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Evidence
Francis Gurney's failed King's Lynn worsted venture, 1622
On 17 October 1622 Francis Gurney, citizen and merchant-taylor of London, agreed with Ambrose Tompson and Martin Hill to teach the poor children of King's Lynn to spin worsted yarn and to employ the borough's poor in that industry. The venture failed, and Sir Hamon Lestrange had to pay Francis's £100 bond.
Date: 17 October 1622
Related context
- Provides context for Evidence Francis Gurney sells all his Norfolk and Suffolk lands, 11 July 1634The failed King's Lynn venture is part of the financial decline that ended in the 1634 sale.
Sources
- Historical Manuscripts Commission. "The Borough of King's Lynn: Miscellaneous Writings." Eleventh Report, Appendix, Part III. British History Online., HMC, Eleventh Report, Appendix, Part III, pp. 235–247, calendar entry for the agreement of 17 October 20 James I
- Gurney, Daniel. The Record of the House of Gournay, Part III. London: J. B. Nichols and J. G. Nichols, 1848., Part III (1848), pp. 504, 526 and Appendix LXXXVII (venture failure; Lestrange £100 bond)
Topic file location: Identity — Candidate B: Norfolk parentage
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000149 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.