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JUNE, 1907.] THE TRAVELS OF RICHARD BELL (AND JOHN CAMPBELL).
THE TRAVELS OF RICHARD BELL (AND JOHN CAMPBELL) IN THE EAST INDIES, PERSIA, AND PALESTINE.
1654-1670.
BY SIR R. C. TEMPLE.
(Continued from p. 134.)
Appendix to John Campbell's Narrative.
Additional Note on Thomas Pratt,65
THOMAS PRATT was not actually in the Company's service, but was employed by the Agent at Hugli as a representative of the English at Dacca. In the Hugli Consultation Book, under date 9th November, 1663, there is the following entry with regard to Pratt and the expenses he incurred at Dacca :
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A Noate of wt demanded by Thomas Pratt Pr. Month for his expences in servants wages diett & his owne sallary. For 10 peones Pr Mo For 20 pikes [paik] & a mange [mänji] For 4 pikes more A Cooke Buttler flagman To my diett
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To a writer
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To 6 Caharrs [kahar]
a washerman mussallye (masulchi).
Hollencore [halalkhor]
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To my owne Mo sallary
For extraordinary expences at ye Durbar...
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See page 135.
Factory Records, Surat, No. 104,
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173
21 34. 15. 6
10. 20. 1.
30
5 12. 15.
4
2
40
10
This is y Calculation weh I present to yr vewe, how you will accept of it knowe not, but this much I desire you would take notice of, yt I will freely give any man 50 Rup pr mo more to beare my monthly expences. In wt nature ye Dutch live here is not unknown to some Englishmen theare, yet theire businesse hath not gone better forward in ye Durbarr nor they betur respected hitherto, although theire expences hath beene 4 times as much; and likewise pray Consider when any great more [Moor], ye Dutch, or any Peon of quallity come, whether it is a small expence to give them entertaynement, for I have here no investmemts yt I can eace an Acco: by Charging it upon another but every expence must appeare in its owne shape. Yr servant, Thomas Pratt.
Early in 1664, Pratt became embroiled in a quarrel at Dacca. The account of the occurrence was evidently written to Surat, but the reply only is extant, dated 19 May 166467: Wee are Sorry to read ye Vnhappy accident yt befell Thomas Prat, hee did very rashly to give the occasion, but when hee was besett round wee know not w! a man may bee provokt to doe, especially w his life is engagd, wee are pswadd to thinke yo Nabob may bee reconciled when hee shall take into Consideration the Cruell attempt made upon him by fyreing the house about his Eares." In July of the same year Pratt was still in disgrace, for, in a Consultation at Hugli on the 11th of the Month, we reades that the determination of the 9th. June to stop Thomas Pratt's wages of 180 rs. a month was confirmed "until he shall give satisfaction for wt laid to his charge or that we find thereby that we may lose the Nabobs favour by woh our Masters business may receive a greater prejudice."
es Factory Records, Hugli, No. 1.
es Factory Records, Hugli, No. 1.
