The work was interrupted by his flight to England, as a Huguenot refugee, in 1685, and not finished until 1688. (Dust jacket).
... Barbot probably thought was the name of his unnamed 1678 village , must surely have been derived ultimately from a Portuguese source but the source and its transmission to Barbot are untraced , whereas ' Boqu ' may have been obtained by ...
The edition opens with an introductory essay discussing Barbot's life and career and analysing his sources. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1991.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion.
Papers consist of legal and business documents, financial records, correspondence, scrapbooks, genealogical material, estate records, and other items.
The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, 1678-1712 Jean Barbot, Hakluyt Society Paul Edward Hedley Hair, Adam Jones, Robin Law. 58 Since Barbot makes no mention of translating them when he quotes them , it is uncertain whether the ...