Indian Antiquary Vol 62

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

Page 395

MAY, 1933]
THE SCATTERGOODS AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
To pair large carpetts To 5 small at 8..
113. 3. 40
By ribons 10 ps. weigh 36 tales at 12m. 5c. pr 1 tale weight
3791. 5. 7 By 2 ps. embroderys 65 By 10 ps. rolled pelongs 2.4 By 31 ps. pelongs at IT.
7m. 5c.
By 6 ps. poisee at 5. 8 By 20 ps. yellow pz. 60 tale at 10 By 10 ps. in grain (6) pz. 60 at 14..
..
By 10 ps. in grain pz. 40 at 8. 5..
By 61 (') ps. paunches (8) 2. By 1 ps. blew cloth for my coat
By 8 boxes of stone bottles at 3. 5 ..
By 4 white coper (9) plates and 4 covers pz. 5c. 10t. at 12 pr cattie..
By 4 tabacca potts By 6 tin crew potts(10) By 1 quilt 1 gown and petticoat and 4 ps. for a toilet (11) embroder'd with gold By 14 pr. stockings 11 mace pr pair ..
By raw silk 10 peculls 109
(7) An error for 60.
(8) This term, also spelt "paunses" is used for "matting."
9. 1. 2
130. 24.
51. 2. 4
34. 8.
200.
140.
85. 120.
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[NOTES ON DOCUMENT No. 117.]
(1) Money of Macao, probably Portuguese coinage from the Jesuit Fathers. (2) There are frequent references to "Boqua the birdman."
(3) Byqua was the goldsmith with whom Scattergood dealt.
(4) That is, to be consigned to, or ordered from, Madras.
(5) The names of the Chinese piece-goods in this list, as romanized by European traders indicate damasks (poisees or poysees), flowered silks (gosees or goshees, and pelongs).
(6) By in grain, ingrain', a fast dye, is apparently meant.
(9) Tutenaga, spelter. See Document No. 8.
(10) Crew, crew' is an obsolete term for a pot. The Oxford Eng. Dict. has only one instance of its
use, in 1579.
(11) Toilet is here probably used in its obsolete and rare sense of a cover for a dressing-table or it may indicate a shawl, a moaning also now obsolete.