On All These
Accounts, Therefore, I Thought It Best To Keep Nearest My Principal
Charge, Referring All Things On Shore To The Merchants Of My Council, In
Most Of Whom I Had Great Confidence.
[Footnote 126:
This name is left blank in the Pilgrims, probably because
Purchas, a contemporary, did not wish to give offence. - E.]
The 22d November, I finished my letters for Persia; being one for the
company, to be forwarded over land, one for Sir Robert Shirley, and one
of instructions for Richard Steel. The 23d, Lacandus, the Banian, came
down to us, with news of discontent and hard speeches that had passed
between the nabob and our merchants, but who were now again reconciled.
This was occasioned by Mr Edwards refusing to let him see the presents,
which he was at last obliged to consent to. All these merchants wrote me
at this time separately, that the viceroy was certainly arming against
us. At this time Mr Ensworth and Timothy Wood died within an hour of
each other. John Orwicke, Robert Young, and Esay But, were now
dispatched to provide such cloths and cotton-yarns as we had formerly
agreed on. The 25th Mr Edwards wrote me of the coming of three great
men, bringing seven firmauns from the Great Mogul; in whose presence the
nabob bestowed upon him 850 mahmudies, ten fine basties, thirty
top-seels, and thirty allizaes; at the same time he gave ten
top-seels to Mr Elkington and Mr Dodsworth, a cloak to Mr Aldworth and
another to Mr Elkington, Mr Dodsworth having had one before.
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