But On The 25th,
Though Very Weak, I Went Again To Court To Make Trial Of The King About
Our Debts.
Muckshud, one of our debtors, having pled in excuse for not
paying that he had missed receiving his prigany, and knew not how to
pay unless he sold his house.
I delivered the merchants petition to the
king, which he caused to be read aloud by Asaph Khan; all the names of
the debtors, with the sums they owed, and their respective sureties,
being distinctly enumerated. The king then sent for Arad Khan, the chief
officer of his household, and the cutwall, and gave them some orders
which I did not understand. Then reading over the names, and finding
some of them dead, and some strangers, he made enquiry as to their
abilities and qualities, and what goods they had received. Concerning
Rulph,[213] Asaph Khan undertook to speak to the prince on the subject,
and to get that affair concluded when he came.
[Footnote 213: In the edition by Churchill, this person is named Sulph,
but no elucidation is given. - E.]
My interpreter was now called in, and the king, turning to me, said that
our merchants had trusted people according to their own fancies, and to
whom they pleased, not coming to him with an inventory of their goods,
and therefore, if their debtors were insufficient, it was their own
faults, and they had no reason to expect payment of their money from
him. This I supposed to allude to his servant Hergonen, lately dead,
whose goods had been seized to the king's use.
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