h'ijlorkal Account of the Intercourfe, 
Gqvaiioi\cpn« 3 uded him from the .garden (where the Ce- 
fonfofty was performed) into the City,' through a great 
C^c&irfe^jf People, who welcomed him with Shouts of 
Joy as he palled through the 'Streets to the EngUJh Fac- 
t,qrf. After Fir. Vduy had ftqyed in the City about a 
Week, he fent to acquaint the Governor of the Neceffity 
he lay under to return back tq his Government of Bombay , 
but the Governor Tent him Word, that none but he could 
be trylfed by the King, to lee the Performance of the 
Con trad accompliffied, and begged he would not think of 
leaving the City, left the King Ihould take it amifs, and 
repent him of the Favours he had fhewed to the Eaf- In- 
dia Company ; and fo Mr. Vaux, was detained a Hoftage 
for his Mafteps future good Behaviour. Mr. Harris , ac- 
cording to that Company’s ordinary Cuftom, demanded 
the Prefid ency from Mr. Vaux, who, to fave Contention, 
gave it to him ; though his Mind wag fo debilitated, that 
he was but few Degrees wifer than an Idiot; and, in two 
Years Time, Mr. Vaux was fulpended the Company’s Ser- 
vice, and left to remain their Hoftage at his own Charges ; 
and lb he continued till the Year 1 697, that, by Acci- 
dent, he was drowned in Sural River by a Pinnace’s over- 
letting, in which he and his Lady had been taking their 
Fieafure on the Water. 
This Mr. faux had been Book-Keeper tq Sir Jofiah 
Child in England , and for his good Services and Behavi- 
our was preferred by his Mailer to a Supercargo’s Poll 
in a Ship to China, which Trade in thofe Times was the. 
the moil profitable of any within the Limits of the Com- 
pany’s Charter. In Anno 1684, he was fent thither on 
board a Ship, called the Carolina , , commanded by one 
Captain Harding *, but Mr. Vaux and Harding difagreeing 
in their Paffage to China, Mr. Vaux laded the Ship, and 
fent her back to England, while he himfelf went a Paffen- 
ger on board a Sural Ship for Bombay, where he was enter- 
tained in the Company’s Service as a Fadlor, and wrote to 
Sir Jofiah Child the Reafon he had for leaving the Caro- 
lina , , and his. Refolution of Staying in India . Sir Jofiah 
continued his Efteem for Mr. Vaux , and procured him fe- 
veral profitable Polls at one and the fame Time, in the 
Company’s Service ; and, amongft the reft, conftituted 
him Judge in Civil Affairs, which brought him both a 
good Salary and Perquifites. 
After he was in flailed in that Office, Sir Jofiah wrote 
him, a Letter of Admonition and Reminifcence, where- 
in, after many Poftulates, he put him in Mind of the 
many Favours he had done him ; and that now having 
the Power of Condemning the Company’s Enemies, or 
fuch as fhould be deemed fo, particularly thofe who fhculd 
dare to’ queftion the Companyls Power over all the Bri- 
tijh Subjcbls in India ; he expected his Orders from 
Time to Time, fhould be obferved and obeyed as Statute 
Laws. Mr. Vaux gratefully acknowledged Sir Jofiah’s 
Favours in his Anfwer to. that Letter, and promifed that, 
as he had put. him into the Poll of Honour and Profit, he 
would, ftrive. to acquit himfelf with all the Integrity and 
Juftice he. was Matter of, and that the Laws of his Coun- 
t^y.fnotild be the Rules he defigned to walk by. In An- 
Iwer.tb : thqt Letter Sir Jofiah fez med to be angry, and 
wj-pfe roundly to Mr. Vaux, that he expedted his Orders 
Were to Be his Rule, and not the Laws of' England, 
yffiicffwere a Heap of Nonfenfe, compiled by a few igno- 
rant Country Gentlemen, who hardly, knew how to make 
Laws for the good Government of their own private Fa- 
milies, much iefs, for .the regulating of Companies and 
foreign Commerce, 
Y am, fays Captain Hamilton, the more, particular in 
this Account, becaufe J law, and copied both thefe Let- 
ters in Anno 1^6, while Mr. Vaux and I were Prifoners at 
Surat, on Account of Captain Evory’s robbing the Mogul’s 
great . Ship, called th z .Gynfuvay, Having given an A.c- 
count . of fonie of Sir J of af Child’s Reign, I muff alfo 
mark a few Slips in the Government of fome of his Suc- 
ceffbfs, and .of the ^Yays they took, to get into the Chair 
of Bombay. I remarked before, that Mr. Harris was a 
very weak, and inqqlent .Petfbn ? . very unfit to govern, a- 
Colony and, t!ie. F.a£loffes fubordinate to Bombay •, and by , 
that Meaqs,,, a cunping defigning Fellow, one IMfr.; Samuel} 
Am fly, had the Reigns of the Government wholly in 
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his Hands, who fhewed that he had malieious Wit and 
Avarice enough to embroil both his Matters and the -pri- 
vate Merchants Affairs in Swat in Harris’s Time 3 and on 
Harris’s Death got into the Prefidency, or, rather Ty- 
ranny. 
The Mogul’s Subjects have a good many fine large 
Ships that trade all over India ; The Owners of thefe 
Ships had a very great Regard for the Courage, Conduct, 
and Art of Navigation of the EngUJh above any other Eu- 
ropean Nation in India. And for thefe Qualilcations the 
Indian Owners procured EngUJh Officers to go in their 
Ships, and allowed them very handfome Salaries and In- 
dulgences the Captains had from ten- to fifteen Pounds 
per Month, Mates from fix to nine Pounds •, and the 
Gunners and Boatfwains had alfo good Salaries, befides 
the carrying of fome Goods and Merchandize Freight- 
free. Mr. Annefey thought thefe Salaries and Indulgen- 
ces too great for Seamen ; fo he went about to reduce 
them to about one half, and the other Moiety he looked 
on as his own Due, by Virtue of his Poll. Some through. 
Fear and Neceffity, complied ; others again, who def- 
pifed both his Power and Tyranny, would, by no means, 
come into his Meafures, and thofe he looked on as Re- 
bels, and profecuted them to the utmoft of his Power, brib- 
ing the Mogul’s Governor to plague them ; fo fome were 
ruined by his Villainy, whilft others bad him open Defi- 
ance ; and we were not wanting on our Side to expole him 
and his Matters to the Mogul’s Subjects, which in the 
End was the Lofs of both their Efteem and Credit among 
the trading People of that Country. The poorer fort, 
whofe Maintenance depended on their Labour and Indu- 
ftry, lofing their Employs in the Moorijh Merchant’s Ser- 
vice, were obliged to fall on new Schemes to fupport them- 
felves, not very well fuited to the Company’s Intereft ; 
for fome went and joined themfelves with the Pirates. 
The Company in England receiving Accounts from 
every one that came from India , of Harris’s and An- 
nefey’ s Male-adminiftrations, fent out Sir John Gayer ta 
take Care of their Affairs. He arrived in Anno 1 694,, 
with the lofty Title of General of all India. He continu- 
ed Annefey in the Company’s Bufinefs till the Year 1 700, 
but divefted him of all Power of doing more Mifchief ; 
and, in the End, difmiffed him the Company’s Service. 
Sir John Gayer was a Man not vicious in his Temper, 
yet he made fome Slips in his Government that proved* 
prejudicial to his Character ; tho’ in Matters of common 
Commerce, he a&ed pretty regularly, till a young Lafs of 
about 3000 Pounds Portion made him difpenfe with the 
common Methods of Matrimony. This young Gentlewo- 
man was a Daughter of Mr. Ward’s beforementioned : She 
had no Relations alive, and unadvifedly married one Mr, 
Solomon Lloyd , a Factor, and, the Marriage was clandef- 
tine, which was pofttively againft the Statute- Law of Bom- 
bay, where no Marriage is binding but when the Gover- 
nor’s Confent is tacked to it. This Law Sir John had got 
by heart, and unmarried the poor Fadtor after Confumma- 
tion, and married her to his own Son. Another Piece of 
ill Conduft was, in forcing the Mocha. Frigate’s Men on 
board, againft their Wills, to proceed on a Voyage to 
China, notwithflanding their juft Complaints againft Edge- 
combe, their Captain, whom the Mutineers fhot in his 
Cabin, and then turned Pirates, and infefted the Streights 
of Malacca, robbing and plundering all Ships, that they 
could overcome. Captain Hide, in the Darrel,, met the m 
there in her Paffage to China, and had a fharp Engage- 
ment with them, but got clear, with the Lofs of fixteen 
Men killed, and fome wounded,, which difabled the Dar- 
rel, fo that fhe proceeded no farther than Malacca. And 
another Fault of Sir John ’ s was, in flittering himfelf and 
his Lady to be taken Prifoners at. S wally by the Governor ' 
of Surat’s Order, when he might have avoided that Dii- 
grace by Force or Flight.: But' it was generally believed, 
that, that was only a Piece of Policy to get to Surat in 
order to employ his Money, which he could do much 
better there than at Bombay, Sir Nicholas Waite fup-, 
planted Sir John in the Government of Bombay and in the. 
Preftdency. He was a Man of very loofe Morals, and his 
bare- faced Injuftice and Prevarication, fo irritated the 
Inhabitants and' Soldiery at Bombay, that they feized him, 
