_59. Extract, E.I. Co. Letter from Bombay. May 28, 1695._[1] [Footnote 1: London, Privy Council, Unbound Papers, 1:46, accompanying our no. 58. Bombay was the main post of the East India Company; a council there supervised all its trade along the west coast of Hindustan.] Extract of a Clause in the Generall Letter from Bombay dated the 28th May, 1695. By our shipping now arrived who touched at Johanna Wee have News That Strongs ship which was one of them that w[ent] for the Spanish Expedition is runn away with from the Groyn[2] and come into these seas carrying 46 Guns and 130 men, as your Honours will perceive by Copy of the Captains Letter left at Johanna that accompanyes this. Your Honours Ships going into that Island gave him chase, but hee was too nimble for them by much, having taken down a great deal of his upper work and made her exceeding snugg, which advantage being added to her well sailing before, causes her to sail so hard now that shee fears not who follows her. This Ship will undoubtedly into the Red Seas and Wee fear disappoint us of Our above expected Goods, And it is probable will after shee had ransacked that Gulph proceed to Persia and doe what mischief possible there, which will procure infinite clamours at Suratt and the Government will be for embargoing all that ever Wee have there. [Footnote 2: Coruna, which the English then frequently called "The Groyne."] _60. Abstract, E.I. Co. Letters from Bombay. October 12, 1695._[1] [Footnote 1: London, Privy Council, Unbound Papers, 1:46, accompanying our no. 58.] By Letters received the 4th of this Inst. from the Generall[2] and Councill for the English Affairs residing att Bombay dated 12th October 1695 the Company are advised as followeth, vizt. [Footnote 2: Sir John Gayer, governor of Bombay, which at this time was the chief seat of the company's operations in India.]