1920. ] Dacca Diaries. 93 
officers at this time. Hervy drew £40 per annum, Nedham 
£30, Pownsett £20, and Eyre £1 
In 1682 another chief from Hughly visited Dacca. I refer 
to Sir William Hedges, whose Jong and See diary has 
been published, and as his arrival is noted in one of the last 
entries in the diary below I need not give details of - Visit : 
but I have added a few notes gathered from his diar 
The following igi from a diary of Sir Staeyashor 
Master relate to Dacca and are interesting :— 
li ee ess aoe upon De Soito’s' business at Dacca, 
June 1676. 
A perl accompt of the charges of presenting the 
Nabob ivers other officers and great persons to 
procure his order to be reversed after it had binn 
given twice for the payment of De Soito’s demands 
and that Samuell Hervy was committed to custody * 
till execution thereof 
Broad cloth ordinary presents, vizt. 
To Atcharah (Achraj) ner s Munshy. 
10 ToB ago pondaa a eg 
10 ToSyb 
G2,.1¢ Mahmood a Bronk 8 Rang Mahall 
Mirda (Sergeant in the Hall of Audience). 
194 To Ray Nindeloll’s* Porters, Chubdars, 
etc. for admission at all times to him. 
49} Estimated in rupees 3 per yard .. 148-8. 
Scarlett presented, vizt. 
Yards. 
34 To Meiz Tozuck® of the Nabob’s Rang 
Mahall. 
ia de To Sybram, Mutsuddie aforesaid. 
a Estimated in rupees 8 per yard i ee 
Fine Green canes. saat! 
Yards. 
2 To Meiz crn aforesaid. 
Estimated 8 rup. es Pe 
218-8-0 
| This had nothing to do with Dacca origin a 
2 This is interesting as being the first rare on which an Englis 
officer was imprisoned Py the Nawab. Other occasions were in 1689-90 
and 1756. 3 Muhammad Ashr 
+ This is Rai Nanda Lal who figures prominently i in Hedge’s diary, 
where he is called ‘‘ Ye Nabob’s Vizier” and ‘‘ Ye Na bob’s Duan ”: 
ter 
ngdom 
5 This is Mir Tuzuk or Master of Ceremonies. C7. “Hedges : :—I was 
