Note 24 — PART I Financing the Plymouth Colony

For Richard Andrews’ address, Winthrop Papers, II, 306; Thomas Lechford, “Notebook,” Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc., VII, 142; P.R.O., Exchequer, Depositions, E. 134, 22 James I, Mich. 59, on reverse of testimony by Francis Stubbs; Henry A. Harben, A Dictionary of London (London, 1918), 407. He may have resided in the ward of Cripplegate Within, where Richard Andrews, haberdasher, was one of the inhabitants most able to contribute to a Crown request for money, W. J. Harvey, ed., List of Principal Inhabitants of London, 1640 (London, 1886), 14. For links to Massachusetts Bay, Winthrop Papers, II, 306; Recs. Mass. Bay, I, 128; role as shipowner, Cal. S. P. Domestic, 1628–29, 440, and 1629–31, 469; Netherlands trade, P.R.O., E. 134, 12 Charles I, Easter, 39, and Michaelmas, 23; Winthrop Papers, V, 4. Gifts to Massachusetts in Winthrop’s Journal, ed. James K. Hosmer (New York, 1908), I, 128, and II, 70, 222; and discussion in R. P. Stearns, “The Weld-Peter Mission to England,” Pubs. Col. Soc. Mass., XXXII, 199, and The Strenuous Puritan: Hugh Peter (Urbana, 1954), 162, erroneously calling Richard Andrews an alderman. A.O.I., 1642–60, I, 970, 1088, 1240, for his public service; P.R.O., S.P. 16/515/146; William Kellaway, The New England Company, 1649–1776 (London, 1961), 66, for donations to a Puritan lectureship and to Indians; idem, “Collection for the Indians of New England, 1649–1660,” Bull. John Rylands Library, XXXIX (1957), 458.