[30] Bernard Bailyn, “The Apologia of Robert Keayne,” Wm. and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., VII, 568–587. His will, Report of the Record Commissioners of Boston, X (Boston, 1886), 1–54; sermons attended in London, Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 2d ser., L, 204–207. See Recs. Mass. Bay, I, 128; Cal. S. P. Dom., 1627–28, 458; New England Hist. Gen. Reg., LXVII, 247; Bradford, “Letter Book,” 47; Aspinwall Notarial Records 1644–51, 92; Winthrop Papers, V, 351; Oliver A. Roberts, History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts now called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts 1637–1888 (Boston, 1895), I, 12, 20.
[31] Mary Freer Keeler, The Long Parliament, 1640–41 (Philadelphia, 1954), 390; Frances Rose-Troup, John White: the Patriarch of Dorchester ... (New York, 1930), 56, 460, 163n., 73n.; Winthrop Papers, II, 82n., 97; Andrews, Col. Per. Amer. Hist., I, 345, citing Bradford, History, ed. Ford, I, 406. The correct reference is ibid., 416. Isabel M. Calder, “A Seventeenth Century Attempt to Purify the Anglican Church,” Amer. Hist. Rev., LIII, 761, 774n.; Pearl, London and the Outbreak, 194–195. It is possible that the John White named as an owner of ships at Plymouth, Devon, is the lawyer, although it might also be John White of Dorchester, Cal. S. P. Dom., 1628–29, 301, 306, 440, 441; ibid., 1629–31, 154, 156.
[32] To identify John Beauchamp is particularly difficult. Ford has him as the son of Thomas Beauchamp of Cosgrave, Nottinghamshire. Using the same reference cited by him (Visitation of London, 1633–35, 59), I read it as Cosgrave, Northamptonshire. His marriage to Alice Freeman, whose brother, Edmund Freeman, acted as Beauchamp’s attorney in Plymouth in 1641, seems to establish him as the right Beauchamp. See Bradford, History, ed. Ford, II, 296n. Beaven makes John Beauchamp, Salter, Alderman for Billingsgate Ward in 1651, and gives as his will a reference to a John Beauchamp of the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate Without (Beaven, Aldermen of London, II, 75; P.C.C. Hene [1668]), who left as heirs no wife or children, whereas the John Beauchamp connected with Plymouth had several sons and daughters. This will must be that of another man. In 1649 and after, a John Beauchamp of Surrey appeared in the same committees as James Sherley and Edward Winslow, such as those for collecting the army assessment or to sell goods from the estate of Charles I, A.O.I., 1642–60, II, 44, 160, 310, 479, 676. See also Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 100, 198, 199, 386n.; Friis, Alderman Cockayne’s Project, 110n.; P.R.O., Chancery, C. 3/431/12; Cal. S. P. Dom., 1628–29, 285; Harvey, Inhabitants of London, 1640, 18; T. C. Dale, transcriber, “Citizens of London, 1641–43,” (London, 1936; typescript, Guildhall Library).
[33] Bradford, “Letter Book,” 34; Goldsmiths’ Company, London, Apprentice Book, I, 1578–1645, 151; Wardens’ Accounts and Court Minutes, vol. P, pt. 1 (1611–17), 76, 198; pt. 2 (1617–24), 189 and passim, 76, 77, 79; vol. Q, pt. 1 (1624–29), 79; vol. R, pt. 2 (1631–34), 193, 195, 199, 200, 223, 224, 225; vol. T (1637–39), 185, 186, 189; vol. V (1639–42), 58, 62; vol. unlettered [W] (1642–45), 228, 237. Presumably because he was living in Clapham, James Sherley is not listed among those who paid poll money to the Commissioners. A duty of the prime warden, with his second and third wardens, was to have custody of the plate belonging to the City of London, ibid., 238. In 1652 Sherley was appointed with other wardens to prepare an answer to a petition by the freemen of the Company to a committee of Parliament concerning their rights in choosing the wardens, Sir Walter S. Prideaux, Memorials of the Goldsmiths’ Company ... (London, 1896), II, 24.
Of the several James Sherleys who are contemporaries, I have concluded that the James Sherley, third son of Robert Sherley, originally of Wistonston, was the one involved with the Plymouth venture. The other James Sherleys in this family are (1) the eldest son of John Sherley of London, and (2) the elder son of James Sherley, son of Robert. See Visitation of London, 1633–35, II, 235–236. It is difficult to determine whether the James Sherley, merchant, who owned houses in London in 1637 is the same, “Returns of Divided Houses in the City of London, 1637,” 208. The one who appeared with Robert Sherley to turn over property to Robert’s daughter, Sara, in 1632 is our man, P.R.O., C. 54/2950; see also Registers of St. Vedast, Foster Lane (Harl. Soc., 1902) 35, for birth of Sara in 1611.
“Foynes” or foins were originally fur of the weasel family, or more generally, furs.
[34] On Sherley’s addresses, Marsden, Amer. Hist. Rev., VIII, 301; Plooij, Pilgrim Fathers from a Dutch Point of View, 100. Plooij says that London Bridge was his business address and Crooked Lane his “town house.” I have been unable to verify it. Sir Ambrose Heal, The London Goldsmiths, 1200–1800 (Cambridge, 1935), 242; Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 287; Acts of Administration, 1657 (Somerset House, London), fol. 242. Sherley’s public appointments, A.O.I., I, 730, and II, 14, 310, 479, 676, 1082, 975; also William A. Shaw, History of the English Church during the Civil Wars and under the Commonwealth (London, 1900), II, 434.
P.R.O., E. 134, 22 James I, Mich. 22; P.C.C. 86 Swann (1623); Bradford, “Letter Book,” 68. The ships owned in part by Sherley were the John and Mary and the Hector of London, 220 tons and 250 tons respectively. Sherley refers to sending a letter in the Mary and John, very likely the same ship. A vessel of that name brought goods to Boston in 1633 and 1633/34, P.R.O., S.P. 16/17/83 and 16/17/117; Winthrop Papers, III, 130, 149; Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 391; Recs. Mass. Bay, II, 262. The Lyon sent to Boston in 1632 belonged to Sherley and the other London partners in the “Undertakers”; it was lost on its way to Virginia bearing 800 pounds of beaver as returns, Bradford, op. cit., 254–255.
[35] Pearl, London and the Outbreak, 126n., 147, 148n., 255n., 265; Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 104, 106; Cal. S. P., Dom., 1625–26, 430; Journal of Sir Simonds d’Ewes, ed. Wallace Notestein (New Haven, 1923), 77.
[36] In his explanation of the division of the assets and value of a single share, Professor Andrews appears to have applied the terms of the 1627 division to the 1640 list of “purchasers,” Col. Per. Amer. Hist., I, 285–286. Goodwin, Pilgrim Republic, 292–295, is substantially correct in listing the 156 individuals who shared in the 1627 division of land. The total assets in land prior to division cannot be ascertained. See Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Morison, 375, 376, Robinson’s comments; 194, 196, organization of “Undertakers”; 382, 214, cost of bringing over company from Leyden; Bradford, “Letter Book,” 58, 65, Sherley on other partners.