Volume 1

Rariora : being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., etc., collected (1858-1900). Vol. I[-III] / by John Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A.

  • John Eliot Hodgkin
Date:
[1902]
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Credit: Rariora : being notes of some of the printed books, manuscripts, historical documents, medals, engravings, pottery, etc., etc., collected (1858-1900). Vol. I[-III] / by John Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A LETTER TO PEPYS ABOUT MEETING BILLS OF EXCHANGE DRAWN FOR THE EXPENSES AT TANGIER AND PEPYS’S REPLY. (Of which a facsimile will be found on the other side of the leaf.) Sb Wee haue yo^-s of this date & haue deliuered your enclosed to Mb Coluil who giues for answer yt he hath disposed of his money & cannot doe it—ye Bill had a long passage & wee had better haue giuen 200^ then giuen yt Creditt for euer since yt time yt our Creditt did arriue ye whole somme was prouided & kept for my L'^ Coll & had wee not so ordered it wee had had our money in our purses some monthes since at aboue 6 c. and more profitt—wee desire to know your pleasure yt (we) may glue an acct of it in our next Letter on Munday next to our friends—You sufficiently know ye nature of Bills of exchange & how much ye affaires of Tangier may be prejudiced should my L*! bills not haue due honour in theire discharge so Crauing your answer Remaine Lo JO Octobb 1665 Att your Command John frederick Nathanel Hernett addressed To ye worPf' Pepys Esq Endorsed OctoD lO . 1665 S' Jo. ffrederick & N* Hern' abt payin' of a bill of Exch. of 2500'^ payable ye 15th Curr' drawne at 2 months but presented to mee but ye 9'h instant — Draft of PEPYS’S REPLY in shorthand (deciphered for J. E. H. by Mr. Hugh Callender). Gentlemen Your expectation of punctual payment of your bill is but reasonable and my care not to undertake it without provision for my certain performance of it, I hope cannot be dissatisfactory to you. Such a sum payable at 6 days sight is you know at this sickly time (when those that we used to be supplied by are not at hand) is not so easily compassed as at another time. Therefore I beg you not to deny me a few days to look after it which I shall do with my utmost care and in the meanwhile be pleased to remember that you are secured for the principall by tallys for more than the value left in Mr. Colvill’s hands for his and your security and that all your failure can be but for the interest thereof for a few days for which I do undertake you shall have ample satisfaction. Pray once more be pleased to confer with Mr. Colvill here on who I do verily believe will agree that on these terms you may with much safety (and I hope without much inconvenience to your present occasions) allow the King a few days delay in the serving your bill. I am Your very humble servant S. P. Greenw^h Octob. ii - 1665 - [Upon Pepys devolved the disagreeable task of raising money on Tallies to meet Bills of Exchange drawn for the service of Tangier. The preceding letter to S. P, from Sir John Frederick, Lord Mayor of London, and Nathaniel Hernett, complaining of the probable dishonouring of some such bills, with his reply, will explain themselves. The original letter from John Colvill (goldsmith and banker) to Pepys, dated Oct. 10, 1665, giving reasons for his inability to advance more money on tallies is in the present collection.]
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