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Ravenscroft was a lawyer and merchant, dealing in lace, currants and glass. [1]
In 1679, Ravenscroft, then of High Holborn in London, had the Ravenscroft Almshouses built for six "poore antient women". [2] [1] [3]
James Ravenscroft (died 1680) was a lawyer, merchant, and philanthropist in Chipping Barnet, in what is now north London.
He was the son of Thomas Ravenscroft.
Ravenscroft was a lawyer and merchant, dealing in lace, currants and glass. [1]
In 1679, Ravenscroft, then of High Holborn in London, had the Ravenscroft Almshouses built for six "poore antient women". [2] [1] [3]
Ravenscroft died on 28 January 1680. [5] Barnet Recreation Ground was renamed Ravenscroft Gardens in his memory. [4]
John Hardyng was an English chronicler. He was born in Northern England.
Sir Robert Clayton (1629–1707) was a British merchant banker, politician and Lord Mayor of London.
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St John the Baptist Church is the Church of England parish church of Chipping Barnet, Greater London. It forms part of the Chipping Barnet Team Ministry, comprising St Mark's, Barnet Vale, St Peter's, Arkley and St Stephen's, Bell's Hill. It crowns the ascent up Barnet Hill, and stands at the junction of Wood Street and High Street. It is one of the few Anglican churches in Greater London to belong to the Diocese of St Albans.
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Barnet Common was an area of common land to the south of the town of Chipping Barnet in what is now north London. The Common was created after a wood was cleared in the 16th century and was mostly used by local people to graze their animals. It was the location of a Digger colony and of the Barnet Physic Well at which mineral water was consumed. Part of the Common was enclosed in 1729 and the rest in 1815, leading to development on the north and south sides, and later infilling.
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James Ravenscroft was born in 1595, the son of Thomas Ravenscroft of Fould Park, Middlesex, and Bridget Powell. The Ravenscrofts were an ancient Flintshire family. (Thomas Ravenscroft (1563-1631) was a cousin of Lord Ellesmere’s first wife, a member of Parliament in 1621, and a Cursitor in the Chancery. (A. D. Thrush and J. P. Ferris, History of Parliament, House of Commons 1604-1629 (2010), vol. 6, pp. 15-16.)) James was admitted at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1613, and received his B.A. degree in 1616. He was admitted to the Inner Temple on 29 May 1617, and he was called to the bar on 21 May 1626. James was married to Mary Peck; they resided in High Holborn, and had eleven children. In addition to being a lawyer, he had a mercantile business. In 1679, he founded Jesus Hospital in Wood Street, Chipping Barnet, which was an almshouse.(British Library MS. Harley 6379 (foundation and regulations for Jesus Hospital)). He had previously made a very generous donation to the rebuilding of the vestry of Barnet Church, where he was buried. He also established a trust for the maintenance of the parish church. James Ravenscroft died on 10 December 1680 at the age of 85. (W. Ravenscroft and R. B. Ravenscroft, The Family of Ravenscroft (1915), pp. 16, 44; J. Venn and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, part 1, vol. 3, p. 424 (1922); F. A. Inderwick, ed., Calendar of Inner Temple Records (1898), vol. 2, p. 155.) Two of his children were George Ravenscroft, see C. MacLeod, ‘Ravenscroft, George (1632/3-1683), merchant and glass manufacturer’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 46, pp. 128-129; and Edward Ravenscroft, see L. A. Knafla, ‘Ravenscroft, Edward (fl. 1659-1697), playwright’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 46, pp. 126-128. James Ravenscroft’s reports of cases date from 21 Jac. I (1623) to 9 Car. I (1633). This set of law reports has survived in only one known copy, British Library MS. Lansdowne 1094. This manuscript is signed by James Ravenscroft on page 135. It was owned by Edward Umfreville (d. 1786) in 1727, and purchased in 1758 by William Petty, marquess of Lansdowne (1737-1805). Lord Lansdowne’s extensive collection of manuscripts, including this one, was bought by the British Museum, now the British Library, in 1807. (H. Ellis and F. Douce, edd., Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts (1820), vol. 2, p. 275.)