126 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
We have herewith sent you both the Nabob’s perwannas 
and their translates copies of which we keep by us chauped | by 
the Cozze? of this citty which is the needfull ‘at present, crave 
leave to subscribe, 
Honble Sirs, Your very humble and a servants 
Charles Eyre ® 
Roger Seshtor . 
To the same 
Dacca 6th August ih 
%* * BS * 
Sirs, Our greatest meee ered (for which we have Rls ioas: 
God our most humble and hearty thanks) was ye removal of 
that wicked old man* eur seine name ce with his severity 
towards us, until the arrival of his honr’s arrasdast* would 
have layne most of our compy in ye grave, he was a person of 
so covetous a humour and of such base principles that we have 
reason to feareif the Arruzdast > had reached his hands in his 
prosperity ® ’ twould but the more have Leg his greedy 
apetite as being made sensible thereby of r tender care 
and affection for us and consequently would oes caused him 
to have biepdaind iii aoa atete upon 
* ok 
person that we were willing to have in the Government of 
Hugly which we m accordingly and named to him Meir Ally * 
Eckbar, the former Fouzdar, as being a person all along ap- 
eine lh hig pointe anil Councill for his moderate and mild 
overn 
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co seen or stamped. Cf. Chaupa Mahal in the first instalment of 
ia diar 
2 Q 
mie ots at that time exercised judicial functions 
nena Braddyll were sent to Dacca on aspecial miesi on by Char- 
noe Introduction to this Part). Mr. Watts, the permanent Agent at 
Diese. te had left and was probably taken to Chittagong and Madras by 
eath : for this reason there is no mentio y d Brad- 
dyll. For Braddyll see — under Charles King above. He afterwards 
went to Madr be mber of ounsll chore: Cf. note 2 on 
the first page of the In iecidadion to this instalment 
: e rae oo this Part. 
5 Petition or m 
6 It proba bly mean “that by this time the Nawab Bahadur Khan 
had eres his orders to leave Dacca 
‘ Sag not mney im. 
Ali Akbar. He was apecited Governor of Hughly {see Stewart). 
We also find him described under the name of ‘* Mahm i Bak ‘Rekb bar, offi- 
cer of the said Port” (Hughly) i in the Hasbul hukum of 10th Fbey. 1691 
addressed to the King’s Diwan at Dacca (see Stewart). 
