MRP: 7th March 1665/66, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Deane
7th March 1665/66, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Deane
BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 1-2
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BL, Add. MS. 40,708-40,713, vol, 235, year 1665, ff. 1-2
Deare Brother
By a ship yt: went not long since from here to Fort St: George I wrott to you & James[1] XXX [wrott?] at large to you the advise of the departure of this ship toomorrow came to me hand but this day. So I must be shorter being all so immuXXXX [insect hole obscures] to send this to Langden for the Downes; my Deare Sist: Dallysons[2] XXXXX [insect hole obscures] such a disorder into XX minds as wee know not wt: to think concerning her condition, only wee have good hope of her recovery, & the Physitions acknowledge that beleef in us, & my Brother Master,[3] who came yesterday to Dean in my absence from London from marrying my Neece Mill[4] to one Dr: Escott[5] Archdeacon of Exeter, he tells us y: she is in a hopefull way of recovery, though some (he tould my Wife) do doubt it. A [fuller?] accot: of her sickness your will receviev from Dr: Measlier[6] & Sr George Ent[7] the Lord of his goodness restore her to full health, my mother writes not, because she us to much disturbed wth: my sisters illness, & she wrott to you lateley by way of Fort. St. George, & this shipp is given for lost, by allmost all at London, by the Seamen have [??] the Dutch, the , French, & Danes XXXXX strongly agst: us, they have all declared warr agst: us, & a Conjunction wth: Holland and truly our Taxes runneth so high being about 4 shillings in the pound, that y XXXX to grow XXXX & beginn to long for a peas right or wrong; I find no Kingdome or state do yet declare for us, So great is y Influence of Holland & France upon all Xdomes that they bee X them in and, yet if God be on ou: side we shall doo well, tho Seamen have been much Discouraged by want of pays & XXsX my Lord Sandwich[8] hath an honourable discharge, & sent Ambassaour to Spain; Duke Albermarle & Prince Robert yee Admiralls, But Monk X to give the Supreme order in y time of Bataile, God give Succes, Though my Sist: be so indisposed as not to now it her Self, yet I am sure you will have a full accott: of your affaires, by her Instruction, and james masters shall write you about your law affaires fully, Since I wrott to you last I received a Letter from you wherein you wrott y:t: you had sent mme some carpets for my new little parlor,[9] wch: Carpetts I have not yett seen, but heartily thank you for them, they are in the Custm house yet, by reason of my Sisters Illness they have not yet been gon off. Harrys[10] presents to his mother are very kindly taken, & so pray tell him, for XXX write to him, this time, by the last he had many letters, my mother has XXX [paper hole] y: XXX to XXX you Sent her, & she thanks you for them by mee, for her weakness of Sight & minde, now about my Sister will not suffor to [XXXX paper hole] she is hoxxxless this will XXXX come to your hand, She sends you her blessing. wee all hope & desire your XXXreturne, if my sister xxx [paper hole] thxxx is no being wth:out you, and wee account a great ??many, if you are So well in healthe againe, my wife sends you her true love, and sends her love & XXXXX Blessing to harry, whom She hath a great kindness for, excuse my haste for I must send away my XXXX to Jack Goodier[11] and my XXXX I am
Your most affectionate: Brother
Henry Oxinden
Deane March 7th: 1665
Notes
George Ent
Elizabeth Dalyson was receiving medical care from the eminent physician Sir George Ent. George Ent was in his early sixties (b. 1604, d. 1689) at the time of her illness and her subsequent death, in 1665. He was already recognised as a distinguished scientist, lecturer, and author, was both a member of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians, and was a specialist in anatomy.
An East Kent man, he was born in Sandwich, but educated in Wallachia and Rotterdam, before attending Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and then the University of Padua, where he received his MD in 1636. He was the son of a Beligian immigrant CHECK: HUEGENOT?], who had come to England to avoid religious persecution (as had the Chambrelan family, which also included physicans).
Ent was a defender in his own published work, Apologia (1641),[12] of fellow Kent physician William Harvey’s work on the circulation of blood. He was knighted in 1665, prior to tending to Elizabeth Dalyson. Five years after Elizabeth Dalyson’s death Ent e became President of the Royal College of Physicians.
He may have lived in St Giles-in-the-Fields at the time of Elizabeth Dalyson’s illness. Certainly this is where he himself died in 1689.[13]
Dr Escott
Dr Escott appears to be Dr Daniel Escott:
Escott, Daniel ... canon of Exeter 1663. and archdeacon of Exeter 1665[14]
[CSG, 11/06/08 – I have only seen this in Google snippet view. He appears to have been a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and to have died in 1668 [NEEDS TO BE CHECKED]. He may have been Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, 1635-44.]
Possible primary sources
- ↑ ?James Master, Sir George Oxenden's nephew and legal advisor
- ↑ Elizabeth Dallison, elder sister of Sir Henry and Sir George Oxenden, and Sir George Oxenden's London agent
- ↑ Probably James Master
- ↑ Mary Master, a sister of James Master
- ↑ Dr. Daniel Escott, archdeacon of Exeter
- ↑ Dr. Measlier was XXXX. See Missing faces
- ↑ Sir George Ent (b. 1604, d. 1689) was a distinguished London doctor, born in Sandwich, Kent
- ↑ Lord Sandwich XXXX
- ↑ The history of these carpets and of the rebuilt little parlor at Deane, for which they were designed, can be traced through a number of letters from Elizabeth Dallison, Sir Henry Oxenden and their mother Lady Margaret Oxenden. (See BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir George Oxenden, 1st April 1663, ff. 74-82; BL, MS. XXXXX Letter from Lady Margaret Oxenden to Sir George Oxenden, 4th April 1663, ff. 91-92; BL, MS. XXXXX, Letter from Sir Henry Oxenden to Sir GO, April 1667, ff. 92-99). For a summary of the references to the carpets and the little parlor see 'Building history and description' in the profile of Deane
- ↑ Henry (Harry) Oxenden, one of Sir George Oxenden's younger sons, who was in Surat with his uncle
- ↑ John Goodyer
- ↑ George Ent, Apologia Pro Circulatione Sanguinis: Qua Respondetur Aemilio Parisano (XXXX, 1641)
- ↑ The above note on George Ent is a synthesis of multiple sources
- ↑ XXXX, Alumni Oxiensis: The Members of Oxford, 1500-1714 (XXXX, XXXX), p. 465
