Mss Eur Mack Private 47, pp. 395-686

7, (a) p. 396: Brief index to the following memoir. (b) pp. 397-413: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 12 February 1716. Memorie voor den Ed. heer Adriaan de Visser, opgesteld bij den Ed. heer Dandel Bernard. This is merely an abridgment of the memoir given fully in 48. 5 (b) infra, q.v.

8, (a) pp. 420-3: Brief index to the following memoir. (b) pp. 427-587: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 30 March 1730. Memorie voor den Edelen Heer Adriaan Pla, gouverneur en directeur deser custe chormandel, met den resorte van dien, bij M(r) Dirk van Cloon raad extraordinair van Nederlands India, en oud Gouverneur ter gemelte custe, ingevolge der gevenereerde ordre van haar Edele achtbaarheden de Hooge regeringe van India, opgesteld, en naargelaten, item t'sijner devart van Nagapatnam per het Jacht het huijs te Assenburg na batavia aan zijnen hier bovengenoemden vervanger overgegeven. Deals mainly with the following matters: p.437 :- The cotton goods trade, its importance and organization; native buyers of cotton cloth for the Dutch Company, their shortcomings, suggestions for improvements in that matter, written contracts to be made with them, payments to them to be in cash, not goods; the Company's current methods of conducting the trade, fluctuation in prices at Sadras, Negapatam, &c., and many other details regarding the management of the trade, the guilds of traders employed in it; some statistics as to its value, &c. ; p.473 : Descriptive particulars regarding the several stations, their history and trade, &c., viz.: Portonovo, Tegenepatnam, Conjemere (an abandoned port), Sadras; p.495 : Alemperwe, Pulicat (in connexion with the last two places there are some particulars as to mints and currency, followed by some remarks on a proposal to mint rupees at Negapatam, and a number of miscellaneous particulars and recommendations relating to general trade, the Negapatam mint, the purchase of rice, &c.); p. 534: Negapatam, historical sketch; rents payable to Tanjore for the suburb of Sjolamandelan [=Coltl̤amaṇḍalam] and ten adjacent villages, &c. (partly paid in elephants and, formerly, in Arab horses; a table giving the numbers of elephants supplied by the Dutch Company, 1677- 1725, shows that their elephant rent had got into arrears); fortifications and public works; the 10 villages and their administration ; town garrison and police ; p.552 : Books of account; relations with the native rulers in South Coromandel (Carnatic and Tanjore, &c.); outstanding doubtful debts; Ostenders and other European interloping traders; judicial business; orphan chamber; munitions of war; treasury, &c. ; p.573: Council and court of justice; the Company's servants, Dutch and native; economy in administration; neutrality in case of disputes of other powers, &c.

9, (a) pp. 590-1: Brief index to the following document. (b) pp. 593-639: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 27 October 1732. Eerbiedig Antwoord, op 't nevenstaande Gextraheerde uijt een Missive der hoog Edele heeren superiores de dato 15. September Anno 1730. gegeven bij Adriaan Pla, gouverneur en Directeur deser custe Chormandel, benevens den Raad tot Nagapatn: aan zijn hoog Edelheijd den hoog Edelen heer M(r) Dirk van Cloon, Gouverneur Generaal, en d'Edele heeren raden van Nederlands India tot Batavia. Deals chiefly with the following matters: Eminent merits of former Governors and officials and consequent flourishing state of Coromandel; original objects of the Company there, viz., general import trade and cotton goods export trade; station at Golconda profitable till the Moghul conquest in 1687; foundation of Masulipatam, "Pettapoelij," Nagelwanse, Palicol, Daatcherom, and Bimlipatam; obstacles to Dutch trade in South Coromandel, foreign competition, especially that of the French at Pondicherry and the English at Madras; foundation of Pulicat, Sadras, Alemperwe, Tegenepatnam, Karikal, Trimelewaas, Negapatam, Portonovo and Conjemere, with some historical information; p.604: Dutch Company's privileges in relation to customs duties; trade methods; unreliability of native traders; past times of bad trade, high cost of living and scarcity and dearness of cotton goods and yarn, affecting not only Coromandel but also Madura and Bengal; statistical table of the trade, 1691- 1732; improvement in recent years in general trade and prospects of further improvement in the cotton goods trade; distribution of orders for different sorts of cotton goods amongst the various stations; management of the general trade (in bullion, spices, copper, &c.); fluctuation in prices of various goods; foreign competition; no demand for Bengal silk goods; p. 620: Reasons, for the abandonment of Palicol and Daatcherom, (wars between Hindu and Muhammadan powers, consequent robberies, extortions. &c.), and consideration whether they should not be re-established or a new station built at Narsapur; efforts to get a reduction in customs duties at Pulicat (which, however, had flourished while Sadras declined); p. 628: The territorial possessions of the Company; Negapatam and its adjacent villages both financially profitable and also necessary for the housing of the Company's servants; but badly fortified with earthworks, (which were impossible to keep in repair, indefensible and easy for smugglers to cross, and which should be replaced by a stone wall; the village of Willipalium to be included in the town circuit); the ten neighbouring villages, their state of cultivation (rice, indigo), administration, and cloth-weaving industry; Sadras and its territory (held on lease) ; the capitation tax paid by the inhabitants should be abolished; rising annual value of the villages near Pulicat, Palicol, &c. ; charges on the Company's exchequer: the European and native staff', ships and expenses connected therewith, presents to native authorities, current repairs to public buildings, &c. , The following are joined with the Governor A: Pia as signatories: G: Maire, W: Crielaard, M: Gallart, J(s): Steenhuijsen, H: Finniger, J(s) Mossel, O: Witmont, B: Corevaar, councillors, and G: W: V(n) Lawik, Secretary.

10, (a) pp. 641-3: Index to the following memoir. (b) pp.645-86: Nagapatnam [=Negapatam], 28 February 1734. Memorie voor den Edelen heer Elias Guillot, gouverneur en directeur deser Custe Chormandel med den Resorte van dien, bij Adriaan Pla oud gouverneur ter gemelte Custe, ingevolge de ordre opgesteld en nagelaten, item t'zijner depart van Nagapatnam, p(r) 't schip Terhorst na Batavia aan velm̄: vervanger ter hand Gesteld. The chief matters dealt with are; p.646: Fluctuations in the cotton goods trade; short lengths in the pieces; prices to be kept down; comparison of prices at Negapatam, Portonovo, and Sadras; dearness at the latter station due to famine and rise in the cost of living, shortage of yarn, European competitors of the Dutch Company and mismanagement by its servants; other details connected with the trade; general trade (with some particulal's as to prices): diamonds, sticklac, saltpetre, cowries; p.652: Increasing sale of imported trade goods; the writer's efforts to encourage it; Persian asafretida and madder root; sal ammoniac; sugar; long pepper; silks from Bengal; copper; some old cash to be sold; pepper; export of rice; organization of the coasting trade with Ceylon and Malabar; a pad cargo of madder; p.659: Negapatam : The neighbouring villages, indigo cultivation, weaving; particulars concerning the cotton-goods traders, their guild and dealings with the Company; proposed stone wall, &c., not begun, consequent loss by smuggling; Wellipalium should be included in the town; the elephant rent; death of the " visiadoor " ; garrisons at Pulicat, Sadras, Portonovo, and Masulipatam; Roman Catholics and Protestants; p.666: Particulars relating to the trade, &c., of Portonovo, Tegenepatnam, Alemperwe, Sadras, Pulicat, and Masulipatam; rents payable for lands held on lease by the Company; particulars relating to Golconda; Palicol; Narsapur; Daatcherom; Bimlipatam; native authorities; p.673: Some account of the distribution of Moghul officials in the Deccan; Hindu tributary princes; relations of the Company with the various native authorities; Tanjore; Trichinopoly or Madura; mints, currency, and cash in the Treasury; high price of cereals; p. 681: Arms and ammunition; bad debts written off; foreign competition (Ostenders, Danes, Swedes, Spaniards, and Portuguese); separation of administrative and judicial functions; official details of various kinds and matters relating to the administration.