MRP: 25th August 1662, Letter from John Stanyan to Sir GO
25th August 1662, Letter from John Stanyan to Sir GO
BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, f. 3
Editorial history
10/03/10, CSG: Completed transcription
18/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
John Stanyan (alias Stanian) corresponded several times with Sir George Oxenden.
See XXX for more information on John Stanyan.
Suggested links
See 6th April 1663, Letter from John Stanian to Sir GO, London (poss. 1662/63)
See March 1665/66, Letter from John Stannian to Sir GO
To do
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Transcription
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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 3]
Worp:ll S:r
I hope y:e Almighty hath brought yow safe to Sur:tt & blest yow with health which I pray God continue to us both, since your dep two little of perticular concernment hath hapned hitherto, what of generall y:e Comp:a will advise, however I shall rather choose to trouble yow with impertinency then bee guilty of neglect, it is my opinion y:e Dutch will not hazard warr with us, however they have not yett concluded y:e very Termes of the Articles Y:e difference is not very materiall as I heard they stick onely at Courteens[1] businesse, all other having been agreed they will rather scold awhile then ffight,/In point of Trade yow know what to doe for kindnesse upon trespasse is not to be found how, if any former yeares shipping bee yet abroad y:t hath not y:e last goodes prohibited yow know w:t use to make of her, commodities from Surr:tt espetially Drugs sell low this yeare but for ?Rowle Tafaties, Musk ?Bort, Tynall [could be Cynall], Scona, Xoho, Hibanum, Sallarmoniark, they are not to bee meessed with, if you can meet with Nutts, Mace or Cloves, they will be left ?three therefore you may venter [center?] them if worth while, It is certayne y:t â voyage from y:e Bay[2] to Persia is as good as to Europe, & since it is left free to trade in the Countrey I suppose yow will not bee without â vessell for that Trade XX & if you meete with Dymonds lett y:m bee as large as yow cann gett them ???clean & will spread for ordinary & fowle stones were never soo little esteemed as now, I have desired M:r Gray[3] & M:r Goodier[4] to addresse in my behalf to yow if they find any Occasion to whome I doubt not but yow will show your ffreindship & assistance, M:r Lambton[5] hath kept in his hands of mine & ffreinds ever since y:e Eagles arrivall upwards of 500:ll & not returned one penny I wish his condicon bee not soe low as to make him doe y:t which hee used not to any before, I have given direction to M:r Gray about it I call nothing more to mind at present, wee shall suddainely ?second these & then youw shall heare further from him Y:t is
Your affectionate friend & ffaithfull Serv:tt
J:n Stanyan
Postscript.
Since the last week nothing more of novelty but trouble with the discontented Presbyterians and ?Sortacies many clapped up Waynn ??neheaded since your departure, I saw Madam Dallyson[6] well on Essex Road â Saturday last Bee carefull of your Letters,
Yours.
J:n S:n
Notes
- ↑ William Courteen, a London merchant of Dutch origin, whose extensive commercial business had collapsed
- ↑ Possibly the Bay of Bengal
- ↑ Mathew Gray
- ↑ John Goodyear (alias Goodyer(e), Goodier) was entertained as a factor by the Court of the EEIC in February 1662, and travelled out to Surat in XXXX. His links with the East Indies go back to 1650, when he was already in Persia as a the number four, under George Tash, John Lewis, and Thomas Best, and had his service extended ('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)
- ↑ John Lambton, the Surat factory warehouseman
- ↑ Elizabeth Dallison, Sir George Oxenden's sister and his London agent
