MRP: November 1667, Letter from Henry Oxinden to Sir GO Letter 2

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November 1667, Letter from Henry Oxinden to Sir GO Letter 2

BL, Add, MS. XX,XXX, ff. 52-53

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13/12/11, CSG: Created page




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See November 1667, Letter from Henry Oxinden to Sir GO (preceeding, connected, letter)

See biographical profile of Sir Henry Oxenden


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(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript in BL and add foliation


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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 52-53]

Pray Brother make Henry[1] doo his duty & make him serviceable to yo:w & his masters, James[2] hath very diligently endeavour’d for preferm:t at Court & elsewhere, but heither to hath been disappointed in his XXXXX [CSG, 12/9/08 – should be efforts but looks more like “defianes”?]

Cap:t Couze[3] hath sold ship for 1000:ll & I have taken out yo:w share he is about building a larger ship, he desires me to come in againe for a share, but I shall advise yo:w upon it, for many are discuraged from going shares in shipps, The Loyall merch:t goes to y:e Coast, we would faine have gather to goe to Suratt but could not prevaile, Cap:t Risby[4] commands her, an honest man, The king owes us 2200:ll wages for her service in y:e warr,[5] we cannot yet get y:e mony, but sallirs hard for it, weare at great charge to new fitt her out, pray remember my kinde love to M:r Goodier[6] & tell him I will doe him all yx right I can, his Atturneys giving me a legall discharge, let my gout plead my excuse y:t I do not writ to him, he will receive a letter over land

My Sisters Jewells (by reason of y:e late fire & warr, w:th Jjane [Hane?] made a vast [best?] numb [sum?] of xxx, poore & most people thrifty) lie still dead upon o:r hands, & ar so like to do yet a whille, unless we would sell y:m to vast lose by this meanes her debts increase to great greife, The Citizens wives w:ch (as M:r Dunker[7] saith) hath been ?y:d ?littlest buyers are now grown poore, & live upon their owne Jewells & plate, y:e Jewes are y:e theife [cheife?] Chapmen, but they are all for rough diamonds, I wish none may ?read my tre[?] but y:e selfe, not y:e Copier if possible

Henry Oxinden


Notes

  1. ↑ Henry, the a younger son of Sir Henry Oxenden, was in the East Indies with his uncle, Sir George Oxenden
  2. ↑ James, the eldest son of Sir Henry Oxenden. Later, Sir James Oxenden, and M.P. for XXXX (XXXX-XXXX)
  3. ↑ Captain Peter Cooze was a part-owner and former commander of the Loyal Merchant, in which Sir George Oxenden was also an investor. See Peter Cooze will
  4. ↑ Captain Henry Risby
  5. ↑ The Loyal Merchant was chartered to the Naval Board during the Anglo-Dutch war of March 1665-July 1667. This was presumably the first commercial voyage of the ship since the end of the naval war. The owners of the Loyal Merchant, who included Sir George Oxenden, were in dispute with the Naval Board over the Board's failure to satisfy all outstanding payments due the owners for the ship's wartime charter. See XXXX
  6. ↑ 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)
  7. ↑ Mr. Dunker was XXXX. See Missing faces

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