Entitled 'To his grace John [Hay], marquis of Tweeddale, her majesty's high commissioner, and the right honourable estates of parliament, the petition of the court of directors of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies' and 'The case of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, with relation to their two ships The Speedwell and The Annandale, with their respective cargos', dated c.11 August 1704. Concerns a cargo seized by the English East India Company, and the subsequent failure of the East India Company to return or pay compensation for the ship and cargo, (4 pages).Back