MRP: 25th September 1663, Letter from Nicholas Millett, Loyalll Merchant, Surat Road

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25th September 1663, Letter from Nicholas Millett, Loyalll Merchant, Surat Road

Editorial history

25/05/09, CSG: Completed transcription
19/12/11, CSG: Created page & posted transcription to wiki




Abstract & context


Suggested links


See 22nd March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Winter to Sir GO, London, Nick Millett’s house

See 14th April 1667, Letter from Nicholas Millett to Sir GO


To do


(1) Check transcription against physical manuscript at BL


Transcription


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[f. 111]

Right Worp:ll

Yo:r Welcome lre of y:e 14: present rcvd belowe y:e Riversmouth I beleeve you Imagine w:th w:t Joy it was rcvd I have many Things to write & speake to you, but I must keave y:t till a farther Opportunity w:ch I suddenly wish for, ffor to give you á full acco:t of o:r voyadge I have not tyme, but in pte wee departed y:e Downes y:e 11: Aprill y:e Affrican despeeded y:e 6:th Ditto; wee arrived at Johannes[1] y:e 19:th August but noo newes of y:e Affricans arrivall theire or at Mohilia,[2] I must informe y:t hee was designed to touch at John DeNova[3] called ?Called by some, but by y:e Ould name Christophers,[4] wheare his shipp was Cast a way, his not arrivall heere, makes mee wonder I must referr y:e rest to tyme, & Better

[f. 112]

Intelligence I was in good hopes to have gott over this tyde, But had not opportunity soo am a feard it will nee 2: or 3: dayes before have an opportunity to gett over, in respect of y:e Tydes falling out soo late, & soo earely, & our shipp Drawing soo much watter. I shall endeavour all wayes possible, to gett her in, y:t you may bee assured off; S:r I have many lres, Tokens, & severall things for you, & to advise you w:th I Omitt, I send up y:e Purser w:th y:e Compa:a Pacquett. Onely I must tell you I have 1000:ll in Gould for you w:th [XXXX] y:e [XXXXX]. But of y:t an other tyme of w:t you write in yo:r lre lett mee soo Bould to tell you, y:t if S:r Geo: had not beene in India, India should not have seene mee, therefore shall referr all to you, as to a pson w:ch I dare trust with all y:t I have; a little indisposednesse of health makes mee bee y:e Creditor & to requ:t y:t favour of you, y:t you would send mee M:r Ward[5] as soone as possible. I had fforgott to tell you y:t yo:r Mother. Brother, & Sister (my Ownely) w:th S:r Geo: Smith[6], D. Pennington[7], w:th all yo:r freinds, are well, & desire to bee Remembred to you; S:r to those y:t are w:th you my kinde respects.

I have noo more to write buy y:t I am still, as I ever was.

Yo:r Worp:s Humble servant
& ffaithfull freind to Comand
Nich:o Millett

Shipp Loyall Merch:t
Sur:a Roade Septemb:r 25: 1663

To M:r Goodyer[8] in pticuler my service and M:r Gary[9]


Notes



Possible primary sources

TNA


PROB 11/303 May 1-53 Will of John Millett, Mariner of Wandsworth, Surrey 15 January 1661
PROB 11/330 Coke 57-107 Will of John Millett, belonging to Ship Loyal Merchant 25 August 1669
PROB 11/352 Bence 109-158 Will of Anne Millett, Widow of Stepney, Middlesex 05 October 1676

PROB 20/1813 Millett, Nicholas: London, mariner 1661
  1. ↑ St. Johanna
  2. ↑ Mohilia XXXX
  3. ↑ John DeNova XXXX
  4. ↑ Christophers XXXX
  5. ↑ Mr. Ward XXXX
  6. ↑ Sir George Smith, London merchant
  7. ↑ Daniel Pennington, London merchant
  8. ↑ 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)
  9. ↑ Henry Gary

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