MRP: 25th September 1667, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London

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25th September 1667, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London

BL, Add. MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 13-14

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01/06/09, CSG: Completed transcription
13/12/11, CSG: Created page






Abstract & context




Suggested links


See 21st March 1662/63, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London
See 10th March 1665/66, Letter from Thomas Tyte to Sir GO, London



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Transcription


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[BL, Add. MS. XX,XXXX, ff. 13-14]

[f. 13]


London 25:th Septemb
1667

Honoured S:r

Both your acceptable lres of ye 10:th & 25:th September 1666 came safe to my hands for w:ch as for myself & the rest of my friends who have been partakers of your greate favours I returne you my humble & hearty thankes, what w:ch ye sad Mortallity w:th happened in ye yeare 1665 & ye last dismall conflaggration, & ware, hath almost made me a Strainger to any trade, but more especially to yours, wherin though ye Comp:a affares (thankes be to God) have succeded reasonably well yett I must confess yo advise was most rationable; however for y:t & your prudent manadgem:t of their affaires these I doubt not but y:t they will acknowledg their acceptations w:th more than a bare returne of thankefullness & I hope they will deale kynd by w:th ye owners of ye S:t George for their greate hassarde & extraordynary (charge upon her arrivall from Kingsaile w:ch we hope may be in a few dayes in Comp:a w:th ye Happy returne I shall not trouble you w:th ye news of peace betweene his Ma:tie y:e ffrench King, & ye states Generall presuming you will rece: a full Acc:o from ye Comp:a of ye Affaires which have recommened y:e case of Richard Bladwell w:ch to me seme to be very sad: he haveing had considerable losses here, is left to trust to what he intrusted in India in ye hands & care of Muttrodas Bonark [or Bonarit] whose lre copie of his xxxxx stands ?aoate you had formerly sent w:th ye Comp:a generall lre & M:r Bladwell perticuler lre of request for yo: favour therein, w:ch was XXXXwanned by M:r Tho: Papillon[1] as he informeth me I have knowne his relations & himselfe from a Child untill his goeing into India: how he was drawine in there is best knowne to your Selfe then me upon y:e whole I ?earnesth request yo: favoure & indeavours in ye procuring of what is due to him from ye said

[f. 14]

Muttrodas ?Bonaitk w:ch I shall take as done for myselfe , & be ready to serve you or yo: relations here, in what I am able praying for ye Contynnance of yo:r health & well fare & in good time yo:r safe returne to yo:r Native Cuntrey I rest

Your obliged friend & humble Servant
Tho: Tyte



Notes

Richard Bladwell


"[January 13-13, 1658] The following men to be disposed of as the President shall see cause: John Berrisford, Robert Carleton, Ephraim Widdrington, John Gray, Walter Travers, Thomas Atkins, and John Mould. To be writers : Thomas Rolt, John Harrington, Matthew Gray, Robert Santill, Richard Bladwell, Richard Wild, and Philip Gifford."[2]

"... while Matthew Gray, Robert Sainthill, Richard Bladwell, John Harrington, Richard Wylde (20/. each), and Philip Giffard (10/.) were to be writers in the factory at Surat."[3]

"…Hopewell to Bantam and Macassar, the last-named carrying Richard Bladwell and Thomas Coates as supercargoes [WHICH YEAR?]"[4]

"Ralph Lambton and Henry Bromfield also arrived in the Vine, leaving at Basra Cranmer and [Richard] Bladwell."[5]

"In the Convertine came, as a prisoner, Richard Bladwell, whom we had last heard of (p. 109) as being in Basra..."[6]

"Wee have already by y:e "Convertine" given you an acco:t of your servant Bladwell, who is for his denying to bee accountable to us, together with his other misdemean:r in running away and wronges done you returned a prisioner hoping you will make him an example and therby deterr others from such insolencies and knavish practices for the future."[7]

"[4th April 1664] Bladwell & he [John Lambton] were copartners in y:e trade, both to Macasser, & Siam, but so private they were in the managing of it that allthough it be sufficiently known, yet cannot wee prove it against him — the said Bladwell was sent unto you p. the " Convertine", long before this your last order, else would wee have detained him a prisoner, & not have sent him, allthough he did positively deny to give any answer, or accompt to any question wee demanded of him."[8]

"Commission and instructions given by us the Presid:t and Councell of India, Persia, &c, unto our lov:g ffriendes M:r Ric:d Bladwell, and Mr Thomas Coates, voyadging to Bant:m, and Macassar, and are to be observed by them, in the mannadging of the said voyadge, unto to the advantadge of our Hon:ble Employers, dated on Swally Marine y:e 30th January 1660"[9]

CSG NOTES: “[Richard?] [Nicholas? - Bicholas Bladwell was Second to Richard Craddock in Ahmedabad in June 1659] [Brennan (XXXX) states a William Bladwell was a Levant-EIC merchant in 1620s and 1630s, who dominated the Russian trade)”



Richard Bladwell in Sir George Oxenden's correspondence


Thomas Chambrelan refers to a M:r Bladwell in a letter to Sir George Oxenden[10]



Possible primary sources


TNA

PROB 11/161 Audley 1-65 Will of John Bladwell, Merchant of London 03 May 1632
PROB 11/193 Rivers 57-110 Will of Richard Bladwell of Rotterdam 01 May 1645

PROB 11/196 Twisse 53-101 Will of Ralph Bladwell, Merchant of Russia 30 June 1646
  1. Thomas Papillon, London merchant
  2. 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock', January 13-13, 1658 (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 51), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 212
  3. EFI, 1655-1660 (Oxford, XXXX), p. 196
  4. EFI 1661-64, p. 1
  5. EFI 1661-64, p. 109
  6. EFI 1661-64, p. 193
  7. 'Letter to London from George Oxinden, John Goodier, Henry Gary, Ger. Aungier, Swally Marine, 28th Jan. 1663/64' in Selections from the letters, despatches, and other state papers preserved in Bombay Secretariat, Home Series, vol. 1 (Bombay, 1887), p. 19
  8. 'Letter to London from George Oxinden, John Goodier, Henry Gary, Gerald Aungier, Swally Marine, 4th April 1664' in Selections from the letters, despatches, and other state papers preserved in Bombay Secretariat, Home Series, vol. 1 (Bombay, 1887), p. 39
  9. 'Consultation dated 30th January 1660, Mathew Andrewes, John Lambton, in Selections from the letters, despatches, and other state papers preserved in Bombay Secretariat, Home Series, vol. 1 (Bombay, 1887), p. 183
  10. 8th March 1665/66, Letter from Thomas Chambrelan to Sir GO, Putney