East Indies: May 1607 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1864.

'East Indies: May 1607', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, (London, 1864) pp. 152-154. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp152-154 [accessed 25 April 2024]

May 1607



May 6–19.	370. Court Minutes of the East India Company. Payment to Oldridge for his servant Legatt's wages.
	May 9.—Sir Edward Holmden's adventure to be set over to Paul Bannyng's account. 51. to John Barnaby and the other garblers. 201. to Barth. Haggett. The demands of Christ. Vincent deferred till his return from Spain. Sir Henry Bromley's request referred. Difference between Mr. Greenwell and the sailmaker. Twenty marks to Mr. Diggins. Repayments of imprests from those not gone the voyage. Mr. Crispe to pay 8d. per lb. for 10 bags of light pepper. Warrant to him and others to view the mace. Goods to be removed from Sir John Spencer's warehouse to the vault of the Exchange. Things provided for [Henry] Levett the preacher. Gratuity to Mr. Lynge. Loan of 10l. to the wife of Rosewell, gone the voyage, upon her petition. Payment of 15,000l. due by the Company; only 1,844l. 4s. in hand; to intreat forbearance for a month until the money for spices and the adventures of the last voyage can be collected; resolutions for calling it in. A remembrance of the conference and agreement between the East India Company and the farmers of His Majesty's customs, in presence of the Lord Treasurer, 5th April 1607.
	370. May 13.—Preparations for a fourth voyage to be considered Sale of the Ascension. Mr. Johnson and Levett's accounts. Touching the agreement with the farmers of customs. Rent of Sir John Spencer's warehouse. Spices sold to Mr. Sandye; prices and conditions; also to Wm. Harrison and Mr. Beckett. Tristram Eldred's accounts to be examined.
	May 15.—Proposals for raising a stock of 50,000l. for a fourth voyage next year, and for building greater ships for the year then following. If that sum be not subscribed by the old adventurers, by 20th June, any of the King's subjects to be admitted to subscribe, and the adventure to remain upon a new account. The Ascension to be appraised. Satisfaction to those who have taken extraordinary pains in the Company's affairs. Two of the biggest ships that can be had to be made ready for the voyage next year; and other things provided.
	May 19.—A fourth voyage to be made ready by Christmas next. Committee appointed to inquire for contractors for substantial ships, well manned, victualled, and furnished, at 30l. freight per ton. Simon Harvey and John Bancks, adventurers of 500l. each in the last voyage, sworn free brethren of the society. Twenty shillings to [Geo.] Couleshill, solicitor to the Company, for his extraordinary pains in Oldridge's action; his bill was 11s. [Seven pages and three quarters. Court Bk, II., 28–32.]
May 24. Madrid.	371. Sir Charles Cornwaleys to the Privy Council. Conference with the Conde de Lsmos, president of the council for the Indies, concerning the traffic to those parts. Opinions of the Conde; “yet he must be plain with me, in coercions and punishments to restrain access to those countries, he had an inclination ra.ther to cruelty than clemency.” Replies that this was not only against the ordi–nance of God, but the laws of nature and nations; parts of the earth should not be held with a closed hand and be exempt from the general use of men for whom God had created it. Argument of the Conde that the Spaniards had found by experience that the access of French, Germans, Hollanders, and English had sown amongst the people of those parts, but newly seasoned with the Catholic faith, such a mixture and confusion of diversity of sects and opinions, as once tasted were hardly possible to be rooted out; the case for traffic and navigation was far different from that of other parts of the world; these dominions, being by right and possession theirs, by the rule of nations, they would appropriate them to themselves and exclude others; they were resolved never to take them for friends nor allow them for traders that should resort thither, and that they would henceforth never be without 12 galleons continually to attend that service only. [Three pages. Extract from Correspondence, Spain.]
1607.	372. Negotiations of Sir Charles Cornwaleys at the Court of Spain. For the delivery of certain Englishmen from prison that were taken in the Indies, when a great contest arose betwixt him and the Spanish ministers about the dominion and property they claimed in the Indies. [Extract from Correspondence, Spain, 1608.]