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THIS ENTRY IS SUBJECT TO FREQUENT ADDITION

Friday, 7th October 2011

  • Profile of Tobell Aylmer, citizen of London and draper. A cousin and friend of Elizabeth Dallison, he may well have been with George Oxenden in Surat in the late 1650s. He kept a house in Ludgate Hill visited by a number of the Oxenden and Dallison social group


Tuesday, 4th October 2011

  • Profile of Edward Kelke (junior), of Gray's Inn, a friend and contemporary of Sir George Oxenden, who chose Elizabeth Dallison as his sole executrix. He was lodging at the Ludgate Hill house of Tobell Aylmer when he fell sick and made his final will and testament


Saturday, 1st October 2011

  • Profile of the Dover born Gray's Inn lawyer Robert Raworth, who served the Dallison and Oxenden family in legal matters for more than forty years. Whilst studying law he may have been a clerk to the Tenterden, Kent born lawyer, friend of the Eveleyn family of Wotton, and subsequently serjeant-at-law, Sir Ralph Whitfield, who was his brother-in-law. Later a barrister and ancient of Gray's Inn, he had a wide client list amongst gentry, aristocracy and merchants


Tuesday, 27th September 2011

  • Images of Canterbury from William Somner, 2nd ed. (1703), William Gostling (1777), and Edward Hasted (1801)


Monday, 26th September 2011

  • Profile of Hardres Court, home of Sir Richard Hardres, cousin of Sir George Oxenden, Elizabeth Dallison and James Master. Sir Richard Hardres' son was in Surat with Sir George Oxenden in the early 1660s. The son's passage out to Surat was problematic, missing Sir George Oxenden's ship and requiring the assistance of Elizabeth Dallison and others to procure him a berth on a subsequent ship


Wednesday, 21st September 2011




Tuesday, 20th September 2011



Tuesday, 13th September 2011

  • Profile of Denton Court, home of Sir Anthony Percivall, friend of Henry Oxinden of Barham, who was imprisoned with Sir Thomas Peyton in 1643 in London


Monday, 12th September 2011



Thursday, 8th September 2011



Wednesday, 7th September 2011

  • Profile of Theobald family of Stonepitt and Seale, Kent. Sir George Theobald was a cousin of Margaret Oxenden, Sir George Oxenden's and Elizabeth Dallison's mother, and helped Sir James Oxenden, Elizabeth's father, when William Dallison, Elizabeth's husband, experienced financial difficulties in the late 1630s


Tuesday, 6th September 2011

  • Map of the hundreds of Wingham and Kinghamford added to page on Deane, showing location of Deane house and of Broome Park
  • Updated profile of Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins, including review of extensive Hoskins family papers at the Surrey History Centre concerning his father, grandfather, and elder brother. Mainly estate related but include an inventory and administration accounts for his father, Sir Thomas Hoskins
  • New work on primary documents page accessible from wiki front page
  • House in St. John Street, Clerkenwell. Background on Dallison family links to Clerkenwell and house in St. John Street. Characterisation of Clerkenwell in 1563, 1619, and 1677. Proposed further research to better characterise the changing nature of Clerkenwell and its attractiveness to gentry and possibly to lawyers in 1620s and 1630s.


Monday, 5th September 2011

  • Profile of Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins, serjeant-at-law, friend of Elizabeth Dallison and provider of legal counsel to her and Sir George Oxenden
  • Profile of Francis Coventry, barrister and acquaintance of Elizabeth Dallison, who married Elizabeth's friend and merchant's daughter, Elizabeth Hoskins, following the death of her husband Sir Edmund Hoskins. Son of Sir Thomas Coventry (b.1578,d.1640), the prominent Inner Temple lawyer and Lord Keeper of the Seale , his brothers Henry and William Coventry played prominent diplomatic and political roles in the 1670s




Friday, 2nd September

  • Building history and character of the mansion house of Deane, the home of Sir Henry Oxenden, and birthplace of Elizabeth Dalyson and Sir George Oxenden


Friday, 26th August 2011



Monday 15th August 2011

  • Wiki launched