MRP: March 1662/63, Letter from Peter Cooze to Sir GO
March 1662/63, Letter from Peter Cooze to Sir GO
BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX f. 114
Editorial history
25/05/09, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
Captain Peter Cooze wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 1662/63.
In this letter, he referred to the Livorno ffrigatt, with which he has had operational and financial troubles. Sir George Oxenden may have had freight on this ship, or was possibly a part-owner. Cooze reported that he had sold the ship, and now has a small unnamed 120 ton ship in a shipyard being built for him. He wished that the ship were completed and that he could be in India with Oxenden.
In the letter Cooze's contempt shows contempt for William Love, a London merchant and subscriber to both the Smirna Merchant Joint Stock and the King Fernandez, with whom Oxenden was in legal dispute.
Suggested links
See 20th March 1662/63, Letter from Peter Cooze to Sir GO, Ratcliff
See Peter Cooze will
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Transcription
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[f. 114]
Worp:ll
S:r Geo: Oxinden my most humble service presented to you w:th my prayers to God for y:r good health as I am in Joye w:th my wife & moth:r at present whoo desires to bee kindely remembered to you; S:r after many troubles, I shall acquaint you of y:e Livorne ffrigat[1] y:t shee could not be [rerendrdd?]; y:e Reason was y:t y:e Spaniards ware against it for theire selfe ends; wee did send most of y:e Belonging to y:e Shipp to the vallue of 500:ll But y:e Charges did eate y:e Better part of it w:t Remained I brought hoame to y:e valew of Two hundred & [CHECK] which I have bought of y:e owners one Consideration y:t I have payed y:e Marriners 6: mo:ths wadges, which was Two Hundred Pounds & 60 : Pounds w:ch the Shipp was indebted to mee by acco:tt in y:e voyadge soo y:t w:th was sav:d of y:e shipp hath floated y:e above sums no w y:d ?ffreigh w:ch I rcvd at Livorne from ?Roushea was – 2997: Dolb:es besides wee had 20: Tonn:b Dead ffreight which they under writt to Lade at 24: Dolb:es y Tonn; w:ch is Doll:bes 490: which now wee are in sute of Law for it, I have acquaint:d Madam Dallyson[2] w:thall, S:r y:t is all Concerning y:e Livorne; Now I have á small ffrig:t[3] upon y:e Stocks, Now of á 120 Tonns I could wish when shee is fitted y:t I weare in India w:th her If y:t I could serve you, Pray S:r if you have Merch:t in England of yo:r acquaintance, to write theire good words for mee heere; Sir I have gained great disgusta from M:r Love[4] & M:r Briton[5] w:ch I doo not much vallew, for I have not Testified any thing But w:t I know upon oath & I hope y:t yo:r Cause will prove them w:t they are; S:r I have not more to acquaint you at pres:t I Committ you to God who is all sufficient to give you health of soule & Body & rest yo:r Humble servant
Peeter Cooze
My kinde love to M:r Master[6] & M:r Gibin[7] and y:e rest of my good ffreinds
Notes
- ↑ The Livorno Frigate was XXXX
- ↑ Elizabeth Dallison, Sir George Oxenden's widowed sister and his London agent
- ↑ The name of the 120 ton frigate mentioned remains unknown
- ↑ Alderman William Love, London merchant and subscriber in the Smirna Venture Joint Stock
- ↑ Thomas Breton, London merchant and subscriber in the Smirna Venture Joint Stock
- ↑ This could refer to either Streynsham or Robert Master, Sir George Oxenden's two nephews, who were in the East Indies with him
- ↑ Possibley Guiben (alias Gibbon) Goddard, son of Judge Goddard. He was a ?factor at Surat and died before March 1665/66. He was mentioned in a later letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden (March 1665/66, Letter from John Mascall to Sir GO, London)
