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- Roger Vivian of Camborne, 6th son of Haniball Vivian of Trelowarren, bap. 1594 at Mawgan Meneage, named in the wills of his father and brother Sir Francis, a merchant and one of the King
s Tin Farmers for Cornwall, committed to Crosby Hall and Colchester Prison for refusing to pay over the King
s money to Parliament, through which he became reduced in his estate, was employed abroad by the Levant Company and died at Aleppo in Syria. He is alluded to in the will of his sister-in-law Frances Vivian. Admon. granted 22 April 1653 to his brother Haniball, and "De bonis non" 22 April 1657 to his nephew Sir Richard Vivian, Kt. on behalf of the family, Act Book, P.C.C.
In 1638 Roger vivian was renting a house in St. Dionis, Backchurch in London for ?60 annually.
House of Commons Journal Vol. 2
16th Jan. 1643
Proceedings Against Tin Farmers
Two of the Tin Farmers Mr Langham and Mr Roger Vivian, were called in; and, being demanded by Mr Speaker to give their positive answer, whether they would pay the money the House had ordered, refused it positively, unless the Receiver of The Duchy of Cornwall gave acquittance; who was informed, in all likelihood, was in the King
s Army.
Whereas the Tin Farmers being required forthwith to pay unto this House the sum of two thousand one hundred and fifty pounds, being part of the sum of six thousand pounds due to his Majesty for half a years rent for this Tin Farm, which they confess is remaining in their hands. And whereas Mr Langham and Mr Roger Vivian, two of the Tin Farmers, being required to pay the said monies, and promised that they should have an ordinance of both Houses of Parliament for their indemnity, did peremptorily refuse to pay the same, unless the Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall do give them an acquittance for their discharge; for which indignity, offered to the said House by the said Langham and Vivian, it is ordered, that they be forthwith commited to the Goal at Colchester, there to remain during the pleasure of this House.
House of Lords Journal Vol.6 11th April 1644.
Ordinance to indemnify the Tin Farmers, for paying ?6,000 to the use of Parliament.
Whereas Sir Job Harby Knight, Robert Charleton, Roger Vivian, Thomas Bounst and Wm. Langhorne, Farmers to His Majesty of Pre - emption and First Buying and Coinage of Tin, within the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, the Realm of England, Wales and Dominions thereof, by virtue of one Indenture under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date the 5th of November, in the 16th Year of his now Majesty
s Reign, upon which the said Tin Farmers are , by the Committee of His Majesty
s Revenue , made by Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament the 1st of February last, Ordered to pay, upon the 6th day of the same February, the sum of Fifteen Hundred Pounds; and upon the 16th of the same, another One Thousand Five Hundred Pounds; and upon the 1st Day of April then next, the sum of Three Thousand Pounds, in all Six Thousand Pounds; the First Two of which Payments, amounting unto Three Thousand Pounds, have been by them the said Sir Jacob Harby and other Tin Farmers abovenamed, made accordingly: The Lords and Commons in Parliament do Ordain, and be it Ordained by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, That the said Sir Job Harby, Robert Charleton, Roger Vivian, Thomas Bounst and William Lanhorne and every of them , their and every of their Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, his and their Lands,Tenements, and Hereditaments, Goods, and Chattels, upon Payment of the Sum of Three Thousand Pounds more, according to the said recited order, are and shall, by the Power and Authority of both Houses of Parliament, discharged and protected, of, for, and concerning, the said Three several Sums of Fifteen Hundred Pounds, Fifteen Hundred Pounds, and Three Thousand Pounds, of, from, and against, His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the same.
Roger Vivian died beyond seas ( ad. d.b.n. April 1657 ) 1653 - 4.
A Pisgah - Sight of Palestine by Thomas Fuller, B.D. Lond. John Williams 1650 fol.
Note; Roger Vivian is mentioned, Book 5 p. 181 as one of two " Judicious friends which have lived in those parts " i.e. Syria And The Map, book 2 p. 136 is inscribed. " Roger Vivian Mercatori probe exerctitato, cujus oculis Syria notior, qua nostro calamo, naves firmas nautus strenuos, portus fidos AEolu Neptununumque propitium, omnia deniq. Zebulonis comada precatur.
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