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established by Shah Abas and os is above writton. Wherefore wo command all Channea,
V ice-Kings, honoured Governors, soldiers, merchants, and all other inferior ministers what­
soever, that tho said conditions, which the high Majesty of Shah Abas established, and we
at present re-establish between Us, tho potent King of Persia, and the defender of empires
and powers, tho high Majesty of tho King of England, bo truly observed and kept, and that
there bo not anything done opposito to those bands of friendship, love, union, benevoleuce and
charity; and thoso that shall do contrary to these conditions shall receive condign punish­
ment from our royal person. Wherefore know that this our royal firmand is firm, just and
true.
Given in the moon Ziadja, 1038.
No copy of tbo farman obtained by Edward Connock in 1017 can bo found among tho contemporary records;
but wo havo horo printod a farman granted by Shah Sail, tho sucocaaor of Shah Abboa, in Zu'l-hijjah A. H. 1038
(July-August, 1029), whioh rocitca and confirms tho grant procured by Connock. Thia ia taken from a collection of
translations of farman which was sent home to tho company in 1029 or 1030, aa ia shown, by a reference to* the present
Agent Mr. William Burt' (who diod in Novombor, 1030). It is now in the Factory Records series at the India Office
(Persia, Vol. I.).
Though tho treaty is statod to bo an ozoot oopy of tho original farman, and probably is sufficiently close lot all
practical purposes, it must bo admittod that there aro reasons for thinking that there were at least somo differences
botwocn tho two documents. In tho first place (though this is trivial) the original clearly contained twenty article*
and not eighteen. This is expressly stated by Barker (O. C., No. 792); and later editions of the privilege* (Cp.
that in I. 0., Record.a Treaties, Vol. which purport* to bo a copy of the grant as confirmed, by Shah Sultan
Hussain) moke twenty by splitting Nos. 9 and 15 into two articles each. In tho second place, it is emphatically
stated both by Barker and Monoz that tho clause about tho payment of customs required a payment of ten per cent,
duty. Tho former writers (O. C., No. 792). “In tho 18th article of tho said compitulatioa* .mm...it is contracted
(however, since contradicted) that wo shall pay unto tho King ten per cent, custom of all goods either brought into or
exported out of his land and tho latter says (O. C., No. 686, ii. that tho Shah at a later date hath graciously re­
mitted tho payment of any manner of customs by as whatsoever, ocknowledgeth it was never his meaning to tie u*
to tho payment of any, alboit it ia plainly set down in tho capitulation that wo wero to pay one in ten, as at
Constantimple and Allcpo, though otherwise translated by Mr. Connock, as per tho copy sent you by the “Bee."
Tho Hague Transcripts at tho L O., (Scries I, VoL ii., No. cxvii) include an undated document in French
containing o list of articles granted to tho English. Apparently, however, these aro of a later date than Connock’*
mission.