MRP: Arnold Vander Beke will
Arnold Vander Beke will
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Arnold Vander Beke doe make this may last Will or testament and doe renounce all other I being as yet in good memory and reasonable health but considering that nothing is more certeine than death and nothing more uncertaine than the hower therof
FFIRST I recommend my Soule into the hands of Almighty God and my Body to be buryed
FFIRST (sic) that my debts for which I have agreed may be paid as also my new debty may be fully paid with some what more of the old debts if well can be spared although I have fully paid that which was left
SECONDLY I give to the Parish in which I live One Pound and in S:t Georges Parish both to the Poore also One Pound
SECONDLY (sic) I give to my grand daughter Tenn Pounds sterling
THIRDLY I give to my sonn Abraham Vander Beke Six Hundred Pownds Sterling viz:t
Three Hundred Pownds and the other Three Hundred Pounds after the decease of my loving wife or sooner if shee thinks good
FFOWERTH I hive unto my daughter Sarah Vander Beke ffower Hundred Pownds Two Hundred Pownds thereof after the death of my loving wife or sooner if shee thinks good The rest of the Childredn have had porrions The one more The other lesse
FFYFTHLY give unto my loving wife the rest of my Estate of all what is left as all the household stuff for to dispose thereof to the rest of the children as shee shall think good doe make my wife Executrix of all And my sonn Samuell Vanderbeke with my sonn Abraham Vander Beke overseers of this my Will-
In London the tenth of Aprill One Thousand Six Hundred and Seaventy ffower All ?athis written and subscribed with my owne hand was subscribed
?AERN:T VENDER BEKE
PROBATUM Londini fuit Testamentum suprascriptum coram venerabili vivo Richard Lloyd Legum Doctore Surrogato: venerabilis et agregij vivi Domini Leolini Jenkins Militis Legum etiam Doctoris Curia Prarogative Cantuariensis Magistris Custodis sive commissarij legitime constituti viresimo secundo die mensis Julij Anno dmi millesimo Sepcentesimo Septuagesimo Quinto Juramento Elizabetha Vander Beke Relicta et Executricis in ?huinsinudi Testamento nominate Oni commissa fuit Administatio omnium et singularum Bonorum Juium et Creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fideliter administrando eadem ad sancta dei Evangelia in debita Jurro form a Jurat. Exr
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Beake, Beak, Beacke, Beck, Beeke, Becke, Beke
Arnold Beake: The freighting of the Hope of Workham, London to Leith to Hull to Stockholm to London, 1651/52
"Tuesday, the 3d of February, 1651.
...Merchants Complaints....
The Narrative and Oath of Arnold Beake, Merchant, concerning his Freighting the Ship The Hope of Workham, Master Claus. Clauson.[1]
THAT the said Arnold Beake, by Order and for the Account of Mr. James Sheppard, of Hull, English Merchant, did, in the Month of July last, freight the said Ship, then in the Thames, and then bound, for the State's Use, for Leeth in Scotland; to go from thence to Newcastle to lade Coals; and from thence to Stockholme, or thereabouts, to unlade the said Coals, and relade with Pitch or Tar, or such as the said Sheppard's Factor should lade aboard; and so to return for London.
That the said Ship being arrived at Stockholme, Sheppara's Factor did lett to Freight, about the Beginning of October last, to Mr. George Mawhood's Factor, 500 Ship-Pounds of Sweth Iron; and laded the Residue of the said Ship himself with Tar.
Merchants Complaints.
That the said Arnold Beake doth really believe, that the said Tar, so laden aboard the said Ship, was and is for the proper and only Account of the said James Sheppard:
That the Charter-Party for the said Ship was drawn in London, but signed at Newcastle; so that the said Beake hath not any Part thereof here to shew:
That the Quantity of Tar, so laden for Mr. Sheppard's Account, as aforesaid, was about One hundred and Eighty Lasts:
That the said Arnold Beake could not give timely Notice to the said Sheppard's Factor of the late Act for Increase of Shipping, by reason the Post is long by the Way to Stockholme: And that the Ship, about the Beginning of November last, did depart from Stockholme; nor doth he know that Shephard's Factor had any Notice of such Act by any other Means: All which, as aforesaid, the said Arnold Beake deposeth to be true.
Sworn before the Council,
31th December 1651.
Arnold Beake,
George Mawhood.
Gualt. Frost.
The Narrative and Oath of George Mawhood, concerning certain Goods, by his Order laden in the Ship The Hope of Workeham, Claus. Clauson Master, as followeth; viz.
THAT Solomon Houghsam, the Servant of the said George Mawhood, being at Stockholme the 4th Day of October 1651, did, then and there, agree with the Servant of Mr. James Sheppard, to lade aboard the said Ship, then being at Stockholme, 500 Ship-Pounds of Sweth Iron; whereof he laded 493 Ship-Pounds, Six Leech-Pounds, before the 18th of the said Month of October, to be brought for London: Of which the said George Mawhood had Notice from his said Servant about the 20th of November last, and not before; and could not possibly give Notice of the Act for Increase of Shipping, &c.; nor, to his Knowlege, did his said Servant receive Notice thereof from any other, or by any other Means.
And further, he the said George Mawhood declareth, That the said Parcel of Iron, so shipped as aforesaid, is properly and only for his own Account; he being of this Nation.
All which Premises the said George Mawhood maketh Oath to be true and real.
Ordered, That the Commissioners for the Customs be authorized and required to forbear to make any Seizure of the Ship Hope of Workham, Claus. Clauson Master; and of the Tar laden in her, by virtue of the Act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for Increase of Shipping, and Encouragement of Navigation: And that the said Ship, and Tar laden therein, be freed and discharged of and from any Seizure or Confiscation, made or to be made by force of the said Act, as if the same had come in before the First Day of December last: And that all Officers, and other Persons, concerned, do take Notice hereof, and yield Obedience hereunto accordingly."
Arnold Beake: J.R. Woodhead (1966)
"BEAKE (or VANDERBEAKE), Arnold
Co Co Billingsgate, 1656-67 St George Botolph, 1674, St Mary at Hill, 1675, in Billingsgate ward, 1640 (1) Will PCC 79 Dycer pr, 2 Jul 1675 Merchant, 1640, wine merchant, 1660 (2) Father of Samuel BEAKE (3)
(1) Will, PCC, PAB, 1675, MG et H, 2nd Ser, II, p 36 (2) MG et H, 2nd Ser, II, p 36, Cal Treas Bks, 1660-7, pp 231, 500 (3) Will"[2]
Samuel(l) Beake (son of Arnold Beake): J.R. Woodhead (1966)
"BEAKE, Samuel
Co Co Billingsgate, 1674-6 Corner of Botolph Lane and Love Lane, 1682, St George, Botolph, 1671, 1682 (1) Will PCC 146 Cann pr, 2 Dec 1685 f Arnold BEAKE (2) Merchant, Hamburg and Greenland trade (3) Personalty, 1682, £9,000+ (4)
(1) Will, VBk, St George Botolph (2) Will of Arnold BEAKE (3) Will, SP/29/415/14 (4) Will"[3]
Possible primary sources
TNA
C 6/206/4 Short title: Beake v Beake. Plaintiffs: Anne Beake widow, Elias Beake, Johanne Beake, Anne Beake and Sarah Beake. Defendants: Arnold Beake, Samuel Beake and Abraham Beake. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: bill, two answers. 1673
C 6/227/10 Short title: Beake v Hill. Plaintiffs: Samuel Beake, Philip Gawdy, Samuel Pycroft, Francis Michleburgh, Henry Cornwallis and William Cutlove. Defendants: John Hill and William Crane. Subject: property in Hales, Norfolk. Document type: bill, answer. 1676
C 9/137/18 Beake v. Beake 1692
C 10/3/51 Thomas Flood v Arnold Beake, Elias Beake and William Taylor: money matters, Middx 1649 Litigation
C 10/45/51 Edwards, Love v. Ruchworth, Beake, Elford: Middx 1653
C 10/105/106 Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Whittington. Jacob Luce, Katherine Santen widow, Anne Beake widow and Solomon Morris v John Norris, John Wood, George Myris and William Watts: money matters, Middlesex. Bill and answer. 01 January 1671 - 31 December 1671 Litigation
C 10/107/19 Beake v. Beake. 1671
C 10/176/15 Beak v. Beak: Middx. 1670
C 10/178/23 Beake v. Beake: Middx 1670
C 10/191/11 Beake v. Beake: Middx 1674
C 10/474/155 James Long and Benjamin Long v Arnold Beake: money matters, Middlesex. Bill only 1674
C 10/487/16 Beake v. Beake: Middx 1675
C 10/486/16 Beake v. Beake: Middx. 1675
C 10/486/17 Whittington. Beach v. Withers, Beake: Middx. 1676
PROB 11/321/342 Elizabeth Vander Beake Widow Saint Swithin, City of London 31 July 1666
PROB 11/324/440 Elias Vander Beke or Vander Beak Saint Olave Hart Street. 03 July 1667
PROB 11/348 Will of Arnold Vander Beke XXXX 1675
PROB 11/381/426 Samuel Beake Merchant Saint George and Saint Mary at Hill, City of London. 02 December 1685
PROB 11/348/295 Will of Arnold Vander Beke 22 July 1675
Possible secondary sources
Willan, Thomas Stuart, The Inland Trade: Studies in English Internal Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Manchester, 1976)
- See pp. 133-143 on wine trade
- ↑ 'House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 3 February 1652', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 7: 1651-1660 (1802), pp. 79-83, viewed 08/05/12
- ↑ 'Beake (or Vanderbeake), Arnold' in 'Backwell - Byfield', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 21-42, viewed 08/05/12
- ↑ 'Beake, Samuel' in 'Backwell - Byfield', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 21-42, viewed 08/05/12
