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EARLY HISTORY; MADRAS 89 Samuel Browne. His report is given in the -count of ti^^^^^^^^^^^ below, in Browne's life. Probably it is the ^^"^ "^^^^^^^ report given in India which has been preserved, as the medica e^^fica'Je by Bulkley and Browi.e, q-ted above, is probably the oldest document of its kind. The Fort W4Uam Con. oi 6th Aug. 1713, contain a post-mortem report, signed byWilham Hantll and Richard Harvey, which is given in Wilson's £..^3^ Annals of the English in Bengal, Vol. II, Part I, pp. i34. i35.

Bulkley held the appointment of Surgeon up to 29th Jan. 1708/09, when he resigned on account of ill-health, as recorded in Cons, of that date.

Doct^- Buckley this day deUver'd in a petition for leave to lay down the Company's Service, alledging the reason thereof that he :s -ry -uch indisposed by the Stone, which he fears -^^^^e very suddenly fatal to him, and recommends Robinson Doct^ of to succeed him in that Employ his petition is entered after this Consultation."

In spite of his ill health, Bulkley was appointed, from 28th Jan., 1708/09, a member of the Council at Madras, as " Land Customer " and sixth of Council. At the end of 1710 he was Store Keeper and seventh of Council, in Dec, 1711, Paymaster and fifth of Council. On 16th July, 1711, he was appointed, along with Messrs. Warre and Hunt, Justice of the Choultry. The Cons. of 20th Jan., 1712/13, record his resignation of all his appointments on account of iU-health. A Fort St. George General Letter, dated 29th Sept., 1714, in para. 119, reports his death.

" M"^ Edward Bulkley dy'd lo^"^ August much lamented."

He was buried at the bottom of his own garden. His tomb may still be seen, the site is now part of the Western Esplanade of Fort St. George, opposite the entrance to the Medical College grounds.

Two Bulkleys, perhaps his sons, figure as Covenanted Servants at Madras during the next two decades. In the Ust of Company's servants and inhabitants for Dec, 1711, the name of Thomas Bulkley appears among Freeman inhabitants. In a salary list of Sept., 1716, he is shown as Factor on £15 a year, and on the 27th of that month he paid in 444 pagodas to the estate of the late Edward Bulkley. From 24th July, 1717, he became Junior Merchant on £30, and Senior Merchant on £40 from 25th July,