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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 30, 2009 21:59:47 GMT
archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BOYCE/1998-02/0887165740The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 5 January 1659. Robert Aslin aged 22, servant of Benjamin Ward of London, scrivener, deposes that on 15 January 1658 Samuel Venner of London, merchant, signed a financial obligation to John Silke, citizen and gunmaker of London. Ambrose Newton aged 26, servant of Silke, deposes that his master consigned guns by the Experiment of London, Mr. George Boyce. William Browne of London, merchant aged 35, deposes that in January 1658 he, his brother Job Browne, and Samuel Venner loaded goods on board ship at Gravesend. Arthur Myles, citizen and scrivener of London aged 32, deposes that Job Browne and Samuel Venner of London, merchants, signed a financial obligation to William Browne of London, merchant, on 30 November 1657. John Silke and William Browne name Job Browne, now resident in Barbados, as their attorney. (MCD 9).
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 30, 2009 22:02:43 GMT
www.gunmakers.org/lsandb/ls&b-summer2007.pdfThe Gunmakers’ Company was granted its Charter on 14 March 1637, but it was not until 5 June 1656 that the Charter was actually enrolled and the Company was able to start proving arms. In 1657 the proof of arms was carried out ‘next the Bulwarke under the City Wall’ near Aldgate on ground owned by John Silke, who was enrolled as a citizen and Gunmaker on 12 June 1656. The Company is unique among City Guilds in always having had its existence outside City bounds. By 1662 the Bulwarke was said to be old, damaged and in danger of collapse – though history does not record whether the Company contributed to its disrepair. A new proving place was found in 1663, and rented from a Mr Durban, but there is no record of its exact location.
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 30, 2009 22:07:33 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 30, 2009 22:11:14 GMT
creativegraces.net/genindex/sanders2.htmlMiddlesex/London SAUNDERS & SANDERS in the Gun Trade (extracted from "Gunmakers of London 1350-1850" by Howard L. Blackmore, Oxford, 1986; & "Alphabetical List of All London Gunmakers and Related Trades" p199*; author unknown) Thomas 1, appr. to Robert SILKE, turned over to Robert AUSTIN (1675), free of Gunmakers Co., (1682), Proof piece (1685), Elected Assistant (1702), Master (1707), gunmaker to Ordnance (1688-1715), East India Co., (1705-11); "very sick and very much reduced" (1724)
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 31, 2009 21:09:22 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 31, 2009 21:17:23 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Jul 31, 2009 21:21:20 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Aug 1, 2009 22:30:02 GMT
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Post by Daniel Silk on Aug 17, 2009 14:23:12 GMT
The Gunmaker Company London
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Post by Daniel Silk on Aug 17, 2009 14:25:31 GMT
The Proof House of the Gunmakers Company of the City of London Established by Charter 1637
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Post by Daniel Silk on Aug 18, 2009 21:17:30 GMT
The above buildings are NOT on the land that was owned by John Silke, but the place the Gunmakers Company moved to at a later date.
I have not been able to track down an exact location of the earlier (John Silke) proof house location yet.
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