Eardley - Eyton

The Rulers of London 1660-1689 A Biographical Record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London. Originally published by London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, London, 1966.

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'Eardley - Eyton', in The Rulers of London 1660-1689 A Biographical Record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London, (London, 1966) pp. 64-67. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-rulers/1660-89/pp64-67 [accessed 21 April 2024]

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EARDLEY, William

Co Co ? Cordwainer, 1660 (1) Watling Street, 1641, St Mary Aldermary (2) DR, appr to Andrew Beech, fr, 1635 Removed from L, 1662 (3) f John Eardley of Eardley, Staff, mar Elizabeth, da of Andrew and Avis Beech (4) Draper (5) ? Nonconformist (6) Lt Col Red Regt, Mar 1660, Commsr for Lieut, 1660

(1) Chivers (2) Johnson, DR, IV, p 142, Boyd 7831 (3) Boyd 7831, Johnson, DR, IV, p 293 (4) Boyd 7831, 3520 (5) Johnson, DR, IV, p 142 (6) Johnson, DR, IV, p 293

EAST, John.

Co Co Portsoken, 1675 ? 'Three Nuns' inn, Without Aldgate, 1663, High Street Prec, 1674, St Botolph Aldgate, 1674 (1) BLACK (2) b St James Clerkenwell, Middx, ? bap 13 Jun 1619 (3) Will PCC 24 Dycer pr, 5 Mar 1674/5 f ? John East of St James Clerkenwell, Middx, m ? Katherine (4) ? Innholder (5) City and London property (2)

(1) Rogers, I, p 151, will (2) Will (3) Will, Reg, St James Clerkenwell (4) Reg, St James Clerkenwell (5) Rogers, I, p 151

EATON, John

Co Co Farringdon Within, 1673 (1) Cheapside, St Vedast, 1654, 1674 (2) VIN, appr, 1637, to Edward Nurse (3) d 11 May 1676, bur St Vedast (4) Will PCC 49 Bence pr, 18 May 1676 f Henry Eaton of Wicken, Lancs, mar 1654, Anne, da of Ralph HEYGATE (5) Milliner (6) Personalty, Jan 1677/8, £363 (7) Capt Green Regt, 1672, member of Hon Artillery Coy

(1) Journ 47, f 253 Farringdon Within from position in committee list (2) CSB, II, 42, Boyd 24965, SBk, Jul-Oct 1674 (3) CSB, II, 42, will, VIN, Appr Pres, 2 May 1637 (4) Boyd 24965 (5) VIN, Appr Pres, 2 May 1637, Boyd 24965, will of Ralph HEYGATE (6) SBk, Jul-Oct 1674 (7) CSB, II, 42

EDMONDSON, Richard

Co Co Bridge, 1689-91 Lower Prec, St Benet Gracechurch, 1688, Richmond, Surr, 1707, 1715 (1) MT, appr, 1658, to Edmond Pledwell of Fleet Bridge (2) d 1715 (3) Will PCC 133 Fagg pr, 28 Jul 1715 f Rev Richard Edmondson of Sparshock, Berks, cleric, mar Anne (4) Linendraper (5) Half share in New River Company Exchequer bonds (3) City property (3) Tory, 1690 (6)

(1) WMBk, Bridge, will, will of Peter VANDEPUT (2) Will, MT, Appr Bindings, XIV, f 324 (3) Will (4) MT, Appr Bindings, XIV, f 324, will (5) Will of William PETT (6) H of L, MS 154 (h), Bodl Lib, Rawlinson MS D 734, f 31d

EDWARDS, James

Co Co Cheap, 1652-60 Ald Candlewick, 10 Jun 1669-11 Jan 1685/6 surrendered (1) St Mary Colechurch, 1652, 1660, Islington, Middx, 1677, St Michael Bassishaw, 1690 (2) GR, appr, 1637, to Ald John Towse, W, 1667, M, 1680 (3) d Feb 1690/1, bur Guild Hall Chapel (4) Will PCC 52 Vere pr, 5 Mar 1690/1 f John Edwards of Garton, Yorks, yeo, mar Elizabeth, da of Anthony Biddulph of St Alban Wood Street, wid of Henry Crisp (5) Merchant Comm EIC, 1651-7, 1659-60, 1665-6, 1667-8, 1675-9, 1680-90/1, Dep Gov, 1676-8 Assis RAC, 1676 (6) £15,500 in EIC stock Lent Charles II £30,000 when in exile Legacies of £3,700 to charities (7) Land Suss, Ireland (8) Kt, 5 Nov 1670 Sheriff, 1669-70, LM, 1678 (1) Col Green Regt, 1680-7, Commsr for Lieut, 1681, 1688 Tory (9) Bro-in-law of Robert BIDDULPH and of Richard CHIVERTON Heir, neph Sir James Edwards of York, Bt Sheriff of Norf, 1695, Gentleman of Privy Chamber (10)

(1) Beaven, I, p 86 (2) VBk, St Mary Colechurch, Directory, 1677 (and living out of City, 1672- Account of the Aldermen, 1672), will (3) Beaven, II, p 104, Boyd 15766, GR, Appr Reg, 1629-66, f 65d (4) Boyd 15766 (5) Boyd 15766, GR, Appr Reg, 1629-66, f 65d, Boyd 10657 (6) Directory, 1677, Beaven, II, p 104, K G Davies, Index (7) K G Davies, "Joint-stock Investment in the later Seventeenth Century", in EcHR (1951), GEC, IV, p 159, will (8) Will For Irish land see HMC, Ormonde, V, p 227 (9) See HMC, Ormonde, V, pp 213, 227 (10) Boyd 10657, 9222, will, GEC, IV, p 159

EDWARDS, William (A)

Co Co Cripplegate Within, 1660-1, 1663, 1666-8 (1) St Mary Magdalen Milk Street, 1660, 1668, ? St Lawrence Jewry, 1670, St Alphage, ? 1660, 1682 (2) SALT (3) d Feb 1681/2 (3) Will PCC 16 Cottle pr, 25 Feb 1681/2

(1) 1661 GHL, MS 10116, Box 1, file 1, 1663 VBk, St Mary Magdalen Milk Street (2) VBk, St Mary Magdalen Milk Street, VBk, St Lawrence Jewry, VBk, St Alphage, PCC, PAB, 1682 (3) Will

EDWARDS, William (B)

Co Co, 1663, 1666-7, Castle Baynard or Queenhith (1) St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, 1663, 1666 (2) Cf William Edwards, draper of Distaff Lane, St Margaret Moses, 1624, 1638, mar (A) 1624, Jane, (B) 1644, Alice Talbot (3)

(1) VBk, St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, which psh lies in these two wards (2) VBk, St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street (3) Boyd 302

EDWIN, Humphrey

Co Co Bishopsgate Within, 1679-80 (1) Ald Tower, 6 Aug 1687-3 Oct 1688 superseded Ald Cheap, 25 Oct 1688-22 Oct 1689 removed to Tower-14 Dec 1707 (d) (2) Great St Helens, 1677, St Helen Bishopsgate, 1668, Austin Friars, 1681, St Peter le Poor, Kensington, Middx, 1708 (3) BS, fr, 1679, M, 1688 Transl to SKIN, 1690, M, 1691 (4) b 1642, at Hereford, d 14 Dec 1701, bur Llanvilhangel Plas, Glam (5) PCC Admon, 17 Feb 1707/8 f William Edwin, twice Mayor of Hereford, m Anne Mansfield, mar 1668, at St Dunstan-in-the-West, Elizabeth, da of Samuel Sambrooke, of Bassishaw, merchant, and Mary Anthony (6) Merchant 1670, ? wooltrade, Colleague of Patience WARD Company promoter, stock broker Comm EIC, 1682-3 (7) RAC stock £300 of original stock, 1671 (8) Kt, 18 Nov 1687 Sheriff, 1688, LM, 1697 (9) Whig, Noncomfornist (10) Commsr for Lieut, 1688 Bro-in-law of Jeremy SAMBROOKE (11) Son Samuel Edwin, Usher of Court of Receipts, mar Catharine Montague, da of 3rd Earl of Manchester (12)

(1) 1679 Beaven, II, p 193 (2) Beaven, I, pp 202, 203 (3) Directory, 1677, Boyd 4270, SP/29/417/114, DNB, Hatton, View of London, p xxxiii (4) Beaven, II, pp 203, 206, Boyd 4270 (5) Boyd 4270 (6) Boyd 4270, DNB (7) DNB, Directory, 1677, Roger North, Lives of the Norths, ed Jessop (1890), II, p 245, CRO, Misc Roll 107, Beaven, II, p 113 (8) PRO, T 70/100 (9) Beaven, II, p 203 (10) SP/29/417/114, DNB (11) Codicil to will of Jeremy SAMBROOKE, not uncle as Beaven says (II, p 192) (12) Boyd 4270, Le Neve, p 415

ELDRIDGE, John

Co Co Billingsgate, 1682 'The Lion' at Billingsgate, pre-1666, 'The Eagle and Crown', Drury Lane, 1667, St Mary at Hill, 1682 (1) FISH, appr, 1647, to William Hanson (2) d 21 Feb 1681/2, bur St Mary at Hill (3) Will PCC 16 Cottle pr, 22 Feb 1681/2 f John Eldridge, PS, of St Sepulchre, Middx, mar Elizabeth (4) Distiller (5) ? Tory ("indifferent, rather good", 1682) (6)

(1) W Token 199 (p 531), W Token 866 (p 866), will (2) Will, Boyd 38468, FISH, Fr and Appr Reg, 1647 (3) Boyd 38468 (4) FISH, Fr and Appr Reg, 1647, will (5) W Token 199 (6) SP/29/418/199

ELLIOTT, Jonathan

Co Co Portsoken, 1676-81, ? 1682, 1683, 1688-92, Dep, 1693 (1) Late of Minories, 1693, St Botolph Aldgate, 1678, Stepney, Middx, 1693 (2) APO (2) b 1642, d 1693 (2) Will PCC 155 Coker pr, 4 Oct 1693 f ? Jonathan Elliott, APO of London, s of Jonathan Elliott of Southwark, mar (A) 1678, Mary Bamford of Henley on Thames, Oxon, wid, (B) Anne (3) Apothecary (4) Exchequer bonds (4) City property (5) Not Tory, 1683 (6)

(1) "not in", 1682 SP/29/418/199, 1688 WIM, Portsoken, (2) Will, Boyd 33980 (3) APO, Co MBk, I, f 341d, Boyd 33980, will (4) Will (5) Will (6) SP/29/435/101

ELLIS, John

Ald Bridge Within, 1651 (1) Co Co Castle Baynard, 1681 St Pauls Church Yard, 1640, 1677, 1681, South Prec, St Gregory, St Julians, Herts, 1667 (2) MT, appr, 1628, to Alexander Bradshaw of St Pauls Church Yard, M, 1656 (3) d at house at Sandwich, Kent, 1682 (4) Will PCC 108 Cottle pr, 14 Sep 1682 f John Ellis of St Albans, Herts (1628), and Chislehurst, Kent, gent, m Elizabeth Chamberlain of Kingscleere, Hants, mar (A) Elizabeth Bridges of-, Lancs, (B) Rebecca, da of Richard Read (5) Merchant, 1677, draper, 1681 (6) Personalty, Feb 1683/4, ? £18,941 (7) Elected Sheriff, 1651 Sheriff of Hants, 1667 (1) Whig (8)

(1) Beaven, II, p 79 (2) MT, Appr Bindings, XII, f 79, Directory, 1677, SP/29/417/114, VBk, St Gregory (3) Beaven, II, p 79, MT, Appr Bindings, IX, f 362 (4) Luttrell, I, p 218, PCC, PAB, 1682 (5) MT, Appr Bindings, IX, f 362, LVP, 1664, p 89 (6) Directory, 1677, SP/29/ 417/114 (7) CSB, IV, 221 (8) SP/29/417/114

ELLIS, Richard.

Co Co Cripplegate Without, 1675-6 (1)

(1) Listed as CULLIS in CRO list 1676 SP/29/387/155

[ELMORE,

- Dep, 1660 (1) ]

(1) CRO list Tobel AYLMER probably intended

ELWES, Jeremiah/Jeremy

Co Co Broad Street, 1688-93 Tokenhouse Yard, 1677, St Margaret Lothbury, 1673, 1695 (1) MER, fr, 1663, by William Barker, esq (2) Will PCC 116 Pyne pr, 26 Jun 1697 f Sir Gervaise Elwes of Woodford, Essex, kt, m Frances, da of Sir Robert Lee, of Billeslee, Warw, Kt (? Sec to Treasury), mar (A) -Lee of London, spin (3) Merchant (4) Tory, 1687, 1690 (5) Da Catherine mar Henry SOAMES (6) Bro Sir Gervaise Elwes of Stoke College, Suff, Bt MP Sudbury, 1677-9, 1679-81, 1700-6, Suffolk, 1679, 1690-8 Bro Sir John Elwes, Kt Da Mary mar (B) Dr Pagett of Doctors' Commons Grandf, John Elwes, and great-grandf, Geoffrey Elwes, both Ald (7)

(1) Directory, 1677, VBk, St Mary Lothbury, CRO, Asses of Marriages, etc 1695, 49/10 (2) H of L, MS 154 (1), MER, Fr List, p 164 (3) Burke, Extinct Barts, p 182, Le Neve, p 149, Boyd 33686 (4) Will, Directory, 1677, Burke, Extinct Barts, p 182 (5) H of L, MS 154 (1), Bodl Lib, Rawlinson MS D 734, f 31d (6) Will of s, Jeremy Elwes PCC 78 Dyer, 1701, Boyd 3360 (7) Will, GEC, III, p 51, Le Neve, p 149, will of s, Jeremy Elwes, Burke, Extinct Barts, p 182

ELWICK, John

Co Co Tower, 1680-1 St Dunstan-in-theEast, 1680, 1685 (1) MER, fr, 1659, by Timothy Elwick (2) d 1685, bur St Dunstan-in-the-East (3) Will PCC 84 Cann pr, 8 Jul and 29 Aug 1685 mar 1659, Judith, da of Thomas Crispe, MT, and Martha Osborne (4) Distiller (5) Son John, in partnership with James PAUL (£1,000 purchase), ? mar Freelove, da of Gregory PAGE (6)

(1) VBk, St Dunstan-in-the-East, will (2) A G B West, The Church and Parish of St Dunstan-in-the-East (1923), MER, Fr List, p 163 (3) Boyd 28466, A G B West, op cit, p 163 (4) Boyd 28466, 38397 (5) Will Boyd 28466 calls him DIST (6) Will, will of Gregory PAGE

ELWOOD, William

Dep Bishopsgate, 1658-60 (1) ? CLO, M, 1663 (2) Will PCC 31 Coke pr, 1669, of London

(1) Chivers (2) Boyd 43660

EMES, Thomas

Co Co Cripplegate Without, 1683, 1689-94, 1701-4, Dep, 1692-3 St Giles Cripplegate LS, appr, 1661, to Margaret Dunham, wid, M, 1705 (1) f Edward Emes of Offenham, Worc, husbandman (2) Soapboiler (3) ? Tory, not Whig, not Tory, 1690

(1) Boyd Index, LS, Appr Reg, 13 Aug 1661 (2) LS, Appr Reg, 13 Aug 1661 (3) CRO, Jones, Trades (Cripplegate Without) (4) H of L, MS 154 (f), SP/29/435/122

EMPSON, William

Co Co Cheap, ? 1681, 1689 (1) Cheapside, 1681, St Mary Colechurch, ChW, 1670, 1689 (2) LS, appr, 1646/7, to John Browne, M, 1690 (3) f Mark Empson of York, grocer (4) Leatherseller (5) Whig ("phanatic", 1681) (6)

(1) ? 1681 SP/29/417/114, 1689 VBk, St Mary Colechurch (2) SP/29/417/112, VBk, St Mary Colechurch (3) Boyd 42742, LS, Appr Reg, 6 Mar 1646/7 (4) LS, Appr Reg, 6 Mar 1646/7 (5) SP/29/417/112 (6) SP/29/417/114

ESSINGTON, Peter.

Co Co Portsoken, 1680-3 'The Rose and Crown', Houndsditch, 1668, St Botolph Aldgate, Wandsworth, Surr, gent, 1700 (1) ? GOLD, fr, 1661, by P (2) Will PCC 137 Gee pr, 25 Jun 1705 ? f Peter Essington, GOLD, of Old Bailey, Farringdon Within, mar (A) Elizabeth, (B) Margaret (3) Coppersmith (4) City property (5) Whig ("naught conventicler", 1682) (4)

(1) W Token 1509 (p 640), will (2) GOLD, Index of Appr (3) (?) f s of James Essington of-, Hants, husbandman (GOLD, Appr Reg, I, f 277, Index of Appr), will (4) SP/29/418/199 (5) Will

EVANS, Evan

Co Co Bridge, 1689 1st Piec London Bridge, 1664, ? Stockwell, Lambeth, Surr, 1681, St Olave, Southwark, 1704 (1) MT, appr, 1653, to James Lambe of Southwark (2) d 1706 (3) Will PCC 123 Eedes pr, 26 Jun 1706 f Rowland Evans of Shrewsbury, Salop, clothworker, mar Saint (2) Salesman (4) London property (3)

(1) WMBk, Bridge, will of Thomas BROMLEY, will (2) Will, MT, Appr Bindings, XIII, f 378 (3) Will (4) CRO, Jones, Trades (Bridge Within)

EVANS, Richard

Co Co Vintry, 1658-60 (1) Ald Bridge Without, 2-25 Jul 1663, disch, F £200 and 20 marks (2) St Michael Royal, 1661 (3) CUT, clerk, 1642-66, fined for M, 1651 (4) Da Anne mar Peter RICH (5)

(1) Chivers (2) Beaven, I, p 66 (3) Boyd 4760 (4) Beaven, I, p 66, Boyd 35158 (5) LVP, 1664, p 116

EVANS, Thomas

Co Co Cripplegate Within, 1665-70, 1673-81 (1) St Alphage, 1665 (2) PS, W, 1662, 1664, M, 1667 (3) b 1613, at Glasbury, Radnor, d 15 Jan 1686/7, bur St Alphage (4) Will PCC 57 Exton pr, 17 May 1687 (5) mar Elizabeth (6) Painter (6) City property (incl Evan's Court, Bassishaw) (6) Tory (7)

(1) 1665-6, VBk, St Alphage (2) VBk, St Alphage (3) Boyd 19535, Citizens of London, 1651, p 23 (4) Will, Citizens of London, 1651, p 23 (5) Also pr in Court of Hustings (6) Will (7) H of L, MS 154 (f), (m)

EVE, Simon

Ald Bassishaw, 27 Aug-8 Oct 1661, disch on grounds of age, being nearly 80 years old, F £200 and 20 marks (1) Fleet Street, near the conduit, 1641, Christ Church, 1661/2 (2) DR, fr, 1636, by R (3) b Ware, Herts (4) Will PCC 97 Laud pr, 7 Jul 1662 Taylor (5) City and Southwark property (4)

(1) Beaven, I, p 19 (2) Johnson, DR, IV, p 142, will (3) Beaven, I, p 19, Boyd 28171 (4) Will (5) Johnson, DR, IV, p 142

EVERARD, Charles

Ald Broad Street, 23-24 Jun 1664, disch, F £520 (1) Co Co Langborn, 1665 St Andrew Undershaft, 1650, 'The Unicorn', Lombard Street, 1652-62, 'The Star', near Exchange Alley, 1662-5, St Mary Woolnoth, 1661 (2) GOLD, appr, 1638, to Thomas VYNER, fr, 1649, PW, 1665 (3) d of plague, 28 Oct 1665, bur St Mary Woolnoth (4) Will PCC 44 Mico, 1666 Admon, 8 Mar 1666/7 f Arthur Everard of Bungay, Suff (1638), and of Gillingham Hall, Norf, gent, m Dorothy Rolph of Hadleigh, Suff, mar 1650, at Hackney, Middx, Mary Atkin (? da of Thomas ATKIN) (5) Goldsmith and banker, in partnership with John Wasson (6) Personalty, Nov 1667, £14,750 deficient (7) Capt White Regt, Oct 1660

(1) Beaven, I, p 176 (2) LVP, 1664, p 61, Heal, London Goldsmiths, p 149 (Cf John PORTMAN at 'The Unicorn'), GHL, MS 10116, Box 1, file 1 (3) Beaven, II, p 96, GOLD, Appr Reg, I, f 347, Index of Appr (4) LVP, 1664, p 61 (5) GOLD, Appr Reg, I, f 347, LVP, 1664, p 61 (6) Heal, London Goldsmiths, p 149, Hilton Price, Signs of Old Lombard Street, p 80 (7) CSB, II, 46b

EYLES, John

Ald Broad Stieet, 12 Aug 1687-3 Oct 1688, superseded on restoration of Charter (1) ? St Helen, Southbroom, Bishops Canning, Wilts (2) HAB (1) b ? Devizes, Wilts, bur 6 Jul 1703, St Helen (3) Will PCC 109 Degg pr, 15 Jul 1703 f John Eyles of Devizes, Wilts, mercer/ woolstapler, m Mary, mar Sarah Cowper of London (4) Merchant EIC South Sea C (5) RAC stock £400 o original stock, 1671 (6) Land Wilts (7) Kt, 15 Aug 1687 (8) MP Devizes, 1679-81, contested, 1681, 1689 (8) Baptist (9) Bro of Ald Sir Francis Eyles Da Sarah mar Joseph Haskins-Styles, MP Sudbury, 1701-3 Da Elizabeth mar James Montague, MP Chippenham, 1702-5, 1708-10 Uncle of Sir John Eyles, Bt (LM, 1726), MP Chippenham, 1713-27, who mar his cousin Mary Haskins-Styles All Whigs Da Mary mar Sir John Smith, Bt, s of Sir John SMITH (10)

(1) Beaven, I, p 77 (2) Boyd 15798, Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine, XXXII, p 260, will (3) Wiltshire Notes and Queries, I, p 391, Boyd 15798 (4) Wiltshire Notes and Queries, I, p 391, GEC, V, p 22, Boyd 15798 (5) Walcott, MPs Tempus Anne (6) PRO, T 70/100 (7) Will (8) Beaven, II, p 114 (9) Will, Luttrell, I, p 411 (10) Beaven, II, p 193, Walcott, MPs Tempus Anne, will, Boyd 15798, GEC, V, p 22, LVP, 1664, p 109

EYRE, Thomas.

Co Co Vintry, 1681-3, 1688, Dep, 1687, 1689-1709 (1) St James Garlickhith, 1678, 1687, St Thomas, Southwark, 1709 (2) TCH (3) d 1709 (3) Will PCC 219 Lane pr, 26 Oct 1709 mar Mary (3) City property (3) Whig ("naught, goes sometimes to Church, but more to Conventicles", 1682) (4) (1) Dep, 1687 VBk, St James Garlickhith (2) VBk, St James Garlickhith, PCC, PAB, 1709 (3) Will (4) SP/29/ 418/199

EYTON, James

Co Co Bridge, 1674-83, 1689-93 Upper Prec, New Fish Street, 1688, St Margaret New Fish Street, Cheapside, 1706 (1) LS, appr, 1657/8, to Francis WARNER, M, 1702 (2) b 1644, living, 1710 (3) f Kendrick Eyton of Eyton, Denbigh, esq (4) mar (A) 1670, Jane Baldwin of St Antholin, (B) 1674, Elizabeth, da of Thomas CANHAM (5) Linendraper, merchant (5) Kt, 29 Oct 1702 (6) Whig, 1683 (7)

(1) WMBk, Bridge, will of Edward WALDO (2) Boyd 21155, LS, Appr Reg, 1 Mar 1657/8 (3) Boyd 21155 (4) LS, Appr Reg, 1 Mar 1657/8 Father was later Kt, and prothonotary and Clerk of the Crown for Denbigh and Montgom (Cal S P Dom, 1682, p 273) (5) Boyd 21155, will of Thomas CANHAM (6) Le Neve, p 481, W H Black, A history of the Antiquities of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers of the City of London (1871), p 68 (7) SP/29/ 435/100