MRP: 7th October 1667, Letter from John Privett to Sir GO, Gun Yard, Houndsitch

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7th October 1667, Letter from John Privett to Sir GO, Gun Yard, Houndsitch

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 42-43

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Abstract & context


John Privett wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated October 7th, 1667, which he sent from Gun Yard, Hounsditch.

In his letter, he XXXX

A "Jno: Privett" appears in the Houndsditch Precinct of St Botolph Aldgate in the 1666 hearth tax returns with a dwelling of six hearths.[1] There is also an inventory for a John Privett of "St. Buttolph without Aldgate, London", dated October 3rd 1674.[2] The latter inventory needs to be inspected by this author.

A court minute of the English East India company, dated March XX, 1666, states that John Privett had been chief mate of the London and that he had always been in the Company's service. The same minute records his appointment as master of the same ship.[3] A later court minute describes the London as a substantial ship of four hundred ton vessel with crew of eighty.[4]

He commanded the London between 1667-1672 on several trips to Bantam and Surat. His journal of one voyage in the London from England to Bantam survives in manuscript form at the British Library.[5]

The Company court's good opinion of Captain Privett did not last. A court minute dated XXXX records the decision to cease with his employment as master of the London:

Captain John Privet, commander of the London, having by many misdemeanours in his last voyage to the Indies proved himself unworthy of further employment XXXX[6]

He appears to have been engaged in substantial private trading, with a report on his activities prepared by the Committee for Private Trading.[7]

Despite the criticism, the Company court subsequently set aside forty pounds for his two children, following his death in the Assistance, retaking St Helena from the Dutch ca. 1674.[8]

He was involved commercially with William Williams, who appears to have been both Captain, citizen and merchant taylor, with a house in Aldgate.[9]

However, it is not yet certain that the above Captain John Privett is the same person as the writer of the letter below to Sir George Oxenden.


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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 42-43]

Right Worp:ll S:r George Oxinden

I am very glad to here of yo good hearte and happiness, these are to arguaint ye words of yo servants good health & giving yor many haumble thanks

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Yo worp:s most humble obedient servant, whilst I am
John Privett

Gunn Yard in Houndsditch
this 7th Octob: 1667


Notes

Sir George Oxenden correspondence


[January 9th, 1666/67] I understand y:t there goes suddenly a little shipp called y:e Charles, to y:e Fort S:t George, & y:e Coast, by w:ch I hope that may ffall into yo:e hands, before y:e London comanded by Cap:t Privett who sett sout in y:e spring lest [last??] arive at Suratt[10]


EEIC 1674-1676


"[DATE?] A gratuity of 40/. to be given to the two children of the late Captain John Privet, who was killed in the Assistance at the retaking of St. Helena, the said sum to remain in the Company's hands for the use of the children until they come of age or are married, or until it can be satisfactorily disposed of for their advancement: in the meantime XXXXX"[11]


Possible primary sources

Lincolnshire Archives


Lincolnshire Archives: 2 Pearson-Gregory: LETTERS AND PAPERS, PERSONAL, BUSINESS AND ESTATE 2 PG 12 (n.d.): Letters and papers of William Williams of Rempstone, citizen and merchant taylor of London. 2 PG 12/2 (n.d.): Bond 2 PG 12/2/7 15 Feb. 1670(/1)
- Contents: John Privett of London, mariner, to William Williams, citizen and merchant taylor of London, in £300 for the payment of £150 on 15 Feb. 1672[/3] or at the first arrival after that date of the good ship the London (of which John Privett is commander) from Surat in East India into the River Thames, London.


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PROB 4/10386 Privett, John, of St. Buttolph without Aldgate, London 1674 3 Oct. (1673)
  1. ↑ 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666: St Botolph Aldgate : Houndsditch Precinct', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118518 Date accessed: 07 February 2012
  2. ↑ PROB 4/10386 Privett, John, of St. Buttolph without Aldgate, London 1674 3 Oct. (1673)
  3. ↑ XXXX, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes, etc. of the East India company 1664-1667 (Oxford, 1925), p. 213
  4. ↑ XXXX, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of court minutes, etc. of the East India company 1664-1667 (Oxford, 1925), p. 265
  5. ↑ XXXX; 'Journal of John Privett " in "the shipp London, from England to Bantam begane in Jan., Anno Dom. 16??." (Sloane MSS., 3668) CHECK THIS REFERENCE AND MS."
  6. ↑ XXXX, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes etc., of the East India company, 1671-1673 (Oxford, 1932), p. 163
  7. ↑ XXXX, in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes etc., of the East India company, 1671-1673 (Oxford, 1932), p. 262
  8. ↑ 'XXX', in XXXX, A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India company, 1677-1679 (Oxford, 1938), p. 15
  9. ↑ Lincolnshire Archives: 2 Pearson-Gregory: LETTERS AND PAPERS, PERSONAL, BUSINESS AND ESTATE 2 PG 12 (n.d.): Letters and papers of William Williams of Rempstone, citizen and merchant taylor of London. 2 PG 12/2 (n.d.): Bond 2 PG 12/2/7 15 Feb. 1670(/1)
  10. ↑ 9th January 1666/67, Letter from Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Deane
  11. ↑ 'XXX', in XXXX, A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India company, 1677-1679 (Oxford, 1938), p. 15

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