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10A quarter Real of James I, bearing on the obverse a thistleand portcullis with chains, and on the reverse an anchor-cross, isreferred by Weyl to the Madras Presidency. 11612. In 1612 trade was opened with Surat by Mr. Kerridge, whowas well received by the merchants and inhabitants, but opposedby the Portuguese. The Company's ships were attacked by thePortuguese at Swally on the 29th of November 1612, and repulsed.In the following month a Firman was obtained from the Emperorof Delhi, allowing the English to establish a factory at Surat,where Captain Best lelt ten persons with a stock of 4,000 topurchase goods or provide an investment for him. The agreementwith the Governor of Surat for allowing to the English liberty oftrade at that port, in addition to other stipulations, contained oneto the effect that the English should be allowed to settle factoriesat the cities of Amadevar (Ahmedhabad), Cambaya, and Goga, aswell as at Surat.1614. On the 14th of January 1614, in compliance with the wishesof the Company, King James I granted a commission to SirThomas .Boe " to be Ambassador to the Great Mogul, or Kingof India." The Governor of Surat was dismissed, and a treatyconcluded with the Mogul, in which it was stipulated, inter alia,that the English should have liberty of trade, and be allowed tosettle factories in any port of the Mogul empire, specifyingBengal, Scindy, and Surat.1615. Meanwhile the Company was making considerable progresswith its commercial speculations on the Malabar coast, andCaptain Keelinge, on his arrival at Cranganore in March 1615,obtained liberty of trade and permission to settle a factory and;it was agreed by treaty that the English and the Zamorin shouldjoin their forces, and expel the Portuguese from Cochin, which,when conquered, should be ceded to the English, they paying onehalf of the expenses of the expedition, and the Zamorin the otherhalf.1616. In the following year (1616) a Dutch ship was wrecked nearSurat, and ten merchants were left there as the managers of aprojected trade, the remainder of the officers and crew proceedingoverland to the factory at Masulipatam. 21625. In 1625 the English President and Council at Bataviasubmitted to the Court to direct their attention to the trade onthe Coromandel coast, and dispatched a vessel to Masulipatam.Further, having obtained from the Naig, or Chief of the district,a piece of ground, the English erected a factory at Armagon,which it was intended to make a subordinate agency to Masulipatam.1628. On account of the oppressions which the English factors atMasulipatam experienced at the hands of the native Governor ofthat port, it was resolved in 1628 to abandon the factory at that1Cuartino (\ Real, o.j.) Distelkopf, Fallgilter, an den Seiten mit Kettenversehen. Rf. Ankerkreutz mit . in den Winkeln. Weyl.2Note from "Hobson-Jobson " by Colonel Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell,"1886. 1789. Masulipatam, which last word, by the way, ought to be written,JIachlipatan (Fish-town) because of a whale that happened to be stranded there150 years ago." Note on Seir MutagJ.erin, iii, 370.