MRP: 16th March 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Holborn

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16th March 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Holborn

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX f. 17

Editorial history

10/03/10, CSG: Completed transcription
14/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki




Abstract & context


Richard Ball, D.D. (b. ca. 1598, or b. 1609,[1] d. 1684), wrote a letter to Sir George Oxenden from Ely House, Holborne, dated March 16th, 1662/63.

The substance of his letter regarded his son, also named Richard, who, according to his father, was in the fourth year of residence in the East Indies. This suggests that Richard Ball, the younger, had been in the East Indies since 1660 or earlier, before Sir George Oxenden's appointment as President in Surat. He had been in Surat outside the employment of the English East India Company, presumably as a personal servant or apprentice of George Oxenden from Oxenden's time in Surat as a factor for the Smirna Venture Joint Stock. Dr. Ball, together with Sir John Jacobs, had made a request in early March 1661 for their sons to be confirmed in his entertainment at Surat, before the departure of new ships for that city[2]

At the time of his father writing to Sir George Oxenden, Richard Ball, the son, was located in Carwar.[3]

Dr Richard Ball was the son of Richard Ball, a London mercer. He had been educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, matriculating in 1623 and being appointed fellow of the same in 1630.[4] His older brother by two years, John Ball (b. ?ca. 1607, d. 1643), was also educated at Cambridge.[5]

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At the time of writing to Sir George Oxenden (TO BE CONFIRMED), Dr Ball was Master of the Temple, London. He retained this post till his death in 1684, when he was buried in Temple church.[6]

(at the age of eighty-six (TO BE CONFIRMED)).[7]


Suggested links


See 1st December 1662, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Carware
See 29th November 1663, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Carwar


To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript


Images

Ely Place, Holborn, Carter, 1776


BOOK PLATE Carter Ely Place Holborn 1776 Plt 100 BurFinArtsCat 1920 IArch DL CSG 030212.PNG


Image credits & copyright information


(1) 'Ely Place, Holborn', J. Carter, 1776, Plate 100, in Burlington Fine Arts Catalogue, XXXX (London, 1920)[8]


Transcription


This transcription has been completed, but requires checking

[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX f. 17]

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When Opportunity moves but Seldome, it must be carefully embraced, & not lett Slip: I hope these lines will find you in health w:ch is my hearty wish; my Suite unto you is for my Sonn[9]: to yo:r care he had y:e happiness to be comitted Seaven yeares Since, he was then A Child: A man, I heare he is now, in his Body, I hope Alsoe in his Braine: At least yo:r encouradgement will make him Soo, I am flatterd if he doth not doo well, A line or two from yo:r Penn will sett me a bove Doubts, as he shall be found to deserve, soe lett him find you his Freind, & for him to know Soe much would highly engage him; The fourth yeare is now begunn, & I have not heard of any Wages he gets Recvdd from y:e Comp:a, I begg yo:r love & care in y:e Prticukular, & if y:e Customes be to pay it here, I would be Glad it Should be soe & ordered, as to be paid unto mee, who shall be readie to send him what he most wants & desires, God Blessing, So prayeth

Ely House Holborne
March y:e 16: 1662/3

Yo: Obliged & Humble Servt:
Richard Ball


Notes

Alumni Cantabrigiensis: Dr Richard Ball


"BALL, RICHARD. Matric. pens. from PEMBROKE, Michs. 1623, age 14. S. of Richard, of London, mercer. B.A. 1626-7: M.A. 1630: B.D. 1637: D.D. 1660 (Lit. Reg.). Fellow, 1630. Ord. priest (Norwich) Sept 25, 1636. R. of Wilby and Westerfield, 1638-43. R. of Tattingstone, Suffolk, 1643. R. of St. Mary Woolchurch, London, 16660-1661. Preb. of Ely, 1660. Preb. of Lincoln, 1660. R. of Bluntisham, Hunts., 1662-84. Master of the Temple, 1661. Died Apr. 6, 1684; buried in the Temple Church. Will (P.C.C.). Benefactor to pembroke Hall. Author, Sermons. Brother of John /1623)."[10]


Richard Ball, Doctor of Divinity


I AM NOT CONVINCED THIS SOURCE IS ACCURATE

"Helen, dau. of James Willymott, bapt. 28 Jan 1633, married Richard Ball, D.D., Master of the Temple.

Rev. Richard Ball, D.D., Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cam., Rector of Withy and Westerfield in Suffolk. Installed as a Prebendary of Ely 22 Sept. 1660, and same month installed as a Prebendary of Lincoln. Rector of St. Mary, Woolwich (CHECK NOT WOOLCHURCH), London. Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II., and Rector of Bluntisham, co. Hunts, 18 August, 1662. Died in the Temple, London, of which he was Master, 6 April, 1684, aged 86"[11]

"[March 6, 1661] The Court promised to consider the request of Dr. Ball and Sir John Jacobs for their sons at Surat to be confirmed in their respective entertainments before the departure of the ships."[12]


Richard Ball, the younger


Richard Ball was ?captain ?Henry Young's son-in-law[13]

"...charge of murder against Richard Ball, which formed the subject of the second trial, over which Aungier presided in Bombay. A full report of it is among the records of the India Office."[14]


Possible primary sources

TNA


PROB 11/378 Hare 141–180 Will of Richard Ball, Doctor of Divinity and Master of the two Honourable Societies of the Temple 01 December 1684
  1. ↑ Richard Ball's entry in Alumni Cantabrigiensis states that he was aged fourteen when he matriculated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1623 (John Venn, J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigiensis, pt. 1, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1922)), p. 76); however, a genealogical source states that he was eighty-six years old when he died in 1684 (Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, vol. 3 (XXXX, 1880), fn., p. 185)
  2. ↑ 'A court of committees, March 6, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv. p. 349, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), Calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 97
  3. ↑ See 1st December 1662, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Carware;29th November 1663, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Carwar
  4. ↑ 'Ball, Richard' in John Venn, J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigiensis, pt. 1, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1922)), p. 76
  5. ↑ 'Ball, John' in John Venn, J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigiensis, pt. 1, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1922)), p. 76
  6. ↑ 'Ball, Richard' in John Venn, J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigiensis, pt. 1, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1922)), p. 76
  7. ↑ Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, vol. 3 (XXXX, 1880), fn., p. 185
  8. ↑ 'Ely Place, Holborn', J. Carter, 1776, Plate 100, in Burlington Fine Arts Catalogue, XXXX (London, 1920)
  9. ↑ Richard Ball was at Carwar in the East Indies
  10. ↑ 'Ball, Richard', in John Venn, J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigiensis, pt. 1, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 1922)), p. 76
  11. ↑ Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, vol. 3 (XXXX, 1880), fn., p. 185
  12. ↑ 'A court of committees, March 6, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv. p. 349, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), Calendar of court minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663) (Oxford, 1922), p. 97
  13. ↑ Charles Fawcett, The first century of British justice in India: an account of the Court of judicature at Bombay, established in 1672, and of other courts of justice in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, from 1661 to the latter part of the eighteenth century (Oxford, 1934), p. 31
  14. ↑ Charles Fawcett, The first century of British justice in India: an account of the Court of judicature at Bombay, established in 1672, and of other courts of justice in Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, from 1661 to the latter part of the eighteenth century (Oxford, 1934), p. 35

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