References
- Of the parish of St Bride's, Fleet Street
- Waters , H. F. 1901 . Genealogical Gleanings in England, cites no fewer than twenty different spellings of the name Rainsborough
- Op. cit
- 1619 . Sir John Wolstenholme (1562–1639) was one of the incorporators of the East India Company and a Commissioner of the Navy (His house in Seething Lane became in 1654 the office of the Commissioners of the Navy, so often mentioned by Pepys
- 1584 . Probably George Rudolph Wecherlin, born at Stuttgart in and settled in England. Under Secretary of State in the reign of Charles I. On the outbreak of the Civil War he took the Parliamentary side and in 1644 was made ‘Secretary for Foreign Tongues’, an office which he held until the constitution of the Council of State in 1649, when he was displaced by Milton. He died in Germany in 1653
- Life of Sir Henry Mainwaring 263 In the lists of the last two years the name is given as Richard Seaman, but it seems probable that this is the same man. See vol. I, pp., 269, 288, 291
- Sampson In the he took part in the action off Leghorn in which his ship was taken by the Dutch and soon after blew up
- Bence , Alexander . 1628 . was Master of Trinity House at the Restoration, having been appointed by the House of Commons three months before the return of the King. His brother, Squire Bence, had been a Younger Brother of the Corporation since before
- 18 February 1620 . 18 February , A son, also William Harris, mariner, died on a voyage to the East Indies, and on his widow, Elizabeth, married the already mentioned Brian Harrison. She was buried at Wapping in 1625 and soon afterwards Harrison married Susanna, widow of James Carter of Wapping, late Master of the ship Anne, in the Virginia trade, of which he and Harrison were the owners
- Bourne , Robert . 1625 . shipwright, father of Nehemiah Bourne, died in and his widow then leased the family shipyard at Wapping to John Hoxton and John Taylor. This was probably the John Taylor who built the London in 1656 and her successor, the Loyal London, in 1666. John Hoxton subsequently removed to Stepney where he died in 1670
- The Mariner's Mirror Parts of this account of Rainsborough's doings have been taken from Mr Anderson's article on ‘The Royalists at Sea in 1648’, printed in in 1923. Some of the modifications are also due to Mr Anderson