"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" [و‎‎٨‎٦] (٢٢٦/١٧٥)

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VI.
And i£ it shall happen that any of their ships shall have suffereo
Cases of Shipwreck. shipwreck, or been broken, or in distress,
shall be cast upon any coast or our
dominions, in which case all Beglerbeys, Caddees, Governors, Ministers
and other our slaves shall give them all assistance, succour and help, and
whatsoever goods and faculties shall be saved or recovered in the said
ships shall be restored to the Eng-lish, and if they shall be informed that
any part of their goods and faculties shall be stolen or taken away, our
said Ministers with all diligence shall make sufficient search and examin
ation to find out and recover the goods and restore them to the English.
VII.
The English merchants, interpreters, brokers, and all other subjects
The English and their dependants of that nation, whether by sea or land,
to travel freely. may freely and safely come and go in
all the ports of our dominions, or returning into their own country, all
our Bcglerbeys, Ministers, Governors and other Officers, Captains by sea,
of ships and others whomsoever, our slaves and subjects, we command
that none of them do or shall lay hands upon their persons or faculties,
or upon any pretence shall do them any hindrance or injury.
VIII.
If any English man, either for his own debt or for suretyship, shall
One Englishman not to answer for absent himself or make his escape away,
the debt of another unless he be his or shall be bankrupt, the creditor shall
surety by Hoget. on iy pretend his debt upon his own
debtor and not of any other English; and if the creditor have not
authentic Hoget or bill of suretyship made by an Englishman, he shall
not pretend his debt of any other Englishman.
IX.
In all causes, businesses, and occasions which shall occur between
In all business nothing of force the said nation, their merchants, inter-
without Hoget. preters, and brokers or servants, and
any other whatsoever, that is to say, in selling or buying, in paying or
receiving, in giving or taking security or pledge, debt or credit, and all
other such things which appertain to the Ministers of the law and
justice, they may always (if they please) on such occasions go to the
Caddee, who is the Judge of the law, and there make a Hoget or public
authentic act with witness, and register the same and take a copy of
the same to keep by them to the end, that, if in the future any difference
or pretence shall arise between the said parties, they may both have
a recourse to the said Hoget and Act, and when the pretence shall
be conformable to the tenor of the Hoget registered, then it shall be
accordingly thereunto observed, and if the plaintiff hath not in his hands
any such authentic Hoget, but only bringeth partial witnesses which
make cavils or pretences, our Ministers should not give ear to them, but
observe the written authentic Hoget.