312 ROE'S AUDIENCE WITH THE GREAT MOGUL
should offer; professing to be ignorant of anything
past, but what hee had receiued by Asaph Chan deliu-
ered by mee; especially of any Command to dismisse
us, which the Gouernor had falsly Coyned and for
which he should dearly answer. Soe he dismissed mee
full of hope to rectifye the decayed estate of our repu-
tation, with promise of a firmaen for Suratt effectually.
January 24. I went to the Durbar to visitt the
King, who, seeing mee afarr off, beckned with his hand,
giuing signe I should not staye the Cerimony of Ask-
ing leaue but Come vp to him; where hee appoynted
me a place aboue all other men, which I after thought
fitt to mayntayne. I gaue him a small present, it beeing
the Custome when any body hath business to giue some-
what, and those that cannot come neare to speake send
in or hould up their guift, which hee eccepts, bee it
but a rupie, and demands their bussines. The same
course hee held with mee. Having looked Curiously
and asked many questions of my present, he demanded
what I required of him. I answered: Justice: That, on
the assurance of his Majesties Firmaen sent into Eng-
land, the king my Master had not only giuen leaue to
many of his subjects to come a dangerous voyadge with
their goodes, but had sent mee to Congratulate the
amytye so happely begunne betweene two soe mighty
Nations, and to Confirme the same: But that I found
the English seated at Amadauas * enjured by the Gouer-
nor in their Persons and goodes, fined, exacted upon,
and kept as prisoners: That at euerie Towne new Cus-
1 Ahraadabad.
