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answer I was foraod to rest satisfied till ye. Shawbundcr was at leisure in ye.
intrcm whereof ye Bashaw againe dopted ye. towne and went to Gurnah
3 dayes Jurney. When ho was gon ye Shawbunder sent for mo and ye.
Pader to his house, whither being cumc he told us yt. ye. Bashaw had received
your letter and had oomanded him to render ye. following answere wch. he
digested into 3 poynts. To ye. first whoroin demande was made of ye. house :
he answered yt. ye. house was his although morgagcd by his slave who built it
unto ye. Compa. and yt. by agrement made (was as he pretends) wth.
Mr. Cranmer, who was ye. man yt. disburst ye. Company’s mony thereon he
agreed to pay yearely 1100 larres or thereabouts in consideration of a duty duo
to ye. owner called by them Booabie w'ch. as they say hath not paid in more
than 11 yearcs time and according to yt. aooount amounts to mre than we
demande for ye. house woh. if ye. Company Will pay they shall freely injoy the
house again. Seconly he said yt. wheras we pretended to upwards of 3P Ra
taken from our Brokers of the Company’s mony for wch. as wo said ye.
Broker still was indebted to ye. Company. To yt. he answered yt. ye
broker suffered and ye mony he had taken from the Broker he knew was none
of ye. Company (as ye. Broker pretends) but was his: ye. Broker having
received a farr greater sume privately from Vchull a banian his servant and
wth. whom he was then accompting having found him faulty in his trust so
yt. ye. Bashaw suffered most thereby since ye broker hade convayed away on
our shippe a very considerable sume for ye account of ye. same Vrchull.
However if ye. Broker would againe returne to Bussora, and there swaro, and
make it appeare had not conveyed away any thing for ye. said Vrchull and yt.
ye mony of ye. Bashaw had taken was ye. Companys : then satisfaction
should be made : And lastly he told me, yt. I hade not power to conclude ye.
business since my name was not mentioned in the letter nor would he believe
I was sent about it because I hade not brought a Certificate under ye Cozee of
Surratts hand to assist to aferme my power wch. having spoke he rose up and
giveing us ye. usuall entertainment of cuntry he bide us adeiu wth. wch.
answer I was forced to rest contented since ye. Bashaw was absent and his
6onn who was in ye. towne would not admitt me to his presence.

XI.
Commission and instructions given by me the President and Council of India, Persia, Sfc.
unto our loving friend Captain Thomas Crouther, Commander of the Frigate America,
noto by God's permission bound from Stoally Hole unto the Port of Gombroon^ and
from thence to the Porte of Bussorah, within the River Euphrates, to be\observed by
him, until his return to 8toolly Hole again. Dated on Sieally Marine the 13th day of
April Anno 1631,
To eonrey You being now laden with most part of theHon’ble Company’s goods and
iSnSilHo B«r»h. completed with freight, we desire you on sight hereof, wind and tide permitting,
to weigh anchor and set sail directing your course for Gombroon, there to
deliver our letter to our friends there resident, which we hope may be done in
one or two days at the most, which done, make what haste possible to obtain
the Port of Bussorah, where arriving you are to set on shore, Mr. George
Cranmer and Mr. Robert Sainthill decently, affording them upon all occasions
that the Hon’ble Company’s business requires it, the use of the boats well manned