The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 41.4.3

41.4.3

You may assure yourselues it makes all your seruants grudge ; and till I see vnder writing it was your Pleasure I will not bee ouercome with Pretended desarts that I know not. Mistress Hudson claymes the like for her proportion, about 120 li. I am the same to man and woeman. Lastly, when they sawe my resolution, they intended to the Sowthward and soe make 5 returnes for one. But I vnderstood your prohibition to be generally I knowe what Iniurie that Course would doe you, and haue alsoe denyed yt. Now hee is resolued to stay, perhaps till I am gone, to find an easier man. Hee may be deceiued. I offered him to returne this yeare and, to ease vs of his woemen, liberty to invest his stock in Cloth and other goods, Indico excepted, provided to bee consigned to you ; but hee hath better hopes, and I assure you I feare hee will spend most of his stock and ease mee of refusing him vnreasonable demands. By suffering such aduenturers you putt mee to much inconvenience, discontent your seruants, and hazard more then you consider ; euerie man is for himselfe, and I the Common enemie. He hath many ends neuer to you propounded ; but bee assured I will looke to him. You neede not doubt any displeasure hee can rayse you by her kindred, nor hope of any assistance. They fence one vpon another and are both weary. The mony Mentioned of Captain Hawkings is fallen by misenformation from 2000 rupees to 200 ; not worth recalling, ells I had beene dooing before your dischardge came.