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Updated: May 27, 2025
The Emperor's officers argued that the rent ought to have been larger, but the Company, conforming to the spirit of corruption that was in fashion, were wily enough to send by a Brahman and a Mohammedan conjointly a sum of Rs. 700 'to be distributed amongst the King's officers who keep the Records, in order to settle this matter. The village of Vepery variously called in olden documents Ipere, Ypere, Vipery, and Vapery lay between Egmore and Pursewaukam; and the Company, being naturally desirous of consolidating their territory, proceeded at once to try to obtain a grant of the place; but successive efforts on the part of Governor Elihu Yale came to naught; and it was not till much later when the Nawab of Arcot was lord of the soil, that Vepery was acquired from the Nawab.
Of the fortifications at Nungumbaukam and at Pursewaukam all traces have disappeared; but of the larger ones at San Thomé and at Egmore interesting remains are still to be seen. The remains of the San Thomé Redoubt stand within the grounds of 'Leith Castle, a house that lies south of the San Thomé Cathedral.
All the Garden Houses, as well as thirty-three Square Miles of Ground, would be in security from the invasions of irregular Horse." Of the suburban fortifications the two largest were at Egmore and at San Thomé. Next in size were those at Nungumbaukam and at Pursewaukam. Of smaller works there were many.
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