MRP: 19th April 1667, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, London

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19th April 1667, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, London

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. ?

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06/02/09: Completed transcription
17/12/11, CSG: Created page
22/12/11, CSG: Posted transcription to wiki






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Suggested links


See biographical profile Sir George Smith
See Sir George Smith will

See 25th August 1662, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, London
See 25th August 1662, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, Letter 2
See 26th March 1663, Letter from George Smith & William Rider, London
See 26th March 1663, Letter from George Smith & William Rider, London, Letter 2
See 19th May 1663, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, London
See 10th July 1663, Letter from Sir George Smith, Jonathan Dawes & Daniell Pennington, London
See 10th August 1663, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, London
See 10th August 1663, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO




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[f. 118]

S:r George Oxinden (sic)

And my worthy friend (sic), y:e 30:th Aug: last overland, & soe before I writ yo:w y:e needfull, since y:n yo:w will have understood of y:e sad Plague of pestilence

[f. 119]

amongst us, next y:e drefull fire y:t hapned in this place destroyin xxx 7/9 [I think this is correct?] of this greate Cittie,

Yo:e letters by y:e Affrican I have reced, y:ee Contents of w:ch I will not insist upon, Considering y:e danger y:t this vessell y:e Charles runs (she now being at plim:o & intended for y:e Coast) but being to late, she is now resolved by y:e Committee for Goa, or Suratt, where I have not one house [OR houre] left, to add anythinge to my thoughts, I persseive my monys in yo:e hands is invested being soe, I wisht it had bine sent by y:e Affrican, or rather y:t had remained in mony at interest, untill God had sent better times for its investm:ts, however w:t yo:w have, or shall doe, will please me, y:e acco:tt in 3/3 betweene S:r Will:m Rider & us, stands as did, y:e beads nor hafts will not sell to this however; What since hath bine sent after saile, I hope will find better investm:t, yo:e ffriends in Dane blessed bee God are well from y:e old ladie Oxinden[1], to y:e youngest of y:e ffamilie, To these following psons, I pray tender my respects, their letters I have reced but Cannot give replyes to y:m, (by y:e Affrican) M:r Jn:o Goodier,[2]Garalld Aungier Esq:[3] M:r ?E’listalliot,[4] M:r Antho: Smith,[5] M:r Tho:m Hoskins[6], I commit yo:w to Gods rest ever

[LH SIDE]

Lond:o 10:th Aprill: 1667
[RH SIDE]
S:r
Yo:e truly affectionate ffreind & serv:t
George Smith




Notes

  1. Lady Margaret Oxenden, mother of Sir George Oxenden and the widow of Sir James Oxenden
  2. John Goodyear (alias Goodyer(e), Goodier) was entertained as a factor by the Court of the EEIC in February 1662, and travelled out to Surat in XXXX. His links with the East Indies go back to 1650, when he was already in Persia as a the number four, under George Tash, John Lewis, and Thomas Best, and had his service extended ('A Court of Committees for the Fourth Joint Stock, February 25, 1650 (Court Book, vol. xx, p. 494), in Ethel Bruce Sainbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654 (Oxford, 1913), pp. 23-24)
  3. Gerald Aungier
  4. Dr. Escaliot, the minister at Surat. l'Escaliot had earlier written a detailed account of the attack on the city of Surat. See Letter of Dr. Escaliot, Surat to Dr. Browne, Norfolk, January 26th 1663/64
  5. Anthony Smith may have been at Mocha in 166X. Dr. Escaliot's earlier account of the assault on the city of Surat in a letter to Sir Thomas Browne mentions Smith's capture by Sevajee's Marathi army: "Mr. Anthony Smith, a servant of the companyes, one whoe hath been cheife in severall factoryes, was taken prisoner by Seuagee soulderiers as he came ashore neere the Duch house, and was comeing to the English, — an vnfortunate accedent wich made vs all much concerned, knowing Seuagee cruelty, and indeed gaue him ouer as quite lost." See Letter of Dr. Escaliot, Surat to Dr. Browne, Norfolk, January 26th 1663/64
  6. Son of Sir Edmond Hoskins, serjeant-at-law, deceased, and Lady Elizabeth Hoskins