MRP: 10th April 1667, Letter from Francis Coventrie to Sir GO, Carshalton

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10th April 1667, Letter from Francis Coventrie to Sir GO, Carshalton

Editorial history

17/02/09, CSG: Completed transcription
18/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki






Abstract & context


Francis Coventry (alias Coventrie) wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated April 10th, 1667. The letter was sent from Carshalton.

In this letter, Coventry.

Francis Coventry (b. ca. 1612, d. 1699) was in his mid-fifties when he wrote the letter. Fifteen months before, a widower himself, he had married Lady Elizabeth Hoskins, the widowed friend of Elizabeth Dallison, whose husband had been the serjeant-at-law Sir Edmond Hoskins. The wedding had taken place at Carshalton, where Lady Hoskins lived, and where Francis Coventry was probably already living [1]

He was a cousin of Lady Hoskins as well as her husband, since his mother, Elizabeth Aldersley, was the sister of Sir Edmond Hoskins' mother, Dorothy Aldersley.[2]



Suggested links


See X April 1667, Letter from Elizabeth Hoskins, Carshalton
See 13th October 1667, Letter from Elizabeth Hoskins to Sir GO

See biographical profile of Francis Coventry
See biographical profile of Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins (Serjeant-at-law; Elizabeth Hoskins' deceased husband)



To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL



Transcription


[f. 96]

S:r

Although I am a strainger to yo:e Person, yett I cannott w:thdraw my hand, engaging for suratt, The death of yo:e Excellent sister[3] to whome I had y:e Hono:e to be knowne) I must Condole w:th yo:w, & y:e loss this family had by it, for w:ch noe amends seemed possible,

[f. 97]

except y:t w:th yo:e ffavo:e has contrived for us, n [CHECK] yo:e Civilities unto my Coz: Tho:m Hoskins[4], from whome his mother & myself have reced sure pticulaer acknowledgm:ts y:t I cannot but be conserned in my mere relation of thankes to yo:w for them, though I have not y:e hono:e of being knowne by yo:w; there wil noe more be deired [CHECK] in his behalfe y:n y:e Continuance of it to him whilst he Continues in those Pts, w:ch perhaps will be longer y:n his comcernes here would Councell him, were y:e lease & times open my wife tells me she has by y:e advice of her ffriends omitted y:e ?proterntion of his order touching 500:ll off his owne money then to be sent to him, in respect of y:e Daingers of y:e seas has made her request to yo:w to give him Creditt for 1 or 200:ll; he has made my wife[5] his atturney, & trewly S:r yo:w will runn not hazard in Creditt yo:w shall afford him, for it will be onely p:d upon his order, S:r I shall be very glad to meete any opportunity whereby I may testifie y:e respects & love I have for Yo:w upon y;e account of this family, in w:ch I hold now y:e place of a ffarther & shall equally be conserned for my Coz: Tho:m Hoskins[6] (& indeed) for any Hoskins) as for any of mie owne, & shall be glad to see y:t daie by w:ch I may expresse in this howse how much I am

S:r yo:e most affectionat faithfull
Servant, Francis Coventrie

Aprill y:e 10th 1667 Casholton



Notes




Possible primary sources


PROB 4/20624 Coventry, Francis, of St. Andrew, Holborne, Mdx., ob. at Healing, Lincs, esq. 1688 27 Mar. (1687)
- Possibly the inventory of Francis Coventry senior's son, who predeceased him

PROB 11/453 Pott 168-208 Will of Francis Coventry of Mortlake, Surrey 23 November 1699
  1. 'Jan. 10 [1665-6] Joseph Lemuel Chester (ed.), Allegations for marriage licences issued by the dean and chapter of Westminster, 1558-1699; also, for those issued by the vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1679 (London, 1886), p. 112
  2. This is the footnote text
  3. Elizabeth Dallison, Sir George Oxenden's elder sister and his London agent. She had died in London on the evening of March 17th, 1665/66, after a prolonged respiratory illness. See Sir Henry Oxenden's reports of her death, 17th March 1665/66, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Deane; 18th March 1665/66, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Corner (London)]
  4. Thomas Hoskins was the son of Sir Edmund Hoskins, serjeant-at-law, deceased, and Lady Elizabeth Hoskins
  5. Thomas Hoskins' mother, Lady Hoskins, had married Francis Coventrie (b. ca. 1612, d. 1699), a family friend and neighbour in Carshalton. See biographical profile of Francis Coventry
  6. Thomas Hoskins was in the East Indies with Sir George Oxenden