NOELL, Martin (1614-65), of St Olave Jewry, London

Family and Education

bap. 11 Mar. 1614, ?3rd s. of Edward Noel, mercer, of St Mary, Stafford, and Grace, da. of James Noel of Peshale, Staffs.;St Mary’s Stafford Par. Reg. ed. H.R. Thomas (Staffs. Par. Reg. Soc. 1935-6), 158, 164, 168; Vis. Staffs. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 176; Scriveners’ Co. Common Ppr. ed. F. W. Steer (London Rec. Soc. iv), 59. bro. of Thomas Noell*. educ. appr. Scrivener, London 1637.Scriveners’ Co. Common Ppr. ed. Steer, 117. m. 12 Dec. 1639 (with £600), Elizabeth (bur. 5 Oct. 1665), da. of Thomas Lewis, Draper, of St Olave Jewry, 7s. (2 d.v.p.) 5da. (3 d.v.p.).St Olave Jewry par. reg.; PROB11/187, f. 261v. Kntd. 2 Sept. 1662;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 237. d. 29 Sept. 1665.Pepys Diary, vi. 245.

Offices Held

Local: member, Hon. Artillery Coy. 5 Feb. 1642;Ancient Vellum Bk. ed. Raikes, 63. sub.-cttee. of accts. Surr. 31 Oct. 1644.SP28/254, pt. 4, f. 1; SP28/257, unfol. (lttr. to Cttee. of Accts. 7 Mar. 1648). Commr. Tower Hamlets militia, 8 Jan. 1648; arrears of assessment, Bread Street ward, London 24 Apr. 1648;A. and O. securing peace of commonwealth, London 25 Mar. 1656;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 239. assessment, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660; Staffs. 9 June 1657;A. and O. sewers, Kent and Surr. 14 Nov. 1657.C181/6, p. 264.

Mercantile: member, E.I. Co. 20 Aug. 1647–d.;Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. 1644–9, p. 219 cttee. of 24, Dec. 1657-July 1659.Cal. Ct. Mins. E.I. Co. 1655–9, pp. 197, 268. Steward, Scriveners’ Co. London, 1653; asst. 1655; warden, 1659. 19 Feb. 1655 – d.Scriveners’ Co. Common Ppr. ed. Steer, 120, 121, 122. Member, Levant Co.; asst. 1658–9.SP105/151, ff. 121v, 165. Member, Co. of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa, 10 Jan. 1663–d.CSP Col. 1661–8, p. 121.

Civic: freeman, London by 1649–d.;Scriveners’ Co. Common Ppr. ed. Steer, 119. alderman, 3–15 Dec. 1657.Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 6.

Central: jt.-farmer, excise on salt, 1651;E351/1296; CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 113. farmer, silk mercery by Nov. 1655;CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 41. duties on exported coal in England, Wales and Scotland, 1657;SP25/78, f. 363. jt.-farmer, additional excise on imported spirits and other commodities, 1657;CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 206. farmer, excise on salt in Scotland, 1658;CSP Dom. 1658–9, p. 113. customs and imported excise in Ireland by 1665; excise on beer and ale and licensing alehouses in Ireland by 1665.PROB11/318, ff. 98v, 99, 99v. Register to judges for relief of poor prisoners, 16 June 1654.Abbott, Letters and Speeches, iii. 332. Commr. for managing Western Design, 18 Aug. 1654.Abbott, Letters and Speeches, iii. 413. Member, cttee. for trade, 12 July 1655.CSP Dom. 1655, p. 240; 1655–6, p. 1. Dep.-postmaster-gen. by Sept. 1655–9.Suff. RO (Ipswich), HD36/A/230; TSP vi. 714; Aylmer, State’s Servants, 250–1. Member, cttee. for managing affairs of Jamaica and W. I. 15 July 1656;CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 445. cttee. for America, by Sept. 1658.CSP Col. 1574–1660, p. 468; Bodl. Rawl. A.37, f. 197. Commr. for trade, 7 Nov. 1660;Officials of the Boards of Trade 1660–1870 ed. J.C. Sainty (1974), 18–19. propagation of gospel in New England, 7 Feb. 1662.CSP Col. 1661–8, p. 71.

Colonial: jt.-sec. to gov. and council of Barbados, ?-d.; jt.-clerk of courts of Barbados, ?-d. PROB11/318, f. 98v.

Irish: MP, Wexford, co. Wexford 1661–d.‘Sir Martin Noell’, Oxford DNB.

Parlimentarian

NOELL, Martin (1614-65), of St Olave Jewry, London

: of St Olave Jewry, London.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

NOELL, Martin (1614-65), of St Olave Jewry, London

Will

23 Sept. 1665, pr. 6 Oct. 1665.PROB11/318, f. 98.

Estates

in 1643, acquired through his wife, capital messuage of Barrow Green and other property in Oxted, Surr.C54/3295/2. In 1644, purchased lease of a messuage and property in Halstead, Essex, for £700.C54/3314/5. In 1646-7, Noell and his brothers purchased about 600 acres of land in at least five plantations in Barbados for £9-10,000.R.R. Menard, Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados (Charlottesville, VA, 2006), 53, 54. In 1647, he purchased, for £350, a ‘great gate’, gatehouse and ‘great hall’ on the road from Mile End Green to Stepney church, London.C54/3380/21. In 1649, purchased, for £628, former church property of the mansion house of St Paul’s Walden, Herts. which he sold in 1652.C54/3486/28; C54/3606/5; VCH Herts. ii. 406; Herts. RO, DE/K/46723. In 1653, he and two other men purchased four houses in Blackfriars, London, from trustees for the sale of forfeited estates.CCC 1715. In 1653, he and another merchant purchased fenlands in the Great Level.F. Wilmoth, E. Stazicker, Jonas Moore’s Mapp of the Great Levell of the Fenns 1658 (Cambridge, 2016), 88-9. By the time of his death, estate inc. mansion house in which he resided in St Botolph Bishopsgate; two tenements in Petty France in the same parish; half a plantation on Barbados with ‘Christian servants’ and ‘negroes’ (later sold for £2,000); reversion of lands in Warws. and Yorks.; merchantmen or shares in them; property in Staffs.; lands and tenements in the town of Wexford and in co. Tipperary, King’s Co., Queen’s Co. and barony of Cary, Ireland; a moiety of farm of customs and imported excise of Ireland; a moiety of the farm of the excise on beer and ale and licensing alehouses in Ireland; farm of additional duty in England; and farm of timber, deals, glasses, stones and stoneware.PROB11/318, ff. 98v-99v; C6/36/77; C7/491/11; C8/243/45; Bodl. Carte 42, f. 198; Carte 145, f. 235; CSP Dom. 1671, p. 236.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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