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A45634	The true copy of a letter from Mr. Harris and Mr. Annesley, two of the East-India-Companies council, left at Surrat by their General, Sir John Child, Barronet, when he and the rest of the English nation departed the Indian shoar [sic], and retired to Bombay to begin the late war against the Great Mogul and his subjects	Harris, B. (Bartholomew); Annesley, Samuel.	1688 (1688)	Wing H838; ESTC R13951	5,524	6

Evening sent us away and about Nine of the Clock we returned to the Factory And now having given your Excellency c. an Account of our meeting with the new Governour we shall most humbly desire your Excellency c. to be pleased most seriously to consider all how far the King hath condescended to the Redressing of all your Excellencies c. Grievances by sending a Person nearly Related to Himself being of the Royal Family whose Father your Excellency and we all know hath signalized himself in several great Governments and Imployes in our Memory and always had the singular good Repute of a very Honourable and Worthy Lord a Lover of Strangers which Pettit knowing as your Excellency may remember was the Cause he made his Addresses to him and for this his Son your Excellency knows that the Profits of Surrat Government are too small for the Maintenance and Retinue of so great a Person as he himself was pleased to say that all the World knew he wanted not Riches nor Honour from his Prince but his undertaking this Business was to raise the Name of the Family higher that by bringing this Work to an Happy Issue he might be remembred by Strangers as well as others many Years after his Death and taking hold of his Beard almost quite Grey said how long have I to live And what else have I to do but such good Actions as this that God might be Gracious to him hereafter He seems to be mighty Religious making God the Author of all saying often it is not he that shall do this Work for us but God. Further be pleased to consider the great weight of your Excellencies c. Thirty Five Articles that without your Excellencies own Person in this Business it cannot be brought to that hopeful Issue as may be desired and at the Distance your Excellency and his Lordship is at present to enter into a Treaty between you Your Excellency c. cannot but be sensible will be a vast Expence of Time and a Thousand other ill Consequences may attend it far more than can be fore-seen in your Excellencies doing as your Excellency c. can order it what is now desired of your Excellencies coming up to Swalley or the Barrs foot of this River where your Excellency c. shall think best for your security only that your Excellency may be near touching which he was pleased to say that in the Invitation he intends to send your Excellency he will send you in his Letter the print of his Hand which to him shall be as Binding and of as great Force as if he had put his own Hand into your Excellencies That no ill is intended to your Excellency and this his Promise in our Discourse with him proceeded from this his Enquiring of your Excellency and if your Excellency had not been acquainted of his coming to this Government and if your Excellency had not wrote and being answered that we were not wanting in our Advices but there having been such divers Reports that it could not yet be expected that your Excellencies Answer should come to our late Advices of his Lordships certain approach towards this Government which was the Cause your Excellency had not made your Addresses but were in dayly expectation of them whereupon he advised that there should in your Excellencies Name be made some little Address of Welcome and the like and send it him in publick on Tuesday next when he should be in Town and then we should see what Answer he should return and what Assurances he would give your Excellency also of his Friendship c. as above-specified which Business of the Letter is now under our Consideration but we hope to receive some Directions from your Excellency c. e're that for our better Government So that your Excellency c. may expect to hear further from us e're long If under all these fair Leaves there doth yet lye some deadly Snake it would be much to our wonder but we think it cannot be More could be said on this Point of your Excellencies coming up but not to be too prolix and knowing to whom we Write shall submit all to your Excellencies c. far more sublime Judgments with this Assurance that what is here wrote is the pure product of our most real zeal for the interest of our Right Honourable Masters and the general welfare of us all His Excellencies person is so dear to us as in duty it ought that did we in the least think that there was any danger of him any more than what belongs to the Sea we would never offer to presume to set Pen to Paper to advise the same and that we may not be mis-understood we do say that it is most requisite prudence that your Excellency c. stand yet upon a most strict guard and if your Excellency shall judge fitting to come up that it be with what Sea Forces possibly can be made and with all requisite splendor And of our selves foreseeing one Objection we have made some little inspection in it and shall answer it which is this That his Lordship seems too forward in this business in hastning it so much To which we are advised as before intimated this Government is too small for him and is in expectation of being Subau of Goozurrat and so to leave his Son here when he hath done this business and himself go to Ahmadavad and this seems to us somewhat consonant to Reason and Honourable One main point more had almost slip't our memory which is this about his Assurances his Lordship gave us from His Majesty that we should pay but two per Cent. Custom which arose from our telling him that you were sending up some Money and Goods upon which he answered as above that we should pay no more and that if they did come he would secure them to the Right Honourable Companies Factory but he had rather your Excellency c. should forbear till his Excellency came up himself We hope what we have hitherto done may meet with your Excellencies c. Approbation and shall conclude this our Relation with this That indeed it may be much admired with what extraordinary Courtesie and Freedom his Lordship entertained us causing us to sit down close before him which your Excellency c. knows is unusual in such great Men most part of the time we were discoursing him which we judged was upward of two hours in which he shewed to be much pleased with us and all his protestations and the like Testimonies of his Favour We received with all due respects and submission which being the substance of our Yesterdays Transactions and what we can at present call to mind we in all Humility with the tender of our best services subscribe Surrat Dec. 25th 1687. Your Excellencies c. Most Humble and Most Obedient Servants Bart. Harris Samuel Annesley SOme few dayes after Receit of the former Letter the English General Received another Letter from the aforesaid two Persons of his Council intimating that the said Prince or great Lord Muctear Caun was sending two Envoys unto him to Bombay for whom the General sent a Noble Barge or Gally to bring them from the nearest part of the Main to Bombay and Received them with the greatest Honour and Respect They presented the General from the said Prince or Lord an exceeding courteous Letter inviting him to Swalley to put an end to all differences which Letter besides the said great Lord 's Chop or common Signature had the Print of his hand in Saffron which is the greatest Assurance of Honour and Veracity that any Prince in the East of the Mahometan perswasion can make or give The General Received the Letter with the accustomary Ceremony to Letters Received from such great Princes but told the Envoys he was at present engaged in dispatching another Ship for England but he would consider of the Peace proposed and return a speedy answer c. So that upon the whole matter the East-India Company do Conclude there is an Honourable Conclusion made of that War long since occasioned by the unnatural and pernitious attempts of Interlopers and that Peace may continue between the Mogul and the Company upon fair and just Terms for as many Ages as it did before which was near a Hundred Years The Company have likewise Information by the Passengers come home on the Success That there have been two great Insurrections of the common People at Battee near Surrat and one in the City of Surrat demanding the Old Governours Head for abusing the English and a present Peace without which they say they must all starve THere will in a Short time be Published a Brief History of the Rise Progress and Success of the English East-India Companies Wars against the great Mogul and the King of Syam and Their Subjects London Printed for Samuel Tidmarsh at the Kings-Head in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1688.