MRP: 29th March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Craston to Sir GO, London
29th March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Craston to Sir GO, London
BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 64
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Thomas Craston wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 20th, 1662/63. The letter was sent from London.
The letter concerned, XXXX.
A court minute of the EEIC dated March 15th, 1660, makes it clear that Thomas Craston was the administrator of William Weale, who had been in Surat.[1] It was William Weale who kept William Noke's accounts from 165X-165X, which remain in Sir George Oxenden's personal papers st the British Library.[2] William Weale had been the most junior employee at the 'Sinda' of 'Tuttha/Tatta' factory in 1650.[3]
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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, f. 64]
Worthy S:r,
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NOTES
My brother is claimed to be indebted to the amount of £1800 to Mrs Noake
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London this 29:th March 1662
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Yours to Comand
Tho:s Craston
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EEIC, 1650-1654
"To continued at...'Sinda' or 'Tuttha' [Tatta]: John Spiller, Nicholas Scrivener, Henry Gary, Richard Newland, Thomas Reynardson, Charles Milward, Daniel Elder, and William Weale."[4]
EEIC, 1660-1663
"Thomas Craston, administrator to William Weale, requests that the latter's estate, now in Mr. Revington's hands, may be placed to his account with the company, and that the accounts and papers belonging to Weale (also in the hands of Mr. Revington or Mr. Lambton) be sent hime; hereupon order is given for a letter to be written to the President with directions for the said estate to be sent home, and for all estates of factors who die out there to be paid int future into the Company's cash (after just debts are settled) and credit given for them in the Company's books."[5]
Possible primary sources
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, March 15, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 687), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 10
- ↑ This is the footnote text
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock, February 25, 1650' (Court Book, vol. xx, p. 494), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 24
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock, February 25, 1650' (Court Book, vol. xx, p. 494), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 24
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, March 15, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 687), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 10
