[[94]: Arzbegi, i.e. the officer who receives petitions.]
[[95]: A preparation of betel-nut (areca-nut) is used by the natives of Hindustan as a digestive. When offered to a guest, it is a sign of welcome or dismissal. When sent by a messenger, it is an assurance of friendship and safe conduct.]
[[96]: The Governor of Patna was Raja Ramnarain, a Hindu, with the rank of Naib only. It was considered unsafe to entrust so important a post to a Muhammadan, or an officer with the rank of Nawab.]
[[97]: Orme MSS. India XI., p. 2779, No. 120.]
[[98]: Ibid., India IX., p. 2294.]
[[99]: Letter from Renault to Dupleix. Dated Chandernagore, Sept. 4, 1757.]
[[100]: Broome (p. 154) gives his name as Mir Daood.]
[[101]: The Council signed the Treaty with Mir Jafar on the 19th of May, but Mr. Watts's first intimation of his readiness to join the English is, I believe, in a letter dated the 26th of April. Mir Jafar signed the Treaty early in June.]
[[102]: So Suja-ud-daula, Nawab of Oudh, plundered the Nawab Mir Kasim, when the English drove him from Bengal in 1763.]
[[103]: Broome (p. 154) says "a fakier, named Dana Shah, whose nose and ears he had ordered to be cut off thirteen months before, when on his march against the Nawaub of Purneah.">[