MRP: April 1667, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO

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April 1667, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 104-106

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Abstract & context


Christopher Willoughby wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated April 1667, sent from Edmonton.

In this letter, Willoughby XXXX.

Willoughby had a substantial house in Edmonton. The building was listed as having nineteen hearths in the 1666 hearth tax returns for Edmonton under the name of "Mr. Christo: Willoughby."[1]

Another London merchant, John Bathurst,[2] was listed in the same 1666 Edmonton hearth tax returns with an even larger mansion of thirty-one hearths.[3] Bathurst was a substantial London merchant, who was elected a committee of the EEIC for 1662-1663. He was associated commercially with XXXX, XXXX, and XXXXX.



Suggested links


See 17th March 1662/63, Letter from George Willoughby to Sir GO, London
See 24th March 1662/63, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO, London
See 24th March 1662/63, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO, London, Letter 2
See March 1662/63, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO
See 6th March 1665/66, Letter from Christopher Willoughby, XXXX
See 11th August 1667, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO, Bishopton
See 15th April 1667, Letter from George Willoughby to Sir GO, London
See October 1667, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO


To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript in BL

(2) Was John Bathurst related to Benjamin Bathurst?


Transcription


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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 104-106]

[f.104]

Deare S:r

These are to acknowledg y:e receipt (over land) of yr:s of y:e 30:th 7:ber; & 15:th ffeb: 65 for w:ch, & y:e larger relacon therein given me, I give yo:u my most humble thankes but I very much troubled y:t I had not y:e hono:r & happines to receive any from yo:w by y:e ship Affrican, at w:ch I doe much admire; in regard in yo:r said l:re yo:w write I should heare some w:t by y:e said ship, I was absent in welles, (by reason of y:e sickness & being there ingaged in

[f.105]

Building about 10 (or 19?) w:o so y:t I am almsot A stranger to w:tt hath lately past at y:e East India house, but my Confidentce is y:t they will be so sensible of their owne interest, ?asseriously to consider, & Incourage yo:r indeavours, God sending y:t timesquiett I doe discourse daily w:th most of y:m, & doe not finde one y:t hath not a very high esteeme, & respect for yo:w I tould some yo:w were troubled y:t somuch faith should be given by y:e Comittee, to such persons as was onely yo:r enimies, because yo:w would not pmitt y:m to goe on in abusing y:e Comp:a, God grante I may see y:e day in w:ch y:e President & Councells lres may againe be as Authenticke, as they were formerly, I am sure it will never be well so longe as Creditt is given to every discontented, or disobliged Pson.

In January last I bought of Cap:t Rob:t Bowen[4] y:e 74 diamonds (poiz 94 Carratts) w:ch he left in yo:r hands, In dured there unto by yo:r pmise to send y:m home by y:e first shipps comeing in, but since in y:e Comeing home I have sent to him for y:m; but he denies to have reced any lre: or ought else from yo:w by this ship, w:ch to me seemes very strainge, I had made insreance on y:e Affrican knowing it would be y:e first ship from surratt & in regard y:t he nor I have not y:e hono:r of any l:re from yo:w I am quite in y:e darke as to makeing insurance, in w:tt bought of M:r Bowen, or sent yo:w by y:e S:t George, or y:t yo:w had pvided for me, nay I can yett heardly beleeve but y:t yo:w have written to Cap:t Bowen, or me by y:e Affrican, I have written unto S:r Henry Oxinden[5] (as allso hath Cap:t Bowen) to know if there were noe lres: for us under maddam dallisons[6] Canarx. Cap:t Harman[7] denneing to have reced any from yo:u for either of us, & knowe not well w:tt to desire yo:w to doe, in case

[f.106]

Y:t at y:e arrivall of this shipp, The Diamonds left yo:w by Cap:t Bowen, or w:t yo:w had pvided for me or y:e pceeds of w:t I sent yo:w by y:e S:t George, should remaine still in yo:r hands, as I suppose all will , In regard non came by y:e Affrican, if it should be so, I shall desire yo:w only to send me by this ship y:e pceede of w:tt sent yo:w by y.e S:t George, & be pleased to lett those diamonds left yo:w by Cap:t Bowen remaine in yo:e hands untill yo:w shall receive my further desires w:ch shall be sent yo:w by all opportunities, God continue yo:w good health w:ch shall all waies be y praises of

S:r yo:r most Affectionate Lo: friend
& ffaithfull Servant
Chr:s Willoughby
Edmonton y:e 15:th Aprill 1667


Notes

John Bathurst, J.R. Woodhead (1966)


"BATHURST, John

Co Co Cornhill, 1658-61 Ald Bread Street, 26 Sep 1661-12 May 1662, disch, F £520 (1) 'The Artichoke', Cornhill, 1675, St Michael Cornhill, 1660, 1675, Busshells, Edmonton, Middx, 1693 (2) FISH, appr, 1637, fr, 1645, W, 1685 (3) d 1695, bur Edmonton, Middx (4) Will PCC 68 Irby pr, 7 May 1695 f Edward Bathurst of Staplehurst, Kent, m Margaret Holland of Angmering, Suss, mar Rebecca, da of Henry Wallis and Mary Sinedale (5) Linendraper, merchant Worth £2,000 p a in 1660 Comm EIC, 1662-80 (6) Lands Hants, Middx (7) Much EIC stock (8) ? Tory (not Whig) (9) Da Mary mar Simon LEWIS (4)

(1) Beaven, I, p 51 (2) LTR, V, p 148, VBk, St Michael Cornhill, will (3) Boyd 2017, Beaven, II, p 51 (4) Boyd 2017 (5) Boyd 2017, 670 (6) LTR, V, p 145, Directory, 1677, Wotton, Eng Barts, IV, p 371, Cal Min EIC (7) Will, Lysons, Environs, II, pp 220-1, and see Le Neve, p 341 (8) Cal Min EIC (9) H of L, MS 154 (f)"[8]
  1. ↑ 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Edmonton ', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118836 Date accessed: 06 February 2012
  2. ↑ This is the footnote text
  3. ↑ 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666: Edmonton ', London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=118836 Date accessed: 06 February 2012
  4. ↑ Robert Bowen wrote three letters to Sir George Oxenden in 1667 enquiring about the missing diamonds. Of these letters, the letter dated October 3rd, 1667, gives the most detail. This letter states that Bowen had sold seventy-four diamonds he had left in Surat with Oxenden to Christopher Willoughby, despairing of their arrival in England. He had made a loss of 100 pounds on the sale.(14th April 1667, Letter from Robert Bowen to Sir GO, Pladsto; 3rd October 1667, Letter from Robert Bowen to Sir GO, London; October 1667, Letter from Robert Bowen to Sir GO)
  5. ↑ Sir Henry Oxenden, elder brother of Sir George Oxenden
  6. ↑ Elizabeth Dallison, Sir George Oxenden's widowed sister and London agent
  7. ↑ Captain Harman was XXXX
  8. ↑ Bathurst, John' in J.R. Woodhead, 'Backwell - Byfield', The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (1966), pp. 21-42

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