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'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [58r] (115/540)
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. .
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37
Wee forgott in our last to acquaint yo. yt. Mr. Thomas Woodford a flfactor
who had charge of ye. custome houses here having made away wth. consider
able time of ye. B. M. Compa/s cash & clandestinely made his escape wth.
Capt. Charles Perrin who as unworthily & basely carried him away The*
advised to the contrary) is now in custody in ye. garrison but how if affairs will
be concluded with him we cannot as yett tell by reason ye. his absent.
The Loyall Mercht. wee believe will be dispatcht very speedily for
Europe;
Wee are
Worspll Sr. & Srs.
J. BURNISTON.
W. AISLABIE.
B. GRACIY.
Bombay Castle ;
December yJL. 5 1700.
Just on conclusion of the foregoing wee received advices from off Basseen
yt. ye. summers a new Comp's ship past ye. 1st inst. for Suratt wch. ye.
Embassad. having a Union fflagg on Topmast head.
XXIX.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT DIARY No. 2 OF 1723-1724.
Consultation of the Pkesident & Governor in Council.
Bombay Castle, 6 April 1724.
Read and approved our last consultation. The President acquaints the Basrah affain.
Board the occasion of this meeting is to consider of the state of our Hon'ble
Master's affairs in Persia and the needful directions to be given that
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
by the Compton now under despatch for Gombroon and first our settlement at
Bussorah, where it is observed there is nothing yet done for the advantage of
our Hon'ble Employers, more than a promise obtained from the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
that
we shall pay but three per cent. Duties on the Broad cloth none of which
being disposed of at the time Mi- Houssay dispatched those advices, The
prospect he gives us of selling it seems rather an amusement than any real
application to serve bis Employers while he continues so much involved in
private Trade.
The President further informs the Board thathe has several representa- Affairs of the late
tions made him from the claimants, inhabitants of Gombroon, on the Estate of Mr * WngIlt -
Edmund Wright deceased, that there are also other demands on him here and
from other parts of India that the said M^ Isaee Houssay has carried with him
to Bussorah the greatest part of the said M^ Wright's effects without giving
the parties any satisfaction, neither has he transmitted us copy of the deceased's
will, whereby he might be authorized to act therein or given us any account
of the deceased's Estate. That it is reported to him, the Resident, which
* One of the then Members of the Bombay M ?f John* Hope also declares to have
Government. heard, that the said M^ Houssay will
not return to Gombroon, but go from Bussorah to England, all which taking
into consideration, and apprehending our Hon'ble Master's credit may he
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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.
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- 1 volume (269 folios)
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A summary of the selections appears between folios 8-39. Those printed in the volume are indicated in the summary with Roman numerals.
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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.
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- 'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800'
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- front, front-i, 2r:158v, 160r:190v, 191v:201v, 203r:236v, 238r:270v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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