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INTRODUCTION
to " decipher " was the shark, " a verie daringe ravenous
fish" (p. 16). Thus employed, for his " owne perticuler,"
Mundy found the voyage "neither troublesome nor tedious"
but "full of Novelties every daye" (p. 17). When nearing
Surat, a collection was made from the passengers and crews
of the Jonas and Expedition, on behalf of the Company's
newly established hospital at Poplar, as a thankoffering
for their "prosperous, healthfull and pleasant passadge."
To this fund, which amounted to £j\. gs.," Peeter Mundye
Merchaunt" contributed "Three pownds" (p. 20).
On his arrival at Surat, in September 1628, Mundy
was " imployed to write in the office, as comonly all new
Comers are" (p. 21), and for the next two years he was
occupied in the usual duties of a Company's clerk. These,
however, were not particularly onerous and allowed ample
time for a detailed examination of Surat and its surround-
ings, as is shown by the notes which are embodied in
Relation V. Of his associates he says nothing, and the
only proof that he was in favour with his employers lies
in the fact that his name is excepted from the large
number of factors and writers who, owing to inefficiency,
private trading, and other causes were ordered to return
to England in 16301. The Surat factory was much dis-
turbed at this period by a quarrel between the President,
Richard Wylde, and Richard Boothby, a merchant, who
had sailed to India in the Jonas and seems to have been
the originator of the "Guifte" to the Company's hospital
at Poplar already mentioned. In 1629 Boothby drew up
a long declaration of the " wronges, Injuries, affronts and
u[n]just proceedinges" which he considered he had suffered.
In this he states that his communications with the President
were carried on by means of "honest Peeter Munday who
was the best frind that I had, though the meanest in repute,
for he durst sometimes speake in the Courte in my behalfe2."
Mundy's name is, however, among the signatures to a
1 English Factories, 1630—1633, p. 11.
2 Factory Records, Misc. xi. 39.
INTRODUCTION
to " decipher " was the shark, " a verie daringe ravenous
fish" (p. 16). Thus employed, for his " owne perticuler,"
Mundy found the voyage "neither troublesome nor tedious"
but "full of Novelties every daye" (p. 17). When nearing
Surat, a collection was made from the passengers and crews
of the Jonas and Expedition, on behalf of the Company's
newly established hospital at Poplar, as a thankoffering
for their "prosperous, healthfull and pleasant passadge."
To this fund, which amounted to £j\. gs.," Peeter Mundye
Merchaunt" contributed "Three pownds" (p. 20).
On his arrival at Surat, in September 1628, Mundy
was " imployed to write in the office, as comonly all new
Comers are" (p. 21), and for the next two years he was
occupied in the usual duties of a Company's clerk. These,
however, were not particularly onerous and allowed ample
time for a detailed examination of Surat and its surround-
ings, as is shown by the notes which are embodied in
Relation V. Of his associates he says nothing, and the
only proof that he was in favour with his employers lies
in the fact that his name is excepted from the large
number of factors and writers who, owing to inefficiency,
private trading, and other causes were ordered to return
to England in 16301. The Surat factory was much dis-
turbed at this period by a quarrel between the President,
Richard Wylde, and Richard Boothby, a merchant, who
had sailed to India in the Jonas and seems to have been
the originator of the "Guifte" to the Company's hospital
at Poplar already mentioned. In 1629 Boothby drew up
a long declaration of the " wronges, Injuries, affronts and
u[n]just proceedinges" which he considered he had suffered.
In this he states that his communications with the President
were carried on by means of "honest Peeter Munday who
was the best frind that I had, though the meanest in repute,
for he durst sometimes speake in the Courte in my behalfe2."
Mundy's name is, however, among the signatures to a
1 English Factories, 1630—1633, p. 11.
2 Factory Records, Misc. xi. 39.