III.1. - Benedictines, Dunkirk: Abstracts of Bills of Exchange

Summary

These surviving bills of exchange are included here to show the considerable extent of the northern European network which underlay the support of the English clients; the corresponding payment requests channelled through Dame Benedicta also survive but are less informative. A considerable range of names appears, most of them unknown and presumably of well-disposed small traders. A few similar dockets survive for the other convents.

Bills of exchange issued by Dame Benedicta Fleetwood [also Fletewood], drawn on MS, 1730–44. Blount MSS, D 7/44–156

1. 26 March 1730 (NS). Blount MSS, D 7/44

£48 4s 2d to Madam Marcadé, widow, for ‘value here received’, drawn on MS at Gray's Inn or if not there at Mr Wyke's, ‘a goldsmith over against Gray's Inn Gate in Holborn’. Accepted by MS 25 March (OS). Endorsed 30 March in French with Mme Marcadé's assignment to Messrs Bullock & Moller, whose receipt is witnessed by J.J. Helmoke.

2. 29 October 1730 (NS). Blount MSS, D 7/45

£50 to William Keetin, drawn on MS (or, failing him, Mr Wyke, goldsmith, next to Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn). Accepted by MS 27 October 1730 (OS). Endorsed with Keetin's instruction to pay to George Lane's account.

3. 7 December 1730 (NS). Blount MSS, D 7/46

£72 to Nicolas François Doncquers, drawn on MS (or, failing him, Mr Wyke, goldsmith, next to Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn). Accepted by MS 2 December 1730 (OS). Endorsed with Doncquers's assignment to Peter Flower (witness: M. Martyn).

4. 24 May 1731 (NS). Blount MSS, D 7/47

£32 17s 11d to William Uré of Dunkirk, drawn on MS (or, failing him, Mr Wyke, goldsmith, next to Gray's Inn Gate, Holborn). Accepted for MS by Henry Trubshaw, ‘clerk to M[r]. MS’, 4 June 1731 (OS). Endorsed in French with Uré's assignment of payment to Roger Marrow, who assigns to George Green, who assigns to Wm. Hutchinson.