East Indies: August 1610 | British History Online

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

'East Indies: August 1610', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, (London, 1864) pp. 205-206. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp205-206 [accessed 26 April 2024]

August 1610



Aug. 10. Madrid.	486. Cottington to Salisbury. The Constable and the President of Portugal, the Conde de Salmas, appointed to treat with Robert Sherley touching his propositions. He offers that the King of Persia shall draw all that great course of merchandise which the Turk brings now to Aleppo, to some port in the East Indies, as Ormus or thereabouts. He also propounds a plot for the maintenance in those seas of fifty ships of war, which, with some other help from the King of Persia, should take all trade from the Hollanders or English. Another ambassador from Persia arrived at Lisbon in one of the caracks, who brings in silk and stones, a present of great value to the King of Spain. Sherley is made much of, and still very well entertained at the King's charge. [Extract from Corresp., Spain.]
Aug. 28. /Sept. 7. Lisbon.	487. Hugh Lee to Thos. Wilson. A carack arrived from the East Indies with an ambassador from the King of Persia, who has brought a great present for the King of Spain to the value of 250,000 ducats in silks and jewels; the cause of his coming is to alter the trade from the Indies by Alexandria and Aleppo, which will be a great hindrance to the English Turkey Company. Five Englishmen came in the carack with the ambassador, four of whom were freed by former means; great affection shown by the ambassador to the fifth, Richard Wyckham, a merchant, who nevertheless escaped from his house; interview with the ambassador; his offers of kindness to the English nation. [Extract from Corresp., Portugal]