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

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32 Included in this letter was a list giving particulars of the staffs of factories immediately under the control of the President and Council which included Richard Craddock and Ralph Lambton at Ahmadabad (see below for DNB entry for Lambton's son). (EFI 61-64. p. 27) 1662 PERSIA 1664 In a letter dated 11 January 1662 we learn that the office at Ahmadabad has been closed in compliance with the letter from the Company of 27 March 1661 and Richard Craddock and his colleagues had returned to the Company’s headquarters at Surat. (EFI 61-64, p.30) We next learn that there was a general meeting of the Company held in Surat on 21 January 1662 in which a number of individuals were re-assigned to different locations and among them were Richard Craddok who was to be sent to Gombroon (today known as Bandar Abbas) in the Persian Gulf
33 as Agent with George Cranmer as his second and William Rolt as his assistant. (EFI 61-64, p. 72) However before leaving on board the ship Hopewell some business had to be taken care of regarding that ship's crew. On the 24 February 1662 President Andrews and John Lambton climbed aboard the Hopewell and held an inquiry into the Captain's complaints of the mutinous behavior of some of the crew '... with the result that one sailor was condemned to be ducked three times from the yard-arm, and another to be sent home in chains for trial. The crew having been cowed into submission, the vessel departed early in March [1662] for Gombroon carrying Agent Craddock and Cranmer as passengers.' (EFI 61-64, p.75). A view of the Persian Gulf in the Seventeenth Century A letter had been sent to Persia ahead of Craddock’s departure advising those there of Craddock’s imminent arrival as well as a change of broker: Consultation held in Surat 23 January 1662. We having been a long time sensible of the abuses and wrongs to our Masters by Tockersee [Thakersey, their Persian Broker], in them of their Customs, and of particular injuries done. The President here some years past thought him a person unfit to be employed in our Masters’ affairs, and gave orders for the sending of him hither to render an Accompt [account] of his actions. Mr. Craddock, now voyagers thither [Gombroon] to the vacancy of the Agency, we have again revived those orders requiring
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