'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎55] (1010/1024)

jfr their Fa&ory it'Cafik^aStr , where be bought every year fix or (even
thoufand Bales of Silk. For by this Effay he found , that his Erbaker
Icing in confederacy with the Mafter of the Mint, had cheated the
Company of one and a half and two per Cent, in the value of the Gold
and Silver which was brought him from jf^» 5 as well coin’d as in bairr,
to a very confiderable fu'tti of Money.
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aife Weights or Scales unduly poisu. , ^ , 4 ...
But thatfraud is eafdy avoided, if the Prefident and his Council Will
be but to patient as to fee their Metal weigh’d themfelves, and take care
thatthe Weights be right, and the Scales true. . ' , f
One of the moft important Obfervationsin reference to the Tradeot
the 'Company, and difeiplineof their Fadories is this : ;‘ n j
[ o prevent the Nlerch3.nts cr under-Nlerclients 3 AccoiTipt&lits snu
r.'-der Accomptants, who officiate under the Commanders and Btoakers,
rrom drivimr any particular Trade by themfelves, for they having a
fontilkrlty with the men of Manufacture, and finding by the Letters Of
Advice what Goods are likely to be moft vendible next year, buy them up
noon their own accompts , and find a way to lade them off in the Com
pany’s Veffels, to the great dammage of the whole, though to the great
gain of particular people, _ . , f -
And this the Prefident permits them to do , either for his own In-
tereft, or by connivance under the pretence of their fmall Wages. The
Captain of the Veffel alfo winks at what they do,. becaufe he has a Ipell
for loading and unloading. And becaufe thefe people having no great
Stocks, are defirous to put off their Goods with the firft opportunities,
they give order to their Correfpondents to under-fell the Company ten
or twelve in the Hundred, which is the abfolute ruin of a Trade. .
To remedy this diforder there ought to be a Fifcal, or King s Procftor,
in every of the chief Factories belonging to the Company, toad in the
K H^i^tTbe independent foom^the Prefident and the Breaker, in the
Exercife of his Office-, fo that he may have an eye, as well upon their
behaviour, as upon the demeanour of the under Officers.
Brought to be a perron of good Credit, refolute and vigilant; and
he muft have a ftrength of men correfpondent to his Employment, and
K hfvegtod Information of the departure of all Ships when
rhev a e once laden, and when they are ready to fet fail for the Port
whither they are bound. When he hears of -f"
he ought to go himfelf, or fend his Deputy with a fufhcient Guard , to
behoves him to Jake care that no Goods be privately convey’d alhoar
“S Private corners, where there are receivers a now ready: and
thus privately unladen he Hall have power to con-
““'fall alfo confifcatewhatever he Sods nptMarfdwiththeCom-
P “ H ? ““aMfcharge any inferiour Officers to whom any fuehBde,