MRP: 5th April 1663, Letter from Thomas Thompson to Sir GO, Milkstreet
5th April 1663, Letter from Thomas Thompson to Sir GO, Milkstreet
BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 100-101
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[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 100-101]
[f.100]
Hono:d S:r
I thinke my selfe happy y:t I am come safely to Eng:d wheare I left a Tyrannt & finde a King & him soo good y:t all good subjects must thinke them selves blessed in his restauration; But had I stayed untill yo:r arrivall there I should have thought my selfe happy though I had bine still in India for y:e Remembrance of your dead Relation there lyes my affection to your name, Buy y:e knowledge I had of yo:r worth, & y:e experience of yo:r goodnesse, & y:e Confidence I had of yo:r Constant Kindnesse as a three fould ?coard [Could just be “recvd”] would have bound mee to a Continuance in y:t place but England is my natural Countrey & India but y:e place of my Refuge till this Lands Tyranny was over past, I cannot therefore but thinke my selfe happy y:t I am here (for it was Love to y:e person not to the place y:t would have kept mee there) & wish you all happinesse y:t yo:r hart Can desire in y:y place. I hope you will have Content in y:e person, by whome I send this (M:r L’Escailler)[1] who is sent your Minister hee is very much Comended by my Lord Richardson
[f.101]
With whome hee Lived, as I doubt not but S:r Geo: Smith hath intimated to you, by y:t acquaintance I have had w:th him w:ch is onely since hee made for this Imployement, I judge noo lesse for hee is á good nature, of a sober behaviour a competent scollar & not soo young as hee seemes to bee w:ch was y:e onely thing Objected against him. Now seeing S:r I was soo unhappy y:t I missed sending you these for I looked earnestly for you y:e yeare before, I wish there weare any service I could doo you heare for my aboade is in London in Milkstreet & noo man woald more readily embrace an oportunity of serving you than.
S:r
Your ffaythfull ffrend and
Humble servant
Tho:s Thompson
Notes
- ↑ Dr. Escaliot was appointed Surat minister, and was present at the Surat factory during the siege of the city by the Mahratti army. He wrote a graphic letter from to Dr. Thomas Browne at his Norfolk residence, describing the events in Surat. See Letter of Dr. Escaliot, Surat to Dr. Browne, Norfolk, January 26th 1663/64, MS. Sloan. 1860, fol. 5, published in Simon Wilkin (ed.), The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, vol. 1: Containing Urn-burial, Christian Morals, Miscellananies, Correspondence, Etc. (London,1852), pp. 424-440
