, &c., &c., and
that she would even allow a deduction from the annual allowance made to
her for her subsistence in lieu of her jaghire."[71]
XLVII. That, soon after the return of the aforesaid ministers to the
place of their imprisonment at Fyzabad, bonds for the five thousand
pounds aforesaid, and goods, estimated, according to the valuation of a
merchant appointed to value the same, at the sum of forty thousand
pounds, even allowing them to sell greatly under their value, were
delivered to the commanding officer at Fyzabad; and the said commanding
officer did promise to the Begum to visit Lucknow with such proposals as
he hoped would secure the _small balance_ of fifteen thousand pounds
remaining of the unjust exaction aforesaid.[72] But the said Resident,
Middleton, did, in his letter of the 17th of the said month, positively
refuse to listen to any terms before the final discharge of the whole of
the demand, and did positively forbid the commanding officer to come to
Lucknow to make the proposal aforesaid in the terms following.
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