MRP: 25th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Langden Abbey

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25th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Langden Abbey

BL, Add. MS. 40, 708-40, 713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 23-24

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




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See 6th April 1663, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Canterbury
See 10th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Langden Abbey
See 12th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO

See profile of Langdon (Abbey)



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[BL, Add. MS. 40, 708-40, 713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 23-24]

Honnoured S:r

In pursuance of my promiss & resolution to promote yo:r affaires & concearnes I make this address unto yo:w, which , as it hath pleased God to order psons & things, is & may be of great moment, & which I much doubt hath been omitted by d:e relations & ffreinds at London, if it ne not this will do no harme but testifie my willingness to serve yo:w and yo:w occasions, yo:e may please to know that upon the death of my Aunt Dallyson[1] your Letter of Attorney w:te her is voyd & null & doth not transferr, any power or Authority to her executors or any of them, or any other pson, although her prudence & ??justice in making S:r Henry[2] one of her executors, who is the only one in England to mannadge affaires) doth for the pres:t give him good ?collour & grounds to look after yo:r estate & goods here, yet if any pson that hath any of your estate in his hands should be stubbourne & obstinate & have a mind to be a knave (which many Citt:s have) they may putt S:r Henry to much trouble & yo:w to great losse however to containe hazard & there being, allso soo many suits at Law on ffoote, for yo:w & against yo:w, & so much Business in all hands, it is very necessary, that yo:w send over w:te what speed yo:w cann a Lett:r of Attorney, sealed & delivered, to empowere S:r Henry & for the better mannadgment of all your concearnes here I ?know not any pson yo:w cann better trust & cann better doo it (to be both together) for what may be left in one will be gott in the other, especially now he may be assisted w:te my Coz:n[3] Oxinden his Sonne, This is not mine oppinion, but it appears plainly to be the sense & mind of our Deare Relation yo:w trusted before, by her making him one of her exectors,[4] by XXXX she putt yo:w estate in his hands & so thought that the best way to serve it for yo:w & though she had a nearer relation as a Sonne[5] yet she knew him to be very unfitt for such an Employm:t, & your employm:t as unfitt for him y:t hath a ffamily in the country, & an estate to look after which will be no gainer but a great Looser by such Discontinuance of ??attorne as your affaires do necessarily require, and his want of experience in such matters (being, quite of another way & straine) & his youth (so say no more) render him alltogether incapable of such negotiations, & I cannott but be in admiration of his high conceipt of him selfe, as of his great Disparagment of his mothers wisdom & her love to him, she best know him & yo:w have no reason to imploy him more than she would her selfe for yo:w she know what was best for him y:t was to live Quietly in the Countrey & mind his estate & ffamily there, & not to Intangle & infiltrate himself& his estate w:te other menns businesss, & concearnes, which requires more, care, circumspection & strict waryness, than ever he was guilty off I think I need not say so much for need not ??increase your great losse w:te such Impud:t actings, S:r Henry is a pson of Credd:t XXXXXX, hath an estate in London, & another in the countrey & is a man able to maintaine your Cred:t ???hoxx & estate than any other besides, XXX may expect some ???Stewes & ??bustes about the old suits, while a mann of Quallity & estate will carry out better than Young Blades, w:th the Citizens & XXXXX not, but will blow away, I shall not mention S:r Henrys neare relation & great affection to yo:w, I am afraid yo:w will be angry I say so much, when so little would have XXXXX in this case, or rather nothing, ye:raw prudence & affaection would have guided yo:w right, w:out my Argum:ts Sa shall onoly (sic) write my selfe

Yo:r truly affection:te nephew & serv:t
Ja:s Master

Langden Abby Match 25:th 1665/6


Notes

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Dallison, Sir George Oxenden's sister and London agent. She had died on March 17th 1665/66 in London. As her brother's agent, Elizabeth Dallison had a letter of attroney empowering her to act in legal and commercial matters. No copy of this letter of attorney exists
  2. ↑ Sir Henry Oxenden, Sir George Oxenden's eldest brother
  3. ↑ James Oxenden, Sir George Oxenden's nephew and Sir Henry Oxenden's eldest son
  4. ↑ In her last will and testament, made four days before her death, Elizabeth Dallison had made Sir Henry Oxenden and Sir George Oxenden her executors. See Elizabeth Dalyson will
  5. ↑ Maximilian Dallison, Elizabeth Dallison's only son. His house and estate, the Hamptons, was in West Peckham, Kent. James Master does not mince his words in describing Maximilian's unsuitability to carry Sir George Oxenden's letter of attorney. For more detail on Maximilian and his estate see the biographical profile of Maximilian Dallison and the profile of The Hamptons

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