(VOLLUME II: PAGE 375-803)
AN HISTORICAL RELATION OF THE ISLAND OF CEYLON, IN THE EAST INDIES
TOGETHER WITH
AN ACCOUNT OF THE DETAINING IN CAPTIVITY THE AUTHOR, AND DIVERS OTHER ENGLISHMEN NOW LIVING THERE ; AND OF THE AUTHOR'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
BY ROBERT KNOX,
A CAPTIVE THERE NEAR TWENTY YEARS.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FIGURES, AND A MAP OF THE ISLAND.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOSEPH MAWMAN, LUDGATE STREET, BY J. V. DOVE, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE. 1817
RIGHT WORSHIPFUL,
WHAT I formerly presented you in writing, having, in pursuance of your commands, now somewhat dressed, by the help of the printer and graver, I a second time humbly tender to you. 'Tis, I confess, at best, too mean a return for your great kindness to me; yet I hope you will not deny it a favourable acceptance, since it is the whole return I made from the Indies, after twenty years stay there, having brought home nothing else; but
Who is also wholly at your
Service and Command,
ROBERT KNOX.
London, lit of August, 1681.
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At the Court of Committees for the East-India Company, the 10th of August, 1681. WE esteem Captain Knox a man of truth and integrity, and that his relations and accounts of the Island of Ceylon, (which some of us have lately perused in manuscripts) are worthy of credit, and therefore encouraged him to make the same public.
ROBERT BLACKBOURNE, Secretary.
By Order of the said Court
August 8th, 1681.
Mr. Chiswell*
I perused Captain Knox's description of the Isle of Ceylony which seems to be written with great truth and integrity; and the subject being new* containing an account of a people and country little known to us—I conceive it may give great satisfaction to the curious, and may be well worth your publishing..
AN ACCOUNT OF THE DETAINING IN CAPTIVITY THE AUTHOR, AND DIVERS OTHER ENGLISHMEN NOW LIVING THERE ; AND OF THE AUTHOR'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
BY ROBERT KNOX,
A CAPTIVE THERE NEAR TWENTY YEARS.
ILLUSTRATED WITH FIGURES, AND A MAP OF THE ISLAND.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOSEPH MAWMAN, LUDGATE STREET, BY J. V. DOVE, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE. 1817
RIGHT WORSHIPFUL,
WHAT I formerly presented you in writing, having, in pursuance of your commands, now somewhat dressed, by the help of the printer and graver, I a second time humbly tender to you. 'Tis, I confess, at best, too mean a return for your great kindness to me; yet I hope you will not deny it a favourable acceptance, since it is the whole return I made from the Indies, after twenty years stay there, having brought home nothing else; but
Who is also wholly at your
Service and Command,
ROBERT KNOX.
London, lit of August, 1681.
A
At the Court of Committees for the East-India Company, the 10th of August, 1681. WE esteem Captain Knox a man of truth and integrity, and that his relations and accounts of the Island of Ceylon, (which some of us have lately perused in manuscripts) are worthy of credit, and therefore encouraged him to make the same public.
ROBERT BLACKBOURNE, Secretary.
By Order of the said Court
August 8th, 1681.
Mr. Chiswell*
I perused Captain Knox's description of the Isle of Ceylony which seems to be written with great truth and integrity; and the subject being new* containing an account of a people and country little known to us—I conceive it may give great satisfaction to the curious, and may be well worth your publishing..
CHR. WREN
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