Early English Intercourse with Burma, 1587-1743 and the Tragedy of Negrais

David George, Edward Hall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780714620107
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136262432
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: History

First Published in 1968. This second edition includes the 'Tragedy of Negrais' as a new appendix. Originally published in 1928 for the University of Rangoon and the sequel three years later- 'Tragedy of Negrais' as a journal for the Burma Research Society.  During the Japanese occupation of Burma from 1942 to 1945 unsold copies were lost or destroyed. This volume is a reprint of the original research into the East India Company's records at the India Office.  They tell the story of English relations with Burma from the days of Elizabeth I to the beginning of the long break which started in 1762, which started due to the incident in 1759 known as the 'massacre of Negrais' and ended in 1795.

Index

ACHIN, 45.

Addison, Gulston, 10, 194 n.², 196, 199; Joint Stock venture, 10, 196 et seq.

Agra factory, 77.

Ahom kingdom, 16.

Aix-la Chapelle, Treaty of, 241.

Aka (fees), 111.

Akaukwun, Akawoon, the, 111 n.², 170.

Akbar, Emperor, 18.

Akunwun, the, 170.

Alano, French pirate, 223.

Alaungpaya dynasty, 12, 170, 172.

Alaungpaya, rise of, 12, 241; mentioned, 3, 16, 27 n.³

Allanson (or Allison), Captain Roger, 179 n.¹, 196, 197 and n. ², 198, 254.

Allison, Roger, 197, 254. See Allanson.

Ambassadors, royal reception of, 175, 254.

Amboyna, 44, 45; “massacre” of, 45.

Anaukpetlun, 28 and n.¹, 32; restores order in Burma, 28; campaigns against Siam, 33, 34; seizes Thomas Samuel and Company’s property, 7, 33, 41, 42; invites trading relations, 43, 247, 248.

Anawrahta, 16, 231.

Anderson, J., “English Intercourse with Siam,” cited 131 et seq. passim.

Anglo-Burmese War (1824-826), 12, 242 .

Anglo-Dutch Treaty of Defence,44-45, 50.

Anglo-Dutch Wars :

First, 8, 60, 65, 69, 76; and English commerce, 69, 77; attitude of Dutch to English in Burma, 69, 70; effect on English company’s activities, 8, 9,69-70, 71; naval superiority of Dutch in Indian Ocean, 69; Treaty of Westminster, 45.

Second and third, 83.

Antheunis, Lucas, 24, 31, 32, 34; letter to Samuel, 33, 34; claims restoration of Company’s goods after Samuel’s death, 34, 92.

Arab trade with Burmese ports, 200.

Arakan, 15, 25, 27, 31, 130 n²; king of, 130 and n.², 142; navy of, 37 n.², 49; piratical operations by fer...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Contents
• Introduction
• I. The Earliest English Contact with Burma
• I. The Episode of Thomas Samuel
• III. The Foundation of the Syriam Factory and its Early Prosperity, 1647-52
• IV. The Failure of the Syriam Factory
• V. Conditions of Trade Experienced by English Merchants in Burma in the Seventeenth Century
• VI. Negotiations with Burma, 1680-6
• VII. The Negrais Episode, 1686-7
• VIII. Private Trade and the Affair of Bartholomew Rodrigues
• IX. The Mission of Edward Fleetwood and James Lesly to Ava, 1695‐6
• X. The Period of Intermittent Relations, 1697-1723
• XI. Shipbuilding and the Last Years of the Syriam Factory, 1722‐44
• APPENDICES
• Bibliography
• Index
• APPENDIX