MRP: 1st April 1666, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO
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1st April 1666, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO
BL, MS. 40, 708-40, 713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 7-8
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BL, MS. 40, 708-40, 713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 7-8
Deearest Brother. Aprill ye: 1st: 1666: Sunday even
XXXXXX today at my Lord Chamberlains[1] (who invited mee to dinn) yt. Sr: Gervas Lucas, to XXX his ???loane but last night of the King I adventure these few lines after him, willing to take all opportunities & to informe you of proceedings I was Friday wth: the Commtee: at ye: East India house who sent for mee in, & there producing my Sisters will prxxxxxx [?proceeded] [?proved] , they wth: much respect to you and me, immediately made an oder to the Husband Mr Sprigg[2] to deliver all your remaining goodes in their Warehouses to me, & I have them now in my possession, & hope to give you a good accott: of them, & to ?bee a punctuall accott: of Sale & proffitt of them, which xxx of Accotts: I find none, for our Deare Sister trusted all to memory. Barker as I tould you sold the Muske in ptenership wth: you to Mr: Boone, for 2ll:03pe: and in ?Invitation [CSG, 09/09/08 - hard to read because of worm hole] of him, & finding y: price no higher, & upon the importunity of XXX [worm hole] our Cozn. Boone, I have sould your 2 great potts of muske to him & Mr. Finch at ye: same rates, but have bogt [??] back, ye: 3 long Potts, xxxxx beleeving wee shall have a better markt:, for all Mr: Boons XXX [worm hole] bee quickly in Spain & which is a multitude, for he and his ptners have engrossed all that sa,e allmost, hee asked me (sic) if I had more, but ?t’was denied; Mr: Buckeridge yt: told mee yt: Ambergrease was sold at 5ll: 15gw: was mistaken & could not send me such a chapman [???], So yt: I doubt I must take loss, the other goodes I will ?vend as I find opportunity; Tomorrow wth: the help of honest Sarah [CSG, 09/09/08 – I suspect this is Sarah Wainman, Elizabeth Dalyson’s respected servant and assistant, who subesquently married Richard Oxinden] we are going to divide my Sisters goodes from yours, because hers are to be Innventoried, & putt into the Court, I found three hundred pounds in the house which is said to be hers, and 400ll: Capt: Barker hath made of an accounting [?????] of hers which he brought home in Ambr: grease and sould it for 5ll:5gw pound [??], So that 700ll must bee putt into her Inventory, wth: her goodes Jewells and the Lease of Halling, which must be allso vallued, this is the method I must proceed in, as I am informed by Sr: Robert Wiseman & Mr: Raworth, whose Counsell and ?divertions I wholly follow, I find my Sister has some pticular debts of her owne which must be satisfyed, I intend not to sXXX now Dispose of any of her goodes untill I have sent you, the Inventory, & have your Directions therein Intending only to bee faithfull I forward for you, & my nephew Dallyson, though I find I shall have nothing but Clamour of him for it, her will was made divers dayes before I came to Towne, James (who I find very Intent & intelligt: in your Business) or I must bee in Towne untill yor: Business is more Settled, I have been often wth: y: Bishop about renewing the lease I find him ????boorish & Covetous, but his old age will prompt him to take a reason:ble fine & ??thow then leave it to anoth:r Byshop his Successor, ???Love and his Companions & threaten more trouble about y: old business when y:x Commission they dispatcht to you is returned, Both as to the 4500 and my Brother Kitts business but y xxxxxxxx lawyers will I hope defend me, Truly Broth:r I made enquiry about your friends & Foes & I must without flattery tell you y:t all the wise & with mony of the Comm:tee do prize you highly & say they never had such a Pt: & Pson y So much XXXX XXXX ?charge XXXXX [worm hole] them more Bennefitt, and these psons are S:r: Barnardiston, S:r Wllm Thomson, Boone, Rider, Mascall, Papillon, Clarke, S:r Andrew Ricault, yea and Jolliff too, youxxx ????Sayanon ??Trommon none but Presbiters but you have friends of anoth:r Stamp, if you have two stringes to yo:r Bow I hope you need not be angry, the former are y:r ruling men, therefore pray correspond w:th them; the Danes have seased o:r English shipps in Copenhagen, your shipp is given by many for lost, there is 30 given to Insure her [CSG, 09/09/08 – Follow this up. It looks like the ship was insured. Which ship is HO referring to, and does GO own a part share?] Cap:t Bowen told me tis allmost Impossible she cann come to you, My Lady Palmer does modestly enquire after her adventure (sometimes) of twenty ??pounds in Gould she gave you, I have not yet lighted on Alderman ???Batters [?Bauers] about y:r XXXXX [Kaftas or Baftas???] wth Britton, but Britton is not yet in towne, the plague does a little increase again, & tis feared will ???move, Many country Townes are much ?Infested as Yarmouth, Dover & c:a The Gennerall & Prince Robert are hastening to sea, the Lord preserve them; Our deare Sister I find is much lamented by all psons of honour, wisdome, & Piety, the Lord supply this great losse to us, by his speciall favour XXXXX, Deare Brother one more farewell, the Lord bee wth you & Send us a good meeting if it bee his blessed will in the mean time, till I have anoth:r opportunity of writing to you, I rest
Yo:r most affection:te & obliged Brother.
Henry Oxinden
London in ye Corner
James presents his deXXXXres
to you, Rick & Sarah[3] their ?services
Notes
- ↑ The Lord Chamberlin, XXX XXX, had been a friend of Elizabeth Dallison, who had intervened on her behalf to persuade Lord Clarendon to assist her daughter, Mary Smith, to achieve some financial security, despite the sequestering of her husband's estates following his imprisonment for treason
- ↑ Mr. Sprigg was XXXX. See Missing faces
- ↑ Richard Oxinden and sarah Wainman
