Brokers

Analytical Index to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia 1579-1664. Originally published by EJ Francis, London, 1878.

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'Brokers', in Analytical Index to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia 1579-1664, (London, 1878) pp. 40-41. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/index-remembrancia/1579-1664/pp40-41 [accessed 15 April 2024]

Brokers.

I. 462. Letter from Sir Francis Walsingham to the Lord Mayor, recommending that Jacomo de Monti, an Italian, should be admitted to exercise the trade of a Broker of exchange and merchandize within the City.
20th January, 1582.

II. 213. Letter from the Lord Mayor and Aldermen to the Attorney-General, (fn. 1) with respect to a Bill which had been brought into Parliament for reforming the abuses practised by Brokers within the City, and had been referred to a Committee of the Upper House, but no further steps had been taken by them; and soliciting his good offices to assist in bringing the matter to a speedy determination.
1st December, 1601.

II. 214. From the same to the Lord Chief Justice upon the same subject.
Sans date.

IX. 30. Letter from William Morrice (fn. 2) to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, reciting the Act of Common Council of the 19th of June, 20th of James the First, for erecting and establishing the office of Register of all Sales and Pawnes made to retailing Brokers within the City and liberties, and further that the same King, by his Royal prerogative for the prevention of abuses practised by brokers in all other places near the said City, had crected the like office within Westminister and the places adjacent, within two miles of the liberties of the City, and appointed the officers with the approbation of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and recommending for their approval Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Bart., (fn. 3) Barnard Grenville, Esq., (fn. 4) and William Porter, Gent., to the said offices, in the room of Sir Francis Williamson, his son Francis, and John Bedingfield, deceased.
2nd May, 1661.

Footnotes

  • 1. Sir Edward Coke.
  • 2. See note to "Apprentices," Letter 100, Vol. IX.
  • 3. A member of a junior branch of the ancient family of Gerard of Bryn, Lancashire, from whom the Lords Gerard of Gerards Bromley, and also the Gerards, Earls of Macclesfield, were descended. Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Knight and Bart., of Harrow-on-the-Hill, was created a Baronet, March 31st, 1620; he was M.P. for Middlesex in several Parliaments, and was one of Cromwell's Lords. He was buried at Harrow, January 20th, 1669–70. See note of him in Lysons's 'Environs of London,' Vol. ii. p. 578.
  • 4. Second Son of the famous Sir Bevil Grenville, of Stow, Cornwall, cousin of General Monk, escaped from school to join his brother John in the defence of the Scilly Islands, besieged by Admiral Blake 1651. He was attached to the service of Charles the Second during his exile, 1658–60; entrusted by General Monk with despatches to Charles the Second, April 25th, 1660; appointed Groom of the Bedchamber by the King upon his restoration, and Housekeeper of St. James's, 1660; Keeper of the Lodge and Walk of Petersham, in Richmond Park, March 31st, 1663. He married Anne, only daughter and heir of Cuthbert Morley, Esq., of York. M.P. for Launceston, 1689–90, Saltash, 1678–9, 80–81, 88–89, and Plymouth, 1685; died, and was buried in Lambeth Church, 1701. His second son, George, was created Baron Lansdowne, June 1, 1712.
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