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Copy of General Letter from Bombay Castle to the Robert Cowan, Chief, at Mocha [484r] (15/20)
The record is made up of 1 item (10 folios). It was created in 24 Jun 1727. 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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A copy of a general letter to Robert Cowan, Chief at the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. , from Bombay Castle, dated 1 January 1725/6 [Old Style date 1725, New Style date 1726].
The letter mostly concerns matters relating to the following: shipping, including ships which had arrived at Bombay from Mocha, and ships which had departed Bombay for Mocha; the sale of goods from Europe and India at Mocha; investment in coffee and other goods for export by the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. ; the trade of the East India Company in general at Mocha, and relations with the Government of Mocha; the buildings of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. , and the dissatisfaction of the authors and the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. with the increase in general expenditure of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. ; factors, writers, officers and soldiers of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. , and their accounts; and the general accounts of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. , sent to Bombay.
The letter gives support for 'breaking the knot of Arab Merchants of whom Turbaty is principal' and warns that agreements with the present Imaum [Imam], referred to as 'an Usurper', may not have lasting authority.
Received via the ship Princess Amelia , 24 June 1727.
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- IOR/G/17/1 Part 3 ff.477-486
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- Copy of General Letter from Bombay Castle to the Robert Cowan, Chief, at Mocha
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- 477r:486v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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