Richard Crandley
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| Person | Richard Crandley |
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| First name | Richard |
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| Last name | Crandley |
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| Occupation | Merchant |
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| Training | Not apprentice |
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| Language skills | English language |
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| Res country | England |
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| Act book start page(s) | HCA 3/46 f.9r Annotate |
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| Act book date(s) | Mar 5 1654 |
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| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
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| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Richard Crandley [alt. CRandley; Crandlie] (b.?; d. 1655). London merchant and alderman of London. Frequently described as "Captain Richard Crandley".
Married Margarett [surname unknown] (b. ?; d. May 1654).
Married Elizabeth Whicker (b. 1623; d. >1655), daughter of London merchant John Whicker (b. ?; d.ca. 1661).[1] The widowed Elizabeth went on to marry John Morton, gentleman, in 1658.[2]
May have been brother to Benjamin Crandley (b. ?; d. ca. 1654), with whom he was associated in 1647 and 1648, together with Samuell Vassall, as setters out of the ship the Mayflower and pink the Peter.[3] This Benjamin Crandley may be the same man as "Captain Benjamin Crandley", master of the 515 ton ship the Leopard as listed in March 1647 in the Journals of the House of Lords.[4]
Buried December 12th, 1655 at Saint Olave, Hart street.[5][6]
Appointed in May 1645 by a committee of the Lord Admiral's office to be collector of tenths of prizes seized by private men of war.[7]
TO BE RESEARCHED
- Nature of relationship with London merchant Benjamin Crandley, who is probably the same man as Captain Benjamin Crandley
- Clarify details of Captain Richard Crandley acting as a commissioner of the navy in the 1640s
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
February 1652
Jarvis Couchman gave personal answers in the High Court of Admiralty in February 1652. The libel or allegation to which Jarvis Couchman responded in his personal answers was made by Thomas and William Northey, who claimed to be partowners of the ship the Truelove. Couchman stated that he served as master by the order and appointment of Captaine Richard Crandley and some others, and was unaware that Thomas and William Northey were also partowners. The personal answers are undated, but were probably made on February 14th 1652, or at the latest before February 23rd of the same year.[8]
Jarvis Couchman had been master of the ship the Truelove between December 1643 and January 1648.[9] During this period he made six voyages in the ship. For these six voyages Couchman stated he received "in the whole in case the same can bee receaved the summe of £2995-03-04 d". Of this amount "£2100 whereof this rendent beleeveth is yet oweing from the state for service donne by the said shippe within the foresaid time every sixteenth parte whereof doth amounte unto the summe of £187-03-111/2". The ship, he remembered, was of the burthen of 200 tons "and was worth to bee lett to freight the freighters victualling and paying mens wages the summe of £60 per moneth".[10]
March 1654
An entry was made in the Act Book of the High Court of Admiralty, dated March 5th 1654, concerning the cause of "Vivian against one 4th part of the shipp the Vivien and against Richard Crandley and others". The party principall was named as "Alderman Richard Crandley", to whom an oath was administered to give true answer.[11]
April 1654
Clement East, barber chirurgeon and late mate on board the Mayflower, deposed on April 7th 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty "on behalfe of Captaine Richard Crandley touching the Mayflower". He stated that in the years 1647 and 1648 "Samuel Vassall Richard Crandley Beniamin Crandley and company all Englishmen were lawfull owners and proprietors of the arlate shipp the Mayflower whereof William Jacket was commander, and of the pinke the Peter. The ships had been on a voyage from London to Guinea and then to Barbados, but had subsequently sailed to the Spanish Amercican mainland, where they had been seized.[12]
May 1656
An entry was made in the Act Book of the High Court of Admiralty, dated May 16th, 1654, concerning "George Smith against whatsoever goods wares and merchandizes and summes of money remaining in the hands of Thomas Potter belonging to Richard Crandley and against the said Crandley and al"[13]
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Comment on sources
1640
In January 1640 Nathan Wright and Richard Crandley purchased a large quantity of fish from the London manager of the adventurers to Newfoundland, which they subsequently refused to pay for[14]
1645
"Ordered, That Captain Ric'd Crandley be Collector of all the Tenths of Prizes that shall be seized by Private Men of War; as also Collector of all Seizures, and other Perquisites, that shall be made and become due to the State, in Right of the Admiralty."[15]
1649
C 5/5/117 Short title: Moulton v Crandley. Plaintiffs: Robert Moulton. Defendants: Richard Crandley and others. Subject: money matters, London or Middlesex. Document type: bill, demurrer. 1649
1652
C 9/10/140 Short title: Symonds v Crandlie. Plaintiffs: Matthew Symonds [Simonds]. Defendants: Richard Crandly and John Weekes. Subject: property in Hilsly [Hillesley], Gloucestershire. Document type: bill and answer. 1652
C 9/11/155 Short title: Symonds v Crandlie. Plaintiffs: Matthew Simonds. Defendants: Richard Crandlie [Crandly]. Subject: lands etc not specified, [Gloucestershire]. Document type: answer only. 1652
1653
C 10/18/1 Francis Ashmore v Richard Crandley [Cranley], Gilbert Keate, Thomas Jenenges [Jennings], Edward Bushell, Arthur Juxon, William Elwood and others: money matters, Middx. Bill, answer and schedule. 1653
C 10/19/2 Francis Ashmore v Richard Crandley, Gilbert Keate, Thomas Jennings, Edward Bush and others: money matters. Answer. 1653
1654
"1654. May 23rd. Margarett wife of Capt. Richard Crandley, carried from hence to Stepney : in a valt there"[16]
C 10/30/19 Sir Thomas Abdy baronet v Richard Crandley: Kelvedon, Essex. 1654
PROB 11/233/498 Will of Beniamin Crandley or Crandlye, Merchant of London 25 September 1654
1655
"1655. Dec. 12. Burial. Aldm. Richard Crandley: chancell"[17]
1659
C 3/462/114 Short title: Symonson v Crandley. Plaintiffs: Philip Symonson. Defendants: Richard Crandley. Subject: copyhold held of the manor of Stepney in Ratcliffe, Middlesex. Document type: bill only. 1659
1660
C 5/555/19 Short title: Symondson v Crandley. Plaintiffs: Philip Symondson. Defendants: Richard Crandley. Subject: copyhold held of the manor of Stepney, Middlesex. Document type: answer, schedule. 1660
1666
PROB 4/5350 Crandley, Richard, in the King's service upon sea, widower 1666 13 March [NOT CLEAR THIS RECORD RELATES TO SUBJJECT OF THIS BIOGRAPHY]- ↑ The New England Historical and Geneaological Register, vol, 36 (XXXX, 1881), p.179
- ↑ Notes and Queries, 7th series, vol. 5, Jan-June 1888 (London, 1888), pp.147-148
- ↑ PROB 11/233/498 Will of Beniamin Crandley or Crandlye, Merchant of London 25 September 1654
- ↑ Journals of the House of Lords, vol. 9 (London, XXXX), p.76
- ↑ The New England Historical and Geneaological Register, vol, 36 (XXXX, 1881), p.179
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/registersofstola46stol#page/188/mode/2up W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), The Registers of St. Olave Hart Street, London, 1563-1700 (London, 1918), p.188
- ↑ 'House of Lords Journal Volume 7: 2 May 1645', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 7, 1644 (London, 1767-1830), pp. 346-347. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol7/pp346-347 [accessed 21 September 2017].
- ↑ HCA 13/124 f.150v
- ↑ HCA 13/124 f.150v
- ↑ HCA 13/124 f.151r
- ↑ HCA 3/46 f.9r
- ↑ HCA 13/69 no fol. recto: Folder: 101_06 Image: IMG_1301
- ↑ HCA 3/46 f.617v
- ↑ 'January 25, 1640: Petition of James Marquis of Hamilton, Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Henry Earl of Holland, and the rest of the adventurers to Newfoundland, to the King' in W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), 'America and West Indies: January 1640', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, vol.1: 1574-1660 (1860), pp. 306-308. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=69183 Date accessed: 30 November 2011
- ↑ 'House of Lords Journal Volume 7: 2 May 1645', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 7, 1644 (London, 1767-1830), pp. 346-347. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol7/pp346-347 [accessed 21 September 2017].
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/registersofstola46stol#page/186/mode/2up W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), The Registers of St. Olave Hart Street, London, 1563-1700 (London, 1918), p.186
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/registersofstola46stol#page/188/mode/2up W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), The Registers of St. Olave Hart Street, London, 1563-1700 (London, 1918), p.188
