MRP: 10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London
10th March 1662/63, Letter from William Wild to Sir GO, London
BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 14-15
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William Wild wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 10th 1662/63, sent from London.
In the letter, William Wild XXXX
William Wild was a London linen draper.
Thomas Tomlins, a London merchant and also a correspondent of Sr George Oxenden, wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated march 26th, 1663. In this letter he mentioned William Wild's efforts to recover debts oweing to the deceased Captain Bushell:
I was likewise desired by M:r W:m ?Wild [or Weld], lynen draper in Cornhill, and executor to y:e Deceased Cap:t Leonard Bushell,[1] to desire you on his behalfe to call M:r Walter Travers ffactor of Carwarr to acco:t for y:e amo:t of £560: sterling w:ch he was oblidged to pay Cap:t Bushell when hee was last in India Now M:r Weld tells mee part of y:e money was comitted unto M:r Jn:e Lambton,[2] please to make Enquiry into y:e Busienesse, & w:t moneyes are in his hands to send it y:e Executor by first opportunity[3]
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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX, ff. 14-15]
[f. 14]
Right Worp:ll
S:r I hope I may congratulate yo:r Sagfe Arrivall att Surr:tt where I heartily wish you á Confluence of all happiness, Att yo:r departure from England, you were pleased to ffavo:r mee soe farr as to receive some paperrs from me Relating to Cap:t ?Leon:d Bushill[4] deceased, w:ch if you pleased to give yo:r Trouble as to ?puse you will find by them á considerable sum:e of Money oweing by M:r Walter Travers[5] ffacto:r for y:e hon:ble East India Comp:a at ?Cailevelab[6] unto y:e Said Leon:d Bushill, Now I humbly beg y:e ffavo:r of yo:r Assistance in y:e behalfe of his Relations to whome he left his Estate I am Informed by á lre rcvd from M:r Matthew Gray[7] dated y:e 20:th Jan:r 1660: y:t M:r Jn:o Lambton[8] has recvd on Acco:t 900: Mam:ds the w:ch be pleased to demand of him, & if y:t or any other be rcvd by yo:r order be pleased to returne it, in y:e first Shipp bound for England either by bill of Exch:a or in such goods as yo:r Worp: shall Judge fitting, & in Soo dooing, you will Infinitely Oblidge all his relations they haveing great expectations to receive much benefitt, being undertaken by soe hon:ble a pson as yo:r selfe; S:r I shall not Trouble you any farther butt humbly beggging á
[f.15]
Line from you by y:e Next Shipp, & leave to Subscribing my Selfe
London, y:e 10:th March 1662/3
Yo:r most humble Servant
W:m Wild
Notes
EEIC, 1750-1654
"A small ship or frigate being wanted to send to the Coast in December, the Brazil frigate, burden 270 tons, Anthony Tutchin master, and the Castle frigate, burden 240 tons, Mr. Wall master, are tendered. One of the owners of the former, Mr. Bushell, and the master of the latter are called in and hear the Company's conditions for freighted ships read. Bushell agrees to his frigate serving on these conditions, but desires some better allowance for freight ; it is therefore decided that, if his vessel is
found suitable, she shall be freighted at 20/. per ton for pepper and 24/. per ton for all other goods, that she shall leave Gravesend on the 1st December, go direct to Guinea and take in what gold shall be ready for her, stay there a month or six weeks, and then proceed to the Coast and be there employed as the factors shall direct, but be dispeeded thence by the last day of January, 1652. The said frigate is to be double- sheathed, and to carry 20 men to every 100 tons, and certain Committees are requested to examine and report on her"[9]
EEIC, 1655-1659
"Relating how on the 25th April, 1657, the ship Society, being about 200 leagues to the south of the Cape of Good Hope homeward-bound from Masulipatam, was attacked by the Orange, a Dutch vessel of about 1,400 tons coming from Amsterdam and bound for Batavia, commanded by Rikelof with 400 men aboard. The attack was quite unprovoked and very fierce and the English ship was soon so disabled that her sails had to be lowered and she was forced to await the approach of her opponent. Her captain and some of her men were then ordered aboard the Dutch vessel, and on the captain asking the reason of such unwarrantable usage, he was told that at sea it is the custom for the weakest to submit to the strongest. The English ship was then searched for Portuguese goods, but none being found, some books of accounts and letters directed to men in Holland were taken, and the English commanded to return to their ship. The men declared that rather than venture in such a sea they would prefer to lose their wages and be carried captives to Batavia, but the Dutch threatening to throw them overboard, they were forced to go. Four men were washed overboard by the heavy seas but eventually rescued by ropes. Signed by Hugh Squier and attested by Leonard Bushell, commander of the Society, on the 6th January, 1658, before the Right Worshipful Charles Cock, Esq., Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, in the presence of Edmund Arnold, examiner of the said Court"[10]
Walter Travers
"[January 13-13, 1658] The following men to be disposed of as the President shall see cause: John Berrisford, Robert Carleton, Ephraim Widdrington, John Gray, Walter Travers, Thomas Atkins, and John Mould. To be writers : Thomas Rolt, John Harrington, Matthew Gray, Robert Santill, Richard Bladwell, Richard Wild, and Philip Gifford."[11]
"[At Calha Velha (CHECK)]...Walter Travers, John Harrington, and Alexander Grigsby. At Mokha: Anthony Smith. In Persia: Nicholas Buckeridge (Agent), Stephen Flower, and Edward Swinglehurst..."[12]
===Sir William Wilde, recorder of London
"1660, May 16-26. William Wilde, recorder of London, a commissioner as above [to the King at Breda]"[13]
Possible primary sources
TNA
PROB 11/194 Rivers 111-157 Will of Samuel Wilde, Draper of Saint Mary Abchurch, City of London 04 December 1645
PROB 11/306 May 158-210 Will of Leonard Bushell, Mariner of Limehouse, Middlesex 10 December 1661
PROB 11/321 Mico 92-138 Will of William Wilde, Gentleman of Saint Michael Queenhithe, City of London 14 June 1666
- ↑ Captain Leonard Bushell was commander of the Society and a resident of Limehouse, Middlesex. He died in 1661 (BL, East India Company Letter Book: E/3/85 f 53v 14 Apr 1658; PROB 11/306 May 158-210 Will of Leonard Bushell, Mariner of Limehouse, Middlesex 10 December 1661)
- ↑ John Lambton, warehouseman at the Surat factory
- ↑ 26th March 1663, Letter from Thomas Thomlins to Sir GO, St. Leonards Bromley
- ↑ Captain Leonard Bushell, commander of the Society. His will was proved in late 1661 (PROB 11/306 May 158-210 Will of Leonard Bushell, Mariner of Limehouse, Middlesex 10 December 1661)
- ↑ Walter Travers was XXXXX
- ↑ Calle Velha, near XXXX
- ↑ Mathew Gray was XXXX
- ↑ John Lambton was XXXX
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, September 20, 1650' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 10), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 63
- ↑ 'A Brief Relation of several Abuses received from the Dutch in the East Indian Seas, January 18, 1658 (Letter Book, vol. ii, p. 36), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), pp. 216-317
- ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock', January 13-13, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 51), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 212
- ↑ EFI 61-64, p. 27
- ↑ W.A. Shaw (ed.), Knights of England, vol. 2 (London, 1906), p. 225
