Affairs of the East India Company (An Old and Rare Book in Set of 3 Volumes)

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The Book Affairs of the East India Company in 3 volumes is monumental work and the standard authority on land tenures and judicial and police systems of British India. It is a faithful and unexpurgated verbatim reprint of the original report. Vol.I contains an historical intro duction and biographical and topographical notes to the Fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons. Vol. II and III contain elaborate indices and the Glossary (in Bengali, Persian and Kaithi with English equivalents) respectively.

This is a most interesting and valuable reference book and will be of interest to the students of history, libraries and historical institutions.

JOHN SHORE, like Warren Hastings, was a member of an ancient family which had attached itself to the Royal cause during the Civil War, and in consequence lost its lands and wealth. The great grand father of the future Governor-General, John Shore, a physician of Derby, was rewarded, at the Restoration, by a knighthood and the gift of a miniature portrait of Charles II, " in recognition of the aid afforded by him in effecting his escape." The Knight's second wife was a of a Derby merchant-John Chambers, and sister to a London merchant, Thomas Chambers.¹ John, the Knight's in course of time became "Ships' husband' Company. commences. In this wa was daughter son, set out for London, and or owner to the East India way the connection of the Shore family with India The three elder sons of the Ships' husband died young the East India Company, anst India the eldest, John, dying in India. The fourth son, Thomas held the lucrative situation of Supercargo to second marriage to a daughter of Captain Shepherd, of the and by his Company's Naval Service, became the father of two sons-John, the future Lord Teignmouth, and Thomas. The death of the Supercargo, we are told, was due to "a paralytic affection occasioned by his having partaken, at the Isle of Ascension, whilst on his voyage from China, of some turtle boiled in a copper vessel."

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