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April 6.
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999. Sir Dudley Carleton to Sec. Calvert. Observes a difference
betwixt the order he had from Calvert in his of the 23rd of the last,
and that which his Majesty had then consented to, touching the
business of the East Indies, to which he has thought best to accommodate
himself, without insisting upon an answer to his proposition.
Has let some of the chief of the States understand that they need not
proceed further until either they, see their ambassadors or hear again
from them, but has wished the States provisionally to send his proposition
to them, and to procure a resolution in conformity with his
Majesty's desire. Hopes so much will be effected by this means,
that if the Company doth not give an answer at the first agreeable
to his Majesty's desire, yet they will be held together until the
return of the States ambassadors, and upon their report more may
be effected than upon Carleton's proposition. [Extract from Holland
Corresp.]
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April 9.
Aboard the Hart,
eight leagues
from Damaun.
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1000. Thos. Kerridge to Rich. Fursland [at Jacatra]. Loss of the
Agra caphilo. "I was prepared home before this misfortune happened,"
but purposed to be an actor in the recovery. In regard of
the lateness of the season, there is some distrust they shall not recover
Mocha, in which case they have only Masulipatam to winter in, whence
the Hart and Roebuck are to proceed for England, and the London with
a prize pinnace to return for Surat to prosecute the Council's further
directions. If they recover the Red Sea, then doth their whole fleet
return to Surat, and the homeward-bound ships proceed thence in
October on their voyage for England. In favour of Thos. Taylor,
master of the Eagle. [One page. O.C., Vol. VIII., No. 950.]
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April 12.
Whitehall.
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1001. Sec. Calvert to Sir Dudley Carleton. Has not much to
answer, saving only to the point of the commission which they seek
from the Hollanders for accommodating those differences between
them and us in the Indies, wherein Carleton observes well some
little odds betwixt that which his Majesty directed Carleton to press
there by Sec. Calvert's letter, and the respite he afterwards gave
them until Whitsuntide. Must needs say this was yielded unto after
directions were sent to him, for that they would not yield to any
promise for procuring a shorter time. The ambassadors with whom
Sec. Calvert was yesterday seemed to make no great doubt at their
return to their superiors to procure his Majesty that contentment
which he desires. [Extract from Holland Correspondence.]
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April 17.
Patani.
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1002. John Jourdain and Wm. Webb to Edward Longe, at Siam.
Goods brought from China junks "in halves with the Netherlanders."
A China junk bound for Jacatra, with four hundred men and provisions,
forced to come in here by cross winds. The Hollanders have
certain news that their ship Angel is cast away off the coast of
Cochin China. Edward Barrett. [Two pages. Mutilated by damp.
Endorsed, "Received 16 May 1621." O.C., Vol. VIII., No. 951.]
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April 18/28.
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1003. Sir Dudley Digges to Sir Dudley Carleton. Will one day
go on purpose to the Hague to present his thanks, but in good faith
the Amsterdam men, by young Boreel, have so ill requited his love
and journey to do them good offices that he is resolved to meddle no
more with them, though he finds many ways they labour to have us
again to return, and they promise fair ; but he knows them too well,
and they will find other men will not treat as they (Digges and
Abbott) did with them. [Extract from Holland Corresp.]
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April 26.
Whitehall.
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1004. Sec. Calvert to Sir Dudley Carleton. Thinks by this time
the States ambassadors have rendered an account to their superiors
of their employment here, and of his Majesty's desire to have some
commissioners sent over hither before Whitsuntide. The merchants
fear that those ambassadors will not fully represent their true
grievances, and so the States not give sufficient authority to their
deputies for all the points in question. They have, therefore, had
recourse to his Majesty for his assistance, who has commanded Carleton
to let the States know his Majesty expecteth that their
deputies come authorized with a plenary power to treat not only for
restitution of losses, but especially in the point of their pretended
sovereignty to the town and country of Jacatra, as well as it hath
regard to the Indians, who are rather like to undergo any distress
to the burning and destroying of their own fruit trees of their
country, than to submit themselves unto the government of others,
and consequently overthrow all expectation of returns, which is the
life of our merchants' trade. His Majesty's subjects in those parts
much overburdened and discouraged by living in such terms of
disparity under them, having had so fearful an example of late by
their punishing of a butler and steward. [Extract from Holland
Corresp.]
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April ?
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1005. Notes [by Sir Robt. Heath]. The necessity of carefully
preserving and advancing the honour, safety, and profit of the kingdom.
It is argued that the reasons why the country suffers in profit
are that native commodities are abased in value, and merchants
discouraged, the East India Company especially, by which the whole
kingdom will suffer, and a remedy is suggested in the encouragement
of the cloth trade of the East India Company, and in enforcing
restitution of wrongs from the Hollanders. [Domestic Corresp.,
Jac, I., Vol. CXX., No. 121, Cal., p. 251.]
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