MRP: 6th April 1663, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Canterbury
6th April 1663, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Canterbury
BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 102-104
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15/05/09, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
Suggested links
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 25th March 1665/66, Letter from James Master to Sir GO, Langden Abbey
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Transcription
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BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 102-104
[f. 102]
Worthy S:r
The last night at 9: of y:e Clocke, Coz:n Rich:d Hardresse[1] came to Towne deasigndd then for Deale & was very earnest for all y:e papers & lres belonging to you, & though I used many arguments y:t y:e Ship Could not bee then in y:e Downes, the Burnt Child did dread the fire, & hee would not beleeve, but goo & see; upon w:ch I ?huddeled up yo:r lres & finished them in an ample manner as you will finde, but expecting y:e hasty Gentleman this morning againe; for hee said hee would returne if y:e Shipps weare not in y:e Downes) I have sett pen to paper once more in order to some further Information in yo:r busyeness; & it is Concerning y:e perticulers of yo:r goods bought & sould, w:ch may bee very many & intangle & en-large, the Depositions much. If therein inserted as takeing notice of y:e Bookes of acco:tt sent you; I find: & therefore as to y:m if yo:r goods, procur’d on the letter of y:e 25:th of August (or you may Cause such Booke or Bookes & add an Interrogatory to y:e one of y:e rest, y:t are ingrosed, thus (in a faire hand or Caracter) add y:e Numbers as follow in Order.
Weare all the goods or Merchandises w:ch are Contaigned or mentioned in one Booke of acco:t, begining (heere put to or [?] 3: of y:e first words) or endeng (theire put to or 3: of y:e last words) or Containeing (y:e Number) ffolio:s provided by y:e Complaint S:r Geo: Oxinden, & y:e said Will:m Noke[2] or one of one of y:m upon y:e acco:t of y:e lre recvd by them, Dated at London y:e 25:th day of August 1656:, from y:e said Complaints or some of them how doo you know y:e same, & are y:e prices therein sett downe, y:e true prices or rates at w:ch y:e said goods or Merchandizes were bought, speake your whole knowledge or beleefe heerein & y:e reasons for y:e same.
If you have severall wittnesses to severall parcell of y:e said goods, & not two or three y:e saame wittnesses to y:e whole acco:t, then you must make severall Bookes, writeings or papers, of y:e same, & soo add other & more Interrogationes y:t will Suite y:e said Bookes, papers or writeings in y:e forme of y:t aboud (changing w:t ought to bee changed as y:e beginnig ending & ffolios) or then sweare your Witnesses to yo:r said
[f. 101] CHECK
Bookes, or papers, severally as they cann Sweare to y:e particulers therein expressed w:ch being don in Generall as y:e Interrogatoryis (for y:e particulers are in y:e said Bookes & papers) on y:e Backside of y:e said Bookes or papers must bee written thus (by y:e Vlarke y:t takes y:e Desposition) The Day of y:e Month & yeare This, (Booke or paper as it is ) beginning Containeing [SPACE LEFT BY SCRIBE] ffolio’s was ethen shewene to y:e wittnesses named [SPACE LEFT BY SCRIBE] at the tyme of examination to y:e [SPACE KEFT BY SCRIBE]
Deere S:r
Yo:r Cordially affectionate
Nephew & humble Devoted
Servant
Ja:s Master
Canterbury Aprill y:e 6:th y:t day 12: mo:th you left y:e Kentish shore 1663
Favour mee to speake my true Love
& service to M:r Goodyer[3]
Notes
- ↑ Richard Hardres, son of Sir Richard Hardres, had been due to travel to Surat with Sir George Oxenden and his fellow cousins Henry Oxenden and Streynsham Master. However, he had missed the departing ship. After considerable efforts by Elizabeth Dallison and others with committee members of the East India Company he had been permitted to travel out on a subsequent ship. Naturally cautious as a result of his prior expereince, he is described by James Master in this letter as a "burnt child"
- ↑ William Noke, factor in Surat with George Oxenden, employed by the SVJS. Deceased 165X
- ↑ John Goodyear (alias Goodyer(e), Goodier) was entertained as a factor by the Court of the EEIC in February 1662, and travelled out to Surat in XXXX. His links with the East Indies go back to 1650, when he was already in Persia as a the number four, under George Tash, John Lewis, and Thomas Best, and had his service extended ('A Court of Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock, February 25, 1650 (Court Book, vol. xx, p. 494), in Ethel Bruce Sainbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), pp. 23-24)
