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Henry Lord was the chaplain to the East India Company at Surat in Gujarat, from 1624 until 1629. Whilst there he made a study of the customs of the natives, this two-part treatise offering "an invaluable account of Hindu and Parsi cosmography for European readers" (ODNB), that on "Banians" including one of the earliest known descriptions of Hinduism in a European language.
Clement Kynnersley, the early owner, is probably the Kynnersley who was a Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe to both King Charles I and Charles II.