________________ 16 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (NOVKBER, 1912 It is sad to find that after all his struggles, Scattergood was at last compelled to com. pound with his creditors. For it is on record that on the 3rd April 1672,63 "Upon report made by Mr. Bathurst and Mr. Boone, that Mr. Roger Scattergood was willing to pay the Company 40 li., in full of his debt of 164 li : 68 : 5d, at 3 months, and to give sufficient security for payment thereof; the Court (in consideration of his great poverty) and the composition by him made with other his Creditors) were pleased to declare their acceptance of the same." And on the 26th April, 64 "Mr. George Day was this day approved of to be security for Mr. Roger Scatter. good for 25 li : 68: 8d, the one half to be paid 3d October and the other 3d January next; and that upon their giving bond, Mr. Moses is to stay proceedings at law." The above extract shows the low state of Roger Scattergood's affairs in 1672, but he seems nevertheless to have still enjoyed a certain amount of credit with the Company. In. September the Court granted the petition of his son John for a writership in India, and in October Roger Scattergood and Robert Master were approved as securities in PS500.65 In November 167466 Roger received permission "to ship out several wines and other necessaries" to India, "he paying freight," those goods being no doubt consigned to his son John, then in Madras. Four years later Roger Scattergood had a small account of PS26: 13: 6 with the Company "uncleered." As regards this, on the 14th June 1678,67 the Court, "On reading & report from the Committees for Law Slits and debts. . did order and direct therein as followes, Vizt. That the debts of Edward Harrington ... and Roger Soattergood remaine as they are now charged in the books.": And in the following year, June 1679,68 this insignificant item was "written off and placed to the account of Desperate Debts." But the remarkable thing is that, in spite of all this, the last reference to Roger Scatter. good in the Records of the East India Company, six months later, shows him again accepted as security, with Robert Master, in PS500 for his son John on the latter's attaining the rank of factor in India. 69 The probable explanation is that the co-surety's bond was considered sufficient guarantee. Scattergood died intestate in 1681. He was buried on the 26th May at Christ Church Newgate Street, near his home, and on the 5th July his widow, Catherine, took out letters of administration.70 She survived her husband three years and was buried beside him on the 27th November 1684. Of the six children of the marriage (four sons and two daughters),"1 the eldest son is the subject of the next memoir. (To be continued.) 63 Court Minutcs, XXVII, 221. 4 Ibd, XVXIII, 2b. 66 Ibid., pp. 44a, 65b. 68 Ibid., XXIX, 74a. 67 Ibid., XXXI. De Ibid., p. 116b. 20. The name given in the entry referred to above is "Robert Soattergood," but this is obviously a copyist's error, as Mr. Bernard Scattergood Augures me that no momber of the family called Robert hue be traced at that poriod. 70 P. C. C. Administeations (Somerset Houise). 71 Information as to death, hurial and inquo supplied by Mr. Soattergood.
