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receive what iuay be due from them. That our orders relating to bills shall
he duly regarded & tho bill for Rupees 1,500 which was protested at Surat
they had ordered Messrs. Pierson & Blandy to recover with Interest, to whom
they had seut copies of such Paras, of our advices as relate to their Factory,
and they now send us oopios of those Gcntlcmon’s advices to them, and of the
sovoral papers received therewith. That the Rosdt. of Spahaun had applyed to AppHflpUo
n for
the King for a renewal of our privileges and had received a satisfactory renewal of prm-
answer. That they were so short of money before the Drake arrived as obligcu
them to send 2,000 Mds. of Copper toBcrka for Sale, tho. they had not reed. ai.y
advices from thence. That they had alter’d the Heads of Carmenia and
Bussorah liesidoncys on their books agreeable to our Orders, & had ordered
Mr. Grendon to procure what freight possible for the Drake but on no account
^o detain her above three days. That they had made no sales since their last
tho. the merchants began to arrive in the town, the roads being now pretty
clear. They now send one of -heir ten Md. weights & desire ten may be made
with small once agreeable to the onclosed indent for stores whioh they desire
may be complied with that M« Hope producing a Letter from Mr- Wiliiam
Shaw empowering him to sell the late MrTr Ross’s Effects & he desiring a BilA
for tho amount being Shahees 4,136*7, they had complyed therewith. They
enclose their cash account, the balance being Shahees 62,458. That as the
Dutch could not dispose of their cloth at Gombroon, but very small prices they
propose sending it away to Batavia where it well sell to advantage & the
Dutch Gentlemen arc of opinion they shall be withdrawn unless some alterations t^wUhdraJJ"
happen for the better. That on the 17th Janry. two of their Topass Soldierlhe5r factory-
went out of their Factory to the back of the Town to fight and one of them
Laurence de Romade was killed by a Blow which his Adversary gave him with
a stick, the attestation of several persons who viewed the Corps they enclosed &
the prisoner named Francis Pereira they send on this Vessel. That some of
their Topass soldiers being siokly and desirous of remaring they request we will
send 12 others to their relief, & one of .the Heathcote’s people being entered as
a soldier they had detained. That Rice being a very scarce article with them
they request w*e will comply with that indent for 8,000 Mds. Coppar, whicli
they stand in great need of for their Garrison. They daily except a new Govr.
and they hear the Arab Expedition will be carried on the Beglerbeggy & Govr.
from Shyrash being likewise expected. That the Drake arrived the 1st Instant
from Bussorah with 39,956 Rupees of Pearl freight, manifest of which they
enclosed. That they had stopped out of the Heathcote's Peoples pay one
Shahee per Mensem on acct. Greenwich Hospital.
Sailed a Merchant Grab belonging to this Island bound to the Port cf
Muscat.

LIII.
The Presideut and Council, Bombuy, to the Hon'ble Court of Directors for Affair-
of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East India.
May it please your Honours.
The foregoing is Duplicate of our last address under the 15th of March <**
transmitted overland via Grarid Cairo and this we dispatched to Gombroon by ud
the Drako Sketch who will bring from thence what Copper and wool may
in readiness then and in which we shall advise such materials—occurrences as
have since happened. I
3883 F. D.