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The Clothworkers' Company 1500-1688

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Daniel Waldoe

1662[1]

Free by servitude, 1622; Edward Claxton as master.[2]

Master, 1655.[3]

£50 to buy two pieces of plate for the use of the Company.

 

[Christopher] Waller

1575[4]

[Free by servitude, 1546; William May as master].[5]

13s. 4d. to be given to the poor of the Company.

 

Garret Ward

1619[6]

Free by servitude, 1577; William Wilson as master.[7]

A plate engraved with his name.

 

Garret Ward

1619[8]

Free by servitude, 1577; William Wilson as master.[9]

A silver salt, with gilt cover; Brought in by Mr. Barnard cooper, late Quarter Warden, in lieu of £10 granted by Ward to the Company.

 

John Watts

1616[10]

No freedom record.

Small standing cup with a cover all gilt.

 

Richard Westrawe

1624[11]

Made free by servitude, 1582; Arthur Etherington as master.[12]

Basin and ewer to be purchased from twenty pounds granted to the Company; the remaining monies to be granted directly to the Company.

 

John Whitehorne

c.1570[13]

No freedom record.

Master, 1563.[14]

24 gilt spoons weighing 60 ounces; £6 13s. 4d. for a dinner

 

Roger Wilcox

c.1603[15]

Free by servitude, 1562; John Halse as master.[16]

£120 to be lent to three honest men, free of the Company for three years, and after the three years the monies to be returned; two guarantors for the men to deliver sixty sacks of coal to the hall between Michaelmas and Christmas for distribution to the poor.

 

John Willett

1613[17]

Free by servitude, 1595; William Stone as master.[18]

Gave the Company one small standing cup with a cover of silver, all gilt, weighing 21½ ounces for the Company’s good will in accompanying the corpse of his wife to church on the day of her funeral.

 

John Williamson

 1676[19]

Privy Councillor.

Secretary of State.

Gave the Company a present of   wine and plate including one basin and ewer; one standing bowl and cover; one salt; all of them being very fair and large and rich gilt with his and the Company’s coats-of-arms engraved on them.

 

Sir Joseph Williamson

1677[20]

Free by redemption, 1669.[21]

Master, 1676.[22]

One large standard with St. George Cross in the head with the city arms, and that the Company's arms supported by a dragon and a griffin richly gilt with fine gold and wrought upon crimson scarenett.

 

Daniel Wood

1661[23]

No freedom record.

£100 for the poor of the Company.

 

Michael Wyke

1610[24]

No freedom record.

£8 bequeathed to the poorest people of the Company.

 

James Young

1679[25]

Free by servitude, 1619; Hewitt Staper as master.[26]

James Younge's father had formerly left a legacy of £10 in plate to the Company, part of which was lost in the fire; only one small bowl valued at £3 survived; he is making a request to the Court that they would dispose of that small piece of plate and put his father's coat-of-arms on the salver that was lately bought for the Company with the inscription 'Ex Dono Jacobi Younge 1638' and that he will pay the overplus above £10 of the cost of the salver being 40s.

 

[1] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/9, f. 196r, Bequest of Daniel Waldoe, 1 August 1662.

[2] ‘Daniel Waldoe, Freedom, 1622’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14453. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.

[3] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 327.

[4] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, C/B/1/2, f. 194v, Bequest of Waller, 17 May 1575.

[5] ‘Christopher Waller, Freedom, 1546’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14479. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.

[6] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 286r, Bequest of Garret Ward, 19 October 1619.

[7] ‘Garret Ward, Freedom, 1577’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14636. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.

[8] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 290r, Bequest of Garret Ward, 20 April 1619.

[9] ‘Garret Ward, Freedom, 1577’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14636. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.

[10] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 228v, Bequest of John Watts, 28 November 1616.

[11] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/6, f. 17v, Bequest of Richard Westrawe, 16 June 1624.

[12] ‘Richard Westrawe, Freedom, 1582’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14672. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.

[13] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 162,  Bequest of John Whitehorne, undated

[14] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 324

[15] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 144, Bequest of Roger Wicox, undated

[16] ‘Roger Wilcox, Freedom, 1562’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14556. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.

[17] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. f.150v, Bequest of John Willett, 5 July 1613.

[18] ‘John Willett, Freedom, 1595’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14780. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.

[19] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/10, p. 230, Bequest of John Williamson, 30 October 1676.

[20] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/10, p. 469, Bequest of Joseph Williamson, 6 December 1677.

[21] ‘Sir Joseph Williamson, Freedom, 1669’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL4513. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.

[22] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 328.

[23] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive CL/1/4/4, p. 360, Bequest of Daniel Wood, 27 December 1661.

[24] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive,  CL/B/1/5, f. 65v, Bequest of Michael Wyke, 15 October 1610.

[25] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/10, p. 507, Bequest of James Young, July 1679.

[26] ‘James Young, Freedom, 1619’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL15467. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.