Autograph letter signed : Fort Armagon [i.e. Durgarajupatnam, near Pulicat Lake, India], to his brother Sir Edward Altham, 1632 Oct. 20.

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Autograph letter signed : Fort Armagon [i.e. Durgarajupatnam, near Pulicat Lake, India], to his brother Sir Edward Altham, 1632 Oct. 20.

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Acknowledging his letter of August 26, 1631 and thanking him for news of the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson in New England. Reporting that "ye greate kinge of this country comonly called ye Barter king is lately overthrowne in a most mortall battell by his own nobles, with ye loss of 30 or 40,000 men" and that "ye Portingalls in Zealon, attempting to take ye greate citty of Candy with 20,000 men approached it and being possessed of it, were presently beseged by ye king thereof and slaine almost every man."

1 item (1 p., with address) ; 30.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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