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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' [80r] (159/540)
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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men and Guns to defend us, a guard-ship also lying constantly in the Eoad,
I really can't see any cause to leave Gombroon through Fear even of the worst
that a body of undisciplin'd Rabble can do. It is certainly requisite to keep
a Vessel of Force upon this Station until the Kingdom be throughly settled,
for however improbable it may seem, it is not impossible that we may at last
have Occasion for such a Eetreat, and those (if there be any) that have evil
Intentions towards us will never think it worth their while to attempt the
taking our
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
when we have an Opportunity of leaving the shore with
all the most valuable Effects, whenever we find Occasion for so doing. To
conclude, what I have here troubled your Honours with on this subject, I shall
take leave with the greatest submission humbly to offer it as my opinion
that the Scueme of settling upon any of the Islands is in no wise advisable,
unless the King's Phirmaund can be previously obtained and even then it
might not perhaps answer the expence of building Fortifications and maintain
ing a large Garrison.
Shahrook Shan resides still at Mushat, in the same manner as if he was
only Governour of that city.
Your most obedient Servant
FRANCIS WOOD.
G ombeoon.
The 28tk September 1752.
LXV.
Public Department Diary No. 26 of 1753, pages 241—250.
Bombay Castle, 25th July 1753,
Wednesday 25.— Imported the Ketch Captain Joseph Kerr f r om ^ brooD ' letter
Gombroon and the Neptune Galley Captain John Attinborough from Bussorah Movement of sWps.
By the Drake received a letter from the Agent and Council at Gombroon
dated the 22nd ultimo acquainting us that no opportunity had offered of
addressing us since the 17th September 1752, now inform us of all material
occurrences relating to the affiairs of that Settlement. That the 10th November
last Mynheer Scondeiwoert returned from Batavia upon a large Europe Ship
&. brought several Company's servants & a guard of soldiers with him in order
to establish the Dutch
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
again in its former footing & he then remained
there Chief as he did before. That the Neptune arrived there from Surat the
19th t February with our commands dated the 31st December. The Rose
Galley imported there the 2l8t April, the Brill from Madras the 23rd. The
Kitch from Bengali but last from Anjingo the 30th. The Pm^
JEdward from Bengalo the 20th ultimo. The Neptune on her passage back
from Bussorah the 3rd June. The Judith Ketch from Mangulore the 6th.
The Experiment from Bombay & Muscat the 8th & the Guardian also imported
there the 16th when they received our commands of the 1st May with duplicate
of those intended Per Rose Galley (the Original not as then come to hand) into
which the strictest obedience should be had. That they now returned the
Drake Ketch agreable to our Directions, having laden on board her to the
amount of 992,708 shas 1-| Goz. in Treasure and Goods as per Invoice & Bill of
Lading. Inclosed under No. 2 & a monthly account of Provisions & neces
saries supplied her from 1st August to the 22nd June was particularized
under No. 3. —That in the Month of October last Nasseir Caun received
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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'
- Pages
- 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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