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I was in good hopes by ye last suratt shipps to have recvd my small box of Dymonds left in yo:r worps hands contayning seventy 4 dimonds but I soppose it was yo:e love & Care to me y:t yo:w sent y:m not being the times were dangerous but now peece being concluded I doe desire they may be sent unto M:r Christopher Willoughby unto whom I have sould y:m although to losse: therefore for ye future disposure of y:m pray observe his order not already present but remaine
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I was in good hopes by ye last suratt shipps to have recvd my small box of Dymonds left in yo:r worps hands contayning seventy 4 dimonds but I soppose it was yo:e love & Care to me y:t yo:w sent y:m not being the times were dangerous but now peece being concluded I doe desire they may be sent unto M:r Christopher Willoughby<ref>Christopher Willoughby, London Merchant. See letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir George Oxenden in which Willoughby discusses at length the missing diamonds: [[MRP: April 1667, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO|April 1667, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO]]</ref> unto whom I have sould y:m although to losse: therefore for ye future disposure of y:m pray observe his order not already present but remaine
  
 
Yo:r loving ffreind
 
Yo:r loving ffreind

Revision as of 16:10, December 22, 2011

October 1667, Letter from Robert Bowen to Sir GO


BL, MS. XX, XXXX, f. 22

Editorial history

13/12/11, CSG: Created page



Abstract & context




Suggested links


See 14th April 1667, Letter from Robert Bowen to Sir GO, Pladsto
See 3rd October 1667, Letter from Robert Bowen to Sir GO, London



To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL



Transcription


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[f.22]

S:r George Oxinden & Hon: ffreind

Sr

I was in good hopes by ye last suratt shipps to have recvd my small box of Dymonds left in yo:r worps hands contayning seventy 4 dimonds but I soppose it was yo:e love & Care to me y:t yo:w sent y:m not being the times were dangerous but now peece being concluded I doe desire they may be sent unto M:r Christopher Willoughby[1] unto whom I have sould y:m although to losse: therefore for ye future disposure of y:m pray observe his order not already present but remaine

Yo:r loving ffreind
Rob:t Bowen

Charles Masters rememb
his duty to yo Wors: & ye rest
of his relations

JO RB



Notes

  1. Christopher Willoughby, London Merchant. See letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir George Oxenden in which Willoughby discusses at length the missing diamonds: April 1667, Letter from Christopher Willoughby to Sir GO