John Mildenhall

In the same letter, he likens the abundance of fish found at Lake Van (Turkey) to ..our herring time at Yermouth (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England), which he then describes.

[1] In letters written by a contemporary merchant, John Sanderson, Mildenhall (more commonly called Midnall) is often referred to as a cuckold, inferring that he was a married man.

Entrusted with the sale of the Company goods in the Levant, Mildenhall, travelled through Eastern Europe, passed through Scio and Smyrna, and reached Constantinople on 29 October 1599.

On 7 June 1600 Mildenhall left Aleppo with an entourage of six hundred people and, after travelling through Bir, Urfa, Diarbekir, Bitlis, Van, Nakhichevan, Julfa, Sultanieh, Kazvin, Kum, Kashan, Kerman, Sistan and Kandahar, he reached Lahore in 1603.

A letter from Ajmer dated 20 September 1614 informs the British East India Company that an Englishman named Richard Steele had arrived at Aleppo along with another Englishman, Richard Newman, in pursuit of one John Midnall who had tried to flee with the company's provisions to India but was overtaken and captured at Tombaz and taken back to Isfahan.

Originally his grave had a Portuguese inscription which read "Joa de Mendenal, Ingles, moreo aos [unintelligible text] Junho 1614" (literally: Englishman, dead in June 1614).