MRP: 7th October 1667, Letter from Robert Lord to Sir GO, Gravesend

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7th October 1667, Letter from Robert Lord to Sir GO, Gravesend

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Abstract & context


Robert Lord was captain of the St. George from London to Surat in 1666. He probably arrived in Surat in September 1666.[1] On the outward voyage he went via Diu, and was delayed due to weather and fears of Dutch ships arriving from Persia. He appears to have arrived back in Gravesend from Surat, via Ireland due to the war with the Dutch, in October 1667.

Captain Robert Lord wrote to Sir George Oxenden from Gravesend, giving him news of an eventful home voyage, most probably from Surat. He had put in at the port of Kinsale in Ireland, where he had sheltered from the Dutch naval threat, then on the final leg up the Channel lost sails and a foretopmast in a violent storm.



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Gravesend Octob 7:th 1667

S:r George Oxinden

And most honoured this tide I came up to this towne, onwards of ye old voyage towards London, I put into Ireland homeward bound[2], & ye wars being y:n ye hight received advice to remaine there from ye Gov. & Comitte, till their further order; so wee had not order to saile from there till ye days of hostility were expired w:ch was ye 24:th Septemb: part ye next day (according to order) I set saile & thanks bee to god am got into safety, having had a most violent storme in ye Chanell, splitt 3 or 4 of our sailes & lost a foretopmast;

I heare Madam Dallonson is dead but I shall enquire for her Executors or Assignes , (those y:t got mannage yo:w worp:s business) to whome I shall be redy to deliver yo:e worp:s concernes; having this opportunity by Cap:t Barker[3], XXleeved y:s day at Gravesend, & y redy to saile tomorrow, could not in my obliged duty ommitt ye & sent of my most humble service to yo:e worp:s by these breife lines ever ambitious to subscribe to bee ye meanest of

My wife renders yo:e worp:s most
Humble thanks for her token

Yo worp:s servant
Robert Lord”



Notes


"Upon the petition of Peter Buttler, captain, Robert Lord, 'leiutenaunt', and James Fowkes, master of the Satisfaction, the Court agrees to send back to their own country three 'Maldiva people'"[4]

"THE COMPANY TO CAPTAIN ROBERT LORD [AT KINSALE], JULY 6, 1667 (Letter Book, vol. iv, p. 85).

Have received his letter advising his sailing with the St. ..."[5]

"The petition of Captain Robert Lord is read, in which he prays among other things, to have the command of the Company's..."[6]



Possible primary sources


BL

British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections: East India Company General Correspondence [E/3/84 - E/3/90]: LETTER BOOK 1 E/3/84 1626-1669:
- [no title] E/3/87 f 37v 7 May 1667: Contents: Captain Robert Lord of the St George

- [no title] E/3/87 f 38 16 May 1667: Contents: Captain Robert Lord of the St George
  1. EFI 65-67, pp. 152, 156
  2. Captain Robert Lord put into the Irish port of Kinsale on his return voyage. See 'The Company to Captain Robert Lord [at Kinsale], July 6, 1667 ((Letter Book, vol. iv, p. 85), in CCM 64-67, p. 352
  3. Captain Robert Barker
  4. CCM 55-59, p. 299
  5. CCM 64-67, p. 352
  6. Ethel Bruce Sainsbury (ed.), A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India company, 1674-1676" (Oxford, 1835), p. 183