Richard Craddock's Career with the East India Company - Man Family

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(This letter is not found in EFI but rather in European
Merchant Capital and the Indian Economy, by Rubi Maloni,
p. 317)
1657
In 1657 a new president was sent to Surat, Edward
Revington, one of whose first acts was to send a letter to
London dated 28 January in which he re-appointed Craddock
as agent and sent him back to Ahmadabad. One reason for
this was that Craddock, being a young and a junior member
of the company, was only paid £10.00 per annum and the
company could afford to maintain a factory there on
Craddock’s low wages. (EFI 55-60, p. 114)
On 4 September 1657 Craddock sent to Surat one of his
regular reports from Ahmadabad:
Worshipful and Honoured Friends
Your severals of the 22 nd and 25 th August I have received,
the former whereof requiring more observance than response
shall waive it, excepting that Clause which mentions the
sudden dispeed [dispatch] of the last year’s Books, and I
can assure you, they are now finished, and Mr. Smith
promised they shall be done as soon, if not before those.
And you will perceive he hath received in his hands 3,000