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LV.
Provident and Council, Bombay, to the Hon'ble Court of Direotors for Affair*
of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East
Indies.
May it please your Honours,
1. Wo addressed your Honours under the 6th November per Essex
under the 23rd of that month per Oxford and last under the 14th ultimo per
Streatham, and this wo send to Persia to be forwarded overland via Aleppo,
in which wo shall advise such material occurrences as are usual to bo men­
tioned by an overland conveyance.

21. Your honours have already been acquainted in our advices of the 1st Th* um •ubj*ot.
December 1747, and 22nd July last of tbe steps we bad taken in regard to
the Bill drawn by Messrs. Pierson and Blandy on your Resident at Bussorab,
at the exorbitant premium of 60 per cent. Interest and likewise our Reason
for ordering tbe Agent and Council at Gombroon not to discharge that Bill
otherwise than at the Legal interest of the Country nor to accept any other
which might be drawn by those Gentlemen. But by the Sphaun. Books
received since we wrote them last, we Hod exclusive of the Bill above-
mentioned Messrs. Pierson and Blandy had taken up several sums of Money
amounting to Rs. 14,300 for which they gave bonds some at 10 others at
16 per cent, per mensem and which is the money mentioned by the Agent and
Council in their letter to your honours of the 1st July 1747, that the Gentle­
men at Sphaun were obliged to take up an exorbitant Premium, tho* no
mention is made or at what rate, and we find upon comparing those books
with their diary, and those gentlemen have been studiously fallacious in
their accounts which with several gross irregularities we have now pointed
out to your Agent and Council for them to enquire into, but as they are
likewise very culpable, as well in passing by such neglects as for not having
been more fully in their advices to your honours above mentioned tbe want
of which was most probably occasioned your honours to give them the lattitude
you did, in your Commands to that Agency per ship Oxford, wo have therefore
by this first opportunity duly censured them for the same.

We are,
May it please, etc.,

Your most faithful and hum’ble servants,
WM. WAKE.

WM. WEST.
THOS. LANE.
OHA8. CROMMELIN,

HUGH SUMMONS.
Bombay Cabtlk;
The 28th Feby. 1749.
Iryal Snow vid Alleppo,