THE story of the initiation of British commerce with the peninsula of India has been already told at length in the documents printed in the six volumes of Letters received by the East India Company from its Serwants in the East, 1602-17, published in 1896-1902. The present volume continues the narrative down to the end of the year 1621.
The papers here calendared number about four hundred and sixty, and comprise all those, either emanating from or directly relating to the English -factories in India, which could be found either in the archives of the India Office or in the Manuscripts Department of the British Museum, with the addition of a few from the East Indies series at the Public Record Office.