MRP: C10/58/29 f. 2

C10/58/29 f. 2

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Transcription

//XXX the tenth day of June[top LH side]//
//1659 before XXXX [top LH side]//
//W Glanock [Signature] [top LH side]//

//The severall Answ:rs and disclaym:rs of William Rider one of the defend:ts to the bill of Complaint of William [Centred]//
//Gomeldon Complainant [Centred]//

//The said defed:t saving to himselfe now and at all tymes therafter all and all manner of advantage of excepcon to the incertainty insufficiency and ither the imperfeccons of the said bill of Complaint and all and every of matters and things therein conteyned//

//for a full and pfect answ:r theunto or to soe much thereof as doth any way concerne this defend:t to make answ:r unto he saith and doth beleive it to bee true that about the tyme in the bill mencconed Richard Gomeldon in the bill named went into Holland to//

//remaine there as ffactor for the said Comp:lt and that Thomas Marsham became indebted to the said Comp:lt in some summe of money but the certainty thereof thus defend:t cannot sett forth and this def:tbeleives that upon request of this Comp:lt//

//the said Thomas Marsham gave creditt to the said Richard Gomeldon for three hundred pounds in Holland and to that purpose did write or designed this defend:t to write (whose name in those troublesome tymes hee did make use of upon such//

//ground or reason (as this defend:t conceived) as in the bill set forth) a letter to Jonas Abeales (who was the said Thomas Marsham's Correspondent in Amsterdam) to furnish the said Richard Gomeldon w:th the summe of three hundred pounds//

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Notes

1648

"[Referring to William Courten becoming insolvent due to losses in the East Indies and fleeing his creditors via Amsterdam, where he claimed to have given authority to Jacob Oergens to compound the debt and damage with the East India Company. Jonas Abeeles is referred to earlier as Sir Paul Pindar's "attorney"]1648. Jonas Abeeles, hearing that Pergens was in treaty w:th the East India Comp:y, did, on behalfe of Pindar, 25:th May, 1648, insuate and protest, by a Publique Notary, to the Directors of the East India Comp:y, at their Chamber in Amsterdam, y:t if they made any payment to Jacob Pergens, it should be held invallid and of no effect, setting forth S:r Pauls assignment, as appeares by an authentique Act registered in Amsterdam"

On Saturday August 18th, 1648, a commission appointed jointly by the Lords and Commons for the relief of distressed protestants in Ireland reported to the joint houses. The commissioners were "Mr. Adam Lawrence, Mr. Dierick Hoosts, Mr. Maurice Thompson, and Mr. Nicholas Corselly (sic), of London". The commissioners had approached "the States General of the united Provinces, and likewise to the Barge-Masters of the several Cities" and others, and had raised £31,218-12-06 through a voluntary contribution "for Supply of the British, and Protestants within the Realm of Ireland, and disposed of accordingly in Victuals." Treasurers in the United Provinces were noted: "Mr. Tho. cave, Mr. Charles Looten, Mr. William Watson, and Mr. Jonas Abeeles, the Treasurers in Amsterdam; and Mr. Jeronimo Williams Ashnam, Mr. Peter Bouderen Courten, and Mr. John de Durper Cozen, Treasurers in Middleburgh."

1650s

Jonas Abeeles was became an agent of the English East India Company in Amsterdam in 1658

See index entry:

"Abeels, Jonas, agent for the Company at Amsterdam, 296, 304; letter from, 94; offers his services, 213; letters to, 223, 233. 237, 239, 245, 249, 254, 256, 264, 266, 268, 272, 274, 279, 280, 289, 292, 295, 296; to be superseded by Bridgman, 274."

Some extracts from the above:

Jonas Abeels at Amsterdam to Thomas Andrew and William Vincent in London, March 31, 1656 (Home Miscellaneous, vol. xl, p. 39).

Has heard nothing since sending his last letter of the 17th instant. This only serves to enclose a bill of lading of [ ? rials] laden aboard the Philipus, master, John Hubertsen. Will send the account of the rials and their account current next week. The Dutch East India Company have bought the small quantity of rials remaining. Signed by John Abeels in the absence of his father Jonas. (1 /4p.)

A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, January 14, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 54).

"...Jonas Abeels and Richard Bridgeman, both living at Amsterdam, write to offer their services to the Company ; hereupon it is decided to desire Abeels to buy sheets and other goods suitable for Guinea, and Bridgeman to attend to any other business the Company may require seen to there...."