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

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The early and later references to death in these
instructions must not have been very encouraging for
Craddock. His predecessor Matthew Foster had made the same
journey two years previously but on 10 May 1661 had died
and in that same month Foster’s assistant Richard Brough
had succumbed two weeks later.
Below is a sketch of the East India company graveyard lying
a quarter a mile out of the Gombroon by Arthur Stiffe vii
which consisted of large stone pillars, most of which had
crumbled away by the time of Stiffe’s sketch.
Of the business that Cradock was engaged the instructions
tell us that those in his position before him had been
given ‘nothing but promises, no performance’.