[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy) › [The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Foster)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster) › 18.1.7 # The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 18.1.7 The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Foster) 18.1.7 - **Language:** English ### [18.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.18.1.7) In my last aduise from Suratt they Confesse Master Saddlers debt was mistaken (yet they chardge some 260 rupees by particular for trifles): and concerning the 750 rialles formerly Charged to the Custome house, and beeing confessed by the Princes officers to bee receiued here, I, as was reason, euer demanded restitution; but in this second they write that they haue come to account with the Customer and are agreed on all particulars, without once mentioning the Royalles. So that I Concluded that mony was found in the Custome house and I had wrongfully demanded it, though without faulte, by Socoralles mistaking. So I knew not what to say in this uncertainty; Yet I had rather aske to much then too little; Therfore they still demand it. Zulpheckcarcon answered hee neuer tooke that mony away, but that it rested still in the Custome howse, and were not those sent the Prince; but beating this question, at last hee said those royalles sent vp were the 2,000 Mamoodies Paid in royalles to him for licence to transport vp our two Carauans of Cloth, hereby confessing the bribes playnly; and vpon examination wee found the summes to agree, no more beeing receiued: which. Seeing that I heard not one word from Suratt of the 750 Royalls, I resolued that my opinion was true that the mony was found and allowed below; - [Previous: 18.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.18.1.6) - [Next: 18.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.18.1.8) - [Up: 18.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.18.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.18.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.18.1.7) · Pramāṇa