Benjamin Skutt 1638-1699

[London Apprenticeship Abstracts 1442-1850.] ['Salmon - Sykes', The Rulers of London 1660-1689 "A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London" Benjamin Skutt (inc. Martha Skutt). Co Bishopsgate Within 1682-3, Great St.Helens 1677, St.Helen 1655,1680,1683, St.Lawrence Jewry 1663-75, Barbadoes 1697. (1)IRON, M, 1682 (2)b:1638 - d:Barbadoes 1699 (3)Will PCC 122 Pett pr., 15 Jul 1699 - marr (A)1655 St.Michael, Oxford to Martha Wheat (B)1683 Martha Guyon, wid.of Bowers, Essex (4)Merchant Assis RAC 1672-4, 1677-9, 1682-4, RAC agent in Barbados (5)RAC stock £1000 of original stock 1671 (6)Estate Barbados (7)Tory ("very good" 1682) (8)Commsr for Lieut, 1681. (1)Directory 1677, Boyd 5899, VBk, St.Helen, will (2)Journ, 49, f 293, Boyd 5899 (3)Boyd 5899, will (4)Boyd 5899 (5)Directory 1677 SP/29/418/199, K G Davies, Index, pp 297, 298 (6)PRO, T 70/100 (7)Will (8)SP/29/418/199, H of L, MS 154 (f). B Skutt - esquire of Barbados (125) 1699 122.] [New Royal African Company 27 September 1672 Trustees - Benjamin Skutt] [1678-1684: The Royal Africa Company lists include: Benjamin Skutt, Africa company's agent in Barbados.] [child:Benjamin Skutt - Employed a clerk, and 17 officers, p517, from: Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain: With Diverse Remarks... By Edward Chamberlayne, John Chamberlayne pub. London 1723.] [Yesterday Sir Thomas Montgomery brought in a complaint against Mr. Benjamin Skutt, one of the Council, for uttering unbecoming words of the King's affairs, and particularly about the execution of the traitor Cornish, which words, though they might not amount to high treason, were, in Sir Thomas's judgment, highly criminal. To prove this Sir Thomas, about eight o'clock at night, brought a servant and kinsman of Mr. Skutt's, one that had a little before attempted to murder Mr. Skutt in the night by lying in wait for him at his own house. The attempt was frustrated by a gentleman who lived in the house with Mr. Skutt. This gentleman coming in before him received the assault and was too strong for the assailant, whereupon the man declared that it was Mr. Skutt he meant to have killed. This would-be murderer of Mr. Skutt Sir Thomas now brought to me as a witness against Mr. Skutt, with a deposition ready drawn to the effect that fifteen or sixteen months ago, while at sea in the voyage from England to Barbados, Skutt reproached this witness, Pendleton by name, with being son of a perjured person, his father having been one of the jurors who found Cornish guilty, and added that if he had been on the jury he would not have found him guilty. Skutt, it was alleged, repeated these same words later in his own house and in the hearing of witnesses whom Sir Thomas Montgomery desired me to examine. I therefore took Pendleton's oath to the deposition which he brought to me, and next morning summoned the other witnesses named by him and examined them in the presence of Sir Thomas and of three members of Council. The witnesses all confessed that they were in the room at the time when Pendleton was with Mr. Skutt but never heard Skutt say a word about Cornish then or at any other time. So there the matter rests at present, but I thought it my duty to report it to you. As Mr. Skutt has always shewn himself loyal and dutiful here, and I believe also in England, I was not advised by the members of Council to suspend Mr. Skutt or to bind him to answer to the matter. Sir Thomas says that he has more witnesses, though he has not named them to me. If such there be I will send copies of their depositions. Signed, Edwyn Stede. [Col. Entry Bk., Vol. VII., pp. 471 479.] From: 'America and West Indies: July 1688', Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, Volume 12: 1685-1688 and Addenda 1653-1687 (1899), pp. 565-576.] [Online Document PROB 11/451. Will of Benjamin Skutt, of Island of Barbados. Date:1699.]