148 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
being peons laying in wait to seize and carry them prisoners. 
to the Durbar id ™ = . = . s? 
Serasdee Mahmud also demands of us three thousand 
rupees for the currency of our business and says that he will 
not give perwannahs to the Delolls, Picars, Washermen, etc. 
till we pay him that sum. 
Agreed to write to Cossimbazar. 
20th March. The Durbar officers having heard that we 
have made a complaint to Muxadavad of the ill usage and 
impediments we meet with here has had a very good effect, 
for the peons are taken off from our broker and Vacqueel 
and Serasdee Mahmud yesterday sent for our broker and told 
him that he was very desirous of being our friend and that. 
he would permit the Delalls Picars Washermen etc. to do 
business with and for us and give us a due currency of our 
time hence when we should be convinced of his sincerity but 
that the Nabob still continuing very angry with us we must 
do our business as privately as possible. — 
Considering the season is so far advanced and it is high time 
to begin our work, Agreed that we acquiesce to his proposal. 
19th April. Nawab Shuja Khan’s! parwana :— 
_ Mr. Braddyll the English Chief at Cossimbazar has com- 
plained to me that Seerasdee Mahmud and you (Sciadradgee 
Caun) have distressed and done injustice to the English at: 
Dacea (the copy of which complaint I now send you) and as 
the English have complained of you so has many others: my 
. . . y 
order you to satisfy this and all the complaints against you : 
IT will turn you 
Moore? was appointed Chief vice Mr. G. Mandeville. 
Pampa eee ‘e “fe takes charge. The posts at the 
Or €; Ohte} Accountant. Export Wareh keeper, 
Buxi and Import Warehouse keeper. Ak i nates 
Ba M - Information received that Mr. James Black- 
ford * was appointed to be assistant. 
! He was the Nawab Nazim of Bengal 
2 : gal, whose deputy governed Dacca. 
PO a eters Khan, then Naib Nazim of Dacea; he resided at Mur- 
’ He married Mrs. Ann Cooke on 15th Apri ‘ 
3 rs 6 is til 1723 and died on 29th 
re primi 1745 (see Wilson’s Early hanals; Vol, III). He was Collec- 
ST can ek fog outta, in 1737 (see Wilson's Old Fort William). 
‘ : any trace of hi ; : ’ - 
tions showing that he was in J iain in T74 ores 
