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Diary and Consultations of Mr William Cockell, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1734 and ending July 1735 [‎258v] (20/90)

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The record is made up of 1 item (44 folios). It was created in 1 Aug 1734-31 Jul 1735. 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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The item is in the form of a diary (ff 249-293), which contains records of consultations at the Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory An East India Company trading post. . The Chief Agent, William Cockell, and the Factory An East India Company trading post. Council members, including Edward Clift, James Smith, Thomas Waters, James Verelst, John Geekie and Walter Ray, 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. . The margin sections in the diary include headlines noting the main events recorded in the consultations.

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

The diary includes records of letters exchanged mainly between the factories at Gombroon and Spahaun and the Council at Bombay, as well as letters received from certain Persian officials. The diary also includes records of visits exchanged between the Factory An East India Company trading post. 's employees and Persian notables.

The diary also includes records of the arrival and departure of ships including the Britannia , the Trial Brigantine , the Carolina , the Robert Galley , the Kissing Peggy , the Peggy Grab Shallow vessel with a projecting bow. , the Wilmington , the Royal George , the Jenny , the Sarah , the Hannah , the Prince of Wales Galley , the Fame , and the Cumberland Galley . It also includes records of Dutch and French ships such as the Valkurness of Bataira and the Four Sisters respectively. From Gombroon the ships sailed mainly to Surat, Madrass [Madras], Mallabar [Malabar], Bengall [Bengal], Busarah, Bassidore [Basidu, also written as Bassidors] and Bombay.

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.

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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the diary.

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Diary and Consultations of Mr William Cockell, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1734 and ending July 1735 [‎258v] (20/90), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/G/29/5/7, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100082436878.0x00007c> [accessed 27 November 2024]

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Diary and Consultations of Mr William Cockell, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1734 and ending July 1735
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249r:293v
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