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tho third voyage was fully compleat, shut up, and not a man after that day
admitted to underwrite much lesse afterwards, when they shall understand of
yoJL endeavor, and good sucoesse in p.curing of a new contract wJ£. that
Kinge.
But that w£^ will maynely conduce to the p.feoting of the Compel oontri-
voings for a more seasonable dispatch every yoare of their home-bound shipps
from this place, namely by appointing of their outward bound ffleets to joyne
forcos wJ£. those allready in India, and to make Persia their first port must bo
your care and industry to meet them there will yoJJ silke at the tyme pre-
scribed by tho CompA, though to their charge extraordinary to accomplish it
or elce if not possibly to be done, to advise us tymely thereof that wee may
governe ourselves accordingly and alter the rendevous appointed, or otherwise
contrive as the nature of oJL busines shall require.
And now retourning to the needfull points of yoJL letter, wee doe finde
that for the Red earth of Ormuz here is soe little use in this country, as that
from hence forth you may excuse the paynes of yoJL endeavours therein, and
forebeare to send any more of that coni-£.
Wee will not doubt but rather rest confident of yo-L. good integrities and
care in the exact collection of the CompH. p-!f- of customes in that place; and Gombroon,
albeit, that wee are not unsenoible of the many bywayes that may be practised
(and in some sort as yet unpreaventable) to defeate you of yo-L- right;
nevertheless© wee cannot but admonish, and stirr up your intentions to the
finding out such likely remedyes, as either the situation of the place for the
ereoting of a Custome House or the constituting of fitting Ministers may to
your more experienced Judgments therein seeme necessary, and to that end,
or the former, (if as aforesaid necessary) wee pray you both to consider well
the charge, and to taste the Kings inclynation how farr hee may be drawne to
contribute to the same, for of o-Lselves wee dare not undertake it, nor till
advice from yoJL doe wee give assent thereunto, and for the latter as it would
require an English of some experience and language there in the country to
be constantly resident, and to have no relation unto any other imployment
but only that of the Customes, so were it also requisite that hee be furnished
with an able Persian writer either one of yoJL owne choice there whom you
may confidently trust, or a Hindoo from hence of our owne selecting, who being
a stranger there and haveing his dependanoe merely on the English may give
us the more assurance of his loyalte. Ml Banggam now with us would be a
very fit man wee know for the imployment, but so great is our want of ffaotors
in this place, as wee cannot for a while dispense with his absence.
What course you have hetherto held w^L the Dutch in takeing notice at The Dntoh nfoal
least of their goods and treasure imported and the..........thereof exported Gombra?00**l
yearely from thence, wee shall gladly understand, and for as much as the
Comp A. are yet in treaty with the Dutch Commissioners in England, for the
compounding of all differences betwixt both CompH, and for that amongst
divers other important demauuds of oil, that one of their customes most
earnestly from tyme to tyme denyed us, being a matter of worth and weighty
consideration, it would behove your greatest dilligence and inquisition truely,
or as neare as may be, to informe yourselves out of the registers of that princes
officers a neorest vallewation of the p-Lmises, and thereof to procure us certi­
ficates from of the foresaid officers and the same to gett authentiquated either
under the hands of Christians or otherwise, as may give itt credit.*. & vallidity