Storia do Mogor 265.2.1

265.2.1

Yale wrote on February 7, 1688 (No. 2, pp. 191-194), blaming Chardin and his companion for distrusting Abnūs : the money was to be handed over, and they were to help him. They are prayed to write in French or Portuguese, as more intelligible than 'broken English.' Abnūs was told that the Council still confided in him. On April 12, 1688, in another letter to Abnūs (No. 21, Part II., p. 16), Yale complains that the articles of the proposed farmān are not as liberal as he had hoped. At the Council on May 24, 1688 (No. 5, p. 93), it was announced that Abnūs had nearly settled terms with Rūḥullah Khān about the general farmān. He hoped to proceed to the Court to get it confirmed. But they (the Council) had letters that the General (Sir John Child) had made a general peace at Sūrat, and the farmān had gone there. They assumed that Madras and Bengal were included. Their attempts at Gulkandah were to be suspended till they heard farther. Finally, on July 9, 1688 (No. 5, p. 139), Abnūs writes from Gulkandah, enclosing a letter of Nawāb I'tibār Khān from Bījāpur, advising that the farmān had gone to Sūrat, and he (Abnūs) need not proceed to Bījāpur.