MRP: 11th January 1665/66, Letter from William Blake to Sir GO, Ballasore

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11th January 1665/66, Letter from William Blake to Sir GO, Ballasore

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX ff. 56-58

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Abstract & context


William Blake wrote to Sir George Oxenden from Ballasore.

Ballasore is a coastal town in north-east India, lying on the Bay of Bengal. In modern India it is an important city in the state of Orissa, known also as Baleshwar. The English settlement was first established in 1642.[1]

In this letter William Blake XXXX.


Suggested links


See Ballasore

31st October 1662, Letter from William Blake to Sir GO, Merschlepatam
21st October 1665, Letter from William Blake to Sir GO, Hugly


To do


(1) Complete the transcription


Transcription


This transcription has not been completed

[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX ff. 56-58]

Mentions a packet sent to "my ffather & M:r Papillion"

William Blake's wife appears to be with him in Ballasore

"I am sorry to understand M:r Lambtons remaines to bee small, and pretenders to it soo many, that I am like to loose all his debts to mee, but being soo shall wave further insisting om that subiect.."

Mentions could not send ships last year to Persia "but made a Maldiva voyage"


Notes

William Blake, XXX


"William Blake, Thomas Hopkins, and others, were owners of the ship Unity; which said ship being at Jeffenapatan in the island of Ceilon in the Indies, the said Thomas Hopkins, and William Jourdan master of the said ship, hired a certain vessel, called a champan, being of the burden of sixty tons, and loaded on board of the said vessel and the said ship Unity, at or near Bengal, Hughes (sic), and Ballasore, in the parts of the East, several goods and merchandizes to be carried and transported for Jeffenapatan aforesaid. And the said two vessels accordingly sailed away, and arrived at Jeffenapatan in January, 1657, and were in the factory discharged and all unladen (except 80 bales of saltpetre, and six mauns of opium); and while the said vessels were at Jeffenapatn aforesaid, there came news, that a fleet of Dutch sgips had taken three Portugal frigats at Jufficurre, and also the island Manar; and on the twenty-sixth of February, 1657, there came to Jeffenapatan from Manar a Dutch army in small vessels, and besieged the same (the fleet, that brought the army, being commanded by general Richloof, and one captain Vanderlaine)....."[2]


"[?1674] William Blake's covenants, bonds, and security to be given up, also the indenture tripartite made between the Company, Blake, ..."[3]


Possible primary sources

  1. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balasore, viewed 13/01/12
  2. ↑ 'An account of the depredations committed by the Dutch upon the English; delivered to the Dutch embassador by the committee, 11. Octob. 1659.' in Thomas Birch (ed.), A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe ...: 1658 to 1660, vol. 7 (London, 1742), pp. 759-760
  3. ↑ XXXX, Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India company, 1674-1676 (Oxford, 1935), p. 118

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