MRP: 25th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Langden Abbey
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25th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Langden Abbey
BL, MS. 40, 708-40, 713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 23-24
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[BL, MS. 40, 708-40, 713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 23-24]
Honnoured S:r
In pursuance of my promiss & resolution to promote yo:r affaires & concearnes I make this address unto yo:w, which , as it hath pleased God to order psons & things, is & may be of great moment, & which I much doubt hath been omitted by d:e relations & ffreinds at London, if it ne not this will do no harme but testifie my willingness to serve yo:w and yo:w occasions, yo:e may please to know that upon the death of my Aunt Dallyson your Letter of Attorney w:te her is voyd & null & doth not transferr, any power or Authority to her executors or any of them, or any other pson, although her prudence & ??justice in making S:r Henry one of her executors, who is the only one in England to mannadge affaires) doth for the pres:t give him good ?collour & grounds to look after yo:r estate & goods here, yet if any pson that hath any of your estate in his hands should be stubbourne & obstinate & have a mind to be a knave (which many Citt:s have) they may putt S:r Henry to much trouble & yo:w to great losse however to containe hazard & there being, allso soo many suits at Law on ffoote, for yo:w & against yo:w, & so much Business in all hands, it is very necessary, that yo:w send over w:te what speed yo:w cann a Lett:r of Attorney, sealed & delivered, to empowere S:r Henry & for the better mannadgment of all your concearnes here I ?know not any pson yo:w cann better trust & cann better doo it (to be both together) for what may be left in one will be gott in the other, especially now he may be assisted w:te my Coz:n Oxinden his Sonne, This is not mine oppinion, but it appears plainly to be the sense & mind of our Deare Relation yo:w trusted before, by her making him one of her exectors, by xxxx she putt yo:w estate in his hands & so thought that the best way to serve it for yo:w & though she had a nearer relation as a Sonne yet she knew him to be very unfitt for such an Employm:t, & your employm:t as unfitt for him y:t hath a ffamily in the country, & an estate to look after which will be no gainer but a great Looser by such Discontinuance of ??attorne as your affaires do necessarily require, and his want of experience in such matters (being, quite of another way & straine) & his youth (so say no more) render him alltogether incapable of such negotiations, & I cannott but be in admiration of his high conceipt of him selfe, as of his great Disparagment of his mothers wisdom & her love to him, she best know him & yo:w have no reason to imploy him more than she would her selfe for yo:w she know what was best for him y:t was to live Quietly in the Countrey & mind his estate & ffamily there, & not to Intangle & infiltrate himself& his estate w:te other menns businesss, & concearnes, which requires more, care, circumspection & strict waryness, than ever he was guilty off I think I need not say so much for need not ??increase your great losse w:te such Impud:t actings, S:r Henry is a pson of Credd:t XXXXXX, hath an estate in Lonon, & another in the countrey & is a man able to maintaine your Cred:t ???hoxx & estate than any other besides, XXX may expect some ???Stewes & ??bustes about the old suits, while a mann of Quallity & estate will carry out better than Young Blades, w:th the Citizens & XXXXX not, but will blow away, I shall not mention S:r Henrys neare relation & great affection to yo:w, I am afraid yo:w will be angry I say so much, when so little would have XXXXX in this case, or rather nothing, ye:raw prudence & affaection would have guided yo:w right, w:out my Argum:ts Sa shall onoly (sic) write my selfe
Yo:r truly affection:te nephew & serv:t
Ja:s Master
Langden Abby Match 25:th 1665/6
