Michael Barstow (son of Edward Barestowe)3 was born 16253, and died 16943. He married Alice on 1650.
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Michael Barstow was a Warden of the Company of Merchant Venturers, and his portrait hangs in the Company of Merchant Venturers in York. Extract from Notes Of Roger Beament "There is no record of when he was born, but we know that he entered the Merchants Company in 1649, when he became a freeman of the City. It was normal for a person to become an apprentice at the age of 16. The full term of the apprenticeship was 8 years. He would have paid a fe for his apprenticeship and he would have left home (in Barlby? Selby?) to live with the master to whom he was apprenticed. His indenture does not survive, but we have that of his grandson, Benjamin. To be admitted to the fellowship ofthe Company, an apprentice must be "fIrst fre of the cittye of York." There were four ways in which to become a freeman: by being given the freedom of the city as a reward for services, by payment of a fixed sum, by patrimony whereby the children of freemen could claim their freedom by right of birth and finally by servitude, serving as fulltime apprentice under a freeman. This last means was that used by Michael Barstow. We do not know to whom he was apprenticed, but in his turn he was to be responsible for many apprentices in the fifty years he was a full member of the company. An apprentice had to become a freeman not only to join the Merchant Adventurers, but also to trade legally. There were fees to pay: 3s.4d or 6s.8d, plus £1 stamp duty and £1 to the Corporation funds. The final act was to take an oath of loyalty before the Lord Mayor. The important privileges of a freeman were having the full status of a citizen, of being able to trade and open shops, to vote in Parliamentary elections and to have a voice in the government of the city. Once a person had gained the qualifications to trade, he or she had to seek permission from the Merchant Adventurers Company, who laid down some strict rules for trading. ,"No one shall open, or sett up shopp, or occupie merchandise, before he be admitt a fre brother of the same ... " No brother can see or buy any cloth brought to York unless it is sold in "our hall therefore appointed." Any other form of black market was forbidden in case the city lost any duty, and brothers were not to allow "any strainger or forrener to sell or putt yo saile anie manner of marchandise or mercerye, in anie of ther houses, shoppes or sellers." The company was clearly very concerned about the practice of members of the fellowship standing on street comers or even going into the "common innes, where the chapmen, buyers of flax, and other merchandise have lodged" and enticing them into their own shops, warehouses and cellars. In fact, it employed searchers who were responsible for uncovering such practices and reporting them to the Company. "
Michael Barstow owned land in South Duffield andalso Holme House. Michael Barstow styled himself Michael Barstow of Holme House. The house is still standing and is now owned and occupied by the Bramley family.
Extract from the History of Hemingsborough concerning South Duffield and Holme House
It is probable, therefore, that the Bassets were then the owners of land in South Duffield. The title-deeds were unhappily burnt in January 1835, in a fire which consumed the house of Thomas Barstow, Esq., in Blossom Street, York, the owner of the estates Everything then perished in the way of title except the grant of free-warren to Sir Wm. Basset, which Mr. Barstow had happily given to the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, where it is still preserved. HOLME HOUSE. The chief portion of these lands is a farmstead now called Holme House, situated near the confluence of the Dyon beck and the Derwent. The older name was Hagham, or Hagholme. Like other country granges, Holme House was surrounded by a small moat, the outer measure of which was 50 yards square and the width 9 or 10 yards; the inner area (a quadrangle of about 30 yards) was originally occupied with buildings which have now entirely disappeared, the site having been converted into an orchard. -Here there resided a family of the same name. A Roger de Hagham is mentioned in the Hundred Rolls, and Benedict de Hagham and Isabel his wife were legatees in the will of Henry de Cliff -in 1332. In 1663, the property had passed into the possession of Michael Barstow, a merchant of York. In that year Mr. Barstow paid the same bishop's rent as was paid by Alexander Armcotes in 1567 and Robert Armcotes in 1440."
Charities in York TRINITY HOSPITAL, in Fossgate, was built between 1371 and 1373, and after reconstruction in 1411 housed 30 sick poor. The hospital is said to have come into the possession of the York Merchant Adventurers in 1422 or 1423, (fn. 32) and it was certainly used by the company as a place of assembly from the 16th century. In 1576 the corporation settled 18 poor, including 3 children, in the building, (fn. 33) and in 1587 it was still said to contain a 'great many impotent persons', (fn. 34) without further qualification. An endowment of 1644 was directed, however, like many subsequent gifts, to the relief of the 'poor widows' of Trinity Hospital. The hospital comprised in 1820 two large rooms in the undercroft of the company's hall, divided off so as to accommodate 5 men and 5 women, nominated by the members (fn. 35) who administered the charity. In 1879 there were 10 pensioners who each received 9s. a month and certain annual gifts. Only 4 of these, including the hall-keeper and his wife, were resident, and most of the rooms were let. They were described at this date as 'in a state of dilapidation and decay', and in 1905 were said to have 'of late years fallen into disuse'. (fn. 36) The charity subsequently became a pension charity, and in 1931 there were 8 pensioners who received 10s. a month. In 1820 the hospital held numerous small endowments worth £27 yearly. The benefactors were Thomas Herbert (bequest, 1644), Jane Stainton (bequest, 1692), Michael Barstow (deed, 1694), Sarah Bawtry (bequest, effective 1694), William Garforth (bequest, 1722), (fn. 37) John Lucas (bequest, 1725), (fn. 38) Henry Myers (bequest, 1792), Ann Smith (gift, 1815), Thomas Harper (bequest, 1816), Hall and Healey, and Mrs. Mary Thistlethwaite (before 1820). (fn. 39) Thistlethwaite's gift was commuted in 1930 for £50 stock. In 1842 John Barker left £15 for bread and coals and £85 for money-gifts for the inmates, and by will proved in 1913 Lancelot Foster left £500, subsequently invested in stock, to provide a solatium fund for grants to disappointed applicants. In 1879 the interest on loan funds of £800 was said to be used by the Merchant Adventurers for the hospitallers. (fn. 40) From: 'Charities', A History of the County of Yorkshire: the City of York (1961), pp. 420-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=36379&strquery=Barstow. Date accessed: 19 February 2006.
More About Michael Barstow: Burial: Unknown, All Saints, North Street, York.3 Occupation: Merchant.3
More About Michael Barstow and Alice: Marriage: 1650
Michael Barstow (b. 1625, d. 1694)
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