Indian Antiquary Vol 59

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
APRIL, 1930
Account and resque of William Lee Merchant in Gombroone and goes consigned to Captain Henry Harnott and Mr. John Scattergood att Madrass, being markt and number'd as por Margent, and particulars as followeth vizt.
Shas. Cos. Ruinass 100 bales each qt. 20 mds. tabrs, at Sha. 437.5 coz. pr bale is. 43750.
Charges vizt. Skinning each bale 10 Sha...
. 1000.Freight Sh. 44 pr bale .. .. .. .. 4400.boathire and hamg:
100. - 5500. 49250.
Shirash Wine for 50 chests each qt. 10 flasks vizt. 40 chests Ashee at Sha. 140 per chest is.. .. 5600.10 chests Shirash or Amboree at Sha. 120 ea. 1200.
6800. Charges vizt. matting each chest Sha. 2 is
. . . . . 100. - . Freight Sha. 42 each
.. .. .. .. 2100.Boathire and hamg:
50.
2250. 9050.
Shas. 58300.Errors Excepted
By WILLIAM LEE. Laden on board Ship Goodhope Captain Henry Harnott Commander by William Lee
merobant in Gombroone, one hundred bales of ruinass and fivety chests 100 bales ruins.ss of wine being markt and numbered as per margent, and are to be Doli. 40 shte. Ashee
vered (the Danger of the Sea's excepted) to Captain Henry Harnott and 10 do. Shiraz
Mr. John Scattergood att Madrass ; for true performance thereof I have 150 Parcells
signed to two bills of this tenour and Date, one being socomplisht the other to be void and of none Effect, dated in Gombroon the 9th May 1705.
Insides and contents unknown.
HENRY HARNETT.
NOTES ON DOCUMENT No. 2.) The goods mentioned are: "ruinass," rúnás, madder, and wine of "Shirash” (Shiraz), "Ashee " ( Ashu) and Amboree (? Ambar).
The terms for the coinage weights and measures, &c., are those of Persia, viz. Shas., i.e., shahee, shahi, c. 4d. Coz., i.e., cosbeague, ghazbegi, 10 of which went to a shahi.
Qt. is the seventeenth and early eighteenth century abbreviation for "containing" or "content."
Mds. tabrs., i.e., maunds Tabreez, man of Tabriz, c. 54 lb. (See Yule, Hobson-Jobson and Fryer, ed. Crooke, II. 139, for the above.)
Hamg., i.e., hamallage, porterage, Ar. hamil, porter. William Lee appears to have been a free merchant residing at Gombroon.
Besides the foregoing there is a statement of account of goods freighted in the Goodhope by Ralph Sheldon, member of Council in Bengal. It is dated Caloutta 29 November 1705. and endorsed " An Account Current between Mr. Sheldon and myself” (John Soattergood), but it contains nothing of special interest.
In 1706-7 Scattergood continued his commercial relations with Persia, for accounts exigt among the Papers showing that he was trading with money entrusted to him and Thomas Lovell, a merchant at Isfahan, by Governor Thomas Pitt and Padre Lewis, chaplain at Fort St. George, and that he was also interested in the cargoes of the ships Monsoon and Ralph and