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in. Things being thus reasonably well prepared, about twenty-five horsmen well mounted, they Dowes is brought vs that Mr. Anthony Smith, a discharged at them and wounded one man and servant of the companyes, one whoe hath been one horse, the rest fac'd about and fled but made cheife in severall factoryes, was taken prisoner by & shift to carry off their wounded man, but the Seuagee soulderiers as he came ashore neere the horse fell, haueing gone a little way; what became Dach house, and was comeing to the English,-an of the wounded man we cannot tell, but Mr. Smith vnfortunate accedent wich made vs all much con. saw him brought into the armey upon mens cerned, knowing Seuagee cruelty, and indeed gade shoulders and shewed there to Sevagee; tow of him ouer as quite lost: hee obtains leaue some few our men were hurt, one shott slightly into the houers after to send a note to the president, legg with an arrow, the other rasbly parting from wherin hee aquants him with his condittion, that the rest and raning on before was cutt deep ouer hee being brought before Senagee hee was asked the shoulder, but thanks to God in a faire way of what hee was and such like questions, and att last recovery. by Sevagee told that hee was not come to doe any On Wedensday afternoone a party of the enemy personall hurte to the English or other marchants, came down to Hogee Said Bege house, hee then but only to revenge him selfe of Oroin Zeb, (the in the castle, one of a prodigous estate, and brake great Mogol) because hee had invaded his counttry, open the vndefended doores, and ther continued had killd some of his relations, and that hee all that night long and till next day, that we would only have the English and Duch give him sallyed out vpon their men on the other quarter of some treasure and hee would not medle with their
our house, they appeared by tow or three at a houses, else hee would doe them all mischeefetyme vpon the tope of his house, to spye what possible. Mr. Smith desired him to send a guard preparations wee made, but as yet had no order with him to the English house least hee should to fier vpon them, we heard them all night long finde any mollestation from his men, but hee beating and breaking open chests and doores, with answers as yet hee must not goe away, but comande great maules, but were not much concerned for him to bee carried to the rest of the marchants, him, for had the wretch haid soe mnch heart as to where, when hee came, hee found the embassador have stood vpon his guard, the 20 part of what from the great king of Ethiopia vnto Oram Zeb they tooke from him, would have hiered soo many prisoner, and pinioned with a great number men as would have secured all the rest; when Banians, and others in the same condition : hauing they heard that wee wear abroad in the streets set there some tyme, about halfe 'an hower, hee thay imediatly in hast deserted the house, and is seised vpon by & cupple of black rogges, and that as it afterwards appeared, in sạch bast as to pinioned in that extremety that he hath brought leave tow baggs of mong dropt downe behịnd them, sway the marke in his armes with him ; this what yet with intention as they told the people they hoe writt and part of what he related when wee mett (such poore wretches as had nothing to loose gott him againe. The president by the messenger and knew not whether to flye) to returne next day one of Sevagee men, as we imagined, returned [to] fier the house, but that was prevented. On answer that hee wounderd at him, that professing Friday morning, the president sent unto the castle peace hee should detaine an English man prissoner, to Hogee Said Beg to know whether he would and that if he would send him home, and not to permitt him to take possession of and secure a Buffer his people to come so neere his house as to grent company of warehouses of his adjoyneing to give cause of suspition, hee would hurt none of our house, and wich would bee of great consequence his men, other wayes hee was vpon his owne to preserve both his goods and our house, hoo defence upon these tearmes; wee were all Wedeng. testified his willingness, and immediately from the day and vntil Thursday about tow at afternoon, tope of our house by help of a ladder we entred when perceiueing tops of lances on the other side it, and haveing found the enemie, haueing beene of a neighbour house, and haueing called to the all Wedensday afternoon and night till past men to depart and not come so neere ve, but they Thursday noone plundering the great house, bad not stirring and intending as we concluded to likewise entered and begun to plunder his first sett fier to the house, on the quarter whereby our warehouse, but were scard and that little hurt was house would have been in most eminent danger done, they had time to carry nothing that is yet of being fiered alsoe, the president comanded knowne of, and unly broken open certaine vessells twenty men vnder the comand of Mr. Garrard of quickesilver, which there lay spilt about the Aungier, brother to my lord Aungier, to sally warehouse in great quantetye; wee locked it vp forth vpon them, and another party of about soe and put a guard in the roome next the street, wich many more to make good their retreate, they did through help of a belcoone secured by thicke soe, and when thay faod them, judgd them to bee planks tyed to the belcoone pillers, soe close on to
