MRP: 10th March 1665/66, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London
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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
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09/09/09, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
Thomas Tyte was a London merchant most probably involved in trade with Spain. In his will he mentions a cousin, George Tyte "Merchant now resideing in Bilboa in the Kingdome of Spaine."[1]
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
See Thomas Tyte will
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]
[f.35]
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
[f.36]
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][2]
"[LOOK AT PHYSICAL DOCUMENT TO CLEAN THIS QUOTATION UP] [?ca. 1663] In ans to the petition of M:r Thomas Kellond, atturney to S Richard Ans' to Tho. Ford, knight, Thomas Tyte, Robert Richbell, & Company, merchants, humbly con. desiring this Courts favour to graunt him a speciall Court for the trjall of a 1663 case or cases concerning his Imployers, sometime the next weeke, the Court judgeth it meete to graunt his petition, & leaue it to the honored GoQu' or 12 June. , . , .JJep' to appoint the time."[3]
East Indies
"He then gives the names of those chosen to be Committees, which are as follows : George, Lord Berkley, Sir Andrew Riccard, Sir William Thompson, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Sir William Rider, Sir Stephen White, Richard Reeves, John Jollife, Arthur Ingram, John Bathurst, Maurice Thompson, Robert Lant, Peter Vandeput, Christopher Boone, Francis Clarke, Thomas Canham, Christopher Willoughby, John Mascall, Thomas Tyte, Richard Spencer, Michael Davison, John Page, Thomas Papillon, and Thomas Pearle."[4]
Possible primary sources
Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters
Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters: Lowther Family of Lowther, Earls of Lonsdale [D LONS/L1 - D LONS/L2: Correspondence D LONS/L1 [n.d.]: File of letters from various people to Sir John Lowther D LONS/L1/1/18 1660-1669: Thomas Tyte, London D LONS/L1/1/18/24 29 Dec. 1663]
- ↑ PROB 11/410 Fane 97-146 Will of Thomas Tyte, Merchant of London 10 June 1692. See Thomas Tyte will. See also Worcester Coll. Box 13 Helmdon. Copy of the will of Thos. Tyte. 20 Jan. 1691 (cited by Edward Parry, 'Helmdon Historical Articles: Helmdon wills, 1603-17600, http://www.helmdon.com/history/helmdon_wills.htm#note12, viewed 26/12/11
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England (XXXX, XXXX), pp. 83-84, http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/nathaniel-bradstreet-shurtleff/records-of-the-governor-and-company-of-the-massachusetts-bay-in-new-england--pr-723/page-10-records-of-the-governor-and-company-of-the-massachusetts-bay-in-new-england--pr-723.shtml, viewed 26/12/11
- ↑ 'A General Court, April 16, 1663' [Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 608) in Ethel Brucer Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, XXXX), pp. 306-307
