‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 1 [‎64r] (126/246)

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This item contains the East India Company’s early correspondence about Persia [Iran] from 19 March 1621 to 25 November 1625. The correspondence contained in the item includes material relating to:

• The request from King James I of England to the Shah of Persia [‘Abbās I] to permit English merchants to procure silks in a ‘more convenient’ town closer to the port of Jasques [Jask]
• The war between the amirs of Trypoly and Sydon [Amīr Yūsuf bin Sayfā, Pāsha of Tripoli, and Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn II, born Qurqmāz al-Ma’nī of Sidon]
• The crossing of the River Danubius [Danube] and invasion of Poland [Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth] by the Ottoman Imperial Army
• The establishment of a Dutch East India Company factory An East India Company trading post. [trading post] at Agra
• The death of the ‘Roman Gentleman his wyfe’ [Maʿanī al-Juwayrī, wife of Pietro della Valle]
• The campaign of the ‘Chaune of Xiraz’ [Khān of Shiraz, meaning the Governor-General of Fars, Imām Qulī Khān Ūndīlādze] against the Portuguese in Keshm [Qeshm] and Ormuz [Hormuz, also written here as Ormus], request for naval assistance from the English East India Company, and the Articles of Agreement between the Khan and the Company
• The arrest and execution of a number of associates of the ‘Carmelite College’ in Spahan [Isfahan] for attempting to warn the Portuguese of the impending campaign against Ormuz
• The capture of the fort of Keshm, death of Captain William Baffin, and transportation of the Portuguese to the Coast of Arabia
• The departure of the King of Persia from Spahan for Candahore [Kandahar]
• The exemption of English merchants from ‘Rhadarage’ [rāhdārī, i.e. road tolls] in Persia
• The negotiations of the commanders of the English fleet, John Weddell, Richard Blythe, Nicholas Woodcock and Francis Pinder, with the Chaun and his Chief Steward, Pollard Begge [Pulād Beg]
• The Anglo-Persian force’s capture of the Portuguese fortress at Ormuz on 22 April 1622, and the damages caused to the fleet of Royfreerars [Captain Rui Freire de Andrade, also written here as Royfrere]
• The negotiations between the Portuguese and the Persians over the terms of surrender and future of Ormuz, without the presence or participation of the English East India Company
• The justification of the English fleet’s participation in the campaign on account of the threats posed by the Portuguese
• The poor behaviour of the English sailors as the cause for the unjust division of spoils at Ormuz
• The procurement of a firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). [farmān] for English deserters to be returned from the Persian Army
• The transportation of the Portuguese prisoners from Ormuz to Muscatt [Muscat] or Indya [India]
• The proposals of Edward Monox [Monnox] for the establishment of factories at Sinde [Sindh], Dabull [Dabhol], and Balsora [Basra], and a single additional factory An East India Company trading post. at Ormuz in Persia
• The arrival of a fleet under the Earl of Oxford [Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford] in the Downes [Downs]
• The failure of the Siege of Montaban [Montauban], death of Monsieur De Luynes [Charles d’Albert, Duc de Luynes and Constable of France] and the blockade of Rochell [La Rochelle]
• The defence of the Palatinate by the English volunteers of Sir Oratio Vere [Horace Vere], and Count Monsfeld [Ernst von Mansfeld’s] plan to drive out the forces of Count [Ambrogio] Spinola
• The stalemate between the [Holy Roman] Emperor [Ferdinand II von Habsburg] and Betlem Gabor, Prince of Transilvaniya [Bethlen Gábor, Prince of Transylvania]
• The replacement of Libby Chapman with Edward Kirkham as Consul at Aleppo
• A sea fight between an English fleet and that of the Vizeere [Vizier] of Goa off Moosombeaque [Mozambique], and Royfreerars’s intention to escort the Vizeere to Goa
• The transmission of a letter from the King of Persia to the King of England by the English East India Company, together with a request for examples of English muskets and bullets
• The dismissal of Mr Strachaun [George Strachan] from the Company
• The reception of the ambassadors of the Emperor of Moscovia [Russia] at the Persian Court, on a mission to obtain the Shah’s permission for the export of silk across the Caspian Sea
• The capture of the port of Dabull by Millick Amber [Malik ʻAnbar, Regent of the Sultanate of Ahmednagar], and subsequent detention of his merchandise and commercial agents in Persia
• The need for an official mission from England to formalise trade with Persia
• The lack of security caused by the Porgutall [Portuguese] raids on Persian territories
• The marriage of King Charles [Charles I of England] to the sister of the French King [Princess Henriette Marie de Bourbon, sister of King Louis XIII of France]
• The Spanish General, Count Spenolo [Spinola’s] capture of Breda in the Low Countries
• The death of Graue Morris [Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange] and the succession of his brother Henry [Frederick Henry] in the Netherlands
• The death of the Earl of Oxford and many other Englishmen in Dutch service
• The Duke of Savoy [Carlo Emanuele I] and his French allies’ campaign against Gennoua [Genoa]
• The Pope [Urban VIII Barberini’s] claim to the Country [Kingdom] of Naples
• The ‘great multitudes’ of Cossacks raiding the Ottoman Empire across the Black Sea
• The knighting of Morris Abbott, Governor of the East India Company, by King Charles.

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