John Petyngar
1566[1]
No freedom record.
Tenements, lands and the tennis court, purchased by Petyngar from the Company to be returned.
Sir Thomas Rowe
1567[2]
No freedom record.
£100 to be lent to ten poor honest householders.
John Toulouse
1548[3]
No freedom record.
Master, 1538.[4]
Alderman, Tower Ward, 1538-47; Bishopsgate, 1542-48.[5]
£30 to the building of Clothworkers’ Hall; £36 13s 4d to the poor of the Company; £101 13s 4d for entertainment at the hall on the day of his burial; monies from the sale of his leases to be distributed to the poor of the Company.[6]
Jernash Thurland
1580[7]
Free by servitude, 1568; Edward Osborne as master.[8]
£3 for his burial.
Thomas Roo
1569[9]
No freedom record.
£100 to the Company for the relief of the poor members.[10]
Peter Scales
1585[11]
Free by servitude, 1574; Richard Sleyford as master.[12]
£100 given for loans to two young men of the Company; £6 13s 4d to the livery for a dinner.
William Sima
1670[13]
No freedom record.
Two silver salts. He was ordered to provide them according to an order for the use of the yeomanry table. Weighed 33 ounces, came to £9 15s. 6d.
John Southall
1590[14]
No freedom record.
£40 to be lent to four young men of the Company.
Richard Staper
1590[15]
Free by patrimony, 1558.[16]
Master, 1590.[17]
Alderman, Aldersgate ward, 1594.[18]
Gave the Company an interest in a feoffment of lands with Ormeston.
Maurice Pickering
1606[19]
No freedom record.
Silver standing cup with a cover of gilt; weighing 22¾ ounces.
James Stoddard
1609[20]
No freedom record.
£100 to be delivered out to certain young men of the Company for three years.
Richard Radclyff
1609[21]
No freedom record.
£20 to be distributed to poor householders at 40s per annum.
William Trosher
1610[22]
Free by servitude, 1586; Henry Hewett as master.[23]
A silver cup with gilt cover, weighing 9 ounces to be given in appreciation of their going to the church with his wife at her funeral.
Sir William Stone
1610[24]
Free by servitude, 1580; Thomas Skynner as master.[25]
Master, 1606.[26]
£50 to be delivered to two young men of the Company for three years, with sureties in place, and continuing for three years forever.
William Pardget
1613[27]
No freedom record.
Standing cup with a cover of silver, all gilt, presented to the Master & Wardens by Mr. Johnson in Fleet St. Merchant Taylor, a gift of the right honorable William Lord Pardget admitted a brother of the society, as a token and remembrance of his honours love and good affection that he beareth to the Company.
Hugh Parry
1614[28]
No freedom record.
£20 to be used to buy silver plate to serve the Company.
Mrs. Philpot
1616[29]
No freedom record.
Silver Bowl, white; gift in regard of the good will of the Company in accompanying the corpse of her late husband Thomas, one of the livery, to church at his funeral.
Margery Pilsworth
1619[30]
No freedom record.
Pair of gilt silver salt; in lieu of £10 which Margery Pilsworth was given by this Company for a dinner.
Thomas Swayne
1619[31]
No freedom record.
One silver salt all gilt; weighing 19 ounces, lacking ½ a ¼ of the gift of Swayne promised in his last will, brought in by his wife Elizabeth, who argued as it was greater value than that promised by Thomas in his will that she would have some repayment which was agreed, given 26s. 8d.
John Shield
1619[32]
No freedom record.
£5 for two lesser salts to be bought and used by the Company.
John Trehorne
1619[33]
No freedom record.
A standing cup with a cover, all gilt; weighting 30 ounces & 12d.
John Shield
1619[34]
No freedom record.
A french bowl of silver white; brought by his executors, value of £6 18d.
John Shield
1619[35]
No freedom record.
£3 to be distributed to the poor of the Company.
Edmond Tennant
1621[36]
Free by servitude, 1614; Milon Corney as master.[37]
Silver bowl white for beer; in respect of love and favour.
Sir Thomas Trevor and Dame Frances Trevor
1622[38]
No freedom record.
£100 to the relief of poor women of the Company at the rate of £6 a year to six poor women; the recipients to be selected by the Master and Wardens of the Clothworkers’ Company.
James Stoddard
1630[39]
No freedom record.
£100 let to three young men, free of the Company for three years to set up their businesses.
Mrs. Parry
1635[40]
No freedom record.
£4 granted that the Master and wardens must accompany her body to the grave at the time of her burial and the money be placed in the poor box for the relief of the poor as occasion shall require.
John Rashleigh
1638[41]
No freedom record.
£800 to be granted to his cousin, Mary Rashleigh on her marriage; if she should die before her marriage, the money is to be given to his brother William; if he should die, then the money should be granted to the Clothworkers’ Company to purchase lands, the rents from which would be given to the poor.
Nicholas Salby
1640[42]
No freedom record.
20 marks to buy a gilt silver plate.
10s. to 80 poor men for black gowns to attend his funeral; thirty Clothworkers to receive the residue of his monies at the discretion of his executors.
William Pennoyer
1670[43]
Free by servitude, 1627; Thomas Gittins as master.[44]
Master, 1657.[45]
Alderman, 1657, Billingsgate Ward.[46]
£10 per annum to be paid to ten of the oldest and most poor clothworkers and their widows (to five men and five women) from rents he has left in trust.
Sir William Peake
1673[47]
Free by servitude, 1629; Christopher Gaylor as master.[48]
Master, 1660.[49]
Alderman, Billingsgate ward, 1659.[50]
£100 to pay 10s to ten poor men of the Company on each feast day of St. Michael the Archangel.
Samuel Pepys
1677[51]
No freedom record.
Master, 1677.[52]
Presented the Company with a long standard having the Company's arms with supporters and their arms and the dragon supporting the city arms the trail very richly gilt with fine gold; one fair banner of his own particular coat-of-arms, both amounting to £26 10s.
Sir John Robinson
1679[53]
Three possible freedom dates: 1645, by servitude with Henry Browne as master; 1652, free by servitude with Henry Jones as master; 1653, free by servitude with Henry Flatman as master.[54]
Master, 1656.[55]
Robinson gave the Company £100 for the additional maintenance of the almswomen at Whitefriars; this is in addition to £200 previously given by him under his will.
Thomas Swayne
1619[56]
No freedom record.
One silver salt all gilt; weighing 19 ounces, lacking ½ a ¼ of the gift of Swayne promised in his last will, brought in by his wife Elizabeth, who argued as it was greater value than that promised by Thomas in his will that she would have some repayment which was agreed, given 26s. 8d.
[1] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 105-106, Bequest of John Petyngar, 20 July 1566.
[2] Girtin, The Golden Ram, Bequest of Sir Thomas Rowe, p. 306.
[3] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 36, .Bequest of John Toulouse, 10 August 1548.
[4] T. Girtin, The Golden Ram: a narrative history of the Clothworkers’ Company, 1528-1958 (London, 1958), p. 323.
[5] A. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London, Vol. II, (London, 1913),p. 30
[6] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 36, .Bequest of John Toulouse, 10 August 1548.
[7] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/2, f. 238v, Bequest of Jernash Thurlande, 11 April 1580.
[8] ‘Jernash Thurland, Freedom, 1568’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14029. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[9] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/2, f. 128v, Bequest of Thomas Roo, 4 March 1569.
[10] Ibid.
[11] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 165, Bequest of Peter Scales, 13 January 1585
[12] ‘Peter Scales, Freedom, 1574’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL13258. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[13] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/10, p. 252, Bequest of William Sima, 18 October 1670.
[14] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 306.
[15] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 166, Bequest of Richard Staper, undated.
[16] ‘Richard Staper, Freedom, 1558’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL13185. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[17] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 325.
[18] Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London, Vol. II, p. 45.
[19]The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/4, f. 5v, Bequest of Maurice Pickering, 12 March 1606.
[20] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 43r, Bequest of James Stoddard, 26 April 1609.
[21] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 43v, Bequest of Richard Radclyff, 26 April 1609.
[22] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 52v, Bequest of William Trosher, 16 January 1610.
[23] ‘William Trosher, Freedom, 1586’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14094. Date accessed: 17 June 2013. The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/C/3/1/2, Register of Freedoms, 1545-1661, f. 126v, Livery Companies’ Membership Records Project (http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/..., 15 August 2011).
[24] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 68r, Bequest of William Stone, 19 November 1610.
[25] ‘Sir William Stone, Freedom, 1580’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL13286. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[26] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 325,
[27] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 142v, Bequest of William Pardget, 14 April 1613.
[28] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 166v, Bequest of Hugh Parry, 9 March 1614.
[29] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 223r, Bequest of Mrs. Philpot, 30 July 1616.
[30] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 280r, Bequest of Margery Pilsworth, 7 May 1619.
[31] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 286r, Bequest of Thomas Swayne, 19 October 1619.
[32] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 286v, Bequest of John Shield, 19 October 1619.
[33] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 287r, Bequest of John Trehorne, 5 November 1619.
[34] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 288v, Bequest of John Shield, 9 November 1619.
[35] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 288v, Bequest of John Shield, 9 November 1619.
[36] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/4, f. 242v, Bequest of Edmond Tennant, 17 July 1621.
[37] ‘Edmond Tennant, Freedom, 1614’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL14195. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[38] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/4, f. 260v, Bequest of Sir Thomas and Dame Frances Trevor, 12 November 1622.
[39] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/6, f. 101r, Bequest of James Stoddard, 21 July 1630.
[40] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/6, f. 159v, Bequest of Mrs. Parry, 21 October 1635.
[41] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 330, Bequest of John Rashleigh, 17 September 1638
[42] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, B/1/4/4, p. 352, Bequest of Nicholas Salby, 30 January 1640.
[43] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, Bequest of William Pennoyer, p. 457.
[44] ‘William Pennoyer, Freedom, 1627’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL12390. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[45] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 327.
[46] Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London, Vol. II, p. 86
[47] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 459, Bequest of Sir William Peake, 2 October 1673.
[48] ‘William Peake, Freedom, 1629’Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL12410. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[49] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 327.
[50] Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London, Vol. II, p. 89.
[51] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/10, p. 469, Bequest of Samuel Pepys, 6 December 1677.
[52] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 328.
[53] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL CL/B/1/10, p. 528, Bequest of John Robinson, 27 November 1679.
[54] ‘Sir John Robinson, Freedom, 1645’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL13064. Date accessed: 17 June 2013; Sir John Robinson, Freedom, 1653’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL13103. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[55] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 327.
[56] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 286r, Bequest of Thomas Swayne, 19 October 1619.