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2. Old Dutch hatchments in Chinsurah Church. — By J. Beames, C. S. 

 High up near the roof of the old Dutch church at Chinsurah, now 

 used as a station church by the residents of Hooghly and Chinsurah, hang, 

 and have hung for thirteen years, strange-looking old hatchments lozenge- 

 shaped, such as are hung on the fronts of houses in England where the 

 owner has lately died. In the gloom of the lofty church it is impossible 

 to make them out, but recently they were taken down while the church 

 was under repair, and I seized the opportunity to copy them. They 

 may be interesting as contributions to the history of the last century 

 in India, and as the paint and gilding are fast peeling off, so that in a few 

 years' time they will be undecipherable — in fact one or two of them are 

 nearly so already — it may be as well to put them on record before it is too 

 late. 



It is somewhat curious that the hatchments always show the arms 

 and crest of the deceased, but not always his name. In some cases only 

 the initials are given. The name can of course be identified from the 

 arms by any one acquainted with Dutch heraldry. As the Society's pub- 

 lications are sent to the Koyal Institute of Philology at the Hague, these 

 records of their dead countrymen will probably be found interesting there. 

 It would be troublesome to give sketches of the coats of arms. I therefore 

 describe them, or to speak accurately, blazon them in heraldic language. 



I. 

 Tammerus Canter Visscher in leeven Opper Koopman secunde der 

 Bengaalsche Directie en opper hoofde te Cassimbasaar Geb : tePen...* 

 in Vriesland den 11 Augustus ann : 1729 ob : te Cassimbasaar den ...* 

 Januar : ann<^- 1778 oud 48 jaaren 5 maanden en 20 daagen. 



Arms — crest* coat, quarterly. 1^* and 4*^ argent two 



muskets crossed in saltire over a sword in pale, all proper. 2^*^ sable, 

 3 mullets in fess, or ; 3^<^ gules three scollops argent. 



II. 

 No coat of arms. J^o- Isinck geb : 9 Julij 1709 te Groningen. Ges- 

 torven 25 Sept. 17 ...* 



III. 

 J. A. Bodle ob: 15 Dec^'- 1774 Aet. 45. 



No crest. Arms — quarterly, 1^* and 4^^ sable an angel displayed 

 proper: 2^^^ and "6"^^ azure, three fleurs de lys or, coronet of marquis, 

 supporters, 2 griffins, party per pale azure & argent. 



* The latter part of this word has peeled off ; so also the date and crest. Mr. 

 Visschsr was not buried at Chinsurah, His tomb is still standing in the Dutch 

 Cemetery at Cassimbazar : on it his birthplace is given as Pingjum, a village near Har- 

 1 lingen on the west coast of Friesland. See Murray's Handbook to Bengal, p. 175. 



