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THE PREDECESSORS OF THE 



(of Sumatra) as the Eight Honorable Company's slave, where he 

 may do them service and be more exemplary than by his 

 death. 16 



" Tuesday, 20th December 1692 — John Dolben, Esq., Judge 

 Advocate, acquaints that information hath been given in before 

 him against Mrs. Katherine Nicks of several notorious frauds by 

 her committed in Connimere whilst her husband was chief 

 there ; particularly that during the late investment she caused 

 the Eight Honorable Company's Godowns to be broke open, and 

 forcibly took from thence great quantities of cloth of the first 

 sort, which she applied to Mr. Elihu Yale's private use, who 

 was then President, notwithstanding the Merchants declared that 

 the said cloth was brought in upon the Company's account, and 

 positively refused to consent that it should be otherwise applied. 



"That upon this he (the Judge Advocate) wrote her a 

 letter requiring her, being a woman notoriously known to be a 

 separate merchant from her husband, to put in bail to answer 

 the damages the Honorable Company had sustained by her 

 illegal proceedings, which she not complying with, he issued 

 out a warrant to arrest her, but she refusing to obey was 

 returned in contempt. He therefore prays the assistance of the 

 Military power to secure her in her house, being under suspi- 

 cion that she designs privately to fly from justice. 



"Ordered that the Captain of the Guard do send a file of 

 musqueteers with a Corporal to the house of Mrs. Katherine 

 Nicks, who are to obey such orders as the Judge Advocate shall 

 think fit to give. 17 



" Saturday, 14th January 1693. — The Commissary-General 

 (Sir John Goldsborough) finding the mud points and walls 

 about the Black Town cost several thousand pagodas, and that 

 Governor Yale had made them at the Eight Honorable Com- 

 pany's charge, against their positive orders, and the most of the 

 Council's express exceptions, did desire Judge Dolben to make 

 demand of President Yale for three thousand four hundred and 



lfi Wheeler's Madras, vol. i. p. 219, 

 17 Ibid., p. 260. 



