View in Suffolk by Thomas Gainsborough
We are told in the will of his father that Edmund Goltye was born May 10, 1565. He was not yet 19 years old when his father died and Edmund became his executor. Even though he was the executor he did not come into his full inheritance until he was 23 years old. 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
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
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN: I John Collins of Whitnesham in the countie of Suff[olk] Gentleman expectinge the promised life desire to be dissolved from this present and to be with Jesus Christe my saviour by whose passion and resurrection I doe assure my self to receive an immortall inheritance reserved for me in the heavens: 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