Gc M 942.006 H87pu v.27 1417132 ENEALOGY COLLECTION «* Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/lettersofdenizat2717hugu LETTERS OF DENIZATION AND ACTS OF NATURALIZATION FOR ALIENS IN ENGLAND & IRELAND 1701-1800 A ' ' " • ^ . I V .. - V. THE Publications of The Huguenot Society of London FOUNDED A.D. MDCCCLXXXY VOLUME XXVII Printed by SHERRATT AND HUGHES, MANCHESTER 1923 The COUNCIL of the HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF LONDON desires it to be understood that it is not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society’s publications; the Editors of the several Works being alone responsible for the same. Cbe Ibuguenot Society of Xonbon. (Inaugurated 15 th April, 1885 .) OFFICERS AND COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1922=23. president. WYATT WYATT-PAINE, F.S.A. Dice-lprestoents. The Right Hon. the Earl of Radnor. Sir William Wyndham Portal, Bart., F.S.A. George Beaumont Beeman. Charles Poyntz Stewart, F.S.A. Scot. William Minet, F.S.A. Council. The Rev. William George Cazalet. Sir Robert Alfred McCale, K.C.V.O., K.C. Thomas Colyer Colyer-Fergusson. W. H. Manchee. Robert William Dibdin. Ernest Carrington Ouvry, M.B.E., F.S.A. Alfred Edward Duchesne. Ft. -Col. Sir Alexander Brooke Pechell, Sir W. Everard B. ffolkes, Bart. Bart., R.A.M.C. Francis de Havilland Hall, M.D., F.R.C.P. Samuel Romilly Roget, A.M.Inst.C.E., Edward Heathcote Lefroy. A.M.I.E.E. treasurer. Arthur Herve Browning, 16 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. 1 Ibon. Secretary. Colonel Duncan George Pitcher. Deputy Ibon. Secretary. Samuel Romilly Roget, 13 Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, W. 8. assistant Secretary. M. S. Giuseppi, F.S.A., 72 Burlington Avenue, Kew Gardens, Surrey. trustees. The Treasurer. William Minet, F.S.A., V.P. Samuel Romilly Roget. Albert Edward Towle Jourdain. ' LETTERS OF DENIZATION AND ACTS OF NATURALIZATION FOR ALIENS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND 1701 — 1800 EDITED BY WILLIAM A. SHAW, Litt.D. ” “ Editor of ‘‘The Calendar of Treasury Papers ; Author of The History of Currency,” “The History of the Commonwealth Church,” “The Knights of England,” etc. % MANCHESTER 1923 MANCHESTER Only four hundred and fifty copies privately printed for the Huguenot Society of London by Sherratt & Hughes. 1417132 Prefatory Note. In the preceding volume to the present publication (viz., Denizations and Naturalizations, 1600— 1700, Vol. XVIII of the publications of the Huguenot Society) I gave an introductory outline of the history of Naturalization Law so far as relates to England, Ireland and the Plantations from mediaeval times to the present. To that introduction Mr. Giuseppi has contributed additional material as far as concerns the Plantations in the eighteenth century in his introduction to his separately edited volume (“ Naturalization of Foreign Protestants IN THE American Colonies,” Vol. XXIV of the publications of the Huguenot Society, 1921.) For the present these two introductions carry the sketch of the history of the law of naturalization as far as it can be carried until further documentary material is available. It was my intention (and was so announced in the introduction to the earlier volume of this work, Vol. XVIII) to follow up the above introduction by a second one which was intended to take its place in the present volume and which was to deal with the religious history of France from the point of view of the influence of that history upon the ebb and flow of the various streams of waves of migration evidenced in the lists of naturalized persons. But that promise was made in 1911, and since 1911 the great war has happened and personal bereavement has come to me, and I am no longer able to carry out my promise. It would have entailed unremitting- study of sources in France and that is now precluded. I therefore send this volume forth shorn of such introduction, but it is probably none the worse for that. All that is necessary further to state here is that on pp. 7.2 —77 will be found a full explanatory note on the episode of Oath Roll Naturalizations in the time of Queen Anne. The index to the present volume has been compiled by my sister-in-law, Miss Catherine Goldsbrough, to whom my warmest thanks are due. It has been a task of forbidding difficulty. Quite frequently one and the same person applied, firstly, for denization, and then, secondly, at a subsequent period for naturalization. In the first case his name is usually given in a Latin form on the privy seal or on the patent roll. In the second place, his name is invariably given in an English form in the private Act preserved in the House of Lords. Between the two forms there may be, and frequently is, the greatest variety. The problem of the index has been not merely to bring these variant forms together under one and the same heading so as to preserve identity but also to guide the modern searcher to the most probable equivalent modern form by an elaborate system of cross references. In such a procedure perfection is unattainable. But a really earnest attempt has been made to make the index really serviceable by such grouping and such cross references. With regard to my own editorial method, it is perhaps necessary to draw -attention to the fact that to each Naturalization Act I have prefixed, in square brackets, a legislative history of the Act, the preparatory petitions, the procedure in Committees, the successive votes in both Houses and the PREFATORY NOTE final assent. The toil involved in such editorial work has been heartbreaking. But it has not been resultless. Quite apart from the number of cases of private Acts introduced and not proceeded upon (and which are therefore not included in the House of Lords collection of private Acts, but which are rescued and preserved in the present volume), the Committee proceedings frequently furnish names which were put forward at certain stages and subsequently dropped, either for want of sacramental certificate or for want of payment of fees, or even because of positive hostility on the part of the Committee or of either House. I hese omitted names are all preserved ambulando in the introductions or in the footnotes to each successive Naturalization Act throughout the present volume. William A. Shaw. ; NATURALIZATIONS NATURALIZATION ACT. 13 Wm. III., No. 37. [Petition read 1 700-1 Mar. 22 for the bill. This petition stated that Jane Barkstead, widow and relict of Francis Barkstead, late citizen and mercer of London, deceased, was the daughter of George Gill, and was born at Lyons in France, but sent over into England very young, about 30 years ago and married the said Francis Barkstead who was an Englishman, died about years since, leaving infant children to who 7 3 ; whom he by his will gave a third part of his estate and made the petitioner executrix who proved the will and put out her children’s money at interest upon securities which have been approved by the Court of Chancery that the persons who borrowed ; the said money are ready to pay it in but are advised that the petitioner being a foreigner cannot re-assign or make a good title without being naturalized. The bill was accordingly ordered on that day; was presented 1701 April 1; read a first time on April 1 passed the third reading on May was agreed to by the ; 24 ; Lords without amendment on June 9 and received the royal assent on June 12. See xiii, Lords Journals Commons Journals pp. 423, 463, 466, 475, 515, 552, 563, 603, 625 ; xvi, pp. 728, 729, 739.] Jane Barkstead (Widow), wife of Francis Barkstead, late Citizen and Mercer of London, born at Towers in France (although her father’s grandfather was a native of England). NATURALIZATION ACT. 13 Wm. III., No. 38. [Petition presented 1701 April for the bill. The petition stated that Archibald Arthur as heir to Thomas Parker, deceased, is entitled to several lands in Co. Essex and is in quiet possession of the same; is intending to make a settlement thereof but is informed he cannot do the same being born in Holland. The bill was ordered on April 1 presented April read a first time April passed the Commons on ; on 10; 17; passed the Lords on and received the royal assent on 12. June 2 ; June 10, June See xiii, Journals Commons Journals pp. 464, 479, 497, 502, 513, 586, 590, 614, 626 ; Lords xvi, pp. 716, 721, 732, 739. For his Sacramental certificate, etc., see Hist. MSS. Reports, House of Lords MSS., new series, vol. iv, p. 388.] Archibald Arthur, of English Parents, but born out of the King’s allegiance. NATURALIZATION ACT. 13 Wm. III., No. 39. [Auguste Pyniott’s (Pynyot, Piniot) petition was read in the Lords 1701 April 1. It stated that he was born of Protestant parents in Normandy but not bred in F ranee; he belongs to the Protestant religion as established in the Church of England, for k ; NATURALIZATIONS. the better enjoyment whereof he left his native country, and has resided here io years where he hopes ever to abide. He was ordered to be included in Lofland’s naturalization bill but was not so included. His bill was read a first time in the Lords April 9. In Committee his brother Hector Francis Pynyot and Henry Ditch were ordered to be added to his bill. Hector Francis Pynyot’s petition, read on April 10, stated that he was born of Protestant parents in France, came over for the better enjoyment of his religion and intends to continue here.