Storia do Mogor 46.3.1

46.3.1

' One thing by all the informacon that we have yet recd is that he seekes for yor right of Customes of Gumbroon ; and for his assistance therein, hath brought recomendatory letters from the States of Holland, wch we are pers waded to give credence to ; being to our knowledg hee hath wrytten to the :'e of the Dutch heere ; therefore wee may easily iudg that he is not on our side, but against us ; but we hope yt he will doe yor affaires little hurt ; espetially now the premenconed peace wth the Dutch is concluded ; wch by our severall letters to Court the next day after we recd the newes, we have id abroad wth divers other particulars, as we recd them from Alleppo. . . .' [O.C. 2420.] Search in the Dutch Archives at the Hague has produced no trace of the suggested recommendatory letters from the States General ; but there is on record a Dutch translation of an Italian letter from Bellomont to Philips Angel, the Dutch company's chief merchant and agent in Isfahan. It is dated in, September 23, 1654, N.S. The original was received in Isfahan on October 22, and the translation was sent from Gombroon to Amsterdam on November 16, 1655 ; it is to the following effect : 'QAZBIN, ' This 23d September, New Style, 1654.