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ed from the solar race, ordered an account of these trans- 

 actions to be committed to writing, and it was so done 

 and delivered on Thursday, the seventh after the full moon 

 of the month Wessak* in the year of$a&a!645f at the city 

 of the Senkadagala.J 



No. II. 



Extracts of a Resolution passed in the Council of Ceylon, on 

 Tuesday the 24th of September, 1765. 



Whereas the descendants § of a certain Frenchman, 

 Laisne De Nanclars De La Nerolle, who arrived in Trincomalee 

 with the Viceroy of that nation, the famous Monsieur De 

 La Haye, from whence he was sent as an envoy to the Court of 

 Kandy, and was detained by King Raja Singha but subsequently 

 liberated, and was residing in the Kandian Dominion, where he 

 contracted a marriage with a Sinhalese woman, after the 

 conquest of Kandy|| resigned themselves to the Company's 

 protection, and as the Hon'ble the Governor considered it proper 

 that they should in future dwell together with their Christian 

 friends ; and having no means of supporting themselves, they 

 were suffering bitter poverty ; under these circumstances, and 

 considering the general and universal moral duties, chiefly our 

 Christian love and attachment inducing us to provide for the 

 maintenance of these poor people who have followed for nearly 

 a hundred years the Christian faith amongst Heathens, we 

 have therefore resolved to make provision for their subsistence 

 with the Revenues of the several paddy fields and gardens of the 

 chief rebel Paulus Alwis of Hewagam Corle, a list whereof, 



* May. 

 f a.d. 1723. 

 % Kandy. 



§ Great-grand-children. 



|| The occupation of Kandy by the Dutch in 1763. 



