114 BRITISH ACQUISITIONS IN THE 



No. XVI— {Continued). 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1746 .. 



The villages of 

 Tondiyarpet, 

 Purasavakam, 

 and Egmore — 



{Continued). 



(2.) September 10th. — Surrendered, as 

 part of the city of Madras, to the French 

 arms under Labourdonnais. Ransom, 

 fixed by him at 1 1 lakhs of pagodas (44 

 lakhs of rupees or 440,000 pounds ster- 

 ling) ; but the stipulation disregarded 

 by Dupleix (Orme). 



SQ. MILES. 



8-8 



RS. 



20,861 



1749 

 1765 .. 





(3.) August loth. — Delivered up, as part 

 of the city of Madras, by the French 

 under the operation of the treaty of Aix 

 la Chapelle, dated October 7th, 1748 

 (Orme) . 



(4.) August 12th. — Original grant con- 

 firmed by a farm-in from the Mogul. 







No. XVII. 





Anjengo 



A small seaport on the Travancore Coast 

 78 miles N.N.W. of Cape Comorin ; now 

 attached to the Malabar Collectorate. 



\ 



891 



1694-95. 





(1.) Settlement formed by grant of the 

 Queen of Attinga, a Princess under the 

 sovereignty of Travancore (Bruce III, 

 165) on payment of ground-rent. 







1695-96. 





(2.) Fort built (Bruce III, 195). 







1702 .. 





(3.) Fort entered in the " Quinque-partite 

 Indenture of Conveyance of the Dead 

 Stock of the two East India Companies," 

 dated 2nd July. 







No. XVIII. 



1708 .. 



The villages of 

 Vy&sarpddi 

 and 



Nungambakam. 



(1.) September 25th. — Parwdna from 

 Dawud Kh&n, Nawab or Faujdar of the 

 Carnatic portion of the G-olconda Subah, 

 granting to the English the towns of 

 Yy&sarpddi and Nungambakam, now 

 included in the city of Madras (Local 

 Kecords) . 



3-2 



5,868 



