128 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
former annexed and his honr’s letter for the Nabob which we 
should have delivered according to your method prescribed 
upon its arrival had not His Excellency been employed in the 
pleasures of hawking and hunting in the which he takes greate 
delight and is so often addicted to. 
ES * * * Eo * 
It any complaint had been made, the force of his former 
order given him in Cawn Jehoan Behauder 
bore him out, it probably not being repeated by our new Suba 
here, he not expecting any shipping wd. arrive, in that port 
(Balasore) so suddenly. 
(The letter goes on to say that in an interview with Chas. 
Eyre the Nawab was very courteous but refused to allow trade 
(as the king had forbidden it) until the King’s order should come, 
which he said* he had asked for.) 
We presume a person of those good qualities which he is 
King’s late order § for the persecution of the English, Mr. Wm 
Davenant," one of the late imprisoned gentlemen, and some 
others exhibited a petition to the Dutch Directore for protec- 
! See Introduction to this instalment of iari 
the diaries. 
; Li ease : - ~ _ that he did all he could for the English. 
e i : 
furlsdiotion 06 the ipa n — meddle with things that were under the 
4 Pibioin 
_By the Moghul constitution th ing’s di i 
the Nawab, although it isa oes neal 8s diwan was independent of 
Not mentioned elsewhere. He 
: : . may have been a Seaman, except 
De brreasindreono ps as one of the gentlemen. There was a Nicholas 
ra i 4th of Council at Murshidabad in 1683, who may have been a 
