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Diary and Consultations of Mr William Cockell, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1735 and ending July 1736 [‎345v] (104/110)

The record is made up of 1 item (54 folios). It was created in 1 Aug 1735-31 Jul 1736. 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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The item is in the form of a diary (ff 294-348), which contains records of consultations at the Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory An East India Company trading post. . The Chief Agent, William Cockell, and the Factory An East India Company trading post. council members, including John Geekie, Thomas Waters, James Verelst, and Walter Ray headed the consultations. They recorded the daily activities, the administrative decisions made, letters received and sent, as well as visits to and from the Factory An East India Company trading post. . The margin sections in the diary include headlines noting the main events recorded in the consultations.

Among the main details and issues recorded in the diary are the following:

The diary includes records of letters exchanged mainly between the Factories at Gombroon and Spahaun [Isfahan], and the Council at Bombay, as well as letters and gifts exchanged with certain Persian officials. It also includes records of the exchange of visits between the Agent and some Persian officials and merchants in the region.

The diary includes records of the arrival and departure of ships, including the Britannia , the Queen Carolina , the Robert Galley , the Kissing Peggy , the Northumberland , the Rose Galley , the Jenny , the Sarah , and the Prince of Wales Galley . It also includes records of French ships such as the Union and the Four Sisters . From Gombroon the ships sailed mainly to Surat, Madrass [Madras], Mallabar Coast [Malabar], Bengall [Bengal], Sindy, Muscat, Busarah, Bassidore [Basidu, also written as Bassidors], Bushire, and Bombay. The diary also includes records of imported commodities such as rice, sugar, sugar candy, pepper, rose water, copper and other goods.

The diary includes abstracts of the standard account disbursements for each month. These cover the following: house expenses, garrison charges, the Afseen garden, hospital charges, medicines, marine charges, merchandised charges, house furniture, extraordinary charges, stable charges and servants' wages.

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1 item (54 folios)
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The diary includes a title page (f 294) and it has been numbered 1-107 which corresponds to folios 295-348. The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the diary.

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Diary and Consultations of Mr William Cockell, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1735 and ending July 1736 [‎345v] (104/110), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/G/29/5/8, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100082436879.0x000062> [accessed 14 December 2024]

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