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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART II
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Who reads Letters brought, and takes accounts of all Business, and of what is sent away to the Court: He is also to keep Registers, and to write Letters, and to take notice of things happening.
[The Undia.] Next to him is the Undia.

A word that signifieth a lump.

He is a Person that gathers the King's Money: and is so styled because he gathereth the King's Monies together into a lump.
[The Monnannah.] After him is the Monnannah, The Measurer.

His Place is to go and measure the Corn that grows upon the King's Land.

Or what other Corn belongeth to him.
The Power of these Officers extends not all a whole County or Province over, but to a convenient part or division of it.


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