Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pt 2 [‎148v] (75/262)

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This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory An East India Company trading post. at Bussorah [Basra] between 25 September 1726 and 25 August 1731. It includes material relating to:

• A proposal that English vessels stop visiting the port of Bussorah, and that a vessel should instead cruise between Ormus [Hormuz] and Cape Mussledoon [Cape Musandam], to prevent any ‘Moors Vessells’ from entering the Gulf
• A petition from a Persian woman, captured by the crew of the Victoria , to the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. of Bussorah
• The Pasha’s demand either for the release of the Persian woman or for the head of Captain Forbes
• The remonstrance of William Phipps, President of Bombay, with Abde Rahman Basha ['Abd al-Rahman Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ] of Bussorah
• The expulsion of the Dutch East India Company by the Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. of Bengal, Shuja’ al-Din Muhammad Khan Nasiri, from Hughly [Hooghly], following the capture of a vessel belonging to the Ostend Company
• The wresting of Mombase [Mombasa] from the Portuguese by the ‘Muscat Arabs’, and of Portuguese territories between Basseen [Vasai] and Damaun [Daman] by the Sou Rajah [Shahu Rajah]
• The victory of Shaw Thomas’s [Shah Tahmasb II's] General against Hoshroff [Sultan Ashraf Ghilza'i, also referred to as Ashroph and Ashroff Sultan] and the fall of Spahaun [Isfahan]
• The victory of Thomas Cooly Caun [Tahmasb Quli Khan] over the Ophgoons [Afghans] at Shyrash [Shiraz]
• The victories of the Persians against the Ottomans at Hamadan and Kirmanshaw [Kermanshah]
• The killing of Ashroff Sultan by Hossein Caun [Husayn Khan Ghilza’i] at Candahar [Qandahar]
• The papers relating to the Chief Agent, Isaac Houssaye’s management of Company’s affairs at Bussorah
• An engagement between the Maratha Navy and the Bengal Galley , the Bombay , and the Victoria
• The confirmation of all the ‘Rogoms’ [i.e. trading privileges] received from the kings of Persia
• The wresting of Kirmanshaw by the Ottomans from the Persians, and the Turkish march on Hamadan
• A Rogom from Shaw Tomasb [Shah Tahmasb II] to the Company for the collection of customs at Gombroon [Bandar ‘Abbas].

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1 volume (122 folios)

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English in Latin script

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