MRP: X March 1665, Letter from Thomas Bendyshe to Sir GO, London

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X March 1665, Letter from Thomas Bendyshe to Sir GO, London

BL, MS. XX,XXXX, f. 99-100

Editorial history

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Abstract & context




Suggested links


See 10th April 1662, Letter from Thomas Bendyshe to Sir GO
See 30th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Bendysh to Sir GO, London
See X April 1667, letter from Thomas Bendyshe to Sir GO, Bumpsted



To do


(1) Complete the transcription

(2) Check the date of the letter really is 1665 and not 1666, or indeed 1667



Transcription


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London March y:7 X:th 1665
S:r

It is among my many misfortunes one of y:e Cheife to have done a great & good service for unworthy & ungratefll persons, but to such are trewly worthy I never had opportunity to doe for y:m, as I desire, & y:s is my Case & greefe y:t I am not in capacity to serve yo:w; to whome I am soe extreamly obliged for yo:e Countenance & greate favo:e to my son,[1] & as he saies yo:w are a father to him, soe I say yo:w are more to him there y:n I can be, & have done more for him y:n I am able; as yo:e meare goodnesse w:thout merrit hath prompted yo:w to doe soe much for him as he tells me in sending him abroad, in giveing him a trust w:ch is much for his Creadet & advantage, soe I doubt not but y:e same goodnesss will as he performes y:t trust, put him upon some beneficiall employm:t , for y:e Good of y:e Comp:a & his owne incouragem:t: if I were able in anything to serve yo:w here God knowes y:e willingness of my soule to doe it, but y:t his blessings may attend yo;e indeavours shall allwaies be y:e prayers of

Bumstead Aprill 7;th 1667
S:r

These lines avove are Copie of w:t I last wrote yo:w least they shopuld have miscarried (as I heare one packet did)

10 lines more of text




Notes

  1. Charles Bendish, Sir Thomas Bendish's son, who had been employed as a factor in the East Indies with Sir George Oxenden's assistance