Indian Antiquary Vol 51

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[MAY, 1922
the standers by preventing him from doing me any further mischiefé. Mr. Wade 3 can testifie the thing, being present, and the same evening finding ditto Wade asleep, cuts him over the Nose, because I had desired him to take notice of the aforementioned passages, who besides that, hath received (pooré man) severall' base usages at ditto Harringtons hands in the time he was with us. Yet, allthough this was not the first by many, I was contented to passé it with the rest, not so much as mentioning the same in the aforesaid letter to the President, expecting that your Worshipp &ca. would have fully granted me my petition without any restriction, for as long as there is life there is hope. Besides I was so farre from remem. bring those hare-brain'd stories, that considering that wee had lived 6 yeares (unfortunately) together, I was loth to leave him here alone.
But now he hath me all alone and sick, domineers worse then ever, allthough I have indeavoured all the wayes that possible I can to shunne these occasions by retiring my selfe, and at all times giving him his owne way and saying ; yet all this will not suffice him.
For being extreamely troubled with rate, in so much besides the damage they did my things, they also bit my fingers, that I was not able to rest for them; to remedy which I procured a cat. But first please to take notice that he brings up pigeons in our dwelling house, nay, they are commonly in the very place I lie, and, as he saith, my cat killed two of them. And a few dayes after this, spies the cat upon the house and shoots her. Whereupon I told him if I would, could put as much shot into something else of his that was then sitting by me, and that in killing ing my cat for going aloft upon our house he cleared his old malice, being naturall for all such creatures so to doe, who were farte more profitable and wholesome in a house then pigeons. Upon this he rises up and begins to spurne me maliciously in the belly (the effect of which I felt for some dayes after) with his foot, knowing the cheifest of my infirmity lay there, and having used me farther at his pleasure in like manner, then sets him down againe. If I would I was not able to resist him, for I had resolved before hand if any thing should happen againe not to doe any thing but wholly to referre my selfe and cause to your Worshipp &ca., who I am confident will not faile to doe me Justice herein. And if I were not certaine of that, allthough I have not at present sufficient strength, there wants not other waves which I beseech God to withhold me from and replenish me with patience, seeing its my lot to have such a comforter in this my so tedious aflictions, though some times when these things comes in my mind, together with the force of my infirmity, were it not but that I am confident that you will order me satisfaction, I should sink down under this so heavy a burden, I being so ill fitted to beare it.
He is continually ubraiding both me and my relations in a most vile manner, both in publique and private, saying the other day I was but Mr. Travers butler at Caile, and what am I more here, and who am I to bring cats into the house, and that I was good for nothing but to ........, and that he had as absolute power as any prince. And thus he lords it over a poore Sick man, that the very people and servants cry out shame againe at him.
And because he doth assume to himselfe such power and to govern after such & rate, please to accept of a small peice thereof, and by that you may guesse what the rest is, for by the manner of it, it seems as if he were not to be accomptable to none but God for any actions done here. (He would faine be Royall but cannot indure a Royallist.)
Mr. Foster tells me he has only found one mention of Henry Wade, as a witness to a protest to the Dutch in 1664.
* Walter Travers was head of the factory at Old Kdyal, established in 1668, and Harrington and Grigsby were his subordinates. Foster, English Factories, 1656-1660, pp. 218, 220.