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Mstos ofthi bonk or Ktture of do-umont*
Volume of the or piptr*. Summery.
tttcordi.
Letter, reoeived by George Ploy to Humphrey Counook " now roady to mako hi. journey toward, the King.*'
the Eait India Ur*iwno (one of the Coin*
Company, Volume mittcc. of the Company in
V, pago 816. London) (I.pahan), 27th
June 1617.
Letter! reoeived by Edward Connock, William Deecribos the reception of tho Persian Mission by the 8hah •
the East India Traoyo and William Robbins, the Spanish friar having stealthily loft I.pft|,Hn for th^ ’Tie critir
Company, Volume to the East India Company, Couit, about whioh Conuock got intolligonco only fivo day. or cepv ■
VI, page SI. 4th August 1617 (from the aftor his dopatturo. Connook hastens himsolf thither with this f,
Per.ian Court and Army, Rohhins, Traoye following with tho good.; Connock and nun is e
near the oonfines of the Robbins, arrive thuro two dava after tho friar’s arrival • after traceal!*
Turke, 26th days’ jonrney a good deal of bribing of tho King’s officials, audionce is given but ic
from Isphan). ty Hie Majesty to tho Mission, ouly aftor ton days’ waiting •mbcd’ei
King Jarnoa’ loiter presonted in prosenoe of tho friar and the in v
Shah satisfied as to its gonuinoncss ; tho Shah driuks to farman <
King JnmOB'health. A few day. afterwards Traoyo arrives Shah Si
with the goods and presents aro otTored to tho King, who printed i
accopte them with joy. Tho Shah replies to King James Appesdij
and gives a farman which granted nearly all the Englith C. It
demands * Tho Shah offers to give credit to Connock for in f*et v
3,000 balrg of Royal silk to pay for them in goods buis cf ■
and moneys even after their own munnor, whereby to give future
life to oor trude’e bogiuning ; asks for certain article to be treaties.
sent for presents to tho King. [Read tho whole of this
interesting letter.]
Page 4! . Edward Connook to L. Chap­ Above despatch sent to Aleppo br a trustworthy messenger
man, Consul at Aleppo, 4th and Consul asked to send it carefully and with all speed by
August 1617 (from Persian way of .Marseillee or Uollaud at any cost.
Army and Court).
Page 43 . Edward Connock, to the East Asks for certain kinds of cocks, Torkey cooks and dogs to be
India Company, 6th August sent for presents to tho Shah.
1617 (Persian Army aud
Court).

Page 76* . • 8ir Thomaa Roe, to William The Persian Ambassador Mahomed Razaberge left the Magul
Bobbins at Isphan (Manda), Court on 10th January 1616-17. Referring to Connock’s
21st August 1617* Misnioo, Roo warns Robbins that tho King should m-t” judge
ns by this attempt, which wus rather to show our affection
tlmn any proof of our abilities ” inasmuch as “ Connock
was sent from Surat, as a factor to begin and mako offer of
the amity unprovided either of instructions, goods or rae-ms
fit for such an enterpriso ;" no trade oould be started by tho
English “ unless a port be secur'd, a mart established,
prices agreed for suck quantities on both sides as that
neither be deceived, ........... a straggling, peddling., uncertain
trade will neither profit nor becomo so great, nations.” Sir
Robert Sherley is not a friend of the English, and enemy
of the Portuguese, as Bobbins supposes. His actions bolie bis
professions, ’’ nor that we will tako Ormuz and beat the Portu­
gal out of these seas; these are vanities. The Company
intend a trade, not a war, but in their own defonce and that
bravely and honCBtly."
Page 09 . George Pley and Edward It ie proposed that Pley should proceed at once to Jask in
Petters, to Edward Connock advance to meet the fleet if it comes there, to give warning
,th® Persian Couit to it if there be likelihood of Portuguese attack, etc.
(Ispahan ?), September 1617.
Tha Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe, to the Com- Roe quotes the opinion about the Persian trade of an If*Kan,
8ir Thomaa Roe mander of the Fleet (Mandoa), who had long resided in Persia and met him. The lUlian
to India, page ^0th September 1617. thinks that Persia ie not tierra de negocio ; all the traffic ay
418. between Aleppo and Casbin for silk and money ; the English
cloth will not have a good sale. "The disposition of the
King is to be very familiar with etrangere if they e i •
In hope to get, no man can oroajie him, when
suoked them, he will not know them. *
Roe was r
Page 421 , aware
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the
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perform
a soberer man than Conuock (Connaught),
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ing
sent there without his knowledge. "I nuJ, . venture in obtai l
to hurt," eo Roe prefers "to help out ft rash farman
undertaken by the Surat Factors. from i
Shah.