Storia do Mogor 210.3.8

210.3.8

When the ambassador had returned to Masulipatam, the Dutch, relying on the king's word and on the farman they had obtained from him, sent some bullocks and carts loaded with merchandise, such as spices, broadcloth, copper, and other things, to be sold at various spots in the empire. But at the very start the whole was stopped by the king's officers, who demanded payment to them of customs' duty, saying that the farman did not deal with that question. This affair raised some amount of dispute between the two parties, and the officers wrote to court that the farman obtained by the Dutch had raised their pride and haughtiness to such a degree that, abandoning all respect for His Majesty's officers, they had raised their hands against them. They aggravated still more the offence [32] they pretended to have received by several additional details. Thereupon the king, without having heard the Dutch story, set aside the farman he had issued to them, and declared it of no effect.