"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" [ظ‎‎٩‎٠] (٢٢٦/١٨٤)

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upon their ships and have paid custom, be they goods of whomsoever,
according to ancient Imperial capitulations, they shall pay the right
of Consulage to the Ambassador or Consul of England without any
contradiction.
XLIII.
That the English merchants which trade at Aleppo and those under
their banner of all the silk which they
andF k rtmch ay ^ CUSt0m aS Venetiau3 shall buy and land upon their ships
shall pay the custom and other duties
as the French and Venetian merchants do pay and not one asper or
farthing more.
XLIV.
As the Ambassadors of the King of England, which shall be
T . . , . , resident in this Imperial Court, are the
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the sense of the Ambassador or Consul. Representatives and Commissioners of
the person of His Majesty, so the
interpreters are to be esteemed the Commissioners of the Ambassador,
therefore for such matter as the interpreters shall translate or speak in
the name, or by the order of the Ambassador, it being found that that
which they have translated to be according to the will and order of the
Ambassador or Consul, they shall be always free from any inputation or
punishment, and in case they shall commit any offence our Minsiters
shall not put any of the said interpreters in prison, nor beat them with
out knowledge of the Ambassador or Consul. In case any of the
r. , . « English interpreters shall die, if he be
an Englishman, all his goods or faculties
shall be possessed by the Ambassador or Consul of England, but if he
shall be a subject of our dominion, they shall be consigned to his next
heir, and having no heir they shall be taken into our bixchequer. And
as in this particular, so also in all other, the abovementioned Articles
and privileges granted by our forefathers of happy memory, it is
expressly commanded and ordained that all our slaves shall ever obey and
observe this Imperial capitulation, and that the peace and amity shall be
respected and maintained without any violation whatsoever.
XLV.
Since which time of our forefathers of famous memory and the
grant of these abovementioned Capitu-
No command valid against the capi- lations. Articles, and establishment of
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peace and amity, the said King 01
England, having in the time of our grandfather of happy memory,
Sultan Mahomet Han, sent one of his well desired Ambassador, a person
of quality of this high port, to confirm this peace. Articles, and Capitu
lations which Ambassador did declare that often times there were
to divers persons Imperial commands granted, surreptitiously procured,
contrary to the tenor and Articles of the Imperial capitulations, which
being without our knowledge presented to our Judges and Governors,
and the dates of such commands being more fresh than those of
our Imperial capitulations, the Judges and Ministers do put in
execution the private commands prejudicial and contrary to these