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| Name |
Gresham, Susan |
| Born |
Of Walsingham, Norfolk, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Aft 1520 |
England |
| Person ID |
I06624 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
19 May 2015 |
| Father |
Gresham, William, b. Of Walsingham, Norfolk, England , d. Bef 1500 |
| Mother |
Porter, Agnes, b. Of Holkam, Norfolk, England , d. Abt 1520, Of Little Walsingham, Norfolk, England |
| Family ID |
F01945 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- no title] MS.Eng.hist./c.477/fols.174-5 1601 May 7 These documents are held at Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts
Contents:
An assurance policy secured on the life of the Countess of Huntingdon for the next six months for £50 lent to William Heyricke by Timothie Batherst and Edmund Poshull [Pershall]. Made in the Office of Assurance in the Royal Exchange, London; registered by Richard Candeler, May 12.
The Home counties magazine VOL. V. (1903).
RICHARD CANDLER, citizen and mercer of London, was son of Simon Candler of Little Walsingham, Norfolk, by his first wife, and nephew to Richard Candeler of Tottenham (vide "Home Counties Magazine," Vol. II., p. 301). In his will proved in the P. C. C. loth March, 1614-15, he divides his property into three parts, (i) to his wife; (2) to his son Ferdinando ; (3) " being one unto myself." This division was in accordance with an old custom of the City of London, the third part being called the " Testator's share " and is so referred to in the will of a John Chandler, citizen and draper, 1686. Richard Candler leaves 50 to his loving aunt Elizabeth Candeler, the widow of Richard Candeler of Tottenham, and 200 to their daughter his kinswoman the Lady Ann Heybourne, whose husband Sir Ferdinando Heybourne he appoints executor, and leaves him jioo " for his paynes and fatherlye kindness to me." It is evident that he named his son Ferdinando after him. The will also refers to his wife's mother Mrs. Anne Smythe, to his mother-in-law, " which was my father's wife," and to his half sisters Margaret Candler and Sara Candler, and states that he dwelt at the time of his death in the parish of St. Bartholomew, and that he was born at Little Walsingham in Norfolk. He leaves ^2 to the poor of St. Bartholomew and Tottenham, and 20 to the parish of Little Walsingham : to Christ's Hospital jio, the compters in the Poultry and Wood Street 2 each, and the same to the prison of Ludgate, " for release of poore prisoners." The ministers and churchwardens who distribute the dole at his burial are to have ten shillings each for their pains, and forty gowns are to be provided for the same number of poor men to bring him to his grave, but the place of his burial he leaves to the discretion of his executor. His son Ferdinando does not receive his share until he attains the age of twenty-one, and in the event of him dying before then, the residue of his property is to be divided into four shares, (i) to his executor and his heirs; (2) "to Lady Heybourne and her heirs; (3) to his brother-in-law Richard Kydgedale and Susan his wife ; and (4) to his brother-in-law Richard Pulford and Ann his wife. He was the donor of the silver cup to the Company of Mercers, which Sir John Watney refers to in his account of " The Hospital of S. Thomas of Aeon and the Mercers Company's Plate," p. 203. The will says : " to the Company of Mercers London, one gilt cuppe of silver with my name and arms engraved thereon, value j 20 -" Sir John Watney states that there were two mercers of this name, one apprenticed to Sir Thomas Gresham and admitted in 1565, and the other apprenticed to one of the same name and ad- mitted in 1600, but I think there must have 'been three, viz., Richard Candeler, who succeeded John Elliot a few years after 1552 as London Factor to Sir Thomas [Burgon's "Life of Sir Thos. Gresham"], Richard Candeler of Tottenham, born 1541, and Richard Candeler of St. Bartholomews. Elizabeth, widow of Richard Candeler of Tottenham, died in 1622, and her will was proved in the P. C. C. that year. In it she refers to the tomb in Tottenham Parish Church, " which I did erect at my charges." Three score of poor women are to attend her funeral and have dresses for so doing, ana if her servants choose also to attend they are to be similarly clothed. She leaves legacies to Ann Baker, wife of an apothecary and to her cousin Baker, brother of said Ann. To children of Robert Baker deceased, and to Robert Baker, probably son of the latter, her bed and hangings, the pictures over her chimney, and a silver warming pan of above fifty ounces. Maud Kewby, wife of a " glassman " in the Poultry, her kins- woman Ann Locke, Mr. Rodwell, "preecher of the Word at Tottenham," and Robert Barefoot, are all remembered. Her cousin, Thomas Locke of Merton Abbey receives the handsome legacy of 400 and five pieces of tapestry, together with two pieces of bor- dering under a window and five curtains of purple and yellow taffita. There are gifts to the poor of Tottenham and Hackney.
2Oth December, 1563 "Account of silver and gold bullion de- livered by John Bull Comptroller of the Mint to Richard Candeler, factor to Sir Thomas Gresham." Sir Thomas writing to Sir William Cecil, on April i8th, I56O, 1 quoted by Burgon, says : " I have commanded my factor Candeller to give his attendance upon you every morning, to know your pleasure whether you will have anything [said] unto me .... Sir, as I have commanded him to be with you by vi. of the clocke in the morning, every morning, so I shall most numbly desyre you that he may know your present answer ; for that I have no man ells to do my business and to kepe Lombard Streat." Again, on June 22nd, 1560, in a letter to Sir T. Parry : " My factor Richard Candeller writes me that my lorde of Hundsdone said unto hym that " a dyd moche marvill that the Queene's majestie's harnes came none other ways home, wherein I had moche disappointed her highness and that he thought I hade sold her harneys to the marchaunts in London, for leuccar and gayen."
I cannot discover the date of the death of Sir Thomas Gresham's factor, but I think it was about 1570. The name occurs later in the State Papers, 1576: "Answer of Richard Candeler to a bill of fees set down by certain Aldermen and citizens appointed by Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Lord Mayor of London, respecting his office of making and registering assurances and in August, 1604, grant is made to Christopher Heyburn and Richard Candeler in reversion after Ferdinando Richardson of the office of making and registering assurances on ships and merchantdize in London." But I think this office was held first by the Richard Candeler of Tottenham, and passed to his son-in-law, Sir Ferdinando Heyborne, who assumed the additional surname of Richardson, and that a grant of it was made in 1604 to Christopher Heyborne and to Richard, nephew of Richard Candeler of Tottenham, of this office in reversion after Sir Ferdinando. The number of gowns provided for poor men and women in the wills of Richard Candler, 1614, and Elizabeth Candeler, 1622, suggests to me the ages of the testators at the dates when they made their wills.
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