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11th March 1666/67, Letter from Thomas Blackerby to Sir GO, Stowmarket


BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol. 235, year 1666/1667, ff. 7-9

Editorial history

01/06/09, CSG: Completed transcription
15/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki



Abstract & context




Suggested links


See 21st March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Blackerby to Sir GO, London




To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL

(2) Explore whether William Methwold, William Ryder, and Thomas Blackerby partners or linked commercially, prior to Methwold's death?[1]

(2) Explore whether Thomas Blackerby, George Smith & William Vincent were all part owners of the Three Brothers, together with William Cockaigne et al.?[2]

(4) Explore whether Thomas Blackerby associated with the Levant as well as the East India trade? He associated with the Barnardiston family, who had Levant links


Transcription


This transcription has been completed, but required checking

[BL, Add. MS. 40,708 - 40,713, vol. 235, year 1666/1667, ff. 7-9]


[f. 7]

Much Respected ffriend Sr: George Oxinden

Stowmarket 11:th March 1666

I received yours of 10:th September last & am very Joyfull to heare of yo:e Good health w:ch God in mercy continue

[f.8]

I returne hearty thanks for your declared readyness to Assist the deceased children, in thre concernes tis a worthy friendly and Christian Expression & temper, I am sory to heare that I feare the Imbroydaryes are so much out of request after so long lying; which have Offten swollowed up their prime cost, but the consernes must be Content to submit to unavoydable Remedyes, Now you have received M:r Metholds, and my order for the dispose of the Imbroydres, for y:e best price that can be obtained for them, wherein I doo not in the least question yo:r Good Care, and bee pleased to lett it be Effected with as much speed as may bee, that so if the warr with the Dutch be perioded as there is Good hopes it will this yeare, then their proseed may be returned in some Good Commodities that may a little helpe that Great Loosing Adventure, tis well if the Imbroydery’s have sustained no detierment by their sending to Agra, so great a distance from the place where M:r pearce left them, and saith hee Gave no Order for their sending to Agra, If it had been my Single consernes I would rather had them back for England than so to much undervalued them, but being Tulsidas there is In Valued in them they must Goo so well as they Can, unto the which the Intresed must submit, and no less thankfull to you for your paines and Care therein, Tis very certaine theya re not every mans mony, Therefore must wait till a Good Chapman present, I doo not find by M:r pearces Aco:tt sent home that the 6 peeces Gold Stuff nor 70 ?Tolas of Inamell were brought to M:r Metholds Credit, nor did I ever see a peece of Deviabouds sence M:r Methoulds[3] decease nor Can I say more than I have writ to Tulsidas already, for if I know how to right him I would, for they Ly as I understand at M:r perses[4] doore to doo him right, I hope Tulsidas will have right donn him w:ch I heartily wish, the most Dreadfull

[f. 9]

Burning London y:e 2 September 66 that of 97 Parishes there is but 16 in being, and but part of them Standing, is such Lamentable Newes for poore England, with the plague & sword of late that have devoured many; our Native Countr’y is full of wasts adness and Murmarings, God give us all Grace to repent of our Sinn’s the cause of all those Evills, and then refresh us with Truth peace & health the which Good Newes I shall be glad to send to India; in the meane time my Service presented desiring God to send you health and all hapiness, to whose most Gratious protection I comit you and ever Remajne

Yo:r very affectionate ffriend
and Humble Servant
Thomas Blackerby

I have not received any
letters from Tulsidas
this yeare



Notes


Thomas Blackerby

"[March 9th, 1653] Captain Ryder's request for all the exportable cardamoms formerly sold to Mr. Methwold is refused, unless he will agree to take those on which no impost is to be returned.Merry presents a writing signed by William Methwold, deceased, and attested by Thomas Blackerby, transferring to Merry 1000/. adventure and profits in the United Joint Stock ; this is approved and ordered to be entered."[5]

"[March 1st, 1654] Mr. Blackerby is requested to pay the 500/. owing by the late Mr. Methwold for a legacy left by Mr. Fremlin to the Hospital at Blackwall ; he agrees to do so on receiving 15/. discount ; this the Court consents to pay, and the Secretary is directed to give Blackerby an 'assumsett' of I2d. to deliver the said 500/. within fourteen days upon penalty of 800/."[6]

"[July 10th, 1657] The owners of the Three Brothers acquaint the Court that they have kept all the private trade brought back in their ship in a warehouse until the Company's goods are sold, and now they desire to know whether to deliver it or not ; they are told that, when they shall present a list of the quantity, quality, and owners of the goods, this shall be decided. The following securities are accepted for various goods : William Cockayne, Senior, Thomas Blackerby, Thomas Andrew, Richard Clutterbucke, William Vincent, George Smyth, Francis Clarke, John Tutchin, Jacob Strange, and Robert Ostler."[7]

"[November 19th, 1658] The Coast Frigate to be dispatched from Gravesend by the 20th of December next and her owners to be allowed 7/. a day demurrage for so long as she stays at Guinea. Barnaby Bowtell and Thomas Blackerby are accepted as securities for Beaumont Bowtell. Thomas Walley to be paid 26/. for cloth."[8]

"XXth ?1671 Thomas Blackerby to Thomas Methwold, 350l.[9]

Skinners Company

"Edward Bilton, 1666
Isaac Lyte, 1667
Thomas Blackerby, 1668
Benjamin Albyn, 1669
Thomas Preston, 1670"[10]



Possible primary sources


TNA

C 9/294/51 Barnardiston v. Barnardiston and Blackerby 1694
C 9/295/14 Blackerby v. Goodyeare 1692

C 10/119/4 Blackerby v. Howe: Suff 1660
C 10/282/3 Barnardiston, Blackerby, Bowles v. Micow, Harrison: Middx 1691
C 10/290/21 Richard Lloyd v Sir Thomas Barnardiston baronet, Sir Samuel Barnardiston baronet, Thomas Death, Samuel Blackerby and Mary his wife and others: Cakewell, Gomersall and others, Yorkshire. Bill and two answers 1695

13 May 1623 Swann 1-66 Will of John Blackerby, Yeoman of Wilton, Norfolk 13 May 1623
PROB 11/147 Clarke 103-147 Will of Edward Blackerby, Clothworker of Saint Stephen Coleman Street, City of London 22 November 1625
PROB 11/347 Dycer 1-51 Will of Samuel Blackerby, Clerk of Stowmarket, Suffolk 09 February 1675
PROB 11/396 Ent 91-138 Will of Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket, Suffolk 27 August 1689, pp. 11

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch: Aldeburgh Borough Records: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [no ref. or date: ELECTION INDENTURES [no ref. or date]: Indenture of the election of John Bence, London, Esq. as Member of Parliament for the Borough EE1/K1/1 2nd November - 9th November, 1669]
- Contents: With writ of Thomas Blackerby, Sheriff, attached. 2nd November, 1669.

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch: Badwell Ash Parish Records: CLERGY FL507/3 [n.d.: Mortgage FL507/3/36 1689]

- Contents: Mortgage of parsonage and all income belonging to the same by the administrator of the estate of the late Thomas Blackerby of Stowmarket to Elizabeth Barnardiston of Kedington, with assignment of remainder of mortgage term on 2 messuages in St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich and another in St. Stephen's, Norwich
  1. 'A Court of Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock, March 1, 1654 (Court Book, vol. xxi, p. 256) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc. of the East India company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 301
  2. 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, July 10, 1657' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 579) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc. of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 134
  3. Possibly the son of William Methwold (b. 1590, d. 1653), London merchant and former President at the Surat factory
  4. Possibly Edward Pearce, London merchant and subscriber in the SVJS
  5. 'A Court of Committees, March 9, 1653' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 232) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc. of the East India company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 227
  6. 'A Court of Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock, March 1, 1654 (Court Book, vol. xxi, p. 256) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc. of the East India company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 301
  7. 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, July 10, 1657' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 579) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc. of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 134
  8. 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, November 19, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 153) in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc. of the East India company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 298
  9. W.T. Ottewill (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India Company: 1671-1673, vol.9 (Oxford, 1932), p. 309
  10. James Foster Wadmore, Some account of the worshipful Company of Skinners of London: being the guild or fraternity of Corpus Christi (London, 1902), p. 193