Mss Eur Orme OV.1

pp. i-vii. General subject. Coromandel History. Title in English with note by Orme. Title in French. Épitre dédicatoire. Avis au lecteur.

1, pp. 1-190. Mémoires du très honorable George pigot écuyer et gouverneur pour sa majesté britannique dans les Indes Orientales. Original. Duplicate of 73. 1 and XIV. 4.

To this manuscript Orme prefixes the following note:- "Memoires of Governor Pigot by Nicolas, Officer Major Partizan, who was made prisoner in –. This book begins with the Loss of Calcutta. 1756, and continues to the Embarkation of Lally for Europe, March 10th 1771 [i.e. 1761]. I have extracted the contents which are entered in the small Quarto of Commonplace entitled Delhi and Indostan [see 134. 94]. I have, as a more pertinent Title, called this book Guerre de Lally." At the end is a further note:- "June 21st 1774. Finished reading this extravagant book and making notes of extracts. . . . Some use may be derived from these extracts. The whole book proves the most violent animosity in the writer to Lally and the highest devotion to Pigot." The notes referred to by Orme in the above quotation are marginal notes, consisting partly of brief summaries of the paragraphs and partly of comments on the statements contained therein. They illustrate the care with which Orme studied his authorities.