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A NEJV ACCOUNT OF Jl,JUGHAL INDIA* As explained in the following paper, John Marshall left a large collection of most valuable material in the form of travels, observations and translations of Indian classics, etc.
Unlike his contemporaries, John March, 'Walter Clavell, Matthias Vincent and Job Charnock, he had no direct intercourse with the ruling authorities of his day, nor did he take any part in obtaining grants for trade, redress of grievances or extension of territory in the early days of the East India Company.
Robert Marshall followed the example of John and entered the Company's service, also through the influence of Lord Craven; he was in the factory at Bantam in Java up to 1678 when, " having served his full five years , " he requested per• mission to return to England (Factory Records, Java, Vol. 6).
. _ But thouch Marshall himself is silent as to his doings, certain details regarding him can be gleaned from the Company's Records ,~1hich happi~y include a large collec• tion · of letters f ormmg the private correspondence of Richard Edwards who, as previously mentioned, was one of Marshall's fellow-voyagers in 1668.
With the capable and experienced Job Charnock at the head of affairs at Patna, there was little scope for the exercise of the powers of those under him, and Marshall seems to have recognised this, for in a letter from Char• nook to Walter Clavell, then Chief at Hugli, dated 31st March 1672 (Factory Records, Hugli, vol.
" Marshall probably left Patna at the same time as the letter, for on the 25th April Charnock wrote again to Clavell (Ibid.