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Mannock Strickland (1683-1744) from APPENDICES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2017
Where appropriate, the reference numbers to the Who Were the Nuns? database are given; readers are referred there for further information. Some information (mostly dates) comes from the Blount MSS and from Strickland's papers within them. An asterisk (*) indicates a client or associate of Strickland. Only individuals for whom further information is known are included here.
Ailesbury, Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of (1656–1741). Jacobite; member of James II's court.
Aire, Mrs. Presumably Mrs Eyre.
Alsace, Mme d’, Prévote of the Fondation de Lalaing et de Berlaymont (Augustinian convent in Brussels founded 1626).
*Andrews [Andrew], Bridget (c. 1698–1783). Eldest daughter of Sir Francis Andrew (or Andrews), 4th Baronet (d. 1759) of Pudding Norton, Norfolk. Married Philip Southcote of Weybridge, Surrey, a younger son of Sir Edward Southcote of Witham, Essex, all of them Strickland clients. Sir Francis's only surviving son, William (d. 1804), being a lunatic, the estate was left to Bridget. There was a connection by marriage with the Petre family.
Arthur, Daniel (1620–1705), banker, of Paris and London, uncle of Mannock Strickland. Knighted by James II in 1690 but also trusted by William III. Jacobite exile in St Germain-en-Laye. His son, also called Daniel, followed his father into banking and was one of Strickland's foreign exchange sources and gained a reputation as chief banker to the Jacobites. Arthur's second wife, Anne Mannock, was the sister of Strickland's mother, Bridget. The parties to his marriage settlement in 1672 included Sir Richard Bellings, secretary to Queen Catherine of Braganza.
Ashmall, Mary (Mary Joseph) OSA (d. 1765), WWTN LA 007. Augustinian choir nun, Louvain. Professed 1717. Daughter of Robert Ashmall, attorney to Lady Mary Petre and agent for the English Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre at Liege, at which Strickland's daughter Henrietta was educated at the shared expense of her father and Lady Goring. Money for her support was supplied by Strickland via the Paris banker Richard Cantillon, paid direct to her own account once converted to French livres: £50 each in November 1735, July 1738 and September 1737. He switched this payment in 1739, using George Fitzgerald & Co. in London for transmission to the Parisian banker George Waters senior.
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