The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 14.1.5

14.1.5

March 8.—I sent for a resolution, and receiued yt: that that clause must remayne or I should not haue none. I gaue order. Suspecting the tricke, to redemand the articles signed by mee; but could not gett them, nor was the matter great, but for forme sake, and alsoe to pronounce as well my resolution, that I mente neuer to seeke farther after yt, neuer to accept yt, or any other, on ill Conditions: that I knew my way to seeke assured remedye: that I was sorry I had so long forborne yt. March 9. — The King being returnd, the Preparation for the Norose made all men soe busy that I had no oportunyte to doe myne, but purposed to prepare the King by Visitations and presents to heare my demandes with the first oportunitye. But I had no enterpreter, The brokar not daring to speake any thing that would displease Asaph Chan, nor would hee in any thing deliuer mee truly to the King. Soe I sought out a third [second?], an Italian Jeweller, a protestant, that vseth much liberty with his toung, and in whom the King takes often delight to heare him rayle at the Jesuites and theyr factions; who vndertook to say all I would deliuer him. March 10. — This day arriued our Cloth and goodes to Adsmere, having beene long on the way, to the great preiudice in the sale. March 11. — The Noros begann in the Eueninge. It is a custome of solemnizing the new yeare, yet the Ceremonye beginnes the first New moone after it, which this yeare fell togeither.