Gerald Aungier and Bombay
Sue Pyatt Peeler describes how, during the 1670s, a servant of the East India Company founded a flourishing city and port upon the western coast of India.
On February 8th, 1665, the Englishman Humphrey Cooke landed at an obscure and unknown port called Bombay and...
‘personally tooke possession and delivery of the said port and island of Bombay; going therein, takeing earth and stones in his hands, entering and passing into the forts thereof, and puting the rest on the walls thereof and going allso in the said island, takeing the earth and stones thereof in his hands and doeing like things required by law, without that in such time he was any way hindered or contradicted in the said possession and delivery, and so he effectually tooke it... for the most excellent King of Great Britaine...
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