MRP: 9th January 1666/67, Letter from Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Deane

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9th January 1666/67, Letter from Henry Oxinden to Sir GO, Deane

BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 58-66

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[BL, Add. MS. XX, XXX, ff. 58-66]

Deare Brother

[RH SIDE
Deane January ye 9th 1666
[Modern 1667]

I was often wsome of ye Cheife East India Marcht to know when they would write to yo:w Overland, & sent Johnson[1] severall times to inquire, but they allwas tould mee & him, y:t they dayly expected letters from yo:w overland, & y:t they resolved not to write untill they had recvd lettrs from yo:w soe I went downe to Deane in this confidence, & XXX XXXXX and y:t they being tured w:th Expectations from yo:w did write unknowne to me, being in y:e Country, soe y:t I missed y:e happines of writing to yo:w w:ch did not a little vex me, now I understand y:t there goes suddenly a little shipp called y:e Charles, to y:e Fort S:t George, & y:e Coast, by w:ch I hope that may ffall into yo:e hands, before y:e London comanded by Cap:t Privett[2], who sett sout in y:e spring lest [last??] arive at Suratt, & being very desirous to lett y:e shipp noe Oportunity I lay hold on this shipp, w:ch tells yo:w y:t I cannot xxxx xxx to yo:w by y:e last shipps y:t went to y:e Coast w:ch I hope ame to yo:w hands tho y:e subject of y:m were most deplorable, this must needs begin where those ended & informe yo:w to my great grife (sic), that the will of y:t worthy Just person, Our deare Sister is voyolently opposed & Contemned by those y:t have most reason to hono:e y:e Dead, & maintain her reputation Inviolable, w:ch w:th out y:m had been at as great an height, & in a great repute as any of her sex (sic) in this age, In short for I must not injustice to yo:w nor can I in point of truth, Conceale [?] y:e matter from yo:w (for I am but an executor in Truth for yo:w) o:e nephew mark [matt] Dallison[3] opposes y:e validites of o:e Sisters will, offering in places & to all Companys, y:t his mother had unjustly endeavoured to dispose of his estate, to unworthy uses, & ends, not only clamourizing against y:e subject mater of y:e will, as y:e legacies, & yo:e security fro yo:e 1400 ll but against her power of dispos xx y:e lease & instead of having obedience to her will, hath made an entry upon her lease at Halling, (w:ch in law is yett in M:r Raworths & yo:w & ?Othere he has reced some rent of y:e tenants felled woods, & sould y:m, warned y:e tenants to have nothing to doe w:th my sisters executors nor to entertaine me, nor my servants, now considering his violent opposition, & Claimes in all places, & being willing to indulge him, as much as possible for his mothers sake, I offered him (the Contrary to y:e opinion, & advice of my Cozen Oxinden[4] & sara[5] & otheres who were for y:e vindicating of my sisters hono:e & justice to y:e height) I say I offered him out of Compassion a treaty of peace & reconciliation if it might bee viz, if he would give sara 125 for her annuity & 30 p an: under [?] w:ch she would not take, my neice Smith[6] having released) & y:t he would lett yo:e secuirty[?] for yo:e 1400 ll remaine upon y:e lease, as my Sister had ordered it untill yo:w came home, or untill yo:e sense & pleasure was fully known therein I would have released, & given way to him to have renewed y:e Lease of y:e new Byshop[7] (for y:e Old is dead) in his owne Name & to his owne use, but he holy refused y:e XXX affirming y:t y:e 1400 ll was a Cheat y:t he had never any of it nor benefitt by it, y:t he had more y:n Satisfied his mother for all her expenses, & disbursem:tfor him in planting a multitude of perticulars (sic), affirming that his Mother had contracted her Debts in yo:e Service not in his, w:th other words unfitt to relate…..


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---so y:t rather y:n he will suffer y:e Lease to be security four y:e mony (w:ch is now y:e only single point of difference he resolves to goe to sute w:th y:e partners, & putting a fowle bill in Chancery against us where his mother shall be charged w:th great somes of mony ceced out of his estate, & an acc:tt given by her but unjustly drew him into releases, he saies he must reape [?] upon all things from y:e beginning, M:r Raworth[8] tells him, his poore mother is not there to answer for her selfe, but he hopes to give sure an answer for her, as shall for ever shame him; but not w:th standing all his threats & high words, & boasts of his ffathers xxxx yes [?] affaires, I shall not release yo:e interest & security in y:e lease, w:th out yo:e leave & Consent, because hee has destroid yo:e security in Chatham sarne [?] by getting away y:t writings from his mother; w:ch was a great greife to her very Death, & was y:e Cause why she Charged yo:e debt upon her owne lease; & she often tould Rich:d Oxinden, y:t she had made it as broad as it was long, by putting yo:e debt upon y:e lease, & told me but a few minets before she died, y:t she had given yo:w a good security as she had, soe

[f. 61]

y:t upon ty:e whole matter considering mark has destroied yo:e security upon Chatham as we suppose, yo:w have now nothing left but y:e lease for yo:e mony, & now I leave yo:w to judg whether I had done well to have delivered up y:e lease into his
power w:th out yo:e Consenr, & direction, not w:th standing all y:e Claimes, & rouillings [?] he has made ahgainst me, but if yo:e pleasure be y:t yo:w will release yo:e security & y:t I shall give him up y:e lease, I shall willingly observe yo:e directions, As for satisfaction to Sara for her annuity, w:ch she strongly persisted in, & was resolved to sue him for it, by the assistance of her Cozen Hamton,[9] Mark was at last Drawne to it by y:e earnest persuasion of M:r Jones,[10] who told he were farre bettert o agree w:th her for 125 ll y:n to goe to sute w:ch would quickly expence mure mony, so at length he submitted to y:t Councell, tho he declared often to others, y:t it was not for desents [defents?] (for he has revild [?] her most disgracefully) now upon y:e acco:tt of her annuity, but to purches his peace of his Mothers Cham:maid who resolved to see him, y:t he agreed w:th her, he has sadly abused her in referance to her faithfullness & indeed in all respects, wher as my Sister on her deth Beed Comended her to my kindness, & care of her, telling me y:t she had been a very faithfull servant to her, w:ch truly she proves since her death as well as in her life, for she is very carefull of my sisters hono:e & justice to vindicate y:m selves in Y:e diferance (sic), I have trusted her in y:e selling my sisters Goods & in XXing [keeping??] papers & things of moment in my absence w:ch she hath given a good & faithfull acco:tt of, soe y:t I must allwaies vindicate her reputation to all persons & I hope w:t ever will persons may suggest to yo:w to y:e Contrary y:t yo:w will Continew yo:e good opinion of her, & yo:e kindness to her, Richard

[f. 62]

Oxinden, & she, & M:rs Perrin dwelleth now at Lambeth. As for my nice Smith[11] who is come to England to look after her mothers will & things she left her, & allso to solice my L:d Chancellour[12] for her matenance, y:e matter stands thus she declares y:t she would not joyne to sue her Brother, she could not in Consience soe it, but joyne in y:e opinion of my Sisters ?handdealing w:ch her deare brother in so disposing y:e lease has released her Interest, as Mark & his councell both affirme, w:ch has somw:t weakned o:e Casues, she prtended to me y:t my Sister owed her 100: ll w:ch tho my Sister put not downe among her other debts, yett Sara affairming y:t she beleeved y:e mony was due to her, I paid her y:e 100:ll & allsoe 63: 8:1 w:ch was y:e principell, & proffitt of y:e Mony my mother gave her Girle Mall [?] w:ch my sister put into Peter Couze[13] his shipp, w:ch w:th y:e Consent of my mother my nice has taken out of Couze his hands, because she would trust noe shipp, she saies she knowes better how to improve it, she is now goeing downe to ?withrork about y:e selling of part of y:t estate w:ch my Lord Chanceller[14] has assigned to her, w:ch pt there is 150:ll pan (sic); somsay 120:ll pan: w:ch she hath obtained by her insesente solicitation, & by y:e friendship of my Lord Chamberlins[15] intersession, she Conceales w:t maybee w:t my Lord has don for her, but I shall know w:n I come to London, she intends to carry her Geirle [?] in y:e spring to Jersey[16] to her husband she hath been neere 3 yeares w:th Roger Smith in lestersheere[17], The case standing this in refereance to y:e lease at halling, I desire yo:e directions & judgm:t w:t to doe, for I am but an executor in truth, for yo:e use, & to see my Sisters debts paid, w:ch w:th her goods & some Jewells we are paying as fast as we can. The releases yo:w gave o:e Sister may prexxxxx yo:e now in refeirance to yo:w goods y:t were in her hands & to yo:e moneyes too in case mark can come to make use of them

[f. 63]

I have made a present to my L:d Chancelloer in yo:e Name of y:e Gold Chint [?] Bed & furniture & on of yo:e best Persian Carpets w:th severall Carpets w:ch was very well Exepted of w:th many thanks, I found by M:r Raworth & my Nephew James Masters y:t my sister had don amiss in neglecting [?] a present to him, & by my Cozen Rich:d Oxinden & Sara y:t my sister did intend on, I hope I have uo:w prdon for it, & y:t yo:w will not have cause to reput it, I finde him very just, & kinde yo yo:e affaires upon all occations, we are shortly to appeale to him from an unjust Verdict at Guildhall upon y:e Bills of Exchange Edw:d Peirce[18] sued yo:w last terme upon y:e protest of those bills Tho:m Briton[19] w:ch [?] proves A Persistent enemy of yo:e; puts on y:e Casue & solicites it had, & it came to triall. We found by o:e agents y:t y:e Jewrie of merrch:ts were preposesed by y:e acquaintances, & solicitation of y:e adversary who daily Conversed w:th them & made it their business to informe people of their Caus to Carrxx up [?] y:e hono:e, & secuirty of bills of exchange, we had for witnesses S:r Sam: Barnardiston, M:r Papillon, & M:r Godfrey they have M:r Joliffe, ?Maers (sic) [could be Maews?] their solicitor & at Notory; o:e witnesses spake very Convincingly in my opinion & demonstratively to y:e judg & jury y:t y:e Custome of Merch:ts was on o:e side, y:t yo:w being drawer & remitter too, in y:s case, & y:t y:e bills being only ?profarmatantum, to draw mony to yo:e selfe, out of Creditors hands y:t yo:w suspected either [OR neither?] in point of integrity, or abillity & witnesses who trade mure in flanders & france, who are by all acknowledgd to be y:e best used in bills of exchange, they affairmed y:t it was a common thing w:th y:m in france, & flanders to draw bill ?proforma to get monyes out of badmens hands xxx, but y:e state of y:e Question

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w:th all sircomstanses of Case, my Nephew Masters[20] desires should ne left to him to write to yo:w whose proper trade it is, as allso to acquaint yo:w w:th o:e intentions, & hopes to avoid y:e verdict either by assigning an error in the declaration, or by remander in Chancery he desires to satisfie yo:w in Law in matters himselfe tho I negelect – not soliciting nor understandin of y:m myselfe, truly he takes a great deale of paines in yo:e law affaires, w:ch pray take notice of from me & thanke him, & tell him yo:w will reward him; tho I do give him mony, & so did my sister upon y:e acco:tt,

The verdict y:e jury brought was 2200 principall & interest but y:e lawyers doubt not but to stop Judgm:t & sexcution, but more of this by Cap:t Privet in y:e London who goes out in february next to Suratt wome God send safe to yo:e, & bring yo:w safe home for really I long to see yo:w; & we want yo:w extremly, but some of y:e Committee gives me small hope of seeing yo:w till there be peace beetwixt us and holland, for they say their lies yo:e danger in it, & it will be very prejudiciall to their affaires to Chaing Presidents in this junture of time, & affaires, now as to peace I hope is not farr of, for y:e people of both sides earnestly desires it, tis only som grandes y:t keepe it of [?] o:e Exchange doe now I am sure long for it, I hope by privet to write to yo:w more satisfactonly (sic) as to peace & war, I intend to take a houes in holborn y:e better to looke after yo:e busines, Pray thanke M:r Papillon: S:r Sam: Barnardiston[21], & M:r Godfrey[22] who were all very zealous for yo:w, & M:r Papillon is a very friend & assister in all yo:e sutes, especially in this of y:e bills, yo:w must thanke him largly w:th promises to requite his kindneses, some Mearch:ts told me, y:t it was rather a prudentiall verdict than a true judgm:t upon y:e merits of y:t Cause, w:ch they did for y:e maintaining y:e hono:e & Creadet of bills of exchange, Tho:m Britton keepes yo:e silkes to satisfie himselfe, when I Questioned him about this sute, he told me he was all most undone [?] , & y:t he keepe his head above water, as well as he could, but more of all [?] by privet [I am not at all sure about this word], pray salute M:r Jn:o Goodjer kindly from me, & tell him y:t I will write to him by M:r Privett, S:r I desire he would put his busines on other hands, I have mure (sic) I can never compass y:m all well, & my Cozen Dick: Oxinden will not medell, I am willing upon y:e desire of his wife to Consent y:t M:r Buckridge[23] & S:r Will:m Rider to take care of itt for y:e present to helpe gett in mony I have lett ?her have a great deale, Cap:t Barker[24] is unwilling to let any of yo:e part of y:e mony he has in partnership w:th yo:w remaine in his hands, but will keepe it all till hee has order from yo:w,; more of all this by my Next, S:r Basil Dixwell has been almost dead, hee is in a deepe Consomtion, S:r Edw:d Moines is dead & has left 2 daughters 5000:ll a peece, & his darling sue, 9000:ll in hopes & Confidence y:t she should marry, his heir is his Brother Johns sonn (sic) [??] (one Will:m Moines) but since his death his Lady hath turned his hair out of Doores, & intends to marry her daughter to her brother (Tho:m Stiles) his sonn, Dick Oxinden is very melancholly grevene [?] & keepes much out of Comp:a, & Taverns especially, he saies if his Cozen Dallison be soe much abused, they are mad, y:t will have any more Children, truly he is much afflicted for her Death, but he sayes much more for her suffrings since her death, & to see y:e basenes of her pretended friends, as S:r Rob:t Wiseman[25], S:r Edw:d Walker[26] & divers others who joine w:th mark, o yo:e other affaires more from London, I feare y:e shipps going off, my love to my relations, thank yo:w for Henry, my wife’s love & service to yo:w

[LH SIDE]
I have taken yo:e old sarvant
Johnson till yo:w come home, hee
Presents his humble duty to yo:w

[RH SIDE]
And I am yo:e most affectionate
& obliged Brother
Hen: Oxinden (sic)



Notes

  1. ↑ Johnson was Sir George Oxenden's man servant. Later in this letter Sir Henry Oxenden tells his brother that "I have taken yo:e old sarvant Johnson till yo:w come home"
  2. ↑ Captain John Privett (b. ?, d. ca. 1673, or 1674) was the commander of the London. He was a resident of Houndsditch in St. Bottolph, Aldgate, London. See 7th October 1667, Letter from John Privett to Sir GO, Gun Yard, Houndsitch
  3. ↑ Maximillian Dallison, Elizabeth dallison's son and eldest child
  4. ↑ Richard Oxinden
  5. ↑ Sarah Wainman, long serving maid of the deceased Elizabeth Dallison
  6. ↑ Mary Smith (nee Dallison), daughter of Elizabeth Dallison and Maximillian Dallison's sister. She had married Henry Smith, who was attainted for treason following the Restoration as a signator of the King's death sentence
  7. ↑ The Bishop of Rochester. The new bishop was XXX, the previous bishop, with whom Elizabeth Dallison had had protracted dealings, died in XXXX
  8. ↑ Robert Raworth, Gray's Inn lawyer. Legal advisor to Elizabeth Dallison and Sir George Oxenden. He also prepared Elizabeth Dallison's last will & testament
  9. ↑ Cozen Hamton. Identity unknown. See Missing faces
  10. ↑ Mr. Jones. Identity unknown. See Missing faces
  11. ↑ Mary Smith. She may have returned from Jersey, where her husband was imprisoned. Sir Henry Oxenden makes reference later in the letter to her plans to go to Jersey with her young daughter
  12. ↑ Lord Clarendon
  13. ↑ Captain Peter Cooze
  14. ↑ Lord Chancellor Orlando Bridgman
  15. ↑ Elizabeth Dallison made reference to her own friendship with the Lord Chamberlain in her letter of XXXX (XXXX)
  16. ↑ Mary Smith's husband, Henry Smith, had been imprisoned after trial for treason as a signator of Charles I's death warrant. He was imprisoned first in the Tower, then transferred to prison on the island of Jersey
  17. ↑ Henry Smith, her husband, came from Leicestershire CHECK
  18. ↑ Edward Pearce, London merchant
  19. ↑ Thomas Breton, London merchant
  20. ↑ James Master, Gray's Inn lawyer
  21. ↑ Sir Samuell Barnardiston, London merchant
  22. ↑ Michael Godfrey, London merchant and relative of Sir George Oxenden
  23. ↑ Nicholas Buckeridge, London merchant
  24. ↑ Captain Robert Barker
  25. ↑ Sir Robert Wiseman was a doctor of civil law and member of Doctors Commons. He had lent Elizabeth Dallison £100 to assist her when she was struggling with his son's estate and her son's financial demands, and had provided her with legal counsel. See XXXX.
  26. ↑ Sir Edward Walker was a courtier and herald. He attended Elizabeth Dallison's funeral in Clerkenwell. An earlier letter of Elizabeth dallison to Sir George Oxenden shows that she was on friendly terms with Sir Edward Walker, his wife, and daughter. See 3rd April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO, London

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