MRP: 16th March 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Holborn

16th March 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Holborn

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX f. 17

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Abstract & context

Richard Ball, D.D., wrote to Sir George Oxenden from Ely House, Holborne. The substance of his letter regards his son, also named Richard, who, according to his father, was in the fourth year of residence in the East Indies. This suggests that Richard Ball, the younger, had been in the East Indies since 1660 or earlier, before Sir George Oxenden's appointment as President in Surat.^[1]

It is possible that he has been entrusted to George Oxenden while Oxenden was engaged privately in Surat with William Noke for the Smirna venture Joint Stock. This would explain why Dr Ball had appealed to the court of the EEIC in March 1661 for his son's appointment to the Company to be confirmed before the latest ships left.

At the time of his father writing to Sir George Oxenden, Richard Ball, the son, was located in Carwar.

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[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX f. 17]

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When Opportunity moves but Seldome, it must be carefully embraced, & not lett Slip: I hope these lines will find you in health w:ch is my hearty wish; my Suite unto you is for my Sonn^[2]: to yo:r care he had y:e happiness to be comitted Seaven yeares Since, he was then A Child: A man, I heare he is now, in his Body, I hope Alsoe in his Braine: At least yo:r encouradgement will make him Soo, I am flatterd if he doth not doo well, A line or two from yo:r Penn will sett me a bove Doubts, as he shall be found to deserve, soe lett him find you his Freind, & for him to know Soe much would highly engage him; The fourth yeare is now begunn, & I have not heard of any Wages he gets Recvdd from y:e Comp:a, I begg yo:r love & care in y:e Prticukular , & if y:e Customes be to pay it here, I would be Glad it Should be soe & ordered, as to be paid unto mee, who shall be readie to send him what he most wants & desires, God Blessing, So prayeth

Ely House Holborne
March y:e 16: 1662/3

Yo: Obliged & Humble Servt:
Richard Ball

Notes

Richard Ball, Doctor of Divinity

"Helen, dau. of James Willymott, bapt. 28 Jan 1633, married Richard Ball, D.D., Master of the Temple.

Rev. Richard Ball, D.D., Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cam., Rector of Withy and Westerfield in Suffolk. Installed as a Prebendary of Ely 22 Sept. 1660, and same month installed as a Prebendary of Lincoln. Rector of St. Mary, Woolwich, London. Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II., and Rector of Bluntisham, co. Hunts, 18 August, 1662. Died in the Temple, London, of which he was Master, 6 April, 1684, aged 86"^[3]

"The Court promised to consider the request of Dr. Ball and Sir John Jacobs for their sons at Surat to be confirmed in their respective entertainments before the departure of the ships."^[4]

Richard Ball, the younger

Richard Ball was ?captain ?Henry Young's son-in-law^[5]

"...charge of murder against Richard Ball, which formed the subject of the second trial, over which Aungier presided in Bombay. A full report of it is among the records of the India Office."^[6]

Possible primary sources

TNA

Will of Richard Ball, Doctor of Divinity and Master of the two Honourable Societies of the Temple 01 December 1684 PROB 11/378 Hare Quire Numbers: 141 – 180 pp. 4 PDF

↑ 'A court of committees, March 6, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv. p. 349, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), Calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 97
↑ Richard Ball was at Carwar in the East Indies
↑ Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, vol. 3 (XXXX, 1880), fn., p. 185
↑ 'A court of committees, March 6, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv. p. 349, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), Calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663) (Oxford, 1922), p. 97
↑ Charles Fawcett, The first century of British justice in India: an account of the Court of judicature at Bombay, established in 1672, and of other courts of justice in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, from 1661 to the latter part of the eighteenth century (Oxford, 1934), p. 31
↑ Charles Fawcett, The first century of British justice in India: an account of the Court of judicature at Bombay, established in 1672, and of other courts of justice in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, from 1661 to the latter part of the eighteenth century (Oxford, 1934), p. 35

[1] 'A court of committees, March 6, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv. p. 349, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), Calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 97

[2] Richard Ball was at Carwar in the East Indies

[3] Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, vol. 3 (XXXX, 1880), fn., p. 185

[4] 'A court of committees, March 6, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv. p. 349, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), Calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663) (Oxford, 1922), p. 97

[5] Charles Fawcett, The first century of British justice in India: an account of the Court of judicature at Bombay, established in 1672, and of other courts of justice in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, from 1661 to the latter part of the eighteenth century (Oxford, 1934), p. 31

[6] Charles Fawcett, The first century of British justice in India: an account of the Court of judicature at Bombay, established in 1672, and of other courts of justice in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, from 1661 to the latter part of the eighteenth century (Oxford, 1934), p. 35

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MRP: 16th March 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Holborn

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