MRP: 5th January 1666/67, Letter from Sarah Waynman to Sir GO, Lambeth

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5th January 1666/67, Letter from Sarah Waynman to Sir GO, Lambeth

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 66-68

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05/02/09, CSG: Completed transcription
13/12/11, CSG: Created page
21/12/11, CSG: Posted transcription to wiki




Abstract & context



Suggested links


See March 1665/66, Letter from Sarah Wainman to Sir GO
See 2nd September 1667, Letter from Sarah Wainman to Sir GO


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Transcription


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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 66-68]

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Ever Hono:d S:r

In my last[1] I gave yo:w y:e sad acco:tt of my deare M:rs[2] great and longe daingerous Sicknesse, w:ch in short time after ended in her death, as [??] w:th yo:w had an acco:tt by y:e same shippe w:ch I hope is safely arrived, O S:r y:e loss of so deare and ever hono:ed, M:rs, I know not how enough to be waile, for undoubtedly she was best ??xxxtomen, & had gon to her grave w:th as much hono:e as any person in her quallyty y:t hath left y:e world y:s hundreds of yeares, had she not had a sonn[3] y:t makes it his indeavours by all waies Immaginable to blast her, who to my knowledg did all that ever she hath done for them, & M:rs Smith[4] is his sister & becaues I will not say as they doe

[f. 67]

things y:t are untrue, I am y:e most hatefull thing in y:e world & must bee blasted & turned of [out?] w:th nothing, w:ch they thinke to be a just reqard for 21 yeares trew and faithfull service to y:e utmost of my abillity, but if it must be soe, it shall be my greatest trouble y:t I wanted abillity to serve her better, my Comfort is y:t both in her life & death she exprest her love & xxees to me, & to all those of her neere friends she commited me to their care, soe y:t w:t ever shall befall me I shall have this satisfaction y:t she was satisfied w:th my weeke indeavours, & died w:th a confidence y:t I was not y:t unworthy person y:t M:r dallison[5] & such as adheares to him doe render me to be, S:r it is not w:th out a great deale of greife & sadness y:t I write these thing, for it is enough to breake ownes heart to thinke y:t a person of soe great a worth & hono:e as my ever hono:ed M:rs was , should be soe abused & by none but those y:t prosead from her owne bowells; they acounting every owne an enemy y:t speakes not their language; pray S:r give me yo:e pardon if I have dwelt to long upon y:e subject & taken up to much of yo:e time in reeding y:e ill Composed lines, but I thought it my duty to aquaint yo:w w:th these thing because I know yo:w to be my M:rs deare beloved Brother, whome she loved as her owne life, I pray God these may find yo:w in health & safety; yo:e friends heare are full of feeres for yo:w y:e time are soe daingerous, this world is full of nothing but troubles, of w:ch S:r Henry Oxinden hath had a great sheare of, since y:e death of my deare M:rs, in relation to yo:e affaires

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& heare pray S:r if yo:w Can finde out any way to gett M:r Watts[6] his legacy of 50:ll for me in India for I am not like to get any thing heare for y:e executer will not call M:r Lamton[7] to acc:tt & I know not how to doe it; S:r y:e old Corner being Consumed by fire w:th the greatest part of y:e Citty, M:rs Priren [Prizen?][8] & her family are gon to live at Lambeth & I remain w:th her fo y:e present

I pray if God pleaes y:t I may have y:e hono:e to see yo:w once more in England in health for yo:w are heare much wanted, I shall say noe more at present, but begg y:e acceptance of my humble & faithfull service, praying to God to bless & proper [protect?] yo:w becuse I am

S:r yo:e obliged faithfull servant
Sarh Waynman

Lambeth this 5:th of January 1666 [modern 1667]


Notes

  1. ↑ March 1665/66, Letter from Sarah Wainman to Sir GO
  2. ↑ The deceased Elizabeth Dallison, Sarah Wainman's mistress
  3. ↑ Maximilian Dallison, Elizabeth Dallison's eldest child and only son. He was vigorously contesting his mother's will, and spreading ugly allegations about his mother's supposed poor management of his estates
  4. ↑ Mary Smith, the eldest and only survivor of Elizabeth Dallison's two daughters. She was married to Henry Smith, who had been imprisoned for treason, and consequently was suffering financial difficulties. See biographical profile of Mary Smith, nee Dallison
  5. ↑ Maximilian Dallison, Elizabeth Dallison's eldest child and only son. He was vigorously contesting his mother's will, and spreading ugly allegations about his mother's supposed poor management of his estates
  6. ↑ It is possible that "Mr. Watts" refers to the London merchant, Edward Watts, who later married Martha Master
  7. ↑ John Lambton, the Surat warehouseman. Following Lambton's death in XXXX, a series of allegations were made in letters to Sir George Oxenden, about Lambton's withholding of the Indian estates of deceased factors
  8. ↑ Edith Perrin, who had been living as a lodger at Tobell Aylmer's house at the Old Corner, Ludgate Hill. Elizabeth Dallison and Sarah Wainman had also lived there in the late 1650s

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