MRP: 6th March 1665/66, Letter from William Finch to Sir GO, London
6th March 1665/66, Letter from William Finch to Sir GO, London
BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. ?
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William Finch (b. ?, d. ?ca. 1671) wrote to Sir George Oxenden on March 6th, 1665/66, from London.
Finch was a former apprentice of Sir Thomas Chambrelan, who gave him a mourning ring him in his will, written in June 1670.[1] William Finch was a relatively young merchant at the time of writing, having finished his apprenticeship about the mid-1650s.[2]
He first appears in EEIC Court Minutes in October 1656, proposed by Samuel Putt as co-security for £900 of calicoes Putt had bought on which he sought a payment extension.[3]
He may have died ca. 1671, describing himself in his will as a merchant of London.[4]
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William Finch
EEIC, 1655-1659
"Samuel Putt desires extension of time for payment of 900/. worth of calicoes he bought, and proposes himself and William Finch, formerly servant to Major Chamberlaine, as securities ; the Court agrees but wishes first to ascertain who Finch
is, as they know nothing about him."[5]
See also "I give to my loveing ffreinds M:r John ?Pliye M:r William ffinch and M:r Thomas Papillon Merchants To each of them Tenn pounds to buy mourning"[6]
EEIC, 1660-1663
"[July 4, 1660] Francis Clarke, Nicholas Warren, and Philip Jegon, accepted as securities for pepper, and William Finch, Samuel Harris, Jacob Strange, Roger Scattergood, and George Smith as securities for calicoes."[7]
"[February 18, 1662] Certain Committees are desired to examine and make suitable allowance on cardamoms bought by Sir William Ryder and William Finch, on indigo bought by Mr. Thomson, and on tincall bought by Mr. Thetcher."[8]
Mr. Finch in Sir George Oxenden correspondence
In late March or early April 1666, Sir Henry Oxenden sold musk to Christopher Boone and M.r Finch:
upon the importunity of XXX [worm hole] our Cozn. Boone, I have sould your 2 great potts of muske to him & Mr. Finch at ye: same rates, but have bogt [??] back, ye: 3 long Potts, xxxxx beleeving wee shall have a better markt:[9]
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PROB 11/339 Eure 55-107 Will of William Finch, Merchant of London 08 July 1672
PROB 11/340 Eure 108-157 Will of Samuell Putt of Totnes, Devon 18 November 1672
- ↑ Sir Thomas Chambrelan will
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, October 22, 1656' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 547), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), pp. 118-119
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, October 22, 1656' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 547), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), pp. 118-119
- ↑ PROB 11/339 Eure 55-107 Will of William Finch, Merchant of London 08 July 1672
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, October 22, 1656' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 547), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), pp. 118-119
- ↑ Sir Thomas Chambrelan will
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, July 4, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 273), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 22-23
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, February 18, 1662' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 462), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 184
- ↑ 1st April 1666, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO
