MRP: Pre-17th March 1665/66, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
Pre-17th March 1665/66, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
My Dearest Brother
It adds to my affliction yt I cannott (sic) Salute you w:th my owne penn [??] It is y:e will & pleasure of my good god to lay me upon my Bedd of weakness & Sickness, to whose Will I submitt & I shall waite his good will & pleasure till it shall please him to determine otherwise Deare Brother all things you sent home are come safe & are now in y hands of M:r Sprigg in the Cust:house, being delivered in by the worthyness of the Captaines who I am xxx promised, you better things, but are all xxxx xxxxx. What rxxxx Cap:t Barker I shall look after & hope he will prove honest but I will not promise because he is a Seaman, the two Square Potts of Muske & one Box of Ambergrease which came by him je hath putt off. The Ambergrease for 5ll: 5pz the Muske for 4 X xx oz the other 5 potts of muske & two Boxes Ambergrease, which came in the London, are not as yett come to my hands but I hope to have them this week S:r Will:m Rider & S:r Geo: Smith sayeth y:t there is no such thing xxxxx yellow Amber to be had the xxxx have xxxx putt that by, xxxx wisdome w:th y: & xxxx of our Friends about Sending out in this shipp, & none will advise me to venture
[CSG, 09/09/08 – I stopped here – I am sure I have translated this letter already – check my other notes!!]
“…I shall send nothing, but your Pips of Sack [?] for your Dutch hans (sic) Acco:tt for his free [?] and his Ferkin [?], I am not free to send y:e out anything for I am psuaded if they should miscarry you must beare losse, besides my owne weakness & Sarah’s want of help, who should look after things & provide it, lett M:r Hoskins, Henry Oxinden, Streynsh:m master, & Henry Broomfield know y what concearnes them shall be looked after, & kept safe, this come to you by the hands of M:r Abrah:m Papillion, Brother to our freind (sic) M:r Thomas Papillon (sic), I hope I may so stile him (friend) (sic) pray Brother have a care of what you say of the Presbiterian faction for they predominate both in committee & Comp:y at this present, being the Activemen in the Business, the other are careless onely (sic) will want, Your law affaires I leave to my nephew Masters, there is a Commission gone out in this shipp to examine you ag:st mee, concerning our Brother Christophers Business, only to prolong xxxx & nothing, also, Pray Brother lett care be taken y:t Judge Goddard has an Acc:tt of the box…
[I am sure I have translated this!!]
Deare Brother
Thy affection:te Sister in life and in death
Eliz:a Dalyson
Dearest I will be carefull of
Thy concearnes living or Dying
The little Box of Dymonds w:ch you sent marked
TW:AM: Cap:t Bowen delivered to the East India comp:a who have been very xxxxx upon your Acco:tt & freely gave mee an order for Y:m Nothing wanting now only y:e Clearing the Custom”
Deare Brother
Salute all friends M:r Aungier & M:r Goodier w:th my thanks for their kind tokens & pray be xxx to M:r Abrah:m Papillion (sic) for it be a concearne to us, & when you cann bee kind to mans:tt [?] Smith, pray lett mee Intreate you so to doo for my sake, my Blessing to Henry Broomfield
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