Sources for children of Persian wife of Sir John Mildenhall?

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Do we have anyone in WikiTree conversant with late 16th Century Persian sources where information on the two children of John Mildenhall by his Persian wife might be found?

I had no response from the Global Project so posting here in G2G.  Thanks.  Leaders feel free to re-tag this question as may be prudent.
WikiTree profile: John Mildenhall
in Genealogy Help by T Stanton G2G6 Pilot (382k points)
retagged by T Stanton

T, can you add the tag, 'India'? The India project follows that tag. This is the project page India Project. You may be able to find some source ideas there too.

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The Calendar of State Papers: Colonial Series, vol 2 East Indies, China and Japan, 1513-1616, p. 321 does mention John Mildenhall (written as Midnall) in a letter from Thos. Keridge to the East India Company, dated 20 Sept 1614.  It states John Midnall has died leaving his goods to his two illegitimate children in Persia by an Indian woman and naming a Frenchman as his executor.  The Frenchman has promised to marry the daughter and bring up the son, which would suggest that the son at least and probably both children are minors.

The fact that the children are illegitimate would seem to make more sense, given that his wife back in England doesn't seem to have died until 1602.  Also the fact that he has left them some goods (though it appears they weren't his to leave) and not his entire estate also sounds more reasonable.

Although there are other entries in this volume for John Midnall or Mildnall see index on p. 530 I couldn't see that any others name the children, though I didn't check them all (note these are entry numbers not page numbers).

by John Atkinson G2G6 Pilot (625k points)
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Letters received by the East India company from its servants in the East, edited by Foster, appears to give the letter from Thomas Keridge to the East India company dated 20 Sept 1614 in full, but it still doesn't name the children.  Though it does specify that they were born when John Midnall was in the East (India?) previously.  The letter starts on p. 103 but the section about John Midnall is on p. 105.

Again there are other references to John Midnall in this volume see index pp. 362-363.  I haven't checked them and this time they are page numbers.

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