ABSTRACT
Studies of Terry and Roe have drawn attention to their sense of alienation in the face of a foreign language, religion, and customs; their desire to attain the wealth and status of the Mughals; and their belief that their religious affiliation and capacity for peaceful trade would allow them to overcome their anxieties and realize their economic ambitions. Edward Terry makes a similar case for the EIC's service to the nation in The Merchant and Mariner's Oration, a sermon that he delivered at St. Andrew's Undershaft, its parish Church, on September 6, 1649. Roe's views on the marketplace are filtered through more material lens than Terry's as he sets out to obtain a farman that will allow the English to expand their factories in India. Thomas Roe and Edward Terry were early proponents of a discursive system which held that the English had a right to shape the Indian marketplace and the Mughals had a duty to facilitate their work.
