Mss Eur Orme OV.51

pp. [i-iii]. Table of Contents. Arranged under History and Geography.

1, pp. 1-25 (32 x 20.5 cm.). Correspondence of and with the Nabob Anaverdy Cawn (Muhammad Ali), 17th Jan.- 18th Dec. 1755. Copied from the Madras Country Correspondence. Chiefly concerning Madura, Tinnevelly and Travancore.

2, pp. 29-36 (3l.5 x 20 cm.). Affairs of Madura and Tinnevelly, 1756. Summary of correspondence extracted from the Madras Country Correspondence.

3, pp. 37-40 (32 x 20.5 cm.). Affairs of Madura and Tinnevelly, giving an account of the sea-port towns, beginning at Coilpatnam and ending at Nagore, from Mahomed Issoof. Copy. Enclosed in letter dated Jan. 1st 1757.

4, p. 41 (31.5 x 20 cm.). Information concerning the limits of Travencore. Copy. From “Tetarapah Moodilee" with his letter dated June 21st to July 4th 1757.

5 (1), pp. 45-122 (31.5 x 20 cm.). Affairs of Madura and Tinnevelly, being extracts from sundry letters from Mahomed Issoof and Moodilee and several other chiefs respecting the said places. From 1 Jan. 1757 to 1 March 1758, extracted from the Madras Country Correspondence. (2) pp. 125-136 (32 x 20.5 cm.). Affairs of Madura and Tinnevelly, being extracts from sundry letters from Mahomed Issoof and Moodilee and several other chiefs respecting the said places. Dated 1 Jan. to 24 June 1757. (3) pp. 137-152 (24 x 13.5 cm.). Affairs of Madura and Tinnevelly, being extracts from sundry letters from Mahomed Issoof and Moodilee and several other chiefs respecting the said places. Dated 10 Jan. to 7 May 1756.

6, pp. 153-174 .(23 x 18 cm.). Alphabetical Index of Persons and places mentioned in the extracts of Caillaud's letters whilst he commanded in Tritchinopoly from June 10th 1755 to Sept. 14th 1758. These Extracts form the contents of the 29th volume [i.e., 29] of this set of Manuscripts, and a copy of this Index regularly digested is entered at the end of that volume. N.B. By "regularly digested" Orme means "arranged alphabetically."

7, p. 175 (31 x 19.5 cm.). Memorandums concerning Tritchinopoly. 11-20 April 1757.

8, p. 177 (31 x 19.5 cm.). Memorandums concerning Balagerow. 1756,

9, p. 179 (31 x 19.5 cm.). Questions and answers concerning Caillaud when before Madura, the assault that failed, his return to Tritchinopoly when suddenly invested by d'Auteuil in April and May 1757. Original.

10, p. 181 (31 x 19.5 cm.), Donald Campbell's memtorandum relating to the Pulitaver. Copy. Dated 28 March 1775.

11, pp. 183-184 (31 x 19.5 cm.). An account of the Countries dependent on the Fort of Madura, and for how much those Countries were rented in the years 1754, 1755 and 1756, with the number of troops kept up for those years in the country, Copy. The rent (i.e., State Revenue) was barely 1 1/2 lakhs of rupees, and the greatest number of troops was 900 horse and 1100 peons.