Letter 12 George Clifford & Sons, Amsterdam to Robert James reporting that the Dutch East India Company had published for sale 10,000 bales of pepper, 400,000 bales of Cinnamon and 100,000 bales of Maze
Letters 13-15 William Kinloch, acting for the Ambassador at Constantinople to Robert James in relation to his having procured a Phirmaund [Firman] to prevent exacting double customs at Bagdad & the steps he took to obtain another for enforcing the payment of consulage
Scope & Content:
Committee of correspondence to examine and report. Enclosures: ff 32-33, copy in Italian of the Phirmaund (Imperial Command) procured by Consul Kinloch; ff 34-35, translation in English of 'An Imperial Command directed to the Governor & Judge of Babylon & also to the Judge of Bassora.
Letter 17 Governor John Skottowe, St Helena to the Court of Directors reporting news of military and local affairs in Madras relayed by Captain Fletcher of the Earl of Middlesex
Letter 18 Messrs Scott Pringle, Cheap & Co, Madeira to Robert James that as requested they would purchase 100 pipes of their best wines to be shipped to India by those company ships calling there
Letters 19-21 Messrs Chambers Hiccox & Denyer, Madeira to the Court of Directors enclosing documentation for wines shipped on the Brittania and enclosing their invoice of charges for shipping of 125 pipes of wine
Letter 22 William Shaw, late the Company's agent at Bussorah [Basra] to the Court of Directors offering to lay before the Court when ordered a vindication of his character
Letter 25 John Fremantle, Custom House to Robert James that the Officers of the Bute were refusing to follow the regulations agreed between the Company and Commissioners of Customs and not sending the Private Trade up immediately
Letter 26 Henry Pelham, Victualling Office to Robert James that the large quantity of salt beef and pork left to the President and Council of Bombay by the agent for victualling His Majesty's Ships was to be put to publick sale in Bombay