~ WILLIAM BALLARD ~ |
Sheriff, Alderman, Shipowner, & Merchant of Bristol,
"Involved in the illicit export trade"
dur. 16th Century
NOTES.
1532. In the Will of ROBERT THORN. To Thomas Lucar, William Ballarde, Francis Fowler, Thomas Cornel, John Shipman, John Messam, Thomas Tyson, Humphrey Coston, William Pickerying, William Harper & John Wesley £10 a piece 17th May 1532. 291 page 180 BRISTOL WILLS "Wadley"
1537, THE PRIMROSE OF BRISTOL
THE HISTORIES OF BRISTOL SHIPS. appendix 6. Evan Jones. E122 199/3.
4 December 1539 Return of the Trinity from Bordeaux. It seems likely it had returned by this date since Tyndall’s account was closed at this time, which probably would not have happened until the Trinity returned: S.55. In December / January Smyth received 24.75 tons of Gascon wine from the Trinity. He charged his Bordeaux wine account 20s. per ton freight for this: S.83. On 12 December 1539 William Ballard was debited £1 for the half-freight of 2 tons of Gascon wine ‘this vyntage’@ 20s. Ballard had already paid half, the rest being due on Lady Day (25 March) 1540. The debt was paid on 14 August 1540: S.36. On 22 December 1539 there are ten references to freight fees due on wine & woad from Bordeaux @ 20s. per ton. Robert Leighton (5 tons wine & 4 half-bales [0.28 tons] woad) owed £2 12s. 11d for half-freight. He had already paid half and was due to pay the remained by 25 March 1540. The debt was settled on 22 May 1540: S.46. Thomas Hart (6 tons wine) charged £6. No payment plan is mentioned but at this point Smyth owed Hart £2 10s. After this freight charge Hart was left owing Smyth £3 10s., which was paid on 7 April 1540: S.59. Francis Codrington & William Carr (200 half-bales (14.28 tons accounting 14 half-bales to the ton)) charged £14 5s. 8d. ‘to pay ½ in hand & thother ½ at the end of 3 monthes next commyng’ i.e. 30 March 1540. This was paid, along with other debts, on 15 January 1540: S.60. Nicholas Thorn (3.25 tons wine) charged £3 5s. The debt was paid in freight on 19 January 1540: S.82. John Shipman, the elder (4 tons wine) charged £4. The debt was paid in freight on 23 December 1539: S.86. William Rowley (5 tons wine) charged £2 10s for half-freight. He had already paid half his dues and the remainder was to be paid on 23 March 1540. The debt was settled on 8 May 1540: S.87. John Gorney (5 tons wine) charged £5. He was to pay half in hand and half on 25 March 1540. He actually paid half on 20 February 1540 and other half on 7 February 1541: S.88. Edward Pryn (5 tons wine) charged £2 10s. for ‘the ½ & hole rest’ of his freight. He was to pay the rest on 25 March 1540. In reality this debt simply cancelled-out against the 5 tons Gascon wine that Smyth had just laded on Pryn’s ship, the Primrose. Smyth acknowledges this on 26 March 1540: S.89. Mathew Kent (6 tons wine and 4 half-bales [0.28 tons] woad) charged £6 5s. 8d. He was to pay half in hand and half on 25 March 1540. He actually paid £2 on 4 March 1540 and the remainder on 25 May: S.90. Lawrence Vine (1.5 tons wine and 7 half-bales [0.5 tons] woad) charged £2. He was to pay half in hand and half 25 March 1540. He actually paid on 4 May 1540: S.90. On 22 January 40 there is a further note of freight due on Bordeaux wine this ‘vyntage’: William Shipman (5 tons) charged £5. He was to pay half in hand and half 25 March 1540. He paid on 22 March 1540: S.7. On an unspecified date between 10 October 1539 and 10 May 1540 there is a reference for freight due for this vintage’s Gascon wine sent on the Trinity. This must refer to this voyage: Thomas Tyson (4.5 tons) is charged £4 10s. He is to pay half in hand and half 25 March 1540. He actually pays half on 20 February 1540 and half 15 April 1540: S.59. On an unspecified date between 8 October 1539 and 15 November 1540 there is a reference to freight due for this vintage’s Bordeaux wine sent on the Trinity. This must also refer to this voyage: Nicholas Gay (3.5 tons) charged £3 10s., to pay half in hand and half 25 March 1540. He actually pays £1 15s. on 16 February 1540 and the remainder 14 July 1540: S.16. The total laded amounted to 15.34 tons woad and 80.5 tuns wine, making 95.84 tons. Total freight charges came to £95 17s. 2d. 1540 Smyth credits Richard Williams 4s. for certain ‘ratlyne, marlyne & twyne that Hamond r. of hym for my ship’: S.100.
THE TRINITY OF CAERLEONSize: c. 135 tons burden (3 August 1545) Owners: William Jones of Carleon, gentleman till 1541. It then appears to have belonged to the Bristol merchant William Ballard. 10 June 1539 The Trinity of Carlyon was serving in the navy at Portsmouth. It was probably the ‘ship of Wales’ which had arrived with four Bristol ships on 28 April: L&P, XIV, i, no. 880, 1097. 6 April 1540 Smyth laded 3 truckers in the ‘Trynte of Wales Master Jones ship’ for a voyage to Lisbon and Andalusia: S.56. August 1540 John Smyth notes that he had received 6.25 tuns Spanish oil from the Trynte of Newport. The freight on this was 20s. per tun (£6 5s.): S.84. On 11 September Smyth notes that he owes William Jones of Carlion, for the freight of 6.25 tuns rack vintage oil on Trynte @ 20s. per tun. Smyth had paid half already and was now paying the remaining £3 2s. 6d. The ship’s purser was John Appowell: S.74. 16 October 1540 John Smyth notes ‘William Jones of Carlion gentleman owith the 16 day of October £11 for so myche pd. For 5 weyes wheat that was laden for hym in his ship the Trynte’: S.74. In an Andalusian voyage account, of the same month Smyth notes that he laded 10 weys wheat on the Tryntye of Wales, master Bastian Millior. This cost £24, or 8s. per quarter, clearaboard. S.103. Smyth thus sold Jones some wheat for 7s. 4d. per quarter, which was the price he had contracted to buy wheat for in May: S.25. However, the clearaboard cost for his own wheat was only 8s. per quarter. Since 8d. per quarter would have been insufficient to pay for cost of licence and custom, it seems fairly certain that much of the wheat was illictly laded. 18 January 1541 Smyth records that Nicholas Tyson owes him £1 for 200 ducats he received ‘for my acowmpt at San Lucar of John Apowell purser of the Tryntye of Wales’: S.126. 4 November 1541 Return of a ‘Trinity Carlyon’, master Thomas Webb, carrying 7 barrels white herring, 5 C hake, 1 barrel beef and 1 cwt. rough tallow, belonging to John Northal & assoc.: E122 21/10. [Continent] Since the Trinity of Caerleon was clearly returning from Spain this time and this consignment looks like one from Ireland, this must be a different ship. 28 November 1541 Return of the Trynyte of Carlion, master Bastain Melyor, carrying 110.75 tuns wine, 2 tuns oil, 1.1 tun soap and orchil belonging to Bristol merchants. This includes 8.5 tuns wine belonging to John Smyth, 13 tons belonging to William Ballard: E122 21/10. [Continent] In a Sack wine account of November/December 1541 John Smyth records that he laded 10 tuns wine in the Trinity of Carlyon, master Bastyan Myllyor. The freight charge was 25s. per tun: S.145. On 8 November 1541 Smyth notes that he owed William Ballard for 10 tons freight in the Trinity of Carlyon @ 25s. per ton (£12 10s.). He states that he had paid half already and was to the remaining £5 16s. 8d. the end of 3 months: S.36. However, it seems likely this entry should read ‘8 December’ for the customs account states the ship did not arrive until the 28 November. It may also be noted that on 1 December Smyth records that Ballard owes him £3 2s. 6d. for freight on the Trinity of Bristol and this due was to be paid at the end of three months. Since this freight due was then set off against the freight the Trinity of Caerleon, the specification of payment terms would only have made sense if Smyth had not received his wine from Ballard’s ship at this stage. Smyth paid the last part of his freight due on 31 March and ‘so broke of my seale’ - presumably from the Charterparty: S.36 22 February 1542 Departure of the Trinity of Carlion, master Bastian Melyor, carrying 219.5 cloths, 6 dicker hides, 20 tons lead belonging to Bristol merchants: E122 21/10. [Continent] 13 July 1542 Return of the Trinity of Carlyon, master Bastian Melyor, carrying 108.25 tuns oil, 12 tons salt, 0.875 tuns wine, alum and orchil belonging to Bristol merchants: E122 21/10. [Continent] Departure of the Trinity of Caerleon. On 24 September 1542 the customs record the departure of the Trinity of Carlion, master John Darby, carrying 14 tons lead and 54 cloths belonging to William Ballard: E122 21/10. [Continent] On the 30 September 1542 the ship is again recorded in the accounts, carrying 232.5 cloths, 10 dicker hides and 10 doz. skins belonging to various Bristol merchants: E122 199/4. 15 February 1543 Return of Trinity of Carleon, master John Darby, carrying 110.75 tuns wine, 2.75 tuns oil, 1.7 tons soap and 0.5 tons marmalade, belonging to various Bristol merchants, including William Ballard and two people listed as Jones: E122 199/4. [Continent] 28 August 1543 Return of the Trinity Carleon, master Richard White, carrying 0.25 tons salmon belonging to William Benet: E122 199/4. This entry implies the ship had been to Ireland. However since only a very small quantity of goods are involved, the most likely explanation for this anomalous voyage is that the ship had been serving in the navy in the Irish Sea and Benet had acquired this cargo on the way home: see Chapter 4. Summer 1545 On the 3 August 1545 the Trinitie Carlion was serving in the navy at Portsmouth. It was described as a ship of 180 tons, carrying 120 men: S.P. Hen VIII S.205 f.47. On the 10 August 1545 it is described as a ship of 200 tons under Captain Alexander Carvanion. In the order of battle it was placed in the vanguard: SP Hen VIII S.205 f.160. The ship would have been dismissed when the fleet was demobilised in early September: L&P, XX, ii, nos. 346, 368. 3 September 1546 Return of the Trinite of Carlyon, master Thomas Boyse, carrying 114 tons salt belonging to William Ballard: E122 21/15. [Continent] Since the war had just ended, it seems likely that this was a cargo of Biscay salt acquired in France. 10 September 1546 Departure of the Trinity of Bristol, master Thomas Boyse, carrying 31 tons lead belonging to Nicholas Thorn & assoc. and 6 dicker tanned hides belonging to William Sprat: E122 21/15. [Continent] On 20 September 1546 Smyth notes the departure of the Trynte of Wales, master Thomas Boysse, for Andalusia, carrying 10.4 tons of John Smyth’s lead: S.254. The change of the ship’s port from Caerleon to Bristol in the customs account may be a mistake on the part of the officer or clerk. However, since Smyth’s ship the Trinity of Bristol had been sold by this time, Ballard may have decided to change the name of the ship. 1540, BALDWIN STREET, south side No. 23, I on 1742 plan* TOPOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN BRISTOL. BRS 48
22 November 1541 Return of Trinity, master Thomas Webbe, is recorded in the customs accounts. It was carrying 88.75 tuns wine, including 11.5 tuns of wine and 1.5 tuns corrupt wine belonging to John Smyth: P.R.O. E122 21/10. [Continent] In November Smyth records that he had 16.5 tuns Bastard wine laded on the Trinity which owed freight at a rate of 25s. per ton and hawling and stowing @ 4d. per ton. He notes that the consignment was customed as 14 tuns. The discrepancy between the amount laded and that customed can be largely accounted for by the 1.75 tuns he lost to ullage and the 0.5 tons that went to prise: S. 118 . On 1 December Smyth charges 18 merchants £89 7s. 6d. for the freight of 71.5 tuns Bastard wine carried on Trinity @ 25s. per ton ‘to pay 1/2 in hand and 1/2 at thend of 3 monthes next commyng’. James Baylif (2 tons) charged £2 10s. He had paid his first half already and paid the remainder on 4 April 1542: S.30. William Sprat (5 tons) charged £6 5s. He paid £3 2s. 6d on 31 January 1542 and the remainder on 9 September 1542: S.30. William Ballard (5 tons) charged £6 5s. He had paid half already, the rest to be paid at end of 3 months. At this point Smyth owed Ballard £5 16s. 8d. for freight on the Trinity of Caerleon the previous month. So Smyth takes his half payment in cash and writes the remainder off against his debt to Ballard: S.36. Robert Leighton (3 tons) charged £3 15s. He paid on 5 April 1542: S.46. Robert Durban (5 tons) charged £6 5s. He paid £3 2s. 6d. on 31 January 42, £2 on 9 September 1542 and £1 2s. 6d. on 19 October 1542: S.58. Thomas Tison (5 tons) charged £6 5s. He had paid, partly in freight, by 8 February 1542: S.59. John Wellsche (5 tons) charged £6 5s. He paid £3 2s. 6d. on 24 January 1542 and the remainder on 27 May: S.74. Nicholas Thorn (6 tons) charged £7 10s. He paid £3 15s. on 8 February 1542 and £3 15s. on 13 March: S.82. Edward Pryn (9 tons) charged £11 5s. He had paid half already. The remainder was paid on 5 April 1542: S.89. Mathewe Kent (0.5 tons) charged 12s. 6d. This was apparently paid in London some time after 18 February 1543: S.90. William Cockes (2 tons) charged £2 10s. He paid £1 5s. on 31 January 1542 and £1 5s. on 30 March: S.99. Joanna Carpynter, widow (3 tons) charged £3 15s. She paid £1 17s. 6d. on 10 February 1542 and the remainder on 19 November: S.116. Arthur Smythe (3 tons) charged £3 15s. He had paid half already and paid the rest on 19 April 1542: S.116. Allen Hill (4 tons) charged £5. He had paid half already and paid the remainder on 29 March 1542: S.117. Robert Guytton (4 tons) charged £5. He had paid half already. The remainder was paid on 31 July 1542: S.129. Robert Buttler ( 2 tons) charged £2 10s. He had paid half already. The remainder was paid on 10 April 1542: S.148. John Pryn (3 tons) charged £3 15s. He had paid half already. The remainder was paid on 15 May 1542: S.99. Thomas Smythe, Smyth’s uncle (5 tons) charged £6 5s. He had paid half (£3 2s. 6d.) already. He paid £1 6s. 8d. on 7 April 1542 and the remaining £1 15s. 10d. on 7 December: S.102. A loose sheet (not in Smyth’s hand) records on the 12 December 1541 a payment due for the freight of 6 tons wine in the Trinity from Condado @ 25s per ton (£7 10s.): S.222(B). This is an account relating to Francis Codrington and William Car (see S.60). On or after the 24 December 1541 Smyth notes that his servants, Thomas Shipman and Giles White owe £5 for the freight of 4 tons Bastard wine on the Trinity to be paid by 1 March 1542. Smyth accounts it as having being partly paid in wages etc. by 30 April 1542 and the rest of the debt would be covered by 11 May: S.42. Total freight recorded = 98 tuns. Freight charges = £122 10s.
This account reveals that Smyth’s servants White and Shipman are not charged for their full lading, possibly because part of their consignment went freight free.
1542. Smyth accounts it as having being partly paid in wages etc. by 30 April 1542 and the rest of the debt would be covered by 11 May: S.42. Total freight recorded = 98 tuns. Freight charges = £122 10s.
This account reveals that Smyth’s servants White and Shipman are not charged for their full lading, possibly because part of their consignment went freight free. 16 December 1541 Smyth credits Moris Appowell 16s. for iron work for the Trinity ‘till this daye’: S.65. 13 January 1542 Departure of the Trinity, master Thomas Webb, is recorded in the customs accounts. It states that the ship is carrying 14.5 tons lead, 70.833 cloths of assize and 33 dicker tanned hides belonging to Bristol merchants. John Smyth was carrying 10 tons lead, 33 cloths and 18 dicker hides belonging to John Smyth: P.R.O. E122 21/10. [Continent] On 31 January Smyth records the departure of the ship to Biscay with 40 cloths of penny hews, 4 kerssis, 12.2 tons lead, 10 dicker ox hides, 30 dicker cow & steer hides, 152 doz. calf skins and 3 weys 9 bushels (19.125 quarters) green peas: S.173. Since the peas are not mentioned in the customs accounts and Smyth’s own leather consignment exceeds the entire quantity ship’s lading listed in the customs account, Smyth must be exporting part of his cargo illicitly.
8 May 1542 Return of Primrose, master Thomas White, carrying 80.5 tons iron belonging to William Ballard & assoc.: E122 21/10. [Continent] On 19 May Smyth noted that he owed Pryn £5 7s. 6d. 2f. for the freight of 8.133 tons iron on the Primrose @ 13s. 4d. per ton. At this point Pryn owed Smyth £4 for 6 tons iron shipped the previous month in the Trinity. So Smyth was now left owing Pryn £1 7s. 6d. 2f. This debt was paid off in freight by 23 August: S.89. The freight charge is also detailed in one of Smyth’s iron accounts, where Thomas Latche is listed as the master: S.153. THE HISTORIES OF BRISTOL SHIPS. appendix 6. Evan Jones. E122 21/10
28 July 1542 Return of Primrose, master Thomas Lache, carrying 28 tons salt belonging to William Ballard: E122 21/10. [Continent] THE HISTORIES OF BRISTOL SHIPS. appendix 6. Evan Jones. E122 21/10
1542 23/10/1542 THOMAS FURNEY son of WILLIAM FURNEY Hereford. BAKER. for 9 years. apprenticed to ~WILLIAM BALLARD & ALICE wife. MERCHANT. BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOKS
1543 STAC 2/23/212
1543 STAC 3/10/111
1543 Henry White, Mayor, William Ballard & William Pepwall, joint Sheriffs. The Scottes in July last past began to invade the English borders, spoiling and burning as if it had been open war ; for which cause a garrison was sent thither : then the Scottes after their false manner pretended peace and amity, with earnest suit for the same, and never-the-less in the mean time spoiled the borders with sudden invasions. In revenge whereof in April 1544 the king sent over his High Admirall of England with a great fleet, where arriving took and spoiled Lith ; and on May day they went to Edenborough, where they beat the Scottes from their ordnance and returned with such riches as they thought had not been in any town in Scotland ; and at departure they fired the town, which burnt for 3 days after. The Burdeux fleet was arrested in Gascoine, and likewise the Frenchmen here, and at the Isle of Wight were taken 7 ships with merchandise restrained ; and after divers requests propounded to the ambassador of Fraunce, certain respite was granted to know his masters mind ; who would not agree to any resonable demands, nor yet receive the Kings Herald who came with honerable and indifferent conditions of peace ; for which causes, and especially for the common profit of Christendom, seeing the French King had entered into league with the Turke, and procured him to make war upon Christendom, abd also for withholding from King Henry his tribute, he with the Emperour Charles proclaimed war against the French King. ADAMS CHRONICLE OF BRISTOL HENRY VIII.
1546 abt William Ballarde, William Pepwall, Sheriffs, the total summ of this yere amount xxxijli. xviijs. xd. folio 61. THE GREAT WHITE BOOK OF BRISTOL
1548 William Ballarde living in the parish of St. Stephen, Fysshe Lane, Bristol. PATENT ROLLS
1548. The WILL of MARGARET WOODHOUSE. Widow of Nicolas Woodhouse Tanner, to Agnes Woodhouse daughter. to Robert Butler. When William Ballarde and others have paid their debts the sum of £10 to be bestowed for the reparation of highways besides Stokes Croft. (also mentions Cowper, Jones, Tomkyns. etc.)24th Sept 1548. 294 page 183. BRISTOL WILLS "Wadley".
1550 24/10/1550 WILLIAM HOPWUDD son of ROGER HOPWUDD Pembridge, Hereford East. GENT. for 10 years apprenticed to ~ WILLIAM BALLARD, MERCHANT. BRISTOL APPRENTICE BOOKS
1552 Roger Cooke Mayor, William Ballarde one of the "Brethren", Chamber and Council of Bristol. Other members names; Thomas Pacye, William Chester, John Smythe, William Jaye, John Springe, Robert Adams, William Carye, David Harrys, William Jones, Nicholas Williams, John Drewes, John Jervis, William Kelke, John Brampton, John Northhall, Richard Prynne, Rowlande Cowper, William Rowley, William Younge, William Spratt, Richard Mersse, Richard Watley, Robert Sexy, William Pepwall, Francis Codrington, Thomas Launcedon, John Gerney, Roger Jones, William Carr, Richard Davis, Thomas Joachim, Thomas Harris, William Tyndall, Edward Tynt, Edward Prynn, John Stones, Roger Myller, Thomas Shewarde, Thomas Tyson, Anthonye Stanbanck, John Wyllye. THE ORDINANCES OF BRISTOL 1506 - 1598
1554. April 12th. Testator, who was a "Cytisen and Merchant of Bristoll," describes Queen Mary as "of the Churches of Englande and Irelande ymmediatlye vnder Christe the supreme headde;" and desires to be buried in the church of St. Stephen, or elsewhere, as "yt shall please godd to appoyntte the same." The sum of £5 for poor householders of St. Stephen's parish, and other places ; and a like sum to be given " in co'mon almys" at the burial, or two days after, in bread or money. Ten shillings to every almshouse within the city and suburbs "not havying An'uall Rentes," To sister-in-law SYBLE BALLARDE vjii? xiijs iiijd in money, and all the " Cattle and other furnytures" in her custody at Hardwick, on condition that "she remayne wydowe," and keep nourish, and do honestly entreat, order, and quide testator's two sisters JANE and JOAN BALLARDE during their lives, "yf she do lyve so long as I trust in god she shall for their comforts," if the said SYBLE should marry during the lives of the two sisters, she is to have "but iiij? Only." To ANNE BOLARDINE widow, towards her marriage xiij? Vjs viijd ; also for her life, a tenament in "Redclyffe streate" inhabited by HUMPHREY JONES, shearman, of the value of forty shillings by the year : and a tenament "lying before saynt Stephyns Church dore," inhabited by JOHN POWER, cofferer ; rem. to ALICE BALARDYNE "one of my smalle goblets gylte and six spones," The sum of £20 to be delivered unto some honest man, who is to be bound "wth sucrtys" to pay JOHN CLUNE, mason, during his life xijd weekly, and to keep the said sum after after the death of the said JOHN CLUNE, until the marriage of the aforesaid ALICE BALARDINE. If ALICE should die before her marriage, the money is to be for her mother ; and if the latter be also dead, it is to be given "gevyn to the marriage of pore maydens." To ANNE HEM'YNG three tenements on Redcliffe hill, for her life ; reversion to THOMAS GOODALE and his heirs for ever. To godson WILLIAM HEMYNG, and to his lawfull issue, a tenement lying "in Wynestreatte," inhabited by JOHN OATTLEY, goldsmith ; in def., rem. to THOMAS GOODALE and his heirs. To servant KATHERINE SMYTHE £5 at her marriage ; but if she should die unmarried, the money is to be given to the marriage of "other pore Maidens within the Cytie," To the forenamed JOHN CLUNE " a gowne of myne Rattes color furryd with blake A fryse cote A marble cote Two shyrtes," &c. To ROBERT BUTLER, merchant, £50, and he to pay to "my sisters JANE and JOHAN BALLARDE during there lyfes" £4 by the year. To wife ALICE BALLARDE £100 in money, and all the plate " that I hadd with her," household stuff, &c. She also to have and enjoy during her life, testator's dwelling house, and all his other tenements ; also £20 by the year, to be paid quarterly by ROBERT BUTLER, merchant, to whom the sum of £200 is to be delivered ; the said money to be repaid at "the end of iiij or years next after the decease of my wife." To the said ROBERT, and after his decease, to his eldest son FRANCIS BUTLER, and to his heirs for ever, testator's dwelling house, with the appurtenances, "sett lying and being in Balland street." To the said ROBERT " my Ryng with a Rubye." To Mr THOMAS TISON " my gilte hanger with A Christall ballet." To Mastress TYSON a gown cloth "of my fine clothe." To GEORGE SNYGG "my Sword and a gowne clothe of my fine clothe," To the said GEORGE's wife a gown cloth of the same. To servants ROGER AFYLDE and WILLIAM TILER forty shillings apiece. To MAULBE "my women" twenty shillings, &c. "I will that my sister JANE or JOHAN' BALLARDE who doth possesse my howse and grouwnd therto belonging at Hardewyke in the countie of Harforde that they or either of them at the nexte cowrte holden in the Lordshippe do acknowledge and nomynate THOMAS GOODALE aforesaid or Kynsman' to be the nexte heire." ROBERT BUTLER merchant, to be sole executor, and have the residue of unbequeathed goods. He is to "make ij Ryngs of the value of xI? In golde," to be given for tokens to JAMES BAILYE and his wife. Legacies to ELIZABETH and BRIDGET BUTLER, daughters of the said ROBERT, to the aforesaid THOMAS GOODALE, and ALICE BOLARDYNE, Mr WILLIAM CARR, merchant, and THOMAS TYSON to be overseers, and have a gown apiece. Proved in the Cathedral Church of Bristol, April 24th 1554. BRISTOL WILLS "Wadley". 303 - WILLIAM BALLARDE "WILL"
Item Mr. Ballarde gave in plate and money letle more or less L li to the daughters one of Bullardyne to be paid at the hands of Robert Butler who was his executor. Calendar of Bristol Apprentice Book 1532-1565 Part III 1562-1565 Bristol Record Society's Publications Vol. XLIII
WILLIAM TYLER Merchant, admitted unto the liberties of the City of Bristol, the xijth of May for that he was prentis with WILLIAM BALLARD late Burgess. MERCHANTS AND MERCHANDISE IN 16th CENTURY BRISTOL.
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