MRP: 30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London

30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXXX, ff. 66-67

Editorial history

13/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki

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Abstract & context

Richard Oxinden, Sir George Oxenden's cousin, wrote to Sir George Oxenden on March 30th, 1663, from London

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Suggested links

See 3rd March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Old Baily Corner
See 21st March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London
See March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO
See 5th January 1666/67, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Lambeth
See 1st October 1667, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Lambeth

See biographical profile of Richard Oxinden

See biographical profile of Sir George Oxenden
See biographical profile Edward Kelke

See The Ship, London
See Ludgate Hill

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Transcription

Transcription completed, 21/05/09; requires careful checking

[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXXX, ff. 66-67]

S:r

You cannot Imagine w:th w:t Content & satisfaction I make inquiry after yo:r health & safety, unlesse you coulde be convinced; y:t my owne well being weare wrapt up in yo:s Surte I anm y:t nothing would please mee more y:n y:e undoubted asurance y:t these lines might bee soo happy as to finde you in pfect health, & give you the assurance y:t my future happiness will cheeflely Consiste in being in á Capacity to serve you, and honor I feare y:t fortune will deny mee & inso sooing macke mee totally unhappy. But how ever I may faile in my ábilities yett never in my will & Desires w:ch I know yo:e goodnesse will excep:t I shall give you this short Acco:t of yo:e relations y:t they are all well & in health as you left them there being no change or Allteration, onely yo:r Brother S:r Harry left this Citty y:e last weeke, his stay was very short but however wee went some tymes to y:e Ship our purpose to drinke á health to S:r George whome God preservem yo:e Lady Sister Oxinden proves a very, very excellent good Wife & Mother, yo:e deare M:rs Masters ws á bout a month since w:th much Joy delivered of a lusty boy to y:e great Contentmen:t of all her relations; yo:e freinde & admirer S:r Bassill was w:thin this few dayes in London very well; I shall not undertake to write newes because y:t many á good tale is spoyled in y:e telling, but leave y:t taske to my Nobel Brother Millett; I must w:th greefe say that heeere is no reformation for those you left Roges are pure & perfect Rogues still & soo you will finde it when you have recd an Acco:t of yo:e Businesse S:r á mongst some bookes y:t you will receave from yo:e sister Dalyson thereis one named Hudibrase w:chis y:e most admired peece of Drollary y:t ever came forth it was made by o:e Old acquaintance M:r Buttler whome wee did use to meete in Grassenn walkes hee did use to keepe Comp:a w:th Ned Kelke & Collonell Mathuse & D:r Morgin & M:r Will:m Morgin I onely write this for feare yo:e multiplicity of Businesse should cause you to forgett him & y:t you may y:e Better understand his Booke hee sends you these Inclosed lines w:ch y:d presentation of his service; M:r W:m Morgin & Collonell ??Chester [Or, Cheston] desire to Kiss yo:e hands, & many more of yo:r freinds w:th word and loss [or less?] to name I have now but one boone to begg of you & shall at present give you no further trouble , & y:t to Continue yo:e wanted goodnesse in y:e beleefe of this great truth y:y I am w:thout reservation

S:r
Yo:r Kinds & reall faithfull
Freind & servant
Richard Oxinden

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Notes

Conveyance of Irish land, Richard Oxenden of Barham

"[Membrane 8] Conveyance whereby Edwin Auchier, of Bishopstowne, in the
county of Kent, and Richard Oxenden, of Barham, in the same county, granted and conveyed to Sir John Dowdall, of Kilfenny, in the county of Limerick, the lands of Castleton, Ardloman, Kilbridge, Cloughrane, Fahy, Ballilongford, Beahie, Ballivestin, and other lands, in the county called Kenrie and Connelaght, and county of Limerick. — Last of August, 20:o James I."

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The Forty-Nine Officers

"Finch, Henry

Oxenden, Capt. Richard"

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Land grant, County Wexford

"Martin Codd, Castletown, Cam, died, 1627.

Houses, Premises, &c., in the town of Wexford, granted
to Sir Richard Gethin and Sir Richard Aldworth, in trust
for the ofiicers of 1649 that served in Ireland, 1680. This
grant was certified under the Acts of Settlement and Ex-
planation, and we merely introduce it here to give some
idea of the town of Wexford at that period. We may
also state that this same Indenture or grant included
houses and premises in the city of Dublin, and about 480
acres of land in the county of Cork. The premises in
Wexford were as follows : — Part of a house to the street,
an additional back building slated, a curtledge, garden,
ya^-d, a thatched red-herring house, a shed, stable, and
another shed thatched, Is 6d ; a front house slated, a
thatched shed, and a yard, 5s 3d ; a front house, an ad-
ditional building backwards, a castle, and red-herring
house slated, a yard, a shed, and a house place, £1 10s ; a
front and back house, a yard, and two sheds, 9s., all in St.
Mary's street, Wexford. An old castle to the street, a
row of low built houses slated, a yard, and a key to the
river, £1 4s. in Hayes lane, in Wexford. A house thatch-
ed, and garden, 6s ; a house thatched, old walls of a house

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FEBRUARY.

and garden, 5s 8d ; a house slated, a yard or court, walls
of a house therein, a house where a mill stands, a malt
house slated, and a garden, £1 4s ; a front house, a back
kitchen slated, a curtledge, and backside, a house or stable
to the street stated, 7b 6d., in St. Mary's street, Wexford.
A yard to the street, and a cabin or shed in it, 9d., in St.
Bride street, Wexford. A house slated, a yard, and a
shed in it, 4s 6d., in St. Mary's street, Wexford. A front
house slated, a backside, two gardens, a red-herring house,
8s 3d., in St. Bride's lane, Wexford. Walls of a house
backwards, 5s 3d., in Bride street ; a house backwards
slated, a house backward thatched, a yard, and garden
plot, lis 3d., in Bride street ; a house thatched, a garden,
another garden plot by the town wall, 3s 9d ; a house
slated, a yard with thatched sheds, 4s 6d., in Bride street ;
a ruined house, 2s 3d , in Bride's lane ; walls of a house,
Is l^d., in St. Mary's street ; a front house slated, a yard,
and red-herring house, 6s., in same street ; a plot of ground
to the street, old walls, and a cabin. Is lO^d., in same
street ; a red-herring house, 2s 7id., in Peter's lane ; a
garden plot in said street, 4^d ; a house slated and a yard,
a house backwards slated, and a backside, in St. Mary's
street, 10s 6d ; a front house, a yard, an out-house, and
garden plot, 7s 6d ; a front house slated, and an house
plot backwards, 6s 9d ; walls of two houses, and a gar-
den plot by St. Maiy's Church, and another garden. Is 6d ;
stone walls of a thatched house, and garden plot, Is lO^d ;
a ruinous house, next the Church, slated, containing 33
feet in length and 16 in breadth, a garden next the same,
36 feet long and 21 feet broad, m St. Patrick street, Is 6d ;
a ruinouse house thatched, a house backwards slated, a
backside, a yard, and a shed in it, and a key to the river,
in St. Ibyrius or Ivory's street, 9s ; a front and back-house
slated, a brew-house slated, a shed, and a garden in ditto,
10s 6d ; walls of a house to the street, 3s ; a ruinous house
next St. John's gate, containing 36 feet in length and 36
feet in breadth, Is 6d ; a yard near the Corn market, 2s 3d ;

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FEBRUARY.

a front house, an additional building backwards slated, a
courtledge, a shed and stable slated, a yard and slated
sheds in it, with a key to the river, in the Market-place, all
in Back-street, 10s l^d., town of Wexford. A house and
back building slated, a slated kitchen, a courtledged, and
a yard, 9s 4^d ; a front house and back building slated, a
courtledge, a yard, and a key, £1 7s ; stone walls to the
street backwards, a house slated, a yard, two gardens, and
a small house slated, 12s., in Selskar street; a house
thatched, a yard and garden in Upper street. Is 6d ; &>
thatched front house, a back building slated, a yard, a plot
of ground, and walls of a house in Selskar street, 5s 3d ;
old walls of a house near Upper-street and to the hospital,
with a yard, and a cabin, and a slated house next to that,
9s ; a house slated, a plot of ground, a yard backwards in
Corn-market, 4s 6d. Total rent in Wexford, £15 15s 6d.
In this Indenture there was a clause inserted reserving to
Laurence Walsh his judgement on the house and yard in
Corn market. The names of the officers in favour of whom
this grant was made, were — Lord Viscount Catherlogh,
Sir John Powlett, Sir William Gilbert, Lieutenant Wm.
Gilbert, Captain Richard Oxenden, Lieutenant Richard
Andrews, Captain Charles Crawley, Mr. William Rigway,
Captain William Hyde, Major James Piercesey, Lieuten-
ant John Moore, Major John Love, Quarter-Master Henry
Floyd, Lieutenant Charles Fullwood, Captain Thomas
Grames, Ensign James Ferguson, Captain William Dutton,
Ensign George Bostock, Thomas Wynde, Roger Fortescue,
William Johnston. " pp. 393-395

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Colonel Richard Oxenden, Kent, 1662

"Kent.

For the County of Kent and City of Canterbury Sir Thomas Payton Sir John Tufton Baronet Sir John Menns Knight and Colonel Sir Francis Clarke Colonel Sir John Mayney Knight and Colonel Sir John Boys Knight and Colonel Sir Edmond Peirse Knight and Colonel Colonel Thomas Colpeper Colonel Charles Finch Colonel Thomas Hestlackenden Leivt. Colonel Henry Norwood Leivt. Colonel Richard Oxenden Major Manley Captain Richard Lee Captaine Pordage Sir Anthony Aucher Knight John Heath Esquire Sir William Swan. Sir Francis Clerke Colonel."

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Inventory of goods of Richard Oxenden, 1629

U47 3 E6 , 1 roll (see http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/bassets/kasatcksprodn1.pdf, p. 122)

U47 1 L4 Petition in Chancery regarding Will of George Oxenden LID by his son henry with ful inventory of goods (p. 129)

U47 3 F3/1 Mrs Oxenden from Thos Barrow, personal, 1653 (p. 142)

U47 3 T51/ Certificate of probate from will of Robert Raworth, 1679 (p.148)

U47 3 F3/3 Katherine Oxenden from Edw Roberts, estate affairs, 1655 (p. 148)

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Possible secondary sources

Edward Peacock (ed.), The army lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, 2nd edn. (London, 1874)

"The Names of all the Collonels, Liuetenant Collonels, Sergeant Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, Ensignes, Preachers, Chirugeons, Quarter Masters, Provost Marshals under his Excellency the Earl of Northumberland, Captain General for this Expedition. 1640. Taken according to the Muster Roll after the Armies Retreat from Newcastle into Yorkshire" (Rushworth's Historical Collections, vol. II, Pt. II, p. 1243)

XXII.

Richrad Feilding, Collonel
Francis Tirwhit, Lieutenant Coll.
Anthony Thelwall, Sergeant Major.

Lieutenants

Richard Oxenden
Denny Purvey
George Oakes
Salathiel Baxter
Thomas Hill
John Windfeild
John Errington
Edward Vincent
George Foord
John Cratroft
John Sutton"

Charles Dalton, English army lists and commission registers, 1661-1714, vol. 1, 1661-1685 (London, 1892)

vol. 1

"[1661] APIs Col. Ethelbert Morgan"

"CHARLES, EARL OF CARLISLE'S REGT. OF FOOT.*
(All the commissions bear date Jan. 22ndf 1673.)

1673: Lt.-Col. Hy. Morgan" (p. 136)