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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
WHEREAS the above named Governor and Company have at the speciall Request and desire of the above bound John Scattergood, and [blank] entertained into their Service the said John Scattergood as their Covenant Servant to serve them in such Factoryes and at such places in the East Indies abovesaid or any other places of Trade granted to the said Company and Comprized within their Charter, and for such provision Allowance and Sallary and at and under such other conditions and during so long tyme as is and shall be agreed upon between the said Governor and Company and the said John Scattergood. THE CONDITION of this Obligation is such That if the said John Scattergood shall from tyme to tyme during the said Employment or afterwards whensoever he shall be thereunto required by the said Governor and Company their Successors agents or Assignes make and give unto them or their Assignes true plain and perfect Accounts and reckonings in writing of for and concerning all and every such goods Merchandizes Money and things what so ever which shall at any tyme or tymes hereafter be consigned or sent unto him the said John Scattergood by or from the said Governor and Company their Successors, Agents or Assignes, And of and for all and every the Returnes Proceed[s] and Benefitts to be had and gotten for and in respect of those goods Money and Merchandizes or any of them, And of all other goods and things whatsoever for which he the said John Scattergood shall or may be charged or answerable (by reason of his aforesaid Employment) in any manner of wise. And further if the said John Scattergood his Executors Administrators or Assignes shall and doe from tyme to tyme upon such request to be made as aforesaid, well and truly peaceably and quietly yeild and deliver up and pay, or cause to be yeilded delivered up and paid unto the said Governor and Company and their Successors, or to their Agents or assignes, to and for the use of the said Governor and Company all and every such goods wares money Merchandizes and other things whatsoever as by the foot or every such account or accounts shall appear to be found to be due or belonging to the said Governor and Company and their Successors by or from the said John Scattergood without any fraud or farther delay That then this present Obligation to be void and of none effect or elce it to stand and abide in full force and vertue.
JOHN SCATTERGOOD.
Sealed and delivered by John Scattergood.
In the presence of
Vera Copia.
[JUNE, 1923
CHRISTOPHER HATTON.96 JOHN FIELD. HENRY CROON COLBORNE. SAM WALES.
CHRISTOPHER HATTON. JOHN FIELD.
MAURICE WYNNE."
to trade in any Comodityes too
As a factor, Scattergood had now "liberty and from the Fort to any Port or places in the East Indies northward of the equator except Tonqueene and Formosa. "T
In August 1678 he was sent to Madapollam "to be assistant" to Maurice Wynn, Chief of that factory.98 There he found his friend William Ayloffe. In December he was back
96 Hatton had succeeded to the chiefship of Masulipatam in March 1678 on the suspension of Matt. Mainwaring.
7 Abstract of General Letter to the Fort, 24 Dec. 1675 (Home Serics, Misc., vol. XXXIV). 98 0.0. 4472.