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Richard Collins of Ipswich

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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 →

The Will of Richard Collins of Ipswich

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In the Name of God, Amen the eighth day of April one thousand six hundred six and in the fourth  year of the  Reigne of our sovereign Lord James by the grace of God of England France and Ireland kinge defender of the faith &c and of Scotland the nyne  and  thirtieth. Continue reading →

License for John and Richard Collins

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"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 →