!['Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [‎9r] (17/540)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x0001b2/IOR_L_PS_20_C227_0017.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [‎9r] (17/540)")
'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [9r] (17/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 folios). It was created in 1908. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
Transcription
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
SUMMARY.
Name of the book or
Volnme of the
Eeeorde,
Nature of documents
or papers.
Letters received by
East India Com
pany, Volume III,
pages 1-13 (8—9).
Letters recehed by
East India Com
pany, Volume III,
pages 63 72
(70 -71).
Pages 176—178
Tbe Embassy of Sir
Thomas Eoe to
India (Hakluyt
Edition), Volnme
I, page 93.
The Embassy of Sir
Thomas Roe to
India page 110
and Purchas Pil
grimage, Volume
I, page 581.
The Embassy of Sir
Thomas Roe to
India, Volume I,
page 128.
Thomas Elkington to East
India Company (Swally
Koad), 25th February 1614
(-15).
Thomas Kerridge, to the East
India Company (Ajmere),
20th March 1614 (-15).
Summary.
Description* of moneys, weights
and measures of Persia and
the commodities of Persia and
prices of English goods
vendible there by Richard
Steel, 1615.
Sir Thomas Roe to the Com
pany (Branpore), 24th
November 1615.
Sir Thomas Roe to Lord Carew
(Ajmere), 17th January 1615
(-16).
Sir Thomas Eoe to the East
India Company by way of
Persia, 14th February 1615
(-16).
The Embassy of Sir
Thomas Roe,
page 132.
Letters received by
East India Com
pany, Volnme IV,
pages 320—333
(page 328).
Refers to Richard Steel's reports of prospects of trade with
Persia and his mission with John Crouther to Persia.
Conference of Kenidge with Sir Robert Sherley, who " gives
much encouriigement of great trade to be done " in Persia.
Notes taken from various Persians as to ports and trade in
Persia, copy of which given to Richard Steel and John
Crouther, with a letter to Sir Robert Sherley for " his
furtherance in their business Report of Portuguese in
Ormuz (Gombroon) having been beseitred by Persians and
brought to distress " The extreme base pride of the
Portugals will work their ruin everywhere."
Sir Thomas Roe to King of
Persia, 14th February 1615
(-16) [enclosed in a letter to
William Robbins, a jeweller
and merchant at Ispahan, who
was asked to translate and
present it to the Shah].
The Factors at Surat to Sir
Thomas Eoe, 23rd and 26th
July 1616.
i See also
page 462
of Firtt
Letter
B o o Jc,
1600—19.
Prospects of Jasques as a port for trade on the Indus, its
mouth being the Sindhu (in Sind), and for Persian trade.
Sir T. Roe proposes to ascertain the possibilities of the
Persian trade to send an agent to make enquiries and if he
gets a commission from His Majesty to proceed to Ispahan
to settle the matter personally.
Shah Abbas expels Portuguese from Ormuz (Gombroon),
where they had established themselves in 1512 to secure provi
sions for their settlement at Ormuz ; Shah Abbas overrun
Georgia with fire and sword.
Farman (printed t page 524 of Purchas Pilgrims, Volume I),
procured by Steel and Crouther from Shah Abbas ordering
the Governors of seaport towns to receive and assist any
English vessels that might present themselves. [Copy of
this farman sent with letters of Steel and Crouther to
Aldeworth and Kdwards, reached Ajmere on 10th February
1616, but former dead and latter had left for England. Sir
Thomas Roe opens the letters and writes to East India Com
pany.—See introduction to the work mentioned in column 1,
page XLVIII.] In Sir Thomas Roe's opinion the benefits
of this farman overestimated, as there was no provision for
fortifying a port, and there was no possibility of securing
trade. The Persians expelled the Portuguese from Bandel
(Gombroon) before intelligence of the Turkish invasion, but
now the latter event happening and Sir Robert Sherley
having returned from Spain, was heartily welcomed by the
Shah, and was now being sent on a second mission to Spain
to conclude a treaty, by which whole monopoly of silk trade
given to Spain (the object being to divert its transit by way
of Turkey) with right to re-fortify Bandel and some other
ports, and Spain to send yearly a fleet with spices, pepper,
Indian linen, etc., in exchange partly, but for most part
ready money. The danger to the English trade is very
great, if Sherley succeeds. Roe has written to the Shah.
Sir Thomas Roe thanks the Shah for his farman, refers to
His Majesty's mission to Spain with instructions to permit
Spain to fortify ports in the Gulf which only recently the
Shah had purposed to free from bondage and open to all
nations. If monopoly be given to one nation the English
would be compelled to force their way by arms and thus
there would be disturbances in the Gulf and ruin of trade
would follow, advisibility of opening a free mart on the
Gulf open to do all nations.
Sir Robert Sherley's previous mission a failure. He had pro
mised much more in England than he could perform. He
had left Spain in discontent. His present mission to Spain
was the consequence of the war between Turkey and Persia,
the success of which the sequel will declare. The benefits
expected by trade with Persia " I know no more than he
(Sherley) promised."
t Reprinted
as Append
ix A.
About this item
- Content
The volume is Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1908). The work was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha.
The volume consists of a summary of events in the history of the East India Company's involvement with Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , during the period 1600-1800, taken from various printed sources and the selections from the records of the Bombay Government as contained in the present volume (folios 8-39); followed by the selections themselves (folios 40-235); and eleven appendices containing farmans [firmans] and statements of farmans, reports on commerce with Persia and Arabia, a list of the East India Company's agents, and a glossary of words (folios 236-269).
A list of records from which the selections had been made appears on folio 4v.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
A summary of the selections appears between folios 8-39. Those printed in the volume are indicated in the summary with Roman numerals.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 270 on the last folio (there is no back cover). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages.
Pagination: there is also an original printed pagination sequence, numbered ii-lxiii (folios 4-39) and 2-459 (folios 40-269). These numbers appear at the top of each page.
Condition: the volume is largely disbound because of deterioration to the binding, and there is no back cover. There is also significant damage to the edges of the front cover and some of the folios at the beginning of the volume, but this has not led to any loss of text.
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
Use and share this item
- Share this item
'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [9r] (17/540), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/20/C227, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023622974.0x000012> [accessed 27 May 2024]
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023622974.0x000012
Copy and paste the code below into your web page where you would like to embed the image.
<meta charset="utf-8"><a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023622974.0x000012">'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [‎9r] (17/540)</a> <a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023622974.0x000012"> <img src="https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x0001b2/IOR_L_PS_20_C227_0017.jp2/full/!280,240/0/default.jpg" alt="" /> </a>
This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100000000884.0x0001b2/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images
Copyright: How to use this content
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/20/C227
- Title
- 'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:158v, 160r:190v, 191v:201v, 203r:236v, 238r:270v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence