Matthew Cradock

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  1. Whitmore and Appleton, p. 5
  2. 1 2 3 Brenner, p. 137
  3. Medford Historical Society, p. 138
  4. Andrews, p. 90
  5. Brenner, p. 71
  6. 1 2 Bailyn, p. 17
  7. 1 2 Beaven, p. 290
  8. According to Brenner (p. 77), contemporary documents refer to the directors as "committees", the term used in Beaven to describe Cradock's role in the EIC.
  9. Brenner, pp. 137–138
  10. 1 2 Andrews, p. 91
  11. Brenner, p. 77
  12. Brenner, p. 150
  13. Brenner, pp. 310, 375
  14. Brenner, pp. 96,103
  15. Brenner, p. 103
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 Lee, Sidney (1885–1900). "Cradock, Matthew". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  17. Morison, pp. 35–36
  18. Drake, pp. 38–39
  19. Medford Historical Society, p. 139
  20. Eliot, p. 19
  21. Morison, p. 66
  22. Bailyn, pp. 18–19
  23. Brooks et al, p. 43
  24. Morison, p. 75
  25. Drake, p. 22
  26. Brenner, p. 276
  27. Letters of Mathew Cradock to John Winthrop, see Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Series IV Vol. 6 (The Society, Boston 1863), pp. 118-30.
  28. Dexter, p. 21
  29. Dexter, p. 22
  30. Dexter, p. 23
  31. Brenner, p. 323
  32. Brenner, pp. 340–341
  33. Beaven, p. 276
  34. Will of Mathew Cradock (P.C.C. 1641): printed in W.H. Whitmore, 'Notes on the Cradock Family', New England Historical and Genealogical Register, IX (1855), pp. 123-26.
  35. Will of Thomas Andrewes, Leather seller of London (P.C.C. 1653).
  36. W.G. Watkins, 'Notes from English Records', New England Historical and Genealogical Register January 1910, LXIV, pp. 85-87, with reference to the Chancery case Andrewes v Glover.
  37. Will of Damaris Cudworth (P.C.C. 1695).
  38. S. Hutton, 'Whichcote, Benjamin (1609-1683), theologian and moral philosopher' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  39. S. Handley, 'Cradock, Samuel (1620/21-1706), nonconformist minister', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  40. Will of Zachary Cradock (P.C.C. 1695).
  41. "Provosts of Eton". The Star. 17 May 1884. p. 4. Retrieved 28 June 2018 via Newspapers.com. Lock-green.svg

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Matthew Cradock
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company
In office
1628–1629
Parliament of England
Vacant Member of Parliament for City of London
1640–1641
With: Isaac Penington
Samuel Vassall
Sir Thomas Soame
Succeeded by