Indian Antiquary Vol 61

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
[ DECEMBER, 1932
(NOTES ON DOCUMENT No. 101.) (1) Randall (or Randolph) Fowke, member of Council at Fort St. George.
(2) His Christian name does not appear. Mary Dubois, widow, of Fort St. George, possibly his mother returned to England in 1720.
(9) Fiscal, Du fiskaal, properly a treasuror ; in Dutch colonies, a magistrate. () Captain Peter Jackson of the Brussels galley. (0) William Colebrooko, purser of the Bonita. (") These individuals havo not been identified. (*) Hugh Hopkins, free merchant at Fort St. George. (9) Loonard Cocks, supercargo of one of the Ostend ships. (*) Captain Villeaumont Gurolin, commander of the French ship then at Canton. (10) Captain Jarnes Naial, commander of one of the Ostend ships. (1) Pinqua, Chinose merchant. (12) Catesby Oalham, essay master at Fort St. George. (18) Thomas Honwood, one of the officers of the Bonita. (14) This word is abbreviatod and illegible. (15) Possibly Captain John Hunter of the Burrington. (16) John Pugh, the Rev. George Lewis's protégé. (17) A mandolin appears to be meant. (18) Possibly Cosmo do Gion, Capuchin Father at Fort St. George, is meant. (1) Chinese merchants with whom Scattergood had dealt on his previous visits to Canton.
By the Sunderland and the Ostend ships which sailed from Canton at the end of the year, Scattergood despatched numerous letters to England. As twenty of these have been preserved, it is impossible to print more than a small selection in full. To his newly-constituted attorneys he gave an account of his affairs up to the date of writing.
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Canton,
Novr. the 12th 1719. Messrs. Edward Fenwick and Elihu Trenchfeild, Dear Sirs,
When I left England I left Mr. George Lewis my attorney, and in his absence Messrs. Gilbert Affleck and James Wendy. Since which I have received a letter from Mr. Lewis to be excused, and the other two gentlemen being mostly in the country, I beg you two to be in their place, which I hope you will not deny me, the inclosed being a letter of attorney for that purpose.
Since my comeing out have received no account how my affaires stands there (England), therefore I send you a short account of what mony my attorney Mr. John Maubert and selfe have sent to England since I came from thence,(1) and to know how my affaires stands there, please to demand my papers from Mr. Lewis. In overlooking my accounts and my instructions to him you will see all.
Mr. Wendy has wroto me that my China adventure came safe home and that he had received a bulse of diamonds from Mr. Maubert, which he has not sold: but I hear nothing of three hundred and odd pounds in a bill on Mr. Cartlitche that I gave Mr. Laurence Lane the night before I came from (England) to give Mr. Lewis in the presence of Mr. Chamberlyne and young Mr. Cartlitche,(?) being the ballance of Mr. Cartliche's account with me of Mr. Beavoir's 1500 pound, nor nothing about the diamonds that I was concerned with Mr. Brad. ell, who I hear is dead; for I was concerned 2000 pagos. in a parcell of large diamonds sent