East Indies: January 1612 | 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: January 1612', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, (London, 1864) pp. 233-234. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp233-234 [accessed 25 April 2024]

January 1612



1612. Jan. 19. Madrid.	600. Sir John Digby to Salisbury. The Spaniards very much discontented and troubled that King James is resolved to send Sir Robt. Sherley to Persia, and other ambassadors to accompany him, and seek to disparage both his person and his commissions, not sparing to give him the name of a cozener and a counterfeit. Digby's answer, that if he be so, it is not Sherley but the other princes of Christendom, especially the Emperor, the Pope, and the King of Spain, who have deceived the King his master, seeming to make no doubt of the truth of his commission, and heaping honours upon Sherley; His Majesty is, however, resolved to make trial of the validity of his commissions, and of the benefit of his projects. [Extract from Correspondence, Spain. Printed in “The Sherley Brothers,” for the Roxburghe Club, p. 78.]
Jan. 31. Hague	601. Sir Ralph Winwood to Salisbury. Has received his letter of 22nd inst. [not found] in behalf of the East India merchants, and had audience in the assembly of the States General, “to whom I spake in these words”—here follows his speech in French, being a recapitulation of the petition of the East India merchants of November 1611 [see ante, No. 591], and concluded with His Majesty's request that these disagreements may be remedied, and in case an expedient cannot be at once resolved on, that orders may be given to treat the English merchants with reciprocal friendship, until some good regulation is mutually agreed upon for continuation of the traffic [to the East Indies] to the satisfaction of both parties. Answer of Barnevelt, that this was the first time they ever heard complaint of their merchants in those parts; he requested Winwood to deliver his proposition in writing, which was done, and it has been sent to the administrators of the Company of the [Dutch] East India Merchants, for their opinion before the required letters can be dispatched. Has long perceived that the Dutch East India merchants have desired to find our merchants a more methodical passage for their Indian trade than the navigation by the North-west which is now projected. Reasons for wishing that the English merchants had acquainted Salisbury with their grievances in the beginning of December last, before the last fleet of 14 ships sailed from Amsterdam. [It will be observed that the petition of grievances, No. 591, is dated November.] The States will willingly write the letter, but Winwood doubts whether it will affect the surety of the trade so much desired by the English merchants. The Company of the [Dutch] East India Merchants is a body by themselves, powerful and mighty, and will not acknowledge the authority of the States General more than shall be for their private profit. [Five pages and a half. Extract from Holland Corresp.]
Jan. Rennes.	602. Hughe Bourman to Sir Thos. Edmondes, ambassador at Paris. Represents the unjust proceedings of the court of Rennes in a suit brought by the writer and Mons. De Robinson, on behalf of the society [of East India merchants] for redress of depredations committed upon their ship [the Union, wrecked on the coast,] and as one of the corps to whom the management of the society's affairs has been entrusted, requests his interference at the French Court. Incloses,
Jan. Rennes.	602. I. Depositions of Pierre De Louarn and Francois Le Goff of Audierne, taken in the prison at Rennes, concerning the seizure of the goods from the English ship above alluded to. 1611, Dec. 25./1612, Jan. 2. [Together three pages. Corresp., France.]