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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/B/OMS/C CE O84
TitleMayor, Rev. Robert
Extent49 docs.
Date1820-1828
DescriptionBaddegama 1820-1828
/1-28 Letters 1820-1825, 1827-1828 including:
/3 Relates to ordained missionaries being placed under episcopal authority and propriety of chaplains or licensed clergy officiating in CMS church at Baddegama 1821;
/22 Relates to kindness of bishop, including reference to relationship with bishop of the Syrian church 1827;
/28 Incomlpete [watermark 1824] circa 1826-1828;

/29-30 Journals: Nov 1823 - Feb 1824;
/31-36 Annual reports [signed by Robert Mayor and Benjamin Ward] 1822-1827;

/37-42 Correspondence of Robert Mayor and Benjamin Ward with government including:
/37 Minute by governor relating to grant towards building church at Baddegama 1819;
/38 Copies of correspondence relating to providing chaplain for garrison at Galle 1821;
/39 Copies of correspondence, including letter from Rev. A. Armour, relating to Adam, a converted Singhalese 1821;
/40-42 Letter to government relating to clerical duties at Galle 1821, 1823;

/43-45 Letter to brother, John Cooper of Liverpool 1824 and extracts of letters to J. Cooper 1820-1821;
/46 Medical certificate 1827;
/47 Address to Robert Mayor and Benjamin Ward from the modaliars, headmen and natives in the Gangabadee pattoo district, on their departure from Baddegama, 1827;
/48 Address from Philip Mendisand and Elias Alwis to Robert Mayor and Benjamin Ward on their leaving Ceylon 1827;
/49 Newspaper cutting with address from European and native inhabitants of Point de Galle to Robert Mayor and Benjamin Ward on their work as Colonial chaplains [printed] 1823
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