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'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800' [10r] (19/540)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 folios). It was created in 1908. 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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SUMMARY.
V
Name ot the book or
Volume of the
Eeeorde.
Nature of documents
or papers.
Summary.
BEUIBKI.
The Embassy, page
330.
Journal of Sir Thomas Roe,
6th November 1616.
Sir Thomas Eoe complains of the conduct of the Factors at
Surat in rejecting his advice as to Persian trade. He had
wished among other preliminary steps before starting the
enterprise to send one " Shalhauke for 100 rupiaa overland
to discover both Syndu and Jasques."
Purchas Pilgrims,
Volume I, page
606.
Captain Child's Journal
Proceedings of the Persian Misson until return of the
James.
Pley's Journal in
the British
Museum, Egerton
Manuscript.
8th November 1616. —The James sets sail for Jask from Surat
Road with the following Factors for Persia on board :—
Edward Connock.
Thomas Barker.
George Pley.
Edward Pettera.
William Bell.
William Tracye.
Mathew Pepwell (to be distinguished from Henry
Pepwell).
•
Letters received bj
East India Com
pany, Volume V,
page 99.
Thomas Doughty (an officer on
the James), to East India
Company (Surat), 26th Feb
ruary 1616(—17).
During voyage the James gave chase to divers boats described
at sea, of whom some freed themselves by flight and others
by resistance. Only one boat of 30 tons with a Portuguese
pass (f r Bpecimen, see PurcLas Pilgrims, Volume I, page
492), giving license to go to several Portuguese ports.
Page 60
Edward Connock and Thomas
Barker to the Factors at
Surat, (J ask), 19th January
1616(—17).
1st December. —Came to anchor within 5 leagues of the
Arabian roast.
2nd December. — Arrived in a bay near Jask.
4:th December. -Piloted in Jask iiay by a fisherman.
5th December. —Bell went ashore.
6th December.— Bell returned with welcome of the Governor.
7th December. —Party received by the Governor.
12th December. —Party proceeds to Maguatan to visit Sultan
and Gove! nor of Ormuz province (Zulfikar Sultan) in company
with Governor, and c;urying some goods as masters.
Party received with joy and obtain permission to land goods.
11th January 1616(-17). Party returns leaving Pley and
Tracye at Magustan.
13th to 16th January. —Goods landed.
18th January. —Goods laden on camels despatched to
Magustan in charge of Petters and Bell.
19th January. — GovQxnor of Jask died.
20th January. —The James left Jask for Surat.
Letters received by
East India Com
pany, Volume IV,
page 255.
Protest of Factors at Jask
against Alexander Child,
Master of the James, 10th
December 16^6.
On arrival at Jask, the party find the Chief Governor at a
distance of 7 miles and as some time would be taken for some
of the Factors to repair to the Governor and for nego
tiations, the Factors protest against the proposal of Child to
take back James as required by Pepwell's commission. (In
consequence. Child delayed his departure until 20th January
1617.)
Page 261 .
(1) Edward Connock and
Council to Alexander Child at
Jask, 17th December 1616
(2 days' journey short of
Ma^ustan).
(2) Consultation of the Factors
in Persia on same date and
place.
Direction from the Factors in Persia to Child, Captain of the
James, to lie with his ship at a place called Gombroon (thwart
of Ormuz) " which is secure harbour under a castle in case
he is threatened by Portuguese frigates. [ Note. —See
interesting description of Gombroon in these papers. Magu-
stan is probably modern Alinan or Minab about 50 miles east
of Bandar Abbas and 12 miles inland. Note on page 261,
Volume IV. Ibn Butata identifies Magustan with old
Ormuz, the rains of which says Curzou in his Persia, Volume
II, page 414, are on the banks of the Minan creek, some 6
miles south-west of the Minan fort.]
Page 273 .
Edwuri Connock to Captain
Child, 26th December 1616.
Direciions from Edward Connock to Captain Child of the
James, countermanding the above orders and ordering him
to p oceed to Costock (a coast harbour between Guru and
Minan), where he could conveniently discharge the ship.
Refers to Child's discovery of a good bay east of Jask.
Hopes expressed of securing the port of Gombroon.
Page 282
George Pley (one of the Fac
tors in Persia) to Kobert
Middleton and Robert Bate-
man (MagUhtan), 30th De
cember 1616.
Gives details of the party's journey from Jask. No better port
to be got now than Jask for landing goods. Connock and 2
others gone to discharge the goods and send back the James.
Governor has supplied camels to bring up goods and given
orders to Local Governors to befriend and protect the English
from Portuguese attack, for caravan must go for a day 's
journey by sea side. Jask too remote for trade from Shiraz
and Ispahan. Hopes entertained of securing a more conve
nient harbour.
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The volume is Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1908). The work was prepared by Jerome Antony Saldanha.
The volume consists of a summary of events in the history of the East India Company's involvement with Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , during the period 1600-1800, taken from various printed sources and the selections from the records of the Bombay Government as contained in the present volume (folios 8-39); followed by the selections themselves (folios 40-235); and eleven appendices containing farmans [firmans] and statements of farmans, reports on commerce with Persia and Arabia, a list of the East India Company's agents, and a glossary of words (folios 236-269).
A list of records from which the selections had been made appears on folio 4v.
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- 1 volume (269 folios)
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A summary of the selections appears between folios 8-39. Those printed in the volume are indicated in the summary with Roman numerals.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 270 on the last folio (there is no back cover). The numbers are written in pencil, are 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. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages.
Pagination: there is also an original printed pagination sequence, numbered ii-lxiii (folios 4-39) and 2-459 (folios 40-269). These numbers appear at the top of each page.
Condition: the volume is largely disbound because of deterioration to the binding, and there is no back cover. There is also significant damage to the edges of the front cover and some of the folios at the beginning of the volume, but this has not led to any loss of text.
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- 'Selections from State Papers, Bombay, regarding the East India Company's Connection with the Persian Gulf, with a Summary of Events, 1600-1800'
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- front, front-i, 2r:158v, 160r:190v, 191v:201v, 203r:236v, 238r:270v
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