MRP: 5th March 1665/66, Letter from Mary Escott to Sir GO, Old Corner

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5th March 1665/66, Letter from Mary Escott to Sir GO, Old Corner

BL, Add.MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 27-28

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09/09/09, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki






Abstract & context




Suggested links


See 9th March 1666/67, Letter from Mary Escott to Sir GO, Exeter



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(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL & add foliation to transcription



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[BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 27-28]

XXXXX: Deare Uncle.

It would be á Breath of all good nature & manners Should I committ y:e presentment of my most humble Service to yo:w Deare Sr:, we have had sadd times in England, a very great plague that has dispersed & scattered many friends, my Co:z your adopted Neece took á Journey into Northhampton Shire to my Coz. Swayers[1], ye. Plague following so hott & continuing so long in London she is fearfull of Wintering home which has indeed xxxxxxx of all xxxxxxx a dismall thing you: will imagine, whose whole ?Shoots ?pass twice (?our Xxxxx a Xxxxx, but Sr: a great thing then this in the time of xxxx abhorre (?) Xxxxx xxxxxxobtained another xind of friends & friendship, & I doubt at xese xxxx she will not be pleased with onely I presume my Betty will think hose Xollo obliged not to Quarroll,? leave my Aunt[2] in hose XXX from Hamptonx was pleased to acquaint you: wte a troublesome Business. I bless God the Storm is xxxxx. I have ?added a XXXXXXXX to ?more to ?joine XXXXX, I hope you: will please to owne him in the XXX XXX of y? Gxx of Xxxxx, he will endeavour to moxxxx ye. Esteem by his affections to ye. Xxxxx, my Deare Aunt is very ill at XXXXX, but she has two of the best Doctors in towne[3], that give us great hope of speedily setting her a foot, God grannt they may, all XXXXX is a XXXXXX & a little xxxing hours, nothing but xxxxx xx Holland & France, though so xxx growne Deaf ye. All the xxx of merchants & will not XXXX them , indoors. Sr: the news is very sadd. 666 xx at hands & ?yet I have mentioned to xxxx God . Bless my beginning & yo: Daere Sr: ?own health XX XXX may XX most XX happy in ye.: XXXX I must xxxxlude being rallxd on for my Letter. I beseech (/) you: arrxxx my & Mr Escotts[4] service & duty to yo: selfe, who must subscribe my self yx was Mary Master now

Deare Sr:

Your most affectionate Neece xxxx to
xxxx you: Xa: M:now
Mary Escott




Notes

  1. Cousin Swayers was XXXX; evidently based in Northamptonshire. See Missing faces
  2. Elizabeth Dallison, Mary Escott's aunt and Sir George Oxenden's sister
  3. Elizabeth Dallison's doctors were Dr: Measlier and Sir George Ent (b. 1604, d. 1689) and XXXX. See 17th March 1665/66, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Deane for greater detail on the doctors and their prognosis
  4. Daniel Escott, B.D., archdeacon of Exeter