IOR/G/29/5/6

The item is in the form of a diary (ff 216-248), which contains records of consultations at the Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory. The Chief Agent, William Cockell, and the Factory Council members, including Edward Clift, Walter Ray and James Smith, 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:

• Thomas Caun [Tahmasb Quli Khan Afshar, future Nadir Shah of Persia] threatening to close the Company's house
• The arrival of the wool caphila [caravans] from Carmenia [Kerman]
• The Factory communicating with Thomas Caun regarding the renewal of its grants and privileges
• Reports of the Ballooches [Baluch] attacking the wool caphila, and the Dutch House
• Ensuring the safety of the trade routes between Carmenia and Gombroon
• Reports of Mahmud Caun Baluch [Muhammad Khan Baluch, Governor of Kuhgiluyah] defeating the Governor of Shyrash [Shiraz, also written as Schyras] and taking him prisoner
• The East India Company's Governor-in-Council sending the new monthly allowance for the three factories in Persia with the amount of 16,000 shahees [Shahi-Persian currency] assigned to the Factory at Gombroon, 5000 shahees to the Factory at Spahaun [Isfahan, also written as Spahune], and 2000 to the Factory at Carmenia
• Reports of the war between Thomas Caun and the Turkish [Ottoman] forces at Bagdatt [Baghdad]
• Reports of the rebellion of the Soonies [Sunni Muslims], Shaikh Ahmud [Shaikh Ahmad Madani, also written in the diary as Ahmatt and Ahmett], and the Shaikh of Jubarrah [the Jubarah Arabs]
• News of Osman Bashaw [Topal Osman Pasha] of Baghdatt having been killed
• The advance of Thomas Caun and his vackeel [wakil] Thomas Begg [Tahmasb Quli Khan Jalayir, Wakil al-Dawla] against the Ballooches, the Soonies and Aphgoons [Afghans]
• Chief Agent William Cockell falling seriously ill and his temporary retirement from his position
• The arrival of certain commodities such as rice, sugar, sugar candy, ginger etc
• Thomas Caun sending Shaikh Rushett [Rashid?] to Gombroon
• News of clashes taking place at Muscatt [Muscat] between the Imaum's [Imam's] supporters and those who support the King [the Sultan of Muscat]
• The Factory's receipt of the King's rogoms [raqams or ruqums, also written in the diary as rogomms: royal grants confirming specific trading privileges].

The diary includes records of letters exchanged mainly between the factories at Gombroon and Spahaun, and the Council at Bombay. It also includes records of letters received from Martin French based at the Residency at Bossarah [Basra], letters from Consul Cox at Alleppo [Aleppo], as well as letters to and from Persian notables and merchants.

The diary includes records of the arrival and departure of ships, including the Britannia, the Franky [Frankie], the Carolina, the Robert Galley, the Alphila, the Hannah, the Prince of Wales Galley, the Fame, and a French brigg [brig] called the Three Sisters. From Gombroon the ships sailed mainly to Bombay, Bossarah, and Muscatt.

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.