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3 Written by Quarles Browne, former chief factor in Cambodia, it survives in a 1664 copy in IOR: G/21/4 JJ. 4-8.
*IOR: E/3/86 fl. 184-90 Company to Bantam 29 Feb 1664.
5 IOR: E/3/28 no. 3041 Bantam to Company 31 Dec 1664,
6 "The trade of the English East India Company in the Far East 1623-84", D.K. Bassett, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1960 32-47 and 145-57.
7 The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China 1635-1834, Hosea Ballou Morse, 5 vols (Oxford, 1926 & 1929) — I p. 40.
* For an excellent transcript of the documentation see Experiment and Return: documents concerning the Japan Voyage of the English East India Company 1671-3, ed Roger Machin (Kyoto, 1978).
9 Vividly summarised in the diary as "to be devoured by a company of catterpillers" — IOR: G/12/17 p. 281.
10 For example, Sep 1677 Tongking ‘peelongs' brought between 29s piece; Oct 1680 Cantonese 'peelongs' coloured 12s 8d 13s 2d, plain 23s 6d. IOR: Court Minutes B/34 and B/36.
37s per 23s
In May 1677 Bantam forwarded "two pettecoats made of a sort of silke much worne in England — it's called by the name of gawze.”
12 The Tongking currency consisted of Japanese 'great' cash and locally coined small cash, which passed in the ratio of 6:10. The tael of silver (65 8d sterling) was reckoned at between 1000 and 1400 'great' cash, according to the availability of copper coinage. In September 1672 three Dutch ships from Batavia, bound for Nagasaki, brought in 6 million Japanese cash.
13 'Floss' silk, used for padding winter clothing.
14 Perhaps anticipating modern reactions, the Agent at Bantam wrote in June 1676 "Wee would have you be larger in your advices though shorter in your letters."
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3 Written by Quarles Browne, former chief factor in Cambodia, it survives in a 1664 copy in IOR: G/21/4 JJ. 4-8.
*IOR: E/3/86 fl. 184-90 Company to Bantam 29 Feb 1664.
5 FOR: E/3/28 no. 3041 Bantam to Company 31 Dec 1664,
6 "The trade of the English East India Company in the Far East 1623-84', D.K. Bassett, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1960 32-47 and 145-57.
7 The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China 1635-1834, Hosea Ballou Morse, 5 vols (Oxford, 1926 & 1929) — I p. 40.
* For an excellent transcript of the documentation see Experiment and Return: documents concerning the Japan Voyage of the English East India Company 1671-3, ed Roger Machin (Kyoto, 1978).
9 Vividly summarised in the diary as "to be devoured by a company of catterpillers" — IOR: G/12/17 p. 281.
10 For example, Sep 1677 Tongking ‘peelongs' brought between 29s piece; Oct 1680 Cantonese 'peelongs' coloured 12s 8d 13s 2d, plain 23s 6d. IOR: Court Minutes B/34 and B/36.
37s per 23s
In May 1677 Bantam forwarded "two pettecoats made of a sort of silke much worne in England — it's called by the name of gawze.”
12 The Tongking currency consisted of Japanese 'great' cash and locally coined *small cash, which passed in the ratio of 6:10. The tael of silver (65 8d sterling) was reckoned at between 1000 and 1400 'great' cash, according to the availability of copper coinage. In September 1672 three Dutch ships from Batavia, bound for Nagasaki, brought in 6 million Japanese cash.
13 'Floss' silk, used for padding winter clothing.
14 Perhaps anticipating modern reactions, the Agent at Bantam wrote in June 1676 "Wee would have you be larger in your advices though shorter in your letters."
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