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duties. The Council resolved to be no longer importuned 

 by misleading and impertinent olas ; they therefore ordered 

 that all missives of that nature should be burnt by the 

 hangman. 



The Governor wrote to the Chiefs informing them of the 

 revolt of the Company's subjects, and of their declaration not 

 to resume work without a special order from the King, and that 

 it had been apparent that since the arrival of some messengers 

 from the mountains, the inhabitants had absolutely refused 

 to be pacified or to render obedience, &c. Whereupon some 

 courtiers arrived with an ola from His Majesty to the 

 Governor stating that the King having made inquiries as to 

 the cause of the revolt, had been informed that it had been 

 occasioned by some Chiefs who had been guilty of many 

 malpractices. 



It being now evident that the only chance of crushing the 

 revolt would be to use force, it was resolved to ask their 

 Excellencies at Batavia for the assistance of three hundred 

 capable Baly and Boeginese [soldiers] to curb the evil- 

 disposed people, and those malcontents who were still 

 gathered together on the King's frontier. 



In the following year, 1736, things went from bad to worse. 

 The inhabitants of the Corles, especially those of Hina and 

 Salpity, hardened themselves against the Company from the 

 time they learnt that the Chalias in the villages of Bellitota, 

 Kosgodde, and Madampe had become dissatisfied and unruly, 

 even going the length of pompously issuing an ola to the 

 effect that the King of Candia had taken these Corles under 

 his own protection, and they were thereby absolved from 

 their engagements with the Company. 



The revolt spread to Gale Corle and the Gangebadde and 

 Kandebadde Pattues : the Belligam Corles in the Mature 

 district revolted also, and the inhabitants committed many 

 depredations. 



It was necessary that some efficient measures should be 

 taken, and the Dessawe with two officers of police, accom- 

 panied by a company of grenadiers under their officers, and 



