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No. 0.—A Rogom about oiviiity, against borrowing money, if done to bo returned.
No. 10__A Rogom *o the Governors, oto., on tho road to and from Gombroon, whorein be
ordors them to givo a guard for our Paphilas if in case of necessity.
No. 11.—A Rogom about Matheus Armenian who preteuded a demand upon the Hon'blo
Company of 3,000 Tomands for debts owing him in India ; this also confirms tho Rogom for
reoovory of dobts.
No. 12.—A Rogom for our Linguists' house to ho free of head-money.
No. 13,—A Rogom for six Iranians to bo free of head-money : 3 at Spahaun and 3 at
Gombroon.
No. 14.—A Rogom to tho Governor of Spahaun to treat tho English with respeot and
not suffer any trouble to be given them.
No. 16.—A Rogom to Mcer Abba or head of tho water, for to let us have water for our
house at Spahaun.
No, i(j.—a Rogom for liberty to mako wino and drink wine at Shyrash or any other place.
No. 17.—A Rogom for liberty to bring our goods to our houso at Spahaun aud dispose of
them without hindcrrance of molestation.
No.—18. A Rogom for liberty to buy one hundred loads of silk yearly at Ghilaun.
No. 19.—A Rogom ordering the English to be treated with respect all over Persia.
No. 20.—A Rogom that English may recover their own debts, and the Governor only to
interpose, as may desire, or in case the person owing be remote on any part of the Kingdom
that then the Governor of the place where he is, send him to the English Chief on his applica­
tion, and that the Company have the preference; hereiu he also gives the English liberty to
build, or hire a houso in any part of his dominions.
No. 21.—A Rogom about examining and reporting our affairs to him.
No. 22.—A Rogom for the English house at Spahaun and that the head of the water
don’t hinder it coming to out Garden.
No. 28.—A Rogom ordering the Governor of Shyrash not to give any trouble to the
people that live in the English house.
Under these Rogoms whilst the Kingdom of Persia enjoyed a state of tranquility tho
Company’s trade was carried on with sucocss and considerable extent, a ship being annually
consigned there from Europe, in addition to w^uffi many consignments were made from
Bombay as will appear by the extracts copied into the Appendix; their sales consisted chiefly
in broad cloth and perpets with a small quantity of iron and lead; tho returns were in
Carmenia wool, copper and specie.
About this period tho Russian Company obtained an Acc of Parliament under which they
opened a trade with tho Caspian Sea and imported considerable quantilies of the British
manufactures at Resht, which being more convenient for the supply of the northern parts of
Persia may have contributed in some measure to the decline of trade at Gombroon which town
owed its entire consequence to the English and Dutch houses there established. A principal
object of the Russian Company and which probably aided their sales was a return in raw silk, tho
produce of the province of Ghilaum, whereas the only article of export from Gombroon,
was carmenia wool, of which they could not, sometimes with groat difficulty, obtain more
than 10 or 12,000 pounds weight per annum. Copper they could get from the mines of
Diarbeker, but that was only considered as a remittance to India.
Under the protection of the Company’s Factory at Gombroom, British subjects 'appear
to have been entitled to the same privileges of trade on paying a consulage of 2 per cent
and customs were also collected on exports. All Persian merchants purchasing good at
the factory, paid 2J1 per cent, to the Government at Gombroon on carrying them out;
the Armenian merchants who sent freight on English ships wore subject to a duty of 10
and 11 per cent., but in 1742 they were allowed to land the goods at tho English factoiy, and
charged only 7 per cent. This was probably only a temporary indulgence for in subsequent
years we find the Armenians averse to sending goods to Gombroon from tho groat impositions
they were subject to.