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'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [18v] (38/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. 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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6 PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
written is so difficult to decipher that it would occupy considerable time
for copies to be made, added to which, from age, the paper is so tender
that it crumbles to the touch; these letters appear to be confined to
commercial subjects, and the above may therefore be considered to be
fair specimens of the whole of them.
14. Nothing- further can be traced connected with the Gombroon
or Persian factories from the above period (1646) until the year 1656.
From a letter dated the 29th November 1656, addressed by the Chief in
Council at Gombroon to the Chief in Council at Surat, it appears that
Mr. William Weale, one of the parties above alluded to as having been
in charg-e of the
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Bussorah, and by whom both of the letters
last quoted are signed, died at Ispahan in September 1656. The follow
ing is an extract from this letter :—
"Our last unto you was dated in Ispahan the 17th September, which came to the
hands of Mr. Thomas Reynardson in Bunder,* who sent them towards you on the
Seajiower, who left this place the 22nd October, which I hope is come safe to your
reception. Long since is advised you of the death of Mr. William Weale in Ispahan,
and of all other occurrences in the Company's affairs to that day, whose copy shall
be sent you by the next conveyance."
15. The following is an extract from a further letter, written at
Shiraz on the 7th November 1656 by the same parties, who, as above
stated, were the Chief in Council of the East India
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Gombroon.
This letter is dated three weeks previous to the one from which the
extract above quoted is taken, but did not, as appears from a memo
randum made on the letter, reach the Chief in Council of the
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
at
Surat until a week after the receipt of the one of subsequent date:—
" Please to take notice that our last unto you was dated in Ispahan the 28th
August, whose copy is here sent you ; and what hath been since accounted worthy your
notice shall in the following lines be advised you. The 11th September, after a long
and tedious consumption, it pleased the Almighty to take out of this life Mr. William
Weale, your servant, and our chief head in Persia, and the day following buried
him in as decent a manner as we could, and, indeed, according as he desired before his
death. He died without will, we not being able to persuade him to make it and to
settle his estate. What moveables he had in Ispahan, we took an inventory of, and
carried them with us, and what he hath more in Gombroon shall do the like when we
come there, and send them all to Surat. Our stay in Ispahan this year was occasioned
by the great desire we had to put off what goods you had there, as also to carry your
orders down with us, which at last we effected."
In a subsequent letter, dated Gombroon, the 15th December 1656,
the same pai'ties made a general report on the state of the Company's
affairs in Persia, and at the same time forwarded an inventory of the
effects of Mr. Weale at Gombroon.
16. In a letter dated the 16th October 1657 a Mr. Bell, in writing
from Gombroon to the Chief in Council at Surat, observes—
" I was not so happy as to receive any letters from your Company while I was in
Bussorah, but I hope between this time and the time the Seaflower\ will sail hence they
will come either from Bussorah or by way of Ispahan. I have received orders from
Mr. Andrews to send on the Seaflower 400
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
Nondunga money for account of
the Hon'ble Company, which by her you may expect. From Bussorah I could make
but little more than
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
900 freight, all in money ; so that from hence I hope to
get a full freight of goods and passengers, the Kaffilas being now at hand."
* Meaning no doubt Bunder Abbass, alias Gombroon.
+ One of the East India Company's vessels.
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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).
The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.
The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.
Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.
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- 1 volume (111 folios)
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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).
Condition: the volume is disbound and has lost its front cover.
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- front, front-i, 1r:84v, 84ar:84av, 85r:110v, back-i, back
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