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Lower portion of RH side of map of 'Scandanavie' in Nicholas Sanson, L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittés de geographie et d'histoire (Paris, 1683), p. 11, out of copyright book and image
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Francis Sanderson, Danzig correspondent of Sir William Ryder
Sir William Ryder appears to have a correspondent called Fr.[ances?] Sanderson in Danzig, who wrote on Oct 3. 1665 to "Sir. Wm. Rider and Co.":
"Acknowledges the cargo of the East India ships; has no hopes of selling the indigo till next spring; wine, tobacco, rice and sugar are likely to be profitable, since the Dutch are beaten, and the last Polish letters advise and agreement between the King and Lubomirsky [11 lines more in the calendar summary] from Adm Papers[1]
Another letter from Fr. Sanderson, also in Item 48 [I think it may be the enclosure]. It is a letter from Fr. Sanderson to Wm. Rider, dated Dantzic (sic), Oct. 10 and 14, 1665:
"Vessels are delayed, not being suffered to unload for fear of infection; grieves to hear of the heavy judgement of the plague in London; business disbursements at Riga; hears that the custom house officers at Pillau have refused to clear English ships till further order, because the King stayed in England two of the Elector of Brandenburg’s vessels. Particulars of Abraham of Dixon of Newcastle’s ship being stopped at Pillau." [Adm. Paper][2]
Nathaniell Harris
"[Letter from Captain Nicholas Read to Sir George Oxenden, 17th March 1662/63] S:r these lines are alsoe to accompany M:r Nathaniell harris who is Ma:s ?Sonn from whome I had my breeding as to a Merch:t & it ?hath been y:e will of God to order y:d Wrld to frown upon him hitherto, his breeding hath been a Merch:t sometime he spent in Danzick soe’s speaketh y:e German language very well, further had his breeding: 5: or:6: years at Ligone"[3]
Mrs Joanne Solomons, residing in Danzig, 1679
"ITEM I give and bequeath to my said Sonn John Gerrard Cock Sixteen pounds a yeare to be paid to him by my Executrix by four quarterly payments in such manner and at such times as the Interest of the said Six hundred pounds is before limited to be paid to him Nevertheless my will and meaning is that the payment of the said Sixteen pounds a yeare shall be continued and paid to him during the life time of his Grandmother Mrs Joane Solomons now living and residing at Dantzick in Prussia and for six months after her death and noe longer For that my said sonne hath the expectation of a considerable livelyhood from and after the death of his said Grandmother and may then well Spare the said sixteen pounds a yeare"[4]
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- ↑ Mary Anne Everett Green, Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell, Francis Lawrance Bickley (ed.), Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II: 1660-[1685]: 1665-66; Ed. ;(London, 1864), p. 3
- ↑ Mary Anne Everett Green, Francis Henry Blackburne Daniell, Francis Lawrance Bickley (eds.), Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II: 1660-[1685]: 1665-66 (London, 1864), p. 26
- ↑ 17th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Reade to Sir GO, Ipswich
- ↑ George Cock will
