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ISBN 978-1-4094-1439-1 (hbk)

WORKS ISSUED BY

The Hakluyt Society

BOMBAY IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN ANNE

SECOND SERIES

No. LXXII

ISSUED FOR 1933

COUNCIL OF THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY 1933

S IR W ILLIAM F OSTER , C.I.E., President.

T HE R IGHT H ON . S TANLEY B ALDWIN , P.C., M.P., Vice-President.

M AJOR -G ENERAL S IR P ERCY Z. C OX , G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., K.C.S.L, Vice-President.

S IR A RNOLD T. W ILSON , K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.P, Vice-President.

J. N. L. B AKER , Esq.

H ARRY G. B EASLEY , Esq.

E. W. B OVILL , Esq.

W ALTER DE LA M ARE , Esq.

V ICE -A DMIRAL H. P. D OUGLAS , C.B., C.M.G., R.N.

A DMIRAL S IR W ILLIAM G OODENOUGH , G.C.B., M.V.O.

P HILIP G OSSE , E SQ .

V INCENT T. H ARLOW , E SQ .

A RTHUR R. H INKS , C.B.E., F.R.S.

M ALCOLM L ETTS , E SQ ., F.S.A.

P ROF . E DGAR P RESTAGE , D.L ITT .

P ROF . C. G. S ELIGMAN , M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.

B RIGADIER -G ENERAL S IR P ERCY M. S YKES , K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G.

P ROF . E. G. R, T AYLOR , D.Sc.

R OLAND V. V ERNON , C.B.

J. A. W ILLIAMSON , D.L IT .

E DWARD H EAWOOD , E SQ ., Treasurer.

E DWARD L YNAM , E SQ ., M.R.I.A., Hon. Secretary (British Museum, W.C.).

Bombay in the Days of Queen Anne
Being an Account of the Settlement written by
John Burnell

With an Introduction and Notes by

SAMUEL T. SHEPPARD

Late Editor of The Times of India

To which is added

BURNELLS NARRATIVE OF HIS ADVENTURES IN BENGAL

With an Introduction by

SIR WILLIAM FOSTER, C.LE., and
Notes by
SIR EVAN COTTON, GLE., and
L. M. ANSTEY

LONDON

PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY

1933

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY W. LEWIS, M.A., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE

Contents

1. A-3
2. A-4
3. i
4. ii
5. iii
6. iv

Guide

Maps

Bombay Castle in its modern surroundings

A reconstruction of Bombay as it appeared in 1710

I N introducing John Burnell to the public it is necessary at the outset to explain why he has long remained in obscurity and how his work has been rescued from undeserved neglect.

In October 1926 I had an interview with Professor F. W. Thomas, C.I.E., F.B.A., then Librarian at the India Office, and, discussing books on Bombay, he called my attention to an item in the catalogue of the Orme MSS. It was the entry of an early eighteenth-century account of Bombay, and he asked me if I was aware of its existence. The document, however, could not then be found and it was only after a prolonged search by Miss L. M. Anstey that it was discovered. It, together with some other papers, had been cut out at some distant date from vols. VIII and IX of those MSS. and transferred to a separate volume which subsequently escaped the notice of writers on Bombay.

Having thus discovered a MS. which is of the greatest interest to all who know anything of the history of Bombay, Miss Anstey proceeded to verify the surmised identification of its author (whose initial only appears at the end of the first part of his narrative and who is described by Orme as a person unknown) and to investigate his career in India. It must here be gratefully acknowledged that not only is the rediscovery of John Burnell due to Miss Ansteys skill and perseverance, but to her knowledge of Indian history and her familiarity with the early records of the English in India I am indebted for many of the explanatory notes with which Burnell is now introduced to the public.

No trace of the original of this account of Bombay has been discovered. Volume O.V. (Orme Various) 282 of the Orme Collection at the India Office, now Missing, was , is worthy of publication.

The extract reproduced in the Journal is taken from pp. 21512 in the Orme MS. and consists of five paragraphs beginning When age or diseases (p. 106) and ending at despicable object (p. 108). Although the substance of the paragraphs quoted agrees in the main with the copy preserved by Orme, there are several minor variations between the two versions, showing that they were either copied by different hands, or that more than one copy of the original existed at that date, or, as Sir William Foster suggests, the transcript was made from dictation and the variations occasioned by the imperfect hearing of the transcriber. For instance, in the second paragraph quoted, the Journal has country within land where the Orme MS. reads country island; in the third and fourth paragraphs the Journal has feet bones and Jonathan Dun where the Orme copy reads teat bones (an obvious error) and Joshua Dun. Ormes copyist must have had great difficulty in deciphering Burnells writing, as is shown by the numerous blanks and misreadings, e.g. jack for tack, tigo for figo, falud for talus, etc. A few obvious errors, such as fending for trending, have not been reproduced.

Not much can be related of John Burnell beyond what he himself discloses, and it is not even known how and when he came to India.

There were two Burnells, Thomas and John, connected with the Company from 1635 to 1661. Thomas, a member of the Court of Committees (i.e. Directors) from 1635 to 1657, was alive in 1660. John, his brother, went to India as a factor some years before 1655, when he was sued for debt. He was then Chief at Lucknow, but subsequently proceeded to Madras and his dismissal and return to England were ordered by the Court ( Court Books , vols. xv-xxiv). If the author were related to either of these two Burnells, his presence in India can reasonably be explained. On the other hand, a chance allusion to a John Burnell, in a letter dated 14 January 1695/6, suggests that he may have come to India without the Courts permission. The letter is from the Secretary to the Council at Surat to Mr Thomas Browne, presumably the captain of a ship, and runs as follows:

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