BOMBAY CHURCH: O R, A True ACCOUNT of the BUILDING and FINISHING the ENGLISH CHURCH At BOMBAY in the EAST INDIES; With a LIST of The BENEFACTIONS Contributed thereunto, то The YEAR it was Finished 1718: Alfo the Firft RISE of the CHARITY-SCHOOL Proposed to be ERECTED There 1719; With a few REMARKS on the INDIAN LETTERS. By RICHARD COBBE, M.A. LONDON: Printed by J. and W. OLIVER in Bartholomew-Clofe. M DCC LXVI, 110. j. 330. TO THE Honourable Court of DIRECTORS For AFFAIRS of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the Eaft Indies. May it please your Honours, 2N acknowledgment of the many favours received at your hands, particularly in I particularly in choofing me your Chaplain, how unworthy foever, to your Factory at Bombay in the Eaft Indies, anno 1714, I make bold to present you with this fhort but true account of the Building and Finishing the new Church there, encouraged thereunto by your Honours generous benefaction and approbation; hoping it may be of use and fatisfaction to the future as well as prefent flourishing state of that island; confidering A 2 $ confidering likewife the unfettled and oftentimes turbulent fituation of affairs in other Factories under your Honours direction, this of Bombay, for which I have still a very great respect, may be looked upon as the safest place of retreat and harbour, as being, under his Majesty King GEORGE, your own terra firma; and the Church not the leaft fafeguard and ornament thereof, and therefore not unworthy your Honours care and protection. Be pleased, Gentlemen, to accept this fmall tribute, the account of Churchwork, in return for the many fignal favours conferred on, HONOURABLE SIRS, Your most obliged humble Servant and Chaplain, Wint. Richard Cobbe. THE PREFACE. ***N the good fhip Katharine, burden 450 tuns, 32 guns, 90 men, Capt. ***** Edward Godfrey commander, in company with the Thistleworth, Capt. Daniel Small commander, both in the service of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, and both bound for Bombay, we fet fail, by GoD's permiffion, from Deal, March 29, 1714, with a profperous gale, and in high fpirits towards our intended port; but had the misfortune of lofing our Captain and Chief Mate, before we made the Cape of Good Hope, a very boisterous and turbulent sea coaft, |