Excerpt from Early Records of British India

Sir Charles Trevelyan, then Governor of Madras, opened up the records of that Presidency to the compiler for the first time. The result was a publication of a series of extracts from the records and these extracts were illustrated, or rather held together, by an explanatory narrative. The work was published in three volumes under the title of Madras in the Olden Time.

That portion of the present volume which deals with Madras comprises a selection of such Madras records as are likely to interest general readers. Those which are only of local value, and likely to prove tedious to readers outside the Madras Presidency, have been generally excluded. Those which illustrate the primitive system of administration, the old English life within the walls of. Fort St. George and Black Town, or the rela tions between the English residents and native population, have been reproduced in extenso, or in the form of an abridged summary. These again have been supplemented by extracts from the travels of Fryer and Hamilton. Something is thus Opened up of the inner state of afiairs dur ing the seventeenth century, and early years of the eighteenth, and the way in which the Company's administration of Madras was regarded by strangers and interlopers.

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