Calais Pier, Sloop returning to Port
Robert Green in his book, The History, Topography and Antiquities of Framlingham and Saxted, gives a brief synopsis of the life of Richard Golty, Rector of Framlingham. Within that synopsis is a sentence about his grandfather, the subject of this article, who I am calling “Richard Goltye of Ipswich”. Mr. Green quotes: Continue reading
The original of this will is rather lengthy with many provisions and conditions so I am going to give an excerpted version here.
In the name of God Amen. This third day of April one thousand five hundred fourscore and two…I Richard Goltye of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, clothier and within the Diocese of Norwich, being in good health and perfect memory… Continue reading
St. Andrew Church, Earls Colne, Essex
My inclination is to place Abraham and James Markham together, as brothers. I suppose most of us see the natural fit for them with the few clues we have, but the fact is there is no evidence to prove they are related. Continue reading
Weaver, Nurnberg, c. 1425
Richard Collins was the brother of John Collins (1) of Bramford. They were partners in the manufacture and sale of poldavis and medrinack sail cloth fabric and given the license to exclusive manufacture for 21 years by Queen Elizabeth in 1574.
License for John and Richard Collins
We are fortunate to have the will of Richard Collins which tells us something about his family. We also have the will of his son, John. John died before his father, but these two wills need to be looked at together to better understand them. I am posting the full transcription of these wills, rather than an Continue reading
English ships and the Spanish Armada, August 1588
This is the John Collins about whom there has been so much confusion among previous researchers. I will present the evidence and give my reasons but it gets rather involved so I ask my readers to bear with me. In my article John Collins; One, Two or Three? I explain my conclusions about John and his three marriages and mention the land record as final evidence. (I will have more about the land records in another article.) From that point I will now review what I have found about his life. Continue reading
"Darnley Portrait" of Elizabeth I of England; 1575
Calendar of Patent Rolls; 16 Elizabeth I: Part XIV
3 April 1574. Gorhambury.
Licence for 21 years to John Collins of Ipeswiche, co. Suffolk, Richard his brother and such as have been their apprentices to make medrinacks, poldavies and other sail-cloth. None other to intermeddle on pain of imprisonment without bail or mainprise until he shall have entered into bond before the next justice of the peace to the place of his imprisonment that he will not act contrary to the tenor hereof. Since, as the Crown is informed, the towns of Ippeswiche and Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, are the fittest places for making of Continue reading