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Letter 2 Francis Porten in London to the Court requesting permission to send out £1000 worth of coral on board the Compton to Fort St George for the purchase of diamonds.
Letter 3 Abraham Portello in London to the Court requesting permission to ship out £147 10s worth of rough coral and £159 worth of coral beads to India for the purchase of diamonds.
Letter 17 James Hawkins in London to the Court requesting permission to pay for six bales of raw Bengal silk after an accident the previous day had prevented him from doing so.
Letter 22 Robert Harrison at St Swithin Lane to the Court requesting permission to send out 700 oz of silver to his nephew Samuel Harrison, a free merchant at Bengal.
Letter 24 Katherine Gifford in London to the Court choosing Sir Robert Child and Josias Wordsworth to act on her behalf in the Company's arbitration over the estate of her late husband.
Letter 27 Thomas Benson in Wood Street to the Court reporting that Francis Pereira has been outlawed for debt and that they are not to transfer any of his stock unless it is to pay his debt due to Jacob de David Lopes Henriques.