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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
The following paper is perhaps more historical than is now customary with us, but I venture to quote in my defence the second paragraph of our charter, which commends not only the study of “Antiquity” but of the “History of former times.”
The paper chiefly describes the later connexion of the Germans with the Steelyard in London, that is from 1598, when they were turned out for a time by Queen Elizabeth, supplementing Dr. J. M. Lappenberg's book on the Hanseatic settlement here, published at Hamburg in 1851, which we have in our library. Incidentally I have written a note on the carved screen of All Hallows the Great, the parish church of the Steelyard.
page 389 note a Urkundliche Geschichte des Hansischen Stahlhofes zu London.
page 392 note a Acts of Privy Council, 1598, 102.
page 392 note b Acts of Privy Council, 1598–99, 260.
page 392 note c Acts of Privy Council. See also Harl. MS. 4182.
page 392 note d State Papers Domestic, cclxx. No. 68.
page 393 note a Acts of Privy Council, 1600, lxvi. A.
page 393 note b Acts of Privy Council, 1600–01, 65.
page 393 note c State Papers Domestic (Elizabeth), cclix. No. 49.
page 393 note d State Papers Domestic (Elizabeth), cclxxxiii. No. 51.
page 393 note e State Papers Domestic (Elizabeth), cclvi. No. 11.
page 394 note a State Papers Domestic (James I.), ix. No. 55.
page 394 note b Hist. MSS. Com. (Buccleuch Papers), i. 90Google Scholar.
page 394 note c Lay Subsidy, 147, 487, A.D. 1621.
page 395 note a Lappenberg, part ii. 192.
page 395 note b State Papers Domestic (Charles I.), xxxviii. No. 75.
page 395 note c State Papers Domestic (Charles I.), cxiii. No. 43.
page 395 note d Exchequer Special Commission, 5470.
page 395 note e State Papers Domestic (Charles I.), ccxc. No. 1.
page 396 note a State Papers Domestic (Charles I.), cccxi. No. 83.
page 396 note b Historical Manuscripts Commission (Fourth Report), Appendix, 62.
page 396 note c Lappenberg says that he was perhaps nephew of Hans Jacobsen, the well-known jeweller of James I., whose large house in Petticoat Lane, with a garden behind it, was afterwards occupied by the father of John Strype who edited the well-known edition of Stow's Survey.
page 397 note a Our authorities, with regard to these subjects, are State Papers Domestic (Charles II.), xvii. No. 32, September, 1660, and lxvi. No. 65, 1662, also Lappenberg, part i. 17–19, and for O'Neill and Grascoigne the Dictionary of National Biography.
page 397 note b State Papers Domestic (Charles II.), cxliii. Nos. 89 and 90.
page 398 note a Lappenberg, part i. 135. See also Chancery Masters’ Papers (Horne), 412. Jacobsen v. Almaine.
page 399 note a In the legal proceedings between the Jacobsens and of the Hanse towns many years afterwards, the latter affirmed that, according to Theodore's books, he had begun to build a small dwelling-house on the site in November, 1667, that in March, 1667–68, he mended the crane, and that in September he received money for cranage and for warehouse rent “which shows that all the warehouses were not burnt.” See Chancery Masters’ Papers (Horne), 412.
page 399 note b Lappenberg, part ii. 199–202.
page 399 note c Chancery Proceedings, 1714–1758, Bundle 471, 17th June, 1721.
page 399 note d Chancery Masters’ Papers, Master Horne, Bundle 412.
page 400 note a King's Letter Book, i. 11. State Papers Domestic, Entry Book, clxii.
page 400 note b State Papers Domestic, Entry Book, clxiii. 45Google Scholar.
page 400 note c Theodore, the testator, had made an affidavit in 1683, from which we gather that Jacob, who must have been by several years the elder of the two nephews, had been born in Hamburg, and that he was then about five years old, his mother being Idell Sherenbourg, wife of Heinrich Jacobsen. As the Theodore had no children he naturalized him, intending to bring him up a Protestant, in England, and to adopt him as heir.
page 401 note a In 1701, according to a Treasury Paper, vol. 76 No. 31, the goods of the New East India Company were here, and those of the Old East India Company were at St. Helen's and Leadenhall. It was certainly occupying the north wing of Crosby Place till 1702. The two companies were soon afterwards amalgamated.
page 401 note b Lappenberg, part i. 160.
page 402 note a Lappenberg, part i. 138.
page 402 note b Chancery Masters’ Papers, Horne, 412, Jacobsen v. Almaine.
page 405 note a Act of Parliament, 15 Edward IV. 23rd March, 1475.
page 406 note a Chancery Masters’ Papers. Master Horne, Bundle 412.
page 407 note a Chancery Proceedings, 1758–1800. Bundle 1911.
page 407 note b Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 207. Wake.
page 408 note a Lappenberg, part i. 138.
page 408 note b There are various references to the Rhenish wine-house in the writings of dramatists and others during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was frequented by Samuel Pepys before the Great Fire. In Thomas Blount's Glossographia (1656) he speaks of the Steelyard as “now only famous for Rhenish wines, neats’ tongues, &c.” but in his editions of 1670 and 1674 he says that it “was lately famous for these luxuries.” When describing the state of the Steelyard about the year 1751, Lappenberg says that the site of the Rhenish wine-house had some time before been turned into a store-place for goods.
page 409 note a Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 137 Taverner. His age is not stated in the parish register. In his uncle's will of 1706 he is said to be not 21.
page 411 note a (1870), vol. iii. 67.
page 412 note a At a meeting of the British Archaeological Association, reported in their Journal, vol. xxxii. Mr. Loftus Brock exhibited some fine carved woodwork from this building, afterwards fitted into a German Lutheran church erected at Dalston. This church, known to Germans as the Hamburger Kirche, is in Ritson Road close to the German Hospital, and still contains the old carving.
page 412 note b So placed that it is now almost invisible; it has armorial bearings. I copied out the inscription which is in Latin; here and there somewhat obliterated. The following is, I think, a fairly correct translation of it:
“Sacred to the memory of Jacob Jacobsen, a most famous and praiseworthy man, who with the support of the illustrious council of the Hanseatic towns of Germany was a most worthy master and president for 33 years of the Guildhall or house of the same, situated here in the Steelyard. But after the destructive fire of London, as a munificent restorer, he had it rebuilt from its ashes with far greater splendour.
Afterwards in restoring to mother Earth the garniture of mortality, according to the laws of Nature, being buried in this place he left a deep regret for his loss among all good people of whatever class.
To the memory of his dearest brother this monument was erected by Theodore Jacobsen.
Born at Hamburg 26th April, 1619. Died in London 7th November, 1680, aged 61.”