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D/DPr/430
Essex Record Office, D/DPr/430 Inventory of Henry Andrewes, 1638
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THE INVENTORY INDENTED
Bearing date the xxviij:th day of September
Anno Dom 1638 And in the ffowerteenth
yeare of the raigne of our So?waignr Lord
Charles by the grace of God King of
England Scotland ffrance & Ireland
defendo:e of the faith et. Of all & singular
the goods chattells rights & creditts w:ch late
belonged unto Henry Andrews Esquire
& late Citizen & Aldran (sic) & haberdasher
of London deceased seene valued & apprized
by William Robothom drap William
Hudson Skinner Richard Ellis Girdler &
Ffrauncis Banister Joyner Citizens of
London sworne for the true valuaton &
apprizment thereof before the right
honble S:r Richard ffenn Knight Lord
Maior of the Citie of London The
Pticulars whereof doe hereafter ensue
vizt:
IN THE Testator’s house
In London.
IN THE great Parlor
IMPRIMIS one drawing table and
court cupbord of walnutt tree
ITEM two short turkie carpets att
ITEM 6. backe stooles of ?Pussia
Lether
ITEM 8. high Turkie stooles
ITEM 2 window curtens & a rodd
ITEM a paire of andirons & xxxxx
Fireshovell & tongs all of brasse
SUMA
IN THE dyning roome
ITEM a drawing table á side table
& a court cupbord
ITEM one elbow chaire 1 couch
chaire 5 backe stooles 12. high
stooles & a low stoole áll cowed
with greene cloth old w:th their
cotton cases
IT. a greene cloth carpet lent about
4 yards
IT. a cypress chest
IT. a danske chest
IT. 5 peeces of tapestry hangings
IT. a longe persia carpet ?lent 7 yards
IT. one Turkie carpet at
IT. one short Musketo carpet
IT. 2 greene cloth carpetts ?lent
14. yards
IT. one greene cloth carpet 4 yds
Long & 3 cupbordclothes all
Bordered w:th needleworke & fringed
w:th silke átt
IT. an old greene cupbord cloth &
window cloth & an old turky
carpet & 1 old stript cupbord cloth
IT. the old verdures ábout the
Roome
IT, a paire of brasse andirons
IT. a wainscot presse átt
SUMA
IN THE HALL
ITEM two drawing tables a frame
table 7 formes cowed w:th green cotton
& an old elbow chaire
IT. 3 peeces of old tapestry hanging
IT. one old remnant of tapestry
IT. the ?brannch hanging in the hall
with the 5 brass candlesticks
thereto belonging w:th the ?angell
& chaine & 2 hands for candles
IT. 12 holberts with their cases
& and old muskett
IT. a loading staffe á ?Partisan á
targett an old gorget & an old
sword
IT. an ensigne old
IT. á glass lanthorne
IT. 2 tables of the Officers ?names
SUMA
IN THE withdrawing roome
ITEM a small chest w:th drawers
IT. á little cupbord for sweete meats
IT. a paire of virginalls old
IT. one barred trunke
IT. 4 pictures att
It. a paire of fireirons
IT. 1 old trunke
IT: the painted cloth ábout the roome
SUMA
IN THE presse roome
ITEM a halfe headed bedsteed w:th
matt & cord a flockbed & bolster
1 old fetherbolster 1 blankett &
2 cowletts
IT. 1 great barr’d trunke
IT. 1 lesser barr’d trunke
IT. a cupboord
IT. an old presse átt
IT. a long curten rod
SUMA
IN THE old Parlor
ITEM one drawing table & a court
cupboord a round table & a small
side table
IT. an old skreene of green cloth
w:th the frame
It. 9 old lether chaires & an old
forme cowed w:th greene
IT. 2 old turkie backe stooles & a
?browne stoole 5 old turkieworke
cushions & 3 other old cushions
IT. one vellure carpet and old short
turkie carpett one old greene cup-
boordcloth 2 old window curtens & rodd
& an old stript carpett
IT. a paire of old tables & ?men
IT. 2 pictures a table of ?ármes & two
earthen ?hands for candles
IT. a paire of small iron doggs two
paire of bellowes a paire of tongs
a little skreene & a little iron backe
IT. one Bible doctor halls works
& the Survey of London
SUMA
IN THE CLOSETT
ITEM a Chaire & a chest of drawers
SUMA p:t
IN THE Garden Chamber
ITEM an old standing bedsteed matt
& cord 5 curtens & vallens of
crimson lyle grogren & curtenrods
IT. a fetherbed & boulster 1 pillow
2 blanketts & a crimson rug
IT. an old court cupbord iij old
trunks 1 high cushion stoole 2
low lether stooles & an old barrd
trunke
IT. an East India ??standish a looking-
glasse & 2 old window cushions
IT. 14 small peeces of stript callico
IT. 3 old curtens & a curtenrod
IT. some glasses in á cupbord & an
earthen ewer
SUMA
IN THE Maids Chamber
ITEM 2 old halfe hoaded bedsteds
with matts & cords 2 old curtens
1 fetherbed & 2 boulsters 3 pil-
lows 4 old blanketts an old Co
verlet & an old rug a Canopie
& 2 curtons of ?say & a broken-
chest
SUMA p:t
IN THE ??backe Chamber
ITEM an old bedsted matt & cord
5 old curtens 1 fetherbed á
fetherboulster 1 flockpillow one
old blankett & an old cowlett
SUMA p:t
IN THE Men-Servants Chamber
ITEM a halfe headed bedsted with
an old Canopy & 2 curtens of
?dornix matt & cord fetherbed &
boulster a pillow 2 blanketts one
verdure cowlitt & an old green rug
IT. a trunke a little old press & a
low stoole
IT. x [i.e. ten] suits of a course blew cloth w:th
white lace a blew Jacket a ?apatched plush jacket & viij
course Hatts
IT. xiij alablaster (sic) pictures (sic)
IT. a wooden chaire a verdure cowlet
& a deale box
IT. a fether for á horse a cloake bag
& an old [no noun inserted in original]
SUMA
IN THE GARRETTS
ITEM a wainscót presse 2 old testers
for a ?feild bed & other lumber
SUMA p:t
IN THE chamber ow the Parlor
ITEM a french bedsteed w:th matt &
cord w:th curtens & vallens and
Counterpane of ppetuana laced
& curtenrodds
IT. a fetherbed & boulster 2 pil-
lows a quilt a flockbed & boulster
& 2 blanketts
IT. 2 old window curtens & 2
curtenrods & á looking glasse
IT. a gilt case with glasses and
another old case w:th glasses
IT. an old cypress chest
IT. a box with drawers a Cabinet
& a chest w:th drawers
IT. a china bason & some earthen dishes
SUMA
IN THE NURSERY
ITEM an old standing bedsteed
matt & cord 5 old curtens and
vallens & curten rods 2 fetherbody
1 boulster 1 old blankett & one
old rug
IT. a canopie bedstedd w:th a canopy
& 4 curtens of yellow ppetuana
1 fetherbed & boulster 1 pillow
& 1 yellow rug
IT. a trundlebedstedd matt and
cord a little fetherbed & bolster
2 blanketts & a cowlett
IT. a childs bedsteed 2 little fea
therbeds 2 fetherbolsters & a
little mattrice
IT. one old chest w:th drawers a
xxxx stoole & panne 1. old lether
chaire 2 window curtens & rod
a paire of ??creepers & a ioynd
stoole
IT. an old peece of verdure in the
?brushing roome
SUMA
IN THE Chamber next the ?brushing roome
ITEM a french bedstedd matt &
cord 5 curtens & vallens of
greene say & curtenrods one
fetherbed & boulster 3 pillowes
3 blanketts & 2 old ruggs á
cowlett & a rug mantle
IT. a wainscot chest & a barred
trunke
IT. another long wainscot chest
IT. the old painted cloth ábout the roome
& an old window curten of say
SUMA
IN THE ??rubd Chamber
ITEM a french bedsteed w:th matt
& cord 5 curtens for the bed &
6 for the windows a windowcloth
a cupboordcloth a paire of vallens
& testers all of crimson ?lyle
grogen & curtenrodds att
IT. 2 fetherbeds 2 bolsters 2 pillows
2 blanketts & a red rug
IT. one elbow chaire 2 low backe
stooles and 6 low stooles of
??Stainell cloth wrought w:th ?tent
stitch with their cases
IT. 1 elbow chaire cowed w:th red kersey
IT. a court cupboord a round
table & an old couch chaire
IT. the paynted cloth about the roome old
SUMA
IN THE BUTTRY
ITEM a presse a napkin presse
a bread binne a painted ??voider
& knife a cupboord for glasses
4 drinking glasses 1 old cover
for á table a frame to sett
potts in & a case & 6 knives all at
SUMA p:t
IN THE LARDER
ITEM 2 powdring tubs an old
lether chaire 2 ioynd stooles
some earthen ware a tray &
a salting troughe
SUMA p:t
IN THE garden-parlo:e
ITEM 2 old tables & an old court-cupboord
IT a paire of old brasse andirons
SUMA
IN THE WAREHOUSE & yard
ITEM a iron beame and scales
6:ll 0.0 of lead weights and
0.2.0 of iron weights & iij:ll
of brass weights
IT. ?09 (or 19) lether bucketts in the yarde
IT. a little deale table a ?bucking
tub a ??teare & lumber
IT. a horseblocke an old ladder & a
?paring shovell
SUMA
IN THE ?Scowring house
ITEM an iron to make a fire in
2 scowring boords & lumber a fire=
pan & a warming pan and some
cotton wooll
SUMA
IN THE Countinghouse
ITEM one iron chest & a round
iron box
ITEM a great chest an old short
chest a lether chaire 3 old ioyned
stooles & lumber
IT. and old silw seale & an iron
?hamer
SUMA
IN THE KITCHIN
ITEM a ??Jacke w:th the weight and
??theyne 7 spitts one iron drip=
ping pan a paire of iron ?racks
an iron range for the fire an iron
to fitt befor:e the fire w:th fire-
shovell tongs & forke a ?slice á
grateshovell 2 paire of pott=
hangers an iron barre 2 paire
of potthooks a gridiron 2 iron
potts 2 frying pannes a XXXXX
a shredding knife & an iron
morter & pestle
IT. 3 brasse kettles a brasse pann
4 skelletts a brasse ladle 2 slices
& a ??scrumer a little brass pott
2 brasse ?chasers a brasse
morter a warming pan 2 brass
plates a paire of broken brasse
?creeps & a brass pan to sett
?potts in weighing in all 157:ll
?with the iron ??belos átt vj:d
IT. a brasse pan for a still & a
leaden bottome
IT. a Cisterne of lead w:th a brasse
xxxxx stoole & cover & the pipe
that bringeth in the water
IT. some lattin ware and á stone
morter
IT. ix:C lxxviij:ll of fine pewter
att xvj:d
IT. lx:ll of course pewter at 8:d
SUMA
IN THE PASTRY
ITEM a barrd trunke
IT an old table a short forme
2 candle ??chists a cupboord á
washing bowle an iron ?poele a
chopping blocke 2 stone pictures
one old ioynd stoole and other
lumber and an iron oven lidde
some glasses for ??ovater and
some earthen ware
SUMA
IN THE Stable & yard
ITEM a Cisterne of lead with á
brasse xxxx stoole & cover & a
wooden Cisterne lyned w:th lead
IT. a wheele barrow a showell forke
& lumber
IT. 2 coach horses an old coach w:th
the harnesse for the horses ánd
horseclothes
SUMA
IN THE WASH-HOUSE
ITEM an iron kettle & 2 paire of
potthangers
IT. 2 leaden cisternes at
IT. 3 ioyned stooles a ??bucking-
tubb a washing stoole some
washing tubs & lumber
SUMA
IN THE Chamber on
the wash-house
ITEM an old half headed
bedsteed matt & cord one old
fether body 2 old fetherbolsters
one flockbed & 3. old cowletts
IT. an old lether saddle with the
footecloth & furniture for the horse
IT. an old table & an old trunke
& an old table in the
xxxx (can’t read last line on digital image)
IN THE CELLORS
ITEM the beere stillings & lumber
IT. ?beere ioysts & lumber in
?another cellor
SUMA
ITEM a cover for a ?couch-chaire
a tester for á bed & vallens á
Canopy-toppe and vallens two
long cushions one footestoole.
all of scarlet wrought [‘wrought’ has been inserted in original with carrot mark] w:th ?slippe v
curtens of rich crimson taffety (sic)
for the bed & 2 for the canopy=
bed & 5 window curtens & 2
window clothes of crimson-
??sarcentt áll átt
IT. 2 side pillows
IT. a backe stoole case wrought
IT. 2 mantles for children
SUMA
APPARRELL
ITEM one scarlet gowne & cloak
the gowne faced w:th sattin ánd
the cloake lyndd with squirrell
& á ?facing for the gowne of
sable poxxx & a lyning of greene
taffety for the Cloke & a tippet
of velvet
IT. a violet gowne faced w:th ?foynes
& a violet cloak lynd w:th squirrell
IT. a night gowne of blacke ?fugured
sattin w:th gold & silke lace
IT. a livery gowne faced with
sattin w:th gold & silke lace
IT. a very old livery gowne faced
with ?foynes
IT. one overworne nightgowne
IT. a mourning gowne & hood & an
old mourning cloak
IT. an old blacke cloth cloake
lyned with ?plush att
IT. á blacke cloth cloak lyned
w:th velvet with 2 imbrodired
laces
IT. an owworne silke grogren cloake [grogrin has been inserted before cloake with a carrot mark]
IT. á ??tabee cloak lyned w:th plush
IT. an old chamlet coat & an old
cloth coat both lyned w:th plush
IT. a scarlet suit laced w:th gold
& silver lace
IT. an old cloth of ?silvx dublet
& á paire of dámáske hose & xx
cassocke w:th silv lace
IT. am old plush suit a sattin dub-
blet & a paire of plush hose, 3
other old suits of ápparrell
& 4 paire of old breeches
IT. a scarxx & a paire of silke
garters & ?roses with silw lace
a saddlecloth w:th silw lace & 2
paire of gloves & a sattin
facing for á gowne
IT. a paire of bootes & spurres
LINNEN
ITEM one paire of new holland sheets & a paire of pillowbeeres
IT. 3. paire of large sheets
IT. one paire of holland sheets of 2 bredths & a half
IT. 3 paire of holland sheets att xviij:s
IT. 8. paire of flaxen sheets at 13:s
IT. x [i.e. ten] paire of course sheets at 8:s
IT. xj paire of sheets most of them overworne
IT. 5 paire of pillowbeeres at
3:s 6:d
IT. 4 damaske tableclothes lent
32. yards at 5:s
IT. 3. damaske tableclothes lent 22 yards at v:s
IT. a damaske tablecloth lent 7
yards 1. cupbord a long
towell & 23 napkins all ?sutable (Or, ?futable)
IT. another damaske tablecloth lent 5 yards ½ 2 towells a cupboord cloth ?laced & 2 doz of napkins all ??sutable (Or, ?futable)
IT. 4 damaske tableclothes lent 17
yards ½ átt 3:s 6:d
IT. 3. towells of damaske lent 16
yards att 15:d
IT. 2 doz of damaske napkins átt
xv:s
IT. x [i.e. ten] dozen ½ of damaske napkins
att xx:s
IT. 5 damaske towells lent xxx [i.e. thirty]
yards att 20:d
IT. a damaske cupbordcloth
IT. 6 old damaske cupbord clothes
IT. 4 tableclothes & 2 cupbordclothes
of diap lent 36 yards att 4:s 6:d
IT. 4 towells of the same diap
lent 28. yards átt 16:d
IT. 6 dozen of napkins of the
same diap att 16:s
IT. 6 diap tableclothes of dixx-
worke lent 36 yards at 3:s 6:d
IT. 3 towells of the same diap
lent 15 yards att 14:d
IT. 6. doz of napkins of the
same diap att xiiij:s
IT. diap tableclothes of ?rose ánd
xxxxxx worke lent 8 yds at 2:s 6:d
IT. 2 doz of napkins of the same diap
IT. á doz of fine diap napkins
IT. 2 old diap tableclothes of ?pavy
worke lent 9 yards ½
IT. 4 diap towells of the same
worke lent x [i.e. ten] yards att 12:d
IT. 2 doz of napkins of y:e same
att x:s
IT. 3 diap tableclothes of ?pavie
worke ?course lent 15 yards all at
IT. one towell of the same lent
4. yards
IT. 4. doz of napkins of the
same
IT. 2 tableclothes of diap lavender=
worke (sic) lent 13 yards at 3:s
IT. 2 towells of the same lent 6. yards ½ att 12:d
IT. 2 dozen of napkins of the same at 12:s
IT. 9 diap ?iacke-towells lent 22. yards att 9:d
IT. 5 ??flerie diap tableclothes
lent 25 yards att 20:d
IT. 3 doz of the ?flored ?draper
napkins att 8:s
IT. 3 holland tableclothes lent
xij ells átt 3:s
IT. 5 holland towells lent 9 ells ½ at 8:d
IT. 4 ?course diap tableclothes lent 12 yards átt 20:d
IT. 4 diap tableclothes lent xj yards at 3:s 6:d
IT. 3 short diap tableclothes
IT. 5 towells lent x [i.e. ten] yards
átt x:d [i.e. ten]
IT. 5 diap tableclothes lent 11 yds
att 2:s
IT. 8 owworne diap tableclothes
& 14 owworne napkins
IT. 1 doz of diap napkins
IT. 2 doz of owworne diap napkins
IT. á holland tablecloth ?lent 3
ells ½ att 2:s
IT. 4 old ?darke towells
IT. 4 callico tableclothes
IT. 9 ells ½ of flaxen cloth att 14:d
IT. 10 yards of dimitee at x:d
SUMA
PLATE
ITEM j:m ix:l vj oz ¼ of white plate ánd a small quantitie of ?pcell gilt at v:s p oz
IT. 342 oz of gilt plate átt 5:s 4:d p oz
SUMA (sic)
IN AND ABOUT THE TESTATORS HOUSE ATT LAYTONSTONE IN THE COUNTIE OF ESSEX
IN THE GREAT PARLOR
IMPRIMIS an ovall table & a side
Table
ITEM xj backe stooles & 7 high
stooles covered with greene cloth
old
SUMMA
IN THE GARDEN PARLOR
ITEM 2 round tables 1 old court
cupbord and 1 elbow chaire of
Russia lether
IT. 4 turkieworke backe stooles
IT. 8 pictures
SUMMA
IN THE LOWER GALLERY AND GARDEN
ITEM a marble table at
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxx [2 lines have been neatly crosse out in original, and are partially readable]
IT. 2 rowling stones & a lattin
watring pott & a wheele barrow
SUMMA
IN THE HALL
ITEM a walnuttree drawing table 2
foote ?pares a forme 4 old ioynd
stooles & a standard (sic) for a bason
IT. 8 old lether chaires
IT. a picture in the Entrey
SUMMA
IN THE LITTLE PARLOR
ITEM an old drawing table a small
court cupboard a stove 3 childrens
chaires an old mappe & an old greene carpett
IT. some China & earthen dishes w:th
certaine glasses & a case for glasses
SUMMA
IN THE BUTTRY
ITEM an old table a bynne for
bread a plated cupbord a napkin
presse a forme the toppe of a
round table a curten rodd & 2
old stooles
IT. an old table & a forme in y.e
yard
SUMMA
IN THE CELLERS
ITEM the beerestillings a stoole
& a ??shelfe
SUMMA p:t
IN THE KITCHIN
ITEM an iron range for the fire
a Jacke w:th a ¼ of a hundred leaden
weight & iron cheyne an iron forke
a paire of potthangers an iron barre
an oven lidde & 2 spitts
SUMA ?patet
IN THE SCULLERY
ITEM an iron pott one iron kettle
two iron dripping pannes 3 spitts
one oven lidde a ?peele a lattin
dripping panne a paire of fire-
irons a ?trock [or ??crock] 2 gridirons
á chopping knife & an appleroster
of lattin & an iron barre in the
chimney
IT. a brasse kettle a copper kettle &
a ?coper watering pott
IT. 2 wooden covers for a cisterne
a smallpaire of wooden scales one
small brasse w:t a stone morter &
a [Or, 1] wooden pestle a wooden ?peele & a
weighing stoole & lumber
SUMA
IN THE PASTRIE
ITEM a safe an old lattin cupboord
a meale-chest a candlechest á
hanging shelf an old powdering tub & trough
& 3 xxxxxces
IT. a brasse morter & iron pestle
2 old chopping knives a prong
& a ?peele
SUMA
IN THE WARDROBE
ITEM one suit of tapestry hangings
xxxx[??lent] 105. ells átt
IT. one tapestry coverlet
IT. 3 short Persia carpetts
IT. 3 other short Persia carpetts
& a short turkie carpet
IT. a short ?Musketo carpet
IT. a long Persia carpet
IT. 2 stript carpets
IT. one greene carpet & 2 cupboord
clothes w:th silke fringe 1 playne
greene cloth carpet & a ?coucher
of bayes
IT. a suit of hangings of gilded
lether & red cloth in panes
IT. a counterpane of dimitee for
a bed wrought w:th blacke silke
IT. an East India quilt old
IT. a Canopie & 2 curtens and
vallens of taffetie old
IT. an old greene ?sarsenet quilt
5 curtens for the bed & 4 for the
windowes of taffeta old & a
paire of vallens of tent stitch
IT. 9 covers for stooles of ??watchet [Or, natchet]
perpetuana imbrodered
IT. 4 cows for stooles wrought
IT. 4 curtens vallens & head cloth
of yellow ??wadmall moth-eaten
IT. an old greene cloth cupboord=
cloth bordered w:th needleworke
IT. 5 curtens & vallens of stript
stuffe
IT. 4 old stript curtens
IT. 6 crimson & white ?suftaffetye
window cushions
IT. 2 long pillows & 6 square
cushions of needleworke
IT. 2 fugard sattin cushions
IT. an old ?tuftaffety long pillow
& a long pillow of crimson velvet
IT. 6 old tapestry cushions
IT. 6 old square window cushions
of tapestry
IT. 2 Irish (sic) Stitch cushions
IT. 4 silke flowers to sitt in a
window
IT. a chest
IT. 3 paire of brass andirons a paire of
tongs & fireshovell of brass 2 pairs of
xxxx xxxx w:th brasse & a warming
APPARENT END OF THE DOCUMENT, THOUGH NO SIGNATURES NOR DATES, SUGGESTING PART OF THE DOCUMENT HAS BEEN DETACHED
NEW DOCUMENT ERO: D/DPr 435
RECIPTS
SPERATE debts voyages & Adventures owing & belonging to the Testator att his decease & received viz.
IMPRIMIS received of George With and Company in full
ITEM of John Godfrey upon the voyage
to Bruges
IT. of the stocke of Adventure in the
East India Company by silk callicoes
& cloves sold for
IT. rec:d of John ffoyle upon th’accompt
of Edward Stringer & John Lewis the
Testators ffactors in Constantinople
by bill of Exchange
IT. of Timothy ?Cruss for 4 bales of
grogren w:th more received upon the
same Accompt & sold to him for
SUMA
SPERATE DEBTS menconed in the
Testators Inventory to be owinge
to his estate for ??wards & merchandize
sold since his decease & received viz:
ITEM rec:d of John Williams & Company
-for 2. bales of silke in full
IT. of Randoll Mainwaring for one
bale of silke in full
IT. of Allart Vanderwood for one
bale of silke in full
IT. of John Clarke for silke in full
SUMA
DOUBTFUL & desperate debts
owing to the Testator átt his
decease and Received
ITEM rec:d of Edmund Johnson &
Thomas?Wholes [Or, Wheles]
SUMA p:t
SPERATE DEBTS mentoned in the said former Accompt to be owing to the Testato:s estate for goods received from Edward Stringer and John Lewis the Testato:s ffactors att Constantinople & sold by theis Accomptants and since received
ITEM rec:d of Edmund Trench for 4 bales
of grogron yarne sold to him in full
IT. of John & Thomas Harvey for one bale
of grogrons in pte
IT. of Edward Hudd for one bale of
grogren in pte
IT. of Jasper Clayton for one bale of
grogren in full
IT. of Thomas Low for one bale of
grogren in full
SUMA
SPERATE DEBTS mentoned
in the said former Accompt to be
owing to the Testato:e estate for
goods & mchandize mentoned in
y:e foote of his Inventory to be remay-
ning in the hands of ?theis Accomptants
& not then valued nor sold and since
Received
ITEM Rec:d of Humfry Abdy for two
peeces of ??terenella & 4 peeces of
mohaires in pte
IT. of Jasper Clayton for one peece of
blacke ??factonet 5 peeces of terronella
one peece of tabee in pte
IT. of Edmund Griffith for 2 peeces of
plushes in pte
IT. of Richard & William Lowfeild for 2
peeces of terronella & one peece
of tabee in full
IT. of Thomas Wold for one case of
Rubarb in full
IT. of ffrancis Dashwood for the
remaynder of a bale of silke in full
SUMA
GOODS & mchandize belonging
to the Testators estate & menconed
in the foote of his Inventory to be
then remáyning in the hands of
?their Accomptants and not ?then
valued nor sold ánd since sold
ánd received viz.
ITEM of Jámes Martin for 5 peeces of Callicoes ánd one peece of spotted velvet
IT. of M.r Davie (or David) Proctor for 5 ells of taffeta & 10 yards of ?tortenella
IT. of Christopher Had?natt for six
yards of plush
IT. of William Henley for one
Case of Rubarb
SUMA
DEBTS owing to the Testator
átt his decease & omitted out of
his Inventory & the said former
Accompt being not Certainly
knowne and since Received viz
ITEM rec:d for freight made by the
Testators part of the ship Anne
Bonaventure before the apprizm:t
of the same
IT. for the freight made for the Testato:r
pte of the ship Daniel before the
same wás ápprized
SUMA TOTTS of all
the aforesaid Receipts
A. DEDUCCON Required
by XX said Accomptant
SUMA
IMPRIMIS paid for freight Custome
& other Charges of goods returned from
beyond the seas since xx said former
Accompt & otherwise concerning
theTestators estate as by ?Ex pticulars
may Appeare
SUMA x:t
AND soe there Remayneth Cleare
upon this Accomp:t the said
deduccons being deducted
SPERATE DEBTS owing to the Testators estate for goods & Merchandize ?mentoned in the foote of the Testators Inventory to be remayninge in the hands of their Accomp=tante ánd since sold vizt.
ITEM owing by Thomas Wold for one Case of Rubarb
IT.by ffrancis Dashwood for
one bale Silke
IT. by Robert ?Winch for one bale
of silke
IT. by Jasper Clayton for one peece
of silke grogron & á remnant of
?tabee
IT. by John Marshall for one peece
of plush
SUMA
SPERATE DEBTS owing
to the Testators estate for goods
received from th’aforesaid
Edward Stringer & John Lewis
the Testators’ ffactors att Con-
stantinople & ?Sinte ?sold viszt
ITEM owing by Thomas Stanhope
for one bale of grogrons
IT. by George Wroth for one bale
of grogron
SUMA
ITEM owing by Richard Wroth ánd Company for oyle received upon the Accompt of John Mico (sic) for Naples ánd sold to them
SUMA
E.x.r p me Radum Lathum ?Cond
Servien ad Legem Civitatis
London
Commentary
Henry Andrew(e)s wrote his will on August 7th 1638 “being sick in bodie”. Beaven states that he died August 16th 1638. He was buried on September 6th, 1638, in St. Stephens Walbrook, where he had lived since at least 1610, and where his father or another relative (Thomas Andrewes) may have lived and died.
In the parish register of St. Stephens Walbrook he is called variously Henry Andrewes, Mr. Henry Andrewes; haberdasher, merchant; and on his burial “alderman”, a post he held for Farringdon Ward Within since 1634.
An inventory was made of his houses in London and Laytonstone on September 28th 1638, and the will was proven shortly afterwards, on October 17th 1638. His London house was probably in the parish of St. Stephen’s Walbrook, which is one location mentioned in his will, though Bowe Church and Wansted are also mentioned, as well as the poor of Laytonstone.
Henry Andrewes was ranked the second most highly assessed person out of 30 in a tax assessment upon the Parish of St Stephen Walbrook in 1632. Mr. Hodges was assessed at £1 6s 8d, with “Capt. Hy. Andrews” assessed at £1 3s. 4d., and Arthur Juxson & Co. at 13s. 4d. The total amount raised was £6 19s 8d. from 30 people.
A large number of children were baptised to Henry Andrewes in the parish of St. Stephens Walbrook between 1610 and 1630 by his first two wives, Elizabeth (d. 1619 in childbirth) and Margaret (d. 1630). Anne, his third wife, outlived him and must have married him after 1630, with apparently no children.
Samuel Mico, who married Elizabeth Andrews, may have been resident in St Stevens Walbrook in 1630s, although he gives St Andrew Undershaft as his parish of residence at his death in c. 1666. At least it was St Stephens Walbrook where Elizabeth Mico, Samuel’s first wife, was buried in March 1639/40, 18 months after the death of her father. Two of Samuel Mico’s children, Samuell and Margrett, were buried inthe chancell of St Stephens Walbrook on February 24th 1641/42.
Henry Andrews was active as a merchant in the Levant and the East Indies, as well as in the traditional northern European markets of the Merchant Adventurers. He was an EIC committee for at least 1635-36, and 1636-37 A Haberdasher, he was elected to Master of the Haberdashers, 1633-34, and was elected alderman of London in 1634.
Beaven provides a brief biographical sketch.
His basic kinship data are as follows:
WIFE: (1) First wife: Elizabeth, née XXXX (mar. pre-1619; d. Dec. 2 1619 (2) Second wife: Margaret, née XXXX, d. 1630 (3) Anne , ("my now wife" (will of HA, 1638), née XXXX, mar. post 1630 and outlived him
DAUGHTERS: (1) Ann Fenn (m. James Fenn) (2) Elizabeth Mico. A significant number of daughters died in childhood
SURVIVING SONS: (1) Daniel Andrewes (bapt. Feb. 20, 1613/14) (2) Henry Andrewes (bapt. Feb. 4 1615/16) (3) Stephen Andrewes . A significant number of sons died in childhood
SONS-IN-LAW: (1) James Fenn (2) Samuel Mico (3) Edwin Browne (TBC)
COUSIN: John Clutterbooke (sic)
NIECE: ffrancis Cheney (daughter of wife's sister)
Brenner identifies Henry Andrews, together with Rowland Backhouse, Humphrey Smith, and Robert Bateman, as Merchant Adventurers active in the Levant trade, and states that it was characteristic of the merchant political elite which emerged in the “immediate pre-Civil War period” that Merchant Adventurers elected as London Aldermen were closely associated with Levant-East India trade. Andrews was a sherriff of London in 1632, together with Hugh Perry.
Henry Andrews appears to have been active in East Indian business in the 1620s, possibly with his brother, XXXX, who predeceased him. The scale of Henry Andrewes trading in East Indian goods can be seen by a record in 1635 of him and Mr. William Garway standing “as security for 2,000l. of ‘callico lawnes or shashes’. Although Henry Andrewes 1638 inventory is largely of textiles, there are also references in the EIC court minutes to dealing in rice and pepper.
In the 1640s, after Herny Andrews’s death, Daniel Andrews, his eldest son, continued his father’s involvement in the Levant Committee, as an Assistant, and in the EIC. Daniel Andrews appears to have retained his father’s house in Laytonstone after his father’s death.
Henry Andrews’ bequest of 40 to the artillery company can be read in the light of his inventory which lists a number of weapons in the Hall in his London house :
IT. 12 holberts with their cases
& and old muskett xxxij:s vj:d
IT. a loading staffe á ?Partisan á
targett an old gorget & an old
sword x:s
IT. an ensigne old x.s
IT. á glass lanthorne v:s
IT. 2 tables of the Officers ?names ij:s v:d
the beautification of London churches in Jacobean times do not all readily fit “an Arminian mould, proto- or otherwise.”
An article by Dorothy Williams Whitney titled ‘London Puritanism: The Haberdashers Company’ in Church History states that the Haberdashers’ Company seems to have been “the most successful in promoting Puritan preaching in England between 1600 and 1640.” The article argues that the court of assistants is the key group to look at, and it was there that interest in puritanism flourished pre-1640. She does not examine the views of the ordinary liverymen, who she suggests were typically lesser tradesmen. The author makes the interesting generalisation when writing about a merchant adventurer “Like many other well-to-do merchants engaged in Continental trade, Jones was a Puritan” (Whitney: 1963:304). Whitney also observes that a Puritan preacher, Richard Sedwick, graduate of Peterhouse, Cambridge, was appointed minister to the English merchants at Hamburg, remaining there for fourteen years. (Whitney: 1963:305). She further mentions the appointment of Peter Symonds, of Trinity College, Cambridge, who she states had been reader at the church of St Stephen Walbrook from 1623 to 1625, and who Whitney describes as a Puritan. Symonds was appointed by the Haberdashers in 1627 to hold the lectureship at Newland. (Whitney: 1963:308). Whitney notes that the XXXX.
Henry Andrew’s religious views need to be confirmed, but may have included an interest in puritanism. He mentions five ministers in his will: Mr Leeke, preacher at Bow church; M:r Maddison Minister at Wansted; M:r Peter Symons Minister; Doctor Howell ; and M:r Downham Minister in Walbrooke. XXXX identifies Mr Downham as “the Puritan lecturer, John Downham,” who was appointed by the Haberdashers to the London lectureship of the puitan inclined parish of S:t Bartholomew the Exchange . XXXX uses Andrewes as a case example to illustrate that examination of supporters of
