A booke of particular remembrances, by Streynsham Master... Dover? [manuscript], ca. 1674.
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A booke of particular remembrances, by Streynsham Master... Dover? [manuscript], ca. 1674.
Description
1 v. with ca. 153 p. and many intermittent blank pages.
Associated name
Master, Streynsham, 1640-1724, author.
Summary
Penned by Sir Streynsham Master (1640-1724), a prominent East India Company merchant and administrator who in 1678 founded the first English church in India, the church of St. Mary within Fort St. George, Madras. Master’s long and successful mercantile career in India saw him appointed governor of the fort in 1677. Other notable achievements include the invention of a much used system of bookkeeping, the reorganisation of the Madras administration and the establishment there of a court of judicature in 1683. A booke of particular remembrances, also in Master’s own hand and apparently written during his return to England c.1674 contains family records, including notes concerning his fourteen brothers and sisters and details of “legacys left by deceased friends” (mostly from East India Company expatriates). It also contains a 30 page transcription of the funeral sermon preached for Master’s wife Diana (d.1674), daughter of Sir Thomas Bendyshe of Bumsted, at “Catherine Creed church in Leadenhall Street London Thursday December 3rd, 1674 by Mr William Holland minister of All Hallows Staining.”
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Source of acquisition
Samuel Gedge PO D8880.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
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Call number
V.a.649
Folger-specific note
FSL copy: Page count taken from creator's page numbers. All pages rubricated for use but many are blank in between filled pages, therefore page count and numbering might not be accurate.
Folger accession
269117