Poet, translator, and antiquarian Thomas Percy is best remembered today for his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), which inspired widespread interest in British folk literary forms such as ballads and verse tales as well as contributing to the late eighteenth century formation of a British literary canon. Percy also published Hau Kiou Choaan or The Pleasing History (1761), consisting of partly his own translation from a Portuguese version of the Chinese narrative, and partly a redaction of a previous English translation by a representative of the British East India Company in China. The novel's heroine, Shuy Ping Sin, suffers trials somewhat similar to those of the eponymous heroines of Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740-1) and Clarissa (1747-9). Percy is also the author of The Friar of Orders Grey (1765).