The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 39.1

39.1

Your lettres come soe quick vpon mee in this huddle of trouble and journy that I know not which or whit is answered; but rather double then omitt any thing necessarie. That of the 11th dicto by your expresse touchd in part, by which you vnderstand of my arriuall in Amaduaz. The Complaynts therin I cannot speedelie redresse, the King beeing turned to Cambaya and not expected here this 13 dayes, at which tyme I will soe lardgly enforme in all kinds as, if ther bee any honor or sence or Common vnderstanding, I shall procure amends or licence to depart. The Motion to leaue the bringing of Corrall or any comoditie that will sell is all one as to mooue the expulsion of vs; for if wee bee debarrd our trafique free, wee will not stay. My answere the last brought round: if they seeke our embarque wee will trade into the Red Sea in spight of them and vpon them. Vnlesse wee professe this, they will bee still cauilling. I Perceave, by some heare, a resolution in Captain Towerson to goe to the Sowthward; to which I neuer can nor will consent. . . . Hee is here arriued with many seruants, a trumpett, and more shew then I vse. . . . With him is arriued Captain Newse, of whose Comming the Commander aduised mee noething; thence I gather it was without his knowledge. Hee is very wellcome to mee, seeing hee is come; but I mannerly refused it to him, for reasons not expressed which were very Materiall.