East Indies: August 1604 | 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: August 1604', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, (London, 1864) pp. 142. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/p142a [accessed 19 April 2024]

August 1604



Aug. 16.	338. Thos. Alabaster to Sec. Cecil. The ships Erasmus and Nassau, being before Amacao [Macao] in China with 14 others, took a carack going to Japan, pillaged, and then burnt it. They received much friendship from the Chinese, and have left their quarters at Bantam. It is said that there was a great quantity of silk, both raw and wrought [in the carack], and cloth, probably going to the West Indies by the South Sea. Another carack was preparing to lade on the other coast of Amacao; the Admiral Gerbeant Van Warwyck, with the Ziricksea and other Holland ships, was in time to find it. Andres Furtado, the King of Spain’s general in India, had besieged Yor [Jhor], the chief city of a kingdom so called in the main land over against Sumatra, by sea and land. With two ships they relieved it, and sent Furtado’s armament to the devil, so that in all those parts they would give us their property and their very souls if they could. The fourth ship was from the old Company of Amsterdam, and coming for pepper. Domestic Corresp., Jac. I., Vol. IX., No.13. Cal., p.143.]
Aug.	339. Abstract of such reasons as were used by the Earl of Northampton in defence of the English trade to the Indies, while the commission of treaty for peace with Spain was handled. [Four pages. Correspondence, Spain.]
Aug.	340. Projected articles of peace between England and Spain, several of which have special reference to the trade of the English in the East Indies. [Two pages and a half. Correspondence, Spain.]