MRP: 19th March 1665/66, Letter from Robert Raworth to Sir GO, Grayes Inn

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19th March 1665/66, Letter from Robert Raworth to Sir GO, Grayes Inn

BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 24-26

Editorial history

10/09/08, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki






Abstract & context




Suggested links


See biographicalprofile of Robert Raworth

See 9th April 1663, Letter from Robert Raworth to Sir GO




To do


(1) Check transcription has no greeting, then make corrections against physical manuscript at BL & add foliation to transcription



Transcription


This transcription has been completed, but required checking

[BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 24-26]

If you have a coppy of the Letter of Attorney yo:w gave my Aunt[1] [CHECK THIS] at your departure pray lett this Draught be writt out faire in a large sheet of paper (which I draw in half but may serve) & seale and deliver it as yo:w act and XXXX yo:e name being sett neare y:e seale, in the presence of the Cap:t & the most sufficient Merchants & Seamen that returne home next yeare, lett there be 5: or 6 witnesses or more, I heard my Aunt speak of some silks yo:w left w:e M:r Breson[2] [CSG: This is clearly Thomas Breton] to the Vallue of 5: or 600:ll which he hath gave no Acco:t of I would have p fowwd a Bill in Chancery ag:st him for Discovery but she desired me to stay till she heard from yo:w this last yeare of which I have heard nothing, I doubt they are in danger, if he be not honest we shall doe what we cann for them & I shall enquire what pticulars yo:w sent concerning them by the late shipps, no more now but to XXXX yo:r patience & quiet submission to Gods will in all his Dispensations, which can only quell manns unruly passions & make a sedate mind in all adversities changes & chances, I am S:r yo:w must send S:r Henry[3] direction by letter and letter how he shall or may dispose of yo:e monie & goods & trade, what he shall send yo:w out & in what goods & w:t goodes yo:w would have kept & what sold, yo:w Letter of Attorney must be gxxxx to satisie those he deals w:t fore yo:w & cant tarry as yo:e Lett:r may y:t come every ???yeare, he will follow yo:w Directions in Lett:s allso

S:r If phixation could ease your Sorrow for yo:r late Deare Sister Dalyson & my honn:ed freind I would beare, as great shame as I could, she is non Amissased pmissa [?? Latin?], not lost but gone before, & we all shall follow at d: appointed times, & therefore ought not to sorrow so much, as those that are without hope for her no doubt that is blessed and happy, and because by her death some alltoward may happen in yo:e affaires, I thought fitt to lett yo:w know that by her death your Authority given by Letter of Attorney is ceased & voyd, & good not to an Executor, so that it will be necessary for yo:w to make a new one to yo:e Broth:e allone or who also yo:w please, or Joyne another w:th him, yo:w name for mortallity sake, & then it must ?runn, as the XXXXX doth, which I have sent yo:w in S:r Henry & his sonne James[4] names, not to prescribe but for forms sake if yo:w name to that thus be transcribed & the two names yo:w appoint ?informed, if but one the words underneath in the coppy to be left out, I send yo:w enclosed allso a coppy of yo:r sisters will, wherein yo:w will find a summe of 1400:ll to be paid to yo:w out of Halling Lease, which happily yo:w may wonder at, but the ground as yo:r Deare Sister told me, was that she had mXXXX Business w:te could [?ould] Stanly[5] about the Land at Chattham[6] conveighed to yo:w fore the some, which he had DissoXXXXX & if they would have the land she would be ?Just to yo:w yo:w should have it out of the Lease & for this cause was it Inserted in the will being assured that yo:e Justice and kindness to her XXXX ???Mept must putt yo:w in mind that if I misremember not yo:w, yo:w name y:e Brother & Sister XXXXXX in yo:e will, which Lease now are to her & unless yo:w make a new will which yo:w need not, unless yo:w see other causes, yo:w Brother will be sole ?executor & nothing in y:t XXXXX come to the children, of yo:e Deare Sister now with God which according to her last request in her will togeather w:te Sarah Wayman[7] I presume yo:w will remember, which may be a Codicill annex to yo:r will , what yo:w intend M:r [could be M:s] Smish [Smith?][8] must be to some ffreinds in trust for here maintenance & support, and this is all I have to say but w:e mine & wife service to yo:w I am S:r Yo:r very humble servt
Rob:t Raworth

Grayes Inn 19:e March 1665”



Notes



Possible primary sources

  1. Elizabeth Dallison, elder sister of Sir George Oxenden and his London agent
  2. Thomas Breton, London merchant
  3. Sir Henry Oxenden, elder brother of Sir George Oxenden
  4. James Oxenden, Sir Henry Oxenden's eldest son
  5. Thomas Stanley, Maximilian Dallison's father-in-law
  6. The Chatham land referred to was XXXXX
  7. Sarah Wainman, Elizabeth Dallison's long serving maid servant
  8. It is unclear who this refers to. Missing faces