Edward Terry (author)

Edward Terry (1590–1660), "Chaplain to the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Row [sic], Knt. Lord Ambassador to the Great Mogul, And afterwards Rector of the Church at Greenford, in Middlesex" and author of A Voyage to East-India.^[1] His Voyage, an expanded version from a manuscript first published in Purchas his Pilgrimes (1625), was a popular work which was translated into other languages and was included into the Travels of Pietro della Valle.^[2]

He was one of the first writers to describe vegetarianism (in India) to Early Modern England.^[3]

References

1. Edward Terry (1655). A voyage to East-India wherein some things are taken notice of, in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogul: mixt with some Parallel Observations and Inferences upon the Story, to profit as well as delight the Reader. London: J. Martin, and J. Allestrye, at the Bell in St. Pauls Chutch-Yard [sic].
2. Page 271 in Ram Chandra Prasad (1980). "Chapter IX: Edward Terry (1616-1619)". Early English Travellers in India. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. pp. 257–308.
3. Thirsk, Joan (2007). Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions, 1500-1760. London & New York: Hambledon Continuum. pp. 163–164. ISBN 978-1852855383.

Bibliography

• Edward Terry (1660). A Character of His most Sacred Majesty King Charles the IId. London.

• Edward Terry (1689). The Character of His Royal Highness, William Henry, Prince of Orange. London. (William Henry, Prince of Orange later reigned as William III of England)

• Edward Terry (1649). The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving: Or, Thankfulnesse Returned, for Mercies. London.

• Edward Terry (1646). Pseudeleutheria. Or Lawlesse Liberty. London. (For the title word, see Eleutheria)

External links

• "Edward Terry". Leigh Historical Society.

• William Foster, ed. (1921). "1616-1619 Edward Terry". Early Travels in India, 1583-1619. Oxford University Press. pp. 288–332.