E
EARDLEY, William
Co Co ? Cordwainer, 1660 (1)
Watling Street, 1641, St Mary Aldermary (2) DR, appr to
Andrew Beech, fr, 1635 Removed from L, 1662 (3) f
John Eardley of Eardley, Staff, mar Elizabeth, da of Andrew
and Avis Beech (4) Draper (5) ? Nonconformist (6)
Lt Col Red Regt, Mar 1660, Commsr for Lieut, 1660
(1) Chivers (2) Johnson, DR, IV, p 142, Boyd 7831 (3)
Boyd 7831, Johnson, DR, IV, p 293 (4) Boyd 7831, 3520
(5) Johnson, DR, IV, p 142 (6) Johnson, DR, IV, p 293
EAST, John.
Co Co Portsoken, 1675 ? 'Three Nuns' inn,
Without Aldgate, 1663, High Street Prec, 1674, St Botolph
Aldgate, 1674 (1) BLACK (2) b St James Clerkenwell,
Middx, ? bap 13 Jun 1619 (3) Will PCC 24 Dycer pr,
5 Mar 1674/5 f ? John East of St James Clerkenwell, Middx,
m ? Katherine (4) ? Innholder (5) City and London
property (2)
(1) Rogers, I, p 151, will (2) Will (3) Will, Reg, St James
Clerkenwell (4) Reg, St James Clerkenwell (5) Rogers, I,
p 151
EATON, John
Co Co Farringdon Within, 1673 (1)
Cheapside, St Vedast, 1654, 1674 (2) VIN, appr, 1637, to
Edward Nurse (3) d 11 May 1676, bur St Vedast (4)
Will PCC 49 Bence pr, 18 May 1676 f Henry Eaton of
Wicken, Lancs, mar 1654, Anne, da of Ralph HEYGATE
(5) Milliner (6) Personalty, Jan 1677/8, £363 (7) Capt
Green Regt, 1672, member of Hon Artillery Coy
(1) Journ 47, f 253 Farringdon Within from position in
committee list (2) CSB, II, 42, Boyd 24965, SBk, Jul-Oct
1674 (3) CSB, II, 42, will, VIN, Appr Pres, 2 May 1637
(4) Boyd 24965 (5) VIN, Appr Pres, 2 May 1637, Boyd
24965, will of Ralph HEYGATE (6) SBk, Jul-Oct 1674
(7) CSB, II, 42
EDMONDSON, Richard
Co Co Bridge, 1689-91 Lower
Prec, St Benet Gracechurch, 1688, Richmond, Surr, 1707,
1715 (1) MT, appr, 1658, to Edmond Pledwell of Fleet
Bridge (2) d 1715 (3) Will PCC 133 Fagg pr, 28 Jul
1715 f Rev Richard Edmondson of Sparshock, Berks,
cleric, mar Anne (4) Linendraper (5) Half share in New
River Company Exchequer bonds (3) City property (3)
Tory, 1690 (6)
(1) WMBk, Bridge, will, will of Peter VANDEPUT (2)
Will, MT, Appr Bindings, XIV, f 324 (3) Will (4) MT,
Appr Bindings, XIV, f 324, will (5) Will of William PETT
(6) H of L, MS 154 (h), Bodl Lib, Rawlinson MS D 734,
f 31d
EDWARDS, James
Co Co Cheap, 1652-60 Ald Candlewick, 10 Jun 1669-11 Jan 1685/6 surrendered (1) St Mary
Colechurch, 1652, 1660, Islington, Middx, 1677, St Michael
Bassishaw, 1690 (2) GR, appr, 1637, to Ald John Towse,
W, 1667, M, 1680 (3) d Feb 1690/1, bur Guild Hall
Chapel (4) Will PCC 52 Vere pr, 5 Mar 1690/1 f John
Edwards of Garton, Yorks, yeo, mar Elizabeth, da of
Anthony Biddulph of St Alban Wood Street, wid of Henry
Crisp (5) Merchant Comm EIC, 1651-7, 1659-60, 1665-6,
1667-8, 1675-9, 1680-90/1, Dep Gov, 1676-8 Assis RAC,
1676 (6) £15,500 in EIC stock Lent Charles II £30,000
when in exile Legacies of £3,700 to charities (7) Land
Suss, Ireland (8) Kt, 5 Nov 1670 Sheriff, 1669-70, LM,
1678 (1) Col Green Regt, 1680-7, Commsr for Lieut, 1681,
1688 Tory (9) Bro-in-law of Robert BIDDULPH and of
Richard CHIVERTON Heir, neph Sir James Edwards of
York, Bt Sheriff of Norf, 1695, Gentleman of Privy
Chamber (10)
(1) Beaven, I, p 86 (2) VBk, St Mary Colechurch, Directory,
1677 (and living out of City, 1672- Account of the Aldermen,
1672), will (3) Beaven, II, p 104, Boyd 15766, GR, Appr
Reg, 1629-66, f 65d (4) Boyd 15766 (5) Boyd 15766, GR,
Appr Reg, 1629-66, f 65d, Boyd 10657 (6) Directory, 1677,
Beaven, II, p 104, K G Davies, Index (7) K G Davies,
"Joint-stock Investment in the later Seventeenth Century",
in EcHR (1951), GEC, IV, p 159, will (8) Will For Irish
land see HMC, Ormonde, V, p 227 (9) See HMC,
Ormonde, V, pp 213, 227 (10) Boyd 10657, 9222, will,
GEC, IV, p 159
EDWARDS, William (A)
Co Co Cripplegate Within,
1660-1, 1663, 1666-8 (1) St Mary Magdalen Milk Street,
1660, 1668, ? St Lawrence Jewry, 1670, St Alphage, ? 1660,
1682 (2) SALT (3) d Feb 1681/2 (3) Will PCC 16
Cottle pr, 25 Feb 1681/2
(1) 1661 GHL, MS 10116, Box 1, file 1, 1663 VBk, St Mary
Magdalen Milk Street (2) VBk, St Mary Magdalen Milk
Street, VBk, St Lawrence Jewry, VBk, St Alphage, PCC,
PAB, 1682 (3) Will
EDWARDS, William (B)
Co Co, 1663, 1666-7, Castle
Baynard or Queenhith (1) St Mary Magdalen Old Fish
Street, 1663, 1666 (2) Cf William Edwards, draper of
Distaff Lane, St Margaret Moses, 1624, 1638, mar (A)
1624, Jane, (B) 1644, Alice Talbot (3)
(1) VBk, St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, which psh
lies in these two wards (2) VBk, St Mary Magdalen Old
Fish Street (3) Boyd 302
EDWIN, Humphrey
Co Co Bishopsgate Within, 1679-80
(1) Ald Tower, 6 Aug 1687-3 Oct 1688 superseded Ald
Cheap, 25 Oct 1688-22 Oct 1689 removed to Tower-14
Dec 1707 (d) (2) Great St Helens, 1677, St Helen Bishopsgate, 1668, Austin Friars, 1681, St Peter le Poor, Kensington,
Middx, 1708 (3) BS, fr, 1679, M, 1688 Transl to SKIN,
1690, M, 1691 (4) b 1642, at Hereford, d 14 Dec 1701,
bur Llanvilhangel Plas, Glam (5) PCC Admon, 17 Feb
1707/8 f William Edwin, twice Mayor of Hereford, m
Anne Mansfield, mar 1668, at St Dunstan-in-the-West,
Elizabeth, da of Samuel Sambrooke, of Bassishaw, merchant,
and Mary Anthony (6) Merchant 1670, ? wooltrade,
Colleague of Patience WARD Company promoter, stock
broker Comm EIC, 1682-3 (7) RAC stock £300 of original
stock, 1671 (8) Kt, 18 Nov 1687 Sheriff, 1688, LM, 1697
(9) Whig, Noncomfornist (10) Commsr for Lieut, 1688
Bro-in-law of Jeremy SAMBROOKE (11) Son Samuel
Edwin, Usher of Court of Receipts, mar Catharine Montague,
da of 3rd Earl of Manchester (12)
(1) 1679 Beaven, II, p 193 (2) Beaven, I, pp 202, 203
(3) Directory, 1677, Boyd 4270, SP/29/417/114, DNB,
Hatton, View of London, p xxxiii (4) Beaven, II, pp 203,
206, Boyd 4270 (5) Boyd 4270 (6) Boyd 4270, DNB (7)
DNB, Directory, 1677, Roger North, Lives of the Norths, ed
Jessop (1890), II, p 245, CRO, Misc Roll 107, Beaven, II,
p 113 (8) PRO, T 70/100 (9) Beaven, II, p 203 (10)
SP/29/417/114, DNB (11) Codicil to will of Jeremy SAMBROOKE, not uncle as Beaven says (II, p 192) (12)
Boyd 4270, Le Neve, p 415
ELDRIDGE, John
Co Co Billingsgate, 1682 'The Lion'
at Billingsgate, pre-1666, 'The Eagle and Crown', Drury
Lane, 1667, St Mary at Hill, 1682 (1) FISH, appr, 1647, to
William Hanson (2) d 21 Feb 1681/2, bur St Mary at
Hill (3) Will PCC 16 Cottle pr, 22 Feb 1681/2 f John
Eldridge, PS, of St Sepulchre, Middx, mar Elizabeth (4)
Distiller (5) ? Tory ("indifferent, rather good", 1682) (6)
(1) W Token 199 (p 531), W Token 866 (p 866), will (2)
Will, Boyd 38468, FISH, Fr and Appr Reg, 1647 (3) Boyd
38468 (4) FISH, Fr and Appr Reg, 1647, will (5) W Token
199 (6) SP/29/418/199
ELLIOTT, Jonathan
Co Co Portsoken, 1676-81, ? 1682,
1683, 1688-92, Dep, 1693 (1) Late of Minories, 1693, St
Botolph Aldgate, 1678, Stepney, Middx, 1693 (2) APO (2)
b 1642, d 1693 (2) Will PCC 155 Coker pr, 4 Oct 1693
f ? Jonathan Elliott, APO of London, s of Jonathan Elliott
of Southwark, mar (A) 1678, Mary Bamford of Henley on
Thames, Oxon, wid, (B) Anne (3) Apothecary (4) Exchequer bonds (4) City property (5) Not Tory, 1683 (6)
(1) "not in", 1682 SP/29/418/199, 1688 WIM, Portsoken,
(2) Will, Boyd 33980 (3) APO, Co MBk, I, f 341d, Boyd
33980, will (4) Will (5) Will (6) SP/29/435/101
ELLIS, John
Ald Bridge Within, 1651 (1) Co Co Castle
Baynard, 1681 St Pauls Church Yard, 1640, 1677, 1681,
South Prec, St Gregory, St Julians, Herts, 1667 (2) MT,
appr, 1628, to Alexander Bradshaw of St Pauls Church Yard,
M, 1656 (3) d at house at Sandwich, Kent, 1682 (4) Will
PCC 108 Cottle pr, 14 Sep 1682 f John Ellis of St Albans,
Herts (1628), and Chislehurst, Kent, gent, m Elizabeth
Chamberlain of Kingscleere, Hants, mar (A) Elizabeth
Bridges of-, Lancs, (B) Rebecca, da of Richard Read
(5) Merchant, 1677, draper, 1681 (6) Personalty, Feb
1683/4, ? £18,941 (7) Elected Sheriff, 1651 Sheriff of
Hants, 1667 (1) Whig (8)
(1) Beaven, II, p 79 (2) MT, Appr Bindings, XII, f 79,
Directory, 1677, SP/29/417/114, VBk, St Gregory (3)
Beaven, II, p 79, MT, Appr Bindings, IX, f 362 (4)
Luttrell, I, p 218, PCC, PAB, 1682 (5) MT, Appr Bindings,
IX, f 362, LVP, 1664, p 89 (6) Directory, 1677, SP/29/
417/114 (7) CSB, IV, 221 (8) SP/29/417/114
ELLIS, Richard.
Co Co Cripplegate Without, 1675-6 (1)
(1) Listed as CULLIS in CRO list 1676 SP/29/387/155
[ELMORE,
- Dep, 1660 (1) ]
(1) CRO list Tobel AYLMER probably intended
ELWES, Jeremiah/Jeremy
Co Co Broad Street, 1688-93
Tokenhouse Yard, 1677, St Margaret Lothbury, 1673, 1695
(1) MER, fr, 1663, by William Barker, esq (2) Will
PCC 116 Pyne pr, 26 Jun 1697 f Sir Gervaise Elwes of
Woodford, Essex, kt, m Frances, da of Sir Robert Lee, of
Billeslee, Warw, Kt (? Sec to Treasury), mar (A) -Lee
of London, spin (3) Merchant (4) Tory, 1687, 1690 (5)
Da Catherine mar Henry SOAMES (6) Bro Sir Gervaise
Elwes of Stoke College, Suff, Bt MP Sudbury, 1677-9,
1679-81, 1700-6, Suffolk, 1679, 1690-8 Bro Sir John
Elwes, Kt Da Mary mar (B) Dr Pagett of Doctors' Commons
Grandf, John Elwes, and great-grandf, Geoffrey Elwes, both
Ald (7)
(1) Directory, 1677, VBk, St Mary Lothbury, CRO, Asses
of Marriages, etc 1695, 49/10 (2) H of L, MS 154 (1), MER,
Fr List, p 164 (3) Burke, Extinct Barts, p 182, Le Neve,
p 149, Boyd 33686 (4) Will, Directory, 1677, Burke,
Extinct Barts, p 182 (5) H of L, MS 154 (1), Bodl Lib,
Rawlinson MS D 734, f 31d (6) Will of s, Jeremy Elwes
PCC 78 Dyer, 1701, Boyd 3360 (7) Will, GEC, III, p 51,
Le Neve, p 149, will of s, Jeremy Elwes, Burke, Extinct
Barts, p 182
ELWICK, John
Co Co Tower, 1680-1 St Dunstan-in-theEast, 1680, 1685 (1) MER, fr, 1659, by Timothy Elwick (2)
d 1685, bur St Dunstan-in-the-East (3) Will PCC 84
Cann pr, 8 Jul and 29 Aug 1685 mar 1659, Judith, da of
Thomas Crispe, MT, and Martha Osborne (4) Distiller (5)
Son John, in partnership with James PAUL (£1,000
purchase), ? mar Freelove, da of Gregory PAGE (6)
(1) VBk, St Dunstan-in-the-East, will (2) A G B West,
The Church and Parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East (1923), MER,
Fr List, p 163 (3) Boyd 28466, A G B West, op cit, p
163 (4) Boyd 28466, 38397 (5) Will Boyd 28466 calls
him DIST (6) Will, will of Gregory PAGE
ELWOOD, William
Dep Bishopsgate, 1658-60 (1)
? CLO, M, 1663 (2) Will PCC 31 Coke pr, 1669, of London
(1) Chivers (2) Boyd 43660
EMES, Thomas
Co Co Cripplegate Without, 1683,
1689-94, 1701-4, Dep, 1692-3 St Giles Cripplegate LS,
appr, 1661, to Margaret Dunham, wid, M, 1705 (1) f
Edward Emes of Offenham, Worc, husbandman (2) Soapboiler (3) ? Tory, not Whig, not Tory, 1690
(1) Boyd Index, LS, Appr Reg, 13 Aug 1661 (2) LS, Appr
Reg, 13 Aug 1661 (3) CRO, Jones, Trades (Cripplegate
Without) (4) H of L, MS 154 (f), SP/29/435/122
EMPSON, William
Co Co Cheap, ? 1681, 1689 (1)
Cheapside, 1681, St Mary Colechurch, ChW, 1670, 1689 (2)
LS, appr, 1646/7, to John Browne, M, 1690 (3) f Mark
Empson of York, grocer (4) Leatherseller (5) Whig
("phanatic", 1681) (6)
(1) ? 1681 SP/29/417/114, 1689 VBk, St Mary Colechurch
(2) SP/29/417/112, VBk, St Mary Colechurch (3) Boyd
42742, LS, Appr Reg, 6 Mar 1646/7 (4) LS, Appr Reg,
6 Mar 1646/7 (5) SP/29/417/112 (6) SP/29/417/114
ESSINGTON, Peter.
Co Co Portsoken, 1680-3 'The Rose
and Crown', Houndsditch, 1668, St Botolph Aldgate,
Wandsworth, Surr, gent, 1700 (1) ? GOLD, fr, 1661, by
P (2) Will PCC 137 Gee pr, 25 Jun 1705 ? f Peter
Essington, GOLD, of Old Bailey, Farringdon Within, mar
(A) Elizabeth, (B) Margaret (3) Coppersmith (4) City
property (5) Whig ("naught conventicler", 1682) (4)
(1) W Token 1509 (p 640), will (2) GOLD, Index of Appr
(3) (?) f s of James Essington of-, Hants, husbandman
(GOLD, Appr Reg, I, f 277, Index of Appr), will (4)
SP/29/418/199 (5) Will
EVANS, Evan
Co Co Bridge, 1689 1st Piec London
Bridge, 1664, ? Stockwell, Lambeth, Surr, 1681, St Olave,
Southwark, 1704 (1) MT, appr, 1653, to James Lambe of
Southwark (2) d 1706 (3) Will PCC 123 Eedes pr, 26
Jun 1706 f Rowland Evans of Shrewsbury, Salop, clothworker, mar Saint (2) Salesman (4) London property (3)
(1) WMBk, Bridge, will of Thomas BROMLEY, will (2)
Will, MT, Appr Bindings, XIII, f 378 (3) Will (4) CRO,
Jones, Trades (Bridge Within)
EVANS, Richard
Co Co Vintry, 1658-60 (1) Ald Bridge
Without, 2-25 Jul 1663, disch, F £200 and 20 marks (2)
St Michael Royal, 1661 (3) CUT, clerk, 1642-66, fined for
M, 1651 (4) Da Anne mar Peter RICH (5)
(1) Chivers (2) Beaven, I, p 66 (3) Boyd 4760 (4) Beaven,
I, p 66, Boyd 35158 (5) LVP, 1664, p 116
EVANS, Thomas
Co Co Cripplegate Within, 1665-70,
1673-81 (1) St Alphage, 1665 (2) PS, W, 1662, 1664,
M, 1667 (3) b 1613, at Glasbury, Radnor, d 15 Jan
1686/7, bur St Alphage (4) Will PCC 57 Exton pr, 17
May 1687 (5) mar Elizabeth (6) Painter (6) City
property (incl Evan's Court, Bassishaw) (6) Tory (7)
(1) 1665-6, VBk, St Alphage (2) VBk, St Alphage (3)
Boyd 19535, Citizens of London, 1651, p 23 (4) Will, Citizens
of London, 1651, p 23 (5) Also pr in Court of Hustings (6)
Will (7) H of L, MS 154 (f), (m)
EVE, Simon
Ald Bassishaw, 27 Aug-8 Oct 1661, disch on
grounds of age, being nearly 80 years old, F £200 and 20
marks (1) Fleet Street, near the conduit, 1641, Christ
Church, 1661/2 (2) DR, fr, 1636, by R (3) b Ware,
Herts (4) Will PCC 97 Laud pr, 7 Jul 1662 Taylor (5)
City and Southwark property (4)
(1) Beaven, I, p 19 (2) Johnson, DR, IV, p 142, will (3)
Beaven, I, p 19, Boyd 28171 (4) Will (5) Johnson, DR,
IV, p 142
EVERARD, Charles
Ald Broad Street, 23-24 Jun 1664,
disch, F £520 (1) Co Co Langborn, 1665 St Andrew
Undershaft, 1650, 'The Unicorn', Lombard Street, 1652-62,
'The Star', near Exchange Alley, 1662-5, St Mary Woolnoth, 1661 (2) GOLD, appr, 1638, to Thomas VYNER,
fr, 1649, PW, 1665 (3) d of plague, 28 Oct 1665, bur St
Mary Woolnoth (4) Will PCC 44 Mico, 1666 Admon,
8 Mar 1666/7 f Arthur Everard of Bungay, Suff (1638),
and of Gillingham Hall, Norf, gent, m Dorothy Rolph of
Hadleigh, Suff, mar 1650, at Hackney, Middx, Mary Atkin
(? da of Thomas ATKIN) (5) Goldsmith and banker, in
partnership with John Wasson (6) Personalty, Nov 1667,
£14,750 deficient (7) Capt White Regt, Oct 1660
(1) Beaven, I, p 176 (2) LVP, 1664, p 61, Heal, London
Goldsmiths, p 149 (Cf John PORTMAN at 'The Unicorn'),
GHL, MS 10116, Box 1, file 1 (3) Beaven, II, p 96, GOLD,
Appr Reg, I, f 347, Index of Appr (4) LVP, 1664, p 61
(5) GOLD, Appr Reg, I, f 347, LVP, 1664, p 61 (6) Heal,
London Goldsmiths, p 149, Hilton Price, Signs of Old Lombard
Street, p 80 (7) CSB, II, 46b
EYLES, John
Ald Broad Stieet, 12 Aug 1687-3 Oct 1688,
superseded on restoration of Charter (1) ? St Helen,
Southbroom, Bishops Canning, Wilts (2) HAB (1) b
? Devizes, Wilts, bur 6 Jul 1703, St Helen (3) Will PCC 109
Degg pr, 15 Jul 1703 f John Eyles of Devizes, Wilts, mercer/
woolstapler, m Mary, mar Sarah Cowper of London (4)
Merchant EIC South Sea C (5) RAC stock £400 o
original stock, 1671 (6) Land Wilts (7) Kt, 15 Aug 1687
(8) MP Devizes, 1679-81, contested, 1681, 1689 (8) Baptist
(9) Bro of Ald Sir Francis Eyles Da Sarah mar Joseph
Haskins-Styles, MP Sudbury, 1701-3 Da Elizabeth mar
James Montague, MP Chippenham, 1702-5, 1708-10
Uncle of Sir John Eyles, Bt (LM, 1726), MP Chippenham,
1713-27, who mar his cousin Mary Haskins-Styles All
Whigs Da Mary mar Sir John Smith, Bt, s of Sir John
SMITH (10)
(1) Beaven, I, p 77 (2) Boyd 15798, Wiltshire Archaeological
Magazine, XXXII, p 260, will (3) Wiltshire Notes and
Queries, I, p 391, Boyd 15798 (4) Wiltshire Notes and Queries,
I, p 391, GEC, V, p 22, Boyd 15798 (5) Walcott, MPs
Tempus Anne (6) PRO, T 70/100 (7) Will (8) Beaven,
II, p 114 (9) Will, Luttrell, I, p 411 (10) Beaven, II,
p 193, Walcott, MPs Tempus Anne, will, Boyd 15798,
GEC, V, p 22, LVP, 1664, p 109
EYRE, Thomas.
Co Co Vintry, 1681-3, 1688, Dep, 1687,
1689-1709 (1) St James Garlickhith, 1678, 1687, St
Thomas, Southwark, 1709 (2) TCH (3) d 1709 (3) Will
PCC 219 Lane pr, 26 Oct 1709 mar Mary (3) City
property (3) Whig ("naught, goes sometimes to Church,
but more to Conventicles", 1682) (4)
(1) Dep, 1687 VBk, St James Garlickhith (2) VBk, St
James Garlickhith, PCC, PAB, 1709 (3) Will (4) SP/29/
418/199
EYTON, James
Co Co Bridge, 1674-83, 1689-93 Upper
Prec, New Fish Street, 1688, St Margaret New Fish Street,
Cheapside, 1706 (1) LS, appr, 1657/8, to Francis WARNER,
M, 1702 (2) b 1644, living, 1710 (3) f Kendrick Eyton
of Eyton, Denbigh, esq (4) mar (A) 1670, Jane Baldwin
of St Antholin, (B) 1674, Elizabeth, da of Thomas CANHAM
(5) Linendraper, merchant (5) Kt, 29 Oct 1702 (6)
Whig, 1683 (7)
(1) WMBk, Bridge, will of Edward WALDO (2) Boyd
21155, LS, Appr Reg, 1 Mar 1657/8 (3) Boyd 21155 (4)
LS, Appr Reg, 1 Mar 1657/8 Father was later Kt, and
prothonotary and Clerk of the Crown for Denbigh and
Montgom (Cal S P Dom, 1682, p 273) (5) Boyd 21155,
will of Thomas CANHAM (6) Le Neve, p 481, W H
Black, A history of the Antiquities of the Worshipful Company of
Leathersellers of the City of London (1871), p 68 (7) SP/29/
435/100