[1] In this case, the academic, Megan Eaton, thinks that Gerard Ducarel benefited from contacts he made through Elizabeth in the local Muslim and Mughal elite.

[1] The Ducarel family, which Sharaf un-Nisa had married into, were part of the landed gentry of Gloucestershire and were the descendants of French Huguenots that settled in Newland.

[6] While living in England, Elizabeth continued to receive letters from her brothers, requesting she advise her husband to arrange salaried positions for them or advocate on their behalf with local British administrators so that they could trade in Purnea, Azimabad and Burdwan.

At the time of Ducarel’s return to firang [Britain] the aforementioned woman, out of the love of her children she did not quit accompanying him, and for this reason she went to that homeland [vilayet, meaning England].

Because the aforementioned woman is fair [safed-rang] and has been in the country for twenty years, in her language, her dress, in her manner of sitting and standing, and in every respect, I found her to be like foreign women [banuan-e firang].

She introduced me to three or four of her children [literally “sons”], one of them nineteen, and there was absolutely no distinction between them [and Europeans], and there was no discerning any difference between them and the young people who were born there [in England].