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THE PREDECESSORS OF THE 



Examiner. — Greorge Lys, late Examiner in the Mayor's 

 Court and a Captain in II.M.'s 74th Eegiment till 

 January 1797. 



Sealer. — L. H. Sterling, late Lieutenant in H.M.'s 7th 

 Regiment. 



Clerk to the Recorder. — Mausf. Plenderhatt, arrived in 



Madras 29th September 1798. 

 Interpreter for Malabar and Grentoo. — Runganadum, late 



the same in the Mayor's Court, pagodas 25 a month. 

 Interpreter for Persian, Portuguese and Moors.— William 



Lewcock, ditto pagodas 25 a month. 

 Interpreter for Gruzzerat and Mahratta. — Madow Row, 



ditto pagodas 2 a month. 

 Interpreter for French and Dutch — John L. Heefke, ditto 



pagodas 5 a month. 

 Two Serjeants and Mace-bearers, pagodas 15 each. 

 Mr. Sulivan, afterwards Sir Benjamin Sulivan, Puisne 

 Judge of the Supreme Court, was Advocate- General, and 

 Mr. Robert Williams, who had been the Company's Solicitor 

 in the Mayor's Court, continued to hold the same office in the 

 Court of the Recorder. 



The following are the names of the gentlemen who held 

 the offices of Mayor and Sheriff during the existence of the 

 Court of the Recorder. 



1798, Mayor, William Abbott ; Sheriff, W. Hesse Gordon. 



1799, Do. Alex. Cockburn ; 80 do. William Cochell. 



1800, Do. Richard Chase ; 81 do. William Fraser. 



1801, Do. Richard Yeldham ; do. J. Binny. 



80 " If the new Court has hitherto in any material decree answered His 

 Majesty's gracious purpose in erecting it, it must he confessed to he eminent- 

 ly owing to the countenance and services of the present Mayor, Mr. Alexander 

 Cockburn."— Letter from Sir Thomas Strange to Mr. Dundas, 10th October 

 1799 ; Correspondence, p. 138. 



81 Mr. Chase resigned on the 29th March and was succeeded by Mr. Henry 

 Sewell, who died before the 4th July and was succeeded by Mr. Benjamin 

 Roebuck. 



