MRP: Nicholas Buckeridge

Nicholas Buckeridge

Biographical history

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CSPD, 1665-1666

"...1 5s., drawn on Nicholas Buckeridge, merchant, for supply of victuals to the William, on her homeward journey from St. Helena .." (CSPD, 1665-66, p. 496)

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XoU9AAAAcAAJ&dq=%22nicholas+buckeridge%22++merchant&q=merchant#v=snippet&q=buckeridge&f=false

EEIC, 1660-1663

"[December 11, 1663] A paper from Nicholas Buckeridge is read, and it is resolved that he must give security with another person in 2,000/., that he may take a youth out and home to attend upon him as one of the passengers allowed gratis by charterparty, and that he be allowed to bring home five or six bales of ' paintings of Coromandell ' free of fine, without prejudice to his bond or indenture." (A Court of Committees, December 11, 1663 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 712), CCM 6-63, pp. 366-367)

"Nicholas Cooke is accepted as security in 2,000/. for Nicholas Buckeridge, and John Crandon's father as security in 500/. for his son, who is to go in the Happy Entrance to assist Mr. Buckeridge. A bill of exchange for 238/. 5s., representing the estate of Thomas Codrington, who died in Persia, to be paid for
the maintenance of his son to Nicholas Buckeridge, who took care of the boy ; but as Buckeridge is going abroad, he requests that the money may be paid to the Company and the youth sent out with Captain Bowen to be instructed by him, as the interest of the said money is not sufficient for his support ; to this the Court consents."(A Court of Committees, December 16, 1663 {Court Book,
vol. xxiv, p. 713), CCM 6-63, pp. 366-367)

EFI 1646-1650

"Nicholas Buckeridge and Lawrence Cheny at Mokha to the President and Council at Surat, January 19, 1647 (Factory Records, Surat, vol. cii A, p. 127)", (EFI 1646-50 (Oxford, 1914), p. 72)

- 5 references in total in EFI 1646-50 to BNcholas Buckeridge

Catalogue of Damages

"The ship, the Assada Merchant, being employed by Mr. Nicholas Buckeridge to go to Bantam to take in such goods as the said Buckeridge had prepared there, in Julz 1657, was hindered by a Ship of the Netherland-East-Indie Companz, which was sent expressly from Batavia: And this was not known at London the 10-20 of January1658/9, as will be made to appear."

"nicholas+buckeridge"++merchant&hl=en&sa Anon, A catalogue of the damages for which the English demand reparation from the United-Netherlands. As also a list of the damages, actions, and pretenses for which those of the United-Netherlands demand reparation and satisfaction from the English. Together with the answer of the English, subjoyn'd ... (London, 1664) p. 9

See also p. 7, the Ship Rappa Hanoeck sized bzy Dutch designed for Coast of Guinea from London, September 11th, 1656

See p. 7, Ship the Sarah, of Robert leuellin, merchant, deceased, andHumphrez Beane, and Company, seized on coast of Guinea August 1656

See p. 9, Ship the Anne Piercey belonging to Daniel Fairfax, John Dethick, and Company, seized on voyage to Pantelorea, between Leghorn and Smyrna, seized march 1656

See p. 10, Ship the Lyon Providence of London, belonging to Sir William Thompson, and Company, bound for Guiney, seized on August 1656

See p. 10, Shp called the Brazil-Fregat of London, belonging to John Bushell, Edward Bushell, and Company, seized between Angola and Fernambuck, in year 1657

EFI 1660-1663

Other Secondary sources

"In 1661 Nicholas Buckeridge, the English Agent in Isfahan, overheard "the Vizeer of the Custome house acknowledge to " (Peter Jackson, Laurence Lockart (eds.), The Cambridge History of Iran: The Timurid and Safavid Periods, vol. 6 (Cambridge, 1986), p. 459)

Possible primary sources

Jenson, John R., Journal and Letter Book Nicholas Buckeridge 1651 - 1654 (Minneapolis, 1973)
- Review: I.K. Steele, The University of Western Ontario, Canadian Journal of History, vol. 10, no. 1 (1975), pp. 133-134
- John R Jenson refers to Nicholas Buckeridge as an East Indian merchant, but another academic work refers to him as "an agent of the Assada association"
- See also Alpers, Edward, East Africa and the Indian Ocean (XXXX, 2009)
- See also Pearson, Michaell N., Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern era (Baltimore, 2002)
Pearson, Michael Nazlor, The Indian Ocean (XXX, 2003)
- Braudelian approach to Indian Ocean?

Harrington, James, The Oceana (London, 1700)