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‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 2 [247r] (244/254)
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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it shall bee accordingly delivered unto them, Otherwise
not.
For the English their owne propper Shipps and Goods,
and for what belongeth unto them our deputies shall not
demand Customs or other duties for them, and for our
owns shipping what gains or Bennifitt wee shall reaps
wee will injoy and they shall not demand Customs etc.
for the same, but for the Goods of Mar chants and Traders
wheather in thir Shipps or ours what shall accrew by
Customs etc. shall bee equally shared betweene us both,
and for other Shipps of the Sea or the Ports of India,
what shall bee gained by Pillage or otherwise shall bee
allso shared beetwene us both. f***
Concerning Captives such as bee Mussellmen whether v
the English prisoners or ours, the English shall not
meddle about them but leave them to us. But if Christian
Captives the English shall have them, And concerning
Captaine Moore and the Captaine of Jeroone, It is agreed
that if they chance to bee the English Captives wee will
not demaund them, but if they fortune to bee ours advice
thereof shall bee sent to his Majestie, and what he shall
please to Command touching them shall bee put in execu
tion, and the English shall not intermeddle about their
liberty.
Concerning any the Ports of India or the Ports of
Sehauxe Muscatt etc. such as shall hereafter bee Con
quered by us and the English togeither shall bee equally
Converted to the use and behoofe of both, And if the
English shall goe with any intent to take any place or
Castle in India giveing notice thereof to our Deputies,
what ayde they shall desire of men and other asistance |
they shall bee supplyed by Gods permission to accomplish
the Victory which achived if the Governor of that place
be
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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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- Title
- ‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 2
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- front-a-i, 126r:202v, 203v, 208v, 212v, 216v, 220r:221v, 226v:251v, back-a-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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