MRP: 25th September 1667, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London
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25th September 1667, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London
BL, MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 13-14
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01/06/09, CSG: Completed transcription
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See 21st March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London
See 10th March 1665/66, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London
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[f. 13]
London 25:th Septemb
1667
Honoured S:r
Both your acceptable lres of ye 10:th & 25:th September 1666 came safe to my hands for w:ch as for myself & the rest of my friends who have been partakers of your greate favours I returne you my humble & hearty thankes, what w:ch ye sad Mortallity w:th happened in ye yeare 1665 & ye last dismall conflaggration, & ware, hath almost made me a Strainger to any trade, but more especially to yours, wherin though ye Comp:a affares (thankes be to God) have succeded reasonably well yett I must confess yo advise was most rationable; however for y:t & your prudent manadgem:t of their affaires these I doubt not but y:t they will acknowledg their acceptations w:th more than a bare returne of thankefullness & I hope they will deale kynd by w:th ye owners of ye S:t George for their greate hassarde & extraordynary (charge upon her arrivall from Kingsaile w:ch we hope may be in a few dayes in Comp:a w:th ye Happy returne I shall not trouble you w:th ye news of peace betweene his Ma:tie y:e ffrench King, & ye states Generall presuming you will rece: a full Acc:o from ye Comp:a of ye Affaires which have recommened y:e case of Richard Bladwell w:ch to me seme to be very sad: he haveing had considerable losses here, is left to trust to what he intrusted in India in ye hands & care of Muttrodas Bonark [or Bonarit] whose lre copie of his xxxxx stands ?aoate you had formerly sent w:th ye Comp:a generall lre & M:r Bladwell perticuler lre of request for yo: favour therein, w:ch was XXXXwanned by M:r Tho: Papillon[1] as he informeth me I have knowne his relations & himselfe from a Child untill his goeing into India: how he was drawine in there is best knowne to your Selfe then me upon y:e whole I ?earnesth request yo: favoure & indeavours in ye procuring of what is due to him from ye said
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Muttrodas ?Bonaitk w:ch I shall take as done for myselfe , & be ready to serve you or yo: relations here, in what I am able praying for ye Contynnance of yo:r health & well fare & in good time yo:r safe returne to yo:r Native Cuntrey I rest
Your obliged friend & humble Servant
Tho: Tyte
Notes
Richard Bladwell
"The following men to be disposed of as the President shall see cause: John Berrisford, Robert Carleton, Ephraim Widdrington, John Gray, Walter Travers, Thomas Atkins, and John Mould. To be writers : Thomas Rolt, John Harrington, Matthew Gray, Robert Santill, Richard Bladwell, Richard Wild, and Philip Gifford."[2]
"... while Matthew Gray, Robert Sainthill, Richard Bladwell, John Harrington, Richard Wylde (20/. each), and Philip Giffard (10/.) were to be writers in the factory at Surat."[3]
"…Hopewell to Bantam and Macassar, the last-named carrying Richard Bladwell and Thomas Coates as supercargoes [WHICH YEAR?]"[4]
"Ralph Lambton and Henry Bromfield also arrived in the Vine, leaving at Basra Cranmer and [Richard] Bladwell."[5]
"In the Convertine came, as a prisoner, Richard Bladwell, whom we had last heard of (p. 109) as being in Basra..."[6]
CSG NOTES: “[Richard?] [Nicholas? - Bicholas Bladwell was Second to Richard Craddock in Ahmedabad in June 1659] [Brennan (XXXX) states a William Bladwell was a Levant-EIC merchant in 1620s and 1630s, who dominated the Russian trade)”
Richard Bladwell in Sir George Oxenden's correspondence
Thomas Chambrelan refers to a M:r Bladwell in a letter to Sir George Oxenden [LETTER FROM TC TO GO: Puttney 8:te March 1665/6, ff. 30-34]
Possible primary sources
TNA
PROB 11/161 Audley 1-65 Will of John Bladwell, Merchant of London 03 May 1632
PROB 11/193 Rivers 57-110 Will of Richard Bladwell of Rotterdam 01 May 1645
- ↑ Thomas Papillon, London merchant
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock', January 13-13, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 51), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 212
- ↑ EFI, 1655-1660 (Oxford, XXXX), p. 196
- ↑ EFI 1661-64, p. 1
- ↑ EFI 1661-64, p. 109
- ↑ EFI 1661-64, p. 193