Excerpt from A Calendar of the Court Minutes Etc; Of the East India Company, 1650 1654 Besides ships and factors, it was necessary to furnish both Surat and Bantam with new Presidents. In the middle of February Aaron Baker was asked to undertake once again this responsibility at Bantam. He pleaded for a respite, pointing out that for seven teen years he had only spent one twelvemonth in England; but on the Company persisting he gave way, merely stipulating that he should be allowed to take with him his wife and some women servants. Cap tain Jeremy Blackman, who had been nominated at the same time to fill the next vacancy in the post of President at Surat, made a like demand, and the Committees agreed to permit this in both cases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.