Indian Antiquary Vol 62

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

Page 393

MAY, 1933 ]
THE SCATTERGOODS AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY! THE SCATTERGOODS AND TH
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Delivered to the Prince Eugene for Capt.
Tobin
From aboard the Prince Eugenel and sent to Canton
1 butt beer and 1 hogshead wine
4 half hhd. Goa arrack 1 bale qt. 56 patch moorees (?)
10 pg. handkr. chints bed
To the Essex(*)
1 bale 2 barrels powder 1 half leaguer Goa arrack
From the Sarum(") and sent up
2 chests wine 2 hhds. bottled beer
1 box tobacco & gross pipes 24 stockfish() and bag oatmeal
4 bottles olives & 4 oyle and vinegar Sent from Bonita in great boats
2 chests Shiras & 1 rose water 2 chests liquors I chest soap 1 box cordial waters 2 bales carpets 14 rob sharks fins wt. 1299 C. a small bundle and 2 Goa stones(6)
per Jo. Green By the pinnace
13 ps, handks. & 12 ps. moorees 1 chints bed 1 bundle for Cumshaw I box & 1 box saffron
To the Carnarvon (5)
I half leaguer Goa arrack
St. Francis (6)
1 half leaguer Goa arrack
Bridgewater() will not receive the qr.
cask without an order
I am Sir Your most humble servant
JOHN MACKMATH.
[NOTES ON DOCUMENT No. 116.) (1) The Prince Eugene, formerly the Camberwell galley, whose successful voyage in the previous year was noted by Phipps in his letter of 14 January 1719/20. (Soo p. 213.)
(3) One balo containing 56 parcels of muri, blue cloth.
(3) The Sarum, Captain George Newton, and the Essez, Captain John Pinnell, both Company's ships, sailed to China in December 1719 and December 1718 respectively.
(9) Dried cod, hake or haddock. See Papers of Thomas Bowrey (Hak. Soc.), p. 169 n. 1.
(5) The Carnarvon, a Company's ship, Captain Josiah Thwaites, sailed from England for Whampoe in February 1720 and returned in August 1721. The St. Francis, also called the St. Francisco Hanari, commanded by Philip Domore, appears to have been a "country" vessel. She also was at Whampos at the end of 1720.
(6) Goa stones, also called Gasper Antonio stones and Jesuit stones, & compound in great repute as a medicinal remedy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
(T) The Bridgewater, & Company's ship, Captain Edward Williamson, sailed to Batavia, China and Madras in December 1719 and returned in August 1721.
Scattergood's "Memorandum Book" at Canton covers the period August to December 1720 and deals with a variety of transactions for different individuals.
For the information of the Dutch Governor and "Second " at Malacca, for whom ho procured goods in exchange for Spanish dollars, he noted that "39 gilders equall to a tale" and "101 do. equall to a pound sterling." For the Dutch Governor also ho procured a