MRP: 30th November 1663, Letter from Phillip Giffard to Sir GO, Carwar

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30th November 1663, Letter from Phillip Giffard to Sir GO, Carwar

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Abstract & context


Humphry Giffard’s son, Philip Giffard, was in Surat from the late 1650s. A letter from Humphrey Giffard to Sir George Oxenden following the London fire of 1666 suggests that there was a close friendship between Philip Giffard and the young George Master, George Oxenden’s nephew, who has recently died in England. Philip went on to become Deputy Governor of Bombay under George Oxenden’s successor to the Surat Presidency, Gerald Aungier. He died in XXXX in XXXX.

Phillip Giffard wrote on November 30th 1663 from Carwar to Sir George Oxenden in Surat. He had received a letter from Sir George Oxenden dated 11th October 1662, sent from Swally Marine, in which he learned that George Oxenden has appointed Giffard number two in Carwar. Phillip thanked him "for y:e large preferm:t."

Phillip Giffard referred to the matter of losses on pepper last year, which George Oxenden had raised in his letter. Giffard stated that "M:r Masters & M:r Ball both affirme y:t y:e pepp lay at Swally Marine soo carelessly y:t all y:e place about was strewed with itt." Masters and Ball conceived "y:e Broker to bee in any fault." Giffard committed that henceforward he would "take care to see all such goods weigh:d exactly. Our advices likewise shall bee more Constant & often."

Giffard had sent his account of expenses to George Oxenden, and apologised that they "are not writt soo well or made up, as may bee expected ...I being soo weake & ill & soo have been ever since I begin it y:t it is noo small trouble to write at all."



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See ["Carwar"

See 30th September 1663, Letter from Phillip Giffard to Sir GO, Carwar

See 19th March 1662/63, Letter from Humphrey Gyffard, Poultry Counter
See 25th March 1663, Letter from Humfry Gyffard to Sir GO, London
See April 1667, Letter from Humphry Gyffard to Sir GO



To do


(1) Transcribe this letter



Transcription




Notes


(1) "A factor named Robert Ferrand was already in Rajapur, providing goods on the Company’s account; and he, with Napier and Giffard, was to proceed with this task, whilsyt Taylor and Fkyer sailed further along the coast to buy peppers and cardamons…"[1]

(1) FROM XXXX AND WILLIAM GYFFARD: Fort S:t George y:e 19:th ffeb 1662:3: f. 50

(2) Philip Giffard was Deputy Governor on the Bombay council in 1672, under Gerald Aungier’s presidency. He may have been Deputy Governor twice: Sept, 1670-Sept,. 1672, and June 1675-Nov. 1676 (CHECK)[2]

(3) Philip Gyffard was Deputy Governor, or Commissioner of Bombay [TBC] in 1675, however, "Gyffard was very sick, and the actual work fell almost entirely on his second, John Pettit, a man who was at the timecoming to the front"[3]

(4) Philip Gyffard was in India from XXXX. He was sent in XXXX to attempt to secure the release of an imprisoned broker, but was seized by the Marthas and also imprisoned. Henry Revington, Randolph Taylor, Richard Taylor, and Philip Gyffard were all imprisoned[4]

(5) "…Sivaji and the English factors carried off prisoners. Of the latter, at thye commencement of 1663, Randolph Taylor, Richard Taylor, Philip Giffard, and Robert Ferrand still remained in captivity…"[5]

(5) Philip Gyffard of Surat is mentioned in a will abstract, receiving three hundred ruppees, but I cannot see whose will it was, or the date of the will[6]

(6) Philip Gyfard died in India, but I cannot make out the date or the precise details. I also cannot find a PRO Online Will for him[7]

(7) A sister of Philip Gyffard appears to have been in India: "take passage with her maid for Bombay on paying the same, she is obliged to live there with her brother Philip Gyffard. Consideration and report to be made of gratuities suitable to be given to the officers of the customs"[8]





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Possible secondary sources

  1. EFI 55-60, p. 152
  2. Historical and Literary Studies, vol. 6: Keigwin’s Rebellion (1683-4); Ray and Oliver Strachey, An Episode in the History of Bombay (Oxford, XXXX), p. ?
  3. Ray Strachey, Oliver Strachey, Keigwin's rebellion (1683-4): an episode in the history of Bombay (Oxford, 1916), p. 26
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  5. EFI 61-64, p. 28
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  8. CCM 74-78, p. 127 CHECK