MRP: 9th October 1662, Letter from Richard Minors to Sir GO, Bombay Aboard his Majtys Shipp Lepard
9th October 1662, Letter from Richard Minors to Sir GO, Bombay Aboard his Majtys Shipp Lepard
BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, f. 3
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Abstract & context
Captain Richard Minors, commander of his Majesty's ship the Leopard, wrote a letter to Sir George Oxenden dated October 9th, 1662, which he sent from Bombay.
The Leopard had departed London after February 1662, and had sailed first to Lisbon, where it took aboard the Portuguese Viceroy of Goa, and then had continued on towards Goa.[1] It was reported passing Augustine Bay in July 1662.[2]
Richard Minors appears to have been related to Richard Minors, gentleman, of Hollingbury Hall, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. A number of mariners issued from the Minor (alias Mynors) family, including William Minors of Hartford.[3]
Suggested links
See 24th December 1662, Letter from Richard Minors to Sir GO
See 13th January 1662/63, Letter from Richard Minors to Sir GO, off Angedeiva Island
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Transcription
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[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, f. 3]
Right Worpl.
These serve onely to make tender of my readll service to you y:t I wish it may encounter you in perfect health. I am now Bound for Goa where I hope wee may bee reced & understood by persons nore Honest & Hono:ble than are here one shoare As for M:r Aungiers[4] Entertaynem:t I trust hee will not Complaine in y:e Interim all health and happynesse waite on you which are y:e hearty wishes of,
S:r
Yo:r Worp:s Humble Servant
Richard Minors
Notes
EEIC, 1660-1663
"[February 7, 1662] Captain Minors, commander by commission from His Royal Highness of the Leopard, bound for Lisbon and India, acquaints the Court that his ship is in the Downs ready to sail at the first fair wind, and promises to further the Company's interest on all occasions."[5]
"[February 27, 1663] Thank them for their information concerning saponhout wood. Have been advised of the return of the Concord from the Coast and the Truro from Surat. Both wintered at Augustine Bay, where about the beginning of July arrived the Leopard, commanded by Richard Minors, with the Portuguese Viceroy from Lisbon on board, bound for Goa."[6]
Possible primary sources
TNA
PROB 11/331 Coke 108-166 Will of William Minors of Hertford, Hertfordshire 23 October 1669
- Possibly related to Captain Richard Minors
PROB 11/395 Ent 47-90 Will of Richard Minors of London 24 April 1689
PROB 11/446 Lort 136-179 Will of Cornelius Minor, Mariner of Stepney, Middlesex 13 July 1698
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire Record Office
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, February 7, 1662 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 458), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 181-182
- ↑ 'The Company to Joseph Bathurst and Richard Manning [at Amsterdam], February 27, 1663' (Letter Book, vol. iii, p. 226), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 298
- ↑ PROB 11/331 Coke 108-166 Will of William Minors of Hertford, Hertfordshire 23 October 1669
- ↑ Gerard Aungier was the second son of Sr Ambrose Aungier of Dublin, Ireland
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees, February 7, 1662 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 458), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), pp. 181-182
- ↑ 'The Company to Joseph Bathurst and Richard Manning [at Amsterdam], February 27, 1663' (Letter Book, vol. iii, p. 226), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 298
