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My debt to yo:r deceased Brother M:r Christ:r<ref>Christopher Oxenden, younger brother of Sir George Oxenden.  He died at Surat in 1659</ref> is now demand:d by y:e worp:e I hped M:r Gray<ref>Mathew Gray</ref> had satisfied & notwithstanding hee w:th M:r Sereyn:m<ref>Streynsham Master, one of several of Sir George Oxenden's nephews out in the East Indies with  him in the 1660s. He later became President of the English East India Company on the Coromandel Coast</ref> have acqquainted yo:e worp:e y:e Contrary, yett from neither if them I recvd a lyne to y:t prupose, & if I woare not assured M:r Gray<ref>Mathew Gray was XXXX</ref> had more ?affects of mine (though undisposed off ) then, I would have satisffyed said him:  I should have fir bxxxx to hand Charged him show:th , w:ch since hee thought good to refuse, I know:th give my xx of advise on M:r Hen: Gary.<ref>Henry Gary was XXXX</ref>  But in his absece to M:r W:m Jesson,<ref>William Jesson was in the East Indies by March 1658, with a brother, John Jesson, in London.  At that time William Jesson had substantial debts, which his brother helped to clear by shipping out cloth and coral, with the permission of the Company ('A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 19, 1658' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 90), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00east#page/242/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 242]</ref> to Cleare said acc:t w:ch yo:r Worp:e or whom ?e yu shall appoint, allowing full & usuall interest, for money never demand:d, I thought unreasonable, as doo at present; however to yo:e Worp:e in y:t particualar shall xxxxx mee, xxxing wen made good, my Bill may bee ?rendered to xxxx y:t pay itt, for theire discharge, & a further acknowledgm:t from y:e xxxxxx for myne, to secure mee from all future prxxxxxx, If any should happen.
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My debt to yo:r deceased Brother M:r Christ:r<ref>Christopher Oxenden, younger brother of Sir George Oxenden.  He died at Surat in 1659</ref> is now demand:d by y:e worp:e I hped M:r Gray<ref>Mathew Gray</ref> had satisfied & notwithstanding hee w:th M:r Sereyn:m<ref>Streynsham Master, one of several of Sir George Oxenden's nephews out in the East Indies with  him in the 1660s. He later became President of the English East India Company on the Coromandel Coast</ref> have acqquainted yo:e worp:e y:e Contrary, yett from neither if them I recvd a lyne to y:t prupose, & if I woare not assured M:r Gray<ref>Mathew Gray was XXXX</ref> had more ?affects of mine (though undisposed off ) then, I would have satisffyed said him:  I should have fir bxxxx to hand Charged him show:th , w:ch since hee thought good to refuse, I know:th give my xx of advise on M:r Hen: Gary.<ref>Henry Gary was XXXX</ref>  But in his absece to M:r W:m Jesson,<ref>William Jesson was in the East Indies by March 1658, with a brother, John Jesson, in London.  At that time William Jesson was a factor at Agra and had substantial debts, which his brother helped to clear by shipping out cloth and coral, with the permission of the Company ('A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 19, 1658' (''Court Book'', vol. xxiv, p. 90), in [http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofcourtm00east#page/242/mode/2up Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 242]</ref> to Cleare said acc:t w:ch yo:r Worp:e or whom ?e yu shall appoint, allowing full & usuall interest, for money never demand:d, I thought unreasonable, as doo at present; however to yo:e Worp:e in y:t particualar shall xxxxx mee, xxxing wen made good, my Bill may bee ?rendered to xxxx y:t pay itt, for theire discharge, & a further acknowledgm:t from y:e xxxxxx for myne, to secure mee from all future prxxxxxx, If any should happen.
  
 
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29th February 1662/63, Letter from Stephen Fflower to Sir GO, Gombroone

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX ff. ??

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See 2nd February 1662/63, Letter from Steven Flower to Sir GO, Gombroone
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[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX ff. ??]

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My debt to yo:r deceased Brother M:r Christ:r[1] is now demand:d by y:e worp:e I hped M:r Gray[2] had satisfied & notwithstanding hee w:th M:r Sereyn:m[3] have acqquainted yo:e worp:e y:e Contrary, yett from neither if them I recvd a lyne to y:t prupose, & if I woare not assured M:r Gray[4] had more ?affects of mine (though undisposed off ) then, I would have satisffyed said him: I should have fir bxxxx to hand Charged him show:th , w:ch since hee thought good to refuse, I know:th give my xx of advise on M:r Hen: Gary.[5] But in his absece to M:r W:m Jesson,[6] to Cleare said acc:t w:ch yo:r Worp:e or whom ?e yu shall appoint, allowing full & usuall interest, for money never demand:d, I thought unreasonable, as doo at present; however to yo:e Worp:e in y:t particualar shall xxxxx mee, xxxing wen made good, my Bill may bee ?rendered to xxxx y:t pay itt, for theire discharge, & a further acknowledgm:t from y:e xxxxxx for myne, to secure mee from all future prxxxxxx, If any should happen.

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Notes

EEIC, 1655-1659


"On information that John Jesson intends to send cloth to the value of 300/. and coral to the value of 200/. to help clear his brother William 's debts, the Court promises to arrange for their shipment."[7]
  1. ↑ Christopher Oxenden, younger brother of Sir George Oxenden. He died at Surat in 1659
  2. ↑ Mathew Gray
  3. ↑ Streynsham Master, one of several of Sir George Oxenden's nephews out in the East Indies with him in the 1660s. He later became President of the English East India Company on the Coromandel Coast
  4. ↑ Mathew Gray was XXXX
  5. ↑ Henry Gary was XXXX
  6. ↑ William Jesson was in the East Indies by March 1658, with a brother, John Jesson, in London. At that time William Jesson was a factor at Agra and had substantial debts, which his brother helped to clear by shipping out cloth and coral, with the permission of the Company ('A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 19, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 90), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 242
  7. ↑ 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 19, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 90), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 242

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