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Page cxxii - That he expected his orders were to be his rules, and not the laws of England, which were a heap of nonsense, compiled by a few ignorant country gentlemen, who hardly knew how to make laws for the good of their own private families, much less for the regulating of companies, and foreign commerce " (Hamilton's New Account of India, i.232).
Page xcii - The country about being overspread with paganism, the custom of wives burning with their deceased husbands is also practised here. Before the Mogul's war, Mr Charnock went one time with his ordinary guard of soldiers to see a young widow act that tragical catastrophe, but he was so smitten with the widow's beauty, that he sent his guards to take her by force from the executioners, and conducted her to his own lodgings.
Page xli - Signed, sealed, published and Declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the Presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses thereto. JOHN MILMAN. THOS. RANDALL. Proved 14th. February 1795.
Page cccxliv - The prince of all such, who have related their experiences, is Pietro della Valle, the most insatiate in curiosity, the most intelligent in apprehension, the fullest and most accurate in description.
Page xxxix - Extracted from the Principal Registry of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice. In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Page xcii - ... in him was burying her decently ; and he built a tomb over her, where all his life after her death he kept the anniversary day of her death by sacrificing a cock on her tomb after the pagan manner. This was and is the common report, and I have been credibly informed, both by Christians and pagans who lived at Calcutta under his agency, that the story was really matter of fact.
Page xcii - went one time with his ordinary guard of soldiers to see a young widow act that tragical catastrophe, but he was so smitten with the widow's beauty that he sent his guards to take her by force from her executioners, and conducted her to his own lodgings. They lived lovingly many years and had several children.