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IOR/G/29/1/1

Record Id:
041-004250983
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
036-000177207
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100144111982.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100149251873.0x000002
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/1/1
Title:
‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 1
Scope & Content:
This item contains the East India Company’s early correspondence about Persia [Iran] from 19 March 1621 to 25 November 1625. The correspondence contained in the item includes material relating to:
  • The request from King James I of England to the Shah of Persia [‘Abbās I] to permit English merchants to procure silks in a ‘more convenient’ town closer to the port of Jasques [Jask]
  • The war between the amirs of Trypoly and Sydon [Amīr Yūsuf bin Sayfā, Pāsha of Tripoli, and Amīr Fakhr al-Dīn II, born Qurqmāz al-Ma’nī of Sidon]
  • The crossing of the River Danubius [Danube] and invasion of Poland [Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth] by the Ottoman Imperial Army
  • The establishment of a Dutch East India Company factory [trading post] at Agra
  • The death of the ‘Roman Gentleman his wyfe’ [Maʿanī al-Juwayrī, wife of Pietro della Valle]
  • The campaign of the ‘Chaune of Xiraz’ [Khān of Shiraz, meaning the Governor-General of Fars, Imām Qulī Khān Ūndīlādze] against the Portuguese in Keshm [Qeshm] and Ormuz [Hormuz, also written here as Ormus], request for naval assistance from the English East India Company, and the Articles of Agreement between the Khan and the Company
  • The arrest and execution of a number of associates of the ‘Carmelite College’ in Spahan [Isfahan] for attempting to warn the Portuguese of the impending campaign against Ormuz
  • The capture of the fort of Keshm, death of Captain William Baffin, and transportation of the Portuguese to the Coast of Arabia
  • The departure of the King of Persia from Spahan for Candahore [Kandahar]
  • The exemption of English merchants from ‘Rhadarage’ [rāhdārī, i.e. road tolls] in Persia
  • The negotiations of the commanders of the English fleet, John Weddell, Richard Blythe, Nicholas Woodcock and Francis Pinder, with the Chaun and his Chief Steward, Pollard Begge [Pulād Beg]
  • The Anglo-Persian force’s capture of the Portuguese fortress at Ormuz on 22 April 1622, and the damages caused to the fleet of Royfreerars [Captain Rui Freire de Andrade, also written here as Royfrere]
  • The negotiations between the Portuguese and the Persians over the terms of surrender and future of Ormuz, without the presence or participation of the English East India Company
  • The justification of the English fleet’s participation in the campaign on account of the threats posed by the Portuguese
  • The poor behaviour of the English sailors as the cause for the unjust division of spoils at Ormuz
  • The procurement of a firman [farmān] for English deserters to be returned from the Persian Army
  • The transportation of the Portuguese prisoners from Ormuz to Muscatt [Muscat] or Indya [India]
  • The proposals of Edward Monox [Monnox] for the establishment of factories at Sinde [Sindh], Dabull [Dabhol], and Balsora [Basra], and a single additional factory at Ormuz in Persia
  • The arrival of a fleet under the Earl of Oxford [Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford] in the Downes [Downs]
  • The failure of the Siege of Montaban [Montauban], death of Monsieur De Luynes [Charles d’Albert, Duc de Luynes and Constable of France] and the blockade of Rochell [La Rochelle]
  • The defence of the Palatinate by the English volunteers of Sir Oratio Vere [Horace Vere], and Count Monsfeld [Ernst von Mansfeld’s] plan to drive out the forces of Count [Ambrogio] Spinola
  • The stalemate between the [Holy Roman] Emperor [Ferdinand II von Habsburg] and Betlem Gabor, Prince of Transilvaniya [Bethlen Gábor, Prince of Transylvania]
  • The replacement of Libby Chapman with Edward Kirkham as Consul at Aleppo
  • A sea fight between an English fleet and that of the Vizeere [Vizier] of Goa off Moosombeaque [Mozambique], and Royfreerars’s intention to escort the Vizeere to Goa
  • The transmission of a letter from the King of Persia to the King of England by the English East India Company, together with a request for examples of English muskets and bullets
  • The dismissal of Mr Strachaun [George Strachan] from the Company
  • The reception of the ambassadors of the Emperor of Moscovia [Russia] at the Persian Court, on a mission to obtain the Shah’s permission for the export of silk across the Caspian Sea
  • The capture of the port of Dabull by Millick Amber [Malik ʻAnbar, Regent of the Sultanate of Ahmednagar], and subsequent detention of his merchandise and commercial agents in Persia
  • The need for an official mission from England to formalise trade with Persia
  • The lack of security caused by the Porgutall [Portuguese] raids on Persian territories
  • The marriage of King Charles [Charles I of England] to the sister of the French King [Princess Henriette Marie de Bourbon, sister of King Louis XIII of France]
  • The Spanish General, Count Spenolo [Spinola’s] capture of Breda in the Low Countries
  • The death of Graue Morris [Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange] and the succession of his brother Henry [Frederick Henry] in the Netherlands
  • The death of the Earl of Oxford and many other Englishmen in Dutch service
  • The Duke of Savoy [Carlo Emanuele I] and his French allies’ campaign against Gennoua [Genoa]
  • The Pope [Urban VIII Barberini’s] claim to the Country [Kingdom] of Naples
  • The ‘great multitudes’ of Cossacks raiding the Ottoman Empire across the Black Sea
  • The knighting of Morris Abbott, Governor of the East India Company, by King Charles.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:
India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000173250
036-000177207
040-000177208
041-004250983
Is part of:
IOR/G : East India Company Factory Records
IOR/G/29 : Factory Records: Persia and the Persian Gulf
IOR/G/29/1 : ‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’

 

IOR/G/29/1/1 : ‘FACTORY RECORDS: EARLY PAPERS ON PERSIA’, Pt 1
Hierarchy:
032-000173250[0029]/036-000177207[0001]/040-000177208[0001]/041-004250983
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/G
Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
1 item (124 folios)
Digitised Content:
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100149251873.0x000002
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Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1621
End Date:
1625
Date Range:
19 Mar 1621-25 Nov 1625
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Public Record(s)
Names:
Malik ʻAnbar, military leader and politician, c 1549-1626
Strachan, George, traveller and scholar, 1572-1635
Valle, Pietro, composer, musicologist and traveller, 1586-1652
Subjects:
Military conquests
Places:
Keshm, Persian Gulf, Asia