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'''This transcription has been completed, but requires checking''' | '''This transcription has been completed, but requires checking''' | ||
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| + | London: Decemb: y:e 20:th 1666 | ||
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| + | Honoured S:r | ||
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| + | Having answered yo:s of y:e 6:th March 1664: y:e 16:th ditto 1665, & not having reced any from yo:w since, have at this time little of enlargement, more y:n to improve [?] this opportunity by y:e tending of my humble service w:th these paxanessingers [??], & so reitterating former intreaties for y:e dispatching of those small Concernmen:ts [??] x:th I made bold to trouble yo:w w:th; if it may ly (sic) in my power to make part of a retaliation heere, by any service, amongst many abler friends (sic), yo:w shall find me really greatefull, & sensible of soe greate a kindnes, The not hearing from yo:w by land, as y:e not yet arrivall o:e this years ships puts us into some panink [?] feares, but God, I hope, will bless us w:th auspitious (sic) tidings of y:m, & prosp: o:e royall Navy (sic), a squadron or 2: being suddenly intended out in quest of o:e Insolent enimies, who hath made a strong Confederacy w;th both french & danes, y:e sad disolation of y:e late merciless fire brought me to towne to look after my pticular Concernmen:ts, & dispose of my house w:tch providence had spared from soe great a Consumaton & am now by fowle weather forced to keepe my Christmas in London, & not w:th my family more y:n my wife, who came heither to y:e buriall of her mother, I shall at y:s time in large no more, but to intreate yo:e kinde respect & kindness to Lans [?] y:e Comp:a linguister in persia<ref>CHECK. This may be an Armenian</ref>, & I doubt not but yo:w have done him justice in y:e wine business, as was by y:e Comp:a Comended to yo:w; y:e rest is y:e subscription of | ||
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| + | Yo:e most affectionate frend & humble servant | ||
| + | John: Lewis | ||
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Revision as of 22:47, December 22, 2011
Contents
20th December 1666, Letter from John Lewis to Sir GO, London
BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. ?
Editorial history
06/02/09, CSG: Completed transcription
18/12/11, CSG: Page created
22/12/11, CSG: Posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
Suggested links
To do
(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL
Transcription
This transcription has been completed, but requires checking
[RH SIDE]
London: Decemb: y:e 20:th 1666
Honoured S:r
Having answered yo:s of y:e 6:th March 1664: y:e 16:th ditto 1665, & not having reced any from yo:w since, have at this time little of enlargement, more y:n to improve [?] this opportunity by y:e tending of my humble service w:th these paxanessingers [??], & so reitterating former intreaties for y:e dispatching of those small Concernmen:ts [??] x:th I made bold to trouble yo:w w:th; if it may ly (sic) in my power to make part of a retaliation heere, by any service, amongst many abler friends (sic), yo:w shall find me really greatefull, & sensible of soe greate a kindnes, The not hearing from yo:w by land, as y:e not yet arrivall o:e this years ships puts us into some panink [?] feares, but God, I hope, will bless us w:th auspitious (sic) tidings of y:m, & prosp: o:e royall Navy (sic), a squadron or 2: being suddenly intended out in quest of o:e Insolent enimies, who hath made a strong Confederacy w;th both french & danes, y:e sad disolation of y:e late merciless fire brought me to towne to look after my pticular Concernmen:ts, & dispose of my house w:tch providence had spared from soe great a Consumaton & am now by fowle weather forced to keepe my Christmas in London, & not w:th my family more y:n my wife, who came heither to y:e buriall of her mother, I shall at y:s time in large no more, but to intreate yo:e kinde respect & kindness to Lans [?] y:e Comp:a linguister in persia[1], & I doubt not but yo:w have done him justice in y:e wine business, as was by y:e Comp:a Comended to yo:w; y:e rest is y:e subscription of
[RH SIDE]
S:r
Yo:e most affectionate frend & humble servant
John: Lewis
Notes
- ↑ CHECK. This may be an Armenian
