MRP: 29th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Bix to Sir GO, London

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29th March 1662/63, Letter from Nicholas Bix to Sir GO, London


BL, MS. XX,XXX, f. 66

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02/06/09, CSG: Completed transcription
14/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki


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[BL, MS. XX,XXX, f. 66]

Hon:d S:r

Ay yo:r last being at my house accompanyed w:th S:r Geo: Smith, Etc:a I then suplicated you in behalfe of á sonne of myne to wat upon you, but I was then to late, where upon S:r Geo: Smith was pleased then to promise by y:e next fleete to lend his assistance in effecting my request yett not with standing wee are more frustrated & y:o:r poore Country man an old acquaintance forced to patience, I have sent him w:th a good ffreind for a yeares voyage, & then will once more attempt to send him for India and if God please to Blesse yo:a w:th life I doubt not of yo:e Good assistance and love I will not dispare thought many troubles of late have assailed mee Hono:d S:r the beare force of my acquaintance by name M:r John Godart who hath beene some voyages in India á very Ingenious honest young man & of á good family if it may please yo:e favoure to Countenance him according to his pts & Deportm:t either for Shipp or ?Shorare you will oblidge yo:e poore Serv:t If I have degressed from yo:e at[xx but - ?] title or worth pray excuse my old Age or Rather weaknesse who once was as active in India as some who but now devoted to bee


LH SIDE BOTTOM OF LETTER

Upper Shadwell [xx] a garrist y:e ?Grow Church
March y:e 29:th 1662:

RH SIDE BOTTOM OF LETTER

Yo:r Worp:s most humble
Serv:t
Nicholas Bix


Notes


Nicholas Bix and Thomas Grove were sent to factory in Armagon as assistant under Mr. Thomas Johnson, in 1624-29 period.[1] Hence Nicholas Bix referes at the end of his letter to Sir George Oxenden to his "old age", but having once been "as active in India as some who are but now devoted to bee"

No Nicholas Bix PRO Will Online, but interesting to see: Will of David Bix, Lieutenant Colonel of Barbados, West Indies 21 February 1663 PROB 11/310 Juxon Quire Numbers: 1 – 51 pp. 2 PDF
  1. ↑ EFI 24-29, p. 146

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