Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . alkar and a James Person forserchying and mendyng of the cowndeth. The accounts of 1569-70 show there was payd to Willelmo Walker for settyng up yepaschall and takying down the same the sum of six shillings andeight pence. Parish registers of many old England Countiesshow the Walkers to have been numerous in the early part of thesixteenth century. Many high offices were held by them, somebeing prominent in the Courts of Exchange and Common Pleas,while
Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . alkar and a James Person forserchying and mendyng of the cowndeth. The accounts of 1569-70 show there was payd to Willelmo Walker for settyng up yepaschall and takying down the same the sum of six shillings andeight pence. Parish registers of many old England Countiesshow the Walkers to have been numerous in the early part of thesixteenth century. Many high offices were held by them, somebeing prominent in the Courts of Exchange and Common Pleas,while others were notable as authors. In the sixteenth centurylived Sir Thomas Walker, a Hereditarv Usher of the Court of / e> Exchange, Marshal and Barrier of the Court of Common Pleasuntil his death in 1613. He was a large subscriber to the Vir-ginia Company of London. Englands colonial possessions in theNew World then offered to the English nobility possibilities forenrichment to those who were able to build merchant ships andcould supply younger sons fitted to command them. The story of Captain Thomas Walker of a prominent English [176].
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