BRITISH ACQUISITIONS IN THE PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE. 103 



V. 



HISTORICAL TABLES CONCERNING THE PRESI- 

 DENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE. 



I. — ACQUISITIONS OF TERRITORY BY THE BRITISH IN 

 THE PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE. 



No. I. 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1616 .. 



1664-65. 

 1668-69. 

 1702 .. 



1766 .. 



Calicut, 

 Factory of. 



Now merged in the town of Calicut, the 

 capital of the district of Malabar. 



(1.) Factory established by permission of 

 the Zamorin or Kaja of Calicut, the 

 ancestor of the present Zamorin (Thorn- 

 ton's Gazetteer). 



(2.) Establishment expelled by the Dutch 

 (Bruce ii, 158). 



(3.) Agency re-established (Bruce ii, 

 224). 



(4.) 2nd July. —Factory entered in the 

 " Quinque-partite Indenture of Convey- 

 ance of the Dead Stock of the two East 

 India Companies." 



(5.) Grant of factory and all existing 

 privileges confirmed and ratified by 

 Hyder Ali on his conquest of Malabar, 

 23rd February (Aitchison, vol. v, p. 

 127). 



(6.) Further ratification by Hyder Ali. 

 Treaty 8th August (Aitchison v, 133). 



(7.) English dispossessed by Hyder Ali. 



(8.) Reduced by Major Abingdon (Mala- 

 bar Commission Report, para. 38). 



(9.) Treaty dated 11th March. Factory 

 and privileges restored by Tippoo Sultan, 

 Article 9 (Aitchison v, 144). 



(10.) Ceded with the rest of Malabar to 

 the Company by Tippoo (Aitchison v, 

 149). Treaty dated 18th March. 



Factory 

 only. 



Nil 



1770 



1779 .. 

 1782 - . 



1784 .. 

 1792 .. 









