1920. ] Dacca Diaries. 105 
before but said he would ask Monwardas, ' the 
duan’s chief mutsuddy, and give him answer 
e next day. 
December 26th. Having understood from Mirza Mudderffer 
that part of the flintware he lately bought was 
for Buzurgh Omeed? Caun, ye Nabob’s eldest 
son, and being instructed ; him also that it 
would be convenient for us to give him a visit 
ye 
custome of ye country (noe visit of this payee 
being made empty ag we concluded to s 
him this day and present h 
A large cower anak 
A pen kni 
A large prospective glass. 
A meridian sun 1. 
also, it being of late a generall complaint 
throughout ye whole city that frequent and 
bold robberies were committed, for ye security 
of the Hon’ble Company’s effects we ordered ye 
seeping of more servants and a stricter and 
stronger watch in ye night. 
December 31st. The Chief hisel (Mr. Hervey) went to . 
Diwan (Haji Saphi). The latter refused an 
parwanna ® till “the Emperor's orders should 
arrive. 
? January 1682. This day came a Saphi* to our house who 
pea himself the Nabob’s servant, pretending 
right to our ground by ye deed of James 
Hart 6 (the former owner thereof) and brought 
with him a paper wrote in Portuguese dated in 
1658 and signed by ane Hart, which tho’ ye 
paper appeared to be old and ye writing did 
import a gift of said ‘tart s ground, house and 
goods, yet we believe was counterfeit, also 
clan ite bees eee 
is may or may not be eee ‘es man as the Nawab’s Peokdant. 
1 This 
If so a peshdast meant a Head clerk. 
2 The conqueror of pierttonaanl ee Governor of Patna. 
rte ) 
by . 
Sivaji: he did not die ( several years. In fact he was alive in 1691 
when Shaista Khan made his will and he is one of the legatees, cgay 
property in Gujerat, and the alana of his brother, Abul Fattah Khan. 
He gave his name - @ parganna in Bakarganj: there is also a vate near 
the Sp ae Dalan, in Dacca town, called Buzurg Umed Khan’s Garden. 
8 ntry ni une 9th, above 
4 Sufi, a her 
6 If James Hatt was long enough in Dacca for it ad be aly | ms he 
should sell land acquired by him there in 1658, he m t have pes 
e 
Dacca much earlier and was possibly the first English setalee in Dakin. 
was probably working on his own account like Thomas Pratt. 
