Early English adventurers in the East (1917)/Index

by Arnold Wright

INDEX

A

• Acheen, Lancaster visits, 43
• Aden, Captain Alexander Sharpoigh imprisoned at, 67; description of, 92; Jourdain's account of, 95; Sir Henry Middleton's fleet at, 98
• Adventurers in India, a group of, 165
• Agha Mahommed Zaman, Mogul Viceroy of Bengal, 275
• Agra, William Hawkins proceeds to, 67, 78; description of, 78; English chaplain at, 127; life at in Jehangir's reign, 133; Steele's scheme for waterworks at, 166
• Ahmedabad, Roe proceeds to, 164; terrible outbreak of plague at, 174
• Ajmere, Sir Thomas Roe sets out for, 135; Jehangir quits, 147
• Aldworth, Thomas, at Surat, 83, 123, 128
• Alexander VI's, Pope, decree dividing the world, 19
• Ambassador to the Great Mogul, Sir Thomas Roe appointed as, 133
• Amboina, Steven Coteels, Dutch Resident at, 182; English ships in the Straits of, 187; Black Tragedy of, 209; English factory at, 211; beautiful situation of, 213; description of Fort Victoria at, 214; opening incident of the tragedy of, 214; Abel Price tortured and "confesses" at, 216; arrest of Gabrieal Towerson and the other English residents of, 218; torture of English prisoners at, 219; condemnation of English prisoners at, 226; execution of English prisoners at, 234; indignation in England at the Massacre of, 236; belated compensation for the Massacre of, 237; what was the Tragedy of, 238
• Angediva, English military force encamp on, 267
• Anjengo, birthplace of Sterne's, Eliza, 316
• Aqua Vitae given to Mocha guards, 107
• Arabia. English captives in, 91
• Armada, Defeat of the Spanish, 19, 181
• Asaf Khan, Jwhangir's favourite, 137; dilatory tactics of, 144; assists the designs of Roe, 162
• Ascension, The, 40, 93, 98
• Assab Bay, Downton takes his ships to, 106
• Atlantic storms, terrific character of, 24
• Aungier, Gerald, founder of Bombay, 270
• Aurungzebe grants the East India Company new privileges, 269; accession of has injurious effect on the English, 277; effects a reconciliation with the English. 303

 

B

• Bab-el-Mandeb, Straits of, blockaded by Saris, 112
• Baffin, William, killed at Kishm, 251.
• Balasor, factory established at, 276; Thomas Pitt at, 286; sacked by the English, 296
• Ball, George, conducts an expedition to the Moluccas, 186; protests against the Dutch proclamation, 196
• Banca, Sir Edward Michelbome, attacked by pirates off, 58
• Banda, Keeling establishes a factory at, 67; inhabitants of implore assistance, 186; Dutch defeat at, 187
• Bantam, Lancaster visits, 61; John Middleton dies at, 52; Captain David Middleton gets a rich lading at, 68; Trades Increase destroyed by fire at, 114; death of Sir Henry Middleton at, 114; desperate condition of the English at, 185; expulsion of the English from, 239
• Barker's, Edmund, account of Lancaster's first voyage to the East, 26
• Batavia (see also Jakatra) dissensions between English and Dutch at, 210; indignation of English Colony at, at "The Massacre of Amboina," 235
• Bear, galleon, 20
• Beaufort, The, 296
• Bengal, first English expedition to, 275; Hedges sent as Agent to, 283
• Benton, William, narrative of, of first English expedition to Bengal, 275
• Beomont, John, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Best, Captain Thomas, arrives at Surat, 117; early history of, 117; disposition of, 118; addresses the crew of the Osiander, 119; engages the Portuguese fleet off Surat and defeats it, 120; obtains firman to trade, 122
• Blyth, Captain, conducts fleet to Persian Gulf, 248
• Bombay, combined English and Dutch fleet attacks, 258; a Dutch iconoclast at, 260; Captain John Hall's favourable account of, 262; Surat Council urge occupation of, 263; part of the dower of Charles II's bride, 265; expedition to occupy island of, 266; Viceroy of Goa declines to hand over, 267; transfer of from the Portuguese, 267; transferred to the East India Company, 269; Gerald Aungier's successful administration of, 270; population of, 271; description of, 272; seat of Government transferred to, 304
• Botelho, Admiral, evades the English and Dutch fleet, 259
• Boughton, Gabriel, obtains trading privileges for the English, 276
• Brazil, Fenton's piratical raid along the coast of, 20; Lancaster's expedition to, 29
• Brown, Robert, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Buckingham, Duke of, believed to have been bribed by the Dutch, 237
• Burhanpur, Sir Thomas Roe arrives at, 135

 

C

• Calcutta founded by Job Charnock, 290; character of site of, 305
• Cambello, 187, 211
• Cannanore captured by the Dutch, 264
• Cape of Good Hope, storms off the, 24; first known as the Cape of Torments, 42
• Carlmilhan, the, 42
• Carpentier, General, Coen's instructions to, 210; comments of on "The Massacre of Amboina," 236; views of concerning the English connection, 257
• Cartwright opens up a trade with Bengal, 275 *Cassarian, David, Master of the Solomon, captured
• Cassimbazar, factory established at, 277
• Cavendish's voyage round the world, 18, 22
• Ceram, Jourdain visits, 183; English factories on, 211
• Ceylon, Lancaster's ships pass, 27; Portuguese occupation of, 241; Dutch capture, 264
• "Chamber of Horrors," Amboina, 220, 224
• Chaplains, Indian, 71, 128, 311
• Charles II marries the Infanta of Portugal, 265; transfers Bombay to the East India Company, 269 Chamock, Job, founds Calcutta, 290; early career of, 291; defends Hooghly, 293; retires to Hijili, 296; besieged by Mogul troops, 297; removes his headquarters to Sotanuti, 300; superseded, 301; re-installed at Calcutta, 304; death of, 306; character of, 306
• Charter granted to the East India Company by Elizabeth, 37
• Child, Sir John, appointed Governor General, 304
• China, abortive expedition to, 33
• Chittagong, proposed occupation of, 301
• Clark, John, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Clove, The, 113, 187
• Cochin captured by the Dutch, 264
• Coco-de-mer identified by Gordon with the Forbidden Fruit, 94
• Coen, Jan Pietersoon, Jourdain's interview with, 183; arch enemy of the English, 206; commands the Dutch fleet in the fight off Jakatra, 202; firmly re-establishes Dutch power at Jakatra, 206; implacable policy of, 210, 212
• Cokayne, George, factor at Macassar, 185, 186
• Collings, Edward, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Commercial expansion in the East, 30
• Concord, The, 186
• Connock, Edward, appointed factor in Persia, 214
• Constantinople, the gate of the East, 30
• Cooke, Humphrey, fortifies Bombay, 267
• Copeland, Rev. Patrick, makes the first Indian convert, 311
• Comet player, English, wins distinction in India, 70
• Coromandel Coast, site for a factory obtained on the, 263
• Coryat, Thomas, an eccentric adventurer, 167; travels of, 168; received by Jehangir, 169; death of, 173
• Coteels, Steven, Dutch resident at Amboina, 182
• Coulson, Samuel, a prisoner of Amboina, 218; protestation of innocence, 231; prayer upon the scaffold, 233
• Courthope, Nathaniel, conducts an expedition to the Moluccas, 189; obtains cession of Poolo Roon, 190; establishes a fortified camp at Nailaka, 193; has interview with Laurence Reaal, 193; declines Reaal's offer, 194; perilous position of, 199, gallant death of, 208; noble character of, 208 Cromwell grants privileges to East India Company, 277
• Cromwell's daughter and Don Alfonso, suggested marriage between, 265
• Cumberland, George, Earl of, 37

 

D

• Dabul, Sir Henry Middleton takes his fleet to, 111
• Dacca, English agents at released, 302
• Dale, Sir Thomas, conducts an expedition against the Dutch, 199; early career of, 200; captures the Zwartt Leeuvo, 200; attacks the Dutch fleet,
  • occupies Jakatra, 203; withdraws his fleet to India, 204; death of, 205
  • Damaun besieged by Kakarrab Khan, 123
  • Darling, The, 69, 99, 103, 105, 107, 113, 182
  • Daud Khan, Nabob of the Carnatic, attacks Madras, 286
  • Davis, John, of Sundridge, early career of, 38; accompanies Lancaster on his second voyage to the East, 38; accompanies Sir Edward Michelbome's expedition to the East, 56; killed by Japanese pirates, 61
  • Davis, Master of the Swan, deserts Courthope, 191
  • Day, Francis, founds Madras, 263
  • De Bruyne, Fiscal of Amboina, conducts torture of prisoners, 226; censured by Carpentier, 235
  • Dedel, Comelis, prepares to attack Courthope, 191
  • Defence, The, 187, 189
  • Discipline on the ships of the East India Company, 72
  • Don Jeronimo attacks Downton off Surat, 125
  • Downton, Nicholas, appointed to command the Darling, 69; discourse of to his men, 71; commands the Peppercorn, 90; left in charge at Aden, 99; proceeds to Mocha, 100; schemes to release Sir Henry Middleton, 105; quarrels with Middleton, 106; gloomy ratiocinations of, 112; arrives off Surat with four ships, 124; is attacked by the Portuguese, 126; wins a notable victory, 127; is attacked by the Rev. Peter Rogers, 128; dies at Bantam, 129; character of, 129
  • Drake's circumnavigation of the world, 18; visit to the Spice Islands, 179
  • Drinking, inordinate, amongst the East India Company's servants, 72, 314
  • Drunkenness, attitude of Jehangir towards, 143
  • Dutch and English rivalry in the East, 177, 257
  • Dutch graveyard at Surat, Van Speult buried in the, 237
  • Dutch, open a trade with the East, 33; effect of Eastern operations of the, on prices, 43; at Acheen, 44; firmly establish their power in the Eastern Seas, 180; capture the Swan off PooloRoon, 192; conclude the Treaty of Defence with the English, 209; capture Ceylon and Cochin and Cannanore, 264; bitterly oppose English occupation of Bombay, 266; conclusion of war between the English and the, 277
   

  E

  • Eagle, The, 247
  • Eastern Archipelago, Dutch power founded in the, 33; the struggle for ascendancy in the, 178; English driven from the, 239; deadly rivalry in the, 240, 256
  • East India Company, formation of the, 34; wide range of the first operations of the, 65; commanders of the, 66; life on the ships of the, 69; preachers on the ships of the, 71; stem discipline maintained on the ships of the, 72; firman to trade granted to, by the Mogul Government, 122; firman to trade granted to, by Jehangir, 174; first designs of in regard to India, 177; appeal to the Lord Treasurer for redress against the Dutch, 182; issue of pamphlet by, concerning "The Massacre of Amboina," 219; Shah Abbas grants a firman to for trading in Persia, 214; contemplates the abandonment of its factory at Surat, 263; obtains a site for a factory on the Coromandol Coast, 263; transfer to the, of Bombay, by the Crown, 269; new privileges granted to, by Aurungzcbe, 269; Gabriel Bougbton obtains trading privileges in Bengal for the, 276; privileges granted to the, by Cromwell, 277; new charter granted to, at the Restoration, 278; makes important changes in the Indian administration, 304; mode of life of the servants of the, 310
  • Edward Bonaventure, 20, 23
  • Edwards received by Jehangir, 132
  • Eldred, J., 30
  • Elizabeth's, Queen, replies to Spanish protests, 18; grants charter to the East India Company, 37; letter to the King of Acheen, 45
  • England and Holland, war between, 264, 277
  • English and Dutch rivalry in the East, 177
  • English coach presented to Jehangir, 136
  • English mission to the Great Mogul, 131
  • English Turkey Company, The, 30
  • Englishwomen in India, 314
  • Evans, William, a candidate for a preachership on the East India Company's fleet, 71
   

  F

  • Fakir, Jehangir and the, 161
  • Fardo, John, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
  • Femell, Laurence, taken prisoner at Mocha, 102; fails in attempt to escape, 108; poisoned at Mocha, 110
  • Fenton, Henry, commands expedition to the East 21
  • Finch, William, at Surat, 83
  • Fiscal of Amboina, de Bniyne, a Dutch, Torquemada. 227
  • Fitch, Ralph, wanderings of in the East, 30, 242
  • Fitzherbert, Captain, describes Amboina, 213
  • Forbidden fruit, Coco-de-Mer, identified as the, by Gordon, 94 Fort Revenge, Poolo Ai, 188 Fort St. George built, 263; English withdraw to, from Bengal, 303
  • Fort Victoria, Amboina, description of, 214
  • Foster, Sir. William, edits Jourdain's Narrative, 93; suggestion of, as to Bombay, 259
  • Founder's Hall, the cradle of the East India Company, 36
  • Foxcroft, George, appointed to the charge of the Madras Factory, 278; deposed by Sir Edward Winter, 280
  • Foxcroft, Nathaniel, disloyal utterances of, 279; ordered home, 281
  • Foxcroft, Samuel, commands the Merchant Royal, 24
   

  G

  • Garden of Eden, Gordon's theory as to the, 94
  • "Gibraltar of the East," 92
  • Goa, Thomas Stevens of New College at, 31; English sent as prisoners to, 75; fleet prepared at for use against the English, 110; description of, 240; Inquisition at, 260; Viceroy of writes despairingly of the position of the Portuguese in the East, 268; Viceroy of declines to hand Bombay over to the English, 267
  • Gombroon, modern Bunder Abbas, 241
  • Gordon's, General, theory as to the Garden of Eden, 94
  • Gouldinge, preacher, pranks of at Surat, 129
  • Grand Seignor, reference to, 101, 109, 115
  • Great Mogul, East India Company despatches an envoy to the, 65; James I's letter to, 73; English Mission under Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the, 131
  • Griggs, William, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
  • Guest, The, 40; dismantled off Cape St. Augustine, 41
  • Guzerat Coast sighted by first English ship to visit India, 73
   

  H

  • Hackwell, Thomas, 206
  • Hall, Captain John, describes Bombay, 262
  • Hariharapur, factory established at, 276
  • Hart, The, 247
  • Hawkins, Mrs., marriage of to William Hawkins, 83; remarried to Gabriel Towerson, 90, 211
  • Hawkins, William, Fenton's lieutenant, 20
  • Hawkins, William, envoy to the Great Mogul, landed at Surat, 73; early history of 14; opposed by the Portuguese, 75; thwarted by Makarrab Khan, the Mogul Governor, 75; starts from Surat for Agra, 77; arrives at Agra and is received by Jehangir, 81; appointed to a high court position by Jehangir, 82; married to an Armenian girl, 83; curious rumour as to, prevalent at Surat, 83; describes Jehangir's mode of life, 84; fall of from Imperial favour, 89; embarks for England with his wife, 89; dies on the voyage, 90
  • Heath, Captain William, supersedes Job Chamock, 301
  • Hober's lines on Bombay, 272
  • Hector, The, 40, 62, 67, 73, 76, 113, 124
  • Hedges sent as Agent to Bengal, 283
  • Hemsell, William, coachman to Jehangir, 106
  • Hijili, English occupation of, 296
  • Hitoo, Jourdain trades at, 183; English factory at, 211; position of, 214 Hooghly, factory established at, 277
  • Hopewell, The, 275
  • Hound, The, 206
  • Houtman, Cornelius, conducts Dutch expedition to the East, 33
   

  I

  • Ibrahim Khan releases English Agents at Dacca, 304
  • Imam Zuli Beg, Persian General, 253
  • India, first Englishman to visit, 31; first connexion of England was established, 65, 73
  • Indian Chaplains, 71, 128, 311
  • Indian Convert, the first, 311
  • Indian ship seized at Mocha by Sir Henry Middleton, 109
  • Infanta of Portugal marries Charles II, 265
  • Interlopers in India, 283
   

  J

  • Jakatra, the modern Batavia, Sir Thomas Dale attacks Dutch fleet off, 202; occupation of by Dale's force, 204; re-occupation of by Dutch, 206
  • James I gives Sir Edward Michelborne a licence to trade in the East, 56; christens the Trade's Increase, 69; addresses letter to the Great Mogul, 73; appoints Sir Thomas Roe as Ambassador to the Court of Jehangir, 133; and Thomas Coryat, 170; greatly moved at "The Massacre of Amboina," 236
  • Japanese pirates attack Sir Edward Michelbome's ship, 61
  • Japanese, seized by the Dutch, at Amboina, on a charge of conspiracy, 214; are tortured and implicate the English, 215; interrogate the English prisoners, 232
  • Jask offered to the English by Shah Abbas, 245; Captain Shilling buried at, 248
  • Jehangir, the Emperor, William Hawkins proceeds to the Court of, 67; James I's letter to, 73 nominates Makarrab Khan to the Government of Surat, 76 character of, 79; receives Hawkins in friendly fashion, 81 appoints Hawkins to a Court office, 82; finds a wife for Hawkins, 83; durbars of, 84; drinking bouts of, 85, 142; maintains a Court reporter, 86; cruelty of, 87, 143; degrades Hawkins, 89; Sir Thomas Roe despatched on a mission to, 133 receives Sir Thomas Roe, 135 shows friendship to Roe, 139 discusses artistic questions with Roe, 139; and Roe's miniatures, 141; quits Ajmere, 147; splendours of the camp of, 149; and the fakir, 151; regard of for Roe, 152; establishes his Court at Mandu, 152; has curious interview with Roe relative to presents, 154; is weighed against gold, 158; receives Prince Khurrum on his return from war, 159; upbraids Prince Khurrum for his hostility to Roe, 164; receives Thomas Coryat, 169; attitude of towards converts to Christianity, 171
  • Jeronimo de Pa via, a converted Jesuit, 259
  • Johnson, Timothy, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
  • Joint English and Dutch Commission to consider disputes in the East, 182
  • Jooat, John, intercedes for English prisoners at Amboina, 221
  • Jourdain, Captain John, early life of, 93; proceeds overland from Aden to Mocha, 97; conducts an expedition to the Moluccas, 182; has interview with Jan Pietersoon Coen, 183; driven from the Moluccas by the Dutch, 185; establishes a factory at Macassar, 185; despatches expedition to Banda, 187; sends a further expedition to the Moluccas, 189; proceeds to Patani with the Hound and the Sampson, 206; killed in a fight with the Dutch, 206
   

  K

  • Keeling, Captain William, commander of the third voyage to the East, 67; discourse of to the men in his fleet, 71; visit of to the Moluccas, 181
  • Khurrum, Prince (afterwards the Emperor Shah Johan), inimical to the English, 131; opposes Sir Thomas Roe, 137; treats with scorn Roe's application for a treaty, 145; returns in triumph from his campaign, 159; arrogant conduct of towards Roe, 159; devotion of to Mumtaz Mahal, 161; is reconciled to Roe, 162; opposes the English in durbar, 163; gives the English trading privileges, 174
  • Kishm, English attack on, 250
   

  L

  • Ladbrook, Thomas, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Lancaster, Sir James, early life of, 22; accompanies Raymond's expedition to the East, 23; visits Penang, 26; visits the West Indies, 28; returns to England, 29; conducts expedition to Brazil, 29; appointed Governor and General of the East India Company, 37; conducts second expedition to the East, 41; arrives at Acheen, 43; raids Portuguese ships, 49; bids farewell to the King of Acheen, 51; desperate plight of off the Cape, 53; returns to England, 53; magnificent success of his voyage, 54
  • Langhorne, Sir William, appointed to investigate Winter's coup d'etat in Madras, 281
  • Larica, English factory at, 211
  • Leedes, W., 30
  • Leicester, Earl of, organizes an expedition to the East, 19
  • Leamr, or Imperial Camp, splendours of the, 149
  • Leytimor, 214
  • Lion, The, 252
  • Literature on the East India Company's ships, 70
  • London, The, 247
  • Lanthor, 187, 190
  • Lord Treasurer appealed to for redress against the Dutch, 182
  • Lottery, a fateful, 228
  • Luhu, Jourdain applies for a site for a factory at, 183; site for a factory offered at, 187; English factory at, 211

 

M

• Macbeth, allusion to Fitch's travels in, 32
• Maoeasar, factory established at by Jourdain, 185
• Madagascar, Lancaster's visits, 43
• Madras (Fort St. George) founded, 263, 274; Thomas Pitt apointed President of, 286; English withdrawn to from Bengal, 303
• Magellan, Straits of, Cavendish proceeds through the, 22
• Makarrab Khan, history of, 75; intrigues against Hawkins, 89; falls from power, 119; besieges Dumaun, 123; seeks aid of Downton's fleet, 124; aids Sir Thomas Roe, 139
• Malacca. fight between Dutch and Portuguese off, 180
• Malacca, Straits of, Lancaster visits the, 26, 43
• Malaya, first British buried in, 27
• Manda, Jahangir establishes his Court at, 152
• Mare Scourge, The, 40
• Markham's, Sir Clement, opinion of John Davis. 38
• Marlborough, James Ley, Earl of, commands expedition for the occupation of Bombay, 266
• Mastifs presented to Jahangir, 157
• Merchant Royal The, 24
• Merchant's Hope, The, 124, 125
• Messa, or Grand Cairo, letters for- warded by way of, from Mocha, 111
• Michelborne, Sir Edward, a rival of Lancaster, 38; conducts an expedition to the East, 56; falls in with Japanese pirates, 59; desperate fight, 61; returns home, 64
• Michick, Cevice, Japanese victim at Amboina, 215
• Middleton, David, 67; successful expedition of to the Moluccas, 08, 113, 182
• Middleton, John, dies at Bantam, 52
• Middleton, Sir Henry, early life of, 66; conducts an expedition to the Moluccas, 67; arrives at Surat, 89; arrives with his fleet at Aden, 98; arrives at Mocha,100; taken prisoner, 102; quarrels with Downton, 106; escapes from captivity, 107; seizes an Indian ship at Mocha, 109; concludes peace with Shah-bundor of Mocha, 110; proceeds to India, 111; blockades Aden, 112; proceeds to Bantam, 113; dies at Bantam, 114; character of, 114; effect of the influence of, with the Indian traders, 177; visit of, to the Moluccas, 181
• Mir Jumlah, threatens the English, 277
• Mocha. Captain Alexander Sharpeigh visits, 07; Jourdain proceeds overland to, 97; Middleton's fleet arrives at, 99; English made captives at, 102; attack on the Darling at, 103
• Mogul Court, splendour of the, 133 Mogul Government, grants a firman to trade at Surat to the English, 122; declares war against the Portuguese, 123
• Moluccas, The, Cavendish viaita, 22; Lancaster sends a pinnace to, 52; Henry Middleton establishes a trade with, 67; David

Middleton conducts a successful expedition to, 68; Henry Middleton's visit to, 181; Reeling's visit to, 181; David Middleton's visit to, 182; Jourdain's visit to, 182; George Ball conducts an expedition to, 186; expedition despatched to, to relieve Courthope, 197; Dutch fleet withdraws from Jakatra to, 203

• Morgenstine, The, 192
• Mukund Deo, last King of Oriasa, 275
• Mumtar Mahal, Prince Khurmm's devotion to, 161
• Musical Instruments on the East India Company's ships, 70

 

N

• Nailaka, Courthope establishes a fort on, 193
• Neira, 187, 193
• New Year's Gift, 124
• Newberry, James, 30
• Nicobar Islands, Lancaster touches at the, 26
• Noor Mahal, Jehangir's favourite queen, 137; accompanies
• Jehangir on his progress, 149; intrigues of, 161; assists the designs of Roe, 163
• North-West Passage, efforts to discover the, 19

 

O

• Oriental Hansard, An, 143
• Orme's appreciation of Downton, 129
• Ormuz, Fitch and his companions imprisoned at, 31; Portuguese occupation of, 241; besieged by the Persians, 248; besieged

by the English, 252; surrendered to the English, 253; description of, 254

• Osiander, The, 117, 121
• Overland route for letters, early use of. 111
• Oxenden, Christopher, tomb of, 270
• Oxenden, Sir George, appointed to the charge of the Surat factory, 265; early career of, 266; skilful policy of, 269; death of, 270; epitaph of, 270; on the library at Surat factory, 315

 

P

• Parsees of Bombay, 271
• Patani, Sir Edward Michelborne directs his course to, 58; the Darling at, 113; the Hound

and the Sampson attacked and captured by the Dutch at, 206

• Patham wrestles with a lion at Agra, 87
• Patna, factory established at, 277
• Pemba, Sharpeigh's fleet off, 93
• Pemberton escapes from captivity at Mocha, 105
• Penang, Lancaster visits, 26
• Penelope, The, 23
• Pepper Trade, 43
• Peppercorn, The, 69, 90, 99, 104, 108, 113
• Persian Gulf, English in the, 240; importance of the, 241
• Persians besiege Ormuz, 249; conclude a compact with the English, 250
• Phantom Ship, the legend of, 42
• Piracy, acts of, by Sir Edward Michelborne, 56
• Pitt, Thomas, arch-interloper, 283; appointed Governor of Madras, 286; famous diamond of, 288
• Plate, River, wreck of one of Fenton's ships off the mouth of the, 21
• Poolo Ai, protest of natives of, against Dutch oppression, 186; Dutch and English fleets off, 188
• Poolo Roon, Courthope obtains cession of, 190; retrocession of, 239; final occupation of by the Dutch, 239
• Portugal and England, conclusion of peace between, 263
• Portugal and Holland, disastrous effect of war between, 264
• Portugal and Spain, grievous wrongs inflicted on the English by, 29
• Portugal and the Spice Islands, 179
• Portuguese fleet defeated off Surat by Best, 120
• Portuguese fleet defeated off Surat by Downton, 127
• Portuguese in the Persian Gulf, 241, 245
• Portuguese, Mogul Government declares war against, 123
• Portuguese opposition to the English, at Acheen, 47; in India, 66, 75, 111, 116, 120, 124, 240
• Portuguese ships captured in the Straits of Malacca by Lancaster, 27, 49
• Powle, John, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Preachers on the East India Company's ships, 71
• Presents intercepted by Jehangir, 154
• Priaman, Lancaster visits, 51
• Price, Abel, a prisoner at Amboina, 216; under torture implicates his colleagues in a charge of conspiracy, 217
• Prince Henry, at the christening of the Trade's Increase, 169; godfather to Sir Robert Shirley's son, 243
• Psalm Book at the Hague, a relic of Amboina, 230
• Psalm sung by Lancaster's men before the King of Acheen, 61
• Purchas's opinion of Downton, 129

 

R

• Raffles, Sir T. S., on the Spice Islands, 179
• Rajapur, proposed retirement of the English to, 263
• Raleigh, Sir Walter, founds the Colony of Virginia, 21
• Ramsey, Ephraim, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Raymond, George, commands expedition to the East, 23; is lost in a storm off the Cape, 24
• Reaal, Laurence, Dutch Governor-General, seeks composition with Courthope, 193; issues proclamation against the English, 195;demands the evacuation of Poolo Roon, 196
• Recife, Lancaster's attack on, 29
• Red Dragon, The, 40, 52, 117
• Red Sea, Sir Henry Middleton returns to the, 112
• Red Sea Trade in ancient times, 92
• Rejib Aga, makes Sharpeigh captive at Aden, 96; plays the confidence trick on Sir Henry Middleton at Mocha, 100; directs attack on the English, 102; begins to "sing a new song," 109; poisons Laurence Femell, 110
• Religious observances of the Company's servants, 71, 310
• Roe, Sir Thomas, selected as Ambassador to Jehangir, 133; ancestry of, 133; arrives at Surat, 136; received by Jehangir, 135; opposed by Prince Khurrum, 137; forbidden to visit the Court, 138; is restored to favour, 139; Jehangir's liking for, 140; presents miniatures to Jehangir, 141; in present at one of Jehangir's drinking bouts, 142; horrified by an instance of Jehangir's cruelty, 143; presses for a treaty, 145; views of as to permanent representation at the Mogul Court, 145; describes Jehangir's departure from Ajmere, 147; describes the splendours of the Imperial Camp, 149; relates curious anecdote of Jehangir's behavioar to a fakir or devotee, 151; illness of, 152; arrives with the Imperial Camp at Mondu, 153; strange interview of with Jehangir relative to presents, 164; witnesses the ceremony of weighing the Emperor against gold, 158; arrogant conduct of Prince Khurrum to, 159; secures the aid of Asaf Khan and Noor Mahal, 161; is reconciled to Prince Khurrum, 162; proceeds to Ahmedabad, 164; falls under Jehangir's displeasure, 173; secures a firman to trade, 174; quits India, 175; death of, 175; importance of his work, 175.
• Roebuck, The, 247
• Rogers, the Rev, Peter, attacks Downton, 127; character of, 311
• Rosengyn, 190
• Rotterdam, The, 231
• Ruy Freire de Andrade conducts an expedition to the Persian Gulf, 246; surrenders to the English at Kishm, 252; escapes, 258

 

S

• Sacrament denied to the Amboina prisoners, 228
• Sadler, John, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• St. Helena, Fenton's project for the annexation of, 20; Lancaster visits, 27
• St. John's Churchyard, Calcutta, Job Chamock's tomb in, 306
• Saldania, the old name of the Cape of Good Hope, 24
• Salmon, The, 124
• Sampson, The, 206
• San Pedro destroyed at Ormoz, 253
• Sana, Jonrdain and Glasscock travel to from Aden, 97; Sir Henry Middleton and his men in captivity at, 105
• Saris, Captain John, in the Red Sea, 112
• Scotchmen in the East India Company's service, 218
• Scurvy, the "disease of the sea," 24, 42
• Seychelles, "Die, Sharpeigh's fleet at, 94
• Shah Abbas, employs Sir Robert Shirley, 242; grants English firman to trade, 214; declares war against the Portuguese, 247 Shah Jehan, Emperor (see Prince Khurrum)
• Shah Jehan's daughter, romantic story concerning, 276
• Shahbunder of Mocha arranges terms of peace, 110
• Shakespeare alludes to Fitch's travels in Macbeth, 32
• Shariyar, Prince, 161
• Sharpeigh, Captain Alexander, establishes relations with Mocha, 67; disaster of, 68; at Aden, 93
• Sharrock, George, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Shayista Khan declares war against the English, 295
• Shilling, Captain, attacked by the Portuguese fleet, 247; death of, 248
• Shipman, Sir Abraham, commands military in the Bombay expedition, 267
• Sillebar, Sir Edward Michelbome visits, 57
• Sivaji attacks Surat, 269
• Soame, Sir Stephen, presides at the East India Company's first meeting, 37
• Socotra, Sharpeigh's fleet at, 94
• Solomon, The, attacked and captured by the Dutch, 197
• Spanish Armada, defeat of, 19,181
• Speedwell, The, 186
• Spice Islands, historic importance of the, 179
• Spice Trade, The, 43, 177
• Starkey, William, opens a factory in the Moluccas, 52
• Steele, Mrs. 129
• Steele, Richard, scheme for waterworks at Agra, 166; journey through Persia, 214
• Sterne's, Eliza, born at Anjengo, 316
• Stevens, Thomas, probably the first Englishman to visit India, 31
• Story, J., 30
• Sunda Straits, Lancaster decides to return by the, 50; Dutch ships warned in the, 204
• Surat, Keeling visits, 67; William Hawkins arrives at, 74; Makarrab Khan, Governor of, 75; Sir Henry Middleton arrives at, 89; Best arrives at, 117; Best defeats the Portuguese off, 120; Downton defeats the Portuguese off, 127; Sir Thomas Roe arrives at, 135; Thomas Coryat dies at, 173; Van Speult dies at, 237; fight between English and Portuguese near, 261; Council at, urge occupation of Bombay, 263; attacked by Sivaji, 269; seat of Government transferred from, to Bombay, 304; Company's factory at, 310
• Susan, The, 40
• Sutanuti, English occupation of, 296, 301
• Swally Roads, 120, 125
• Swan, The, 189, 191
• Swes (Suez), trade with in the eighteenth century, 106

 

T

• Temate, King of, Dutch conclude treaties with the, 180; Jourdain referred to the, 183 Terry, Rev. Edward, received in friendly fashion by Jehangir, 154; describes William Hemsell, Jehangir's coachman, 166
• Thomnssin, The, 187
• Thomson, Emanuel, a prisoner of Amboina, 218; speech of, upon the scaffold, 234 Tiger, The, Michelbome's ship, 57 Tiger's Whelp,The, 57 Torture at Amboina, description of the, 219
• Towerson, Gabriel, marries Mrs. William Hawkins, 90; in principal charge at Amboina, 211; character of, 212; arrest of, 218; protests his innocence, 223; last hours of, 231; execution of, 234
• Trade's Increase, The, christened by James I, 69; at Aden, 99; runs aground at Mocha, 100; at Assab Bay, 108; destroyed by fire at Bantam, 114; sickness amongst the crew of, 185
• Tragedy of Amboina, What was the, 238
• Treaty of Defence concluded, 209
• Treaty of Westminster concluded, 237
• Trully, Robert, the comet-player at Jehangir's Court, 165

 

U

• Ulubaria, English occupy, 300
• Union, The, 68, 93

 

V

• Van der Berg, a prisoner of the Inquisition at Goa, 260
• Van Speult, Herman, Dutch Governor of Amboina, character of, 212; despatch of, concerning conspiracy charge, 215; challenges the accuracy of the English account of the torture of prisoners, 214; dies at Surat, 237
• Venetian monopoly of Eastern markets, 33
• Virginia, Colony of, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, 21

 

W

• Waghom, Lieutenant, and Overland Route, 111
• Waterworks Scheme for Agra, promoted by Richard Steele,
• Webber, William, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Weddell, Captain, in command of ship in the Persian Gulf, 248
• West Indies, Lancaster visits the, 28
• Western India, Captain Sharpoiph's ship wrecked on the coast of, 28
• Wetherall, John, a prisoner of Amboina, 218
• Winter, Sir Edward, appointed to reorganize Company's factories in Madras and Bengal, 278; superseded by George Foxcroft, 278; deposes Foxcroft, 280; surrender of to a Royal Commissioner, 281; returns to England, 282
• Wood's, Captain Benjamin, disastrous voyage to China, 33

 

X

• Xavier, St. Francis, shrine of, 241

 

Z

• Zanzibar, James Lancaster lands at, 25
• Zulfikar Khan, Prince Khurrum's favourite, 132; places obstacles in the way of Sir Thomas Roe's mission, 135; Makarrab Khan, a rival of, 139
• Zwarte Leeuw (Black lion) captured by Dale, 200