Michael Locke, Merchant of London

Michael Lok (c.1532-c.1615) was an English merchant and traveller, the main backer of explorer Martin Frobisher.

Family

Michael Locke (son of William Locke and Katherine Cook) was born in London, Middlesex, England. He married 1st to Jane Wilkinson, daughter of William Wilkinson and Joan North and 2nd to widow Margery Perwyn.

Children of Michael Locke and Jane Wilkinson include

• Matthew Locke, b. 1540, London, Middlesex, England.
• Samuel Locke, b. 1554, Brockdish Hall Manor, Norfolk, England.

Life

He was a younger son of the mercer Sir William Lok. He was kept at school until 1545, when he was thirteen. His father then sent him to Flanders and France. After seven years in Flanders he went in 1552 to Spain, following his business as a merchant, and there and at Lisbon saw the trade of the Spanish West Indies, and the East Indies. During 24 years he travelled, and was captain of a ship of one thousand tons trading in the Levant.

In the course of his voyages he met Martin Frobisher, and in 1576 entered into the scheme for the voyage to the north-west, supplying many of the necessaries at his own cost. When the Cathay Company was formed in March 1577, Lok was appointed governor for six years. The venture, however, entirely failed, and in January 1579 he had to petition the privy council for relief and assistance. In June 1581 he was again petitioning the privy council, from the Fleet Prison, condemned at the suit of William Borough to pay for a ship bought for Frobisher's last voyage, though he claimed the debt was not his; he was also bound for a larger debt of the Cathay Company. In 1614–15 he was still being sued for a debt for stores supplied to Frobisher's ships.

In 1587–8 Lok was in Dublin, and in 1592 went out to Aleppo as consul for the Levant Company for four years. After two years, however, the appointment was summarily cancelled, by the intrigues—as Lok asserted—of one Dorrington, in the employment of Sir John Spenser, alderman of London. He claimed the full amount of his salary for the four years; but in 1599 he was still claiming it. On 29 June 1608 Lok wrote to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury sending him intelligence of the warlike preparations of the king of Spain.

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Michael Lok (c1532-c1621), mercer; youngest of the five sons of his father's second marriage; married c1562 Joan (d 1571) daughter of Sir William Wilkinson, sheriff of London, by whom he had eight surviving
children; married secondly c1576 Margery (d c1582) widow of Cesar Adelmare; his son Benjamin was with him in Ireland in 1587; his eldest sons, Zachary, Benjamin and Matthew predeceased him, all leaving wills; his IPM 1623.

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lok
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Lok
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wilkinson_(died_1556)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_(judge)
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lok,_Henry_(DNB00)
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/JohnDee.htm
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/MartinFrobisher.htm

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Michael Lok

Michael Lok, also Michael Locke, (c.1532–c.1621) was an English merchant and traveller, and the principal backer of Sir Martin Frobisher's voyages in search of the Northwest passage.

Michael Lok was born in Cheapside in London,[1] by his own account in 1532.[2] He was one of the nineteen children,[3] and the youngest of the five surviving sons, of Sir William Lok (1480–1550),[1] gentleman usher to Henry VIII and mercer, sheriff and alderman of London, by his second wife, Katherine Cooke (d.1537), daughter of Sir Thomas Cooke of Wiltshire. One of his sisters was the Protestant exile, Rose Lok (1526–1613).[2][1][4] His father, Sir William Lok, was the great-great-great-grandfather of the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704).[4]

He was kept at school until 1545, when he was thirteen, at which time he was sent by his father to Flanders and France 'to learn those languages and to know the world'[2] He spent seven years in Flanders 'following the trade of merchandise', which Williamson suggests was his term of apprenticeship to the Company of Merchant Adventurers.[2] In 1552 he went to Spain, following his business as a merchant, and there and at Lisbon saw the trade of the Spanish West Indies, and the East Indies. During 24 years he travelled, and was captain of a ship of one thousand tons trading in the Levant.

In the course of his voyages he met Martin Frobisher, and in 1576 entered into a scheme for a voyage in search of the Northwest passage, supplying many of the necessaries at his own cost. When the Cathay Company was formed in March 1577, Lok was appointed governor for six years. The venture, however, entirely failed, and in January 1579 he had to petition the privy council for relief and assistance. In June 1581 he was again petitioning the privy council, from the Fleet Prison, condemned at the suit of William Borough to pay for a ship bought for Frobisher's last voyage, though he claimed the debt was not his; he was also bound for a larger debt of the Cathay Company. In 1614–15 he was still being sued for a debt for stores supplied to Frobisher's ships.

In 1587–8 Lok was in Dublin, and in 1592 went out to Aleppo as consul for the Levant Company for four years. After two years, however, the appointment was summarily cancelled, by the intrigues—as Lok asserted—of one Dorrington, in the employment of Sir John Spenser, alderman of London. He claimed the full amount of his salary for the four years; but in 1599 he was still claiming it. On 29 June 1608 Lok wrote to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury sending him intelligence of the warlike preparations of the king of Spain.

An essay, An conveniens sit Matrimonium inter Puellam et Senem from 1583, might imply that he was meditating a third marriage in his old age. He also translated into English part of Peter Martyr's Historie of the West Indies, which was published in 1612.

Lok married firstly, about 1562, Jane Wilkinson, the daughter of William Wilkinson (d.1543), mercer and Sheriff of London in 1538, by Joan North (d.1556), only sister of Edward North, 1st Baron North, and daughter of Roger North (d.1509) and Christian Warcop.[1][5][6][7][8] Lok's first wife died in 1571, leaving several children, of whom eight are named in her will (dated 9 February 1570–1, proved by Lok 6 April 1571).

Lok married secondly Margery Perient (died c.1583),[9][1] daughter of George Perient of Shropshire and Hertfordshire,[10][11] widow of Cæsar Adelmare (d.1569), and mother of Sir Julius Cæsar the judge.[9][1] In 1579 Lok described himself as having a wife and fifteen children.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lok

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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 34
• Lok, Michael by John Knox Laughton
• LOK, MICHAEL (fl. 1615), traveller, was a younger son of Sir William Lok [q. v.] According to memorials presented by Michael Lok in 1576 and on 26 May 1577 (Cal. State Papers, East Indies), he was kept at school until 1545, when he was thirteen. His father then sent him to Flanders and France. After being seven years in Flanders he went in 1552 to Spain, following his business as a merchant, and there and at Lisbon had opportunities of seeing ‘the marvellous great trade of the Spanish West Indies, and the great traffic into the East Indies.’ During twenty-four years ‘he travelled through almost all the countries of Christianity,’ and was ‘captain of a ship of one thousand tons in divers voyages in the Levant.’ He also studied history, languages, and ‘all matters appertaining to the traffic of merchants, and spent more than 500l. in books, maps, charts, and instruments.’ His boast is corroborated by Hakluyt (Divers Voyages to America, Hakluyt Soc., p. 18), who speaks of him as ‘a man for his knowledge in divers languages, and especially in cosmography, able to do his country good, and worthy, in my judgment, for the manifold good parts in him, of good reputation and better fortune.’
• In the course of his many voyages he had already made the acquaintance of Martin Frobisher [q. v.], and in 1576 entered warmly into the scheme for the voyage to the north-west, supplying many of the necessaries at his own cost. When the Cathay Company was formed in March 1577, Lok was appointed governor for six years. The venture, however, entirely failed, and in January 1579 he had to petition the privy council for relief and assistance (Cal. State Papers, East Indies). For the past three years, he wrote, he had taken charge of all the business of Frobisher's voyages; of his own money he had expended some 7,500l., ‘all the goods he had in the world, whereby himself, his wife, and fifteen children are left to beg their bread.’ On this petition 430l. was allowed him in February 1579; but in June 1581 he was again petitioning the privy council, being a prisoner in the Fleet, condemned at the suit of William Borough to pay 200l. for a ship bought for Frobisher's last voyage, ‘which is not the petitioner's debt.’ He was also bound for a debt of nearly 3,000l., ‘still owing by the company of adventurers.’ He was still petitioning in November, when he had been six months in prison (ib. pp. 63, 70). Of his release there is no account; but he does not seem to have recovered his money, and as late as 1614–15 he was still being sued for a debt of 200l. due for stores supplied to Frobisher's ships (Exchequer Decrees and Orders, 12–13 Jac. I).
• In 1587–8 Lok was in Dublin, and in 1592 went out to Aleppo under an engagement as consul for the Levant Company for four years. After two years, however, the appointment was summarily cancelled, by the intrigues—as Lok asserted—of one Dorrington, in the employment of Sir John Spenser, alderman of London (Addit. MS. 12497; Zachary Lok to Cecil, 9 Dec. 1598, in Cal. State Papers, Dom.). He claimed the full amount of his salary for the four years; but in 1599 he was still claiming it, nor does it appear that he was ever paid. In 1603 Lok's son Zachary died, bequeathing him his seal, his black coat lined with plush, and all his books. On 29 June 1608 Lok wrote to the Earl of Salisbury, sending him intelligence of the warlike preparations of the king of Spain (ib.), and in 1614–15 he was still defending an action as to the debts of the Cathay Company. He was then eighty-three, and doubtless died shortly afterwards.
• Lok married, first, Joan, daughter of William Wilkinson, sheriff of London. She died 1571, leaving several children, of whom eight are named in her will (dated 9 Feb. 1570–1, proved by Lok 6 April 1571). He married, secondly, Mary (or Margaret), daughter of Martin Perient, treasurer to the army in Ireland, widow of Cæsar Adelmare (d. 1569), and mother of Julius Cæsar [q. v.] the judge. In 1579 Lok described himself, in his petitions, as having a wife and fifteen children. An essay, ‘An conveniens sit Matrimonium inter Puellam et Senem’ (Add. MS. 12503), which he wrote in 1583, might be thought to imply that he was meditating a third marriage in his old age. Besides this essay, he translated into English part of Peter Martyr's ‘Historie of the West Indies,’ which was published in 1612. Lok's name is here spelt as he signed it.
• [Authorities in the text; notes and references kindly communicated by Mr. W. Noel Sainsbury and Mr. G. E. Cokayne.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lok,_Michael_(DNB00) _____________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 34
• Lok, William by Sidney Lee
• LOK, Sir WILLIAM (1480–1550), London merchant, was son of Thomas Lok, mercer of London, and grandson of John Lok, sheriff of London in 1400 (cf. will of Zachary Lok, 1603, in Somerset House). From the grandfather also descended John Locke, mayor of Bristol in 1642, who was 'a sort of cousin' of the father of John Locke [q. v.] the philosopher. William was, like his father, brought up as a mercer, and became sworn mercer and agent to Henry VIII beyond the seas. In May 1520 he supplied much cloth of silver for the queen's use (Henry VIII's Letters and Papers, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 852). In 1521 he figured among the Duke of Buckingham's creditors (ib.vol. iii. pt. i. p. 1285). On 7 March 1526-7 he received a license to import cloth of gold and silver, silks, and jewels for the king, and in November 1527 supplied stuffs for the court revels. In 1529 and the following years he spent some time on business at Bergen-op-Zoom and from that town and from Antwerp sent many interesting letters of intelligence to Cromwell or the king between 1532 and 1537. While on business at Dunkirk in December 1533 he pulled down the papal bull excommunicating Henry VIII, a service which the king acknowledged by giving him 100l. a year, and making him a gentleman of the privy chamber (Grafton, Chron. p. 1222; Brampton, Autobiography, pp. 8-9), Henry also showed his regard for him by dining with him at his house. In 1536 he resided 'in Cheapside, at the sign of the Padlock.' On 29 Dec. 1537 he was granted by Henry part of the possessions of 'Elayng Spittell.' He became an alderman of the city, and was elected sheriff in 1548, when he was knighted. On 10 Oct. 1549 he rode in the procession conveying the Duke- of Somerset to the Tower (Wriothesley, Chronicle, ii, 27). He died in his house in Bow Lane on 24 Aug, 1550, and was buried on the 27th in the Mercers' Chapel in the church of St. Thomas Acres (Machyn, Diary, i. 313). He married four times: (1) Alice Spencer (d. 1522); (2) Catherine, daughter of William Cooke of Salisbury {d. 14 Oct. 1537, and buried at St. Martin Abbey, Surrey}; (3) Elinor, widow of Walter Marsh (d. 1540); and (4) Elizabeth (d. 1551), widow of one Hatton and of Robert Meredith successively. His fourth, like his first, wife was buried in Mercers' Chapel (cf. Machyn, Diary, pp. 12, 323). He left issue by his first two wives: by the first, eight sons and one daughter, and by the second five sons and five daughters. Michael Lok [q. v.] and Henry Lok, father of Henry Lok [q. v.] the poet, were sons of the second marriage.
• [Carew's Survey of Cornwall; Fox Bourne's Life of John Locke; Gent. Mag. 1792, p. 799; King's Life of Locke; Letters and Papers of Henry VIII; Dr. Grosart's Memoir of Henry Lok in Fuller Worthies' Miscellanies, vol. ii.]
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• Book of the Lockes : A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of William Locke, of Woburn ... (1853) By John Goodwin Locke
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• The Locke family in this neighborhood consider themselves as descended from a very ancient house, arguing that they gave name to the parishes where they lived, before the Conquest, and do not derive their name with a De from the parishes, as is very commonly the case.
• However, I have not seen any account of this family before Robert Locke, whom we find to have been joined with Thomas de Saint Maur, as Vicecomes of Wiltshire, anno 1350. John Locke, sheriff of London, 1460, is the first in a pedigree in my possession. Thomas, his son, was a merchant in London, who died anno 1507, and by Joan his wife (who was the only daughter and heir of Mr. Wilcock of Rotheram in Yorkshire) left three sons, John, William, and Michael. John is said to have died without issue, and buried in Mercer's Chapel, 1519, with his arms (a) in the window, a proof the family bore arms before those granted by Queen Mary, 1555. William, married two wives ; (b) first, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Mr. Spencer, a citizen and fishmonger of London ; secondly, Catharine, daughter of William, and sister and co-heir of
  • (a) I am of opinion, after an examination of Stow's "Survey of London," that the "arms in the window" were those of Sir William Locke, who was buried in Mercer's Chapel in 1550: yet a doubt remains.
  • (b) He had four wives.
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• Sir Thomas Cook, of Wiltshire, knight. Rose Locke, the only daughter by the second ventor was married to Anthony, son of Walter Hickman of Woodford, in Essex, Esq. ; by whom she became ancestor to the baronets of that name, the late Lord Montjoy, the present Earl of Plymouth. Matthew Locke, the youngest son by the first ventor, had an only daughter Elizabeth, married to Richard Chandler of London, merchant, son of William Chandler of Little Walsingham, in Norfolk, Gent. ; whose only daughter Elizabeth married Ferdinando Richardson (who died 1596), groom of the stole to Queen Elizabeth. The above William Locke, 25 Henry VIII. undertook to go over to Dunkirk, and pull down the pope's bull, which had been there posted up by way of a curse to the king and kingdom. For this exploit the king granted him a freehold of .£100 per annum, dubbed him knight, and made him one of the gentlemen of his privy-chamber. Sir William lived to be an alderman of London, and was sheriff of the city in 1548. He died 1550, and by his first wife, left issue eight sons and daughters, exclusive of Matthew already mentioned. Of these elder branches of Sir William Locke's family we have in Somersetshire a very imperfect account. George Locke, of Tiverton, who was buried at St. Sidwell's in Exeter, anno 1586, was supposed to be one of the sons. And from another of them, Thomas Locke of Little Horsely, in Essex, is said to have been descended. He married Susannah, daughter of Sir William Welby, of Gedney, in Lincolnshire, Knight of the Bath, whose issue was an only daughter, Susannah, wife of the Rev. John Carse, D. D. She died Nov. 10, 1649. Perhaps from one of these sons descended the Rev. John Locke, Rector of Askerwell, in the County of Dorset, father to the Rev. William Locke, who died 1686, and who by a daughter of the Rev. Lyte Whynnel, clerk, became seized of the perpetuity of his father's living, which was by the Rev. William Locke, his son (who died May 8, 1722), sold to William Bennet of Norton Bavent in the County of Wilts, whose grandson is the present incumbent. It has been supposed that we are indebted to some part of Sir William Locke's family for two very respectable characters, in the persons of Sir John Locke, Knight, an East India director, who died 1746, and James Locke his brother, husband to the Turkey Company. I think you have told us in your Magazine, that a Mr. Oates, of Richmond in Surry, had one hundred and fifty thousand pounds in 1748, with a daughter of the latter ; and a Mr. Rawlinson, of Wiltshire, is thought to have had some such sum with a daughter of the former, with whom he intermarried in 1740.
• The Rev. Mr. Locke, of Newark upon Trent, the Lockes of Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Essex, London, and Bristol, including the celebrated Miss Locke of poetical memory, (see p. 72 of your present volume,) can say whether they do or do not derive their descent from Sir William Locke, Knight, Alderman of London.
• Michael Locke, younger brother (a) of Sir William, according to a pedigree now before me, was father amongst other children of Matthew Locke, who became seated at Pensford in Buckinghamshire, and had two sons, Richard and Christopher. The former was of Bedminster in the County of Somerset, and, dying 1617, left John Locke, his son, Mayor of Bristol 1641, father of another John Locke of Bristol, merchant, whose son, Samuel Locke, became a merchant in London, and of whose family and death I have not been able to procure any account. Christopher Locke, the youngest son, soon after Abbot Whiting's lands at East Brent were granted to the Whitmore family, was sent into that
  • (a) English antiquarians have supposed that the Michael Locke here spoken of was a son of Sir William and not his brother, and so I have represented him in the chart that follows this article ; but I have strong suspicion that the statement in the text is true, and that Sir William had both a brother and a son named Michael. If I am right in my supposition, Matthew of Pensford, who is represented in the chart as the son of Michael, and gr. son of Sir William, was in fact the son of Michael and nephew of Sir William.
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• parish (which as I before observed adjoins to Lockstown), to divide the forfeited estates into farms; and having laid out a valuable farm for himself at a place called Pilrow, built a large house and became the stem of a very respectable family, whose baptisms, as by the parish register penes me, are as follows : .... etc.
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  • The following Pedigree is principally compiled from the Herald's Visitations and the Gentleman's Magazine.
• John Locke, Sheriff of London 1461, his Monument was in the Church of St. Mary, Bow, London. He was probably descended from Thomas Locke, of Merton Abbey, in Surrey. Lyson says the Rectory of Merton was granted to Thomas Locke by Edward III. in 1291.; ch: Thomas (m. Joan Wilcock) Locke.
• Thomas, merchand of London, d. 1507, buried at St. Thomas of Acres, London. = Joan, only dau. and heir of Mr. Wilcock or Wilkokes, of Rotheram, in Yorkshire; d. 1512.; ch: Sir William (m. Alice Spence or Elizabeth Spencer & Katherine Cook), John, Thomas (m. Mary Minister), Michael? Locke.
• Sir William, Knt. and Alderman, b.1480, d. 1550. he was knighted by Hen. VIII. for going over to Dunkirk and pulling down the Pope's bull; was sheriff of London 1548. Sir William was Bent. of the Privy Chamber. His 3d wf. was Eleanor, wid. of Wlater Marshe. She d 1546. His 4th wf. was Elizabeth, widow of Robert Meredith. = 1st. Alice Spence or Elizabeth Spencer, of London, who died 1522, buried at Mercer's Chapel. London.; ch: William (b.1511), Philip (d.1524), Jane (m. Robt. Meredith), Peter (d.1517), William (b.1517), Richard (d.1516), Edmund (d.1545), Thomas (m. Mary Louge), Matthew (m. Elizabeth Baker) Locke.; = 2d. Katherine, dau. of William, and sister and co-heir of Sir Thos Cook of Wiltshire, Knt. She was buried at Merton Abbey, Surrey. She d. Oct. 14, 1537.; ch: Dorothy (m. Otwell Hill & Jno. Cosworth), Katherine (m. Thomas Stacey & William Matthew), (Pg.359 Rose (m. Anthony Hickman & _ Throgmorton) John, Alice, Thomasin, Henry (m. Anne Vaughan), Michael (m. Jane Wilkinson & Margery Preyn), Elizabeth (m. Richard Hill & Nicholas Bullingham), John Locke.
• Michael, of London, merchant. 2. m. Margery Peryn, wid. of Caesar Dalmarias, fa. of Sir Julius Caesar, Knt. = 1. Jane, dau. of William Wilkinson, mercer, and Shr. of London.; = ch: Matthew, Eleaser, Benjamin, Zachary, dau (m. Wm. Sanson), dau. (m. _ Jenney) Locke.
• Matthew, of Pensford, in Somersetshire. (A) See Note on p.358.; ch: Christopher Locke, (Pg.358 Richard (d.1617) Locke).
• Christopher, of Pilrow, near Lockestown.; ch: John (m. _ Bernard or _ Keen/Ken), Honour (m. Francis Shepard), Christian, Lewis (4 wives), William (m. Elisabeth _) Locke, (Pg.358 Christopher, perhaps Sarah (m. Nicholas Davies) Locke). ___________________
• A history and genealogy of Captain John Locke (1627-1696) of Portsmouth and Rye, N.H., and his descendants; also of Nathaniel Locke of Portsmouth, and a short account of the history of the Lockes in England (1916?])
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• SAME TEXT AS IN "Book of the Lockes : ...." ________________________________
• The visitations of Hertfordshire, made by Robert Cooke, esq.,Clarencieux, in 1572, and Sir Richard St. George, kt., Clarencieux, in 1634 with Hertfordshire pedigrees from Harleian mss. 6147 and 1546. Ed. by Walter C. Metcalfe Vol. 22 by Cooke, Robert
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  • Caesar of Benington.
• Julius Cesar Delamare vel Seysar Delamare, a Venetian by Byrth, Docter and Phisitian to Q. Eliz. = Margery, da. of George Perient of . . . . col Salop, and his heir. ch: Sir Julius (m. Dorcas Martin), Margerett (m. Nicholas Wright), (Pg.134 Sir Thomas (m. Anne Lynn & Susan Ryther), Henry (Deane of Ely) Cesar) ; = Michell Lock of London, 2 vir. ________________________
• Genealogical Gleanings in England, Volume 2 By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters
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• MY last will 1549 in March. WILLIAM LOK mercer and alderman of London (indexed on margin "T. Willi Lock militis") proved 11 September 1550. Written 15 March. To be buried in the mercers church at the great Conduit in Cheape, in the middle of the body of the church there where lieth buried my father and mother and my first wife. Money to be given to the four prisons, Newgate, Ludgate, the Marshalsey and Kings Bench. Money to be given in alms at Martyn, Wymbilton, the two Totings and Totnam. The poor of the Vintry Ward. Other poor. I give to Thomas, Mathew, John, Henry and Myghell Lok, my five sons, my dwelling house in Bow Lane and my house at the Lock in Cheape and my house at the Bell in Cheape, with all the shops and appurtenances belonging to them to that intent that they, or some of them, may dwell in them and keep the retailing shop still in my name to continue there. I give to John Loke my house that Parris now dwelleth in. To Henry Lok my house that John Edwardes dwelleth in. Three houses to Mighell Lok. Another house to Henry. Two houses to Matthew Lok. To John, Harry and Mighell Lok all my houses in the Poultry and Bucklersbury and in St. Johns Street. To Mathew Loke all my houses at Dowgate and in the Vintry. To Thomas Lok all my houses in Cheape being in St. Peters parish there. I give more to Thomas Lok my land at Martyn and Wymbilton that I may give him except one farm which I give to Henry and Mighell Loke my young sons. I give the lease of my garden betwixt my five sons to be kept in their hands for all their recreations in Grub Street. Other property divided among them. They to pay to my well beloved wife Elizabeth, for dower, forty pounds every year during her natural life out of all my lands and houses, as appeareth by a certain Indenture of Covenants &c. She to have a certain sum of money for her part of all my goods &c. by the custom of this noble City. My daughter Elizabeth to have to her marriage as much as any of my daughters that be ready married have had of my goods. My executors to be Thomas, Mathew and Henry Lok and my overseers John and Myghell Lok, and because some of my sons be young I shall desire my trusty and well beloved friend Sir Rowland Hyll, knight and alderman, to be my chief overseer. Per me Sir William Lok knight and alderman.
• Commission issued 6 April 1571 to Michael Lok natural and lawful son &c. to administer the goods left unadministered by Thomas, Mathew and Henry Lok executors; now deceased. Coode, 20.
• ELIZABETH LOCKE, widow, of the city of London ("Domina" in Act Book) 8 September 1551, proved 27 February 1551. Many legacies to individuals named. Margaret the maid that dwelleth with my daughter Anne Lock. Thomas Typkyne, brewer, for that he lost certain money by my husband Hutton. William, Mary, Elizabeth and Ellen Meredyth the children of my late husband Robert Meredithe. My house hold stuff at Newington. Newington Green. I give and bequeath to these persons following, each of them, a gold ring of the value of forty shillings apiece to Thomas Locke and his wife, to Mathew Loke and his wife, to Henry Lock and his wife, to Anthony Hickman and his wife, to Thomas Stassye and his
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• wife, John Cowswarth and his wife, Mighell Locke, John Locke, Richard Hills and Elizabeth Locke. My sister Elizabeth Farthinge. My sister Myston and her husband. Mr. Blundell and his wife. David Apowell and his wife. Mathew Fylde and Elizabeth Meredithe. William Meredith and Ellen Meredith. My mother Meredith. Others. To Elizabeth Locke one gilt cup with a cover, weighing twenty five ounces, with her arms on the cover. Richard Spryngham and his wife. Elizabeth Springham my son's daughter, to her marriage. Elizabeth and Robert Nicolles my godchildren. My son Richard Springham. Thomas Stacy mercer. John Cowswarthe mercer. I make my son Richard Springham and Thomas Nicolles the elder my executors.
• Memorandum that the last day of November Auno 1551 this testament was presented as the last will and testament of this testator by the hands of Ellen Meredithe, this present day the day of the departure of the same in presence of &c. Powell, 7.
• MATHEW LOCKE citizen and mercer of London, 23 February 1551, proved 27 May 1552. Goods &c. to be divided into three equal parts whereof wife Johan to have one, after the laudable custom of the city of London, the second to my daughter Elizabeth at age of twenty one or marriage, the third I reserve to myself and to mine executors. If daughter die before age or marriage then a part of her portion to the mercers' company and part to be divided among the children of my brother Thomas Locke and my brother Anthony Hickman, one half to each. Twelve sermons to be preached in St. Stephens Walbrooke. My cousin Makebray. Poor householders in Merton, Surrey, and at Tottenham. To my father Rigges and my mother his wife a standing cup, gilt, that my father Sir William Lock gave me at the day of my marriage. To wife Johan the lease of my house in which I dwell in London and my part of a lease in Tottenham. A ring of gold of forty shillings each to my father Rigges and his wife, my father Jermayn and his wife, my brother Thomas Locke and his wife, my brother Henry Locke and his wife, my brother John Lock, my brother Mighell Loke, my brother in law Anthony Hickman and his wife, my brother Thomas Stacy and his wife, my brother John Cosowarth and his wife, my brother Richard Hill and his wife, my brother Marshe and his wife, my cousin Richard Springham and his wife, my cousin Feilde and his wife, Mr. Robert Rose and his wife, my sister in law Elizabeth Baker and my friends Edward Castlen, William Dale and William Pierson. The residue to wife and daughter equally. Wife Johan and the said Thomas Lock and Anthony Hikman to be executors. Thomas Rigges and Edward Castolyn among the witnesses. The widow renounced execution. Powell, 16.
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• JANE LOCKE, wife of Michael Locke of London mercer, 9 February 1570, proved 6 April 1571. All my worldly goods are my husband's by whose love I have hitherto enjoyed them ; and now with his consent I bequeath part of them. To my son Zacharia a goblet of serpentine stone
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• garnished with silver. Rings, Jewells, goblets &c. to sons Eleazar, Gersom and Benjamin. To son William a ring of gold with a lock graven. Daughters Anne, Joane and Elizabeth. My sister Anne Locke. My cousin Kateryne Segar. My cousin Joane Argall. My Lady Cromwell wife of Sir Henry Cromwell, knight. My cousin Richard Spryngham, mercer. My cousin Raphe Hethington. My good friend Mrs. Anne Warcuppe. My kinsman Raphe Warcupp, now my servant. Margaret Yale. My husband to be executor. Holney, 14.
• HENRY LOK, mercer, 28 January 1570, proved 31 October 1571. As touching my worldly goods whatsoever they be I give and bequeath them to my wife Anne Loke ; and I do make my only executor unto this my last will my good and well beloved brother Michael Lok. Holney, 39.
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• ZACHARY LOK, 29 January 1602, proved 4 April 1603. I desire that my body might be buried in Mercers Chapel in London near to the place where my great grandfather Thomas Lok and my grandfather Sir William Lok were buried, if it please God I die near London, or otherwise in the parish church of that place where it shall please God to call me. The poor of Bow parish. To my father Mr. Michael Lok my seal of arms &c. To my brother Eleazer Lok my hoop ring with a diamond which I wear and the "Armyng swoorde" and dagger which my Lord Willoughby gave me. My brother Benjamin Lok. My brother Jenny and his wife. My brother Sansom and my sister Jone his wife. My sister Sansom's children. My brother Bleuett in Cornwall and each of his children by my sister Anne Lok. I give to Sir Edward Norris knight mine armor complete,
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• with the trunk wherein it is, which I pray him to accept, which I do in consideration of a wrong which I was privy unto that was done to his brother Sir John Norris in the low countries. And I know not where else to make any satisfaction for the clearing of my conscience. The residue I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved mistress Ursula Johnson whom I intend, by God's grace, to make my wife ; and her I do nominate, constitute and appoint to be the sole executrix of this my will. Bolein, 27.
• Sentence to confirm the above will was promulgated 11 July 1606 after litigation between Michael Locke of the one part and Ursula Johnson executrix &c. of the other. Stafford, 53.
• ELEAZER LOKE, 25 March 1605. proved 2 May 1605. To be buried in the church of All Hollowes in Huntington. Six pounds thirteen shillings four pence to be bestowed at the George in Huntington for my funeral amongst my kindred, friends and fellows. The poor of Huntington and of Brampton. I give unto my master, whose favor I crave towards my poor father and my "travailinge" brother, my great black mare and her colt and my parcel gilt cup. To his four other brothers each a ring of gold of twenty shillings price. To my father twenty six pounds a year, payable quarterly. And after his departure out of this world I give to my brother Benjamin two hundred pounds, to my brother Sansome (besides twenty pounds by promise I owe unto him) the sum of twenty pounds, to my brother Jenney and my sister thirty pounds and my silver tun. My father shall have my gown and best black cloak and my seal ring. My brother in law William Sansom of London and Mr. John Hearne of Godmanchester to be executors. A codicil added 10 April 1605. Hayes, 34.
• BENIAMYN LOCKE of London, merchant, 6 January 1606, proved 29 August 1611. My will and desire is that if it shall please God to suffer me to die in England that then my body shall be interred in the Mercers Chapel in London in the place where my grandfather Sir William Locke knight lieth buried &c. Reference to a joint bond wth Mr. Henry Garway to one Abraham Cartwright and to another debt owing to Mr. Thomas Cordell and Mr. William Garway upon the foot of an Accompt. I give and bequeath to my father Michael Locke thirty pounds and do further release and discharge him of and for all such debts and sums of money as he oweth me by specialty bill bond or otherwise. The poor prisoners of Ludgate, Fleet and Newgate. The fellowship of the Mercers. Johan Martin maid servant to my brother Sansom. The poor children harboured in Christ's Hospital. St. Bartholomew's Hospital. To Mr. Henry Garway my sealing ring of gold. To my cousin Michael Locke my velvet hose and jerkin and a satin dublet. My brother Jenny, my brother Sansom and my cousin Edward Phillippes. Mr. Doctor Moydon. To my said brother Sansom my Turky carpet wiiich lieth in the hall of his dwelling house in London. My sister Jenny and her four children. My cousin Henry Locke. My brother Sansome's two children. Friends Mr. Henry Garway and John Munnes to be executors.
• These executors renounced and commission issued, at above date, to Michael Locke the father to administer according to the tenor of the will. Wood, 72. ___________________________
• Family histories and genealogies. A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and notes on the families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, De Wolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. With twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combined descents by Salisbury, Edward Elbridge
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• The Lockes claim to have been a very ancient family, before the Conquest, originally Scotch, with the name Loch. The seat of our family, as we shall see, had been from early times at Merton, co. Surrey.
• "I. William Locke[1] (Lock, Lok or Loke, as the name was indifferently spelt in early times) had two sons, viz : John[2] Locke, Citizen and Mercer of London, who died in 1519, leaving no issue, and
• "II. Thomas [2] Locke, also Citizen and Mercer of London, who died in 1507. By his wife Joanna Wilcocks of Rotheram, co. York [an only daughter and heiress], who died in 1512, and was buried with her husband in Mercers' Chapel, he had a son, viz :
• "III. Sir William [3] Locke, Knight, Alderman of London, who was born about 1486, as he was admitted to the freedom of London, at the
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• end of his apprenticeship, in 1507. He succeeded to his father's business and estate, and became an eminent tradesman and citizen. He received the royal appointment of Mercer to King Henry VIII., with whom he was an especial favorite, having a key to the King's Private Chamber, and occasionally entertaining him at dinner at his house in London. There are records in existence showing materials furnished by him to the royal household, including Queen Anna Boleyn and the Princess, afterwards Queen, Elizabeth, as also Will Somers, the King's Jester. After being several years an Alderman, he was elected Sheriff of London in 1548, and was knighted on the 3d of October in that year, but died before it was his turn to become Lord Mayor.
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• "Sir William Locke married four wives :
• "1st, Alice daughter [and heiress] of a Citizen and Fishmonger of London named Spencer [or Spence], who has not yet been identified. She died in 1522, and was buried in Mercers' Chapel."
• "The name of his first wife has been variously given by different writers ; some say it was Alice Spence, and others Elizabeth Spencer. Anciently the names of Elizabeth and Alice were convertible, one for the other. The records of the Herald's office, which are the best authority, say that her name was Alice Spence." ("Book of the Lockes.")
• "2dly, Catharine daughter of William Cooke of Salisbury. She died in childbed of her eleventh child (Sir William's twentieth) 14 October 1537, and was buried at Merton, in Surrey."
• She was daughter of Sir Thomas Cooke, Knt., of Wiltshire. (Burke's Extinct Baronetcies, London, 2d ed., 1844, 262-63.)
• "3dly , Eleanor widow of Walter Marsh. They were married at St. Lawrence, Old Jewry, London, 13 May 1540, her first husband having been buried there the preceding 20th of January. She died in 1546, having had no issue.
• "4thly , Elizabeth widow of Robert Meredith, Citizen and Mercer of London, and formerly wife of — Hutton. Their marriage license was granted 28 January 1547-48, her husband Meredith having been buried at St. Lawrence, Jewry, 9 January 1546-47. She survived Sir William Locke, having no issue by him, and was buried in Mercers' Chapel, London, 5 December 1551. The curious feature of this marriage was that she was the second wife and widow of Sir William Locke's own son-in-law, Robert Meredith having first married a daughter of Sir William by his first wife, as will be seen hereafter.
• "Sir William Locke died at the age of about 64, on the 24th, and was buried in Mercers' Chapel [St. Thomas of Acres] 27 August 1550.
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• "By his second wife, Catharine Cooke, Sir William Locke had eleven children, viz : Dorothy,[4] Catharine,[4] John,[4] Alice,[4] Thomazin,[4] Francis[4] and a second John,[4] of none of whom is there anything of particular interest to record. The first two married tradesmen in London, and the others died without issue.
• "Elizabeth,[4] one of the daughters [of Sir William Locke by his second wife], married: first, Richard Hill, Citizen and Mercer of London, and secondly, after his death in 1568, the Right Revd Nicholas Bullingham, Bishop of Worcester. By her first husband she had thirteen children, one of whom, Mary,[5] married Sir Thomas Moundeford, and was mother of Bridget,[6] who married Sir John Bramston, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
• "Rose,[4] another of the daughters, married, first, Anthony Hickman of London, Esq., and, secondly, Simon Throckmorton, of Brampton, co. Huntingdon, Esq. By her first husband she was ancestress of the Earls of Plymouth, their grandson Dixie[6] Hickman having married Elizabeth eldest daughter of Henry fifth Lord Windsor, and had a son Thomas,[7] who succeeded his uncle (by limitation of the patent) as seventh Lord Windsor, and was created Earl of Plymouth 6 December 1682. The title became extinct only on the death of the eighth Earl, 8 December 1843."
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• " Of the sons [of Sir William Locke by his second wife], Michael[4] Locke became a Merchant of eminence in London, and was twice married : first, to Joane daughter of William Wilkinson, Sheriff of London ; and, secondly, to Margery widow of Dr. Caesar Adelmare, by whom she was the mother of the celebrated Sir Julius Caesar. Michael Locke had by his first wife five sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom, Zachary[5] Locke Esq., died in 1603, being then Member of Parliament for the Borough of Southwark.
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• " The other son [of Sir William by his second wife], Henry[4] Locke, was also a Citizen and Merchant of London. He married Anne Vaughan, and had issue a daughter Anne,[5] who married Robert Moyle of Cornwall, whose descendants intermarried with the St. Aubyns and the Prideaux, among the best families in that county ; and two sons, viz : Michael[5] to whom the historian Hakluyt left a legacy in his Will ; and Henry[5] Locke (or Lok), a Poet of some note in his day, an edition of whose scarce productions was issued in 1871 by the Rev. Dr. Grosart.
• "We now return to the children of Sir William Locke by his first wife, Alice Spencer [or Spence], who were nine in number, eight sons and one daughter, viz :
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• "William,[4] Peter,[4] Richard,[4] and William,[4] the first, second, fourth and fifth sons, all died in infancy or childhood, before their mother. Philip,[4] the seventh son, died in 1524, unmarried. Edmund,[4] the sixth son, lived until 1545, but died unmarried. One of the old heralds added to the entry in one of the Visitation pedigrees : 'He died for love of Sir Brian Tuke's daughter.'
• "Matthew,[4] Locke, the eighth son and youngest child, but second surviving, was a Citizen and Mercer of London, and married Elizabeth Baker ; by whom he had an only daughter Elizabeth,[5] who married Richard Candler [or Chandler] Esq., and had an only daughter Anne,[6] who married Sir Ferdinando Heyborne, Kt., one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth. Matthew Locke died in 1552.
• "Joan,[4] (or Jane, for she is called both), the only daughter, married Robert Meredith, Citizen and Mercer of London, who, after her death, remarried Elizabeth Hutton, widow, who in turn, after his death, remarried Sir William Locke, father of his first wife. From this Robert Meredith and Jane Locke descends the present Earl of Romney, through their daughter Mary[5] who married Richard Springham, whose daughter Magdalen[6] married Thomas Marsham, whose son was Sir John[7] Marsham, Baronet, whose grandson [Sir Robert9 Marsham] was created Lord Romney in 1716, whose grandson [Charles11 Marsham] was created Earl of Romney in 1801.
• " We return now to the third son, but eldest and only surviving child, of Sir William Locke, by Alice Spencer, his first wife, viz :
• "IV. Thomas[4] Locke, who was born on the 8th of February, 1514-15, and became, like his fathers, a Citizen and Mercer of London. He married, 19 January 1544-45, at St. Peter's, Cheapside, London, Mary daughter of Simon Long1 of the Isle of Wight, who, after his death, remarried Dr. Owen, and subsequently Sir William Allen, Kt., Alderman of London. In 1552-53 he obtained from King Edward VI. a grant of the Rectory of Merton, co. Surrey, which remained in the family for about one hundred years, when it was sold."
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• LOK, Zachariah (1561-1603), of St. Clement Danes, London.
• b. 1561, 1st s. of Michael Lok of London by his 1st w. Joan, da. of William Wilkinson. educ. Winchester scholar 1572, aged 11; Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 1577, BA 1580. m. Dorothy, da. of James Brampton of Brampton, Norf. by Maria, da. and h. of Sir Edward Boleyn, ?1s.
• Lok, a grandson of Sir William Lok, sheriff of London in 1548, was one of the 15 children of a city merchant. During a period of recession in the family fortunes, he entered, at the age of about 22, the service of the 1st Lord Hunsdon. Little is known of Lok’s activities during this period, beyond his service with Sir John Norris in the Netherlands. His return for Ipswich can be attributed to Hunsdon, who was high steward of the borough. Lok was paid £5 for his parliamentary service in 1593.
• Both his wife and his patron died in 1596, the private sorrow presumably being softened by his liaison with his ‘dearly beloved mistress’, Ursula Johnson, whom he intended ‘by God’s grace’ to make his wife. .... etc.
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NOTE: Multiple DNA tests have proven that William Locke of Woburn is not related to Captain John Locke of Locke's Neck, New Hampshire. "Although DNA has proven that the two families are unrelated, there have been many marriages between both lineages, which makes this an interesting family tree!", quoted from the "Nutfield Genealogy" blog, written by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, governor of New Hampshire Mayflower Society and past president of Londonderry Historical Society. https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-123rd-locke-fami...!