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Annesley of Surat and His Times. The True Story of the Mythical Wesley Fortune

1918

But it was his fate to be involved in most of the dramatic occurrences which sorely marred the lives of the British on the Western Coast of India in the years dealt with and more than any other man of his time he typified the class of merchant adventurer who in the service of the East India Company and out of it lived and traded at the Indian ports two centuries ago. [...] Some like Thomas Pitt the progenitor of Chatham and his illustrious son—" the Pilot that weathered the storm "—who were ambitious made a short cut to wealth by defying the Company and embarking on enterprises of their own within the prohibited sphere of Eastern trade ; others of the type of the hero of the present work were invested with the sacred thread of the Company's hierarchy and bcame [...] One of the trio was Samuel Annesley the central figure of this story who at the time in 1677 when he stepped across the thieshold of the old India House to receive his credentials as a covenanted servant of the Company was of the age of nineteen years. [...] Aungier came of the Irish family which gave the Earls of Longford to the peerage.' He served his apprenticeship in India under Sir George Osenden the able Chief 1 Gerald Aungier was the grandson of Sir Francis Aungier the Master of the Rolls in Ireland who married Douglas youngest sister of Gerald Earl of Kintore and who was elected to the peerage as Baron Aungier in the peerage of Ireland [...] The design was frustrated by the determined attitude assumed by the English authority but the danger of a collision involving the Company in the conflict which was devastating India and shaking the Mogul Empire to its foundtions was of too real a character to allow the BoNig Government to entertain any illusions as to the delicate position in which it stood in relation to the two combatants.
history
Pages
358
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142540
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
1-18 Arnold Wright view
Prologue
19-30 Adam Clark's view
Chapter I Samuel Annesley Proceeds to India
31-49 unknown view
Chapter II Aungier’s Bombay
50-74 unknown view
Chapter III Keigwin’s Rebellion in Bombay
75-90 unknown view
Chapter IV The East India Company Makes War on the Mogul
91-98 unknown view
Chapter V Surat and the English Factory
99-123 unknown view
Chapter VI The Sidhi’s Invasion of Bombay
124-138 unknown view
Chapter VII Peace with the Mogul
139-154 unknown view
Chapter VIII Annesley in Chains
155-172 unknown view
Chapter IX The Emperor Aurungzebe and the Pirates
173-189 unknown view
Chapter X Kidd the Pirate
190-207 unknown view
Chapter XI Annesley’s Fall from Power
208-228 unknown view
Chapter XII The Old Company Deposed—Dark Days in Surat
229-248 unknown view
Chapter XIII The New Company—Sir William Norris’s Mission
249-272 unknown view
Chapter XIV The Treachery of Sir Nicholas Waite
273-298 unknown view
Chapter XV Annesley and the Rev. Samuel Wesley
299-320 unknown view
Chapter XVI Annesley’s Last Days and Death
321-344 unknown view
Index
345-358 unknown view

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