Shivaji and His Times c16.s1.7
Shivaji and His Times c16.s1.7
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c16.s1.7
The Englishmen steadily refused to pay any ransom and tried to secure their liberty by feigned negotiations for helping the Marathas with English ships in capturing Danda-Rajpuri, but taking care to impose such terms as always left the English "a hole to creep out of their obligation" after recovering liberty. Then they tried the effect of threat by saying that if they were not released their countrymen at Surat would grant Aurangzib's desire by transporting a Mughal army into the Deccan [i.e., the Konkan district] by sea. (Orme MSS., Vol. 155, pp. 1-21, letter from the English prisoners at Songarh, 10th June 1661.)