MRP: 14th April 1667, Letter from Nicholas Millett to Sir GO

14th April 1667, Letter from Nicholas Millett to Sir GO

Editorial history

17/02/09, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki

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Suggested links

See 22nd March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Winter to Sir GO, London, Nick Millett’s house
See 25th September 1663, Letter from Nicholas Millett, Loyalll Merchant, Surat Road

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Transcription

[f. 102]

Right Worp:ll

Yo:e by y:e African I reced: & am glad to heare of yo:e good health, w:th the rest of yo:e ffreinds. y:e ship was not a little wellcome, to a many who desired to heare of yo:e well farr.

S:r for w:t concernes me in yo:e hands I begg yo:e continuance till a safe coveighance; or yo:e comeing, yo:w will oblige me, if yo:w can invest it in good diamonds, or good grey Amber: if yo:e more serious occations did not hinder yo:w; if yo:w would send me halfe a doz: goo Cornelion rings & a doz. Good Aggatts, w:th trees in y:m & some 100 good Motho: [?] tree stones, these are triviall, not worth yo:e trouble, yo:e Bannian would doe me a Curtesy, since my comeing home I am Kings Broaker, to procure him Mangoes & lime Archar (sic) if yo:w could furnish me w:th three or 4 jarres of y:e best Archarr, yo:w would highly oblige me, & doe y:e King a kindness, he being a great lover of those things.

At last I have concluded w:th my owners to yo:e [CHECK] satisffaction, but to my great loss, now they say noe man honester nor noe man more abused y:n I (but I have lost my Clooke) I have p:d m 246:ll 17:8 61/16 & to pay in y:e week 32:ll 16:8 & y:n they arr to spend 16:LL one (sic) me for a diner, & to conclude all friends, Y:e voyage is not so bad as many made it; To write of y:e many great Callamities y:t hath hapned in y:e fatall yeare 66: will but add addlictions, to affliction & leave y:t to y:e relation of yo:e Europe ffriends;

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I shall begg yo:e acceptance, & paym:t of a bill of Exchan:e on yo:w to M:r Randalph Tayler, for Rup:es 279 [I THINK IT IS “9”, NOT “0”]; 40 pire (sic), w:ch I begg yo:e Compliance w:th this had not gon a loane (sic) but y:e ship being at Plym:o cannot doe as I would, soe begg yo:e pardon till y:e next conveighance expect not newes from me for I know yo:w will be better furnished from better hands, I hope to see yo:w arr long in Engl:a I have noe more to add but y:t I am ever

S:r yo:e Obliged ffriend &
Servant, N: Millett

Aprill 14:th 1666

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