MRP: 29th February 1662/63, Letter from Stephen Fflower to Sir GO, Gombroone

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29th February 1662/63, Letter from Stephen Fflower to Sir GO, Gombroone

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX ff. ??

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14/12/11, CSG. Created page






Abstract & context


Steven Flower wrote to Sir George Oxenden in a letter dated February 29th, 1662/63. The letter was sent from Gombroone.

In this letter, Steven Flower XXXX

Steven Flower was XXXX



Suggested links


See 2nd February 1662/63, Letter from Steven Flower to Sir GO, Gombroone
See 23rd April 1664, Letter from Stephen fflower to Sir GO, Gombroone
See 16th August 1665, Letter from Stephen fflower to Sir GO, Spahaune
See 22nd April 1665, Letter from Stephen fflower to Sir GO, Gombroon

See Gombroon



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[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX ff. ??]

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My debt to yo:r deceased Brother M:r Christ:r[1] is now demand:d by y:e worp:e I hped M:r Gray[2] had satisfied & notwithstanding hee w:th M:r Sereyn:m[3] have acqquainted yo:e worp:e y:e Contrary, yett from neither if them I recvd a lyne to y:t prupose, & if I woare not assured M:r Gray[4] had more ?affects of mine (though undisposed off ) then, I would have satisffyed said him: I should have fir bxxxx to hand Charged him show:th , w:ch since hee thought good to refuse, I know:th give my xx of advise on M:r Hen: Gary.[5] But in his absence to M:r W:m Jesson,[6] But in his absence to M:r W:m Jesson,[7] to Cleare said acc:t w:ch yo:r Worp:e or whom ?e yu shall appoint, allowing full & usuall interest, for money never demand:d, I thought unreasonable, as doo at present; however to yo:e Worp:e in y:t particualar shall xxxxx mee, xxxing wen made good, my Bill may bee ?rendered to xxxx y:t pay itt, for theire discharge, & a further acknowledgm:t from y:e xxxxxx for myne, to secure mee from all future prxxxxxx, If any should happen.

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Notes

EEIC, 1650-1654


"[February 25, 1650] The following factors to be continued at Surat : Thomas Merry as President, at 300/. per annum for a year after the arrival of the ships to be dispeeded thither in March ; Edward Pearse, accountant, his salary to be increased from l00/. to 200/. per annum ; George Oxenden, his salary to be increased from 40/. to 100/. per annum ; both these on condition that they abstain from private trade ; Anthony Clitherowe, Henry Young, John Adler, and Nicholas Buckeridge. To be continued at Ahmadabad : Anthony Smith and Isaac {should be Isaiah] Joyce. At Agra : Richard Davidge and Thomas Andrews. At Lucknow, William Jesson and John Burnell. At 'Sinda' or 'Tuttha'[Tatta] : John Spiller, Nicholas Scrivener, Henry Garry, Richard Newland, Thomas Reynardson, Charles Milward, Daniel Elder, and William Weale. In Persia : George Tash, John Lewis, Thomas Best, and John Goodyeare. The following to return home : John Bradbent, Philip Wylde, Francis Hamersly, Thomas Cogan, Thomas Cooke, and Rivett Walwin."[8]



EEIC, 1655-1659


"[March 12, 1658] Conditions for the security to be given by the President to be drawn up. The names of John Bowie, Edward Doughty, Augustine Swallow, James Rich, Robert Ferrand, and - Fenwicke to be added to the list from which the President and Council are to choose in filling up vacancies. The brother of William Jesson, lately a factor at Agra, begs the Court's assistance in getting in his said brother's debts ; also that the latter's salary may be made up and paid to him in India, and that he may be allowed to send out goods to the value of 500/. to enable his brother to clear his debts ; he is promised help in the recovering of the debts and given permission to send out goods to the stated value, on condition that he notifies their nature and the ship in which they go, but is told that his brother's salary cannot be paid until he has cleared his debts and engagements in India."[9]

"[March 19, 1658] On information that John Jesson intends to send cloth to the value of 300/. and coral to the value of 200/. to help clear his brother William 's debts, the Court promises to arrange for their shipment."[10]

"[February 22, 1659] John Lewis reports he has been advised from Persia by Matthew Andrews that Henry Young has deceived William Jesson and Thomas Andrews (both indebted to the Company) by pretending to have laden 100 tūmāns apiece for their account in the Roebuck, which ship was taken by the Dutch, but the letters in her having lately come to light show that nothing was laden for their account, and therefore the Company can demand 200 tūmāns from Young in satisfaction of their debt ; the Court thanks Lewis and resolves to write to India about the matter."[11]
  1. Christopher Oxenden, younger brother of Sir George Oxenden. He died at Surat in 1659
  2. Mathew Gray
  3. Streynsham Master, one of several of Sir George Oxenden's nephews out in the East Indies with him in the 1660s. He later became President of the English East India Company on the Coromandel Coast
  4. Mathew Gray was XXXX
  5. Henry Gary was XXXX
  6. Henry Gary was XXXX
  7. William Jesson was already in the East Indies in 1650, when he was the head of the Lucknow factory, with John Burnell as his number two. In 1658 he was at Agra, with substantial debts. His brother, John Jesson, helped to clear William Jesson's debts by shipping out cloth and coral from England to the value of £500, with the permission of the Company ('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; 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 19, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 90), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 242
  8. '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. 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 12, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 87), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), pp. 240-241
  10. 'A Court of Committees for the New General Stock, March 19, 1658' (Court Book, vol. xxiv, p. 90), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 242
  11. 'A Court of Committees for the United Joint Stock, February 22, 1659' (Court Book, vol. xxiii, p. 658), in Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659 (Oxford, 1916), p. 314