East Indies: December 1610

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1864.

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'East Indies: December 1610', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, (London, 1864) pp. 208-209. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp208-209 [accessed 25 April 2024]

December 1610

Dec. 4. 497. Commission to Anthony Hippon to be governor and captain of all the merchants and mariners going in the Globe to the East Indies. [Minute. Grant Book, p. 68. DOMESTIC, Jac. I.]
Dec. 4. 498. Grant to the East India Merchants, that neither the Governor nor Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies nor any of their goods shall be hereafter seized or molested in respect of such trading, with divers other privileges. [Minute. Grant Bk, p. 73. DOMESTIC, Jac. I., Cal., p. 650.]
Dec. 4.
Madrid.		 499. Cottington to Salisbury. The Persian Ambassador (Robt. Sherley) extremely discontented, and gives out that if he receive not satisfaction by the end of the month he will go to England and propound what shall be notably advantageous to His Majesty and his subjects, “ seeing they here make so little account of it.” Thinks a little encouragement would send him directly to England, but hears only, without declaring his opinion until he has Salisbury's commands. [Extract from Corresp., Spain.]
Dec. 17.
Madrid.		 500. Cottington to Salisbury. The bearer is one of the prisoners brought from the East Indies [? Fras. Bucke or Anthony Marlowe, see ante, Nos. 457, 466.] [Extract from Corresp., Spain.]
Dec. 20.
Mocha.		 501. Sir Henry Middleton and L. Femell to Giles Thornton. They seek by all means to pacify matters; a foolish messenger, [Hugh] Chambers, most falsely enticed Thornton to give orders to the Darling, to take all they met with, to their utter undoing in this place as at Cambaya … the order given was never otherwise meant but to give advice to the Peppercorn at Aden for the voyage … Let there be no council nor proceeding but by the advice of Hugh Frayne at present. In a postcript, Middletton writes, “one grief in the neck of another makes … of my life, and therefore makes me write I scarce [know] what. My hope, Chambers report, is false … . therefore comfort yourself … to procure the Turks, liberty to be … a witness against me for cutting of my own throat. Thus praying God bless us all and deliver us from [the hands] of our enemies to a joyful meeting.—Amen.” Wishes a knife, paper, pen and ink to be sent to him. “If it be true that you have given Geo. Jeffe orders to surprise any they meet with, be silent, but if to the contrary there be such matter, shoot off a piece of ordnance which will be to us a token of good news." [One page and a quarter, much injured by damp. O. C., Vol. I., No. 21.]
1610? 502. Estimate for maintaining the navy at Chatham, and keeping the shipping on the coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with a proposal to let the Triumph, Elizabeth, or Jonas to the “Estingay Company.” on freight, which will save 10,000l. a year out of the above estimate of 24,625l. [DOMESTIC Corresp,, Jac. I., Vol XLIX., No. 49. Cal, p. 659.]
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