Art. XXXII.—Grant to the Early Christian Church of India

Extract

The six lithographs which follow contain fac-similes of a grant made to the Syrian Church in India by one of the early native princes. The original is engraved on both sides of six copper plates. An account of the loss of these plates, or of their abstraction by the Portuguese at the close of the sixteenth century, and of their rediscovery in 1806, is given in a memoir printed in the first volume of the Society's Journal, page 177. The fac-similes were procured for the Society through the kindness of F. C. Brown, Esq., from the Rev. B. Bailey, Principal of the College of Cottayam, where the originals are preserved.