Arnold Wright

Name: Early English adventurers in the East (1917) — Chapter XI.—A Group of English Adventurers in India
Author: Arnold Wright

Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

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“Early English adventurers in the East (1917) — Chapter XI.—A Group of English Adventurers in India”, published in 1917, is a work by Arnold Wright. It explores elements such as Coryat, Roe and Jehangir.

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ In a grave afterwards covered with a modest stone like those in the old churchyards at home, Coryat's remains were laid to rest in the English God's Acre at Surat. Time has obliterated the evidence of the exact whereabouts of the grave, but the memory of the strange creature's irruption into the India of the Great Moguls with its whimsical features must always have a fascination for all who take pleasure in noting the lights and shades of human character. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ Coryat contrasted Roe's grudging recommendation with a letter he had received from Sir Henry Wotton, the English minister at Venice, which was in these terms—
"My Lord, good wine needs no bush, neither a worthy man letters commendatory, because whithersoever he comes he is his own epistle."
Poor Coryat seems to have missed the irony of this model letter. There was a vein of simplicity in him which rendered him proof against the ordinary shafts of satire. But that very quality laid him open to dangers which a man of better balance might have avoided. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ Strangest of this band of English adventurers who kept Roe in countenance in his days of exile at the Mogul Court was that amusing, eccentric Thomas Coryat, "the Odcombe leg stretcher," who is famous in English literature as the author of Coryat's Crudities, the most whimsical book on Continental travel that was probably ever penned. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ A supplementary agreement made with Prince Khurrum stipulated (1) that the governor of Surat should lend ships to the English in the event of an attack by the Portuguese; (2) that resident English merchants might wear arms; (3) that the English might be allowed to build a house in Surat; (4) that they should have free exercise of their religion; (5) that they should be allowed to settle disputes amongst themselves.
Such, in brief, were the terms of this concordat, which thoroughly regularized the position of the English in India for the first time. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ One phase of the Mogul's character of which Coryat approved was that he "loved not shifters of religion."
A propos he tells a characteristic story. One day Jehangir inquired of a prominent Armenian in his employ whether he thought that "either he or the padres had converted one Moor to be a true Christian . . . for conscience' sake."
The Armenian replied with confidence that he could produce such a man. Jehangir's curiosity prompted him to send forthwith for the convert. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ Steele was a man of ideas, who had been induced to enter upon an Indian career by the expectation that he would find a lucrative market for them in the Mogul's dominions. One of his enterprises was a scheme for the construction of waterworks at Agra. The success of a project undertaken in the City of London at the close of the sixteenth century, by which the Thames' water was conveyed to houses by means of pipes, suggested to Steele's fertile mind that a similar undertaking in the Mogul capital would be profitable. ”

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Arnold Wright, Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

“ The punishment was forthwith administered, and the unfortunate man was dismissed with a comment by the Emperor that all men should take warning by his example, and should understand that "as he gave liberty to al religions, that which they chose and professed they must stick unto." ”

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