• Title
  Phillip Parker King - document of safe conduct to Java, written in Ugi, received from and issued by Sir Stamford Raffles, 4 Feb. 1817, with English translation by F. H. van Naerssen, date unknown
• Creator
  Phillip Parker King, 1791-1856
• Call number
  MLMSS 6075
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1817, translation date unknown
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  106783
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : Aj 42/1
  
• Physical Description
  1 folder - 0.01 Meters
  Textual Records
  Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Rear-Admiral Phillip Parker King, R.N., M.C., F.R.L.S., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of London and of the Philosophical Society of Sydney, was the first Australian to attain Flag Rank in the Royal Navy. His friend, Sir Stamford Raffles, F.R.S., had been Governor of Java until 1816.
• Scope and Content
  Phillip Parker King - document of safe conduct to Java, 1817, written in Ugi, translation by Dr. F.H. van Naerssen
  
  Attend ye to this pronouncement inscribed by the Right Honourable Thomas Stamford Raffles, lieutenant governor of Java, who has just returned to England with his kin.
  Heed ye also the directives of the Regents of Java, his friends, in heart dedicated to devotion and self-abnegation that their ordinances may serve the weal of all mankind.
  The burthen of this, my exhortation, is to sponsor to you a gentleman, Captain King, my emissary, and English soldier endowed with great wisdom and steadfast in judgment and knowledge. The aim of his voyage, indeed the motive for his leaving England, was a quest to discover a country, perchance an island, unknown and unoccupied by any man from the Island of the East. And moreover, should the aforesaid gentleman, Captain King, set foot on Java seeking anything of which he stands in need – in that arisement, this is a request to all my friends: I exhort you to furnish him liberally with whatever he may lack. Indeed I shall be grateful if Captain King receive the utmost succour from one and all. This verily because of your heartfelt determination to maintain your affectionate regard for the English race to whom you shall be as brethren forever.
  
  THOS. RAFFLES
  
  Written in England, dated: London, 4th February, 1817.
• Language
  Javanese, English
• General note
  
  The document is accompanied by a translation into English by Dr F. H. van Naerssen, Head of the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, [ca. 1940s?]
  A photoprint of the above document is located at Aj 42/1 and a Malay version of the above document is located at DLMSQ 303.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824004
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Naerssen, F. H. van
  Raffles, Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826
  
• Subject
  Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers.
  Translations.
  Travelers--Java.
  
• Place
  Java (Indonesia)
  London (England)
  

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