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and his perwanna immediately thereupon, bidding him send it 
away to us to forward to yr. honr. &c and also bid him write 
good as his word, and much beyond what we could expect, for 
before he arrived ye citty he ordered his Duan! (who is not 
inferiour to himselfe for a just upright man) to send for us all 
to his house and cutt off our irons which immediately was done 
the 29th June past and provision sent us from his owne table 
promising us that when the Nabob came to the citty (which 
was the prox July) he would present us before him and dismiss 
u 
The 2nd currtt. Mr. Hanley, Mr. Ravenhill and ourselves 
(as for the rest of the company they were permitted to goe to 
the factory ye next day after their irons were cutt) were sent 
for to the Nabob Ebrahim Cawn, who with a great deale of 
affection and a smiling countenance expressed himself in these 
words: that he was-given to understand that the English 
under the late Subaes’ Government had received very consider- 
able losses by the interruption of trade occasioned throug 
their avaritious humours, besides the many abuses and affronts ; 
I would have you therefore write to them to acquaint them of 
my arrival here and that my desire and intention is to see them 
well settled and their trade with the Kings’ country flourish as 
formerly, the incomes of which having been much diminished 
by the ill management of the aforesaid Subaes and your loss 
of trade together ; that my chief end herein is out of a pure 
respect to the King’s country and yourselves and not any thing 
of self interest whatsoever, and for your better encouragement 
I will give my perwannas and seerepawes ; and ordered one of 
his servants to goe along with us to his writer and sett while 
the perwanna was ready. In the evening we were sent for to 
freedom. ‘This King was a Sergeant run from his colors in the wars here, 
ing’ 
nd went to Pattana where the Nabob held Mr. Br. King’s 
being there, Braddyl got him to personate Chief in his r to t 
Nabob and tt away himsel U is the Nabob imprisoned 
King.” y shows that King was in Patna in a posi f 
responsibility before that ti was released in 169 a subscrip- 
tion amount - being raised and paid to the Diwanof Patna. In 
17 find him keeping a publ use in Calcutta. — 
think the king’s diwan is meant. Later on, it is stated they were 
made over to the ‘‘ King’s Duan. 
2 Shawl. ; 
3 This is not the document reproduced by Stewart; it was probably 
only a preliminary permission to return to Bengal. 
