MRP: 12th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO

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12th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO

BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol. 235, year 1665, ff. 22-23

Editorial history

10/09/08, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki




Abstract & context



Suggested links


See 6th April 1663, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Canterbury
See 10th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Langden Abbey
See 25th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Langden Abbey


To do


(1) Check whether this transcription is complete against physical manuscript at BL & add foliation to transcription


Transcription


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[BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol. 235, year 1665, ff. 22-23]

[IS THERE NO GREETING?]

Since XXXX to yo:w of the 10:te instant I have received these papers from London to connveigh unto yo:w one is a coppy of yo:w answer to my Aunt Dalysons[1] Bill, for Y:w being an adventurer in that stock, we were forced to make yo:w a Defendant, by this yo:w will see the scope of X bill & what yo:w have answered, according to which yo:w are to answer the Questions y:e Commission:s putt unto yo:w but they may & will putt sev:ll others to yo:w which must be relating to the Differences & matter in Question, but yo:w are not to answere any questions concerning yo:r selfe, by which you doo or may accuse your Selfe or do yo:r Selfe any prejudice, yet I would not have yo:w too wary & scrupulous in anything not of moment as to yo:r selfe) least they take to advantadge of it, & so gaine a new Commission to delay two yeares more after these the Commissions to examine yo:w are, Will:m Jesson[2] But in his absence to M:r W:m Jesson,[3] is allso to examined, but where he is now, or how he will be examined I know not, lett them looke to y:t he was in England since this case began, & lately might have been examined whilst he was here if they had pleased as wee made it appeare to the Court & then they stood upon yo:w as a materiall Witness, I have no more to add but that all relations & friends are well except Aunt Dalyson at London & we hope she will amend, my Service speake to M:r Goodier[4] & all relations & acquaintance I am

S:r
Yo:r humble Nephew & Servant
James Master

March 12th 1666


Notes


"[in 1668/69] Mr Goodier, Mr. Master, and Mr. Cotes, Members of the Council at Surat"[5]


Possible primary sources

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Dallison
  2. ↑ Henry Gary was XXXX
  3. ↑ William Jesson was already in the East Indies in 1650, when he was the head of the Lucknow factory, with John Burnell as his number two. In 1658 he was at Agra, with substantial debts. His brother, John Jesson, helped to clear William Jesson's debts by shipping out cloth and coral from England to the value of £500, with the permission of the Company ('A Court of Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock, February 25, 1650 (Court Book, vol. xx, p. 494), in Ethel Bruce Sainbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), pp. 23-24; 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 19, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 90), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 242
  4. ↑ John Goodyear (alias Goodyer(e), Goodier) was in Surat with Sir George Oxenden
  5. ↑ John Bruce, Annals of the Honourable East India Company (London, 1810), p. 240

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