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31— Colombo. 



An inscription on a silver tray in the possession of Mr. 

 P. Coomaraswamj^, Proctor, Colombo : — 



TER GEDAGHTENISSE VAN DEN 

 E. MEYNARD DE ROY 

 SER. MAJOOR. COM. AAN 

 JOHANNES HOBIUS VAN DER VORM 

 OP ZYN EERSTE VERJARINGE 

 JAN. 3, 1706. 



Translation. — As a memento from Meynard de Roy, 

 Sergeant-Major, to Johannes Hobius van der Vorm, on his 

 first birthday, January 3, 1706. 



Remarks. — The coat of arms on it (evidently that of the 

 de Roys) may be blazoned thus : — 



D'arg a un arbuste de ... au chef d'or charge de trois 

 fleurs-de-lis de ... 



The arms have some resemblance to those of the de Roy 

 family of Amsterdam. 



There was a Pieter Meynard de Roy (probably a son of 

 Meynard) born in Batavia, and in the service of the Dutch 

 East India Company as Adelborst in 1720. There were two 

 brothers, Petrus and Jacobus van der Vorm, both natives of 

 Hoorn and clergymen. Petrus was born in 1664 ; arrived 

 in the Indies, 24th June, 1688. He translated the Bible into 

 Malay, and was known as <pi\oy\w7rrog, summus, " on account 

 " of the matchless knowledge he possessed of the Hebrew 

 " and other Oriental languages." De Hervormde Kerk. {De 

 Bruyn, p. 303.) He left for the Indies in the ship " Hons- 

 holredyk"; was first stationed at Honimoa, and afterwards 

 served as Predikant in Batavia from the 16th May, 1698, 

 where he died on the 17th May, 1731. Jacobus came out in 

 the ship "Hantboog" in 1702. Johannes Hobius van der 

 Vorm was taken into the Dutch Service with the rank of a 

 soldaat in 1719. 



