MRP: 16th March 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Holborn

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16th March 1662/63, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Holborn

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX f. 17

Editorial history

10/03/10, CSG: Completed transcription
14/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted trasncription to wiki




Abstract & context



Suggested links


See 1st December 1662, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Carware
See 29th November 1663, Letter from Richard Ball to Sir GO, Carwar


To do


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Transcription


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[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX f. 17]

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When Opportunity moves but Seldome, it must be carefully embraced, & not lett Slip: I hope these lines will find you in health w:ch is my hearty wish; my Suite unto you is for my Sonn[1]: to yo:r care he had y:e happiness to be comitted Seaven yeares Since, he was then A Child: A man, I heare he is now, in his Body, I hope Alsoe in his Braine: At least yo:r encouradgement will make him Soo, I am flatterd if he doth not doo well, A line or two from yo:r Penn will sett me a bove Doubts, as he shall be found to deserve, soe lett him find you his Freind, & for him to know Soe much would highly engage him; The fourth yeare is now begunn, & I have not heard of any Wages he gets Recvdd from y:e Comp:a, I begg yo:r love & care in y:e Prticukular , & if y:e Customes be to pay it here , I would be Glad it Should be soe & ordered, as to be paid unto mee, who shall be readie to send him what he most wants & desires, God Blessing, So prayeth

Ely House Holborne
March y:e 16: 1662/3

Yo: Obliged & Humble Servt:
Richard Ball



Notes

Richard Ball, Doctor of Divinity


"Helen, dau. of James Willymott, bapt. 28 Jan 1633, married Richard Ball, D.D., Master of the Temple.

Rev. Richard Ball, D.D., Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cam., Rector of Withy and Westerfield in Suffolk. Installed as a Prebendary of Ely 22 Sept. 1660, and same month installed as a Prebendary of Lincoln. Rector of St. mary, Woolwich, London. Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II., and Rector of Bluntisham, co. Hunts, 18 August, 1662. Died in the Temple, London, of which he was Master, 6 April, 1684, aged 86"[2]



Possible primary sources

TNA


Will of Richard Ball, Doctor of Divinity and Master of the two Honourable Societies of the Temple 01 December 1684 PROB 11/378 Hare Quire Numbers: 141 – 180 pp. 4 PDF
  1. ↑ Richard Ball was at Carwar in the East Indies
  2. ↑ Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, vol. 3 (XXXX, 1880), fn., p. 185

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