MRP: 12th November 1662, Letter from Henry Gary to Sir GO, Goa

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12th November 1662, Letter from Henry Gary to Sir GO, Goa

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX ff. 16-17

Editorial history

23/11/10, CSG: Completed transcription
14/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki






Abstract & context


Henry Gary wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated October 29th, 1662. The letter was sent from Goa.

In the letter, Gary XXXX

Henry Gary had been in the East Indies since at least 1650.[1] His wife appears to have been in Surat, since he mentioned in this letter that she had informed him of John Lambton's death (in Surat). There is a record of the burial in 165X of a child of Henry Gary, aged fourteen, in the English cemetery at Surat.[2]



Suggested links


See 27th October 1662, Letter from Henry Gary to Sir GO, Goa
See 29th October 1662, Letter from Henry Gary to Sir Go, Goa
See 9th November 1662, Letter from Henry Gary to Sir GO, Goa
See 11th ?November 1662, Letter 2 from Henry Gary to Sir GO, On board Castle of Agoada, Goa
See 23rd December 1662, Letter from Henry Gary to Sir GO, Goa
See 25th January 1662/63, Letter from Henry Gary to Sir GO, Goa



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Transcription


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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX ff. 16-17]

[p. 16]

S:r

The knowledge of M:r Lambtons[3] death importing mee much, I was advised there of by an expresse my wyffe sent mee & arrived heere y:e 9:th Curr:t with y:e Ill Tydeings

And it imports mee as much to acquaint you y:t in anno 1655 in y:e month of September hee recd of mee 5: bales of goods as by his Booke of Invoyxces will appeare y:t these goods viz:t

Byrams Blew ?Cargo 75:
Pallungpores ?Cargo 4:10: pees
?Adgrees Browne ?cargo 51: - -
Deale:r Salooes ?cargo 25: - -

W:ch said Goods hee haded on y:e Nugdy belonging then to Bennedas[4] & Deoldas,[5] Consigned them unto M:r W:m Weale then Cheife in Psia y:e prime Cost amo:tt to Ma:s

4561:06 pce
112:16:pce
*********
4673:22 pce

Besides y:e s:d deceased owes mee for a Cyndy ?screto:r 50 Rup:y
Soo y:e whole summe w:ch hee stands D:r is M:a 4673:22 pce

[It is not clear how the above calculation works. In the manuscript the three line calculation is buried in the text, positioned on the right, and the line about the 50 ruppees is confusingly to the left of the number 112:16. The line about the total debt is to the left of 4673:22]

Hee never haveing made good unto mee a penny therof pretendin:g Constantly when demanded satisfaction for y:e same y:t hee never recd any returnes from y:e aforesaid M:r Weale w:ch is better knowne
& where

[p. 17]

& where hee disposed of 20000: M:a. It is my present petition unto yo:r selfe & Councell if it bee necessary, y:t satisfaction & Justice may bee made mee out of y:e said deceased Estates according as others are paid or y:t if it appeares y:t my money Continues in M:r Weales[6] estate y:t satisfaction bee made mee out of y:t or how you shall please to enorder it mee, y:t w:th y:t & w:t also god shall afford mee I may discharge my Obligations, w.ch is very much supplicated for unto yo:r Allmighty by

Right Worp:ll S:r
Yo:r humble supplicant
Hen: Gary

Goa y:e 12th Novembr: 1662



Notes

  1. 'A Court of Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock, February 25, 1650' (Court Book, vol. xx, p. 494), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), p. 24
  2. This is the footnote text
  3. John Lambton, the warehouseman at the Surat factory. Following Lambton's death there were a series of letters from correspondents in England protesting about Lambton's allegedly unethical conduct
  4. Bennedas was XXXX
  5. Deoldas was XXXX
  6. William Weale, deceased by XXX 1660, had been at the Surat factory. Thomas Craston was his executor. See 29th March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Craston to Sir GO, London