Anne Boyle Montagu (1625 - 1671) speaks volumes:
"My Lady Hinchingbroke I cannot say is a beauty, nor ugly; but is altogether a comely lady enough, and seems very good-humoured, ..."
"... my Lady Hinchingbroke I find a very sweet-natured and well-disposed lady, a lover of books and pictures, and of good understanding."
Anne is Robert Boyle FRS's niece, so despite the upheavals to her education during the Civil Wars, we should not be surprised that she was intelligent.
"They are very good condition, wise and chearfull people," mother-in-law Jemima Crew Montagu, Countess of Sandwich wrote just after the wedding. "She" (the bride) "hath a very fine free kind way of writing so have they all, something Mr. Boiles styll."1 1 Life of Edward Mountagu, K.G., First Earl of Sandwich, by F. R. Harris, vol. ii. p. 179.
Immediate Family: Fourth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, 2nd Earl of Cork and Lady Elizabeth Clifford, 2nd Baroness Clifford
Wife of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich
Mother of: Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich and Lord Richard Montagu,
Sister of: Frances Boyle Dillon; Sir Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan; Elizabeth Boyle Nicholas; Henrietta Boyle and Richard Boyle
"I to Gresham College, there to shew myself; and was there greeted by Dr. Wilkins, Whistler, and others, as the patron of the Navy Office, and one that got great fame by my late speech to the Parliament."
Pepys has mentioned going to places in order to be seen a few times since his speech to the House of Commons. I think this was very savvy of him politically. Money is short ... the late War unpopular ... Parliament is looking for scapegoats, and has already found one amongst the Commissioners ... and who knows what Buckingham and Lord Ashley are up to behind the scenes. Votes can be bought ... Ashley is in charge of the budget.
Pepys is keeping the favorable conversation alive; being out of sight massaging paper for the next hearing could have cost the Navy Board a lot. A week's delay between the speech and the vote could have worked against them very easily.
Capt. Laurence Moyer of Leigh, was the son of James Moyer, a former Elder Brother of Trinity House who died in 1638.
This annotation was originally about his brother, Capt. Samuel Moyer, who was a Younger Brother of the Trinity House Corporation, and they were related to nearly all of those merchant mariners of Leigh who were connected with the Trinity House. The Moyer family had long been engaged in the Levant trade.
Capt. Lawrence Moyer was commander of the Hercules, in Adm. Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick’s fleet in 1643.
Both Moyer brothers were ardent supporters of Cromwell’s regime and held various offices in its administration. Like most of the Leigh mariners they were staunch Puritans, and he and his brother were subsequently committed to the Tower of London and kept under restraint for several years on suspicion of plotting against the monarchy.
This 1952 paper was presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, and has information about the growth of shipbuilding under James I and Charles I, the Civil War years, shipbuilding in Boston and Wapping, the history of the Seething Lane offices, and the characters "Major" Nehemiah Bourne was related to by marriage ... the entire Trinity House Brotherhood were his Puritan in-laws and cousins from Wapping during the Cromwell years.
Capt. Samuel Moyer of Leigh, was the son of James Moyer, a former Elder Brother of Trinity House who died in 1638.
Capt. Samuel Moyer was a Younger Brother of the Trinity House Corporation, and was related to nearly all of those merchant mariners of Leigh who were connected with the Trinity House.
Although Samuel Moyer and his family had long been engaged in the Levant trade, with the opening up of commerce with the Americas he adventured into the trade, frequently in partnership with Capt. Maurice Thomson, but eventually both were to become more prominent in the East India trade.
Capt. Samuel Moyer was an ardent supporter of Cromwell’s regime and held various offices in its administration. Like most of the Leigh mariners he was a staunch Puritan, and he and his brother, Capt. Lawrence Moyer (who became one of the Elder Brethren of the House at the Restoration) were subsequently committed to the Tower of London and kept under restraint for several years on suspicion of plotting against the monarchy.
Capt. Nicholas Hurlestone, Samuel Moyer's brother-in-law and a Warden of Trinity House both before 1649 and after the Restoration was captain of the Jewel, one of the ships in Governor Winthrop’s fleet in 1630.
This 1952 paper was presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, and has information about the growth of shipbuilding under James I and Charles I, the Civil War years, shipbuilding in Boston and Wapping, the history of the Seething Lane offices, and the characters "Major" Nehemiah Bourne was related to by marriage ... the entire Trinity House Brotherhood were his Puritan in-laws and cousins from Wapping during the Cromwell years.
Capt. John Cox was elected an Elder Brother of Trinity House on 20 July 1664 in succession to Capt. Brian Harrison, who had died. In the Second Anglo-Dutch War, John Cox was captain of the Sovereign, a first rate of 100 guns, and was knighted for his services. In the Third Anglo-Dutch War Capt. John Cox was killed in the action off Sole Bay, 28 May 1672.
This 1952 paper was presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, and has information about the growth of shipbuilding under James I and Charles I, the Civil War years, shipbuilding in Boston and Wapping, the history of the Seething Lane offices, and the characters "Major" Nehemiah Bourne was related to by marriage ... the entire Trinity House Brotherhood were his Puritan in-laws and cousins from Wapping during the Cromwell years.
William Badiley was a brother of Richard Badiley (whose service was sufficiently distinguished for notice in the Dictionary of National Biography), William Badiley had equally active service at sea during the first Anglo-Dutch War, and is the Captain Badiley whose action was commended by Adm. Blake, in his report of the Battle of the Kentish Knock where he commanded a ship in Major Nehemiah Bourne’s squadron.
William Badiley later served as a rear admiral for a time, but his service was more often in the dockyards.
William Badiley was a Younger Brother of the Trinity House as early as 1628, when he appears to have been master of a ship in the Levant trade, and subsequently owned several vessels engaged in that trade.
On the outbreak of the first Anglo-Dutch War three of the ships Capt. William Badiley owned, or was part owner of, the Dolphin, Anne of Cleeves and William, were taken up for the state’s service, and Badiley himself served at sea under Blake and Nehemiah Bourne until December, 1653, when he was appointed Master Attendant at Portsmouth.
William Badiley was afterwards Master Attendant at Deptford and Woolwich, where during the succeeding years he was frequently associated with Major Bourne in his dockyard activities.
In these later years William Badiley resided on Tower Hill and was frequently engaged in the impressment on and about the river, a reference in this connection stating that his membership of Trinity House “particularly qualified him for this work.”
William Badiley was the only one of the original 12 Trinity House Commissioners appointed in 1649 to continue as an Elder Brother of the Corporation after the Restoration, and remained at the Trinity House until his death in 1666.
The Badileys were Wapping men, and the names of members of the family occur in the Marriage Register of St. John’s in 1627 and 1629. Capt. Richard Badiley died there: “14th August 1657, Captain Richard Badiley, dwelling in Milk Yard, near ye chapel, dyed of an ulcer”; his first wife, Rebecca, having been buried there in 1641.
William Badiley married at St. John’s, evidently a second marriage, 30 November 1658, to Elizabeth Tatum, spinster. Both are described at this time as of Stepney, and to the entry in the Marriage Register there is the following notation: “in the presence of Richard Badiley, Captain John Cox and others then present.”
This 1952 paper was presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, and has information about the growth of shipbuilding under James I and Charles I, the Civil War years, shipbuilding in Boston and Wapping, the history of the Seething Lane offices, and the characters "Major" Nehemiah Bourne was related to by marriage ... the entire Trinity House Brotherhood were his Puritan in-laws and cousins from Wapping during the Cromwell years.
"When Charles II was restored to the throne he issued a Royal Warrant, dated 9th September 1661, for the disinterment of the bodies of Oliver Cromwell, his family and supporters. Their bodies were buried in a pit in the adjoining churchyard of St. Margaret's Westminster.
"In the 19th century a stone over the vault in the Abbey (in what is now the RAF chapel) was inscribed with the names and dates of death of all those who were once buried there.
"In 1966 a memorial inscription was cut into the west wall of the exterior of St. Margaret's to record all those re-buried there. This reads:
"This tablet is erected by the Cromwell Association to the memory of the undermentioned whose remains were disinterred from Westminster Abbey at the time of the restoration of King Charles II and were in September 1661 buried in this churchyard of St. Margaret's: Colonel Robert Blake ... Denis Bond ... Colonel Nicholas Boscawen Mary Bradshaw ... Sir William Constable ... Elizabeth, mother of Oliver Cromwell, Colonel Richard Deane ... Jane Desborough ... Dr Isaac Dorislaus Anne Fleetwood ... Thomas Hesilrige ... Colonel Humphrey Mackworth Stephen Marshall ... Thomas May ... Colonel John Meldrum Colonel Edward Popham ... John Pym ... Humphrey Salwey William Strong ... William Stroud ... Dr William Twiss."
"and back by coach to Lincoln’s Inn Fields; but my Lady was not come in, and so I am at a great loss whether she and her brother Hinchingbrooke and sister will dine with me tomorrow or no, which vexes me."
Inconsiderate young privileged spoiled kids with short memories. Mind your Uncle Samuel.
1667 was a peak year for Sir Denis Gauden. He became Sheriff of London, was knighted, became Master of the Clothworkers Company and on 18 June was elected Alderman of the Ward of Dowgate, serving in that capacity until 1676.
So it was as Sheriff that he was concerned about Sir Thomas Halford's treatment in Newgate Prison.
Thomas Holden, based in Falmouth, was an frequent correspondent with Whitehall about local Cornish maritime matters. It is likely he is the Thomas Holden who served as Mayor of Falmouth six times between 1664 and 1695.[11]
Matthew Wren MP (1629 - 1672) had been secretary to Chancellor Clarendon since the Restoration, and went to work as Coventry's replacement in 1667 as secretary for James, Duke of York. Yes, he was a F.R.S., but that had nothing to do with why he was involved in getting the Deptford shipwrights paid off. https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
And this is the link which will get you to the actual page/month to read the original transcript: 'Charles II: March 1668', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1667-8, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1893), pp. 262-320. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
My understanding of the letter is that the Navy were indeed discharging the craftsmen. Cost cutting in progress. Of course, as is true today, they could relocate to another shipyard, preferably a private one like those of the East India Company. Their skills were highly prized.
Do we believe two professors who had studied Pepys and the 17th century for years, or Wikipedia?
This article compares the two styles and agrees with Kew Gardener, but note they are discussing 19th century service styles. https://www.manuscriptcookbookssu…
The question is, what was "the French style" in the 17th century? I'm going to take L&M's word for it until I find 17th century evidence to the contrary.
Turns out their father, Alexander Bunce SENIOR, was also an MP for Aldeburgh. His Parliamentary biography gives more family background:
Bence may have been descended from the family of that name resident in the parish of Bungay in north Suffolk in the 14th century. His grandfather, Edmund, was resident in the East Anglian port of Aldeburgh by 1524, and was sufficiently prosperous to be included in the subsidy assessment. By the Elizabethan period the Bences were a thriving family of Aldeburgh merchants and mariners; a member of the family served as bailiff in 1566 and two years later Bence’s father and uncle were both assessed there for the subsidy. By 1582 seven people of that surname feature in the tax roll.
His associates makes it unlikely that Bence was numbered among the Puritan ‘godly’.
Alexander Bence Sr., died at Aldeburgh the following January, and was buried in the parish church, where a monument was erected depicting him in his bailiff’s gown and a ruff. His will was proved by his sons and executors, John and Robert, on 25 February.
Son John Bunce was elected for the borough in 1624, while two other sons, Squire and Alexander Jr., were returned in the 1640s.
Alexander Bence MP (born ca. 1590) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648 and again in 1654.
He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.
Alexander Bence was the son of Alexander Bence and his wife, Marie Squier, daughter of Thomas Squier.
In November 1640, Alexander Bence Jr. was elected Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh, Suffolk in the Long Parliament and sat until he was excluded under Pride's Purge.
In 1642 he was appointed by parliament as one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of (His Majesty's) Navy, the King having prevented all his principal officers of the navy from performing their duties.
Alexander Bence Jr. MP was a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers in the City of London and became an Alderman for Walbrook ward in May, 1653.
In 1654 he was elected MP for Suffolk in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was master of Trinity House from 1659 to 1660.
Alexander Bence Jr. married his first wife, Anne Aylett of Rendham, Suffolk, and his son by her, John Bence, was later also MP for Aldeburgh.
Alexander's brother, Squire Bence, was also MP for Aldeburgh during the Long Parliament.
Squire Bence MP (1597 – 1648) was an English merchant, seafarer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1648.
Bence was the son of Alexander Bence and his wife, Marie Squier, daughter of Thomas Squier.
He was a merchant and shipowner who undertook trading expeditions by sea. Bence Island in the estuary of the Sierra Leone River was named after him.
In the 1620s Squire Bence is recorded as raiding an Algerian ship and removing Christian slaves and prisoners from it.
In April 1640, Squire Bence was elected MP for Aldeburgh in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected in 1642 as MP for Aldeburgh when he joined his brother Alexander Bence in the Long Parliament.
Squire Bence MP sat until his death in 1648.
In 1642 Squire Bence MP was appointed by parliament as one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of (His Majesty's) Navy, the King having prevented all his principal officers of the navy from performing their duties.
Squire Bence MP died aged 51 years, 6 months and 12 days at Thorington Suffolk, although he is also commemorated on the family monument at Aldeburgh.
Bence married Elizabeth Pett on 26 August 1617 at St. Dunstan, Stepney, London. His second wife was Mary.
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About Maj. Francis Willoughby
San Diego Sarah • Link
PART 2
Capt. Francis Willoughby was the son of Col. William Willoughby, and on his appointment as a Navy Commissioner, was sent to Portsmouth as the resident commissioner, the office recently held by his father.
A former Gov. of Connecticut, Edward Hopkins returned to England in 1653. The first mention of him was in June in a petition by Capt. Francis Willoughby and Hopkins asking for permission to send a ship, laden with powder and shot to New England, and to give notice to the colonies of the war between the Commonwealth and the United Provinces.
The Committee for Foreign Affairs, in recommending that liberty be granted further suggested “that it be declared by the Council of State that, as the Colonies may expect all fitting encouragement and assistance from hence, so they should demean themselves against the Dutch, as declared enemies to the Commonwealth.”
Hopkins, now also a Navy Commissioner, and as of 1655 a Commissioner of the Admiralty, died in March 1657 and was buried at St. Olave’s. He left legacies to Major Robert Thomson and Capt. Francis Willoughby, both Commissioners of the Navy, who were the executors of his will. After his wife’s death £500 was to be made over to “his loving friends Robert Thomson and Francis Willoughby” for public ends in New England.
This legacy was paid over to Harvard University.
In Capt. Francis Willoughby’s official correspondence with Major Nehemiah Bourne during the first Anglo-Dutch War, Willoughby usually subscribed himself “Your loving friend.”
Around February 18, 1653 a letter from Capt. Francis Willoughby, the Navy Commissioner at Portsmouth, shows their long-standing friendship, and it is curious that this one, entirely personal to Major Nehemiah Bourne, should have been preserved amongst the State Papers; it is dated at Portsmouth, 20 February 1653:
“I suppose
you have a more full relation of our fleets engagement than I am able to give you, only you may please to take notice that the Assistance, whereof your brother is Commander, is come hither, being much torn, in which engagement Providence hath so ordered that your brother hath received some wound in his head, but I hope not mortal.
Your loving friend,
FRA. WILLOUGHBY.”
About Maj. Francis Willoughby
San Diego Sarah • Link
Some highlights from the above paper:
Early in life Capt. Francis Willoughby had been in command of a vessel, probably trading across the Atlantic, and in 1638 he moved to Massachusetts and settled at Charlestown where he became a prominent merchant, investing much money in building warehouses; he built the first wharf there, and in 1641 owned a shipyard as well.
In May, 1650, Willoughby was appointed to a committee to draw up a code of maritime laws for the colony. He was also the town magistrate.
Willoughby had relatives in America, possibly a brother, as New England records have Nehemiah Bourne writing a letter of attorney to a Thomas Willoughby, in Virginia.
There was a close association between Bourne and Willoughby at Charlestown, Mass., and Francis Willoughby’s two elder children, born in Charlestown, bore the names of Bourne and his wife:
Hannah, born in 1643, and Nehemiah in 1644.
Capt. Francis Willoughby returned to England in May, 1651, possibly to settle his father’s estate; no doubt the outbreak of the first Anglo-Dutch War soon involved him in national affairs, and eventually led to his appointment to the office so lately held by his father; however, in his sphere he was one of the most outstanding and capable administrators of his time. His many letters to the Admiralty during the war, and after, bear testimony to his zeal and energy.
In 1652 the depleted Navy Commissioners petitioned the Admiralty Commissioners calling attention to the deficiency and “desire timely remedy or dismissal from our employment.” The Admiralty approved — or accepted their ultimatum — and recommended Capt. Francis Willoughby, Major Nehemiah Bourne, and Capt. Edward Hopkins to be additional Commissioners of the Navy.
On 20 December, 1652 the Council of State approved the recommendation and ordered warrants to be issued to them as such.
Was it a coincidence that all three were New England colonists who had gone out to Massachusetts at about the same time (1637–1638)?
Sir Henry Vane, the younger, a former Gov. of Massachusetts (1636–1637), was now a member of the Council of State as well as one of the Admiralty Commissioners.
Whether Vane influenced the appointments in favor of the New Englanders cannot be asserted, but the number of colonists who obtained appointments in the navy is noticeable; however, they were always men of outstanding merit and ability.
About Maj. Francis Willoughby
San Diego Sarah • Link
I wish Grant Menzies had included source information, because the paper I have found with lots of information about Capt. Francis Willoughby says:
Francis Willoughby’s first wife died, and he married secondly, in England, Sarah Taylor (probably the daughter of Capt. John Taylor, shipwright of Wapping) and one of the children of this marriage was baptized at the Church of St. Olave’s, Hart Street, London (close by the Navy Office of that time) and the others in New England; but a third wife, Margaret, survived him.
Francis Willoughby had a large family, nine being mentioned in the New England records.
My citation is a 1952 paper presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, with quite a few references to Pepys and the Diary.
https://www.colonialsociety.org/n…
About Anne Mountagu (b. Boyle)
San Diego Sarah • Link
Pepys' description of Lady Anne Boyle Montagu (1625 - 1671) speaks volumes:
"My Lady Hinchingbroke I cannot say is a beauty, nor ugly; but is altogether a comely lady enough, and seems very good-humoured, ..."
"... my Lady Hinchingbroke I find a very sweet-natured and well-disposed lady, a lover of books and pictures, and of good understanding."
Anne is Robert Boyle FRS's niece, so despite the upheavals to her education during the Civil Wars, we should not be surprised that she was intelligent.
"They are very good condition, wise and chearfull people," mother-in-law Jemima Crew Montagu, Countess of Sandwich wrote just after the wedding. "She" (the bride) "hath a very fine free kind way of writing so have they all, something Mr. Boiles styll."1
1 Life of Edward Mountagu, K.G., First Earl of Sandwich, by F. R. Harris, vol. ii. p. 179.
Immediate Family:
Fourth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, 2nd Earl of Cork and Lady Elizabeth Clifford, 2nd Baroness Clifford
Wife of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich
Mother of:
Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich
and Lord Richard Montagu,
Sister of:
Frances Boyle Dillon;
Sir Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan;
Elizabeth Boyle Nicholas;
Henrietta Boyle
and Richard Boyle
About Friday 13 March 1667/68
San Diego Sarah • Link
I agree, Gerald. Being over-heated in March in London is not a normal complaint.
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"there was great things against us and against me, for all my fine discourse the other day."
Told you so! Buckingham and Ashley, what are you up to?????????????
About Thursday 12 March 1667/68
San Diego Sarah • Link
"I to Gresham College, there to shew myself; and was there greeted by Dr. Wilkins, Whistler, and others, as the patron of the Navy Office, and one that got great fame by my late speech to the Parliament."
Pepys has mentioned going to places in order to be seen a few times since his speech to the House of Commons. I think this was very savvy of him politically. Money is short ... the late War unpopular ... Parliament is looking for scapegoats, and has already found one amongst the Commissioners ... and who knows what Buckingham and Lord Ashley are up to behind the scenes. Votes can be bought ... Ashley is in charge of the budget.
Pepys is keeping the favorable conversation alive; being out of sight massaging paper for the next hearing could have cost the Navy Board a lot. A week's delay between the speech and the vote could have worked against them very easily.
About Laurence Moyer
San Diego Sarah • Link
Capt. Laurence Moyer of Leigh, was the son of James Moyer, a former Elder Brother of Trinity House who died in 1638.
This annotation was originally about his brother, Capt. Samuel Moyer, who was a Younger Brother of the Trinity House Corporation, and they were related to nearly all of those merchant mariners of Leigh who were connected with the Trinity House. The Moyer family had long been engaged in the Levant trade.
Capt. Lawrence Moyer was commander of the Hercules, in Adm. Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick’s fleet in 1643.
Both Moyer brothers were ardent supporters of Cromwell’s regime and held various offices in its administration. Like most of the Leigh mariners they were staunch Puritans, and he and his brother were subsequently committed to the Tower of London and kept under restraint for several years on suspicion of plotting against the monarchy.
This 1952 paper was presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, and has information about the growth of shipbuilding under James I and Charles I, the Civil War years, shipbuilding in Boston and Wapping, the history of the Seething Lane offices, and the characters "Major" Nehemiah Bourne was related to by marriage ... the entire Trinity House Brotherhood were his Puritan in-laws and cousins from Wapping during the Cromwell years.
And yes, Pepys and the Diary get some mentions.
https://www.colonialsociety.org/n…
About Samuel Moyer
San Diego Sarah • Link
Capt. Samuel Moyer of Leigh, was the son of James Moyer, a former Elder Brother of Trinity House who died in 1638.
Capt. Samuel Moyer was a Younger Brother of the Trinity House Corporation, and was related to nearly all of those merchant mariners of Leigh who were connected with the Trinity House.
Although Samuel Moyer and his family had long been engaged in the Levant trade, with the opening up of commerce with the Americas he adventured into the trade, frequently in partnership with Capt. Maurice Thomson, but eventually both were to become more prominent in the East India trade.
Capt. Samuel Moyer was an ardent supporter of Cromwell’s regime and held various offices in its administration. Like most of the Leigh mariners he was a staunch Puritan, and he and his brother, Capt. Lawrence Moyer (who became one of the Elder Brethren of the House at the Restoration) were subsequently committed to the Tower of London and kept under restraint for several years on suspicion of plotting against the monarchy.
Capt. Nicholas Hurlestone, Samuel Moyer's brother-in-law and a Warden of Trinity House both before 1649 and after the Restoration was captain of the Jewel, one of the ships in Governor Winthrop’s fleet in 1630.
This 1952 paper was presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, and has information about the growth of shipbuilding under James I and Charles I, the Civil War years, shipbuilding in Boston and Wapping, the history of the Seething Lane offices, and the characters "Major" Nehemiah Bourne was related to by marriage ... the entire Trinity House Brotherhood were his Puritan in-laws and cousins from Wapping during the Cromwell years.
And yes, Pepys and the Diary get some mentions.
https://www.colonialsociety.org/n…
About Capt. John Cox
San Diego Sarah • Link
Capt. John Cox was elected an Elder Brother of Trinity House on 20 July 1664 in succession to Capt. Brian Harrison, who had died.
In the Second Anglo-Dutch War, John Cox was captain of the Sovereign, a first rate of 100 guns, and was knighted for his services.
In the Third Anglo-Dutch War Capt. John Cox was killed in the action off Sole Bay, 28 May 1672.
This 1952 paper was presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, and has information about the growth of shipbuilding under James I and Charles I, the Civil War years, shipbuilding in Boston and Wapping, the history of the Seething Lane offices, and the characters "Major" Nehemiah Bourne was related to by marriage ... the entire Trinity House Brotherhood were his Puritan in-laws and cousins from Wapping during the Cromwell years.
And yes, Pepys and the Diary get some mentions.
https://www.colonialsociety.org/n…
About Capt. William Badiley
San Diego Sarah • Link
William Badiley was a brother of Richard Badiley (whose service was sufficiently distinguished for notice in the Dictionary of National Biography), William Badiley had equally active service at sea during the first Anglo-Dutch War, and is the Captain Badiley whose action was commended by Adm. Blake, in his report of the Battle of the Kentish Knock where he commanded a ship in Major Nehemiah Bourne’s squadron.
William Badiley later served as a rear admiral for a time, but his service was more often in the dockyards.
William Badiley was a Younger Brother of the Trinity House as early as 1628, when he appears to have been master of a ship in the Levant trade, and subsequently owned several vessels engaged in that trade.
On the outbreak of the first Anglo-Dutch War three of the ships Capt. William Badiley owned, or was part owner of, the Dolphin, Anne of Cleeves and William, were taken up for the state’s service, and Badiley himself served at sea under Blake and Nehemiah Bourne until December, 1653, when he was appointed Master Attendant at Portsmouth.
William Badiley was afterwards Master Attendant at Deptford and Woolwich, where during the succeeding years he was frequently associated with Major Bourne in his dockyard activities.
In these later years William Badiley resided on Tower Hill and was frequently engaged in the impressment on and about the river, a reference in this connection stating that his membership of Trinity House “particularly qualified him for this work.”
William Badiley was the only one of the original 12 Trinity House Commissioners appointed in 1649 to continue as an Elder Brother of the Corporation after the Restoration, and remained at the Trinity House until his death in 1666.
The Badileys were Wapping men, and the names of members of the family occur in the Marriage Register of St. John’s in 1627 and 1629. Capt. Richard Badiley died there: “14th August 1657, Captain Richard Badiley, dwelling in Milk Yard, near ye chapel, dyed of an ulcer”; his first wife, Rebecca, having been buried there in 1641.
William Badiley married at St. John’s, evidently a second marriage, 30 November 1658, to Elizabeth Tatum, spinster. Both are described at this time as of Stepney, and to the entry in the Marriage Register there is the following notation: “in the presence of Richard Badiley, Captain John Cox and others then present.”
This 1952 paper was presented by Captain William Robert Chaplin, of the Trinity House, London, and has information about the growth of shipbuilding under James I and Charles I, the Civil War years, shipbuilding in Boston and Wapping, the history of the Seething Lane offices, and the characters "Major" Nehemiah Bourne was related to by marriage ... the entire Trinity House Brotherhood were his Puritan in-laws and cousins from Wapping during the Cromwell years.
And yes, Pepys and the Diary get some mentions.
https://www.colonialsociety.org/n…
About Monday 9 September 1661
San Diego Sarah • Link
Meanwhile, at the Palace of Whitehall, ...
"When Charles II was restored to the throne he issued a Royal Warrant, dated 9th September 1661, for the disinterment of the bodies of Oliver Cromwell, his family and supporters. Their bodies were buried in a pit in the adjoining churchyard of St. Margaret's Westminster.
"In the 19th century a stone over the vault in the Abbey (in what is now the RAF chapel) was inscribed with the names and dates of death of all those who were once buried there.
"In 1966 a memorial inscription was cut into the west wall of the exterior of St. Margaret's to record all those re-buried there. This reads:
"This tablet is erected by the Cromwell Association to the memory of the undermentioned whose remains were disinterred from Westminster Abbey at the time of the restoration of King Charles II and were in September 1661 buried in this churchyard of St. Margaret's:
Colonel Robert Blake ... Denis Bond ... Colonel Nicholas Boscawen
Mary Bradshaw ... Sir William Constable ... Elizabeth, mother of Oliver Cromwell,
Colonel Richard Deane ... Jane Desborough ... Dr Isaac Dorislaus
Anne Fleetwood ... Thomas Hesilrige ... Colonel Humphrey Mackworth
Stephen Marshall ... Thomas May ... Colonel John Meldrum
Colonel Edward Popham ... John Pym ... Humphrey Salwey
William Strong ... William Stroud ... Dr William Twiss."
https://www.westminster-abbey.org…
I bet Adm. Penn wasn't the only drunken Parliamentarian in those days.
About Wednesday 11 March 1667/68
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"What is the 'service à la française'" was such a hot topic that the University of Bordeaux had a colloquium with 40 participants about it in 2017.
Thanks for adding that, Stephane. At least we added our confusion to the general mayhem. You are a fount of information.
About Tuesday 10 March 1667/68
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"and back by coach to Lincoln’s Inn Fields; but my Lady was not come in, and so I am at a great loss whether she and her brother Hinchingbrooke and sister will dine with me tomorrow or no, which vexes me."
Inconsiderate young privileged spoiled kids with short memories. Mind your Uncle Samuel.
About Tuesday 10 March 1667/68
San Diego Sarah • Link
1667 was a peak year for Sir Denis Gauden. He became Sheriff of London, was knighted, became Master of the Clothworkers Company and on 18 June was elected Alderman of the Ward of Dowgate, serving in that capacity until 1676.
So it was as Sheriff that he was concerned about Sir Thomas Halford's treatment in Newgate Prison.
About Monday 9 March 1667/68
San Diego Sarah • Link
Thomas Holden, based in Falmouth, was an frequent correspondent with Whitehall about local Cornish maritime matters. It is likely he is the Thomas Holden who served as Mayor of Falmouth six times between 1664 and 1695.[11]
[11] Susan E. Gay, Old Falmouth (1903), p.239, https://archive.org/details/oldfa….
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About Monday 9 March 1667/68
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Matthew Wren MP (1629 - 1672) had been secretary to Chancellor Clarendon since the Restoration, and went to work as Coventry's replacement in 1667 as secretary for James, Duke of York. Yes, he was a F.R.S., but that had nothing to do with why he was involved in getting the Deptford shipwrights paid off. https://www.pepysdiary.com/encycl…
And this is the link which will get you to the actual page/month to read the original transcript:
'Charles II: March 1668', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1667-8, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1893), pp. 262-320. British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/…
My understanding of the letter is that the Navy were indeed discharging the craftsmen. Cost cutting in progress. Of course, as is true today, they could relocate to another shipyard, preferably a private one like those of the East India Company. Their skills were highly prized.
About Wednesday 11 March 1667/68
San Diego Sarah • Link
Do we believe two professors who had studied Pepys and the 17th century for years, or Wikipedia?
This article compares the two styles and agrees with Kew Gardener, but note they are discussing 19th century service styles.
https://www.manuscriptcookbookssu…
The question is, what was "the French style" in the 17th century? I'm going to take L&M's word for it until I find 17th century evidence to the contrary.
About Mr Bence
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Turns out their father, Alexander Bunce SENIOR, was also an MP for Aldeburgh. His Parliamentary biography gives more family background:
Bence may have been descended from the family of that name resident in the parish of Bungay in north Suffolk in the 14th century.
His grandfather, Edmund, was resident in the East Anglian port of Aldeburgh by 1524, and was sufficiently prosperous to be included in the subsidy assessment.
By the Elizabethan period the Bences were a thriving family of Aldeburgh merchants and mariners; a member of the family served as bailiff in 1566 and two years later Bence’s father and uncle were both assessed there for the subsidy.
By 1582 seven people of that surname feature in the tax roll.
His associates makes it unlikely that Bence was numbered among the Puritan ‘godly’.
Alexander Bence Sr., died at Aldeburgh the following January, and was buried in the parish church, where a monument was erected depicting him in his bailiff’s gown and a ruff.
His will was proved by his sons and executors, John and Robert, on 25 February.
Son John Bunce was elected for the borough in 1624, while two other sons, Squire and Alexander Jr., were returned in the 1640s.
https://www.historyofparliamenton…
About Mr Bence
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Alexander Bence MP (born ca. 1590) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648 and again in 1654.
He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War.
Alexander Bence was the son of Alexander Bence and his wife, Marie Squier, daughter of Thomas Squier.
In November 1640, Alexander Bence Jr. was elected Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh, Suffolk in the Long Parliament and sat until he was excluded under Pride's Purge.
In 1642 he was appointed by parliament as one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of (His Majesty's) Navy, the King having prevented all his principal officers of the navy from performing their duties.
Alexander Bence Jr. MP was a member of the Worshipful Company of Grocers in the City of London and became an Alderman for Walbrook ward in May, 1653.
In 1654 he was elected MP for Suffolk in the First Protectorate Parliament.
He was master of Trinity House from 1659 to 1660.
Alexander Bence Jr. married his first wife, Anne Aylett of Rendham, Suffolk, and his son by her, John Bence, was later also MP for Aldeburgh.
Alexander's brother, Squire Bence, was also MP for Aldeburgh during the Long Parliament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ale…
About Mr Bence
San Diego Sarah • Link
Squire Bence MP (1597 – 1648) was an English merchant, seafarer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 to 1648.
Bence was the son of Alexander Bence and his wife, Marie Squier, daughter of Thomas Squier.
He was a merchant and shipowner who undertook trading expeditions by sea. Bence Island in the estuary of the Sierra Leone River was named after him.
In the 1620s Squire Bence is recorded as raiding an Algerian ship and removing Christian slaves and prisoners from it.
In April 1640, Squire Bence was elected MP for Aldeburgh in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected in 1642 as MP for Aldeburgh when he joined his brother Alexander Bence in the Long Parliament.
Squire Bence MP sat until his death in 1648.
In 1642 Squire Bence MP was appointed by parliament as one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of (His Majesty's) Navy, the King having prevented all his principal officers of the navy from performing their duties.
Squire Bence MP died aged 51 years, 6 months and 12 days at Thorington Suffolk, although he is also commemorated on the family monument at Aldeburgh.
Bence married Elizabeth Pett on 26 August 1617 at St. Dunstan, Stepney, London. His second wife was Mary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squ…