Sir Stephen Slaney (1524 - 1608) was an
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merchant, four times Master of the
Worshipful Company of Skinners
The Worshipful Company of Skinners (known as The Skinners' Company) is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. It was originally an association of those engaged in the trade of skins and furs. It was granted Royal Charter in 1327 ...
,
[ and Alderman, Sheriff and ]Lord Mayor of London
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. He has been called "one of the most picturesque of the Elizabethan Merchant Adventurers".[
]
Career
Stephen Slaney was the son of John Slaney of Mitton (in Penkridge
Penkridge ( ) is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in South Staffordshire, South Staffordshire District in Staffordshire, England. It is to the south of Stafford, north of Wolverhampton, west of Cannock and east of Telford. ...
, in Staffordshire
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)[G. Grazebrook and J.P. Rylands (eds), ''The Visitation of Shropshire, Taken in the Year 1623, by Robert Tresswell and Augustine Vincent, with additions'', Harleian Society, 2 vols XXVIII-XXIX (1889), II,]
p. 438
(Internet Archive). and the grandson of Ralph Slaney of Yardley in Worcestershire
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. He is said to have been the younger brother of John Slaney of Shifnal
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, Shropshire,[ and also had brothers William (who died before 1598) and Henry (living 1598). He was married on 22 January 1559/60 at ]St Mildred, Poultry
St Mildred, Poultry, was a parish church in the Cheap (ward), Cheap ward of the City of London dedicated to Anglo-Saxon Mildrith, Saint Mildred. It was rebuilt after the Great Fire of London, and demolished in 1872. St Mildred in the Poultry was ...
to Margaret, daughter of Jasper Pheasant (Fesaunt), magistrate, of Tottenham
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, Middlesex, and his wife Margaret, daughter of George Henyngham of Tottenham (died 1537),['Phesant', in J.J. Howard (ed.), ''The Visitation of London, Anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635. Made by Sr. Henry St. George, kt., Richmond Herald'', 2 vols, Harleian Society XVI-XVII (1883), II]
p. 158
(Internet Archive). so establishing his kinship with puritan interests among the City's ruling group. Stephen embarked upon London mercantile life as a freeman and officer of the Worshipful Company of Skinners
The Worshipful Company of Skinners (known as The Skinners' Company) is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. It was originally an association of those engaged in the trade of skins and furs. It was granted Royal Charter in 1327 ...
.
In April 1566 Stephen and the merchant Francis Barnham (died 1575) acted as feoffees for Sir Thomas Wentworth in the alienation, for Wentworth's uses, of the manors of Chatham
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, Rochester
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, Horsted and others in Kent. 1568 he assisted Wolstan Dixie
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He was the son of Thomas Dixie and Anne Jephson, who lived at Catworth in Huntingdonshire. Wolstan was the fourth son ...
in the purchase, for Dixie's heirs, from Sir Thomas Wentworth and his wife the manors of Staynton (held of the Crown in chief) and Awkborough (North Lincolnshire), and lands there, together with free fishery in the waters of the River Humber
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by fine
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in the Common Pleas: for this a pardon of alienation had to be obtained in March 1569. He became a substantial figure in the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
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, and was among those named in Elizabeth
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's commission of 1572 to empower the sale, for the recovery of debts, of the ships and merchandize of the subjects of the Catholic King arrested since 1568/69. In around 1575 he was informed against for having imposed a usurious mortgage, and was fined £7,800, part of which was payable to the Queen. For that part, amounting to £3,900, he received a pardon through the intervention of influential associates.
Slaney engaged in Mediterranean trade as what was afterwards called a Turkey merchant
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, and it is said that on one occasion he was captured by the Turks and had to give up his entire fortune (or at least Norton in Chebsey
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, in Staffordshire) as a ransom.[F. Harrison, ''The Proprietors of the Northern Neck. Chapters of Culpeper Genealogy'' (The Old Dominion Press, Richmond, Va. 1926)]
p. 44
(Hathi Trust). He served as Auditor to the City in 1576-1578 and again in 1581-1583. He first became master of his company (Skinners) in 1585. His first term as alderman was for Portsoken
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Ward, in 1584-1586, and he was chosen Sheriff of the City of London
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, with Henry Billingsley
Sir Henry Billingsley (died 22 November 1606) was an English merchant, Lord Mayor of London and the first translator of Euclid into English.
Early life
He was a son of Sir William Billingsley, haberdasher and assay master of London, and his wif ...
, for 1584-85.[ ]Anthony Mundy
Anthony Munday (or Monday) (1560?10 August 1633) was an English playwright and miscellaneous writer. He was baptized on 13 October 1560 in St Gregory by St Paul's, London, and was the son of Christopher Munday, a stationer, and Jane Munday. He ...
addressed to them, and to the Lord Mayor Thomas Pullyson
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He was Sheriff of London in 1574 and then Lord Mayor for 1584, during the reign of Elizabeth I. He applied, unsuccessfully, for the theatres to be closed. He was succeeded by Wolstan ...
, his address warning of traitors within. In 1585 the Merchant Adventurers appointed Slaney to a committee in 1585 to confer with Captain Christopher Carleill
Christopher Carleill ( 15511593) was an English military and naval commander.
Life
Born about 1551, he was the son of Alexander Carleill, citizen and vintner of London, by his wife Anne, daughter of Sir George Barne. After Alexander's death, C ...
"upon a voyage intending to the uttermost parts of America".[ He then transferred to the ]Coleman Street Ward
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The ward, which includes land lying on either side of the former city wall, takes its name from ...
in 1586, and was again chosen master of his company in 1587. After being elected master a third time in 1591, he served as Lord Mayor of London for 1595-96.[W.H. Overall, ''Analytical Index To The Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia, A.D. 1579-1664'' (E.J. Francis & Co., London 1878)]
p. 80, note
(Google).
The Mayoralty, 1595-1596
At the start of his mayoral term, a general overhaul of the forces for the defence of the realm was ordained. Some of the Lords of the Council were appointed to have dealings with the Mayor and Aldermen for the putting of the City's forces in order, their organization into bands to be led by men of judgement and experience, and (if necessary) for their augmentation. Out of the City's general forces, three thousand men were to be chosen to be prepared for defence of the counties of Kent and Sussex from the river Thames, and a fleet of barges was to be kept ready for their conveyance. His correspondence with the Privy Council in September 1595 contains interesting references to the playhouses in London. In December 1595 a survey was taken of all the poor householders in the wards and liberties of the City who were in need of present Relief, and the report was presented to Queen Elizabeth by the Mayor, which showed the number of householders to be 4,132.
In July 1596 a printed ballad was brought to him, complaining of the shortage of corn in the realm. As Slaney wrote to the Lord Treasurer, it contained "certain vain and presumptuous matters, bringing in the Queen, speaking with her people dialoguewise in very fond and undecent sort, and prescribing order for the remedying of this dearth". Although the information came from an official source, the poem was "done in that vain and indiscreet manner" so as to whip up discontent among the poor, and therefore Slaney summoned the printer and publisher, who falsely claimed to have a licence for it. The author was Thomas Deloney
Thomas Deloney (born ; died in or shortly before 1600) was an English silk-weaver, novelist, and ballad writer.
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Thomas Deloney was born sometime in the middle decades of the 16th century; the precise date is not recorded. Although ofte ...
, "an idle fellow", who had also written a similarly disorderly pamphlet for the Silk-weavers, but the Mayor was unable to find or arrest him. Over the following months four more libellous pamphlets were found which were being dispersed seditiously in the City, and these he also forwarded to the Lord Treasurer. The City magistrates at that time were determined not to permit unworthy or disrespectful speeches against the monarch.[J.F. Wadmore, ''Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Skinners of London, being the Guild or Fraternity of Corpus Christi'' (Blades, East and Blades, London 1902), a]
pp. 168-69
an
p. 194
(Internet Archive); (Revised, enlarged and corrected from the same author's article of 1882). Slaney's letter of August 1596 to the Merchant Taylors suggesting they forego their annual feast and apply the money to a charitable purpose received the reply that this had already been done.
Slaney transferred his aldermanry once more, this time to the Broad Street Ward from 1596 until his death in 1608. His fourth term as master of his company was in 1598.[A.B. Beaven, ''The Aldermen of the City London, temp. Henry III.-1908'', 2 vols (The City Corporation, London 1913), II]
p. 42
(Internet Archive). In that year Sir Stephen Slaney, his son Jasper Slaney, and kinsman John Slaney of London, appear as partners, and Humphrey Slaney, a merchant resident at Middelburg Middelburg may refer to:
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, as factor or dealer there for Jasper Slaney. They have been engaged in shipping corn and rye from Zeeland
, nl, Ik worstel en kom boven("I struggle and emerge")
, anthem = "Zeeuws volkslied"("Zeelandic Anthem")
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, m ...
on behalf of Thomas Offley (jnr), citizen and leather seller of London, who brings a suit for detention, accusing John and Jasper of collusion against him. By the close of this hearing in 1598, which was found for the plaintiff, Humphrey Slaney has become Administrator of Jasper Slaney's affairs. Sir Stephen was subsequently President of the Bethlem and Bridewell in 1599-1600, President of Christ's Hospital
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1602-08, and Surveyor-General of Hospitals 1604-08.[
]
Death and legacy
Stephen died on 27 December 1608, aged 84, and was buried in a vault beneath the church of St Swithin, London Stone
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, Walbrook
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Ward, where his memorial inscription "on a fair tomb in the east end of the north aisle" was recorded by Anthony Mundy
Anthony Munday (or Monday) (1560?10 August 1633) was an English playwright and miscellaneous writer. He was baptized on 13 October 1560 in St Gregory by St Paul's, London, and was the son of Christopher Munday, a stationer, and Jane Munday. He ...
.[John Strype, ''A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster'']
Book 2 Chapter 13, p. 191
(Strype's Survey Online). (The church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London
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, 1666, and rebuilt by Wren
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, but finally demolished in 1954.) His will (written in 1598) left £6 for 12 sermons in St Swithin's church, and was proved in 1609.[Will of Stephen Slany, Alderman of Saint Swithin, City of London (P.C.C. 1609, Dorset quire).] As befitted a Lord Mayor, he made large charitable bequests, including £100 to the poor children of Christ's Hospital, 100 marks to freeing of prisoners from the Counters of Wood Street and the Poultry, £6.13s.04d to the poor of St Thomas' Hospital, and the same to St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Bridewell, £5 for poor prisoners in the King's Bench and the same to the Marshalsea, £10 to the poor of Coleman Street, £5 to the poor of Portsoken Ward and £5 to the poor of St Swithin's parish. The Skinners were to have 72 poor men's cloaks for distribution, and £15 to hold his funeral dinner.
The will also mentioned Chebsey
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(£10 to the poor), Stone
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(£10 to the poor), Penkridge
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(£40 to poor maidens' marriages), Stafford
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(£10 to the poor) and Lichfield
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(£20 to the poor), in Staffordshire. There were bequests to his daughters and sons in law. His widow was his executor, and his three sons-in-law his Overseers. The only John Slaney he mentioned was his brother Henry's son: John had children of his own, and a sister (Alice[) with children, who was married to Mr Cotton, schoolmaster of ]Sevenoaks
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in Kent. John became Stephen's heir male, to whom he left his manor of Forshaw in Warwickshire (formerly settled on his son Stephen's marriage), and also the term of lease of the tenement and its appurtenances where Henry was yet living and was to remain. He gave also £66.13s.04d to be shared among all of Henry's children. Robert Slaney, the son of Stephen's late brother William, received £6.13s.04d.[
Slaney bore for arms, ''Gules, a bend between three martlets, or'' (1595):][ these appeared, together with those of Dame Margaret, in glass in a window of the church of St Swithin.
;Dame Margaret Slaney's Charities
His widow Dame Margaret died in 1619 leaving a will of her own (written in 1612), making her sons-in-law Sir Samuel Lennard and Thomas Colepeper, and her "cosens" John and Humphrey Slaney her overseers. By her codicil of 1618, owing to the death of Thomas Colepeper, she augments the inheritance of her Colepeper grandchildren, and provides that her niece Katherine Fesaunt and granddaughter Elizabeth Colepeper shall be cared for by her daughter Mary Weld.][Will (1612) and Codicil (1618) of Dame Margaret Slanye, widow of St Swithin, City of London (P.C.C. 1619, Parker quire).] She made very substantial charitable bequests. Among them was a gift of £40 to the Worshipful Company of Grocers
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, so that they should pay £3 a year to the poor of West Wickham
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in Kent, for their children to be apprenticed to useful trades. At the same time she also made the larger gift to that company, as trustees, of a fund of £2000 as a perpetual stock for the purchasing and re-uniting to the church of impropriated benefices and parsonages, the work to be audited annually at Christmas by the governors of Christ's Hospital. This led to the passage of an Act of Parliament in 1869. She was buried in the vault of St Swithin's church, and left £1200 (£1000, with £200 more added in the codicil) for the costs of her funerals, in which "noe offensive or superstitious ceremonies" were to be used.
Family
Sir Stephen Slaney and Dame Margaret, née Pheasant (Fesaunt), had five sons and six daughters,[ who were named as follows in his memorial inscription at St Swithin's:][
* Stephen Slaney, eldest son, of Norton, Shropshire, married Catherine, daughter of Sir Walter Aston, MP, and predeceased his father. A settlement was made in August 1593 (34 Eliz. I).][ He was survived by his only daughter Anna, who married (Sir) William Litton of ]Knebworth
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, Hertfordshire.[
* Jasper Slaney, matriculated Fellow Commoner from ]Christ's College, Cambridge
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, 1590/91. He died unmarried, c. 1598.
* Thomas Slaney, died unmarried
* Richard Slaney, died aged 2
* Timothy Slaney, died aged 2 months
* Maria Slaney, the firstborn, survived, married first to Richard Bradgate, Skinner (died 1589), and then to Sir Humphrey Weld
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Career
Weld's family roots were in Eaton and Congleton, Cheshire. He was the fourth son of John Weld of Eaton and his wife Joanna FitzHugh. ...
, Lord Mayor of London. Dame Mary Weld died in 1623 and left an extensive will.[Will of Dame Mary Weld, Widow of London (P.C.C. 1623, Swann quire).]
* Alicia Slaney (I), died
*Elizabeth Slaney married Samuel Lennard, MP and was the mother of Sir Stephen Lennard, first of the Lennard baronets
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The Lennard Baronetcy, of West Wickham in the County of ...
.
* Alicia Slaney (II), died
* Anna Slaney, married Thomas Colepeper, MP, Esq. (died 1613), and died c. 1602 after having three children including Slaney, Elizabeth (who became Elizabeth Brooke Elizabeth Brooke may refer to:
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), and Sir John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper
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.
* Martha Slaney, died unmarried
;John and Humphrey Slany
John and Humphrey Slany are evidently to be identified with those mentioned as "cosens" in the wills of Dame Margaret Slaney (1618)[ and her daughter Dame Mary Weld (1623),][ and are the brothers who appear in the parish registers of St Martin Pomary (Ironmonger Lane) between 1593 and 1648, and in the will of John Slany of Ironmonger Lane (1632), and of their brother Richard Slany (1620). Sir Humphrey Weld, in his will of 1610, bequeathes to his cosen Joane Slany, wife of Humphrey Slany, the lease of his garden near ]Moorfields
Moorfields was an open space, partly in the City of London, lying adjacent to – and outside – its northern wall, near the eponymous Moorgate. It was known for its marshy conditions, the result of the defensive wall acting like a dam, i ...
and Moorgate
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The gate was demolished in 1762, b ...
. Dame Mary mentions Dorothy, the daughter of her cozen Humphrey Slaney: an allegation for the marriage of Dorothy Slaney aged about 19, daughter of Humfrey, to William Clobery aged about 20, both of St Martin's Ironmonger Lane, was registered in London on 6 April 1621. Humphrey Slany and William Cloberry operated as partners in the West Africa trade during the 1620s. John Slany was, according to his will, born at Barrow, Shropshire
Barrow is a hamlet and civil parish in Shropshire, England, some 5 miles south of Telford between Ironbridge and Much Wenlock.
Although Barrow itself consists of a church and just a few dwellings, the parish extends from Broseley to the eastern ...
, in the neighbourhood of Willey, seat of the Weld family, and of Linley, where the Slaneys held the farm estate called "The Hem": this group of villages lies just south of Broseley
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. It appears likely from these evidences that John and Humphrey were sons of a brother of Sir Stephen Slaney's, but whether of Henry Slany, or of another, is not settled. The John Slany John Slany, Slaney or Slanie, etc. (died 1632),Will of John Slany, Merchant Taylor of London (P.C.C. 1632, Audley quire). was an English merchant and ship builder of Shropshire origins who became Master of the Merchant Taylor's Company in 1620, and ...
who became Secretary of the Newfoundland Company
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is also taken to be the same person: John and Humphrey Slany are named in James I James I may refer to:
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*James I of Aragon (1208–1276)
*James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327)
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*James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347)
*James I of Cyprus (1334–13 ...
's charter to the company, and had a significant place in its story.[A. Brown, ''The Genesis of the United States'', 2 vols (Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston and New York 1897), II]
p. 1004
(Internet Archive).
References
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Sheriffs of the City of London
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