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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
(SEPTEMBER, 1921
Like the "Correspondence of Richard Edwards" (1669-1679), now appearing in Bengal Past and Present, and the "Bowrey Papers" (1685-1712), which it is hoped will be accessible to the public before very long, the Scattergood MSS. supplement the official records and furnish a vivid picture of the life of Anglo-Indiane and of their relations with the Company -in this case at a period singularly barren of really human documents.-R.C.T.)
ANTHONY SCATTERGOOD AND HIS CONNECTION WITH THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
AT HOME, 1619. Anthony Scattergood, baptised at St. Alkmund's, Derby, on the 15th March 1593-4, was the eldest son of Richard Scattergood and Margaret Bate, and grandson of John Scattergood of Little Chester, near Derby, probably by Mary Lyster, his first wife.
In May 1612 Anthony Scattergood was bound apprentice for seven years to Edward Harrison, grocer, his uncle by marriage, and on the expiration of his apprenticeship, in Nov." ember 1619, became "a sworn freeman" of the Grooers Company. A few months previously, while still bound" to Edward Harrison, he was "admitted and sworn Free Brother” of the East India Company “by service and paid his fine of 108. to the poor box. He was thus entitled to be a purchaser of the Company's stock, but there is no record to say whether he availed himself of the privilege. A few years later, on the 17th July 1625, he was buried in his native parish of St. Alkmund's, Derby. He was “a young man of grate hope," but his early death may account for the absence of any further mention of him in the Company's records.3
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FRANCIS SCATTERGOOD OF ELLASTON, CO. STAFFS, HIS SERVICE WITH THE
EAST INDIA COMPANY, 1640-1647.
Francis Scattergood appears to have been the third son of John Scattergood of Chadsden and Ellaston, co. Staffs, Attorney-at-law (1586-1662), and Elizabeth Baker alia, Stables. He was baptised at Ellaston on the 8th March 1613-14. Of his early life nothing is known. He married his wife Elizabeth some time previous to 1640, probably about 1639, just before he entered the Company's service. In the Scattergood pedigree at the Heralds College (Press-mark K. 1, Visitation of Northants and Rutland, 1681), which is subscribed by his brother Dr. Anthony Scattergood, Rertor of Winwick and Yelvertoft, co. Northants, Francis is described as having "died young or unmarried;" but Dr. Anthony's memory must bave led him astray on this point, as it certainly did on one or two others.6
There is no record of any petition by Francis Scattergood for employment in the East. He is first mentioned on the 11th December 1640 at a Court of Committees, when “The Court tooke into consideration the electing and settling of their Pursers, Pursers Mates. Stewards, and Stewards Mates, and having at a former Court entered into this business but not perfected the same, they now taking a review of what they had formerly done, and
1 Particulars supplied by Mr. Scattergood. 2 Court Minutes, IV. 345 (India Office Records). 3 Information from Mr. Scattergood.
• From the evidence contained in Mr. Scattergood's papers, there is strong presumption for this statement, but actual proof is wanting.
For an account of Dr. Anthony Scattergood and of his son, the Rev. Samuel Scattergood, see the Dictionary of National Biography.
6 Particulars supplied by Mr. Scattergood.
