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//appteyninge And ?also was seized in ffee or some other estate of and in one other Plantacon Lands howses and stocks thereupon called Hilcotte lyinge and beinge in the said Island of Barbadoes mortgaged unto him the said S:r Martin Noell by ?Edward//
 
//appteyninge And ?also was seized in ffee or some other estate of and in one other Plantacon Lands howses and stocks thereupon called Hilcotte lyinge and beinge in the said Island of Barbadoes mortgaged unto him the said S:r Martin Noell by ?Edward//
  
//?Bradborne of the said Islands merchant for a greate summe of money oweinge by the said Edward unto the said S:r Martin
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//?Bradborne of the said Islands merchant for a greate summe of money oweinge by the said Edward unto the said S:r Martin And also of and in the Revercon after the decease of S:r John Tufton knight of and in divers Lands in Warwickshire and Yorkshire XX//
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//And also was owner of some shipps or parts of Shipps with others pticularly in the defend:ts Answeare hereafter sett forth And also that the said S:r Martin Noell had some part or share in the stocke with the Royall Company of Merchants tradeinge into Africa//
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//And also was possessed and Interested for some terme of yeares of and in the manner of ?Villers and of diverse Lands thereunto belonginge lyinge & beinge in the Queenes Countie in the Kingdom of Ireland And as the said S:r Martin Noell had some Interest//
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//with others in the ffarme of the Customes and Imported Excise of all Ireland And alsoe with others of and in the ffarme of Excise of Beare and Ale and Lycences for Alehowses in th said Kingdome of Ireland And also the said S:r Martyn had an Interest by way of ??deputXXX//
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//to him and John ??Bence of London Merchant made of and in the ffarme of the Additionall Dutie granted unto them by the late ffarmers of his Ma:ties Customes of England And also hadd some Interest of and in the ffarme of Tymber deales glasse stone & stone//
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//wares And of and in the Reverton of the Baronie of Cary in the Kingdome of Ireland And also the said Sir Martin Noell and Dame Elizabeth Noell his wife were by virtue of one Indenture of Lease beareinge date the ffive & Twentieth day of April in the yeare of the//
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//Lord One Thousand six hundred sixty Two and in the ffowerteenth yeare of his nowe Ma:ties Raigne over England x:r made unto them by Robert ??Pery (Or, ??Pory) Clerke Doctor of Divinity Parson of the Parish of S:t Buttolph without Bishopsgate London) were lawfully//
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//possessed and Interressed of and in All that Capitall Messuage or Tenement with appurtenances scituate and beinge within the said Parish of S:t Buttolphs with out Bishopsgate London To have & to hold the said Messuage & p:rmisses  to them the said Sir Martin Noell//
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//and the said Dame Elizabeth  and the Longer liver of them theire Executo:rs Administrato:rs and Assignes from the ffeast of the  Annunciaccon of the blessed Lady Mary the Virgin last past before the said Indenture of Lease for and duringe ?a Tearme of ??nine and Thirty yeares from thence//
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//fully to be compleate and ended And also the said S:r Martin Noell was also lawfully possessed of a psonall Estate consistinge in goods and chattells of A good value And the said def:ts say That the said S:r Martin Noell beinge as they beleeve of & in all the before menconned p:rmisses//
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//Lands Leases Offices stocke of goods lawfully seized and possessed The said S:r Martin Noell on or about the Three and Twentieth day of September w:ch was in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand six hundred sixty ffive and in the Seaventeenth yeare of his nowe Ma:ties Raigne made//
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//his last will and Testam:t in writinge and in and by his said last will and Testam:t did will and devise his Moytie of the said Plantacon in the Barbados called Hornehall and also all his Moytie of the appurtenances thereunto And of the Moytie of the goods stocke and other//
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//things thereupon or thereunto belonginge unto Nathaniell Noell Theodore Noell Grace Noell and Elizabeth Noell his younger children in such manner as  in and by his said will is lymmitted and appoynted as by  his said ?will filed in the Prerogative Court of the//
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//Archbishop of Canterbury unto which the said defts doe for the more certaintie thereof referr themselves it doth and may appeare And also by his said last will hee did give and bequeath unto James Noell one of his younger sonnes his moytie of the said Office of Secretary//
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//to the Govnor and Councell of the said Island of Barbadoes And his Moytie of the Clerkshipp of the Courts of the said Island in such manner as in his the said S:r Martins said last will is also menconned and declared to where will filed as aforesaid in//
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//the prerogative Court the said defts doe referr themselves And the said defendts say That the said Sir Martyn Noell did further thereby will and declare his minde and will to bee That the said Plantacon called HXXXX and the Lands howses stocke and other//
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//things thereupon And the Reverton of the Lands in Warwickshire and Yorkshire  And his interest of and in all and singular the ffarmes before menconned should (as soone as conveniently might bee) bee sold and disposed of by his Executo:rs in his will//
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//named for and towards the payment of his iust and due debts and for the performance of his said last will and Testament And further by his said last will and Testament did declare his his minde to bee That whereas hee the said S:r Martyn Noell and//
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//Dame Elizabeth Noell engaged the said Lease of the said Capitall Messuage with thappurtenances scituate and beinge without  Bishopsgate London to a widdowe woman for Three hundred pounds principall monyes That it was his expresse order//
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//and desire That the said Three hundred pounds with the damages for forbearance thereof bee paid and the said Mortgage discharged with the ffirst conveniency after his decease and that the same now XXX part thereof should bee charged to his said wife//
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//Dame Elizabeth And of his said last will and Testament hee did make ordaine and constitute Martin Noell his Eldest Sonne (then Esq:r, now knight) And the said defendants Thomas Noell and  George Robinson his Executo:rs and shortly afterwards the XXX XXXX//
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//on or about the Nyne & Twentieth day of the said Monethe of September One Thousand six hundred sixty and ffive the said S:r Martin Noell dyed And the said defendants say that they beinge called upon by diverse of the Credito:rs of the said S:r Martin Noell the Testato:r for the//
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//payment of diverse greate summes of money then oweinge unto them by theire  (sic) Testato:r And they not haveinge then Assetts of the Testato:rs estate in there hands sufficient to satisfy and pay the said Creditors there said debts The said defend:ts did give forth speeches that they//
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//the said defend:ts accordinge to the direction and desire of theire said Testato:r in his said last will would sell and dispose of the said Plantaccon called Hilcott in the Barbadoes and the stocke thereupon And of theire Estate & Interest of and in all other the ffarmes//
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//above menconned for and towards the payment of there Testato:rs debts and the pformance of his last will and Testament And the said defendants say That (as they beleeve) One John ?Armand of London merchant takeing notice thereof That the said  John ?Armand//
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//in the Monnthe of ffebruary in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand Six hundred Sixty Six reparied unto the def:t George Robinson and earnestly solicited and importuned him the said defend:t George Robinson That hee the said John Armand might bee the purchasser//
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//thereof and after diverse meetings and treaties betwixt the said John Armand and the said defendant George Robinson to that purpose The said def:t George Robinson saith That on or about the Eighteenth day of the said Mounth of ffebruary One Thousand six//
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//hundred sixty six the said John Armand and the said George Robinson as the said defendant conceaveth came to a full Agreement for a purchase thereof for the summe of Two Thousand pounds And the said John Armand did then pay ??downe//
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//unto the said defendant the summe of ffive hundred pounds and afterwards Three hundred pounds more as in the Accompt hereafter is expresst beinge pte of the Two Thousand pounds agreed to bee the purchase money And the said def:t//
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//George Robinson saith That hee the said defend:t did on or upon the said Eighteenth day of ffebruary One Thousand six hundred sixty six deliver into the hands of the said John  Armand certaine Deeds and Evidences concerninge & relateinge//
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//the said Plantaton for the said John Armand and his councell to Advise thereupon and to draw upp a conveyance or an Assignement of the said Plantaccon Lands and p:rmisses to the said plantacon belonginge But the said Armand hath not paid//
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//the Remainder of the said Two Thousand pounds but hath occasioned the said defend:t to sue him for the same and there are suits now dependinge thereupon And as to the Revton of the Lands in Warwickshire & Yorkshire by the Testato:rs will//
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//appoynted to bee sold Both the said defend:ts say That (as they beleeve) the same was mortgaged by there Testato:r in his life tyme to one John Colvile of London Goldsmith or to some other in trust for him for further securitie of payment of the summe of ffive//
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//Thousand pounds or such like sume (for which the defend:ts stood bounden with theire Testato:r with Interest) of which the summe of Two Thousand pounds or thereabouts was satisfied or payd by theire Testato:r in his life tyme And for the//
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//remayninge sume of the said ffive Thousand pounds beinge Three Thousand pounds with Interest for the same the said defend:ts say That they hadd Labored to gett the same satisfied by sale of the said Reverton but could not pcure a  purchaso:r for the same att such a//
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//valuable consideraccon as they thought fitt until of late (the said Reverton beinge as the said defend:ts conceive forfeited) One Morrice and Sanders bought it (as the said defend:ts conceive) of the mortgaged ?for the summe of Three Thousand pounds//
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//And the defend:ts have Joyned in the conveyance thereof with S:r Martyn Noell the heire att Lawe accordinge as they were advised by theire councell att Lawe And the said Three Thousand pounds purchase money hath beene paid or allowed unto//
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//the said John Colvile on Accompt of his said debt And the said defend:ts say That they the said defendants doe stand engaged for the Remainder of the said debt unto the said John Colvile And as to the Shipps and pts of Shipps as appoynted by the//
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//Testato:rs will to bee sold The said George Robinson saith That what Shipps or parts of Shipps there said Testato:r was possessed of or Interested in and how the same have beene disposed and when and to whom and for what sume or sumes of money paid, the said defendants//
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//saith it doth appeare in his the said defendants Answere followinge where hee setteth forth how the psonall estate of the Testato:r hath beene disposed of This only excepted That the said defendant George Robinson saith That hee hath heard that XXXXXX of the Shipps XXX//
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//which theire Testato:r had a part (called the ''Love'') was lost in the Redd Sea as the defend:ts have heard in the life tyme of theire Testato:r to the greate losse of the said S:r Martin Noell theire Testato:r and the other partners thereof And as to the Share or part of Stocke w:ch the//
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//said Sir Martyn Noell there Testato:r hadd in the Royall Company tradeinge into Affrica The defend:t George Robinson saith That the said Royall Company did demand more money to be due unto them from the said Sir Martin Noell than the said Sir Martin Noells share or shares in//
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//the stocke of the said Royall Company is worth And for that cause the said Company did & doe keepe the said shares of the said Sir Martin in there hands and have refused and doe refuse to satisfie or deliver the same or any part thereof unto the defendants Executo:rs of the said Sir Martin Noell//
  
 
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"1661?: 94. Petition of Edward Bradbourne, the elder, to the King. Sets forth his services and losses in the royal cause from the first beginning of the late troubles to the value of 30,000l. ; that Thos. Noell who is in possession of the office of Secretary in Barbadoes is willing to surrender his grant which his Majesty upon a petition delivered by Lord Culpeper promised to the petitioner ; prays for a confirmation of the office to John Dawes, one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, for his life, in trust to the use of the petitioner and his assigns, to be executed by Edw. Bradbourne the younger, who is on the place, or any other deputy whom Dawes may appoint. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XV., No. 57.]"<ref>W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'America and West Indies: May 1661', ''Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies'', vol. 5: 1661-1668 (1880), pp. 27-35. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76439 Date accessed: 16 November 2011</ref>
 
"1661?: 94. Petition of Edward Bradbourne, the elder, to the King. Sets forth his services and losses in the royal cause from the first beginning of the late troubles to the value of 30,000l. ; that Thos. Noell who is in possession of the office of Secretary in Barbadoes is willing to surrender his grant which his Majesty upon a petition delivered by Lord Culpeper promised to the petitioner ; prays for a confirmation of the office to John Dawes, one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, for his life, in trust to the use of the petitioner and his assigns, to be executed by Edw. Bradbourne the younger, who is on the place, or any other deputy whom Dawes may appoint. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XV., No. 57.]"<ref>W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'America and West Indies: May 1661', ''Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies'', vol. 5: 1661-1668 (1880), pp. 27-35. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76439 Date accessed: 16 November 2011</ref>
  
"The firm of Martin Noell & Company became exceedingly prosperous, and Noell himself one of the mainstays of the government. He became a member of the Trade Committee in 1655, of the committee for Jamaica in 1656, and was frequently called in by the Council of State to offer advice or to give information. He was on terms of intimacy with Cromwell, and because of the Protector's friendship for him and confidence in his judgment, his recommendations for office, both in England and the colonies had great weight. Povey speaks of the " extraordinary favor allowed him (Noell) by his Highness." He had a brother, Thomas Noell, who was prominent in Barbadoes and Surinam and in charge of his interests there. He was also represented in other islands by agents and factors, of whom Edward Bradbourne was the most conspicuous, while Major Richard Povey in Jamaica, and William Povey in Barbadoes, brothers of Thomas Povey, had for a time charge of his plantations in those islands. Noell indirectly played no small part in politics, particularly of Barbadoes, where Governor Searle held office largely through his influence. Besides his Jamaica holdings he had estates at Wexford in Ireland, and in April, 1658, wrote to Henry Cromwell that he had "transplanted much of his interest and affairs and relations " to that country, seeming to indicate thereby that his colonial ventures were not prospering satisfactorily. Noell was a politic man, shrewd and diplomatic, asserting his loyalty to the house of Cromwell, yet becoming a trusty subject of King Charles, from whom he afterward received knighthood."<ref>Charles McLean Andrews, ''British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675 (Baltimore, MA, 1908), pp. 50-51</ref>
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"The firm of Martin Noell & Company became exceedingly prosperous, and Noell himself one of the mainstays of the government. He became a member of the Trade Committee in 1655, of the committee for Jamaica in 1656, and was frequently called in by the Council of State to offer advice or to give information. He was on terms of intimacy with Cromwell, and because of the Protector's friendship for him and confidence in his judgment, his recommendations for office, both in England and the colonies had great weight. Povey speaks of the " extraordinary favor allowed him (Noell) by his Highness." He had a brother, Thomas Noell, who was prominent in Barbadoes and Surinam and in charge of his interests there. He was also represented in other islands by agents and factors, of whom Edward Bradbourne was the most conspicuous, while Major Richard Povey in Jamaica, and William Povey in Barbadoes, brothers of Thomas Povey, had for a time charge of his plantations in those islands. Noell indirectly played no small part in politics, particularly of Barbadoes, where Governor Searle held office largely through his influence. Besides his Jamaica holdings he had estates at Wexford in Ireland, and in April, 1658, wrote to Henry Cromwell that he had "transplanted much of his interest and affairs and relations " to that country, seeming to indicate thereby that his colonial ventures were not prospering satisfactorily. Noell was a politic man, shrewd and diplomatic, asserting his loyalty to the house of Cromwell, yet becoming a trusty subject of King Charles, from whom he afterward received knighthood."<ref>Charles McLean Andrews, ''British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675'' (Baltimore, MA, 1908), pp. 50-51</ref>

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//XXXX Jurat XXXXXX 1668//
//Na: Hobart//
//XXXXX//

//The Joynt and sewall Answeres of Thomas Noell and George Robinson Two of the Executo:rs of S.r Martin Noell Knight deceased//
//to the Bill of Complaint of Hugh Upton Complaynant//

//All and all manner of Advantages and benefitt of Excepcons unto the Incertainties untrueths and other imperfecconns and insufficeincies of the said complaynants bill of Complaint to the said defendants now and att all tymes//

//hereafter saved and reserved The said defendants for themselves for Answeare unto all and every the matters and things materially concerninge them or either of them to Answere and say in manner as hereafter followeth And XXXX//

//the said defendts Joyntlie say That they beleeve that the said S:r Martin Noell in the Bill named was in his life tyme and att the tyme of his death lawfully seized in his Demeasne as of ffee or of some other ??estate of Inheritance of and in the Moytie or halfe//

//part of the Plantaconn called Hornehall in the Island of the Barbadoes And of and in the Moytie of the Cattle goods and stocke of what nature or Qualitie soever upon the same beinge And of and in the Moyetie and disposall of the Office of ?Secretaryshipp//

//to the Governor and Councell of the said Island of Barbadoes And of the Moytie and the disposall of the Clarkshipp of all the Courts of the said Island and of the Moytie of the ffees and profitts whatsoever X the said Two Offices belonginge or XXXXX//

//appteyninge And ?also was seized in ffee or some other estate of and in one other Plantacon Lands howses and stocks thereupon called Hilcotte lyinge and beinge in the said Island of Barbadoes mortgaged unto him the said S:r Martin Noell by ?Edward//

//?Bradborne of the said Islands merchant for a greate summe of money oweinge by the said Edward unto the said S:r Martin And also of and in the Revercon after the decease of S:r John Tufton knight of and in divers Lands in Warwickshire and Yorkshire XX//

//And also was owner of some shipps or parts of Shipps with others pticularly in the defend:ts Answeare hereafter sett forth And also that the said S:r Martin Noell had some part or share in the stocke with the Royall Company of Merchants tradeinge into Africa//

//And also was possessed and Interested for some terme of yeares of and in the manner of ?Villers and of diverse Lands thereunto belonginge lyinge & beinge in the Queenes Countie in the Kingdom of Ireland And as the said S:r Martin Noell had some Interest//

//with others in the ffarme of the Customes and Imported Excise of all Ireland And alsoe with others of and in the ffarme of Excise of Beare and Ale and Lycences for Alehowses in th said Kingdome of Ireland And also the said S:r Martyn had an Interest by way of ??deputXXX//

//to him and John ??Bence of London Merchant made of and in the ffarme of the Additionall Dutie granted unto them by the late ffarmers of his Ma:ties Customes of England And also hadd some Interest of and in the ffarme of Tymber deales glasse stone & stone//

//wares And of and in the Reverton of the Baronie of Cary in the Kingdome of Ireland And also the said Sir Martin Noell and Dame Elizabeth Noell his wife were by virtue of one Indenture of Lease beareinge date the ffive & Twentieth day of April in the yeare of the//

//Lord One Thousand six hundred sixty Two and in the ffowerteenth yeare of his nowe Ma:ties Raigne over England x:r made unto them by Robert ??Pery (Or, ??Pory) Clerke Doctor of Divinity Parson of the Parish of S:t Buttolph without Bishopsgate London) were lawfully//

//possessed and Interressed of and in All that Capitall Messuage or Tenement with appurtenances scituate and beinge within the said Parish of S:t Buttolphs with out Bishopsgate London To have & to hold the said Messuage & p:rmisses to them the said Sir Martin Noell//

//and the said Dame Elizabeth and the Longer liver of them theire Executo:rs Administrato:rs and Assignes from the ffeast of the Annunciaccon of the blessed Lady Mary the Virgin last past before the said Indenture of Lease for and duringe ?a Tearme of ??nine and Thirty yeares from thence//

//fully to be compleate and ended And also the said S:r Martin Noell was also lawfully possessed of a psonall Estate consistinge in goods and chattells of A good value And the said def:ts say That the said S:r Martin Noell beinge as they beleeve of & in all the before menconned p:rmisses//

//Lands Leases Offices stocke of goods lawfully seized and possessed The said S:r Martin Noell on or about the Three and Twentieth day of September w:ch was in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand six hundred sixty ffive and in the Seaventeenth yeare of his nowe Ma:ties Raigne made//

//his last will and Testam:t in writinge and in and by his said last will and Testam:t did will and devise his Moytie of the said Plantacon in the Barbados called Hornehall and also all his Moytie of the appurtenances thereunto And of the Moytie of the goods stocke and other//

//things thereupon or thereunto belonginge unto Nathaniell Noell Theodore Noell Grace Noell and Elizabeth Noell his younger children in such manner as in and by his said will is lymmitted and appoynted as by his said ?will filed in the Prerogative Court of the//

//Archbishop of Canterbury unto which the said defts doe for the more certaintie thereof referr themselves it doth and may appeare And also by his said last will hee did give and bequeath unto James Noell one of his younger sonnes his moytie of the said Office of Secretary//

//to the Govnor and Councell of the said Island of Barbadoes And his Moytie of the Clerkshipp of the Courts of the said Island in such manner as in his the said S:r Martins said last will is also menconned and declared to where will filed as aforesaid in//

//the prerogative Court the said defts doe referr themselves And the said defendts say That the said Sir Martyn Noell did further thereby will and declare his minde and will to bee That the said Plantacon called HXXXX and the Lands howses stocke and other//

//things thereupon And the Reverton of the Lands in Warwickshire and Yorkshire And his interest of and in all and singular the ffarmes before menconned should (as soone as conveniently might bee) bee sold and disposed of by his Executo:rs in his will//

//named for and towards the payment of his iust and due debts and for the performance of his said last will and Testament And further by his said last will and Testament did declare his his minde to bee That whereas hee the said S:r Martyn Noell and//

//Dame Elizabeth Noell engaged the said Lease of the said Capitall Messuage with thappurtenances scituate and beinge without Bishopsgate London to a widdowe woman for Three hundred pounds principall monyes That it was his expresse order//

//and desire That the said Three hundred pounds with the damages for forbearance thereof bee paid and the said Mortgage discharged with the ffirst conveniency after his decease and that the same now XXX part thereof should bee charged to his said wife//

//Dame Elizabeth And of his said last will and Testament hee did make ordaine and constitute Martin Noell his Eldest Sonne (then Esq:r, now knight) And the said defendants Thomas Noell and George Robinson his Executo:rs and shortly afterwards the XXX XXXX//

//on or about the Nyne & Twentieth day of the said Monethe of September One Thousand six hundred sixty and ffive the said S:r Martin Noell dyed And the said defendants say that they beinge called upon by diverse of the Credito:rs of the said S:r Martin Noell the Testato:r for the//

//payment of diverse greate summes of money then oweinge unto them by theire (sic) Testato:r And they not haveinge then Assetts of the Testato:rs estate in there hands sufficient to satisfy and pay the said Creditors there said debts The said defend:ts did give forth speeches that they//

//the said defend:ts accordinge to the direction and desire of theire said Testato:r in his said last will would sell and dispose of the said Plantaccon called Hilcott in the Barbadoes and the stocke thereupon And of theire Estate & Interest of and in all other the ffarmes//

//above menconned for and towards the payment of there Testato:rs debts and the pformance of his last will and Testament And the said defendants say That (as they beleeve) One John ?Armand of London merchant takeing notice thereof That the said John ?Armand//

//in the Monnthe of ffebruary in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand Six hundred Sixty Six reparied unto the def:t George Robinson and earnestly solicited and importuned him the said defend:t George Robinson That hee the said John Armand might bee the purchasser//

//thereof and after diverse meetings and treaties betwixt the said John Armand and the said defendant George Robinson to that purpose The said def:t George Robinson saith That on or about the Eighteenth day of the said Mounth of ffebruary One Thousand six//

//hundred sixty six the said John Armand and the said George Robinson as the said defendant conceaveth came to a full Agreement for a purchase thereof for the summe of Two Thousand pounds And the said John Armand did then pay ??downe//

//unto the said defendant the summe of ffive hundred pounds and afterwards Three hundred pounds more as in the Accompt hereafter is expresst beinge pte of the Two Thousand pounds agreed to bee the purchase money And the said def:t//

//George Robinson saith That hee the said defend:t did on or upon the said Eighteenth day of ffebruary One Thousand six hundred sixty six deliver into the hands of the said John Armand certaine Deeds and Evidences concerninge & relateinge//

//the said Plantaton for the said John Armand and his councell to Advise thereupon and to draw upp a conveyance or an Assignement of the said Plantaccon Lands and p:rmisses to the said plantacon belonginge But the said Armand hath not paid//

//the Remainder of the said Two Thousand pounds but hath occasioned the said defend:t to sue him for the same and there are suits now dependinge thereupon And as to the Revton of the Lands in Warwickshire & Yorkshire by the Testato:rs will//

//appoynted to bee sold Both the said defend:ts say That (as they beleeve) the same was mortgaged by there Testato:r in his life tyme to one John Colvile of London Goldsmith or to some other in trust for him for further securitie of payment of the summe of ffive//

//Thousand pounds or such like sume (for which the defend:ts stood bounden with theire Testato:r with Interest) of which the summe of Two Thousand pounds or thereabouts was satisfied or payd by theire Testato:r in his life tyme And for the//

//remayninge sume of the said ffive Thousand pounds beinge Three Thousand pounds with Interest for the same the said defend:ts say That they hadd Labored to gett the same satisfied by sale of the said Reverton but could not pcure a purchaso:r for the same att such a//

//valuable consideraccon as they thought fitt until of late (the said Reverton beinge as the said defend:ts conceive forfeited) One Morrice and Sanders bought it (as the said defend:ts conceive) of the mortgaged ?for the summe of Three Thousand pounds//

//And the defend:ts have Joyned in the conveyance thereof with S:r Martyn Noell the heire att Lawe accordinge as they were advised by theire councell att Lawe And the said Three Thousand pounds purchase money hath beene paid or allowed unto//

//the said John Colvile on Accompt of his said debt And the said defend:ts say That they the said defendants doe stand engaged for the Remainder of the said debt unto the said John Colvile And as to the Shipps and pts of Shipps as appoynted by the//

//Testato:rs will to bee sold The said George Robinson saith That what Shipps or parts of Shipps there said Testato:r was possessed of or Interested in and how the same have beene disposed and when and to whom and for what sume or sumes of money paid, the said defendants//

//saith it doth appeare in his the said defendants Answere followinge where hee setteth forth how the psonall estate of the Testato:r hath beene disposed of This only excepted That the said defendant George Robinson saith That hee hath heard that XXXXXX of the Shipps XXX//

//which theire Testato:r had a part (called the Love) was lost in the Redd Sea as the defend:ts have heard in the life tyme of theire Testato:r to the greate losse of the said S:r Martin Noell theire Testato:r and the other partners thereof And as to the Share or part of Stocke w:ch the//

//said Sir Martyn Noell there Testato:r hadd in the Royall Company tradeinge into Affrica The defend:t George Robinson saith That the said Royall Company did demand more money to be due unto them from the said Sir Martin Noell than the said Sir Martin Noells share or shares in//

//the stocke of the said Royall Company is worth And for that cause the said Company did & doe keepe the said shares of the said Sir Martin in there hands and have refused and doe refuse to satisfie or deliver the same or any part thereof unto the defendants Executo:rs of the said Sir Martin Noell//



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Edward Bradbourne

"On 7 January 1657. Povey wrote to his brother William that a Mr Edward Bradbourne was coming to Barbados as a servant and factor to Mr Noell. Severall months later Povey wrote to Bradbourne..."[1]

"1661?: 94. Petition of Edward Bradbourne, the elder, to the King. Sets forth his services and losses in the royal cause from the first beginning of the late troubles to the value of 30,000l. ; that Thos. Noell who is in possession of the office of Secretary in Barbadoes is willing to surrender his grant which his Majesty upon a petition delivered by Lord Culpeper promised to the petitioner ; prays for a confirmation of the office to John Dawes, one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, for his life, in trust to the use of the petitioner and his assigns, to be executed by Edw. Bradbourne the younger, who is on the place, or any other deputy whom Dawes may appoint. 1 p. [Col. Papers, Vol. XV., No. 57.]"[2]

"The firm of Martin Noell & Company became exceedingly prosperous, and Noell himself one of the mainstays of the government. He became a member of the Trade Committee in 1655, of the committee for Jamaica in 1656, and was frequently called in by the Council of State to offer advice or to give information. He was on terms of intimacy with Cromwell, and because of the Protector's friendship for him and confidence in his judgment, his recommendations for office, both in England and the colonies had great weight. Povey speaks of the " extraordinary favor allowed him (Noell) by his Highness." He had a brother, Thomas Noell, who was prominent in Barbadoes and Surinam and in charge of his interests there. He was also represented in other islands by agents and factors, of whom Edward Bradbourne was the most conspicuous, while Major Richard Povey in Jamaica, and William Povey in Barbadoes, brothers of Thomas Povey, had for a time charge of his plantations in those islands. Noell indirectly played no small part in politics, particularly of Barbadoes, where Governor Searle held office largely through his influence. Besides his Jamaica holdings he had estates at Wexford in Ireland, and in April, 1658, wrote to Henry Cromwell that he had "transplanted much of his interest and affairs and relations " to that country, seeming to indicate thereby that his colonial ventures were not prospering satisfactorily. Noell was a politic man, shrewd and diplomatic, asserting his loyalty to the house of Cromwell, yet becoming a trusty subject of King Charles, from whom he afterward received knighthood."[3]
  1. Richard B. Sheridan, Sugar and slavery: an economic history of the British West Indies, 1623-1775 (Baltimore, MA, 1974), pp. 91-92
  2. W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'America and West Indies: May 1661', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, vol. 5: 1661-1668 (1880), pp. 27-35. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76439 Date accessed: 16 November 2011
  3. Charles McLean Andrews, British committees, commissions, and councils of trade and plantations, 1622-1675 (Baltimore, MA, 1908), pp. 50-51