Henry Timberlake (1570 - 1625)

Born 1570 in Chilling, Tichfield, Hampshire, England

Husband of Marie (Clem) Timberlake — married about 1594 in Hampshire, England

Descendants

Died Sep 1625 at about age 55 in Titchfield, Hampshire, England

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Biography

Henry Timberlake was born in England.

Henry (Tymberlake) Timberlake

Birth: 1570 • Chilling, Titchfield, Hampshire, England

Death: Sep 1625 • Titchfield, Hampshire, England

Father: Nicholas / Nycholas Timberlake (1538–1604)

Mother: Joan Dell (1538–1578)

Marriage & Family

Spouse: Marie Clem (1572–1632)

Children:

1. Thomas Timberlake
2. Henry Timberlake I (1594–1633)
3. Sarah Timberlake (Blyer)
4. Hester Timberlake (Williams)
5. Mary Timberley (?) (1595–1685)

Henry Timberlake (merchant adventurer)

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Henry Timberlake (1570 – 1625) was a prosperous London ship captain and merchant adventurer who travelled to the Mediterranean in his ship the Trojan early in 1601. After calling at Algiers (where he took on board Muslim passengers bound for Mecca) and Tunis, he reached Alexandria. Here he and his assistant Waldred took his Levant Company stock and went overland and then up the Nile to Cairo. Finding it impossible to sell his goods in Cairo, he went with another Englishman, John Burrell, to visit Jerusalem. This was a very hazardous journey to make, given the perils of any travel by land in an area rife with highway robbery. After his return, he wrote a letter about his adventures to friends in London that was published in 1603 as A True and Strange Discourse on the travailes of two English Pilgrims. It was a popular account and went through numerous editions.

The popularity of the account was due to the vivid narration and the surprising friendship it presented between an English Protestant (Timberlake) and an unnamed Muslim from Fes, Morocco. This man had been one of the passengers Timberlake had taken on board in Algiers. Encountering Timberlake at Mamre, near Hebron, as part of a large Syrian caravan, the Moor promised to help the captain in a strange land. Timberlake - unwisely declaring himself a Protestant and an Englishman at Jaffa Gate - was arrested and accused of being a spy, the guards not knowing the country of England or Queen Elizabeth. He was released from prison only through the intercession of the Moor, who pleaded with the Ottoman Pasha for Timberlake's freedom. This Moor saved Timberlake's life on a second occasion when the two men hired racing camels at Gaza to return to Cairo, and were set upon by Bedouin, who wanted to take Timberlake to sell as a slave.

Timberlake's account is also a vivid glimpse into the history of Palestine and the situation of Christians there in the Ottoman period. The Protestant Timberlake is forced by the Pasha to stay in the Franciscan hospice, against his will, but in fact Timberlake appears to develop a grudging respect for the friars, who greet him there by washing his feet despite his fear of being made to participate in Catholic mass.

Given this, Timberlake's account shocked certain sectors of the English public in the Jacobean period by appearing to be pro-Catholic and pro-Muslim, and he was ridiculed in a caricature printed in an unauthorised version of his account. [picture]

Timberlake published nothing else, but continued his travels as a merchant adventurer, journeying to Virginia, where he owned land in Smith's Hundred, and also to Bermuda, where he also owned land. He died in September 1625, in Titchfield, near Fareham, Hampshire, where he had been closely associated with Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, and was buried in the chancel of St. Peter's Church there. His grandson, also called Henry Timberlake, emigrated to Newport, Rhode Island.

Sources

• Henry Timberlake, A True and Strange discourse on the travailes of two English Pilgrims London: Thomas Archer, 1603
• Joan Taylor, The Englishman, the Moor and the Holy City: The True Adventures of an Elizabethan Traveller Stroud: Tempus, 2006 ISBN 0-7524-4009-8

External links

• "Timberlake, Henry" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.^[1]

Will

I, Henry Timberlake of Chilling in the parish of Tichfield, county Southampton, gent., being sickley in body and lame in my limmes, this 10th day of July 1625, make this my last will and testament; Poor of Tichfield £3. To Thomas Timberlake, my oldest son and his heirs all such lands and tenements and shares or parts of land as I am no seised to in the Somer Islands of Virginia in the parts beyond the seas, and one parcel of land called Hobbs or Madam Land lying in Barking, Co. Essex. To Henry Timberlake my youngest son and his heirs one cottage and parcel of land called Mount Harsh lying in Prickleswell, county Essex, and two cottages in Lambahith Marsh near London, and as touching my goods and chattels, personal estate and adventures beyond the seas, whereas I am indebted in divers great sums of money for most of which my friend Arthur Bromfield, Esq., standeth bound, and whereas Sir William Cope of Hauwell, county Oxon, Knight and Bart, is indebted to me in 13, 947, for the securing of which he did convey unto me certain lands in the said county and in Essex, and whereas in respect of some defect in the title of said lands I have obtained a Decree in Chancery for receiving the said debt out of lands due unto thi said Sir William out of Custom House Key, London, now my will is that out of the same my debts shall be paid and Arthur Bromfield be discharged of his undertaking and that Sir William be reassured of the said lands.

I give unto Sarah, my daughter, new wife of Timothy Blyer of Tichfield clert, £200, to my daughter Hester, now wife of Thomas Williams, for the better maintenance of her and of Thomas and Judith Michell two of her children living with her, £30 yearly out of my leasehold tenements in London to the said Judith Michell £120, to John Michell her brother, my grandchild £120 and to Thomas and William Michell her brothers £20 apiece in addition to the 50 each given unto them by the will of my said daughter Hester's former husband - all these legacies to my grandchildren be paid to their respectives ages of one and twenty years.

To Benjamin Borrowes and Katherine his wife, my sister £10 yearly as long as they shall live together. To Rebecca, daughter of my said sister and now wife of Ralph Radford £10 and to Henry Burrows son of my said sister £20 and to Michael Burrowes her son, if he be now living £10.

Legacies to Samuel Breach, Agnes Ratcliffe, Richard Falder, Margaret Dodd, Arthur Bromfield my godson, William Bartnell my godson, and Timothy Blyer the younger, my apprentice the Company of Browne Bakers whereof I am a member, Margaret Copland my servant, Henry Copland, her brother, Henry Laundy my godson, Mary wife of Arthur Bromfield, Elizabeth his daughter, William Beeston gent., and my Kinsman Jasper Bartnall and wife. to Dorothy Pescod, a poore innocent that I keepe, £5 and my executors shall provide some fitt place for her, that she may neither wander nor begge. Old servant Joan Riever, a ____. Kinsmen beyond the seas (line not legible). Inner Temple, gent.

Overseers Arthur Bromfield, Esq., and William Beeston., gent. Witnesses; Arthur Bromfield and Anthony Bromfield, Thomas Greenhill, William Styant

Commissary of London VOL29, f.211^[2]

Sources

• Biography & Genealogy Master Index (BGMI): Name: Henry Timberlake; Death Year: 1626

• Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22: Henry Timberlake, d. 1626

• England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858: Name: Henry Timberlake; Probate Date: 13 May 1626; Residence: Titchfield, Hampshire, England

• England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858: Name: Henry Tymberlake; Probate Date: 31 Jan 1627

• England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991: Name: Henry; Gender: Male; Spouse: Mary

• English Origins of American Colonists: Will of Henry Timberlake

• Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol. II, page 1428

• London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812: Name: Henry Timberley; Gender: Male; Child: Mary Timberley

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s: Name: Henry Timberlake; Arrival Year: 1600-1675; Arrival Place: Virginia

• UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current: Name: Henry Timberlake; Death Date: Sep 1625; Death Place: Titchfield, Fareham Borough, Hampshire, England; Cemetery: St. Peter's Churchyard; Burial or Cremation Place: Titchfield, Fareham Borough, Hampshire, England; Has Bio?: Y; Children: Frances Timberley; Harry Timberley; Henry Timberlake

• UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975: Name: Timberlake, Tymberlake, Henry; Dates: 1628; Place: General, England; Book: 1620 to 1629. Collection: England: Canterbury - Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1620-1629; Text: 1628 Timberlake, Tymberlake, Henry, Titchfield, Hants. 3 Barrington

• Web: International, Find A Grave Index: Name: Sir Henry Timberlake; Death Date: 1625; Burial Place: Titchfield, Hampshire, England

1. ↑ Source: Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22
2. ↑ Source: Will of Henry Timberlake, smoore7771 originally shared this on 12 Jun 2014

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Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Les Ancestors.ged on 13 December 2010.