IOR/G/29/5/3

The item is in the form of a diary (ff 80-120), which contains records of consultations at the Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory. The Chief Agent, John Horne, and the Factory Council members, including William Cordeaux, Edward Clift and William May, headed the consultations. They recorded the daily activities, the administrative decisions made, letters received and sent, as well as visits to and from the Factory.

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

• Details of former Agent John Geekie's relocation to Spahune [Isfahan, also written as Spahaun]
• Letters from William Cordeaux at Carmania [Kerman], recording the prices of wool purchased from the villages there
• The arrival of Captain Lewis and the delivery of his accounts from Bussarah [Basra]
• Records of the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat sending two Arabs to the Factory to purchase gunpowder
• A letter received from Meer Meerallee [Mir Mehr ‘Ali, a Safavid loyalist general]
• The Afghan-Persian War and the involvement of both the British and the Dutch
• A request from the Beglerbegis [Beglerbegi/ Beylerbeyi is Turkish and Azeri for Governor-General] of Spahune and Carmania for the British to supply them with gunpowder
• Details of Shaw Thomas [Shah Tahmasb II, King of Persia], having sent a letter to the King of Portugal from Spahune
• The appointment of Archibald Campbell as officer in charge of the soldiers at the Factory
• The Factory's receipt of bills drawn by John Geekie at Spahune
• The advance of Shaikh Mahmud Medannee [Most probably Ahmad Madani] and his followers towards an area called Jehoon
• Records of British, French and Dutch diplomats travelling from Persia to Europe via Bussarah
• The Afghans' attack on the Factory house at Spahune
• Records of letters sent to and received from the Company's Council of Bombay.

The diary includes records of certain individuals who could be merchants or Persian officials, including the following: Sheikh Saef Ben Amad [Shaikh Sayf Bin Ahmad]; Shaik Shabonahs [Shaikh Shaban, also written as Shabonah]; Shaikh Racid [Rashid]; Baroo Caun [Baru Khan] and Mahomed Azziz Beg [Muhammad Aziz Beg].

The diary includes records of the arrival and departure of ships, including the Britannia, the Eleanor, and the French Brigantine. From Gombroon the ships sailed mainly to Bombay, Muscat, Ormuz [Hormuz, also written as Ormuse], Bussarah, and Bunder Bouchier [Bushire].

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.