JENKS, RICHARD [SSNE 4446]
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Richard Jenks appears to have had various dealings with both of the Scandinavian Crowns. During the 1620s he was a merchant, based in Elbing and had dealings with the Eastland Company. Certainly from 1627 to 1629 he functioned as an agent to Sweden on behalf of the Company. In March 1629 Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna recommended the Eastland Company's request for repayment of the loan of 15,000 riksdaler they had supplied the Swedish Crown in 1626. The Chancellor supplied Jenks with a pass to travel to Sweden that month. Almost twenty years later, the English Parliament authorised Jenks (16 September 1644) as an ambassador to Denmark regarding trade disputes. He was in Denmark twice in 1644 an once again in 1646. Jenks also visited Sweden and the Hanse towns in 1644 as a representative of the English Parliament.
Sources: Bodleian Library Tanner MSS; G. M. Bell, A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives 1509-1688 (London, 1990); Rikskansleren Axel Oxenstiernas skrifter och brefvexling, first series, III, p.493; ibid, IV, pp.416, 417, 426, 746.
English Civil War; Parliamentarian.
Service record
- ENGLAND, ELBING
- Departed 1627-12-31
- Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE
- ENGLAND, SWEDEN
- Departed 1644-04-30
- Capacity AMBASSADOR, purpose DIPLOMACY
- ENGLAND, DENMARK-NORWAY
- Departed 1644-04-30
- Capacity AMBASSADOR, purpose DIPLOMACY
- Departed 1645-05-27
- Capacity AMBASSADOR, purpose DIPLOMACY
- Departed 1646-08-31
- Capacity AMBASSADOR, purpose DIPLOMACY