MRP: 2nd September 1667, Letter from Sarah Wainman to Sir GO
Contents
2nd September 1667, Letter from Sarah Wainman to Sir GO
BL, MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 51-52
Editorial history
08/06/09, CSG: Completed transcription
13/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki
Abstract & context
Suggested links
See biographical profile of Tobell Aylmer
See March 1665/66, Letter from Sarah Wainman to Sir GO
See 5th January 1666/67, Letter from Sarah Waynman to Sir GO, Lambeth
See
See House in Lambeth
To do
(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL
Transcription
This transcription has been completed, but requires checking
[BL, MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 51-52]
[f.51]
Lambath septemb y:e ?29:th 1667
The last lre you wear pleased to hand me w:th, w:ch bore date september y:e 10:th 1666 I returne yo:w many thankes for all yo:r kinde expectations, & y:t yo:w are pleased to rememb:r me yo:w being burthened w:th so great load of weighty business, yo:w were pleased to tell me of a black munkey y:t yo:w intended me w:ch if he had com I should have made him very wellcome rcvd him w:th a great dele of kindness as I shall doe anything y:t comes from yo:w; whome I looke upon as my best freind now my deare & kind M:rs is gon, whome I did never thinke to out live, it is my greatest Comfort y:t I can trewly say y:t I did her all y:e true & faithfull service
[f.52]
y:t laie in my power to doe her to y:e last, how good & deserveing sh was none is a better Judge y:n yo:r selfe how good a mother she was to her Children how obliging she was to all, both to freinds & straingers is very well knowne to all that are a friend to truth yet there are some verry neare her y:t make it their indeavers to pswaide y:e world to y:e contrary & be cause I will not falsely say as they do are not only y:m selves my great ennimies but make all others y:t they can possobly, soe y:t I finding myselfe unbefreinded in y:t family home I have been a faithfull servant for one & twenty yeares; I am now liveing w:th M:rs Pirrin[1] w:th whome I have been eversence y:e death of my most deare M:rs & going to som of my one kindred something remote from London & if yo:w are pleased to hono:r me w:th a line or two please to send to S:r Henry Oxinden & they will be sent to me, S:r I thougrt it my duty to give you this acco:tt w:ch I desire of God may finde yo:w in pfect healthe p [could be “&”] yo:w in yo:r great affaires & bring you safe whome againe is & shall be y:e Constant prayers & desires of
S:r
yo:r faithfull & obliged servant
Sarah Wainman
pray S:r my service to M:r Goodier
& M:r Henry Oxinden w:th y:e rest of
My acquaintance w:th yo:w.
Notes
- ↑ Mrs Pirrin is Edith Perrin, a relative of Tobell Aylmer. In the late 1650s Elizabeth Dallison, Elizabeth's maid Sarah Wainman, their friend Gray's Inn lawyer Edward Kelke, and Edith Perrin, were all living in Tobell Aylmer's house on Ludgate Hill