MRP: Pre-17th March 1665/66, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO

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Pre-17th March 1665/66, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX ff. ?

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14/12/11, CSG: Added suggested links




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Suggested links


See biographical profile of Elizabeth Dallison

See 25th September 1662, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
See March 1662/63, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
See 1st April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
See 3rd April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO, London
See 3rd April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO, London Frogmorton Street
See 6th April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO
See 9th April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO


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Transcription


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My Dearest Brother

It adds to my affliction yt I cannott Salute you w:th my owne penn It is y:e will & pleasure of my good god to lay me upon my Bedd of weakness & Sickness, to whose Will I submitt & I shall waite his good will & pleasure till it shall please him to determine otherwise Deare Brother all things you sent home are come safe & are now in y hands of M:r Sprigg[1] in the Cust:house, being delivered in by the worthyness of the Captaines who I am XXX promised, you better things, but are all XXXX XXXXX. What rXXXX Cap:t Barker[2] I shall look after & hope he will prove honest but I will not promise because he is a Seaman, the two Square Potts of Muske & one Box of Ambergrease which came by him je hath putt off. The Ambergrease for 5ll: 5pz the Muske for 4 X xx oz the other 5 potts of muske & two Boxes Ambergrease, which came in the London, are not as yett come to my hands but I hope to have them this week S:r Will:m Rider[3] & S:r Geo: Smith[4] sayeth y:t there is no such thing xxxxx yellow Amber to be had the xxxx have xxxx putt that by, xxxx wisdome w:th y: & xxxx of our Friends about Sending out in this shipp, & none will advise me to venture

[CSG, 09/09/08 – I stopped here – I am sure I have translated this letter already – check my other notes!!]

“…I shall send nothing, but your Pips of ?Sack for your Dutch ??hans Acco:tt for his ?free and his ?Ferkin, I am not free to send y:e out anything for I am psuaded if they should miscarry you must beare losse, besides my owne weakness & Sarah’s want of help, who should look after things & provide it, lett M:r Hoskins,[5] Henry Oxinden,[6] Streynsh:m master,[7] & Henry Broomfield[8] know y what concearnes them shall be looked after, & kept safe, this come to you by the hands of M:r Abrah:m Papillion,[9] Brother to our freind M:r Thomas Papillon,[10] I hope I may so stile him (friend) pray Brother have a care of what you say of the Presbiterian faction[11] for they predominate both in committee & Comp:y at this present, being the Activemen in the Business, the other are careless onely will want, Your law affaires I leave to my nephew Masters,[12] there is a Commission gone out in this shipp to examine you ag:st mee, concerning our Brother Christophers[13] Business, only to prolong xxxx & nothing, also, Pray Brother lett care be taken y:t Judge Goddard[14] has an Acc:tt of the box…

[I am sure I have translated this!!]

Deare Brother

Thy affection:te Sister in life and in death
Eliz:a Dalyson

Dearest I will be carefull of
Thy concearnes living or Dying
The little Box of Dymonds w:ch you sent marked
TW:AM: Cap:t Bowen[15] delivered to the East India comp:a who have been very xxxxx upon your Acco:tt & freely gave mee an order for Y:m Nothing wanting now only y:e Clearing the Custom”

Deare Brother

Salute all friends M:r Aungier[16] & M:r Goodier[17] w:th my thanks for their kind tokens & pray be xxx to M:r Abrah:m Papillion for it be a concearne to us, & when you cann bee kind to mans:tt [?] Smith,[18] pray lett mee Intreate you so to doo for my sake, my Blessing to Henry Broomfield[19]


Notes

Abraham Papillon


"[Will of David Papillon, proved 1661] I give to my youngest and rioutous sonne Abraham Papillon, nowe beinge in the West Indies, the long lease of my house and three acres of land at Leicester seated near the horse Layes.[20]

"[XXXX] The last quarter's salary of the late Abraham Papillon to be paid to his widow."[21]


Guybon Godard Esquire, Recorder of Lyme Regis, Norfolk, Judge of the Sheriff's Court, London, 1659


"[Black and white sketch of coat of arms] He beareth, Gules, an Eagle displayed, Or. This is the ancient Coat-armour of the Family of Goddard of Norfolk, and by descent belongeth to Guybon Goddard Esquire, Recorder of Lyme Regis in the said County, and one of the present Judges of the Sherriffs Court London, 1659"[22]


Gibbon Goddard, serjeant-at-law, 1669


A Gibbon Goddard of Lincoln's Inn was appointed serjeant-at-law in 1669[23]


Thomas Sprigg, husband


"[November 25, 1661] A petition and two certificates from Richard Seaborne about the entries of the musk and copper plate are read ; but as nothing is found in these to defer the election of a new Husband, the Court chooses Thomas Sprigg for that post, at a salary of 80/. a year, he to give security in 1,000/., and Francis Thompson to be his assistant at 40/. a year, he to give security in 500/. William Marston is entertained as Auditor at 80/. a year"[24]
- Thomas Sprigg's salary was raised to 100/. a year as per a Court of Committees, May 15, 1663

"[November 27, 1661] The following securities are accepted : Thomas Green and Thomas Townsend for Gabriel Townsend ; John Pory and Henry Hampson for Charles Smeaton ; Sir William Thomson and M. Thomson for Thomas Sprigg ; Thomas Agg and Benjamin Coles for Francis Thomson.... Sprigg and Thomson are sworn and directed to proceed in the performance of their duties. Order is also given for all porters employed by Seaborne to be dismissed and for Sprigg to engage others in their stead, having regard to old servants of the Company who are suitable"[25]

"[December 23, 1661] As it would be a great expense and inconvenience to have the saltpetre received this year examined before it is taken over from Mr. Seaborne, and Francis Thomson having seen it all landed and also what was taken away, the Court gives direction for all the saltpetre brought home this year and still in the warehouses to be taken over as it is from the charge of Richard Seaborne, who is to deliver the key of the great warehouse at the Customhouse to Mr. Sprigg."[26]
- It appears that Thomas Sprigg took over as husband from Richard Seaborne

"[December 12, 1662] Thomas Sprigg, the Husband, is awarded a gratuity of 50/. for discovery of private trade and 'other extraordinary service'.[27]


Possible primary sources

TNA

PROB 4/2831 Goddard, Guybon, esq., of Lincoln's Inn, London 1671 13 July
- Possibly "Judge Goddard," father of the factor Gibbon Goddard, who died in the East Indies

PROB 11/305 May 104-157 Will of David Papillon, Gentleman of Lubbenham, Leicestershire 09 July 1661
PROB 11/332 Penn 1-66 Will of William Goddard, Doctor of Physic of Saint James Clerkenwell, Middlesex 09 March 1670
- See St. James Clerkenwell hearth tax returns for 1666
PROB 11/359 King 1-65 Will of Thomas Sprigg, Merchant of London 14 January 1679

PROB 11/381 Cann 108-165 Will of George Papillon, Merchant of London of Stepney, Middlesex 26 February 1685
  1. ↑ Thomas Sprigg (b. ?, d. ?1678 or ?1679) was the Husband in the Customhouse at Billingsgate. He had been appointed to the position by the Court of the English East India Company on November 25, 1661, on a yearly salary of £80, with Francis Thompson as his assistant. The previous Husband, Richard Seaborne, had been removed after an investigation into "several instances of his shipping goods under different names." ('A Court of Committees, November 25, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 429), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 160). Sir Henry Oxenden reported to his brother in a letter dated April 1st, 1666 that: "the Commtee: at ye: East India house who sent for mee in, & there producing my Sisters will prxxxxxx [?proceeded] [?proved] , they wth: much respect to you and me, immediately made an oder to the Husband Mr Sprigg to deliver all your remaining goodes in their Warehouses to me" (1st April 1666, Letter from Sir Henry Oxinden to Sir GO). See possibly PROB 11/359 King 1-65 Will of Thomas Sprigg, Merchant of London 14 January 1679
  2. ↑ Captain Barker was XXXX
  3. ↑ Sir William Ryder, London merchant
  4. ↑ Sir George Smith, London merchant
  5. ↑ Thomas Hoskins, son of Sir Edmond Hoskins, serjeant-at-law, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Job Harby, London merchant. See biographical profile of Sir Edmund (Edmond) Hoskins
  6. ↑ Henry Oxenden, son of Sir Henry Oxenden, and nephew of Sir George Oxenden
  7. ↑ Streynsham Master, son of Richard Master, and nephew of Sir George Oxenden
  8. ↑ Henry Bromfield, son of Thomas Bromfield, and nephew of Sir George Oxenden
  9. ↑ Abraham Papillon (b. ?1630, d. ?1672), brother of the London merchant, Thomas Papillon; marr. Catherine Billingsley, bur. 25 Nov 1680, St. Helen, Bishopsgate, London; himself bur. 7 Jun 1672, St. Helen, Bishopsgate, London. "[Burial] 1672, June 7 M:r Abraham Papillion, in the Church in the South Ile over against the Readinge Desk under the Stone of M:r Nottingham"(W. Bruce Bannerman, The registers of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London (London, 1904), p. 319; http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I158776&tree=London, viewed 21/01/12
  10. ↑ Thomas Papillon, London merchant
  11. ↑ The Presbyterian faction within the EEIC was XXXX
  12. ↑ James Masters, Sir George Oxenden's nephew and legal advsior, of Gray's Inn
  13. ↑ Christopher Oxenden, deceased younger brother of Elizabeth Dallison and Sir George Oxenden
  14. ↑ Judge Goddard was probably Guybon Goddard, esq. (b. ?, d. ?1671), of Lincoln's Inn. He was from a Norfolk family. At the time of Elizabeth's letter, he was the Recorder of Lyme Regis, Norfolk, and a judge of the Sheriff's Court of London. In 1669 he was apppointed serjeant-at-law. A post-mortem inventory exists, but no PRC has been discovered. (John Gullim, Display of Heraldry Manifesting a More Easy Access to the Knowledge Thereof (XXXX, 1660), p. 217; Edward Foss, The Judges of England, vol. 7: 1660-1714 (London, 1864, p. 29; PROB 4/2831 Goddard, Guybon, esq., of Lincoln's Inn, London 1671 13 July)
  15. ↑ Captain Bowen was XXXX
  16. ↑ Gerard Aungier, Sir George Oxenden's number two in Surat
  17. ↑ John Goodyer
  18. ↑ Probably Mansel Smith (b. ?, d. ca. 1682 or 1683), employed privately by Sir George Oxenden in Surat. (William Foster, The English Factories in India: 1665-1667 (Oxford, 19XX), p. 173). See also Mansel Smith will
  19. ↑ Henry (Harry) Bromfield, son of Thomas Bromfield, and the nephew of both Elizabeth Dallison and George Oxenden
  20. ↑ XXX, Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica (XXXX, 1908) p. 206; PROB 11/305 May 104-157 Will of David Papillon, Gentleman of Lubbenham, Leicestershire 09 July 1661
  21. ↑ Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1671-1673 (Oxford, 1932), p. 142
  22. ↑ John Gullim, Display of Heraldry Manifesting a More Easy Access to the Knowledge Thereof (XXXX, 1660), p. 217
  23. ↑ Edward Foss, The Judges of England, vol. 7: 1660-1714 (London, 1864, p. 29)
  24. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, November 25, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 429), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 160
  25. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, November 27, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 430), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 161)
  26. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, December 23, 1661' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 441), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 168
  27. ↑ 'A Court of Committees, December 12, 1662' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 561), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury, A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663 (Oxford, 1922), p. 280

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