Sainsbury E.B. (1935). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1674-1676. Clarendon Press,
Warrant to the East India Company,
…and another
clause enabling the Company within the Island of Bombay and the territories
thereto belonging, to coin money to be current within the limits of their
charters, to be known by the name of rupees, pice and budgerookes, or such
other names as they shall think fit, so that it be not by the name of any coin
current in England or any of the King’s dominions except the East Indies…
Sainsbury E.B. (1935). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1674-1676. Clarendon Press,
Letters Patent
granted by His Majesty to the East India Company,
…The
Company and their Successors are given full and free liberty, power and
authority, from time to time and at all times hereafter, to stamp and coin, or
cause to be stamped and coined within the Port and Island of Bombay, its
precincts and territories, monies of gold, silver, copper, tin or lead, or of
any mixed metal compounded or made up of them to be current within the said
Port, Island, Fort and Towne, its precincts and territories; as also in all the
islands, ports, havens, cities, creeks, towns, and places whatsoever within the
East Indies, mentioned in former charters or Letters Patent, with such
impression or inscription thereupon, and to be called and known by the name of
rupees, pices, and budgrooks, or by such other names as the Company and their
Successors shall think fit and appoint, provided such monies by them to be
stamped and coined, are not called or known by the names of any coins or monies
current in England, or in any other of his Majesty’s dominions, excepting the
said East Indies…
Sainsbury E.B. (1938). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1677-1679. Clarendon Press,
A Court of
Committees,
…The Surat Committee to confer with ‘Esq. Slingsby’ about stamps for
coining rupees, pice, budgrokes, etc., for the Company’s trade at Bombay,
according to the power granted by His Majesty’s Charter to the Company, and
give direction for the preparation of such stamps with all convenient speed.
Ion Kenn to be directed to make a table of all coins, weights and measures used
in
Sainsbury E.B. (1938). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1677-1679. Clarendon Press,
A Court of Committees,
…’Esq. Slingsby’ delivers to the Court a design of a stamp for a rupee
to be coined at Bombay, on one side is inscribed ‘the rupee of Bombay’, with
two roses underneath, and, in the circle ‘1677, by authority of Charles the
second’; and on the other side His Majesty’s arms, and, in the circle ‘King of
Great Britain, France and Ireland’. Slingsby states that the King saw and
approved of the design last night, but that it is impossible to procure the
stamps for the engraving before the departure of this year’s shipping. The
Court thank him heartily for his trouble and give directions for the Surat
Committee to meet ‘Esq. Slingsby’ and agree with some able person to prepare
the necessary stamps for coining rupees and pice, for the Company’s trade at
Bombay and have them ready to send by next year’s ships…
Sainsbury E.B. (1938). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1677-1679. Clarendon Press,
A Court of Committees,
The Surat Committee to tell Mr. Slingsby of the method used in the
Company’s coinage at
Sainsbury E.B. (1938). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1677-1679. Clarendon Press,
A Court of Committees,
…The Surat Committee to give directions for forty stamps to be provided
for coining rupees at Bombay according to the draft approved by the King…
Sainsbury E.B. (1938). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1677-1679. Clarendon Press,
A Court of Committees,
…The Surat Committee having desired Lord Berkely to show a pattern of a
stamp for rupees to be coined at Bombay to the King for his approbation, and to
ascertain whether any inscription should be put at the edge of the said coin.
His Lordship this day reports to the Court that His Majesty approves the design
for the rupees, but leaves it to the Company to decide whether any or what
inscription shall be put on the edge of the coins…
Sainsbury E.B. (1938). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1677-1679. Clarendon Press,
A Court of Committees,
The Surat Committee to give directions for the making of twenty or
forty pair of stamps for coining rupees upon the terms already agreed to, these
to be ready by the 25th of next month, ‘or what other engines are
proper for minting the said rupees’…
Sainsbury E.B. (1938). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1677-1679. Clarendon Press,
A Court of Committees,
…George Bowers to be paid 126l,
for engines, stamps, dies and other necessaries for coining rupees at
Sainsbury E.B. (1938). A Calendar of the Court Minutes
etc. of the East India Company 1677-1679. Clarendon Press,
A Court of Committees,
…The Surat Committee to consider whether the rupee shall be valued in
Surat as it is in the Bay, and report what they think…