Despatches from England: 1710-13Superintendent, Government Press, 1926 |
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Page 32 - America, to be paid to the said or his certain attorney, executors, administrators, or assigns: to which payment well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents.
Page 32 - AB within-bounden, being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said letters of administration (approbation of such testament being first had and made) in the said court ; then this obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue.
Page 14 - England has been to our prejudice and wherein and how much and any thing else you may think proper for our notice, that if wee should Suffer thereby wee may endeavour a Remedy. Enquire also who they were that first Sett on foot the discourse about it, and how it came to pass that when the Dyamond had been in England severall years before, the Natives, if that Letter was genuine, never mentioned anything about it till after the late President was come to England 1 ." When these orders reached India,...
Page 14 - ... Diamond belonging to the King which you know not what to make of, perhaps some of the Persons who signed that Letter do not, but wee apprehend those who have Supported Captain SEATON are let further into the Secrett. What is incumbent on you is to prevent every handle the MOORS may take to embarrass us, of which such a Report as this might be made a very great one; how far and wide the mischievous consequences of it may Spread the wisest of you all cant foresee, and by the late mannagement Show...
Page 86 - That all such Ministers as shall be sent to reside in India, as aforesaid, shall be obliged to learn, within one year after their arrival, the Portuguese language, and shall apply themselves to learn the native language of the country where they shall reside, the better to enable them to instruct the Gentoos, that shall be the servants or slaves of the same Company, or of their Agents, in the Protestant Religion...
Page 86 - Company should constantly maintain " one minister in every garrison and superior factory," that they should in such " garrison or factories provide or set apart a decent and convenient place for divine service only ;" and furthermore, that " all such ministers as shall be sent to reside in India shall be obliged to learn, within one year after their arrival, the Portuguese language, and shall apply themselves to learn the native language of the country where they shall reside, the better to enable...
Page 14 - It would seem from this that the Court already had begun to regret the recall of Pitt. And in Mr. T. Wheeler's work we find another example in one of the Court's letters, in which, congratulating the Government of Fort St. George on their success in obtaining certain valuable concessions from the Nabob...
Page 87 - Indies, or other the parts within the limits aforesaid, the place of such Minister, so dying, shall be supplied by -one of the Chaplains out of the next ships that shall arrive at or near the place where such Minister shall happen to die.
Page 14 - of the Abingdon Letter mentions the Letter from the Duan Sadatulla Cawn and that it is very ambiguous and intricate, relating to a great Diamond belonging to the King which you know not what to make of, perhaps some of the Persons who signed that letter do not, but wee apprehended those who have Supported Captain Seaton are let further into the Secrett. What is incumbent on you is to prevent every handle the Moors may take to embarrass us, of which such a Report as this might be made a very great...
Page 76 - Thoma or that wee had better do it than they should. Wee think they are wiser than to rely on generous tempers or mild Government of the Moors or that the late oppressions of Meer Mahmud at that place on the Portugueez will ever make them fond to settle there. As to our Renting it the late troubles at Fort S*. Davids & the loss of the five Villages to say no more are sufficient reasons against such a thought, & more especially if the mannagement were in the same hands as when this was proposed.