PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE. 



107 



No. VI. 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1634-35. 

 1662-63. 

 1677-78. 

 1702 .. 



1768 .. 



Yiravesaram. 



A small town 8 miles north-west of Narsa- 



pur Port, Godavari District. 

 (a.) Factory established (Bruce i, 326). 

 (b.) Withdrawn (Bruce ii, 150). 

 (c.) Re-established (Bruce ii, 409). 

 (d ) No longer existing. Not in list of 



Dead Stock taken this year. 

 (e.) Ceded with Circars (vide Acq. 



No. XXXIV). 



Factory 

 only. 



Nil. 



No. VII. 



1639 .. 



Madraspatam, 

 Original 

 Settlement 

 of. 



(1.) 1st March. — Grant for a station and 

 for the erection of a fort by Sri Ranga 

 Rayulu (descendant of the Vijayanagar 

 Kings) reigning at Chandragiri, aoout 

 ninety miles north-west of Madras ; 

 obtained for the Company by the local 

 Governor or Naick, Damarla Veukata- 

 dri (ancestor of the present Raja of 

 Kalahasti, c.s.i.) who desired that the 



cif'fi'riO'n ( *x/ni pn tviq caI dot Aff * oq npi"f'AT* 

 Wuclt-lUll I VV lUtll VVcto otJltJL'LtJU. do UctLcl 



calculated for the protection of trade 

 than Armagon") might be styled Chen- 

 nappa-patnam, after his father Kari. 

 Chennappa, which was done; although 

 the Royal grant enjoins the use of the 

 name " Sri R&nga Raya patnam." 

 Mr. Francis Day, one of the Council at 

 Masulipatam, and the head of the fac- 

 tory at Armagon, was the officer who 

 negotiated the affair. The grant covered 

 a space roughly estimated as five miles 

 in length by one mile in breadth (Bruce 

 i, 368, Wilks i, 163, Mill iii, 52). 



SQ. MILES. 



6-74 



RS. 



19,879. 



1645-46. 





(2.) The Hindu State of Chandragiri 

 being subverted about this time (Wilks 

 i, 163) by the Mussulman King of Gol- 

 conda, the Agent and Council at Fort 

 St. George send a deputation, with a 

 present to Golconda, to obtain a confirm- 

 ation of their privileges (Bruce i, 415). 

 The same authority (i, 455) under the 

 year 1650-51 speaks of the grant having 

 been obtained ; but the formal docu- 

 ment was not delivered till 1683 (vide 

 (4) infra). 







