The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 58.2.5

58.2.5

— Master Deputie made knowne that Sir Thomas Roe his accounts hauing bene vewed and perused by those Audytors that were appointed according to order, all are finisht and ended (excepting only 150 Mamuthars lost by Henry Garret in disbursing the monyes, which being so smale a matter was not thought fit to be stood vppon), And that the accounts of all such monyes that came to Sir Thomas Roe his hands and all his expenses, both ordinarye and extraordinary, are cast vpp. And do find great good husbandrie vsed in his expence of housekeping, which Cometh to about 250 or 260 ll. a yeare, one yeare with another, wherof he caused the account to be kept of euerye perticler. And hath cleared himself in the Countrye, owing nothing to the Companies account, nor ever borowed 10 ll. of them, although he lyued 6 months vppon his owne meanes (the Cash being left destitute of meanes at Master Edwards departure) And paid his seruants their whole wages in the Country, although he were allowed but half therof ther from the Company, And for other allowances tooke not half so much in the Countrye, as by Couenant he might. But made payment ther for some monyes which he borrowed here, which was the better accepted because it was remembred by some that if he would haue traded in the Countrye with the monye he had ther he might haue gayned a great matter;