Early English Intercourse with Burma, 1587 – 1743

Daniel G.E. Hall

1. The Earliest English Contact with Burma. 2. The Episode of Thomas Samuel. 3. The Foundation of the Syriam Factory and its Early Prosperity, 1647-52. 4. The Failure of the Syriam Factory. 5. Conditions of Trade Experienced by English Merchants in Burma in the Seventeenth Century. 6. Negotiations with Burma, 1680-86. 7. The Negrais Episode, 1686-87. 8. Private Trade and the Affair of Bartholomew Rodrigues. 9. The Mission of Edward Fleetwood and James Lesly to Ava, 1695-96. 10. The Period of Intermittent Relations, 1697-1723. 11. Shipbuilding and the Last Years of the Syriam Factory, 1722-44.