MRP: March 1662/63, Letter from Benjamin Glanville to Sir GO

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March 1662/63, Letter from Benjamin Glanville to Sir GO

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 113-114

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29/05/09, CSG: Completed tranciption
18/12/11, CSG: Page created




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To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL

(2) Check whether Richard Swift, merchant of London, was related to John Swift and to his sister Dame Martha Smith (née Swift)[1]


Transcription


This transcription has been completed, but requires checking

[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 113-114]

[f. 113]

S:r Geo: Oxinden

S:r my often good wishes for yo:r health for yo:r prosperity I hope to heare in good tyme & yo:r mindfullnesse to answer y:e Defects of my ffreind, & Country man; M:r Ben: Clapton by yo:r favourable Encouragem:t preferm:t to y:t End you weare pleased to take á remembrance from S:r W:m Rider & my selfe, w:ch I presume you will not forgett; S:r I hope you have á Gallant Breed of game Cocks for yo:r recreation from those I presented you w:th & can at any tyme supply you if you fancy y:t sport; S:r My Brother Swift[2] presents his Humble service to you; who although hath endeavoured his utmost, & proferred all hee had to his Creditors; hath made noo end w:th them is now resolved to seeke his fortune w:th á small stock, hopeing in tyme to raise an Estate to pay his debts; & ifs resolved overland for psia; his ffreinds & relations request yo:r favour to call him thence into Imploym:t Hee takes this way because hee is unwilling to anger y:e Comp:a or put any Master of Shipp upon a penallty for his passage , & beleeveing you may y:e more freely favour him, because hee Breakes noo orders of y:e Comp:a – S:r I question not yo:r kindenesse heerein; soo farr as you Cann with hono:r to yo:r selfe Grattifye us. Hee will from Persia

[f. 114]

Sallute you & waite yo:r Call thence S:r w:th myne & my wives service to you presented; hopeing you will please in this to oblidge us, & freinds I cease yo:r farther trouble Craving yo:r pardon in this; & I remaine

Yo:r very humble serv:t at Comand
Benja: Glanvile [might just be Glainvile]


Notes

Imprisonment of Benjamin Clapton & Sir Edward Winter, Metchlepatam, XXXX


"...Sir Edward Winter together with Mr. Benjamin Clapton, who was secured and kept close prisoner in Metchlepatam by M:r W:m Jearsey chiefe of that place , for the said English East India Company, being sent thether by the said S:r Edward Winter to deliver a protest (made in his Majesties name) against the said Mr. Jearsey for intercepting and detaining his Majesties Letters and others his Majesties Subjects..."[3]


Possible primary sources

TNA


PROB 11/164 Russell 58-117 Will of John Glanvill, Merchant 14 November 1633
PROB 11/180 Harvey 66-135 Will of Sir Francis Glanvill of Tavistock, Devon 04 May 1639
PROB 11/194 Rivers 111-157 Will of Richard Swift, Merchant of London 09 September 1645
PROB 11/204 Essex 53-107 Will of William Glanvill, Merchant of Heavitree, Devon 20 May 1648

PROB 11/380 Cann 52-107 Will of John Glanvill of Plymouth, Devon 02 July 1685
  1. ↑ PROB 11/194 Rivers 111-157 Will of Richard Swift, Merchant of London 09 September 1645
  2. ↑ John Swift, London merchant; brother of Dame Martha Smith. For a less favourable view of John Swift's attempts to satisfy his creditors see a letter from the London merchant Robert Cranmer, a former subscriber to the Smirna Venture Joint Stock (27th March 1663, Letter from Robert Cranmer, London). John Swift made his way out to Surat, chosing the overland route via Aleppo, which he reached in August (20th August 1663, Letter from Gamaliel Nightingale to Sir GO, Aleppo). By November 1663 he was in Goa, where he was the joint author of a letter with Robert Ferrand to Sir George Oxenden, dated November 24th 1663 and sent from Goa (24th November 1663, Letter from Robert Ferrand and Mr. John Swift, Goa). Sir George Smith, his brother-in-law, wrote from London to Sir George Oxenden in March 1665/66, having heard of Swift's death, regretting his past support for the now deceased Swift, who had disappointed him by his behaviour in the East Indies (March 1665/66, Letter from George Smith to Sir GO
  3. ↑ XXXX (ed.), The diary of William Hedges, esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges), during his agency in Bengal: as well as on his voyage out and return overland (1681-1697), (London, 1888), p. cccxxiii

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