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306 INDEX Forced back to old trade stations in . the Eastern Archipelago, 20 Lands at Suwali near Surat, 194 Death of, 13 Mocha, Van Speult dies in, 151 Moghul governor forbids all trade on shore with the English, 46 Empire, dependence of, on the Eng- lish at Surat to hold the sea, 204- 205 Empire, development of, as a land power, 205 Rule, beginnings of the downfall of, 288 Moghuls, Marat ha hostility toward the, 287 Moha, Bay of, Best anchors in, 28 Moluccas, English reasons for asserting right to a factory in the, 74 Dutch allow the English one-third of the trade of the, 93 Monopolies abolished by Queen Eliza- beth in 1601, 7 Moslem kings of Golkonda advance their boundaries to the Madras coast, 218 Mucknell, Captain of the East India Company, loyalty of, to Charles I, 189 Mun, Thomas, defends the East India Company in his " Discourse of Trade," 168 Draws up the " Remonstrance," 170 N Narayan (Narrand), Hindu broker of the East India Company, 244-245 Native alliances part of the English policy, 110 Navigation Act of 1651 the foundation of English mercantile ascendency, 270, 277 Nutmeg Isles, English claim to, 113 Position of, 113 Dutch hostility to the English in, 311 Dutch drive the English out of, 113- 124, 157 O Order of Christ, Portuguese, deemed the conquest of the Asiatic Ocean a continuation of the Crusades, 40 Orissa, disease and death among English crews at, 240-241 Ormuz captured by the English, 35, 55 Method of choosing kings of, 55 Captured by the combined force of the Persians and the English, 56 Parliament, summons of brief, in 1640, 186 Hostile attitude of, toward the East India Company, 188-189 Penkevell, Richard, receives a grant for trade with China and the Spice Islands, 10 Pepper, buying and selling prices of, 3 Persia, Shan of, begs help of France to drive the Portuguese from the East Indies, 40 Pestilence follows famine in India, 207 Petition of Right, 164 Pettapoli (modern Nizampatam), Hip- pon lands at, and founds the first English settlement on the Bay of Bengal, 220 Abandoned by the English in 1621, 221 Resettled by the English in 1633, 221 Philip II, attitude of, toward the St. Thomas Christians, 42-43 " Pierre Both," a mountain in Mauritius named after Pieter Both, 79 Pindar, Sir Paul, partner of Courten in his adventures, 179, 180 Early life of, 180 Great fortune of, 180 Loans of, to King Charles I, 180-181 Diamonds of, used by Buckingham to fit out Prince Charles for his wooing trip to Madrid, 180 Plague, presence of, in England in 1602- 1603, 3 Plassey, battle of, in 1757, 253 Porter, Endymion, taken into partner- ship by Courten and Pindar, 181-182 Marries niece of Buckingham, 182 Accompanies King Charles to Spain, 182 Appointed groom of King Charles's bedchamber, 182 Portrait of, in the National Portrait Gallery, 182 Acts as go-between to the court and the Company, 182 East India Company's fruitless petition to Parliament against, 186-187 Portugal, conflict of, with England, re- garding Eastern possessions, 34-35 Decline of, 35, 36 Poverty of, in Indian territories, 36, 39 Indian trade of, dwindles after her union with Spain, 44 Treaty of, with Holland in 1641, 65 Cromwell enforces English liberty of trade in the East Indies upon, 277 Portuguese, prevent the English from landing at Surat in 1611, 25