Theophilus Reuell

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Theophilus Reuell

Theophilus Reuell
Person Theophilus Reuell
Title
First name Theophilus
Middle name(s)
Last name Reuell
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Widow of
Occupation Grocer
Secondary shorebased occupation
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Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of William Greene
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
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Language skills English language
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Res parish Saint Magnus the Martyr
Res town London
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Res country England
Birth year 1633
Marriage year
Death year 1696
Probate date February 28, 1696
First deposition age
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/72 f.306v Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Apr 1 1658
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Type of ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Theophilus Reuell (alt. Revell) (b.ca.1633; d.1696)

Gives his occupation as a grocer in 1658, but describes himself as a salter in his will, proven in 1696.[1] At the time of his deposition in 1658 he was a servant of the grocer William Greene.[2]

Resident in the parish of Saint Magnus the Martyr in 1658. He appears in the 1677 Directory of London as "Theoph. Revell", with an address of "Thames Street near Billingsgate".[3] His will states his parish of residence as Saint Botolph without Billingsgate. The parishes of Saint Magnus the Martyr and Saint Botolph Billingsgate were adjacent, with the parish churches situated only a few hundred meters apart.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Theophilus Reuell, a twenty-five year old grocer of Saint Magnus the Martyr, London, deposed in the High Court of Admiralty on April 1st 1658. The case was "Saunders and others owners of the Isaack against the Saint Jacob and John Claeson Master of her.[4]

The case concerned the collision of two ships bound from Cornwall to London and the loss of the mixed cargo of one of the ships, together with the ship itself.

Reuell's deposition was one of fourteen depositions, a remarkably large number for an High Court of Admiralty case.,

Complete list of depositions

"Interrogatories for perpetuall remembrance of the matter touching the shipp the Isaack whereof William Thomas was master, and her ladeing cast away by meanes of a certayne shipp called the Saint Jacob (whereof John Clason was Master her running fowle upon the Isaack at sea"[5]

March 22nd 1658

  1. John Bonytho of Plymouth mariner aged fifty yeares[6]
  2. George Meade of Plymouth mariner aged fifty eight yeares[7]
  3. John Fletcher of Plimouth mariner aged twenty one yeares[8]
  4. Thomas Hoare of Plymouth mariner aged forty fower yeares[9]


March 31st 1658

"Saunders and others owners of the 'Isaack against the Saint Jacob and John Clason Master of her"

  1. William Westcot of Saint Buttolphs Algate London pewterer aged forty two yeares[10]
  2. Robert Moulins of Saint Margaret Lothbury London pewter aged thirty yeares[11]
  3. Thomas Gregge of the parish of Saint Andrew in Holborne London pewterer aged forty fower yeares[12]
  4. John Bateman citizen and pewterer of London aged thirty five yeares[13]


"Saunders and others owners of the Isaack against the Saint Jacob and John Claeson Master of her"

April 1st 1658

  1. Francis Chaplin citizen and cloathworker of London aged thirty yeares[14]
  2. Francis Hacker of Saint Margaret Loathburie cittizen and salter of London aged forty fower yeares[15]
  3. Theophilus Reuell of Saint Magnus London grocer aged twenty five yeares[16]


April 2nd 1658

  1. William Wheatley of the parish of Saint Brides London grocer aged thirty yeares[17]
  2. John Stace of the parish of Saint Buttolphe by Billingsgate London grocer aged thirty yeares[18]


April 3rd 1658

  1. Stephen Sikes of the parish of Saint Bottolph Billingsgate London grocer aged thirty yeares[19]


Comment on sources

1685

C 6/252/4 Short title: Barksdale v Fillingham. Plaintiffs: Charles Barksdale and John Barksdale. Defendants: Bartholomew Fillingham, John Stock, George Snell, Theophilus Revell, Richard Prowse, Bernard Eales and others. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1685

C 6/252/59 Short title: Palmer v Fillingham. Plaintiffs: Edward Palmer. Defendants: Bartholomew Fillingham, John Stock, George Snell, Theophilus Revell, Richard Prowse, Barnard Eules and others. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, answer. 1685

C 6/552/78 Short title: Revell v [unknown]. First plaintiff: Theophilus Revell. Defendants: [unknown]. Document type: bill only. Brief description taken from an 18th century listing 1685

1691

C 6/271/75 Short title: Revell v Cutler. Plaintiffs: Theophilus Revell . Defendants: Freeman Cutler . Subject: money matters, London . Document type: answer only 1691

1696

PROB 11/430/261 Will of Theophili Revell, Salter of Saint Botolph without Billingsgate, City of London 28 February 1696
  1. ↑ PROB 11/430/261 Will of Theophili Revell, Salter of Saint Botolph without Billingsgate, City of London 28 February 1696
  2. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.306v
  3. ↑ John Camden Hotten (ed.), The little London directory of 1677 (London, 1863), unpag., viewed 27/07/2016
  4. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.306r
  5. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.261v
  6. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.261v
  7. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.263r
  8. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.264r
  9. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.265r
  10. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.271v
  11. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.272r
  12. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.272v
  13. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.273r
  14. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.306r
  15. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.306r
  16. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.306v
  17. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.307r
  18. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.307v
  19. ↑ HCA 13/72 f.308r

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