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I hope my last by the S:t George came safely to your hands which I shall be glad to understand by your expected letter overland to the Compy:a, the warre w:th Holland hath procured many other Ennemies to our Nation, but we have none more to feare in the returne of o:r Shipps from India than the French, but I hope God will So Bless his Maj:tys just armes y:t he will become Victorious, & renowned S:r This Serveth cheifly to returne
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I hope my last by the ''S:t George'' came safely to your hands which I shall be glad to understand by your expected letter overland to the Compy:a, the warre w:th Holland hath procured many other Ennemies to our Nation, but we have none more to feare in the returne of o:r Shipps from India than the French, but I hope God will So Bless his Maj:tys just armes y:t he will become Victorious, & renowned S:r This Serveth cheifly to returne
  
 
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Revision as of 21:01, December 15, 2011

10th March 1665/66, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London


BL, MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 35-36

Editorial history

09/09/09, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki



Abstract & context




Suggested links


See 21st March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London
See 25th September 1667, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London



To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL



Transcription


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[BL, MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 35-36]


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Honnoured S:r

I hope my last by the S:t George came safely to your hands which I shall be glad to understand by your expected letter overland to the Compy:a, the warre w:th Holland hath procured many other Ennemies to our Nation, but we have none more to feare in the returne of o:r Shipps from India than the French, but I hope God will So Bless his Maj:tys just armes y:t he will become Victorious, & renowned S:r This Serveth cheifly to returne

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my most humble & hearty thankes, for all your respects & kindnesses to my Selfe & freinds in pticular for the ?wax I have by your favo:r been made ptaker of by the last shipps, assuring yo:w that if here after I may in any Cappacity be Serviceable to yo:r Self or relations I shall accompt it my happiness & honoure; I returne yo:w allso my hearty thanks for yo:r respects and favour to my Bro: Willoughby desiring the favourable continuance of them as the occasions require, Wee are new fitting out á pace [OR. "pare"?] for our next Summers navall preparations & have allready in y:e straight & narrow Seas about 60z Stout men of war & about 30 in the Hope ready to goo out, & about 60 more designed to be out about May, the greatest fleet ever his Maj:tie sent abroad & I hope we shall humble y:e Hollander & his confederates this Summer

W:th my very humble service to your Selfe presented I remain

Your most humble serv:t
Tho:s Tyte

London 10:th March 1665



Notes


Thomas Tyte

A Thomas Tyte gave books in 1670 to replenish the St Pauls School Library after its destruction in the 1666 fire of London. (Samuel Pepys gave books in 1675) Note a Thomas Gipps gave books in 1673, and a Charles Chamberlayn in 1675, a Robert Thompson in 1677, a Sam Draper in 1684, a Sir Peter Vandeput in 1684… [all these are merchants I have come across][1]
  1. Samuel Knight, The Life of Dr. John Colet: Dean of St. Paul's in the Reigns of K. Henry VII and K. Henry VIII and Founder of St. Paul's School: with an Appendix, Containing Some Account of the Masters and More Eminent Scholars of the Foundation, and Several Original Papers Relating to the Said Life (Oxford, 1823), pp. 376-377