# Martin Noell

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**Sir Martin Noell** was a 17th-century English merchant, engaged in an extensive colonial trade that included the [slave trade](/source/History_of_slavery). He thrived under the [Commonwealth](/source/English_Commonwealth) as a [tax farmer](/source/Tax_farmer), taking up farms of the excise or customs and advancing other sums, secure in the knowledge that he would get his money back.[1] At the [Restoration of Charles II](/source/English_Restoration) (1660) Noell was one of the four eminent London merchants— the others being [Thomas Povey](/source/Thomas_Povey), [Sir Nicholas Crispe](/source/Sir_Nicholas_Crispe,_1st_Baronet) and [Sir Andrew Riccard](/source/Andrew_Riccard)— who took their seats among the courtiers on the Council for Plantations,[2] whose restrictions on colonial trade in the interests of a [mercantilist policy](/source/Mercantilism) were resisted from the first by Virginia planters.[3] He was knighted in 1662.[4]

## Notes

1. Michael J. Braddick, "The rise of the fiscal state", *The Companion to Stuart Britain*, 1999.

1. The distant precursor of the [Board of Trade](/source/Board_of_Trade).

1. Joan de Lourdes Leonard, *Operation Checkmate: The Birth and Death of a Virginia Blueprint for Progress 1660-1676*, *The William and Mary Quarterly*, Third Series, 24.1 (January 1967:44–74).

1. "I this day heard that Mr. Martin Noell is knighted by the King, which I much wonder at; but yet he is certainly a very useful man" ([Samuel Pepys](/source/Samuel_Pepys), *Diary*, 6 October 1662.

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