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30th March 1663, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXXX, ff. 66-67

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Abstract & context


Richard Oxinden, Sir George Oxenden's cousin, wrote to Sir George Oxenden on March 30th, 1663, from London


Suggested links


See 3rd March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Old Baily Corner
See 21st March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, London
See March 1665/66, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO
See 5th January 1666/67, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Lambeth
See 1st October 1667, Letter from Richard Oxinden to Sir GO, Lambeth

See biographical profile of Richard Oxinden

See biographical profile of Sir George Oxenden
See biographical profile Edward Kelke

See The Ship, London
See Ludgate Hill


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Transcription


Transcription completed, 21/05/09; requires careful checking

[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXXX, ff. 66-67]

S:r

You cannot Imagine w:th w:t Content & satisfaction I make inquiry after yo:r health & safety, unlesse you coulde be convinced; y:t my owne well being weare wrapt up in yo:s Surte I anm y:t nothing would please mee more y:n y:e undoubted asurance y:t these lines might bee soo happy as to finde you in pfect health, & give you the assurance y:t my future happiness will cheeflely Consiste in being in á Capacity to serve you, and honor I feare y:t fortune will deny mee & inso sooing macke mee totally unhappy. But how ever I may faile in my ábilities yett never in my will & Desires w:ch I know yo:e goodnesse will excep:t I shall give you this short Acco:t of yo:e relations y:t they are all well & in health as you left them there being no change or Allteration, onely yo:r Brother S:r Harry[1] left this Citty y:e last weeke, his stay was very short but however wee went some tymes to y:e Ship[2] our purpose to drinke á health to S:r George whome God preservem yo:e Lady Sister Oxinden[3] proves a very, very excellent good Wife & Mother, yo:e deare M:rs Masters[4] ws á bout a month since w:th much Joy delivered of a lusty boy to y:e great Contentmen:t of all her relations; yo:e freinde & admirer S:r Bassill[5] was w:thin this few dayes in London very well; I shall not undertake to write newes because y:t many á good tale is spoyled in y:e telling, but leave y:t taske to my Nobel Brother Millett[6]; I must w:th greefe say that heeere is no reformation for those you left Roges[7] are pure & perfect Rogues still & soo you will finde it when you have recd an Acco:t of yo:e Businesse S:r á mongst some bookes y:t you will receave from yo:e sister Dalyson thereis one named Hudibrase w:chis y:e most admired peece of Drollary y:t ever came forth it was made by o:e Old acquaintance M:r Buttler[8] whome wee did use to meete in Grassenn walkes hee did use to keepe Comp:a w:th Ned Kelke[9] & Collonell Mathuse[10] & D:r Morgin[11] & M:r Will:m Morgin[12] I onely write this for feare yo:e multiplicity of Businesse should cause you to forgett him & y:t you may y:e Better understand his Booke hee sends you these Inclosed lines w:ch y:d presentation of his service; M:r W:m Morgin & Collonell ??Chester[13] [Or, Cheston] desire to Kiss yo:e hands, & many more of yo:r freinds w:th word and loss [or less?] to name I have now but one boone to begg of you & shall at present give you no further trouble , & y:t to Continue yo:e wanted goodnesse in y:e beleefe of this great truth y:y I am w:thout reservation

S:r
Yo:r Kinds & reall faithfull
Freind & servant
Richard Oxinden


Notes

Conveyance of Irish land, Richard Oxenden of Barham


"[Membrane 8] Conveyance whereby Edwin Auchier, of Bishopstowne, in the county of Kent, and Richard Oxenden, of Barham, in the same county, granted and conveyed to Sir John Dowdall, of Kilfenny, in the county of Limerick, the lands of Castleton, Ardloman, Kilbridge, Cloughrane, Fahy, Ballilongford, Beahie, Ballivestin, and other lands, in the county called Kenrie and Connelaght, and county of Limerick. — Last of August, 20:o James I."[14]


Richard Oxenden in Ireland, 1641


"Early in November 1641, the Commons vote 2000 English troops to be sent at once to Ireland to suppress the Rebellion. Richard Oxinden applies for employment and even James, who is now in holy orders, wishes to accompany the Irish ..."[15]


Lists of officers serving in Ireland in 1640s


"List titled Soldiers of the Commonwealth in Ireland, the names of those in the Catalogue of the Reports and Schedules addressed to the Court of Claims, who claimed as, or in right of, soldiers serving in Ireland in the Commonwealth period (1649-1660); and the Counties mentioned in the Reports"

"list titled Names of Persons in the Grants, under the Acts of Settlement (in the reign of Charles II (generally 1661-1665)"

"the 'Forty-Nine Officers' (also the '49 Lots'), these being those who served as officers in 1649, them being given first priority in land distribution (Acts of 1661-1665?)"

"John Hart's Irish Pedigrees, Vol. II, NAMES OF THE CROMWELLIAN ADVENTURERS FOR LAND IN IRELAND"

"“A Census of Ireland circa 1656”, Seamus Pender ed. , Stationary Office, Dublin"


The Forty-Nine Officers


'The 'Forty-Nine' Officers: Inrolments of the Adjudications in favour of the (A.D.) 1649 Officers (formerly denominated "The 49 Lots"): Preserved in the Office of the Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Dublin. - See Records of Ireland, Marked "1821-1825,"pp.610-697

Finch, Henry (p.384)

Oxenden, Capt. Richard (p.401)"[16]


Land grant, County Wexford


"Houses, Premises, &c., in the town of Wexford, granted to Sir Richard Gethin and Sir Richard Aldworth, in trust for the ofiicers of 1649 that served in Ireland, 1680. This grant was certified under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, and we merely introduce it here to give some idea of the town of Wexford at that period. We may also state that this same Indenture or grant included houses and premises in the city of Dublin, and about 480 acres of land in the county of Cork. The premises in Wexford were as follows : — Part of a house to the street, an additional back building slated, a curtledge, garden, yard, a thatched red-herring house, a shed, stable, and another shed thatched, Is 6d ; a front house slated, a thatched shed, and a yard, 5s 3d ; a front house, an additional building backwards, a castle, and red-herring house slated, a yard, a shed, and a house place, £1 10s ; a front and back house, a yard, and two sheds, 9s., all in St. Mary's street, Wexford. An old castle to the street, a row of low built houses slated, a yard, and a key to the river, £1 4s. in Hayes lane, in Wexford. A house thatched, and garden, 6s ; a house thatched, old walls of a house and garden, 5s 8d ; a house slated, a yard or court, walls of a house therein, a house where a mill stands, a malt house slated, and a garden, £1 4s ; a front house, a back kitchen slated, a curtledge, and backside, a house or stable to the street stated, 7b 6d., in St. Mary's street, Wexford. A yard to the street, and a cabin or shed in it, 9d., in St. Bride street, Wexford. A house slated, a yard, and a shed in it, 4s 6d., in St. Mary's street, Wexford. A front house slated, a backside, two gardens, a red-herring house, 8s 3d., in St. Bride's lane, Wexford. Walls of a house backwards, 5s 3d., in Bride street ; a house backwards slated, a house backward thatched, a yard, and garden plot, lis 3d., in Bride street ; a house thatched, a garden, another garden plot by the town wall, 3s 9d ; a house slated, a yard with thatched sheds, 4s 6d., in Bride street ; a ruined house, 2s 3d , in Bride's lane ; walls of a house, Is l:d., in St. Mary's street ; a front house slated, a yard, and red-herring house, 6s., in same street ; a plot of ground to the street, old walls, and a cabin. Is lO:d., in same street ; a red-herring house, 2s 7id., in Peter's lane ; a garden plot in said street, 4:d ; a house slated and a yard, a house backwards slated, and a backside, in St. Mary's street, 10s 6d ; a front house, a yard, an out-house, and garden plot, 7s 6d ; a front house slated, and an house plot backwards, 6s 9d ; walls of two houses, and a garden plot by St. Maiy's Church, and another garden. Is 6d ; stone walls of a thatched house, and garden plot, Is lO:d ; a ruinous house, next the Church, slated, containing 33 feet in length and 16 in breadth, a garden next the same, 36 feet long and 21 feet broad, m St. Patrick street, Is 6d ; a ruinouse house thatched, a house backwards slated, a backside, a yard, and a shed in it, and a key to the river, in St. Ibyrius or Ivory's street, 9s ; a front and back-house slated, a brew-house slated, a shed, and a garden in ditto, 10s 6d ; walls of a house to the street, 3s ; a ruinous house next St. John's gate, containing 36 feet in length and 36 feet in breadth, Is 6d ; a yard near the Corn market, 2s 3d ; a front house, an additional building backwards slated, a courtledge, a shed and stable slated, a yard and slated sheds in it, with a key to the river, in the Market-place, all in Back-street, 10s l:d., town of Wexford. A house and back building slated, a slated kitchen, a courtledged, and a yard, 9s 4:d ; a front house and back building slated, a courtledge, a yard, and a key, £1 7s ; stone walls to the street backwards, a house slated, a yard, two gardens, and a small house slated, 12s., in Selskar street; a house thatched, a yard and garden in Upper street. Is 6d ; &> thatched front house, a back building slated, a yard, a plot of ground, and walls of a house in Selskar street, 5s 3d ; old walls of a house near Upper-street and to the hospital, with a yard, and a cabin, and a slated house next to that, 9s ; a house slated, a plot of ground, a yard backwards in Corn-market, 4s 6d. Total rent in Wexford, £15 15s 6d. In this Indenture there was a clause inserted reserving to Laurence Walsh his judgement on the house and yard in Corn market.

The names of the officers in favour of whom this grant was made, were — Lord Viscount Catherlogh, Sir John Powlett, Sir William Gilbert, Lieutenant Wm. Gilbert, Captain Richard Oxenden, Lieutenant Richard Andrews, Captain Charles Crawley, Mr. William Rigway, Captain William Hyde, Major James Piercesey, Lieutenant John Moore, Major John Love, Quarter-Master Henry Floyd, Lieutenant Charles Fullwood, Captain Thomas Grames, Ensign James Ferguson, Captain William Dutton, Ensign George Bostock, Thomas Wynde, Roger Fortescue, William Johnston. "[17]


Colonel Richard Oxenden, Kent, 1662


"Kent.

For the County of Kent and City of Canterbury Sir Thomas Payton Sir John Tufton Baronet Sir John Menns Knight and Colonel Sir Francis Clarke Colonel Sir John Mayney Knight and Colonel Sir John Boys Knight and Colonel Sir Edmond Peirse Knight and Colonel Colonel Thomas Colpeper Colonel Charles Finch Colonel Thomas Hestlackenden Leivt. Colonel Henry Norwood Leivt. Colonel Richard Oxenden Major Manley Captain Richard Lee Captaine Pordage Sir Anthony Aucher Knight John Heath Esquire Sir William Swan. Sir Francis Clerke Colonel."[18]


Inventory of goods of Richard Oxenden, 1629


U47 3 E6 , 1 roll (see http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/bassets/kasatcksprodn1.pdf, p. 122)

U47 1 L4 Petition in Chancery regarding Will of George Oxenden LID by his son henry with ful inventory of goods (p. 129)

U47 3 F3/1 Mrs Oxenden from Thos Barrow, personal, 1653 (p. 142)

U47 3 T51/ Certificate of probate from will of Robert Raworth, 1679 (p.148)

U47 3 F3/3 Katherine Oxenden from Edw Roberts, estate affairs, 1655 (p. 148)


Colonel Mathews


A Colonel Mathews in 1641 was at Dromore, Ireland, and with a force of 200 men attacked a force of 500 rebels, killing three hundred of them

A Lieutentant-Colonel Mathews was Governor of Belfast, in XXXX

Records of Colonel Mathews speaking in the House of Commons appear in 1654/55, 1655/56, as teller for the Yeas (March 2, 1656/57), 1657/58, 1658/59

"[Thursday, April 30, 1657] Colonel Mathews. Either leave out the clause, or else take further time to consider of it. Let us look back upon ourselves and our cause, and be careful how we invalidate any of those laws. It is a business of vast consequence."[19]

"Colonel Mathews. Of all places and times, it is not fit now to offer those words, seeing you have just now thrown this out. For that objection, that a single person is contrary to those laws, I do affirm it is not ; for a Protector has been owned by a Parliament, and that Act does not lay hold of any that have acted under that power. I desire you would adjourn and go to dinner."[20]

"Colonel Mathews. I move that the clerks be sworn to secresy. The chief magistrates have formerly been acquainted with whatever passed here. The Parliament, in 1648, caused the clerks to be sworn."[21]


Gray's Inn Walks


Graya: a magazine for members of Gray's Inn


Samuel Butler & Gray's Inn


"Butler was in a circle at Gray's Inn that included his poetic mentor..."[22]

- Maltzahn states that the standard edition of Hudibras is John Wilders (ed.), Hudibras (Oxford, 1967), and also H. de Quehen (ed.), Prose Observations (Oxford, 1979), and H. de Quehen, 'An Account of Works Attributed to Samuel Butler,' RES 33 (1982): 276-77


William Morgan, Gray's Inn


There are a number of candidates for a Mr William Morgan, as mentioned in Richard Oxinden's letter, on the assumption that he was a member of Gray's Inn:

"1639-40 folio 966

Feb. 27.

William Morgan, of Llanelly, co. Brecon, gent."[23]

"1639-40 folio 967

Feb. 27

William Morgan, another son of James M., of Llangeney, co. Brecon, gent."[24]


"fol. 976 1640

Dec. 3 William Morgan, son of Thomas M., of Ruperra, co. Glamorgan, Knight.
Dec. 3 Edmund Berry Godfrey, son of Thomas G., of Sellinge, near Monk's Horton, Kent, Esq."[25]

"folio 995.
1641-2. Feb 18 William Morgan, son and heir of Turberville M., of Lannaugh, co. Monmouth, gent., "sine fine."[26]

Possible primary sources


PROB 11/343 Pye 119-167 Will of Robert Morgan or Lord Bishop of Bangor, Doctor in Divinity 18 November 1673
PROB 11/354 Hale 44-95 Will of William Morgan, Gentleman of Saint Andrew Holborn, Middlesex 07 May 1677
PROB 11/363 Bath 60-123 Will of William Morgan, Colonel 05 August 1680
PROB 11/399 Dyke 45-90 Will of William Morgan, Gentleman of Saint Martin Ludgate, City of London 24 March 1690


Possible secondary sources


Edward Peacock (ed.), The army lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, 2nd edn. (London, 1874)

"The Names of all the Collonels, Liuetenant Collonels, Sergeant Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, Ensignes, Preachers, Chirugeons, Quarter Masters, Provost Marshals under his Excellency the Earl of Northumberland, Captain General for this Expedition. 1640. Taken according to the Muster Roll after the Armies Retreat from Newcastle into Yorkshire" (Rushworth's Historical Collections, vol. II, Pt. II, p. 1243)

His Excellency Algernon Earl of Northumberland, Captain General.
Willia, Ashburnham, Lieutenant Collonel.
Thomas Latham, Sergeant Major.

II.

Earl of Newport, Collonel.
George Moncke, Lieutenant Coll.
Henry Warren, Sergeant Major....

XXII.

Richard Feilding, Collonel
Francis Tirwhit, Lieutenant Coll.
Anthony Thelwall, Sergeant Major.

Lieutenants

Richard Oxenden
Denny Purvey
George Oakes
Salathiel Baxter
Thomas Hill
John Windfeild
John Errington
Edward Vincent
George Foord
John Cratroft
John Sutton"[27]


Charles Dalton, English army lists and commission registers, 1661-1714, vol. 1, 1661-1685 (London, 1892)

vol. 1

"[1661] APIs Col. Ethelbert Morgan"

"CHARLES, EARL OF CARLISLE'S REGT. OF FOOT.*
(All the commissions bear date Jan. 22ndf 1673.)

1673: Lt.-Col. Hy. Morgan" (p. 136)
  1. ↑ Sir Henry Oxenden
  2. ↑ The Ship tavern, on the west side of the Old Bailey, just to the north of Ludgate Hill.
  3. ↑ Sir Henry Oxenden had recently married, and had taken as his third wife the widow of XXX Dixwell
  4. ↑ Mrs Masters may be Ann Masters, Richard Oxinden's cousin and Sir George Oxenden's sister
  5. ↑ Sir Basil Dixwell
  6. ↑ Captain Nicholas Millett. It is not clear if and how Millett was related to Richard Oxinden
  7. ↑ Richard Oxinden is referring to William Love, Thomas Breton, Edward Pearce, and others, who had brought a series of legal actions against Sir George Oxenden regarding both the King Fernandez venture and the Smirna Venture joint stock
  8. ↑ Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras. Elizabeth Dallison refers to the book, which she had sent to Sir George Oxenden, in her letter of XXXXX. Samuel Butler separately wrote to Sir George Oxenden. See 19th March 1662/63, Letter from Samuel Butler to Sir GO, London
  9. ↑ The Gray's inn lawyer, Edward Kelke
  10. ↑ Colonel Mathuse was possibly Colonel Mathews, mentioned in by Thomas Burton in his parliamentary diaries as participating as an M.P. in debates in the House of Commons in 1657 (John Towill Rutt, Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., member in the parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659. With an account of the Parliament of 1654 : from the journal of Guibon Goddard, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 90). See Missing faces
  11. ↑ Dr. Morgin was XXXX. See Missing faces
  12. ↑ William Morgin was XXXX. See Missing faces
  13. ↑ Colonel Chester was XXXX. See Missing faces
  14. ↑ James Morrin (ed.), Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland, of the reign of Charles the first, first to eighth year inclusive (Dublin, 1863), pp. 516-517
  15. ↑ Dorothy K. Gardiner, The Oxinden letters, 1607-1642: being the correspondence of Henry Oxinden of Barham and his circle (XXXX, 1933), p. 194
  16. ↑ John, O'Hart, The Irish landed gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland (Dublin, 1887), pp. 372-411
  17. ↑ George Griffiths, Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877 (Enniscorthy, 1890), pp. 393-395
  18. ↑ John Raithby (ed.), 'Charles II, 1662: An Act for Distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal & Indigent Commission Officers and for assessing of Offices and distributing [the] Moneys thereby raised for theire further supply.', Statutes of the Realm: volume 5: 1628-80 (1819), pp. 380-388. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47311 Date accessed: 31 January 2012
  19. ↑ John Towill Rutt, Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., member in the parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659. With an account of the Parliament of 1654 : from the journal of Guibon Goddard, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 90
  20. ↑ John Towill Rutt, Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., member in the parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659. With an account of the Parliament of 1654 : from the journal of Guibon Goddard, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 91
  21. ↑ John Towill Rutt, Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., member in the parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell, from 1656 to 1659. With an account of the Parliament of 1654 : from the journal of Guibon Goddard, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 318
  22. ↑ Nicholas von Maltzahn, Studies in Philology, vol. 92. no. 4, Autumn, 1995), p. ?
  23. ↑ Joseph Foster, The register of admissions to Gray's inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 225
  24. ↑ Joseph Foster, The register of admissions to Gray's inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 225
  25. ↑ Joseph Foster, The register of admissions to Gray's inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 228
  26. ↑ Joseph Foster, The register of admissions to Gray's inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889), p. 235
  27. ↑ Edward Peacock (ed.), The army lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, 2nd edn. (London, 1874), pp. 73-91

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