The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 38.1

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(I. O. Records : O. C., No. 575.) The woods, 30 Course short of Amadauas, December 6, 1617. Yours Nowe receiued of the 21th Nouember mentioneth one of the 9th that neuer came to mee ; with this the Copy and Note in English and Persian of what deliuered to Asaph-chans seruant, the weight of Gould, and prises as by Invoyce. His payment is better then any Mans, though his prises hard made. By this I am sure I have saued Custome, contented a frend, and not borne the hazard of Portage. . . . . . . . Your bills for Agra are receiued and mony almost all invested ; 200 Camells on the way this 13 dayes ; cloth bartered ; Creditt for about 25,000 rupees 3 monnths ; The Proceede much enlardged, double to former years (as they write), in best Commoditie, and all things ther performed much to my Content, and (I hope) their Creditt and the Companyes Profitt ; the Number of Semians enlardged (a new sort of Cloth), and carpetts not yet gotten but in hand. Their day I will not faile on, nor haue they found difficultie, as wee supposed, in trust nor Prises hoysed out of reason ; and I make noe question, by this yeares and the Next Practise, to enter soe into good opinion as to buy on tyme for a leecke of goods, by which the ships shalbe supplied in tyme, and, if care taken to preserue the foundation, it shall prooue an advantage of better vse then to bee so good husbands as to venture Nothing.