ࡱ>  Root Entry( Jr̓>MatOST>̓>MMMN05ND ( JrMicrosoft Works MSWorksWPDoc9quSTK.522"2222 A.9d2I.t,422T One of Cromwells Captains  RJHG 05.08 One of Cromwells Captains This article (without the tree) was originally published in the March 2005 number of Family Tree Magazine Mortlock is a relatively rare surname outside East Anglia and London, and so, when Mortlock records occur outside this area one is tempted to investigate. The recent computerised index to the PROs records recently threw up new ones, in records classes previously unexplored by me - and, if it had not been for that index, they might have stayed that way. A number of stray references relating to the subject matter of this article have subsequently been collated from the internet. The muster roll for the Civil War regiment of foot raised under Captain Thomas Poulton, Parliamentary governor of Nottingham castle, shows a Richard Mortlock as ensign in what appears to be roughly a company-sized force. He had joined on 27th January 1648 (presumably 1649 New Style). In 1650 the, by now, Captain Richard Mortlock, gent. of Greeseley, Notts [now Greasely], bought interests in the sequestered estates of the King (in Derbyshire) [PRO, E320/07], and of the Earl of Newcastle in Radford and Worksop, Nottinghamshire [PRO, SP46/108 f201]. One can infer from these transactions that Richard was in good grace with the Parliamentary authorities for his military achievements. East Anglia, the Mortlocks heartland, was notorious for its Parliamentary sympathies besides seeing Cromwell as a local boy. Richard Mortlock must have been already a man of means, in order to make these capital investments, more than just a plain russet-coated Captain. These entries seem to make him the chiefest, indeed only currently visible candidate to be the father of John Mortlock of Nottingham fl. 1655-70 as shown in the tree below [the only Mortlock family in Notts IGI]. This theory is reinforced by Johns calling his heir Richard, and by Richards being sent to University, an indicator of some money in the family - although how, or indeed whether, Richard seniors gains survived the Restoration is not clear. John was certainly a 4-hearth man in 1674 (in John TWELLS Disuary[?sp] in town of Nottingham). Certainly the Earl of Newcastle did try to get his land back. Johns other son was packed off to Jamaica, but seems to have left no acknowledged progeny - if indeed he survived the climate, or ever actually reached there. The only professional mention of John that I have been able to find is that he sold, in Nottingham and at his shop in Newark, a work printed by Henry Mortlock of London in 1695. Since they were contemporaries and were thus joined in business across a considerable distance, it seems reasonable to suppose that John and Henry were related if not brothers. The idea of a link is strengthened by Henrys publication in 1677 of Robert Thorntons Antiquities of Nottinghamshire. Henrys domicile was the parish of St Faiths Under St Pauls in London. This was the Stationers Company church, and indeed they kept their records in its crypt, which did for them in the Great Fire of 1666. Henrys main business was conducted at the sign of the Phoenix in St Pauls churchyard (perhaps a pun on the Great Fire), but when Parliament was sitting he took a stand under the sign of the White Hart in Westminster Hall. Henry was noted as a publisher of religious works, particularly all the prodigious output of Edward Stillingfleet, 1635-99, who came from Cranborne in Dorset (although the Stillingfleets were originally of the village of that name in Yorkshire). Later Bishop of Worcester, Stillingfleet was Dean of St Pauls in 1678, and became the most prominent bishop of his generation, and a familiar of Charles II. A family connection with the Stillingfleets followed (see chart). Henry also published works by Richard Bentley, who had been Stillingfleets chaplain at Worcester. Henry was described by his contemporary John Dunton as the most indefatigable shopkeeper and one of the most prolific publishers of his time. It has to be said that he was operating from a position of considerable privilege, for the number of master-printers was, from 1660, strictly controlled by the Government in the interest of religious and political censorship. It might be supposed that the familys Commonwealth sympathies had been massaged down to invisibility by this time, but one of Henrys titles, The Evil and Danger of Stage Plays (1706) suggests otherwise. Henry was a publisher and bookseller rather than an actual printer - various books which he sold are marked as printed for him, by a variety of different, presumably jobbing, printers. As a bookseller he seems sometimes to have been in partnership with an Elizabeth Calvert who was in business at the Barbican. Some copies of works published by Henry were, at the time of writing this article, still on sale, commanding prices in the order of 500. In the 1695 tax census Henry and Elizabeth were the only adult Mortlocks Within the Walls, i.e. within the City of London. The interest of this is that it suggests that later Mortlock Londoners were incomers, almost certainly from East Anglia, and that the Mortlock name arose there and, although a corruption of Mortlake, did not radiate via the Metropolis. Indeed, if they had, they would presumably have become established in other directions as well as north-east. Henrys son George became his partner and was still in business in 1717. Judging by the title of one of the works that he published - The Royal Martyr a True Christian (1716) - either times had changed or George, in a shift not untypical of the human condition, did not share his fathers political views. Georges heir, Roger, took his mothers surname, presumably in order to inherit some money. Roger, who graduated BA at Cambridge in 1735, is recorded as voting in an election of the Junior Proctor of the University in 1740, and voting on another issue in 1742. Rogers probable younger brother, Samuel, seems to have disappeared into soapmaking and the more readily available London records do not disclose what became of him. The next puzzle relates to Captain Richards origins. The placing of two sons in stationery and printing suggests that he was in that trade before the Civil War swirled him into another calling, and the hints as to his status suggest that he had a reasonable amount of money at his back, if only to be able to buy into the sequestered property being sold off after the Commonwealth victory. As to East Anglia, the name Richard was never used by the Mortlocks indigenous to Cambridgeshire, and most of the Mortlocks in Norfolk seem to be descended from an incomer from Suffolk, although a Richard Mortlock was living in Castle Rising in the 1720s and 1730s. There were Richards relatively early in Essex and also in Suffolk; there was a Henry who became a printer in Bury St Edmunds at the end of the eighteenth century but that may mean anything or nothing; he was previously a blacksmith, one of a clan of over two dozen Mortlock blacksmiths in Suffolk and Norfolk and later in Cambridgeshire. The names Richard and Samuel are used for Mortlocks in both Suffolk and Essex in the sixteenth century and later. So, on a basis of what is currently visible in terms of Mortlock records, I would place Captain Richard as a Suffolk or Essex man. An additional teaser is that the only other Roger Mortlock visible between 1538 and 1881 is the Roger listed for Clare in the 1638 Able Men of Suffolk. He seems to belong to a branch of Mortlocks from Wicken in Cambridgeshire. Was Georges Roger named after him? This family had a John and a Henry. Whether anything further, of a more concrete nature, can ever be discovered about Cromwells Captain Richard Mortlock I rather doubt. 2005-8, RJH Griffiths, Havant griffithsrobert at hotmail.com References and Sources not Identified in the Text: PRO wills and admons as listed [# on chart] Alumni Cantabriensis, Venn [Al. Cantab.] Nottinghamia Vetus et Nova, Charles Deering MD 1951 (quoted on the internet) Army List of Roundheads and Cavaliers, Edward Peacock ed., Chatto & Windus 1874 (Facsimile edition 1983, Trottman Military Monographs)[does not list Richard Mortlock] Life, [autobiography of] John Dunton, written 1703, reprinted 1818 Dictionary of National Biography (entry for Edward Stillingfleet) Complete Book of Emigrants, PW Coldham, Genealogical Publications Co Inc 1990 PRO, IR/1/13/217 Apprenticeship records British Biographical Archive Directory of Printers & Booksellers etc 1557-1775, HR Plomer et al, 1977 London Inhabitants Within the Walls, 1695, DV Glass, London Record Society 1965 MORTLOCK: NOTTINGHAM AND LONDON =============================== Richard MORTLOCK captain in Cromwells Army later of Greeseley, Notts ca.1650 George STILLINGFLEET of ? 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