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∗ As he wrote to the Company, 28th January, 1664, (F.R. Surat 86) : "The townspeople cry out in thousands for a reward from the King to the English that had by their courage preserved them. We were with the noblemen of the army that came to our relief, from whom we received great thanks for the good service we did the King and the country, whereupon your President, having a pistol in his hand, laid it before the chief, saying... he now laid down his arms, leaving the future care and protection of the city to them; which was exceedingly well taken, [the general] telling the President [that] he accepted it, and he must give him a vest, a horse and gird a sword about him. But your President told him they were things becoming a soldier, but we were merchants and expected favour from the King in our trade." The reduction of import duty in favour of the English and the Dutch was withdrawn in Nov. 1679. [Aurangzib, v. ch. 60 §5.]