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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [2] (19/578)
The record is made up of 1 volume (289 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English and French. 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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PERSIA.
•2
Portugal, their assistance being' obtained by the Shah by the promise* * of
half the plunder, and half the future customs of Ctamrun and Ormaz.
These promises were not kept.
Russia and Spain sent Envoys to the Persian Court in 1618, and
Erance in 1625: and an English Envoy, Sir Dodmore Cotton, arrived
some time between 1620 and 1628 to establish commercial relations
between Great Britain and Persia; but his negotiations failed.
Shah Abbas died in 1628. Under the weak rule of his successors the
Turks severed from the Persian Empire some of the best of the western
provinces: the Arab ruler of Muscat possessed himself of the islands in
the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
: and the Abdali Afghans made themselves independent
in Herat, and the Ghilzais in Kandahar. In 1639 Shah Safi IV signed
a treaty with Turkey which delimited afresh the frontiers of Azerbaijan
and Baghdad. Under it Hjessan and Badrayi were ceded to Turkey,
Baghdad and Basra became Turkish, the Arabs of the Chaab tribe were
declared independent, and the Jaf tribe was divided.
gouernor of that place shall sende the goodes to the next marchant of his nation,
which shall be abiding in any parts of our dominions.
And those within our kingdomes and prouinces hauing power ouer our tooles
and customes shall receiue nothing, nor dare to speake for any receipt from any
Christian marchant.
And if any such Christian shall giue credite to any of our subjects (of any
condition whatsoeuer) he shall, by this pattent of ours, have authoritie to require
any caddie, or gouernor, to do him justice, and thereupon, at the instant of his
demaunde, shall cause him to be satisfied.
Neyther shall any gouernor, or justice, of what qualitie soeuer he be, dare
take any rewarde of him, which shall be to his expense; for our will and pleasure
is, that they shall be used in all our dominions to their own full content, and that
our kingdomes and countries shall be free unto them.
That none shall presume to aske them for what ocasion they are heere.
And although it hath bin a continual! and unchaungeable use in our dominions
euery yeere to renue all pattents, this pattent, notwithstanding, shall be of full
effect and force for euer without any renuing, for me and my successors, not to
be changed.
* Substance of the Articles of Agreement as given in Fryer’s Travels, Chapter XII.
X First .—Stipulating that the Persian soldiers should not meddle with the spoils
t before “ the English mariners were satisfied (which were such of all sorts of jewels,
: gold, and silver, that they refused to carry off any more).
‘‘ Secondly .—That Bandar Abbas, now Gombroon, should yearly divide half
■ the customs between the English and Persians, and that whatever" English ship
should enter the port should be free from any manner of tribute.
“ Thirdly .—That it should be lawful for them to transport twenty horses, of
which number two might be mares, yearly.”
1 rovided first, lhat the English should keep two men-of-war constantly to
. defend the Gulf; and
- “ Secondly —That they should deliver the Portugal’s forts into the Persians
hands, m doing which the English should always be esteemed the emperor’s
friends; and
Lastly .—Should have the first seat in the Council, and their Agents be looked
on with equal grace to their prime nobility.”
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The volume is the fifth edition of volume 13 of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) relating to India and its neighbouring countries, namely Persia and Afghanistan. This volume, originally compiled by Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, was revised in 1930 and published in 1933 by the Manager of Publications in Delhi, under the authority of the Government of India.
Part 1 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Persia and dating from between 12 April 1763 and 10 May 1929. The treaties refer to: trade agreements; foreign relations; prohibition and suppression of the slave trade; sovereignty and status of Persian regions; frontier negotiations; foreign concessions; telegraph lines. Part 2 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Afghanistan and dating from between 17 June 1809 and 6 May 1930. The treaties relate to: foreign relations; the establishment of boundaries and frontier negotiations; peace treaties; commercial relations; import of arms. A number of appendices follow part 2, which contain the text of treaties relating to both Persia and Afghanistan.
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- 1 volume (289 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged into two parts covering Persia and Afghanistan respectively, as are the appendices at the end of the volume. Each part is divided into a number of chapters, identified by Roman numerals, and arranged chronologically, from the earliest treaties to the most recent. At the beginning of each part is a general introduction to the treaties and engagements that follow.
There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 4-8) which lists the geographical regions and treaties. The contents pages refers to the volume’s pagination system. There is a subject index, arranged alphabetically, at the end of the volume (ff 277-87) which also refers to the volume’s pagination system.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover where the folio number is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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