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1. IOR/G/12/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China for 1727
Scope & Content:
Covers 30 Nov 1726-12 Jul 1728; at Canton Jun-Dec 1727. Supercargoes: Nathaniel Torriano, Edmund Godfrey, Richard Nicholson jun, ship Prince Augustus (Capt Francis Gostlin). Other shipping mentioned: Balls country ship from Bombay; Lyell country ship from Madras; a Muslim-owned ship from Surat; a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1726-1728
Extent:
1 volume

2. IOR/G/12/26 p.5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26 p.5
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China
Scope & Content:
We reiterated our proposall to Suqua rejecting all his reasons for staying & doing our business at Canton, but we found him absolutely resolved not to go to Amoy. Nor could we persuade him to engage for the making the silks which we were directed to get made here & sent us to Amoy, for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1727
Extent:
1 item

3. IOR/G/12/26 p.4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26 p.4
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China
Scope & Content:
We arrived at Canton & went directly to Ton Hunqua's Hong, which is now usually called the English Factory.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jun 1727
Extent:
1 item

4. IOR/G/12/26 p.20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26 p.20
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China
Scope & Content:
This day the present Foyen, who is also Hoppo, leaves this city to be Foyen of the province of Fochien, to the great regret of all the merchants & others at this place, who are extreamly sorry to loose so good a governour, and the more so because they are informed he is to be succeeded by th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1727
Extent:
1 item

5. IOR/G/12/26 p.23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26 p.23
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China
Scope & Content:
Paid the Linguist upon Ton Hunqua's security tael 1950, being for the presents to the Foyen, Juntuck & other great Mandarines for our ship's present, which are now by custom looked upon to be as much their due as the measurage.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1727
Extent:
1 item

6. IOR/G/12/26 p.1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26 p.1
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China
Scope & Content:
As soon as we arrived [at Batavia] we made inquiry for some Chinaman whom we might trust with the secret of our being designed for Amoy, in order to gett a letter sent to Suqua acquainting him thereof and desiring him or his partner to meet us at Macoa where, if we mett him, we designed to settle...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1727
Extent:
1 item

7. IOR/G/12/26 p.7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26 p.7
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China
Scope & Content:
This morning we waited upon the Foyen. We told him that though we were designed for Amoy, yet that we were induced to stay & trade here upon the character we had had of his great justice & the assurances that had been given us that he would allow us all reasonable priviledges. [A new cl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1727
Extent:
1 item

8. IOR/G/12/26 p.17

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26 p.17
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China
Scope & Content:
Having heard that the Foyen's eldest son, who is himself a Mandarine, & three other of his sons were desirous to see a ship, we thought it a propper opportunity to pay him a complement in acknowledgement for his father's having allowed us all the priviledges & customs that had been at a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1727
Extent:
1 item

9. IOR/G/12/26 p.22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/12/26 p.22
Title:
Diary and consultations of the Council in China
Scope & Content:
Suqua not being able to get us any more sagoe, we are forced to pack the remainder of the hollow chinaware bought of him with paddy instead of sagoe.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1727
Extent:
1 item

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