MRP: 23rd March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Fox to Sir GO, London
23rd March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Fox to Sir GO, London
BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 40
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Thomas Fox wrote to Sir George Oxenden from London on March 23rd, 1663. He expressed the hope to receive a line or two on the next ship from Sir George Oxenden about his son Thomas.
Sir William Ryder mentioned Mr. Fox to Sir George Oxenden in a letter written three days later, on March 26th 1663, with the presumption that Oxenden would know who he was referring to:
I presumne M:r ffrench & M:r ffox write M:r Gray[1]
Thomas Fox, the letter writer, was probably a co-owner or at least a co-freighter of the Eagle, a ship in which Sir William Ryder had an ownership interest. A Thomas Fox was cited as a co-defendant in a subpoena brought in ?1667 against Sir William Ryder and other London merchants in a dispute relating to a yovage of the Eagle from London to Guinea to Barbados and then back to London:
his Maj:ties most gratious processe of subpena to be directed to them the said S:r William Ryder S:r Richard fford John Buckworth John Sandys Thomas ffoxe Thomas Heatley John Bathurst John Letten Symon Lewis William Newbold Augustine Newbold Jeremiah Sambrooke John Cole Rebecca Cole Nicholas Pepperell & Martha Hendra[2]
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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 40]
Notes
EEIC, 1655-1659
"[January 2, 1658] On hearing that twenty tons of iron and 360 pieces of calico have been entered by Thomas Ryder and Thomas Fox for Guinea, and the iron and half the calicoes (the latter belonging to Captain Connis) laden aboard the Marigold, the Court orders this to be noted in the Black Book, and the owners of the ship to be charged with 20/. per ton freight for the iron and 10s. per piece freight for the calico, the Company having hired the said vessel entirely for its own use."[3]
"[January 12-13, 1658] At Sind or Tatta: Nicholas Scrivener to be Chief, William Bell second, Humphrey Fox third, John Mann fourth, and John Widdrington, a youth."[4]
EEIC, 1660-1663
"Quilts bought by Thomas Fox to be delivered on payment of the principal money, the interest due to be charged to his account."[5]
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TNA
PROB 11/305 May 104-157 Will of Humphrey Fox, Merchant of London 19 October 1661
PROB 11/319 Mico 1-46 Will of Thomas Fox, Merchant Tailor of London of Christ Church, Surrey 06 February 1666
- ↑ 26th March 1663, Letter from William Rider to Sir GO, London
- ↑ C10/89/61 f. 1; C10/89/61 f. 3
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, January 2, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 40), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 207
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, January 12-13, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 51), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 212
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, November 4, 1663 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 697), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 352
