Indian Antiquary Vol 60

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
[MARCH. 1931
want on his account and I will pay him upon your writing me out. Do not fail to carry such a letter of creditt for fear of accidints. I have left a good quantity of wine, beer, &c., out of which you may furnish yourself for your voyage; the remainder leave with Mr. Legg, whom I have appointed my Attorney in your absense. My brother spoke to you to buy him 6 chests of shiross [Shiraz) wine which Mr. Boone bought ; he charges mo 12 pagodos per chest, which is 72 pagolos. Pray give him the 6 chests and receive the money. If you should go home before I come back, desire Mr. Legg to sell all the perisable goods that you shall leave behind, or anything else that he can for good advantage. If you goe homo leave the child that you goo with to Mrs. Ramslen care ; if a boy, make Mr. John Raworth and my brother Elihu godfathers, and sister Anno godmother, and name it what you please. If a girl, my sister Anne godmother, and Mr. John Raworth godfather, nameing her Arabella.
I hear that two ships will goe home, one early, which beleive the Howland ; on her I would not have you goe. And if the other should be Captain Martin and Mrs. Brabourne goes, I would have you (if time and health permitts) goe, weither peace or warr. But if Captain Martin dont goe, nor Mrs. Brabourn, you may stay till the October shiping.
I remain my dear,
Yours intirely
J. SCATTERGOOD. Madrass the 9th Ootober 1712.
P.S. Leave Carles money with Mr. Leg if you goe home. [Endorsed] Instructions of last voyage.
(NOTES ON DOOUMENT No. 24.] The afore mentioned. Document No. 23.
Auga Pera. Khwaja Agha Pera (or Perez), an Armenian merchant and inhabitant of Fort St. George, with whom Scattergood carried on business for several years.
If......there is peace. The War of the Spanish Suocession, which had been going on since 1702, was drawing to a close and the Treaty of Utrecht was signed in March 1713.
Captain Martin, Minter or Holden. Captain Matthew Martin commanded the Marlborough, Captain Lawrence Minter, the Kent, and Captain Richard Holden, the Mary. All these three Company's ships had arrived at Madras from England in the summer of 1712.
The Mary and Kent sailed for Europe in January and February 1713, respectively but the Marlborough was not despatched until January of the following year.
Mrs. Brabourne. Anne, widow of John Brabourne, chief of the Company's factory at Anjongo for several years prior to 1706, and a contemporary and friend of John Burniston, Arabella Scattergood's father. Mrs. Brabourne sailed to England in the Marlborough in January 1716 (Fort St. George Diary).
Mrs. Carrell. Elizabeth Caryl, also a widowed inhabitant of Fort St. George. Two daughters. Elisabeth, born 27 May 1707, and Carolina, born 23 October 1710.
Mrs. Ramsden. Mary, widow of George Ramsden, for whose career see Diaries of Streynsham Master, ed. Temple, II, 198n.
John Raworth, like Soattergood, a free merchant at Fort St. George. Arabella. The child, a girl, was born 23 December 1712.
The Howland. This ship, however, did not sail to England from Fort St. George, but was despatched home from Fort St. David (Cuddalore) on 14 February 1713 (Consultation at Fort St. George, 19 February 1712-13).
Carles: 1 Carlos, possibly a half-breed Portuguese servant.
Before he left Madras Scattergood also wrote again to his friend Charles Boone in Bengal, repeating the substanoe of his former letters (Documents Nos. 17 and 19) and adding some interesting details,