Richard Farrington
1613[1]
Free by servitude, 1570. Edward Nelson as master.[2]
Master, 1603.[3]
Alderman, Aldgate Ward, 1607-10.[4]
Gave £60 to buy lands for the benefit of the poor of the Company.[5]
Thomas Ferris
c.1630[6]
No freedom record.
£100 to the Company to purchase lands with an annual value of £5; 50s to be distributed to the poor of the Company; 50s to a scholar at Oxford and £10 for plate.
? Fleetwood
1561[7]
No freedom record.
Indenture made between the Company and the executioners of the said Fleetwood, the effect was that they would deliver & convey to this house a lease of a tenement in Fleet Street for the term of 190 years, which should come after the death of Fleetwood's widow & not before. The rent whereof to be £5 and not to take above, not at no time to take any income. There should be paid yearly out of the same 26s. 8d. to the poor in Lancashire. Also to the poor in Fleet Street 26s. 8d. to the Lady of Kent’s almswomen 14s. yearly. So that the house & company for the yearly rent of 32s. 8d. should stand bound in £200 for the performance of the said legacies. And also to keep & maintain the reparations which in process of time would be more than double the gain thereof. Wherefore it is agreed that there shall be humble thanks given to the said executioners for their good wills and they to be certified that the Company will not stand bound in so great a sum for so little gain.[8]
Sir Ralph Freeman
1634.[9]
Free by servitude, 1589; William Hewett as master.[10]
Master, 1620.[11]
Established a trust fund of £450 for poor relief, which included £10 per annum for the relief of poor Clothworkers.
Thomas Galliley
1652[12]
Free by redemption, 1634.[13]
£300 to the Company on condition that they pay Thomas Galliely and his wife, Phillipp, or the survivor them or their assignes an annual annuity of £24 during their lives. If Thomas and Phillipp both die, an annual annuity of £20 to be paid to their daughter, Philippa, wife of Thomas Wadesworth.
William Gamble
1630[14]
No freedom record.
£12 given as a thank you to the Company in respect of accompanying the body of Thomas Gamble to his burial.
Thomas Glascock
1618[15]
Free by servitude, 1601; Thomas Sayinge as master.[16]
Fair latell gilt without a cover.
Thomas Greene
1680[17]
The freedom registers of the Clothworkers’ Company record a Thomas Greene gaining his freedom by servitude in 1630, under Thome Normecott as master. Another John Heath was made free by servitude in 1649, under Thome Cheldon as master.[18]
£50 to buy two gilt salts.
Daniel Hall
1626[19]
Free by servitude, 1588; Richard Sleyforde as master.[20]
40s to be distributed to twenty widows of the Company at the Company’s discretion.
John Halse
1574[21]
No freedom record.
Master, 1546.[22]
A basin and ewer.
Money for a dinner after his death.
£100 to be given to four young men of the Company for three years.[23]
John Hammer
1617[24]
Free by servitude, 1576; Edward Senyor as master.[25]
Small standing cup with a cover all gilt; 14½ ounces, presented by his executor Richard Hammer.
Ralph Hamer
Undated[26]
No freedom record.
£100 to be lent to four young men of the Company.
George Hanger
1640.[27]
Several freemen with the name ‘George Hanger’ are noted in the Clothworkers’ Company freedom lists. The most likely freedom is for a George Hanger, made free by patrimony in 1609.[28]
A standing gilt cup with a cover weighing 15 ounces ½ 1/8 with the inscription about the brim 'The guift of Geo: Hanger Clothier 1639', because he paid just £40 for passing the two wardens place.[29]
John Heath
1635[30]
The freedom registers of the Clothworkers’ Company record a John Heath gaining his freedom by servitude in 1594, under William Smith as master. Another John Heath was made free in 1610, under William Harris as master.[31]
£1000 to be employed after his death so that the sum of £50 may be disbursed towards the maintenance and relief of the poor and ancient members of the Company; from this money the Company are also to pay Heath towards his maintenance and livelihood the sum of £8 per annum by even portions.
William Hewett
1562[32]
No freedom record.
Master, 1543.[33]
Alderman, Candlewick Ward, 1553.[34]
Hewett promised to give the Court as much hard stone as was necessary to build the wharf at the Common Stairs.[35]
William Hewet
1599[36]
No freedom record.
Master, 1543.[37]
Alderman, 1550-3, Vintry Ward; 1553-67, Candlewick Ward.[38]
£300 to be given to the Company within the next two years to make the following annual payments: £5 to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; £5 to Christ’s Hospital and £5 to St. Thomas’ Hospital; £5 to a poor honest scholar at Cambridge.
William Hewett
1620[39]
Two possible freedom dates: free by patrimony, 1576 and free by servitude, 1578, with Thomas Hewett as master.[40]
£5 a year for a scholar at Cambridge.
John Heydon
1573[41]
No freedom record.
£100 to be delivered to two young men of the Company trading overseas for four years, with sufficient sureties.
Sir Rowland Heyward
1569[42]
No freedom record.
Master, 1559.[43]
Offered £200 to the house on condition that the Company shall pay £12 per annum towards the maintenance of a free school to be erected by the said Heyward.
Robert Hilson
1585[44]
No freedom record.
Robert Hitchins
1680[45]
Possibly free by servitude 1600; John Totle as master.[46]
£1500 to purchase an estate that would maintain a number of annuities. These included gifts of clothing to twenty poor men and twenty poor women of fifty years of age; 20s. to a minister for a sermon; monies to the Company for the clerk and beadle; surplus money to be divided amongst the poor.
£26 13s 4d to be given to the poor of Great Stanmore.
Ann Hodges
1638[47]
No freedom record.
£40 to the poor of the Company.
John Hodges
1615[48]
Free by servitude, 1584, William Hodges as master.[49]
One standing cup with a gilt cover weighing 43¾ ounces; Also £10 money to be distributed to the Company poor.
William Hodges
1633[50]
Two possible freedom dates: free by servitude, 1587; John Boothe as master; free by servitude, 1620, William Nicholl as master.[51]
Master, 1636.[52]
£20 to be distributed among the Company at the discretion of the Master, Wardens and Assistants’.
£10 to the relief of the poor men of the Company.
John Humfrey
1625[53]
Made free by servitude, 1558; Robert Christopher as Master.[54]
Clerk of the Clothworkers’ Company.[55]
£30 to be distributed to the Company poor over six years.
Thomas Hussey
1622[56]
Made free by servitude, 1565; Ralph Adamson as master.[57]
Master, 1600.[58]
£100 to the relief of poor Artizan Clothworkers at the rate of £6 per year.
Thomas Hussey
1623[59]
Made free by servitude, 1565; Ralph Adamson as master.[60]
Master, 1600.[61]
A silver cup with a gilt cover.
Ann Huxley
1647[62]
No freedom record.
20 marks towards a dinner for the wardens, assistants and livery of the Company to accompany her corpse to the grave.
Also a silver standing cup, with a cover of silver, weighing 35 ounces 19d.
Augustine Hynde
1556[63]
No freedom record.
Master, 1545.
Alderman .[64]
£100 for a loan scheme to be established to give £25 to four men of the Company, who would put guarantors for the money in place. Hynde selected four men to be the first recipients.[65]
Augustine Hynde
1560[66]
No freedom record.
Master, 1545.
Alderman .[67]
£100 to be given to three young men of the Company.[68]
Mrs. Hynde
1569[69]
No freedom record.
£20 to be lent to four young men of the Company.
Alexander Ivery
1588[70]
Free by servitude, 1572; Robert Howse as master.[71]
£100 for the maintenance and relief of the Company.[72]
Dame Elizabeth Lyon
1556[73]
No freedom record.
£40 to be lent to four young men; free except for 10s. allowed for drinking.[74]
Joseph Jackson
1627[75]
Free by servitude, 1595; John Spencer as master.[76]
Master, 1623.[77]
£22 to be used to purchase a basin and ewer of silver for the Company; the Company to add £8 to the total to make it a better purchase.
Thomas Jennings
1658[78]
No freedom record.
Master, 1638.[79]
£50 to be paid to the poor of the Company.
Benjamin Joseph
1618[80]
Free by redemption, 1593.[81]
Silver salt with a cover all gilt; 25 ounces & three penny weight.
[1] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p.305.
[2] ‘Richard Farrington, Freedom, 1570’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL8394. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[3] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 325.
[4] Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London, Vol. II, p.51.
[5] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p.305.
[6] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/4/4, p. 329, Bequest of Thomas Ferris, 5 March [1630 ],
[7] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, C/B/1/2, f. 25v, Bequest of Fleetwood, 18 November 1561.
[8] Ibid.
[9] W.K. Jordan, The Charities of London, 1480-1660: the aspirations and the achievements of the urban society (London, 1960), p. 124.
[10] ‘Ralph Freeman, Freedom, 1589’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL8438. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[11] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 326.
[12] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/9, f. 23r-23v, Bequest of Thomas Galliley, 20 February 1652.
[13] ‘Thomas Galliley, Freedom, 1634’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9018. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[14] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/6, f. 94r, Bequest of William Gamble, 20 January 1630
[15] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 263v, Bequest of Thomas Glascock, 4 August 1618.
[16] ‘Thomas Glascock, Freedom, 1601’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL8856. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[17] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/10, p. 543, Bequest of Thomas Greene, 6 July 1680.
[18] ‘Thomas Greene, Freedom, 1630’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL8999. Date accessed: 17 June 2013; ‘Thomas Greene, Freedom, 1649’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9101. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[19] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/6, f. 42v, Bequest of Daniel Hall, 15 August 1626.
[20] ‘Daniel Hall, Freedom, 1588’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9458. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[21] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 163, Bequest of John Halse, 10 August 1574.
[22] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 324.
[23] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 163, Bequest of John Halse, 10 August 1574.
[24] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 144r, Bequest of John Hammer, 17 June 1617.
[25] ‘John Hammer, Freedom, 1576’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9364. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[26] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 304.
[27] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/ B/1/8, f. 8v, Bequest of George Hanger, 28 January 1640.
[28] ‘George Hanger, Freedom, 1609’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9632. Date accessed: 10 June 2013.
[29] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/ B/1/8, f. 8v, Bequest of George Hanger, 28 January 1640.
[30] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, C/B/1/6, f. 161r-161v, Bequest of John Heath, 25 November 1635.
[31] John Heath, Freedom, 1594’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9513. Date accessed: 17 June 2013 and ‘John Heath, Freedom, 1610’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9644,. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[32] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/2, f. 42r, Bequest of William Hewett, 3 November 1562
[33] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p, 324
[34] A. Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London, Vol. I, (London, 1913),p. 82.
[35] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/2, f. 42r, Bequest of William Hewett, 3 November 1562
[36] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 142, Bequest of William Hewet, 4 April 1599.
[37] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 324.
[38] Beaven, The Aldermen of the City of London, Vol. II, p. 33
[39] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 295r, Bequest of William Hewett, 20 April 1620/
[40] ‘William Hewett, Freedom, 1576’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9358. Date accessed: 17 June 2013 and ‘William Hewett, Freedom, 1578’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9376. Date accessed: 17 June 2013..
CL/C/3/1/2, f.61r and f. 61r.
[41] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 145, Bequest of John Heydon, 11 March 1573
[42] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/2, f. 132r, Bequest of Alderman Heywarde, 16 May 1569.
[43] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 324.
[44] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 305.
[45] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL CL/1/4/4, Bequest of Robert Hitchins, p. 466, 24 June 1680.
[46] ‘Robert Hitchins, Freedom, 1600’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9550. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[47] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, Bequest of Ann Hodges, 30 August 1638.
[48] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 194v, Bequest of John Hodges, 21 March 1615.
[49] ‘John Hodges, Freedom, 1584’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9430. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[50] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, Bequest of William Hodges, p. 343, 30 November 1633.
[51] ‘William Hodges, Freedom, 1587’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9451. Date accessed: 17 June 2013 and ‘William Hodges, Freedom, 1620’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9754. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[52] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 326.
[53] Ibid.
[54] ‘John Humfrey, Freedom, 1625’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9253. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[55] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/6, f. 23v, Bequest of John Humfrey, 19 January 1625.
[56] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/4, f. 253r, Bequest of Thomas Hussey, 3 April 1622.
[57] ‘Thomas Hussey, Freedom, 1565, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9293. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[58] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 325.
[59] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/6, f. 5r, Bequest of Thomas Hussey, 1 December 1623.
[60] ‘Thomas Hussey, Freedom, 1565, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL9293. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[61] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 325.
[62] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/8, f.166r, Bequest of Ann Huxley, 30 May 1647.
[63] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/1, f. 217v, Bequest of Augustine Hynde, 16 December 1556.
[64] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 324.
[65] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/1, f. 217v, Bequest of Augustine Hynde, 16 December 1556.
[66] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/2, f. 11r, Bequest of Augustine Hynde, 24 January 1560.
[67] T. Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 324.
[68] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/2, f. 11r, Bequest of Augustine Hynde, 24 January 1560.
[69] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 305.
[70] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 143, Bequest of Alexander Ivery, 25 December 1588.
[71] ‘Alexander Ivery, Freedom, 1572’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL10206. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[72] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/1/4/4, p. 143, Bequest of Alexander Ivery, 25 December 1588.
[73] Girtin, The Golden Ram , p. 305.
[74] Ibid,, p. 305.
[75] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/6, f. 58r, Bequest of Joseph Jackson, 4 July 1627.
[76] ‘Joseph Jackson, Freedom, 1595’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL10300. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.
[77] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 326.
[78] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/9, f. 104r-104v, Bequest of Thomas Jennings, 1 August 1662.
[79] Girtin, The Golden Ram, p. 326.
[80] The Clothworkers’ Company Archive, CL/B/1/5, f. 263v, Bequest of Benjamin Joseph, 4 August 1618.
[81] ‘Benjamin Joseph, Freedom, 1593’, Records of the London’s Livery Companies. URL: http://www.londonroll.org/event/?company=clw&event_id=CLLL10291. Date accessed: 17 June 2013.