1S99.] The Revd. H. B. Hyde— List of Black Hole Victims. 81 



when the Commandant and the Pi'esident deserted it, and he perished in 

 the Black Hole. His wife must have been among the ladies who were 

 sefit on board the sliips when the assault upon the Fort became immi- 

 nent, thus she would have escaped to Fulta. 



Here it was most likely that Mr. Hastings met her, and it is not 

 impossible that he actually married her in that dismal refuge and that 

 Admiral Watson's Chaplain, Richard Cobbe, was the officiating minister. 

 This would not be the only marriage assignable to Fulta during the 

 latter months of 1756. No records, however, of English marriages in 

 Bengal can be found between the 20th of February, 1756, and the 

 beginning of 1758. 



Buchanan's Estate was computed to have lost 16,000 rupees, or 

 rather more, in the capture of Calcutta. This sum was afterwards re- 

 covered fi'om the Nawab's restitution money by Hastings on account of 

 his wife, Buchanan's widow. In April, 1759, Hastings re-sold Perrin's 

 Garden with the buildings upon it, to the Company, for 2,160 rupees. 



Note. — The Captain Buchanan who was Mrs. Mary Hastings' first 

 husband is not to be confused with a Captain Andrew Buchanan, of the 

 detachment sent from Bombay for the recovery of Fort William, who 

 died on the 5th of June, 1 757. 



2. List of tJie BlacJc Hole Victims, Jtme 20tJi-21st, 1756.— I??/ The 

 Revd. H. B. Hyde, M.A. 



LIST OF THE BLACK HOLE VICTIMS. 



Jdne 20th-21st, 1756. 



Being the lists given by Holwell in the Epitaph shown in his plate of 

 the Black-Hole Monument and in an Appendix to his " Genuine 

 Narrative " revised and with the Christian Names added. 



Ifote.—Ep.— Epitaph. 



Apx. ^Appendix. 



E.S.— Calcutta Mayor's Court, Ecclesiastical Suits. The numbers following 

 these initials are those endorsed on the petitions, &c., relative to 

 the administration of the deceaseds' estates in 1757 & 58 [in cases 

 where the documents could not be found, April, 1899, the references 

 have been supplied from the official Index]. 



Of Council. 



1. Edw^ard Eyre, Esq. Member of Council, 21st December, 1752; 



Military Store-keeper, 28th Aug., 1755. 



2. William Baillie, Esq. Member of Council, 24th November, J 755, 



E. S. 20. 



