MRP: 4th July 1664, Letter from Charles Proby to Sir GO, Fort St. George

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4th July 1664, Letter from Charles Proby to Sir GO, Fort St. George

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Abstract & context


Charles Proby wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated July 4th, sent from Fort St. George.

The letter dealt with XXXX

Charles Proby was the son of Peter Proby, and of Grace Ford, the daughter of Sir Richard Ford. Peter Proby and his father-in-law, Sir Richard Ford, were in commercial partnership together.

Peter Proby's house was possibly in Putney. If so, it was a ten hearth house. Other merchants in Putney with links to Sir George Oxenden were Sir Thomas Chamberlaine (16 hearths) and Sir John Lawrence (31 hearths).[1] Sir Richard Ford's eighteen hearth London house was in Seething Lane East, beside the Navy Office.[2]

Charles Proby had been appointed a factor December 1661, destined for the Coast and the Bay. His salary had been fixed at 30 per annum. The ship taking him out was the Good Hope.[3]



Suggested links


See 30th September 1665, Letter from Charles Proby to Sir GO, Fort St. George
See 30th September 1665, Letter from Charles Proby to Sir GO, Fort St. George: Letter 2
See 10th January 1665/66, Letter from Charles Proby to Sir GO, Fort St. George



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Notes

EEIC, 1660-1663


"[January 18, 1660] Richard Foard and Peter Proby are accepted as securities for saltpetre."[4]

"[December 14, 1660] John Banks and John Dethicke are accepted as securities for pepper, and Sir Richard Ford and Peter Proby for cardamoms."[5]

"[November 13, 1661] Peter Proby and George Toriano in 1,000l. for Charles Proby."[6]

"[December 18, 1661] The following factors to proceed to the Coast and Bay : Charles Proby, Robert Elloes, Hannibal Allen, John Nicholas, John Dudley, and Thomas Stiles, each to receive 30/. a year and to go in the Good Hope with special recommendation to the Agent to be advanced according to their deserts."[7]

"[May 20, 1663] Sir Richard Ford complains that some reflection has been made upon his reputation by a report circulated on the Exchange concerning saltpetre, which it is alleged he took away by collusion with Richard Seaborne without order ; this he denies, and asserts that he and Peter Proby were allowed by ballot to receive the said petre on their own security, and that the bond supposed to have been given by him to Richard Seaborne was in reality given to the Company and dated in 1657 for saltpetre bought of the United Stock, as appears by the Company's books ; therefore he requests that an order of court to vindicate his reputation may be recorded and a copy of the same delivered to him. Hereupon the Court expresses regret that such a groundless report, which must have arisen from some mistake, should have been spread abroad, also their satisfaction that Sir Richard has acted in all his transactions as a man of honour and fidelity, and done the Company many good and acceptable services, which they have and will always acknowledge with thanks."[8]



J.R. Woodhead (1966), Sir Richard Ford


"FORD, Richard

Co Co Tower, 1660 (1) Ald Farringdon Within, 14 Feb 1660/1-27 Feb 1667/8 removed to Bread Street-29 Aug 1671, removed to Lime Street-31 Aug 1678 (d) (2) Tower Hill, 1677, Bexley, Kent (3) MER, fr, 1654, by R (£50), M, 1661, 1674 (4) b 1613, d 31 Aug 1678, bur Bexley, Kent (5) f ? Thomas Ford of Exeter, Devon (6), mar Grace (7) Merchant, in partnership with s-in-law Peter Proby, and Sir William Ryder Supplier of hemp to Navy Comm EIC, 1658-63, 1664-5 Assis RAC, 1672 (8) EIC stock, RAC stock £500 of original stock, 1671 (9) Kt, 26 May 1660 Sheriff, 1663, LM, 1670 (10) MP Exeter, 1660 (did not sit), Southampton, 1661-78 (10) FRS, 1673 Admitted Grays Inn, 1669/70 (11) Educ Exeter College, Oxon, matric, 1631, MA (12) Sometime Col Auxiliary Regt, Commsr for Lieut, 1660 1677

(1) CRO list gives no ward Tower from position in list in Journ 41, f 235 (2) Beaven, I, pp 149, 153, 176 (3) Directory, 1677, Boyd 15732 (4) Beaven, II, p 92, MER, Fr List, p 182 (5) Boyd 15732 (6) Boyd 15732, Strype, IV, p 148 "of the West Country" Boyd 15732 also suggests f may have been of Hadleigh, Suff (7) Her will PCC 117 Cottle, 1682 (8) Directory, 1677, Cal Min EIC, 1664-7, passim, will of Dame Grace Ford, Cal S P Dom, 1661-2, p 429, Pepys, Diary, passim, Beaven, II, p 92, K G Davies, Index (9) Cal Min EIC, 1660-3, 1664-7, 1668-70, PRO, T 70/100 (10) Beaven, II, p 92 (11) Beaven, II, p 92, Boyd 15732 (12) J Foster, Alumni Oxomensis, 1500-1714, p 515"[9]




Possible primary sources

TNA


PROB 11/378 Will of Peter Proby, Merchant Taylor of London 21 November 1684 Hare 141-180
  1. 'Surrey Hearth Tax, Lady Day, 1664', http://www.hearthtax.org.uk/communities/surrey/surrey_1664L_transcript.pdf, viewed 07(02/12
  2. 'Sething Lane East', 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Olave Hart Street ', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118806 Date accessed: 22 January 2012
  3. 'A Court of Committees, December 18, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 439), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 166
  4. 'A Court of Committees, January 18, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 238), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 4
  5. 'A Court of Committees, December 14, 1660' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 327), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 62
  6. 'A Court of Committees, November 13, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 424), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 158
  7. 'A Court of Committees, December 18, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 439), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 166
  8. 'A Court of Committees, May 20, 1663' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 625), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 312
  9. 'Ford, Richard', in 'Fabian - Fyge', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 67-74