MRP: 25th September 1662, Letter from Arthur Ingram to Sir GO, London
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25th September 1662, Letter from Arthur Ingram to Sir GO, London
BL, MS. XX, XXX, ff. 3-4
Editorial history
10/03/10, CSG: Completed transcription
13/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
Suggested links
See 23rd March 1662/63, Letter from Arthur Ingram to Sir GO, London
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Transcription
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ff. 3-4
Honoured Sir
I hope this will find yow with safety, health, & content at Surratt the goods newse whereof will very much rejoyce mee & having the opportunity to know of this conveighance Overland by being at present one of the Committee whow as in all other cappacities I shall bee ambitious in securing yow, I would not Omitt to remind yow of my former request concerning what M:r Matt fforster was my debtor wherein I must bee Y:e more earnest & remayne the more obliged for whatsoever courtesie yow shall doo mee by how much I heare of â report by the shipps come y:e yeare y:t hee dyed indebted to y:e Compa:a more than all his estate discovered after his death would satisfie to w:ch I cann say that by w:t I know & heard from his owne mouth I doe verily beeleeve y:t hee carried with him to y:e a Vallue of neare 1000 pounds when hee went out of England of which hee never made any returne either for his owne accompt or friends & having had the employment there in trade of such an Originall estate for soo long a time & being a man of sure partes and government I thinke all that now him must acknowledge or wronge their owne conscience, it may easily bee resolved y:t some other hath sinisterly & fraudulently remayned with his estate, whereoff I hope yow will by your Authority & Industry purge them to their shame for y:e satisfaction of his ?inst Obligacons & especially that to whome most Abruptly (being very great haste) subscribe himself./
London, 25:e Septemb:r 1662
