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Note: RICHARD EDGOOSE 1623-1702
Richard EDGOOSE was baptised at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 12 January 1622/23, son of John EDGOOSE. (PR) John EDGOOSE had married Elizabeth PILKINGTON at Pinchbeck on 19 January 1614/15.
In his will made on 17 April 1630 John EDGOOSE of Pinchbeck refers to Richard EDGOOSE the son of his (second) wife ELIZABETH. He was under 21 years old. (LCC Wills 1630 454)
An Index to the Will of John EDGOOSE (1575-1630) of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire: John EDGOOSE, the Testator John EDGOOSE (1601-1668), eldest son of the Testator Mr. Dymocke WALPOLE (????-1652), adjoining land owner Margaret EDGOOSE formerly BEATCH (15??-1614), the Testator's late wife Thomas EDGOOSE (1606-1640), son of the Testator's marriage to Margaret BEATCH Elizabeth EDGOOSE (1609-1685), daughter of the Testator's marriage to Margaret BEATCH Elizabeth EDGOOSE formerly PILKINGTON, the Testator's second wife Theodocia EDGOOSE, daughter of the Testator's marriage to Elizabeth PILKINGTON Anthony EDGOOSE, son of the Testator's marriage to Elizabeth PILKINGTON *Richard EDGOOSE, son of the Testator's marriage to Elizabeth PILKINGTON William SLATER, supervisor and witness Arthur BURD, supervisor Robert HARINSON, witness William HARVIE, witness (Lincoln Consistory Court Will 1630/454)
Richard EDGOOSE married Edith BRYAN, a Gosberton widow, at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, on 31 January 1652/53.
Edre, wife of Richard EDGOOSE, was buried at Gosberton, Lincolnshire, on 19 January 1659/60.
Mercie, daughter of Richard EDGOOSE, was buried at Gosberton, Lincolnshire, on 5 August 1661.
On 27 July 1662 Richard EDGOOSE of Gosberton, husbandman, took as his second wife a widow from Gedney in Lincolnshire named Elliner BARBER. The ceremony took place at St. Peter at Gowt's, Lincoln, by licence. (Ellinor BARKER according to the Cockayne MSS. vol. III page 17; Hellen BARBER according to MB 1662/136).
Helen, wife of Richard EDGOOSE, was buried at Gedney on 22 April 1669.
Richard's marriage to third wife Sarah at some time between 1669 and 1673 has not been traced.
His daughter Sarah MOSELEY née EDGOOSE, died in Whitechapel, Middlesex, in 1733 aged about 60, i.e. born circa 1673. Whether she was the product of his second or third marriage is unknown. (National Archives RG6 1733)
COX versus EDGOOSE "24 die Januarij 1676 Abney To the Right Honourable Heneage Lord Finch Baron of Daventry Chancellor of England In all humble manner Complayning Sheweth unto your Lordshipp your Orators Andrew COX Cittizen and Leather seller of London And Theophilus SPURRYER Cittizen and Baker of London that whereas your Orators aboute the Month of November One Thousand six hundred Seaventy and Five having occasion to take in att Interest Fifteen pounds of Currant English Money Accidentally Falling into the Company of One Richard EDGOOSE of the P(ar)rish of white Chappell peice (?) Merchant After Sound discourse your Orators Accquainting the said EDGOOSE with their present Occasion for such sum(m)e The sd EDGOOSE voluntarily offered your Orators the loan of Such Sum(m)e your Orators then had occasion for and Accordingly the Said EDGOOSE did lend to your orators the said Sum(m)e of Fifteene pounds and for the Security and payment thereon your orators aboute the Latter end of the said Month of November or beginning of the Month of Decemb(e)r did both enter into a bond of Thirty pounds penalty or Some Sum(m)e to the said EDGOOSE his Executors Administrators and Assigns to repay the said Fifteene pounds As in and by the Condicon of the said bond had your Orators the same to p(ro)duce would more fully appeare to which for more certainty your Orators referr themselves And your Orators further shew that true it is your Orators being disappointed of Moneys could not pay the same by the precize time in the Condicon of the obligacon Limited and appointed Your Orators further shew the Severity of the said EDGOOSE was Such that in Mich(ael)mas Terme last or thereaboutes he appointed one Thomas RUDDIER Gent an Attorney of his Majesties Court of Com(m)on Bench at westminster to Sue and Implead your Orators on the said bond And your Orators being Arrested by vertue of a writt Issued as your Orators were Informed by the said Thomas RUDDIER out of the said Court whereupon your Orators and the said Richard EDGOOSE and Thomas RUDDIER his Attorney being then present came to this Agreement and Conclusion that your Orators should pay and deposite into the hands of the said Thomas RUDDIER the Principalll Money due on the said bond and likewise Such Costs and Charges and Interest the said Richard EDGOOSE had been at The said EDGOOSE would discharge your Orators from the penallty of the said bond and deliver up the same to your Orator to be Cancelled But the said Richard EDGOOSE nor the said Thomas RUDDIER not having the Bond their aboute them promised since your Orator Theophilus SPURRIER had deposited the said Fifteene pounds and Costs and Charges and Interest in the hands of the said Thomas RUDDIER the Defendant EDGOOSEs Attorney in whose Custody thay then pretended the bond was That the said Thomas RUDDIER whensoever or both of your Orators came to demande the said bond it should be delivered up to your orators or either of them to be Cancelled And the said Richard EDGOOSE then gave order and direccion to the said Thomas RUDDIER accordingly soe to doe which direccion the said Thomas RUDDIER then engaged he would observe and performe And your Orators relying on the Honesty of the said Richard EDGOOSE and Thomas RUDDIER not doubting but they would have performed according to their Agreements paid the same principall Money Costs Charges and Interest which the said Thomas RUDDIER then would demand or pretend unto for and on the behalfe of the said Richard EDGOOSE disbursed or expended for or by reason of any thing touching or concerning the said bond And your Orators beleeve paid more then (sic) was really due and expended any manner of wayes for the Causes aforesaid But soe it is may it please your Lordshipp your Orators both and severally by themselves and others have repaired to the said RUDDIER and EDGOOSE and requested the delivery of the said Bond up to be Cancelled for the reasons before expressed and sett forth by your Orators which the said RUDDIER and EDGOOSE not regarding their promises and engagements refuse to doe The said RUDDIER pretending he Cannot deliver the same without a discharge from EDGOOSE for his soe doing And unless your Orators will put in Baile he Cannot repay the Money deposited for that his Clyent Insists upon the penallty of for feilure of the Bond which he will exact Where upon your Orators have repaired to the said EDGOOSE who refuses to give order to the said RUDDIER to deliver the bond to your Orators as was Agreed but he declares and gives out in speeches he will not deliver the said bond or cause the same to be done except your Orators will pay unto him likewise the penallty of the bond which your Orators humbly conceive and are advised is very extreame and vigorouse And against all Equity and good dealing And for that your Orators are onely and properly releivable in this greate and high Court before your Lordshipp in a way of Equity And your Orators having had noe witnesses present at the Transaccon aforesaid is remedyless by the strict rules of the Com(m)on Law In tender Consideracon whereof the premisses duely Considered on your Orators behalfe in such sort and manner as before is Charged against the defendants To the end therefore And that your Orators may be releived upon all and singular the premisses which the said defendants knowing their Consciences to be true in every pointe And that the said Defendants upon their Corporall Oaths on the Answeres may answere plainely truely and punctually to every the Charges of your Orators said Bill And may sett forth whether your Orators bond be not of such penallty and for payment of Such principall Money and may sett forth the date and effect of the Condicon of the same And that the said Thomas RUDDIER may sett forth what writts he sued forth against your Orators by reason of non payment of the said bond and when and what he paid at the respective offices for the same and what is regularly and Justly due to him for the shewing forth of the same And why he did not Cause your Orators to be Arrested upon the first and Originall process And whether his a[indecypherable]lating and Sueing Soe many writts was not by Instigation of his Client to vex your Orators or for what other reasons he did the same and may Sett forth whether your Orators did not pay him and give him Satisfaccon for such expences and disbursements he had been at in that s..ite and what sum(m)e the same was And if he did not declare and now doth Acknowledge himselfe Satysfyed for the same and whether your Orator Theophilus SPURRIER did not paye and deposite Fifteene pounds being the principall money due on the bond in his the said Thomas RUDDIERs hands And all Costs and expences of such And when and whether he hath paid the same over to his Clyent or his Order and when and if not why he hath not done the same And whether he hath your Orators bond in his Custody and why he refuses to deliver the same to your Orators to be Cancelled If not in whose Custody to his knowledge the same is And also that the said Richard EDGOOSE may show Cause if he Can why he should not deliver or cause to be delivered to your Orators the said Bond to be Cancelled and as in Conscience honesty and Justice he is obliged to doe for the reasons before by your Orator Suggested And whether he doth not deteyne the said Bond out of a vexatious minde to putt your Orators to Sue to this high and honorable Court for releife in the premisses And that your Orator may have such releif upon the premisses Consonant to the principles of equity and Justice as your Orators Case will beare May it please your Lordshipp to grant unto your orator his Ma(j)isties most gratious writt or writts of Subpenas to be directed to the said Richard EDGOOSE and Thomas RUDDIER thereby Com(m)anding them at a day and under a certaine paine therein to be Limitted by your Lordshipp personally to be and appeare before the King in his greate and most high Court of Chancery then and there upon their Corporall oathes to Answere all and singuler the premisses punctually plainly and truely and to stand to and abide such further Order Decree and direccon as to your Lordshipp shall seeme meete and agreeable to Equity and Justice." (National Archives C6/588/121)
"Elizabeth EDGOOSE daughter of Richard EDGOOSE of Rosmary (sic) Lane and Sarah his wife aged about 3 yeares and 3 qutr dyed the 19th day of the 8th Month 1678 as the Search & Report of the gripes and was buryed in the burying ground in Checker Alley." (National Archives RG6 October 1678)
"A Child of Richard EDGOSE (sic) of Rosemary Lane in Com. Midlsex Ironmonger was Stillborne the 1st the 11 month 1681. Child was buried in Chequer Alley." (National Archives RG6 0499)
His name is listed at Blew Anchor Yard, Whitechapel, Middlesex, in 1693-1694 ('Metropolitan London in the 1690s' by Derek Keene, Peter Earle, Craig Spence and Janet Barnes, 1992). His tax assessment was £2 on a rental value of £10 and £1.4s. on a stock value of £100. It is not known what his stock consisted of. According to an entry in the burial register of St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel, Blue Anchor Yard was in Rosemary Lane. "Down at the bottom of the parish (Whitechapel) Rosemary Lane was a mixture of old houses and new. Cheap housing was in the course of construction in some of the courts and alleys, like Blue Anchor Yard with its five tenements, 'a parcel of unfinished houses' and about thirty small houses" (From London's East End by Jane Cox, page 47) (London Lives 56945 57/00/068 34 138 Richard EDGOOSE 2 1.2) (See also Jane Cox: Old East Enders, page 277)
"Jonathan EASDEN, impressed onto the Lennox, the Buoy of the Nore. Asks to be discharged as he was impressed on the way to Higgs Hall to indict Richard EDGOOSE." Date: 2 March 1702. (The National Archives, Kew: ADM 106/554/250)
"Sarah EDGOOSE wife of Richard EDGOOSE of Rose Mary Lane Dealer in old iron, aged about 60 years, Dyed the 15th. day of the sixth month called August 1702. Searchers Report of Age and Buryed in Do. (Coverlid Fields) Ground." (National Archives RG6 0331)
"August 18th 1702. Sarah EDYEGOOSE [EDGEGOOSE?) a quaker was Buryed from Ro: M against the Bull & dogg an Ironmonger." (St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel)
"Richard EDGOOSE of Rose Mary Lane in the Parish of White Chapel old Iron=Monger, aged abo:t Ninety Two Years, Dyed the first of the Eighth month 1702: Searche(r)s Report of Age and was Buryed in Friends Burying Ground in Coverlid Fields the 4th: Instant" (PRO Non-Conformist Records [RG4-8] RG6 0331. Transcript has EDGOOFE)
Will of Richard EDGOOSE: Tsm Richardi EDGOOSE prob sexto Oct 1702 Inven. 11 Nov 1702 In the name of god Amen, The 3 day of first Month called March 1694 I Richard EDGOOSE (in the parish of whitechapill And county of Midlesix) ould Iron M(e)rchant being in parfect Memory And Rememberance praised be god doe Make and ordaine this my Last will and Testament in maner And forme following.
First I bequeath my soule into the hands of Allmighty god my Maker hopeing thorrow the greate Marcy of Jesus Christ to be Eternally saved. And for my Body to be desently Buried according to the discression of my Excecutors hear:after Mentioned
Item I give to my Daughter Lady JOANS (= Lidya JONES?) the sum of five pounds (twenty crossed out) foure shillings Every year dureing her Natureall life to be payd her by two shillings every weeke And att her death twenty pounds for her to dispose of att decease And if it should happen that my Daughter Lady should despose of her selfe in Marriage & have by her lawfull Husband Isue she shall have the twenty pounds that is given for her to dispose of att her death att the birth of her first children Lawfully begotten.
Item I give to my Brother Anthony EDGOOSE Daughter And the children of John HAMMORTON (the number not being Knowne) the sum of twenty five pounds to be Equally devided a mongst them according to the discression of my Excecuttors And not otherwise And after my Debts & Legacies are payd all the revertion of my whole Estate I give to my wife Sarah & my Daughter Sarah to be between them Equally devided whome I ordaine Joyt Excecuttors of this my Last will and Testament revockeing all other wills & Testaments
I doe Appoint Samuell HOWELL Iron Mongger liveig att the Tower-hill And my brother Joshua ARNELD As Trustees to see this Last will fullfiled And done In Witness Whereof I have hear unto Sett my Hand And Seale the day And year first Above Written. The marke of Richard EDGOOSE witnesse Robt EDWARDS Wm HEASLER
I Sarah MOSELEY the daughter the surviveing Executrix of the Will of the within named Richard EDGOOSE deceased do declare in the p(re)sence of Almighty God the Witnesse of the truth of what I say that I am one of the Dissenters com(m)only called Quakers and that I believe this paper contains the true Last Will and Testament of the said deceased and that I will duely pforme the Office of his Executrix by paying his debts and legacys as far as his estate will thereto extend and the Law charge me and that I will make and exhibite a true and pfect Inventory of the goods credits and debits of the said deceased according to the ...... assigned me by the Court and a just Accompt of the same when I shall be thrunto lawfully required. Sarah MOSELEY Octobris 1702 Sara MOSELEY (uxor Thome MOSELEY) (London Metropolitan Archives MS 9172/93 Will No.70)
"A true and perfect Inventary of all and singular the goods chattells and creditts of Richard EDGOOSE late of the parish of St. Mary White chappell in the county of Midd(lese)x deceased taken valued and appraised on the 26th day of October in the year of our Lord 1702 by James DAVES and Daniel DAVIS as followeth vizt. In the garrett forward Inpri(mi)s one corded bedstead one feather bed and bolster. 3 old blankett 4 old pillows two old chests 1 old Mill. a parcell of old horseshoes two old boxes with other old Lumber iij l: x s. [£3 10s] In the Roome one pair of stairs forwards Item one sarkin bottom bedstead with printed hangings and curtains one feather bed one bolster three pillows one trundle Bed five cushions 3 blanketts one Rugg one looking glasse two old Chest of drawers one grate one close stole pan five old chairs one leather Chaire with other old Lumber old printed hangings v l [£5] In the Roome one pair of stairs Backwards Item one corded bedstead 2 flock beds two flock bolsters old curtains two old ruggs five old blanketts one old chest with other old Lumber i l: v s [£1 5s.] In the Litchen behind the other Kitchen together. Item 8 pewter dishes & plates 3 porrengers one 2 quart pott 3 spitts one pair of grid irons one choper one brasse plate one frying pann one skum()er one box iron 4 old matting chairs some old books one old table and carpett one Cushion one old Bell more old pewter in all 84 l. one old iron copper one old grate one pair of Andirons two pair of tongs one poker one shovel one sack [? first letter indistinct] six candlesticks one sconce 2 pair of snuffers one snuff pann 5 old brasse potts 3 small drinking copper potts 5 small kettles one sauce pann one warming pann 3 old tables one curtain and rod one water tubb 8 old Chairs one old Joint stool one Crank [?] one pair of grid irons one fender with other old Lumber and one Chaldron of coles ix l [£9] In the shedd in the yard Item one Tun of new iron xv l. [£15] Item for old iron xx l. [£20] In the back yard in the shedd Item two Tuns and a 1/2 of iron x l. [£10] In the shop Item for old iron xx l. [£20] In the Celler Forwards Item for 8 Tun of b.nshell [illegible in fold] Iron xl l. [£40] In the Celler under the Cook Item casting iron and Cappin iron xviij l. [£18] Item 8 pair of Sheets 5 dozen of Napkins 4 table Cloths 6 pair of pillowbears 6 shifts 4 shirts with other old Linnen 2 coats one pair of old Breeches one morning gown three old gowns one Farrendon one silk and one crape x l [£10] Item for plate xxl. [£20] Item Ready money x l. [£10] Sum(m)a [indecypherable] CCxj l. xv s. [£211 15s., a total which is incorrect] Debts sperate and desperate due to the said deceased and not yet received by his Executrix and therefor shee protests ag(ain)st being charged therewith till the same shall come to her hands, vizt Debts sperate DCCC l. [£800] Debts desperate Dlxx l. [£570] Sum(m)e totall of the debts MCCClxx l. [£1,370] (LMA DL/C1B/030/MSO 9174/028)
NOTES & QUERIES: 1) Whilst the evidence that the Richard EDGOOSE of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, is synonymous with the Richard EDGOOSE who died at Whitechapel, Middlesex, in 1702 is inconclusive it is none the less extremely compelling: John EDGOOSE (1575-1630) of Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire refers in his will to Theodocia EDGOOSE, Anthony EDGOOSE, and Richard EDGOOSE, the three children he had by his second wife Elizabeth, all of whom were under 21 at the time of his death. In his own will made in 1694 Richard EDGOOSE refers to the daughter of his brother Anthony EDGOOSE and to John HAMMORTON's children. Theodocia EDGOOSE married a John HAMMERTON in 1640 and had at least 6 children, the last of whom was dead by 1678, some years before Richard's will was made.
2) What was Edith BRYAN's maiden name? When and where was she baptised? Was Robert BRYAN her first husband? When and where was Robert BRYAN buried?
3) Lady JOANS: - Lidya EDGOSE (sic) spinster of St. Mary, Whitechapel, married Richard JONES bachelor of St. Botolph, Middlesex, at Holy Trinity Church, Minories, Middlesex, on 13 April 1686. She was presumably a widow when her father Richard EDGOOSE made his will in 1694 (q.v.).
4) Richard EDGOOSE refers in his will to his brother Joshua ARNELD. Was he the brother of his third wife Sarah?
5) John EDGOOSE of Moulton, Lincolnshire, and living at Rosemary Lane, Whitechapel, was buried at St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel, on 24 November 1692. His wife Edith EDGOOSE survived him. (PR and London Commisary Court Admons 1692)
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