Tools: PROB 11/434/167 Will of Panus Calander of Saint Lawrence Poultrey, 24 September 1696

PROB 11/434/167 Will of Panus Calander, Armenian Merchant of Saint Lawrence Poultrey, City of London 24 September 1696

(PROB 11/434 Bond 176–219 Will of Panus Calander, Armenian Merchant of Saint Lawrence Poultrey, City of London 24 September 1696)

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Transcription

Tm Panus Calender (in LH margin at top)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Panus Calander Armenian Merchant at present liveing in London in the parish of S:t Lawrence Powntney being sick and weake in body but thanks be to God of sound and perfect mind & memory doe make and declare my last Will & testament in manner following

FFIRST I recomend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the Earth to be decently buried And as for my Estate I dispose thereeof as followeth

FFIRST I will that all my debts and funerall charges be first paid

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I give to the Hospitall called S:t Thomas Hospitall in Southwarke Three Hundred pounds

ITEM I doe give to my Servant Sxxxx Ventura ffifty pounds to be paid to him over and above what I owe him

ITEM I give to my maid Betty fforty shillings besides her wages

ITEM I give to Joseph Munday fforty shillings

ITEM I doe give and bequeath All the rest and residue of my Estate both reall and personall in England and elsewhere to my three Sonns Avitie, Aguaperi, & Calander de Calander to bee equally devided amongst them, And I doe nominate for Executors of this my Will my good ffreind M:r Samuel Ongley Sen:r of London Merchant and William Barnesley of London Packer and I give to them Sixty pounds each Revoking all former Wills by mee made In Witnes whereof I have hereunto out my hand and seale the Nine and twentieth day of August one thousand six hundred ninety six the subscription of Panus Calander

Signed Sealed delivered published and declared by the Testator to be his last Will and Testament in the p:rsence of us who have signed in the presence of the said Testator Richard Babington John Paratt Anthony Wright 1696

PROBATUM fuit hunnoi Testamente apud London Coram venti Vivo Thoma Lane Legum Dottore Surrogate venblio et equerri Vivi Pud Richard Rainer Militis Legum etiam Dottorie Curia Praerogativa Cantuariensio Munster Custodis Sive Commissarii legitime Constituti Viresimo Quarto die mensis Septembris Anno Pud Millimo Sexresimo Monagemo Sevro Juramentis Samuel Ongley et Willimi Barnsesley Extarum indicter Testamento nominat Tui Comissa fuit Administratio omnium Administrand eadem Ads:ta Dei Evangelia Jurati Eg:

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People

People mentioned by testator:

William Barnesley

William Barnesley is identified as a packer by the testator. Joint executor of Panus Calender's will.

My three Sonns Avitie, Aguaperi, & Calander de Calander

Samuel Ongley Senior

Mr Samuel Ongley Senior i sidentifed as freind and merchant of London by testator. Joint executor of Panus Calender's will.

Other people of possible relevance:

Edmond Callender

"Edmond Callender, in Tower Street"

Jacob Callender, 1664/65

"Jonne Belly the Armenian is arrived and gone for Persia, with our letters for settling him in the wine office according to your order. Jacob Callender the Armenian, whom you advise to have paid you there for his passage and 2 barrells amber, we have dismissed without any further demands."

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Places

Places mentioned by testator:

Parish of Saint Lawrence Powntney

SEE FamilySearch profile: St Mary Abchurch with St Lawrence Pountney

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials are indexed on FamilySearch

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Possible primary sources

TNA

PROB 11/434 Bond 176–219 Will of Panus Calander, Armenian Merchant of Saint Lawrence Poultrey, City of London 24 September 1696

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Possible secondary sources

Printed

Sebouh Aslanian, 'Trade Diaspora versus Colonial State: Armenian Merchants, the East India Company and the High Court of Admiralty in London, 1748-1752,' Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 13, 1 (2006): 37-100

Sebouh Aslanian, From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa (Berkeley: UC Press, 2011)

SEE: Comment by Sebouh Aslanian on 'Language and identity', The Shipping News blog, Nov. 8, 2013

Vahé Baladouni, Margaret Makepeace, eds. Armenian Merchants of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: English East India Company Sources (Philadelphia, 1998)

- Reviewed by Theophilus C. Prousis (Department of History, University of North Florida, Jacksonville), pub. on H-Russia (June, 2001), titled: 'Armenian Diaspora Merchants in New Julfa'.

- Theophilus C. Proussis review mentions:

• • Philip D. Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 179-206, on Armenian overland commercial carriers between Europe and East Asia in the seventeenth century
  • Bruce Masters, The Origins of Western Economic Dominance in the Middle East: Mercantilism and the Islamic Economy in Aleppo, 1600-1750 (New York: New York University Press, 1988),pp. 23-36, 82-88, on the importance of Armenian traders in Ottoman Aleppo's silk-cloth exchange in the seventeenth century.

- Reviewed by Edmund Harris. Armenian Merchants of the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: English East India Company Sources by Vahé Baladouni. Edmund Herzig, Iranian Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, Iran Facing the New Century (Mar., 2005), pp. 181-185

Vered Amit Talai, Vered Amit, https://sites.google.com/site/collesseum/armenians (Manchester, 1989)
- Sociological analysis of London Armenians in C20th, but with some historical context

Web

'Travellers' Accounts: Journeys to the Armenian Highlands and Neighboring Lands in the 17th through early 20th centuries', resource list by Dr. Robert G. Bedrosian, last updated August 8, 2013

Brian E. Colless, MERCHANTS OF THE PEERLESS PEARL: ARMENIANS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA, web resources