The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 47.2

47.2

There yet are many difficulties, vnconsidered in the beginning, which forbidd mee to giue judgment, eyther of the conueniency or possibilitie of this trade, vntill vpon knowledge of the merchants meanes to Compass it without preiudice to your Maiesties Kingdomes and to their owne profitt and securitie, their farther resolution bee declared. The particulars are both too many and of too low an Elevation to troble your Maiestie, your generall Commande beeinge obeyed. I haue opened my poore vnderstanding in the rest vnto your Maiesties Principal Secretarie, from whom you wilbe pleased to receiue lardger enformation. If I finde by one yeares Experience more that this trade may be made, by vent of the Comodities of your Maiesties Kingdom or by the Industrye of your subiects from diuers Ports, without greater exports of mony or Bullion then Europe is able to beare, considering how many wayes it bleedeth to enrich Asia, I wilbee bould to confirme in your Maiesties name the treaty already begunn, and to add to yt some other Conditions which shall as well make it profitable for your Maiesties estates as easy for your subiects; to which end I haue sent vnder the limitations receiued from Master Secretarie Wynwood, and instructions from the East Indya Companie, a commission to proceede in and perfect this affayre, or tymely to foresee the hazards and inconueniences, that wee may retyre without dishonor.