MRP: Nicholas Hurlestone will

Nicholas Hurlestone will

Editorial history

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Abstract & context

Captain Nicholas Hurlestone was from a family of mariners and seamen in Sandwich, Kent. He was connected with the Moyer family of mariners through his wife XXX, who was the daughter of XXXX and Lydia Moyer. Several of his daughters married mariners, e.g. XXXX.

He was the older warden of Trinity House in 16?65, the year of his death. On November 15th, 1665, Pepy's reported dining at the Kings-head taverne "where all the Trinity-house dined today to choose a new Maister in the roome of Hurlestone that is dead. And Captain [Nicholas] Crispe is chosen." Despite the choice of Crispe, Pepys suggested that Sir William Batten was the real power, and that the company would "grow the worse for that man's death, for now Batten, and in him a lazy, corrupt, doting rogue, will have all the sway here."

Captain Nicholas Hurlestone was the brother-in-law of James Moyer junior (d. 1661). James Moyer junior mentiones Nicholas Hurlestone in his will, together with Nicholas' sons Nicholas and Richard, and Nicholas' daughters, Lydia, Rebecca, Sarah, and Elizabeth.

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Transcription

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN The Tenth day of August And in the ffifteentth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God King of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland x:r I Nicholas Hurlestone of Redriffe in the County of Surrey Marriner being in health of body and pf perfect memory (blessed be Almighty God for the same) bNow calling to remembrance the incertainty of this fraile and Transitory life And that as nothing is more certaine than death soe nothing is more uncertiane than the tyme therof And being willing whilst God affordeth mee strength and liberty with ability to settle such Estate as God hath blessed mee withall Soe that when the day of my ??disschetion shall come I may be the better fitted and prepared to leave this world for a better life I doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following

FFIRST I commend my soule into the hand of Almighty and everlasting God in such assurance Throught his mercy and for the alone meritts of my blessed Saviour and redeemer Jesus Christ To obtaine remission of my sinnes And to be made
Partaker

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PARTAKER OF everlasting life and to be saved by his sufferings and full satisfaction made for in soe that after this troublesome life be ended I may remaine for ever with my Christ in glorry And there enjoy that blessed society with the saints to all Eternity which I begg for Jesus Christ his sake for my selfe and for all that are related unto me Amen

And my body I committ into the Earth to be decently and in Christian like manner buried neare unto my father in the South Chancell of the Parish Church of S:t Clements in the towne of Sandwich in Kent

And concerning such Estate as God hath lengt me in this wold I give and dispose of the same as followeth

FFIRST I give unto my Loveing mother M:rs Alice ??Paprell Twenty pound of lawfull money of England Alsoe I give her Annuity of Twenty pound per Annum To be paid her by me Executors hereafter named or one of them dureing her naturall life To be paid att ffoure dayes of Payment Quarterly in every yeare by even and equall portions (That is to say) ffive pound per Quarter

ITEM I give and bequeath to the poore of the parish of S:t Clements in Sandwich the summe of Tenn pound of lawfull English money And I give into the poore of the parish of Redriffe the summe of Tenn pound of like English money

ITEM I give unto my Mother in Law M:rs Lydia Moyer tenn poun

ITEM I give unto Gilbert Rooper John Roope Edward Rich Giles Thornbroughe my sonnes in Law likewise unto each of their wifes my daughters the summe of ffive pounds a peece To say ffourty pound to them Eight

ITEM I give unto Alice Jesson my daughter ffive pound of like English money

ITEM I give unto every one of my Grandchildren That was is or hereafter shalbe borne of any of my daughters before the day of my death To each of them a Gold ring to the vallue of Tenn shillings a piece

ITEM I give into Anna my loveing wife the sume of one hundred pounds of lawfull money of England And alsoe all my householdstuffe and Plate with Lynnen Carpetts furniture bedding and I give unto her my said wife dureing the tyme of her naturall life And then leave it unto her to dispose of according to her ?promsse unto my Two sonns and to my daughters soe as shee shall thinke most meete To the end there my not be difference in point of deviding the same Considering that those Chilfren That are already married haveing had a large propotion of the same

ITEM I give and bequeath into my Two daughters That yet remaine unmarried Six hundred pounds of lawfull English money To be devided equally betweene the, (That is to say) unto my daughter Sarah Three hudnred pounds and to my daughter Elizabeth Three hundred pounds of lawfull English money.

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Notes

IGI

"IGI Record: Nicholas Hurlston; Christening: 1564, St. Clement's, Sandwich; Father: Unspecified"

"IGI Record: Nicholas Hurlestone; Marriage, 9th April 1605, St. Peter's, Sandwich; Spouse: Mary Anyon"

"IGI Record: Abigail Hurlstone; Christening: 3rd August 1669, St. Clements, Sandwich; Father; Richard Hurlstone, Mother: Sarah"

Canterbury marriage licences

"Hurlestone, Andrew, of St. Clement's, Sandwich, mariner, and Margaret French, s. p., w. At Woodnesborough. John Collard of St. Martin's, Cant., yeom., bonds. Sep. 18, 1617"

"Hurlestone, John, of St. Clement's, Sandwich, sailor, and Sarah More, s. p., v. At St. Margaret's, Cant. July 22, 1604"

[Four more male Hurlestone/Hurlston marriages for three men living in Sandwich and one in Shoulden, with the Shoulden man described as a sailor, for dates1594-1617]

Lambeth Palace Library

LPL: VM I/1: Marriage Allegation: 23 June 1662 : Giles Thornburgh, of St Martin's, Ludgate, Gent., Widr, abt 31, & Rebecca Hurlestone, of Redrith, Surrey, Spr, abt 19; consent of her father Nicholas Hurlestone, of same, Esq.; at Maidstone, Deckling, or Boxly, co. Kent (see also Lambeth Palace Library MS Film 440)

LPL: VM I/6: Marriage Allegation: 19 Oct 1668: William Leeke, of St Saviour's, Southwark, Cit. & Goldsmith, Bachr, abt 28, & Sarah Hurlestone, of Reddrith, Surry, Spr, abt 20, with consent of her mother; at Reddrith afsd, or Deptford, Kent (see also Lambeth Palace Library MS Film 442)

LPL: FM I/7: Marriage Allegation: 8 November 1669: Hurlestone, Nicholas and Bell, Catherine (see also Lambeth Palace Library MS Film 238)

LPL: Arches A 2 ff. 149,155,174,183,191,206,221: HURLESTONE V MOYER AND HURLESTONE: Rebecca, Mary, and Lydia H. v Lawrence M. and Nicholas H.; will of James Moyer, of St. Andrew Undershaft, London. Sentence, 10 Dec. 1663; Case number 4919: testamentary case (see also Lambeth Palace Library MS Film 67)
- See also the closely related documents: Arches A 3 ff. 30,39,44,61; Arches B 4/52-3; Arches B 4/52/3; Arches B 4/53/3; Arches Ee 1 ff. 189-90,216-7,289-92,298-306; Arches Eee 1 ff. 192-4,213-20,292-4,306-9

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Possible primary sources

TNA

C 5/41/65 Hurleston v. Marler: Kent. 1661

C 6/161/114 Short title: Williamson v Hurleston. Plaintiffs: Mary Williamson widow. Defendants: Nicholas Hurleston. Subject: property in Rotherhithe, Surrey. Document type: bill, answer. SFP 1663
C 6/203/43 Short title: Hurleston v Jones. Plaintiffs: Katherine Hurleston widow. Defendants: John Jones. Subject: property in Rotherhithe, Surrey. Document type: bill, answer. SFP 1672
C 6/205/56 Short title: Northleigh v Moyer. Plaintiffs: George Northleigh and William Hodges. Defendants: Samuel Moyer, Rebecca Thorneborough widow, Anne Roope widow and Richard Hurlestone. Subject: money matters. Document type: three answers, six schedules. 1673

C 10/66/99 Moyer v Hurlestone: Middlesex 1662
C 10/93/62 Hurlston v. Moyer, Morgan: Hants 1662
C 10/488/160 Moore v Banyon alias Sampson and Hurleston: Middlesex 1665

PROB 11/318 Hyde 108-162 Will of Nicholas Hurlestone or Hurleston, Mariner of Rotherhithe, Surrey 26 December 1665
PROB 11/373 Drax 52-101 Will of Samuel Moyer of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, Middlesex 03 August 1683

PROB 5/2063 HARLESTONE or HURLESTONE, Nicholas, of Rotherhithe, Surrey, merchant [Registered will: PROB 11/333] 1671

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Possible secondary sources

Thompson, Edward Maunde (ed.), Correspondence of the family of Haddock, 1657-1719 (London, 1883)
- Captain Richard Haddock, of Leigh, Essex, mariner, d. 1660, aged 79

- Captain William Haddock, son of captain Richard Haddock, d. 1667, aged 60