A History of the Mahrattas v1.c15.20

v1.c15.20

² [Streynsham Master (Streingham Masters) first arrived in Surat in 1566, at the age of sixteen, in company with his uncle, George Oxinden. He was one of the four servants of the East India Company selected in 1668 to take charge of Bombay from the King’s officers. In 1678 Master became Governor of Madras and built the church which has the distinction of being the first English church in India. Owing to differences with the Company, he returned to England in 1681 and took a leading part in the affairs of the rival New East India Company, of which he became a Director. His account of Bombay, which is earlier than that of Fryer, was published in 1889 by Yule, in his edition of Hedges’s Diary (Hakluyt Society). Hedges s Diary, ii. 226, contains an English letter of November 20, 1670, giving an account