‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 2 [‎202v] (155/254)

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‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 2

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Ref: IOR/G/29/1/2

The record is made up of 1 item (127 folios). It was created in 2 Nov 1625-3 Aug 1697. 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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This item contains the East India Company’s early correspondence about Persia [Iran], together with translations of firmans [farmāns, i.e. edicts] and trading privileges [rughūms] issued by the Shah, his Commercial Agent [Mālik al-Tujjār] and Master of the Mint, the Beglerbeg [Governor-General] of Fars and other Persian administrators. The item include material relating to:

An attack on a Portuguese ship by the English, who decapitated all the men on board, and sent their heads to Muscatt ‘for a present’ to Ruy Fferejra [Rui Freire de Andrade]
The skirmishes of the King of Denmark [Christian IV] and Duke of Brunswick [Christian the Younger] against the Imperial Army under Monsieur [Johann Tserclaes, Count of ] Tilly
The Spanish recapture of Baja [Bahia] in Brazillia [Brazil] from the ‘Hollanders’
The return of the Shah’s ambassador, Sir Robert Sherly [Shirley], from his mission to Europe
The outbreak of war between England and Spain, and the English expedition against Cádiz.

The item also includes:

The accounts of expenses for two journeys in Persia: March 1626-January 1627, and February 1627-December 1628 (ff 152-197)
Firmans, mandates, and letters issued by the Shah and others, June 1627-June 1630 (ff 203-226)
Instructions from King Charles I to Nicholas Wilford, sent on a Mission to the Emperor of Persia (f 235); and Patterns [of silks] from Persia, received overland via Aleppo, 3 August 1697 (f 243).

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1 item (127 folios)

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English in Latin script

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Reference: IOR/G/29/1/2
Title: ‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 2
Pages: front-a-i, 126r:202v, 203v, 208v, 212v, 216v, 220r:221v, 226v:251v, back-a-i
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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