Letter 100 Thomas Reading at East India House to Robert James reporting that Richard Scott has been appointed one of the Company's waiters and an extraordinary waterman by the Committee of Private Trade.
Letter 112 R. Pritchard in London to the Court reporting that a Chinese man named Cheequa arrived in Europe via a Portuguese ship and is now in London and that the said individual lost all of his effects of a considerable value in a recent earthquake at Lisbon. Requests that Cheequa may have free passage home on board the Boscawen in consideration of his financial distress.