Diary and Consultations of Mr John Horne, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1731 and ending July 1732

Content

The item is in the form of a diary (ff 121-171), which contains records of consultations at the Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory An East India Company trading post. . The Chief Agent, John Horne, and the Factory An East India Company trading post. Council members, including William Cordeaux, Edward Clift, and John Geekie, 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. .

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

• News of peace being concluded between the Persians and the Muscauites [Muscovites]
• News of Hassan Ally Caun Mayor Bashee [Hasan Ali Khan Mu’ayyir Bashi] attacking the Turkish frontiers
• News of the revolt of Shaikh Ahmed Madannah [Ahmad Madani]
• The arrival of wool from Carmania [Kerman]
• The appointment of Nathaniel Whitewell to serve at the Council of Bombay
• News of Arabs and Aphgoons [Afghans] campaigning against the Factory An East India Company trading post. and the Persians
• Reports that Mahmud Caun Balloach [Muhammad Khan Baluch, Governor of Kuhgiluyah] has joined the Beglerbeggy [Beglerbegi/ Beylerbeyi is Turkish and Azeri for Governor-General] of Shyrash [Shiraz] to campaign against the Arabs
• News of peace being concluded between the Persians and the Turks [Ottomans]
• A letter received from Jonathan Winder and William Follie of a ship called the Queen Caroline
• The arrival of letters from the Hoalley [the Hawala Group of people who migrated from the Arab shores of the Gulf to the Persian side over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of whom have since returned to the Arabian Peninsula. /Huwala Arabs?] and from the Imaum's Vackeel [the Imam's wakil Elected representative or attorney, acting in legal matters such as contracting marriage, inheritance, or business; a high-ranking legal official; could also refer to a custodian or administrator. , or representative]
• An exchange of letters between the Factory An East India Company trading post. and various Persian notables, and an exchange of letters between the Factory An East India Company trading post. members at Gombroon and Spahaun [Isfahan, also written as Spahune] with the Council at Bombay
• An exchange of visits between the Factory An East India Company trading post. 's Agent and Mirza Ishmael the Shanobunder of Gombroon [Mirza Ismail, the Shahbandar of Bandar-e ʻAbbās], between the Agent and Meer Meer Ally [Mir Mehr ‘Ali, Deputy Governor of Bandar ‘Abbas], and between the Agent and the Dutch Chief.

The diary includes records of the arrival and departure of ships, including the Britannia , the Prince of Wales Galley , the Robert Galley , the Queen Caroline and the Fame . From Gombroon the ships sailed mainly to Bombay, Mocha, Surat, Bussarah [Basra], and the Mallabar Coast.

The diary also includes records of certain individuals who are either merchants or Persian officials, including the following: Mirza Mahmut Naib of Afseen [Mirza Mahmud, Governor of Afseen]; Mirza Ishmael Shano from Afseen [Mirza Ismail Khan]; and Maahmud Ally Beg [Muhammad ‘Ali Beg], former Shahbandar of Gombroon.

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.

Extent and format

1 item (50 folio)

It is part of

Diaries and Consultations of Messrs John Geekie, John Horne, and William Cockell, Agents of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing 20 November 1728 and ending 31 July 1737.

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Ref: IOR/G/29/5

Arrangement

The diary includes a cover page, and a table of contents. The diary is numbered 1-92, which corresponds to folios 121-169. The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the diary.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Diary

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/G/29/5/4

History of this record

Date(s)

1 Aug 1731-31 Jul 1732 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

SpahaunSuratt

People & organisations

Ahmad Madani

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Diary and Consultations of Mr John Horne, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1731 and ending July 1732, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/G/29/5/4, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100098364806.0x000008> [accessed 28 November 2024]

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