Chapter CONFIRMED to CONICOPOLY of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

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1672.—“Xaverius set everywhere teachers called Canacappels.”—Baldaeus, Ceylon, 377.

1680.—“The Governour, accompanyed with the Councell and severall Persons of the factory, attended by six files of Soldyers, the Company’s Peons, 300 of the Washers, the Pedda Naigue, the Cancoply of the Towne and of the grounds, went the circuit of Madras ground, which was described by the Cancoply of the grounds, and lyes so intermixed with others (as is customary in these Countrys) that ’tis impossible to be knowne to any others, therefore every Village has a Cancoply and a Parryar, who are imployed in this office, which goes from Father to Son for ever.”—Ft. St. Geo. Consn. Sept. 21. In Notes and Exts., No. iii. 34.

1718.—“Besides this we maintain seven Kanakappel, or Malabarick writers.”—Propagation of the Gospel in the East, Pt. ii. 55.

1726.—“The Conakapules (commonly called Kannekappels) are writers.”—Valentijn, Choro. 88.

[1749.—“Canacapula,” in Logan, Malabar, iii. 52.

[1750.—“Conicoplas,” ibid. iii. 150.

[1773.—“Conucopola. He keeps your accounts, pays the rest of the servants their wages, and assists the Dubash in buying and selling. At Bengal he is called secretary. …”—Ives, 49.]