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14th March 1665/66, Letter from George Smith to SirGO, London

BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 42-45

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Sir George Smith wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 14th, 1665/66, from London.

In this letter XXXX

Sir George Smith added as a postscriptum that Sir Nicholas Crispe and Sir John Jacob had died recently, and that Elizabeth Dallison's illness continued. Three years earlier, and prior to his knighthood and baronetcy, John Jacob had himself written to Sir George Oxenden.[1] In that letter John Jacob mourned the death of his son, Francis Jacob, who had been at Surat.



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[BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 42-45]

[f.42]

S:r The Prsident Copie I now agiane [CHECK SPELLING] confirme which was sent by the Constntin:o merch:t to the Coast to be transmitted to yo:w from thence, these are intended by the Ship Returne Cap:t Stanton[2] bound to Swally whose Safety I heartily wish, Concearning her to goe in ??more then ordinary Danger, Such is the greatness of o:r Enemies in India to the assistance


[f. 43]

Of the Dutch is now Joyned the ffrench King w:th the King of Denmarke ag:st his Maj:tie of England, Our King having the reall affection of his people ?Convened in Parlaiment who have faithfully promised & engaged to stand to him w:th their Life aand ffortunes against any fforeigne opposition

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S:r Your truly affection:te friend & Serv:t
Geo: Smith

S:r Nich:o Crispe[3] and S:r John Jacob[4] died lately[5]

Madam Dalyson[6] continues ill the God of heaven restore
Her to health



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Ellis, Henry (ed.), "The obituary of Richard Smyth, secondary of the Poultry compter, London: being a catalogue of all such persons as he knew in their life: extending from A.D. 1627 to A.D. 1674" (London, 1849)
  1. 1st March 1662/63, Letter from John Jacobs to Sir GO, London
  2. Captain Thomas Stanton (b. ca. 1664, d. 1691), commander of the Return. Stanton corresponded with Sir George Oxenden from London in a letter dated October 4th, 1667. In this letter he described his eventful voyage from Surat to England. This was the return leg of the outward voyage mentioned by Sir George Smith in his own letter dated march 14th 1665/66 (4th October 1667, Letter from Thomas Stanton to Sir GO, London)
  3. Sir Nicholas Crispe (b. ca. 1599, d. Feb 1666). Forty-five hearth brick built mansion in Hammersmith/Fulham, later renamed Brandenburg House. House in Limestreet sequestered in early 1640s. Extensive commercial activities in West Africa and East Indies. Manufacturer of bricks, glass beads and probably dyer of cloth, using imported West African redwood, with glass furnaces, brick kilns, and apparent dye vats on his Hammersmith estate. Customs farmer in early 1640s and 1661-1666. Burke writes, in his entry for 'Jacob, of Bromley,' "Lloyd, in his memoirs of eminent persons who suffered for their allegiance, thus mentions him: 'We must not separate Sir Nicholas Crisp from the worshipful Sir John Jacob, his partner, both in the farming of the Custom House, and his sufferings" ('Fulham,' in 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Fulham,' London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011), viewed 25/02/12); John Burke, John Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England (London, 1838), p. 279
  4. Sir John Jacob (b. ca. 1597, d. 1666) was a London merchant and farmer of the customs. He corresponded with Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 1st, 1662/63 (1st March 1662/63, Letter from John Jacobs to Sir GO, London)
  5. 'Jacob, of Bromley', "Sir John [Jacob] died in February or March, 1666, his funeral sermon was preached in the latter month"(John Burke, John Bernard Burke, A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England (London, 1838), p. 279
  6. Elizabeth Dallison, Sir George Oxenden's sister and London agent