[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) › 22.1.6 # The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 22.1.6 The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe (Foster) 22.1.6 - **Language:** English ### [22.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.22.1.6) October 9. — In the morning I receiued from the Admirall or ludge of all Marine causes in Suratt a lettre signifying the arriuall of fower english shipes, and therin offering mee all his furtherance and assistance in our speedy and faire dispatch; but withall hee gaue mee aduise that wee wanted there a sufficient procurator to follow our busines, which I vnderstood to bee one of that Country, for I knew the brokar entertayned by ours was a foole and one that durst not open his mouth with such freedom as often our affayres required. But because his meaning was somwhat obscure, and might concerne a dislike of the Cheefe of the English, for that the woordes litterally imported that I should send downe a sober, discret, and graue man for a procurator in our busines to bee indifferent, which might alsoe (meaning a Mogull) on our behalfe \[be ?\] authorised by the king, I wrote to him to expound his entent and accordingly I would follow yt. Whervpon I was of opinion that no man was soe fitt as Jaddow, that remaynd here ; for the mayne of our busines for dispatch lying at Suratt, and finding it fitt to reduce the factoryes att Adsmere and Agra to one, the brokar there is by report both well knowne and sufficient in all but his honesty (wherin there is little Choyce) ; but I stayed the resolution for the Admiralls answere. - [Previous: 22.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.22.1.5) - [Next: 22.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.22.1.7) - [Up: 22.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.22.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.22.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.roe-embassy~en-foster.22.1.6) · Pramāṇa