Arnold Wright

Name: Early English adventurers in the East (1917) — Index
Author: Arnold Wright

Early English adventurers in the East… (1917)

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“Early English adventurers in the East (1917) — Index”, published in 1917, is a work by Arnold Wright. It explores elements such as Amboina, Jehangir and Dutch.

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

“ 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 ”

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

“ 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 ”

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

“ 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 ”

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

“ 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 ”

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

“ 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 ”

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

“ 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 ”

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

“ 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 ”

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

“ 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. ”

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