DECCA. 
Dyary commenced August 1690 (and ye Generall Acct 
from ye confiscation of this factory by Bahauder Cawn, ! 
Nabob of Decca, Nov. 1688) to April the 30th 1691. 
We had thought after our severe confinement of continu- 
ing a diary of an Couey of all durbar passages etc. relating 
to ye Rt. Honble Compy : as usual, but understanding of a 
Warr carried on n by his, Raballenayy ye Genll &c at Bombay? 
— the Mogull, also considering ‘of the King’s or Mogull’s 
order 8 which arrived here in September 1689, for ye demolishing 
the Rt. Honble Compy’s factorys and imprisoning all English * 
it was approved no wayes safe nor convenient to proceed in 
that method for feare _ a ee confinement and seizure of 
our — but to con our correspondence to ye Fort ® 
Youncill) the which late very considerable and of grea 
moment it’s convenient they be entered here, and the aoe 
o commence the 13th August as will appear at the end of the 
said letters which follow :— 
Dacca, Jully 9th 1689. 
o the Rt. Honble Elihu Yale, Presdt. for affaires of the Rt. 
Poa English East India Company on the coast of Choroman- 
nis West Coast, etc., and Governour of Fort St. George, 
., Councill, 
‘Tt having pleased God of his infinite goodness and mercy 
2 Wilson in his Early paid tells us that in 1689 the “norm mre 
sula. thd f 
Surat and the sate parts on = west coast and to direct his cruisers to 
seize every Moghul ship and vessel that could be met with.” In a letter 
dated 10th cece 1689 from Madras (quoted in Wheeler’s wend Records) 
we find the remark *‘ but the war ‘still continuing at Bombay.” It was 
this war waged against the Moghul shipping that t made the Emperor 
Aurangzebe anxious to conciliate the En glish. 
* This order was probably the pagrnre of Capt. — s extra- 
phages expedition: but I can find no other reference to Nawab 
rahim Khan who was Nawab at Dacca nat the time eens paid no 
stuns oi 
+ It is evident that there were more English residents imprisoned 
than i A and B shore but who they were is not clear—probably s sub- 
ordinates and se 
5 Fo rt St. Meee where Charnock spent more than a year at this 
tim 
6 i.e., until the return of Job Charnock from Fort St. George. 
