ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٥ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون: بلاد فارس، وسيستان، وكرمان وبلوشستان الفارسية" [ظ‎‎٢‎٤] (٥٥٨/٤٢)

PERSIA.
'Portugal, their assistance being obtained by the Shah by the promise* of
half the plunder, and half the future customs of Gamrun and Ortnas.
pThese promises were not kept,
Russia and Spain sent Envoys to the Persian Court in 1618, and
(France in 1625: and an English Envoy, Sir Dodmore Cotton, arrived
feome time between 1620 and 1628 to establish commercial relations
between Great Britaih and Persia; but his negotiations failed.
Shah Abbas died in 1628. Under the weak rule of his successors the
ITurks severed from the Persian Empire some of the best of the western
provinces: the Arab ruler of Muscat possessed himself of the islands in
.the Persian Gulf: and the Abdali Afghans made themselves independent
in Herat, and the Ghilzais in KandahaA In 1639 Shah Safi IV signed
a treaty with Turkey which delimited afresh the frontiers of Azerbaijan
and Baghdad. Under it Djessan and Badrayi weie ceded to Turkey,
■Baghdad and Basra became Turkish, the Arabs of the Chab tribe were
declared independent, and the Jaf tribe was divided.
gouernor of that place shall sende the goodes to the next marchant of his nation,
.which shall be abiding in any parts of our dominions.
And those within our kingdomes and prouinces hauing power ouer our toolee
land customes shall receiue nothing, nor dare to speake for any receipt from any
JDhristian marchant.
(0 And if any, such Christian shall giue oredite to any of our subjects (of any
icondition whatsoeuer) he shall, by this patient of ours, have authoritie to require
Any caddie, or gouernor, to do him justice, and thereupon, at the instant of his
demaunde, shall cause him to be satisfied.
Neyther shall any gouernor, or justice, of what qualitie soeuer he be, dare
Jake any jrewarde of him, which shall be to his expense; for our will and pleasure
is, that they shall be used in all our dominions to their own full (Jontent, and that
pur kingdomes and countries shall be free unto them.
That none shall presume to aske them for what ocasion they are heere.
And although it hath bin a continuall and unchaungeable use in our dominions
teuery yeere to renue all patients, this patient', notwithstanding, shall be of fuTl
effect and force for euer without any renuing, for me and my successors, not to
be changed.
* Substance of the Articles of Agreement as given in Fryer's Travels, Chapter XII.
First.
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gold, a
‘ Secondly.—-That Bandar Abbas, now Gombroon, should yearly divide half
l ) h tWee ^ th u W lsl l- and , Per8ians > an d that whatever^ English ship
should enter the port should be free from any manner of tribute.
them t0 ttansport twerHf horses, of
flefendThe^Gulf^and^* 1 ^ ^ should keep two mon-of-war constantly to
handf“n do^T T wh.rh h tL Sh w “rt'T 61 ,? e F ortu 8 al ’ s forts • ■ >*<> ‘h® P ® r8iaro
friends; and " English should always be esteemed the emperor’s
on witTequ^gra^ to thel^pJiSe^bifity^ C0UnCi1, ^ their AeentS be l0 ° ked