| Notes: | IOR/A/1: Charters of the East India Company with related documents: the 'parchment records' (1600-1947). These consist of legal and other formal documents relating mainly to the rights and privileges of the East India Company (1600-1858). Many are records of key evidential value, being proof of the rights and privileges accorded to the Company by the monarch or by his or her ministers.;Dated '3 James II'. The grant enabling the representatives of the town of Madras to administer civil law originated with the King; however, the Court of Directors feared that officials there might become too difficult to control if they were in receipt of a grant directly from the Crown, and in consequence a charter that recited the King's approval was granted in the Company's name.A copy of this document can be found in IOR/A/1/20A.
AMDigital Reference: IOR/A/1/41.
Reproduction of: Copy Letters Patent of the Governor and Company of Merchants of London, trading into the East-Indies, to the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Madras, granting the power to establish a municipality and Mayor's Court at Madras 30 Dec 1687.
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Description based on online resource (viewed on July 5, 2019).
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