Hopewell : Journal
IOR/L/MAR/A/LXV, ff 4-33
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The record is made up of 1 item (30 folios). It was created in 10 Dec 1641-30 Nov 1643. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship Hopewell from England to the Coromandel Coast and Bantam [Bantem], 31 December 1641-7 June 1644, concluding at Silly Iland [Isles of Scilly].
The dates of the entries (where indicated) are in the Old Style (i.e. the Julian calendar).
The journal contains entries recorded nearly every day when the ship is on course; no entries are recorded when the ship is at anchor. There are no entries from 14 August 1642 until 1 December 1642. The journal records: navigational information; weather; sea conditions, and descriptions of the places that the ship passes.
Destinations on the ship's route include the following (dates are those of arrival): the Downs, 31 December 1641 (folio 4); Augusteine Bay [St Augustine's Bay], 16 May 1642 (folio 10); Johanna [Anjouan], 30 May 1642 (folio 11); Madras [Chennai], 5 July 1642 (folio 14); Massulapatam [Machilīpatnam], 22 July 1642 (folio 14); Ballezara [Balasore], 2 December 1642 (folio 16); Gumboroom [Bandar-e ʻAbbās], 6 March 1642 [New Style date 6 March 1643] (folio 22); Dabull [Dabhol], 28 April 1643 (folio 23); Madras [Chennai], 19 May 1643 (folio 24); Massulapatam, 3 September 1643 (folio 24); Hippins Island [Panaitan Pulau, Bantem], 29 November 1643 (folio 27); Christmas Island, 24 December 1643 (folio 27); Soldany Bay, Cape Bona Speranza [Saldanha Bay, Cape of Good Hope], 11 February 1643 [New Style date 11 February 1644] (folio 28); St Hellena [Saint Helena], 3 March 1643 [New Style date 3 March 1644] (folio 28); Assension Iland [Ascension Island], 27 March 1644 (folio 29); Silly Iland [Isles of Scilly], 7 June 1644 (folio 31).
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- 10 Dec 1641-30 Nov 1643 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Hopewell: Journal
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- 4r:33v
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