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A record of Henry Middleton's instructions to the 6th Voyage, with guidance on how company...

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A record of Henry Middleton's instructions to the 6th Voyage, with guidance on how company staff should behave among trading partners, East India Company Minute Books, 1609 (pen & ink on paper)
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English School, (17th century) / English
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British Library, London, UK
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pen and ink on paper
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1609 AD (C17th AD)
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"And for that civill behaviour is very nessessary and requisit for the begettinge of love and estimation amongst the heathenishe people wee praie you to settell such a modest and sober government in your howse, that neither amongst them selves contentions quarrels nor other occasions of strife which maye tend to the preiudice of our affaires and bee a scandal to our proffession and religion, as alsoe that none of your people give just cause to any stranger to complaine of theire misdemeaners." IOR/B/26, f.296

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