"ملخّص يحتوي على معلومات بشأن الاتصال الأول لشركة الهند الشرقية مع الجزيرة العربية التركية، طالما أمكن تتبع ذلك من سجلات حكومة بومباي، بالإضافة إلى أسماء العديد من المقيمين البريطانيين والوكلاء السياسيين الذين عُينوا في بغداد والبصرة في الفترة بين ١٦٤٦ و ١٨٤٦ ميلادي، وبمرافقة معلومات أخرى" [ظ‎‎٢‎١] (٢٢٦/٤٤)

12 PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY.
27. In a list, which is extant, of the names of the factories in the
service of the Hon'ble East India Company belonging to Bombay in
December 1672, and which also states at what station they were
employed, the following parties are mentioned as having been then
employed in Persia,* the head-qnarters of which factory were at
Gombroon in the Persian Gulf. This list contains 57 names:—
1. Thomas Eolt, Chief.
2. Henry Young.
3. Samuel Carleton, Chirurgeon (Surgeon).
4. John Ffloat.
5. John Sharpe.
The remaining factors (52 in number) are stated to have been employed
at Surat and the subordinate factories—Bombay, Carwar, and Calicut"
28. In " a list of y-e factors resident in y-e IWble Com
pany's service in Surratt, and the factories subordinate thereto, anno
1676," which contains 60 names, 21 are stated to have been then
employed at Surat, 13 in Bombay, six at Rajapore, six "in Carwar,"
seven on Coast Malabar, four " in Broach," and three in Persia, namely,
Thomas Holt, Chief, Samuel Darnelly, and John Sharpe.
29. On the 19th lebruary 1676 the following letter was addressed
by the Chief in Council at Surat to the Chief in Council of the East
India Company's Factory in Persia. The enclosed are—
" copies of our last unto you per ship Ryhme, bound directly to your port. We had
once intended to have answered your several letters by this frigate, the Revenge, but
she being despatched so suddenly, and at present we are busily employed in ordering
and calculating the goods enordered be provided in the several factories for the
ensuing year, that we cannot possibly respond to them now, but so desire your patience
till we dispeed the Retm'ne, who is now ready to take in goods for Persia and liussorah,
by whom we shall write you at large. In the interim, we remain," &c.
30. The following is an extract from a letter addressed by the
Chief in Council at Surat to the Chief iu Council, Persia, dated the 7th
April 1676:—
" In a former letter we advised you that, in obedience to the Company's express
orders, we had appointed Mr. James Adames to assist as second in their factory at Persia,
who now takes his passage on ship Reiume, and we desire you to receive him in said
quality, and to deliver the Company's books unto him. We have also appointed Mr. Samuel
Darnelly to be third, and would have Mr. James Adames and him to sign the general
letters and have cognizance of all their affairs, it being their express order. And seeing
there will offer little business in Persia this year, and the ship Returne being bound to
Bussorah with freight goods, and will require an able person for the management of the
affair, we thought good to appoint Mr. James Adames for that service, and at his return
from Bussorah to stay at Gombroon as before. We desire you to furnish him with all
things necessary for his voyage and stay at Bussorah—with bridle and saddle, somoances,
canatts, &c.; and what disbursements are made thereon must be charged to the ship's
account."
31. From the following extract from a letter addressed by the
President in Council at Surat to the Chief in Council in Persia, dated
* None are mentioned as having been stationed at Bussorah ; this circumstance tends
to corroborate the supposition mentioned in paragraph that one of the factors at
Gombroon from time to time proceeded to Bussorah for the sale and purchase of invest
ments, and then returned to Gombroon.