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INTRODUCTION
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representation to the Company against Richard Boothby
in April 16301, and he therefore does not seem to have
cordially espoused the cause of the turbulent merchant.
In the same month Mundy succeeded to a definite post,
viz. that of "Register" at Surat. Later in the year he
w ent to Swally to await the fleet from England2 and there
he witnessed an engagement with the Portuguese3 which
is alluded to in Relation VI. (p. 49), and described in
Appendix B.
The ships that arrived in 1630 brought Thomas Rastell,
who succeeded Wylde as President of Surat, and there was
a general readjustment of offices. After much vacillation,
it was eventually decided to transfer Peter Mundy and
John Yard to Agra, the former as second and account-
ant and the latter as third, both to be under William
Fremlen, then chief of that factory. They were bidden
to halt at Burhanpur and to endeavour to obtain an order
for payment from the Raja of Bundl, who was indebted
to the Company for some tapestry, unless they found that
the Raja was still in the Dakhan with the King's army, in
which case they were desired to make no undue stay at
Burhanpur, but to push on to Agra. A month's time was
given them to " fitt" themselves " with thinges needfull "
for "soe longe a Journey," since, as Mundy remarks, they
would find " noe manner of accommodation but what you
carry with you " (p. 24).
A start was made from Surat on the nth November, and
from that town to Burhanpur Mundy and his party had
the company and protection of Mlrza Mahmud Safi and
his followers, whose support proved most efficacious on
several occasions, both in evading exorbitant demands
for "Jagatte," or customs, from the local governors, and
in repelling attacks from marauding Rajputs. The kafila
English Factories, 1630—1633, p. 11.
2 On the 24th Sept. he was "aboard the James." Ibid. p. 45.
3 See English Factories, 1630—1633, IX.—x. for an account of this
engagement.
xxi
representation to the Company against Richard Boothby
in April 16301, and he therefore does not seem to have
cordially espoused the cause of the turbulent merchant.
In the same month Mundy succeeded to a definite post,
viz. that of "Register" at Surat. Later in the year he
w ent to Swally to await the fleet from England2 and there
he witnessed an engagement with the Portuguese3 which
is alluded to in Relation VI. (p. 49), and described in
Appendix B.
The ships that arrived in 1630 brought Thomas Rastell,
who succeeded Wylde as President of Surat, and there was
a general readjustment of offices. After much vacillation,
it was eventually decided to transfer Peter Mundy and
John Yard to Agra, the former as second and account-
ant and the latter as third, both to be under William
Fremlen, then chief of that factory. They were bidden
to halt at Burhanpur and to endeavour to obtain an order
for payment from the Raja of Bundl, who was indebted
to the Company for some tapestry, unless they found that
the Raja was still in the Dakhan with the King's army, in
which case they were desired to make no undue stay at
Burhanpur, but to push on to Agra. A month's time was
given them to " fitt" themselves " with thinges needfull "
for "soe longe a Journey," since, as Mundy remarks, they
would find " noe manner of accommodation but what you
carry with you " (p. 24).
A start was made from Surat on the nth November, and
from that town to Burhanpur Mundy and his party had
the company and protection of Mlrza Mahmud Safi and
his followers, whose support proved most efficacious on
several occasions, both in evading exorbitant demands
for "Jagatte," or customs, from the local governors, and
in repelling attacks from marauding Rajputs. The kafila
English Factories, 1630—1633, p. 11.
2 On the 24th Sept. he was "aboard the James." Ibid. p. 45.
3 See English Factories, 1630—1633, IX.—x. for an account of this
engagement.