The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 1.13.5

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Where, also, two or more contemporary copies of the letters exist, these have been carefully compared, and any differences of importance noted. We may hope, therefore, that we have at least been able to present a text which may be accepted as trustworthy. The notes have been mainly devoted to giving additional particulars of the persons, places, or events alluded to. For the necessary information the editor is indebted largely to manuscript sources, such as, in the India Office Records, the Surat letterbooks and the Original Correspondence Series (now in course of publication under the title of Letters received by the East India Company from their Servants in the East), the Court Minutes of the East India Company, the logs of various voyages, and many miscellaneous documents; in the British Museum, Kerridge's letters (Addl. MS. 9366), and the journal kept by Walter Peyton, master of the Expedition, in the fleet which conveyed the ambassador to India (Addl. MS. 19276), have been of special service; and the Public Record Office has yielded several papers of importance, especially in the case of the documents grouped in Appendix B. Of printed books, the one most utilised has naturally been the Voyage to East India, by Edward Terry, Roe's chaplain, already mentioned. From this everything has been extracted that bears directly upon Roe's mission, as distinguished from the general disquisitions on things Indian which form the staple of that interesting work.