Will's Hints of City Mayor's Adventures Abroad

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › August 04, 2011

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FROM EXETER'S ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM NICHOLAS Spicer was a merchant and freeman of Exeter who held the office of Mayor in 1603- 1604, 1629-1630 and 1644-1645. The son of Christopher Spicer and his wife Elizabeth (nee Symonds), he was born on 15 July 1581 and christened in St Martin's Church, Exeter.

Spicer was a member of the Exeter Society of Merchant Adin venturers and served as their Governor. However, his principal interests were firmly rooted the City of London. In his will he directed that he should be buried in the parish church of St Mary Aldermary near to his late brother Richard. One hundred pounds of the five hundred he bequeathed to his wife, Martha, would be paid to her 'immediately after the adventures I have abroad shall come in and my debts be received'.

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Will's Hints of City Mayor's Adventures Abroad

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