Samuel Selwyn - Revision history

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|Person=Samuel Selwyn
|First name=Samuel
|Last name=Selwyn
|Occupation=Baker
|Training=Not apprentice
|Citizen=Unknown
|Literacy=Marke
|Has opening text=Samuel Selwyn
|Has signoff text=SS
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|Language skills=English language,
|Res street=Wapping
|Res county=Middlesex
|Res country=England
|Birth year=1610
|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/73 f.36v Annotate,
|Deposition date(s)=Feb 22 1659
|Has infobox completed=Yes
|Has synthesis completed=No
|Has HCA evidence completed=No
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==Biographical synthesis==
Samuel Selwyn (b. ca. 1618; d.by 1664). Baker.

Resident in Wapping in 1658.

==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
Forty-nine year old Samuel Selwyn deposed on February 22nd 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Mitchell and Clements against Corbin aforesaid".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.36v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.36v]]</ref>

Selwyn stated that Nicholas Rippen had met him in Eastsmithfield a year and a half ago. Rippen had wanted Selwyn to agree to become bound for Rippen in a bond of £31 for the payment of guns, gunpowder and materials to Mr Mitchell. The goods had been delivered to the ship the ''Roger and Edmund'' and Rippen owed Mitchell £10 for them. Selwyn refused to be bound, and then a month later, Mitchell himself had asked Selwyn to become bound, which Selwyn had likewise refused to do.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.36v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.36v]]</ref>

==Comment on sources==
C 6/168/61 Short title: Henckes v Selwyn. Plaintiffs: James Henckes. Defendants: Sarah Selwyn, John Selwyn, Elizabeth Kitchen and Henry Barcroft. Subject: personal estate of the deceased Samuel Selwyn, of Wapping, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1664.

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 Forty year old Samuel Selwen (alt. Selwyn) deposed on August 1st 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. He described himself as a "Brown Baker" of Wapping.<ref>[[HCA 13/63 f.344v Annotate|HCA 13/63 f.344v]]</ref>
-The case concerned unpaid debts from May 1646 for the provision of biscuit and bread to the the ship the ''Goodwill and Prosperous'' (Master: Henry Broadwater). Selwyn and his servants had supplied the ship with one and a half hundred weight of buiscuit at 12 ''s'' per hundred weight and also bread. The outstanding unpaid debt was 18 ''s'' for the biscuit and 16 ''s'' 3 ''d'' for the bread.
+The case concerned unpaid debts from May 1646 for the provision of biscuit and bread to the the ship the ''Goodwill and Prosperous'' (Master: Henry Broadwater). Selwyn and his servants had supplied the ship with one and a half hundred weight of biscuit at 12 ''s'' per hundred weight and also bread. The outstanding unpaid debt was 18 ''s'' for the biscuit and 16 ''s'' 3 ''d'' for the bread.
 Nine years later, on February 22nd 1659, declaring himself to be forty-nine, Samuel Selwyn deposed again in the High Court of Admiralty. This time he described himself simply as a "Baker" of Wapping. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Mitchell and Clements against Corbin aforesaid".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.36v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.36v]]</ref>

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 Resident in Wapping in 1646, 1650, 1659 and at his death, which was in 1664 or earlier.
-There is an apprenticeship record from February 8th 1660 for a John Selwen, whose father was "Samuel Selwen, Baker, Wapping". John Selwen was apprenticed for seven years as a draper to Robert Snowe.<ref>Records of London's Livery Companies Online: Apprentices and Freemen, 1400-1900], viewed 13/08/2016</ref>
+There is an apprenticeship record from February 8th 1660 for a John Selwen, whose father was "Samuel Selwen, Baker, Wapping". John Selwen was apprenticed for seven years as a draper to Robert Snowe.<ref>[http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=drp&event_id=DRLL913 Records of London's Livery Companies Online: Apprentices and Freemen, 1400-1900], viewed 13/08/2016</ref>
 A Chancery Court case from 1664 refers to "personal estate of the deceased Samuel Selwyn, of Wapping, Middlesex.<ref>C 6/168/61</ref> The defendants in the Chancery case include Sarah Selwyn and John Selwyn. It is probable that John Selwyn is Samuel's son, who had been apprenticed to Robert Snowe.

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 ==Biographical synthesis==

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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1610
-|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/73 f.36v Annotate,
+|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/63 f.344v Annotate, HCA 13/73 f.36v Annotate,
-|Deposition date(s)=Feb 22 1659
+|Deposition date(s)=Aug 1 1650, Feb 22 1659
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 ==Biographical synthesis==
-Samuel Selwyn (b. ca. 1618; d.by 1664). Baker.
+Samuel Selwyn (b. ca. 1618; d. by 1664). Brown baker, baker.
-Resident in Wapping in 1658.
+Operated a brown bakery from his shop "at the signe of the sugar loafe in Wappinge". Supplied ships with biscuit and bread.
 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
-Forty-nine year old Samuel Selwyn deposed on February 22nd 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Mitchell and Clements against Corbin aforesaid".<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.36v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.36v]]</ref>
+Forty year old Samuel Selwen (alt. Selwyn) deposed on August 1st 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. He described himself as a "Brown Baker" of Wapping.<ref>[[HCA 13/63 f.344v Annotate|HCA 13/63 f.344v]]</ref>
 Selwyn stated that Nicholas Rippen had met him in Eastsmithfield a year and a half ago. Rippen had wanted Selwyn to agree to become bound for Rippen in a bond of £31 for the payment of guns, gunpowder and materials to Mr Mitchell. The goods had been delivered to the ship the ''Roger and Edmund'' and Rippen owed Mitchell £10 for them. Selwyn refused to be bound, and then a month later, Mitchell himself had asked Selwyn to become bound, which Selwyn had likewise refused to do.<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.36v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.36v]]</ref>