Well, I guess there really was a JOHN CARDEN, Haberdasher in London (proved
by the attached will of Giles DeButt). But, is this our John who supposedly
came on the "Speedwell" in 1635???
Chuck
From "Genealogical Gleanings in England" Vol. #1, by Henry
F. Waters.
Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969. (Orange County
California Genealogical Society call number G942.Rec26.13-1)
GILES DE BUTT of Hackney, Middlesex gent 8 February 1631, proved 14 March
1632. To my brother in law Mr. Peter Bonny ten pounds and unto my kinsman
Enoch Lynde likewise ten pounds, with mourning apparel to them and their
wives and children. To Mathew Lynd son unto Enoch Lynd if in case he
continues his study and shall follow it so long till he proceeds Master of
Arts, then at his going out Master I do give him twenty pounds. To my
brother Josse de Quester I give ten pounds for mourning. To my two cousins
Jean and Clays Velinges to either of them I give forty shillings to make
either of them a ring for a remembrance of me. To my cousin Susan Terray now
the wife of Maruschall and to Susan Dangnow now the wife of Cooper I give to
either of them, five pounds. To the minister of the parish where it shall
please God that I shall be buried forty shillings. To my maid servant Susan
who now bath dwelt with me about ten years I give ten pounds to be paid her
at her day of marriage. To Margaret our maid servant if she dwell with me
when I die four pounds. To the poor of St. Andrew Hubbard in East Cheape
five pounds. To the poor of Hackney five pounds. To the poor of the French
congregation five pounds. To the poor of the Dutch congregation forty
ponnds. Other bequests to the poor in various hospitals and prisons. To John
Hoult my son in law five ponnds for monrning. To my wife Anna de Butt my
capital messuage in Thames Street called the three Tuns now or late in the
occnpation of Mrs. Mary Hearewyn widow and her son in law Timothy van
Vlettend, Dutch minister, and Jeremy Loveland, merchant, and others, so long
as she shall live sole and unmarried. But if she choose to marry my son
James shall have and enjoy one half the rents and profits &c. during my
wife's life time, and at her death I give all my capital messuage and
tenements, houses &c. to my son. To my said son James my two houses in Tower
Street which I have bought of William Perkins, called the Roll of Tobacco,
and now in the occupation of John Carden, haberdasher of hats and caps and
William Hyde a tailor. "And whereas I hold by lease from the parishioners of
the, parish of St. Andrew Hubart in East cheape a Messuage or Tenement with
the appurtenances and beinge in Bottellane in London and now in the
occupation of my kinsman Mr Enoch Lynde" I do will and appoint that my wife
shall have hold and enjoy the said messuage and the clear yearly rent
thereof during so long of the term to come in the said lease as she shall be
living. My wife and son James to be the executors of this my last will, and
for overseers I name and appoint Mr. Matthew de Quester Esq. and Air. Robert
Cudnor and my kinsman Enoch Lynde praying them to assist my said executors
with their good counsel and advice. Reference to a gift my son was to have
by the death or decease of his sister Anna wife of John Hoult my son in law.
Russell 23.
[The Visitation of London 1633, 1634, 1635 (Harl. So. Pub.) vol. I. p. 210,
under Cudner, shows the match of Robert Cudner and Susan, dau. to Matthew
Dequester, and on page 228 of the same volume we find the pedigree of
DeQuester. By this will we get hold of some clews pointing to the
connections of the Lynde family and learn where Mr. Enoch Lynde lived.
Bottellane I suppose to be Botolph Lane near Billingsgate. Incidentally,
too, we learn a little more about, "Doomsday," Sedgwicke's connections (see
my Gleanings, ante, p. 259). Timothy van Vlettend, the Dutch minister,
suggests Timotheus van Vleteren, the son in law of Wm Sedgwicke, and -Mrs.
Mary Hearewyn, widow, the mother-in-law of van Vlettend, who occupied the
Three Inns in Thames Street, may have been the relict of Mr. James Harewin
at whose death Timotheus van Vleteren became the possessor of six hundred
pounds, three hundred of which passed through Mr. Sedgwicke's hands. perhaps
through a marriage with the widow Hearewyn or Harewin.
HENRY F. WATERS.]