Some Perak Pedigrees. 



By B. 0. Winstedt. 



These pedigrees are interesting because comparison of sufficient 

 genealogies of the royal and noble families of a country enables 

 one to fix approximately the main dates of its history; and this is 

 necessary in dealing with Malay history, whose records as a rule 

 entirely lack chronological data. 



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The genealogies following are copied from MiS. by that enthu- 

 siatic genealogist, Eaja Haji Yahya, late mufti of Perak. 



Tun (or Tan) Saban from whom these great house of the Sri 

 Adika Eaja (Wilkinson's "History 1," pp. 80-81, in "Papers on 

 Malay Subjects") and the lesser house of the Sri Amar 'diraja 

 (id. p. 86) are descended, is the earliest name in the history of 

 Perak (id., pp. 71-73, J. R, A. S., S. B., and Winstedt's " Malay 

 Literature, II," pp. 40-12 or J. R. A. S., Vol. XIII, Part IY, pp. 

 50'l-507) ; from comparative study of the Perak genealogies one 

 might doubt if he nourished earlier than the end of the seventeenth 

 century, but the more reliable genealogy of the Perak Sayids would 

 lead one to ascribe the founding of the Perak dynasty to the begin- 

 ning of that century. 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 79. 



