IOR/G/29/5/2

The item is in the form of a diary (ff 27-79), which contains records of consultations at the Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory. The Chief Agent, John Horne, and the Factory Council members, including John Geekie, Edward Clift and William May, headed the consultations. They recorded the daily activities, the administrative decisions made, letters received and sent, and visits to and from the Factory.

Among the main details and issues recorded in the diary are the following:

• The arrival of the new Agent, John Horne
• John Geekie handing the new Agent the Company's bills and rogoms [raqams or ruqums, also written in the diary as rogomms: royal grants confirming specific trading privileges] obtained from the Persian Government
• A dispute between the Persians and the Dutch
• The Factory's role as mediator between Abdullah Caun [Abdullah Khan, most probably the Governor of Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and the Dutch
• Petitions presented by merchants to the Factory about their goods sold at Bunder Bouschier [Bushire]
• Records of letters sent to and received from the Company's Council at Bombay
• The issue of a person called Cassum [Qasim?] who was indebted to the Factory
• The appointment of William Cordeaux to act as a Broker at the Factory house in Carmania [Kerman, also written as Carmenia], mainly to sort out the prices of wool sold to the Company by Banian [Banyan] merchants
• The arrival of the wool caphila [caravans] from Carmania
• The use of the Factory house and garden at Afseen by merchants and Persian officials
• A list that includes the names and salaries of people who work at the Factory
• Records of letters and visits exchanged between the Factory members and various merchants and Persian officials.

The diary includes records of the arrival and departure of ships, including the Britannia, the Prince George, and the Victoria Frigate. From Gombroon the ships sailed mainly to Bombay, Muscat, and Ormuz [Hormuz, also written as Ormuse].

The diary includes abstracts of the standard account disbursements for each month. These cover the following: house expenses, garrison charges, the Afseen garden, hospital charges, medicines, marine charges, merchandised charges, house furniture, extraordinary charges, stable charges and servants' wages.