The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 58.1.2

58.1.2

The Companie thought it necessary therfore to seeke to preuent those mischeifes in tyme and to consider of some perticlers of greatest consequence, take the examinations of as many as can be gotten, to be iustified viua voce, that if any falshood can be proued or base and disgracefull tearmes vsed by them of the Companie (as is enfourmed) they may be punisht and some seuere course put in execution against them without fauour, to the example of others ; appointing Master Ellam to drawe the heads of all those complaints into a booke that they may be the more readie to charge them with hereafter, and amongst other things to looke out Furslands lettre, who wrights they kepe a comonwealth amongst them selues; but for the persons themselues it was held fit and so resolud to gleane out the most culpable and to send for them home by degrees vntill all shall be weded thence, and to be carefull that they be not permitted to get those their estates out of the Companies hands vntill they may receiue satisfaction for their honest gaining of them.