Indian Antiquary Vol 62

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

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MAROK, 1933 ]
THE SCATTERGOODS AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
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stained callicoes" was read and approved, and the Secretary was directed to sign and deliver it to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations (Court Book, vol. 49, p. 155), Again, on 27 January 1720/1 a committee was appointed to attend the progress of the Callico Bill" and such " Counsell and solicitors" to be employed as they should deem fit (Ibid., p. 246). Further, on 1 March 1720/1, at a Court of Directors, it was reported that " Councell and others in behalf of the Company " had been heard on the previous day in the House of Lords "against the Callico Bill" (Ibid., p. 275).
(3) The Compagnie de la Louisiane ou d'Occident" was established by John Law in 1717 for trado in the region about the Mississippi. "Two years later it took over the moribund companies “Des Indes Orientales " and "De Chine." An "Abstract of the King's Edict for Uniting the Companies of East India and China to the Company of the West, dated Paris, in May 1719" was printed in The Daily Courant of 17 June 1719 and a copy is preserved in Correspondence Memoranda, vol. 6. For the inception and history of Law's scheme and its subsequent gigantic failure, see the Encyc. Brit., a.v. Law, John.
No time was lost in selling the Bonita's cargo. The following "Outery” role of what goods bought” is dated 14 April 1720.
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.. pags. 45 ..pag. 12. 32 ..pugs. 53. 32. 32 Pags.
To oftoas and chalemches(') 30 pr To close stool pans 12 .. To blew and white large dishes 118 To tutanague() .. To quicksilver To 10 tubes of camphire .. To 20 catty of tea
111. 28. 32 1500. 710. 155. 9. 27 11. 34
Pags. 2488 35.59
WM. COLEBROOKE for the freighters of the Bonita.
[NOTES ON DOCUMENT No. 112.] (1) Aflaha and chilamchi, ewer and (brass) basin. (2) Tutenaga, spelter.
While the sale of the Bonita's cargo was proceeding, Scattergood busied himself in providing a further lading for her. He requested William Jennings, Deputy Governor of Fort St. David, to procure goods to the amount of 7000 pagodas and had a reply, dated 4 May, enclosing "musters" (samples) of the cloth required. Scattergood carefully" overlcoked " these and desired that the longcloth furnished should be of a finer texture than the" muster." The“ blew succatoons" were, however, satisfactory.
At this time, too, both Scattergood and Harris were busily trading on their own account. They were " concerned " in the cargo of the brigantine Triplicane, Captain Stephen Wocd. house, in the Jerusalem, Captain Robert Washington, with the Armenian João de Matt as supercargo, and in the Lusitania, Captain Thomas Dixon, with the two Ormes, Stephen and Alexander, all three ships plying between Madras and Bengal, Malacca, etc.
In Surat, Jeremy Bonnell was acting for Scattergood, and to him he wrote:
"I can't advise you to buy me any goods because I am uncertain what I shall do next year, whether I shall stay in the country longer or go for England, waiting now with impatience for news from England."
The success of the Bonita's previous voyage brought many investors in her second venture, among them Stephen Orme, who sent“ oyl of sandall," carpets and saffron, the latter " by way of tryall in China," and Richard Benyon, who, trusting to the " friendship and