VI. That the two female parents of the Nabob aforesaid were among the
women of the greatest rank, family, and distinction in Asia, and were
left by the deceased Nabob, the son of the one and the husband of the
other, in charge of certain considerable part of his treasures, in money
and other valuable movables, as well as certain landed estates, called
jaghires, in order to the support of their own dignity, and the
honorable maintenance of his women, and a numerous offspring, and their
dependants: the said family amounting in the whole to two thousand
persons, who were by the said Nabob, at his death, recommended in a
particular manner to the care and protection of the said Warren
Hastings.
VII. That, on the demand of the Nabob of Oude on his parents for the
last of the sums which completed the six hundred and thirty thousand
pounds aforesaid, they, the said parents, did positively refuse to pay
any part of the same to their son for the use of the Company, until he
should agree to certain terms to be stipulated in a regular treaty, and
among other particulars to secure them in the remainder of their
possessions, and also on no account or pretence to make any further
demands or claims on them; and well knowing from whence all his claims
and exactions had arisen, they demanded that the said treaty, or family
compact, should be guarantied by the Governor-General and Council of
Bengal: and a treaty was accordingly agreed to, executed by the Nabob,
and guarantied by John Bristow, Esquire, the Resident at Oude, under the
authority and with the express consent of the said Warren Hastings and
the Council-General, and in consequence thereof the sum last required
was paid, and discharges given to the Nabob for all the money which he
had borrowed from his own mother and the mother of his father.
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