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A17074	Newes from the East-Indies; or, a voyage to Bengalla, one of the greatest kingdomes under the high and mighty prince Pedesha Shassallem, usually called the Great Mogull With the state and magnificence of the court of Malcandy, kept by the nabob viceroy, or vice-king under the aforesayd monarch: also their detestable religion, mad and foppish rites, and ceremonies, and wicked sacrifices and impious customes used in those parts. Written by William Bruton, now resident in the parish of S. Saviours Southwark, who was an eye and eare witnesse ...	Bruton, William.	1638 (1638)	STC 3946; ESTC S105960	18,769	35

of his renowne He likewise keepeth three hundred Women who are all of them the daughters of the best and ablest subjects that he hath The seventh day of May we went up and downe in the Towne of Coteke it is very populous of people and hath daily a great Market in it of all sorts of necessaries which the Countrey affordeth it is seven Miles in compasse and hath but two great Gates belonging to it it is three Miles betweene the one Gate and the other Upon the eighth day of May we went to the Court at Malcandy againe to desire of the King a Warrant or free Passe for safe convoy of Letters or any other such occasion through his Countries Here we found his Majesty sitting in the outward Palace of the Court on the Pavement by the Tanke before named with a very faire Canopy over him made of Damaske and upheld by foure small Pillars overlayd w●th Silver with his Nobles by him for this effect and purpose following He was by the great Mogul commanded to wage Warre with all expedition against the King of Culcandouch a great Prince neighbouring upon his Confines which had wrongfully with hostility entred on the Southwest part of his Countrey and had made some spoyle and havock on the same The King I say had here called all his Commanders Leaders and Captaines together giving them a great charge concerning the good usage of his men and their best endeavours in the management and performance of their services in those Warres Hee likewise gave gifts to the Leaders and money to the Souldiers to encourage courage them The Army consisted of 30000 men which was 10000 Horse and 20000 foote armed for the most part with Bowes and Arrowes and some againe with Darts like our Javelins but farre more sharpe and some againe with a kind of Falchon Semiter or like a bended sword by their side some of which weapons have cut in sunder two malefactors which have beene condemned to dye being bound backe to backe at one blow given backwards by the Executioner But our Commission being granted and our businesse ended finally our Merchant reverently tooke his leave of the King and the King with his Nobles did the same to him wishing him him all good successe in his affaires in his Countrey and so we departed The ninth of May we gathered together all our things and at night wee departed from Coteke The tenth at the houre of two in the Afternoone we came to the Towne of Harharrapoore and hosted in the house of our Interpreter The eleventh day wee went to the Governour of the Towne and shewed him our Fermand or Commission from the King the Governour made a great Salame or courtsie in reverence unto it promised his best assistance and helpe in any thing that he could doe and there the said Governour had a small Present given to him The twelfth day of May Master Thomas Colley came to us at Harharrapoore and the rest of the English men with him with all the goods then wee hired a house for the present till such time as ours might be builded for our further occasions to the Companies use This Towne of Harharrapoore is very full of people and it is in bounds sixe or seven Miles in compasse there are many Merchants in it and great plenty of all things here is also cloth of all sorts great store for there doth belong to this Towne at the least 3000 Weavers that are house keepers besides all other that doe worke being bound or hired The foureteenth day the two Merchants went abroad and found out a plat of ground fitting to build upon then they layd the Kings Deroy on it and seaz'd upon it for the Companies use and there was no man that did or durst gaine-say them for doing the same The fifteenth day they hired workmen and labourers to measure the Ground and to square out the foundation of the House and likewise for the Wall which was one hundred Conets square which is fifty yards every Conet being halfe a yard or a foote and halfe and it behoved us to make haste for the time of the great Raines was at hand The sixteenth day they laid the foundation of the Walls being nine foote thicke much haste was made and many workmen about it but this our first worke was but labour lost and cast away for it came to nothing For on the eighteenth day the Raines began with such force and violence that it beate downe all our Worke to the ground and wash'd it away as if there had not beene any thing done this Storme continued without ceasing day and night more or lesse three weekes compleat The sixteenth day of Iune Master Ralph Cartwright tooke his journey for Ballazary and two English men with him who were Edward Peteford and William Withal and from thence he was minded to travaile further into the Countrey of Bengalla and the eighth of Iuly following wee received a Letter from Master Cartwright concerning his proceedings and troublesome passage for he found not the Countrey according as was reported by reason of the time of the great Raines that fell yet he was safely arived in Pipely The three and twentieth day of Iuly in the Morning we had newes that there was an English Ship arived at Hassarpoore and had shot of three pieces of Ordnance and stayed all night and the next day in the morning she having not a Boat to come from her she weighed Anchor and set saile for Ballazary The 25 of August in the morning Master Thomas Colley dyed of a violent Fever at Harharrapoore The seventh day of September I received Letters from Master Cartwright from Ballazary and withall he sent me the name of the Ship to wit the good Ship Swan and Master Edward Austin or Ostin commander The nineteenth day of September there came two Merchants from Ballazaray to Harharrapoore the one of them his name was Master Robert Littler the other Master Iohn Powlle Purser of the Ship Swan The fourth day of October our Merchant Master Robert Littler tooke a journey for Iaggernat and he returned the sixteenth day to the Factory at Harharrapoore A briefe Relation of the great City of Jaggarnat THe fifth day of November I was sent about the Companies businesse to the great City of Iaggarnat and I travailed this day to a Towne called Madew and I lodged all night in a Pagod or Pogoda The sixth day I William Bruton travailed eight Course which is thirty two Miles English and came to a Towne named Amudpoore where I found met together of men women and children more than 3000 and all of them were Travellers and Raungers of the Countrey having no residence but are called Ashmen because they doe cast ashes upon themselves also they are called Fuckeires which are Religious names given to them for their supposed holinesse but indeed they are very Rogues such as our Gipsies be here in England when they see their time and opportunity to put

any Havens Ports or Harbours of his Majesties Dominions but they would take them and make prize of them for they were not able to withstand their force At these words the King said but little but what he thought is beyond my knowledge to tell you Then the King turn'd to our Merchant and told him in Moores Language the which hee could very well understand that he would grant the English free Trade upon these Conditions following That if the English Ship or Ships should at any time see any Ship or Ships Junke or Junks or any other Vessell of the Nabobs or any of his Subjects in distresse either by foule Weather or in danger of Enemies or in any other extreamity that we the English should helpe aide and assist them to our powers or if it happened they were in want of Cables Anchors Water Victualls or any other necessaries whatsoever that did belong to them that we the said English should helpe them as we were able Likewise that we the said English should not make prize of any Vessell belonging to any of the Dominions of the said Nabob and that we the said English should not make prize of any Ship Vessell or Vessels within the Ports Rivers Roads or Havens of the Nabob though they were our Enemies but at the Sea wee might make prize of them if we could to this all our Merchants agreed Then the King caused Articles on his part to be drawne and published in this manner following Here I the said Nabob vice-Vice-King and Governour of the Countrey of Woodia under the great and mighty Prince Pe Desha Shassallem doe give and grant free Licence to the afore-said Ralph Cartwright Merchant to trade buy sell export and transport by Shipping either off or upon the shore not paying any Junkeon or Custome nor any under me to cause them to pay any Likewise that if they doe convay Goods by shore betweene Factory and Factory or any other place for their better advantage of gaine within these his Dominions I straitly charge and command that no Governour Custome-gatherer or other Officer whatsoever shall make or cause them to pay any Junken or Customes but shall suffer them to passe free without let hinderance molestation or interruption of stayage but shall I say helpe and further them in any thing that shall be the furtherance of their businesse Moreover I doe grant to the English Merchants to take ground and to build Houses fitting for their Imployments and where they shall see convenient for their best utility and profits without let or hinderance of any of my loving Subjects And further I doe give and grant to the English Merchants free Licence to build Shipping small or great or any other Vessell which they shall thinke best and fittest for their occasions and uses they paying no more than the Custome of the Countrey to the Workmen and likewise to repaire shipping if any such occasion be to require it Likewise ● the Nabob doe command that no Governour or Officer whatsoever under me shall doe the English any wrong or cause any to be done unto them as they shall answer it at their perills wheresoever they are resident Neither shall any wrong be done to any servant of theirs that doth belong unto them And againe if any Controversie should be betwixt the English and the people of the Countrey if the matter be of any moment then the said Cause shall be brought before me the Nabob at the Court at Malcandy and at the Derbar I will decide the matter because the English may 〈◊〉 no wrong behaving themselves as Merchants ought to doe This Licence formed and given at the Royall Court of Malcandy the third day of May 1633 but not sealed till the fift day of May following at night The fourth day of May the King sent a great Banquet to the House of Marsymomeine to our Merchants and there came to this Feast the great man that did speake on the Nockado's side against us at the Darbar about the Frigget aforesaid He brought with him to our Merchant for a present a Bale of Sugar a Bottle of Wine and some sweet meates saying he was sorry for the things before done and past but if any thing lay in him to doe the Company and him any good he and they should be sure of it This man was Governour of a Towne called Bollasarye a Sea Towne where shipping was built as is afore said his name was Mercossom and understanding that the Merchant was minded to travaile that way hee promised him to doe him all the courtesies that could be The fifth day of May in the afternoone we were before the King againe at the Darbar at our comming he called for our Perwan which was our Warrant or Licence and then he added to it the free leave of coyning of Monies and sealed it with his owne Signet himselfe and so all things was strongly confirm'd and ratified for our free trade in his Territories and Dominions The sixth day of May the King made a great Feast at the Court where were assembled the most and chiefest of all his Nobles and Governours that were under his command and being set he sent the Lord Comptroller of his house for the English Merchant Master Ralph Cartwright to come unto him who came with all speede and when he was in the presence of the King he caused him to sit downe by him and take part of the Feast for the King was exceeding merry and pleasant then the King caused a Vest or Robe to be brought and with his own hands did put it upon our Merchant and thus was he invested and entertained in the presence of this Royall Noble and great assembly This day the King was in Magnificent State and Majesty on rich Persian Carpets as is before mentioned But over this great Company was a large Canopy of branched Velvet of foure colours and in the seames betweene the joynings of it was yellow Taffata which hung downe like unto the Vallence of a bed it was 80 foote in length and 40 foote in bredth and it was upheld with foure small Pillars overlayd with Silver whose height was twelve foote and in thicknesse one foote Here we staid till about the houre of five in the afternoone and then we tooke our leaves of the King and the rest and departed to Coteke to the house of Mersymomeine Thus have I plainly and truely related the occurrences that hapned at the Court of Malcandy but although the Palace of the Nabob be so large in Extent and so magnificent in Structure yet he himselfe will not lodge in it but every night he lodgeth in Tents with his most trusty servants and Guards about him for it is an abhomination to the Moguls which are white men to rest or sleepe under the roofe of a house that another man hath builded for his owne honour And therefore hee was building a Palace which he purpos'd should be a Fabricke of a Rest and future Remembrance

The Grand Idoll Iagernat Newes from the East-INDIES Or A Voyage to Bengalla one of the greatest Kingdomes under the High and Mighty Prince Pedesha Shassalem usually called the Great Mogull With the state and magnificence of the Court of Malcandy kept by the Nabob Viceroy or vice-King under the aforesayd Monarch Also their detestable Religion mad and foppish rites and Ceremonies and wicked Sacrifices and impious Customes used in those parts Written by William Bruton now resident in the Parish of S. Saviours Southwark who was an eye and eare witnesse of these following Descriptions and published as he collected them being resident there divers yeares and now lately come home in the good Ship called the Hopewel of London with divers Merchants of good account which are able to testifie the same for truth Imprinted at London by I. Okes and are to be sold by Humphery Blunden at his shop in Corne-hill at the signe of the Castle neere the Royall Exchange 1638. A Rare and most Strange Relation from Bengalla in the East-Indies being one of the greatest Kingdomes under the Great Mogull and of their Lawes Manners and Customes c. ALthough divers learned painefull and skilfull Mathematicians and Geographers have with great Industry spent much profitable Time in finding out the Circumference of the Terrestriall Globe in describing Empires Kingdomes Principalities Lordships Regions Provinces Territories Variations of Climates and Scituations with the diversities of Dispositions of Tongues Religions Habits Manners Lawes and Customes of sundry Nations Though much labour perill and Cost hath beene worthily imploy'd by Pliny the second Ortellius Iodoco Hondius or to come nearer to our English Worthies such as are described in the Booke of Hacklewicks Voyages namely Windam Chancelour Grinvill Willoughby Drake Cavendish Gilbert Chidly Frobusher Clifford Sidney Deuoreux Wingfield as also the exceeding paines taken by Mr. Samuel Purchase and the Learned and Renowned Knight Sir Walter Rawleigh in their Descriptions of the whole World nor forgetting the perills that Mr. Sands passed in his tedious Travells with his exact Relations and Descriptions With Atlas newly Imprinted a rare Worke and lastly William Lithgow deserves a kind Remembrance of his Nineteene yeeres sore and dangerous Travells of his Feete and Pen worthy your Observation and Reading But all these Authors and Actors both of History and Travell did never discover all but still out of their plentifull Harvests of Observations they left some Gleanings for those that came after them to gather For the manifestation whereof in this following Discourse I have tyed and bound my selfe to speake onely Truth though it seeme incredulous or Hyperbolicall and if I should any way sway or stray from the Truth there are living men of good Fame Worth and Estimation who are able and ready to disprove me Therefore briefly to the matter in hand I William Bruton was shipp'd as a Quarter-master from the Port of London to serve in the good Ship called the Hope-well of the Burthen of 240 Tunnes To relate our long and tedious passage by Sea and our Arivall at every Port and Haven were but little to the purpose and would more tire than delight my Reader Therefore to begin that after my Arivall in those parts and in my services and passages there for the space of 7. yeeres I observed many things and put them in Writing but afterwards I came to know that the same things had been discover'd and described formerly by more sufficient and able men of Capacity than my selfe I thought good to keep them to my selfe and discover nothing but that which before was not so fully or scarce knowne as I shall now decypher them The 22. of March 1632. I being in the Countrey of Cormadell with sixe English men more at a place called Massalupatam a great Towne of Merchandize Master John Noris the Agent there was resolved to send two Merchants into Bengalla for the settling of a Factory there and these sixe English men of the which I was one were to goe with the Merchants and withall to carry a Present from the Agent to the Nabob or King of that Countrey to obtaine the promises that formerly hee had granted to the English for Traffick and to be Custome-free in those of his Dominions and Ports Wherefore a Junke was hired at Massalupatam to be our Convoy the said Junke did belong unto those parts and the Names of the English men that were appointed for that voyage were Mr. Ralph Cartwright Merchant Mr. Thomas Colley second William Bruton John Dobson Edward Peteford John Bassley John Ward and William Withall Though we hired the afore-said Junke March 22. yet it was the 6. of Aprill following before we could be fitted to depart from Massalupatam and in much various Weather with many difficulties and dangers which to relate here would be tedious and impertinent to my intended Discourse the 21. of Aprill being then Easter-day we were at Anchor in a Bay before a Towne called Harssapoore It is a place of good strength with whom our Merchants doe hold Commerce with correspondency This 21. day in the Morning Mr. Ralph Cartwright sent the Moneys a shore to the Governour of Harssapoore to take it into his safe-keeping and protection till such time as he came a shore himselfe So presently there came a Portugall Friggat fiercely in hostility towards us but we made ready for their entertainment and fitted our selves and the Vessell for our best defences but at last they steered off from us and upon our command shee came to an Anchor somewhat neare us and the Master of her came aboord of us who being examined whence he came and whither he was bound to which demands he answer'd nothing worthy of beleefe as the sequell shewed for hee seem'd a friendly Trader but was indeed a false Invader where opportunity and power might helpe and prevaile for on the 22. day Mr. Cartwright went a shore to the Governour of Harssapoore and on the 24. day the said Master of the Frigat with the Assistance of some of the ribble rabble Rascalls of the Towne did set upon Mr. Cartwright and Mr. Colley where our men being oprest by multitudes had like to have beene all slaine or spoyld but that Lucklip the Rogger or Vice King there rescued them with 200 men In this fray Mr. Thomas Colley was sore hurt in one of his hands and one of our men much wounded in the legge and head their Nockado or India Pilot was stab'd in the Groyne twice and much mischiefe was done and more pretended but by Gods helpe all was pacified The 27 of April we three tooke leave of the Governour and Towne of Hassarpoore I meane three of us namely Mr. Cartwright William Bruton and Iohn Dobson leaving Mr. Colley and the other foure men with him till newes could be sent backe to them from the Nabobs Court at Cutteke or Malcander of our successe and proceedings there with our other goods for he is no wise Merchant that ventures too much