MRP: 6th March 1665/66, Letter from William Finch to Sir GO, London

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6th March 1665/66, Letter from William Finch to Sir GO, London

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. ?

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William Finch


"[July 4, 1660] Francis Clarke, Nicholas Warren, and Philip Jegon, accepted as securities for pepper, and William Finch, Samuel Harris, Jacob Strange, Roger Scattergood, and George Smith as securities for calicoes."[1]

"[February 18, 1662] Certain Committees are desired to examine and make suitable allowance on cardamoms bought by Sir William Ryder and William Finch, on indigo bought by Mr. Thomson, and on tincall bought by Mr. Thetcher."[2]

Mr. Finch in Sir George Oxenden correspondence


In late March or early April 1666, Sir Henry Oxenden sold musk to Christopher Boone and M.r Finch:

upon the importunity of XXX [worm hole] our Cozn. Boone, I have sould your 2 great potts of muske to him & Mr. Finch at ye: same rates, but have bogt [??] back, ye: 3 long Potts, xxxxx beleeving wee shall have a better markt:[3]
  1. 'A Court of Committees, July 4, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 273), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 22-23
  2. 'A Court of Committees, February 18, 1662' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 462), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 184
  3. 1st April 1666, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO