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17rupees, pices, and budgrooks, l and to bear any such seal, impression,and inscription, as the Company should think proper, sothat such moneys so stamped and coined should not be called orknown by any other name or names of money current in therealm of England or any other part of the British dominions, theEast Indies excepted."Writing during the reign of Charles II concerning themoney coined by the English in the 2Indies, Tavernier says:" Figure1 and 2 is the money which the English coin in theirFort St. George, or else at Madrespatan, upon the coast of Coromandel.They call them Pagods, as those of the Kings and Rajasof the country are called. They are of the same weight, thesame goodness, ami pass for the same value. Formerly theEnglish never coined any silver or copper money for in some;parts that border upon the Indians, where they have factories,as at Stirat, Mmlipatatn, or at Bantam, they find it more profitableto carry gold from England than silver ; gold lying in lessroom, and not being so troublesome ; besides, that by carryinggold they more easily escape the paying those customs which theKings impose upon gold and silver. But since the present Kingof England (Charles II) married the Princess of Portugal, who hadin part of her portion the famous Port of Bombeye, where thelliKjIish are very hard at work to build a strong fort, they coinboth silver, copper, and tiiin. But the money will not go atSurat, nor in any part of the Great Mogul's Dominions, or in anyof the territories of the Indian Kings only it passes among the;English in their fort, and some two or three leagues up in thecountry, and in the villages along the Coast; the country peoplethat bring them their wares being glad to take that money ;otherwise they would see but very little stirring, in regard theto sell butcountry is very poor, and the people have nothingAqua ritcG, made of coco-wine and rice."With regard to the tin money referred to in the last paragraph,I cannot do better than quote the remarks of Mr. T. Gr. DaCunha,3who says: "-Tin coin was current in Portuguese districts roundabout Bombay, and the English of Bombay issued it may be forthe sake of uniformity theirs of the same material. The specimensof the latter coinage which have hitherto reached us appearto have been struck between 1708 and 1773, subsequent to the1Notes on Budgrook from Yale and Burnell, op. cit." Budgrook,s. Port, bazarucco. A coin of low denomination, and of varyingvalue and metal (copper, tin, lead, and tutenague) formerly current at Goa andelsewhere on the Western coast, as well as at some other places on the Indianseas. It was also adopted from the Portugaese in the earliest English coinageat Bombay. In the earliest Goa coinage, that of Albuquerque (1510) the lealor ~bazarucco was equal to 2 reis, of which reis there went 420 to the goldcruzado."1638." They have (at Gombroon) a certain copper coin which they callBesorg, whereof 6 make a Peys, and 10 Peys make a Chay (Shdhl) which is worth,about 5cL English."- V. and Tr. of J. A., Mandelslo into the East Indies,E.T. 1669, p. 8.2Voyages through Turkey into Persia and the East Indies. Ed., London,1678, p. 5.3 Contributions to the Study ot Indo-Portueuese Numismatics. 1880, pp,24-27.