Storia do Mogor 264.9

264.9

In the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-six, seven days after my arrival at Madras, Governor William Guiford (Gyfford) sent for me, and informed me that the governors and officials of the Mogul king in the Bengal province had been illtreating his [the English] factors. They hindered them from exercising the privileges conceded to them by the Mogul kings. For two years he had made efforts to bring his grievances before the king, and had spent much money, yet had been unable to impart to the king in person the damage they were doing to him. On this account they had begun a war against the governor of Hūglī.