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BOMBAY CHURCH:

OR,
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,
From the Year it was Begun 1715,

TO
The Ye AR it was Finished 1718:

Also the First RIS E of the
CHARITY-SCHOOL
Proposed to be Erected There 1719;

With a few REMARKS on the
INDIAN LETTERS.

By RICHARD COBBE, M.A.

Late Chaplain to the Honourable Eaft India Company.

LONDON:
Printed by J. and W. OLIVER in Bartholomew-Close.
And Sold by JOHN RIVINGTON, Bookseller to
The SOCIETY for Promoting Christian Knowledge,
At the Bible and Crown in St Paul's Church-yard a

Honourable Court of DirecTORS

For Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England,

Trading to the East Indies.

May it please your Honours, #12**N acknowledgment of the many I favours received at your hands,

particularly in choosing me

your Chaplain, how unworthy soever, to your Factory at Bombay in the East Indies, anno 1714, I make bold to present you with this short 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 satisfaction to the future as well as prefent flourishing state of that island;

A 2 considering

considering likewise the unsettled and

oftentimes turbulent situation of affairs s 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 least safeguard and ornament thereof, and therefore not unworthy your Honours care and protection.

Be pleased, Gentlemen, to accept this small tribute, the account of Churchwork, in return for the many signal favours conferred on,

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***** N the good ship Katharine, burden I 450 tuns, 32 guns, go 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 set sail," by God's permission, from Deal, March 29, 1714, with a prosperous gale, and in high spirits towards our intended port ; but had the misfortune of losing our Captain and Chief Mate, before we made the Cape of Good Hope, a very boisterous and turbulent sea

coast,