for her sake, that Chancery suits were cheaper than they are now.  Here we may say good-bye to her.  For those who are curious in such matters, a search among the Chancery records will probably reveal the result, but it is improbable that the Company reaped any benefit from their action.  And so she passes from the scene, a curious example of the vicissitudes to which Englishwomen in India were exposed, two hundred years ago.

[1] They were issued at the rate of sixty-five for a rupee; before long,
    their value was reduced to seventy-two for a rupee, at which price
    they were much in request, and the Governor reported that he expected
    to coin sixteen tons of them yearly.

[2] In October, 1713, the Bombay Council decided that the Xeraphims, being
    much debased with copper and other alloy, their recognized value
    should in future be half a rupee, or two Laris and forty reis.  The
    Xeraphim was a Goa coin, originally worth less than one and sixpence. 
    The name, according to Yule, was a corruption of the Arabic ashrafi.

[3] The year before, the Godolphin had escaped from an Angrian fleet,
    after a two days’ encounter within sight of Bombay.

[4] The records are silent as to the Defiance, but it is mentioned by
    Downing, who says that, instead of doing his duty, the captain made
    the best of his way to Bombay.  The story seems to be borne out by a
    faded letter from the captain to the Directors, appealing against
    dismissal from the service.

[5] The name is now given to the group of islands to which Bourbon and
    Mauritius belong.  At that time it generally applied to Bourbon, and
    especially to St. Paul’s Bay, which was a favourite place of call for
    ships to water at.

[6] According to some accounts, the first settlement was a few years
    earlier, but the dates of the early travellers are very unreliable. 
    Hamilton says that a present was sent in 1685 to the Queen; “A
    beautiful young English gentleman had the honour to present it to her
    black Majesty; and as soon as the Queen saw him, she fell in love with
    him, and next day made proposals of marriage to him, but he modestly
    refused so great an honour however, to please her Majesty, he staid at
    court a month or two and satisfied her so well that when he left her
    court she made him some presents.”

[7] Bruce.

[8] This is the reason given by Bruce for Brabourne leaving Anjengo, but
    the death of Brabourne’s wife, in 1704, probably had a good deal to do
    with his leaving the place.  Her tomb still exists.

[9] Tranqueira (Port.), a palisade.

[10] Meaning sequin:  the origin of the modern Anglo-Indianism, chick.’

[11] The father of Robert Orme, the historian, who was born at Anjengo.