Orders from the Court of Directors to the Royal Duke
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Copy of paragraphs 26-34 of instructions given by the East India Company Court of Directors to the supracargoes of the EIC ship Royal Duke for their planned trading voyage to Mocha. Undated. Received by the EIC ship Doddington.
List of bills drawn at Surat, payable to the supracargoes of the East India Company ship Edgecote. Dated 5 April 1756 and signed by Nathaniel Stackhouse, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Received by the Edgecote.
Letter from the Captain to the Supracargoes of the Edgecote
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Letter from John Pearse, Captain of the East India Company ship Edgecote, to the ship's supracargoes, reporting his intention to call at Bombay [Mumbai] before returning to England. Dated 12 May 1756. Received by the Edgecote.
Letter from the Captain to the Supracargoes of the Edgecote
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Letter from John Pearse, Captain of the East India Company ship Edgecote, to the ship's supracargoes, requesting permission to remove unnecessary bindings from bales of coffee. Dated 31 May 1756. Received by the Edgecote.
Letter from the Captain to the Supracargoes of the Edgecote
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Letter from John Pearse, Captain of the East India Company ship Edgecote, to the ship's supracargoes, reporting on the ship's capacity. Dated 15 June 1756. Received by the Edgecote.
Letter from the Captain to the Supracargoes of the Edgecote
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Letter from John Pearse, Captain of the East India Company ship Edgecote, to the ship's supracargoes, requesting delivery of a further 142 bales of coffee. Dated 26 June 1756. Received by the Edgecote.
Letter from the Captain to the Supracargoes of the Edgecote
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Letter from John Pearse, Captain of the East India Company ship Edgecote, to the ship's supracargoes, forwarding a list of drugs bought at Mocha. Dated 20 August 1756. Received by the Edgecote. The list is catalogued as IOR/G/17/3 Part 2 f.273.
Letter from the Captain to the Supracargoes of the Edgecote
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Letter from John Pearse, Captain of the East India Company ship Edgecote, to the ship's supracargoes, explaining that several bales of coffee were found to be badly damaged and not fit for shipment. Dated 26 November 1756. Received by the Edgecote.
Letter from the Captain to the Supracargoes of the Shrewsbury
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Letter from Benjamin Jones, Captain of the East India Company ship Shrewsbury, to Edward Ironside and John Harvey, agreeing on behalf of the ship's owners not to demand any demurrage for the carrying of treasure to Bombay [Mumbai]. Dated 20 August 1772. Received by the Shrewsbury.
Letter to Mr Edward Say containing the Supervisor's enquiries about the discharge of Mr John Hill. The letter was delivered in Council, 26 June 1721, and received via the ship Sunderland on 19 March 1721 [New Style date 19 March 1722].