Notwithstanding All This Vexation, I Durst
Not Change My Mode Of Proceeding, Or Wholly Quit The Prince And Asaph
Khan.
I therefore drew up other articles, leaving out what seemed
displeasing in the former, and desired Asaph Khan to put them into form
and procure them to be sealed, or else to allow me to apply to the king,
that if he denied me I might leave the country.
The substance of these
new articles was as follows: - 1. That all the subjects of the Great
Mogul should receive the English in a friendly manner, suffering them to
land their goods peaceably, and to procure provisions for their money
without paying customs for them. - 2. To have liberty, after paying
customs for their goods, to sell them to any one they pleased, and none
to force them to sell at an under rate. - 3. To have liberty to pass with
their goods to any part of the empire, without any farther exactions
than those payable at the port. - 4. To have the presents for the Mogul
and prince sealed without being opened, and sent to the ambassador. - 5.
To have the goods of those that might die freed from confiscation, and
delivered to the surviving English factors. - And finally, That no injury
should be offered to any of the English.
On the 8th, Asaph Khan sent me word in plain terms, that absolutely he
would procure nothing for me sealed, that in any respect concerned the
government belonging to the prince, and that I must rest satisfied with
a firmaun or order, signed by the prince, which was quite sufficient,
and I needed not to apply any more to him.
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