MRP: 20th March 1662/63, Letter from Peter Cooze to Sir GO, Ratcliff

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20th March 1662/63, Letter from Peter Cooze to Sir GO, Ratcliff

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX f. 30

Editorial history

22/05/09, CSG: Completed transcription
14/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki




Abstract & context


Captain Peter Cooze wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated March 20th, 1662/63. He sent the letter from the Queens Stairs in Ratcliff, Surrey, which may have been his London home.

In this letter, he referred to a "Edw:d Tarver a Musitioner,"a friend of his from childhood. He has written the letter as a letter of introduction, which Tarver carried out with him to Surat. No other records of Tarver have been discovered.

Cooze refers to his previous letter of March 1662/63, in which he provided details of his troubles with the Livorno ffrigatt.


Suggested links


See March 1662/63, Letter from Peter Cooze to Sir GO

See Peter Cooze will


To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL


Trancription


This transcription has been completed, but requires checking

[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXX f. 30]

S:r

After my most humble Service to you, I make bold to Trouble you w:th these few lines, S:r y:e bearer hereof Edw:d Tarver a Musitioner hath a desire to stay in India w:th you, if you be pleased to Vouch safe him entertainem:t S:r I have known him of a Child y:t came of honest Parents, & is a Preitty Sivil young man & for his Musick I hope he may have y:e happiness to play you a Merry Lessen, S:r I pray excuse my boldness, My Wife & Mother desires theire kind Remembrance unto you, I have written you in a former lre all y:e pticul:es concerning y:e Livorne Friggatt it is Inclosed in yo:r lres sent by Madam Dallison having not elseat present I Rest

Yo:r ever Respective Serv:t to
You or yo:s Peeter Cooze


Queene Staires[1] in Ractliff)]]


Notes

  1. ↑ Queene Staires has not been located satisfactorily. The Greenwood eight inch to the mile map of London, 1827, marks "Queens Wharf" on the west bank of Limehouse reach, but some distance to the east of the settlement of Rotherhithe (alias Redrith, Redriss). It shows it being between Cuckold's Point and Morris's Causeway. See Greenwood map of London, quadrant e10u; See Greenwood map of London, quadrant e9u, showing centre of Rotherhithe and Thames

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