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SOME ANGLO-INDIAN WORTHIE3.
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My laste acquainted that their is now in a readynes 600 [ Candy ] of Cource peetre, besides some refyned to make good the Kings Accounts, and that the owners thereof are not willing to let goe parte and the other to Remagne on theyre hands, haveing my promise for their Securety, the Company not then haveing Stock for its management, the Raynes now drawing on, it is high tyme the Kings Peeter (was] sent away and that the remainder were now Refyneing if the Companyes Occatious require it.
I understand the Company bave turned mee out of theire service, but for what am Ignorante. Had the Company given [me] the opportunity other persons have had, Presume should not now bee esteemed an unproffittable Servant to them. I formerly paste my promise to procure them 500 Tonns of the above named per anum and to Invest them 20000 per anuun in the Sorts these parts afford, and it was never my desire to keepe & Jurnall of charges onely, and the charge would be the sanie as now, were the Investment 50000 Pagos. per angm that hope your Worship &c. will not impute the faulte to mee, haveing oneley Loste my tyme in expectation of uncertaintyes.
In the Bookes lately delivered, Metchlepatam Factory hath Or. 8080 Pa. new, of which I have received but 3000 Pa. aud 10 Caske of Allom. The reniginder was delivered the Bramony before my tyme and since the close of them Bookes have received 1000 Pa. which am to give Account of and 10 Casks of Allom. Metchlepatam hath 1000 pa. Cr. for the charge off the phirmaand &c. which the agent hath enordered to take off. Desireing your worshipp &ca. answer, with my humble Service subscribed, Your Worshipps &ca. assured friend and Servant, AMBROSE SALUSBURY."69
Sir William Langhorne, who became Agent at Fort St. George at the end of the year 1670 differed from the "unknowne writer"70 in his opision of Salisbury's character. In answer to the Court's instractions of December 1669, he and the Council replied, on the 19th July 1670, “Wee have neither had any Sattisfaction, either by perticular information or by Common Report that Mr Robert Fleetwood or Mr Ambrose Salisbury are persons of Such profane Spirrits Scandalous lires, or notoriously wicked as they are represented to you, unless their Zeale for Conformity and against nonconformity are made the ground of that accusation,"71
(To be continued.)
CELEBRITIES IN TAMIL LITERATURE. BY S. KRISHNASWAMI AIYANGAR, M.A., M.B.A.S.
Prefatory Note. I propose to give in the following papers a brief notice of what can be gathered from Tamil literature, so far brought out, of those that have attained fame either as poets or as patrons. I owe the idea to Dr. Hultzsch, Professor of Sanskrit at the Halle University, of attempting a catalogue on the lines of Dr. Aufrecht's great work. Having neither the ability nor the opportunities of the late eminent savant, I held back for over two years. I now venture upon the task, since no one else has come forward to do it. As a starting point for such a work, which must necessarily be chronological at least in part, an attempt is made to fix in the following paper the probable age of the third Tamil Sangam. In the succeeding papers, I shall give an account of what I have been able to gather regarding the Sangam and post-Sangan celebrities, as far as I can. The attempt must necessarily be tentative in character and it is hoped it will eventually lead to a better knowledge of the literatare of the ancient Tamils and their history.
* Factory Records, Marulipatam, Vol. 9.
* Seo anto, p. 224,
11 Factory Records, Miscellaneous, Vol. 3.
