Bond Granted by the Prince Royal of Persia, Abbas Meerza, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Date:
1828/1828
Description:
Abstract: Bond, in Persian, granted by the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran], Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir (IOR/L/PS/9/71/193 (1)), and an English translation (IOR/L/PS/9/71/193 (2)), dated in the month of Shaban [Shaʿbān] or March 1828. The bond states that should the British Government pay 200,000 tomans towards the reparations owed by Persia as part of the peace treaty ending the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], the Persian Government will abrogate and consider as annulled the third and fourth articles of the Definitive Treaty existing between Britain and Persia.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 12 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/191).Physical description: Folio 1 comprises a large sheet which has been folded.