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London in 1618 and gained his freedom from the
Merchant Taylors Company in 1627. In 1629 he was acting as a shipping agent, carrying merchandise to the Barbary Coast in North Africa on the vessels ‘Consul of London’ and ‘Lydia of London’. Merchants who consigned goods to Ivie’s vessels complained of irregularities and that Ivie had "siphoned off much of the profits to himself". A special warrant was issued by the High Court of the Admiralty of England calling for Thomas Ivie to be arrested. It was to escape the prospect of bankruptcy and imprisonment that Ivie fled overseas. He married his first wife, Miss Stump (the Stump family being of Malmesbury), in 1630 and travelled to Guiana in 1633 with his wife’s nephew. Thomas joined the East India Company from 5 September 1639 – being in Madras from 1644-48. In later years, Thomas never tired of telling people how, during this time, he had been in command of thousands of people with whom he had previously lived in "constancy and fidelity". He left the service of the East India Company and returned to England via Bantam on 23 September 1648 on the "Seaflower". It was considered that he carried out his duties as Agent in Madras competently. His wife travelled to meet her returning husband but, on the journey, died in a coach accident.
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made a petition for alimony and also appealed to the
Ecclesiastical Court for aid. Then there were complaints in the Court of Chancery and litigation at the King’s Bench as well as cases at the Court of Equity and the Court of Arches. Thomas Ivie was sued for alimony, libel, cruelty and desertion. As Thomas neared the end of his life, he tried to prevent his wife triumphing over him by making his Will on 17 November 1671, making bequests to his numerous nephews and nieces and making sure his estranged wife received nothing. He failed in this as litigation was ongoing at his death and court records showed awards against his estate which his executors were obliged to fulfil.
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October 1649, before a marriage settlement had been agreed, and there were problems in the marriage from the start. Years of fighting, litigating against each other and separation culminated in Thomas appealing to the highest authority in the land (the
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The now widowed Thomas Ivie sought a new wife. Accounts vary as to how he met the young (25 years his junior), widowed
Theodosia Garrett (née Stepkin) 1628-1694. One account, from Theodosia’s close relation, stated that (having turned down her father’s previous suggested suitor) Theodosia was given
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The death of their young daughter in 1668 prompted the couple to separate again – this time for good. The marriage ended in a veritable explosion of litigation between them as Thomas repeatedly tried, and failed, to get control of the estate his wife had inherited in
Wapping. Yet again, Lady Ivie
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for his land in East London. Though found not guilty at the subsequent trial – because it was impossible to bring the crime home to her personally – the accusation against her was enough to empower her opponents to challenge all her titles and, from the 1680s onwards, her life spiralled downwards.
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Thomas Ivie (1603–73) was the third son (of 20 siblings) to
Colonel Thomas Ivie of Abbey House in Malmesbury. His ancestors had made their fortunes as clothiers and they were settled in the area from Kington to Hullavington. In his youth he had been apprenticed to Edmund Winn of Canning Street
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Arraign’d or The Remonstrance of Thomas Ivie Esq to His Highness the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland & wherein are set forth the unheard of practices and vaillanies of lewd and defamed women in order to separate man and wife. Thomas Ivie. Full
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It was in 1646 that the first Hindu temple was constructed in Madras since the
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later reunited briefly and went on to have a daughter, Theodosia Ivie 1660-68. Thomas was knighted at the Restoration, hence Theodosia becoming Lady Ivie – a title she kept for the rest of her days, even after the death of Thomas and her own remarriage.
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who knew the Ivies and Stumps, being educated at Malmesbury himself, read a copy of Ivie’s appeal and thought it contained "as much baudry and beastliness as can be imagined". Despite this background, Thomas and
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