Edward Terry (1590–1660) was Chaplain to the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Row, English Ambassador to "the Great Mogul" of India in 1615-1618. After returning from India, he served as the Rector of the Church at Greenford in Middlesex. Throughout his journey Terry maintained a journal which he then turned into an interesting travelogue, "A Voyage to East-India," which was first partly published the 1625 before being printed in full in 1655. While discussing trade in the Mughal India, Terry mentions the presence of the Georgian and Armenians (as well as Ethiopians) and adds this brief but noteworthy remark:
They have some store of silk here; but the greatest quantity of that rich commodity, that any place in the whole world affords, comes out of Georgia, a province belonging to the King of Persia.
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