hindered our ships from carrying on in those parts. This loss arising from thence is calculated at 20,0001. sterling.

"The total sum of the aforesaid demand, exclusive of the islands of Poleron and Loutor, amounts to two millions six hundred and ninety-five thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifteen shillings sterling. "And the interest thereof, if computed to this time, will amount to a far greater sum.

"Moreover, since the English often touch at the Cape of Good Hope with their ships, and, as in the reign of James, late King of Great Britain, they took solemn possession of those lands, and caused a rampart to be cast up, called James's Mount, on which they planted the English colors, we demand that the inheritance of those territories may always remain in the power of the English, and that it may be free for them, not only to carry colonies thither, to raise fortifications there, and to lay in provisions, but to trade from thence to any other parts whatsoever, as well the Indies, as in the South Sea and Eastern parts, with the same liberty as they were ever enjoyed since that trade began, and use and enjoy the same privileges in all places of those parts, as are used and enjoyed by the United Netherlands.

"The aforesaid merchants of the English company trading to the Indies, demand satisfaction for four ships illegally taken in the Gulf of Persia, about the month of February 1652; which, although it was a fact committed without the time limited by the articles stipulated concerning restitution, yet we humbly conceive, that because the said ships were taken by private persons without any authority or pretense of a commission intervening, we ought therefore to have satisfaction, according to the loss, which amounts to 100,000l. sterling.'

"The demand of the Dutch East India Company, who affirm it to be a just claim, of the monies which they expect as satisfaction from the English Company.

"I. First, for the expenses to which the Dutch company contributed over and above their quota, by reason of a deficiency on the part of the English during seventeen years (on the expiration of the treaty which was made between both companies in 1619), which amounts for the proportion of the English to 510,000l. English money.

"II. For one-half of the expense paid for the English in the defense of Fort Gueldres, in Paleacate, after they had omitted to contribute any more, from the year 1622 to the year 1639 (the treaty of 1619 then expiring), the said moiety whereof, paid for the English, makes at least 21,3507. English money.

"III. The sum of 26,3391. 3s. 6d. English money is demanded for half of the charges which the Dutch company paid for the English company at the siege of Bantam, after the month of August 1621, when they had left off paying their quota, till the month of October 1627. To all which we might add the spoiling of ships, sails, anchors, cables, and gunpowder, lead, firearms, and other necessaries for war, wore out and wasted within that term in the business of both companies, by the ships and their boats, besides the loss which the Dutch company suffered in their trade, because they were obliged to detain their ships at such sieges, and for

that reason to omit several profitable expeditions, all which things, if duly inspected, would amount to a great sum of money, not to reckon the repair and purchase of the boats commonly called tingans and of other small vessels, from the first of September 1622 (when the last account was cast up) to the first of September 1627, being five years, and reckoning for each year at least 5001. English money.

"IV. For half of the value of the ship Hert, of 250 tons burthen, which was lost in the joint expedition to Mozambique in pursuing and overtaking the enemy, valued, according to the appraisement of the chamber on the part of the English, at 1,0221. English money.

"V. For third part of the sums laid out in the Moluccas, Amboina, and Banda, after February 1622, from which time the English left off paying their quota in those parts, till the expiration of the treaty in the year 1639, being seventeen years, each requiring the contribution of 30,0001. English money, or thereabouts, for the third part of the English, which sums computed will amount to 510,000l. English money.

"VI. For the loss which the Dutch company suffered by the seizing and destroying of three of their ships in the harbor of Portsmouth which were bound with their lading from Surat, which loss is computed, at least, at 100,0001. English money.

"VII. For the half share of the loss which accrued from the want of the pepper trade to Bantam during the space of six years, in which they compute their loss to have been as great as the English, have reckoned theirs to be in their demand, viz, 600,0001. English money.

"VIII. For the extraordinary and continual heavy charges which the Dutch India Company has borne in the annual equipment of ships and convoys for the safety of the merchantmen in their return from the Indies by the North Sea, which expenses have not been less than 10,0001. English per annum, and for the term of twenty years must be computed at the sum of 200,0001. English.

"IX. And, moreover, for three months' wages which the ships' companies that returned with those merchantmen from the Indies by the North Sea received, besides their ordinary pay, as a premium by reason of the difficult sailing in those seas, and which is continued to this very day, and amounts to no less than 5,0001. English per annum, and for the term of twenty years to 100,000l. English.

IX. For provisions and other necessaries for voyages, which the Dutch India Company's agents lent to the English India Company in their passage to and from India and during their stay there; of all which they are ready to give in an account.

"X. For the pay and sustenance of the soldiers brought by the Dutch company out of the Netherlands, for supplying the garrisons in the Moluccas, Amboina, and Banda, and carried back from thence to the Netherlands, towards which the English company by order of the chamber should have contributed one-third; of all which an exacter account may be given. "The wages of the crews of the pinnaces called Pera, Arnheim, and Surat, and the other charges; as also the damages of those ships, and the price of the ship named Correcorre, together with the costs of a certain pink called Haeg, which were employed in the service of the joint trade near Amboina, are to be put down to the account of the year 1621, which the English ought to have paid, as well as other expenses; concerning which

proper intimation has been given to the English company's agents in India; all which particulars are capable of being more exactly calculated.

"These several sums added together and cast up make in the total two millions sixty-nine thousand eight hundred sixty-one pounds three shillings and six pence English sterling, besides use and interest, and many other things that deserve a more ample deduction, for which the Dutch company demand just restitution, real and full satisfaction, not reckoning the great losses and delays which they have suffered for no other reason but the deficiency of the English in not duly observing the before-mentioned article, and the hinderance of trade by the settlements which the English have cunningly gained all over the East Indies; all which particulars are more fully calculated and expressed in the complaints of the Dutch company delivered by their deputies to the English company on the 20th of June 1629. Over and above these things, the Dutch company with regard to those pretensions for which no particular sum is demanded, and which have not been varied by time, requires just restitution and satisfaction. All the things reckoned as above are brought no lower down than to the expiration of the treaty of the year 1629, viz, to the month of July in 1639; although the English company extends several of its pretensions in their demand to the years 1651 and 1652-far beyond the expiration and limits of the said treaty.

"And because the English India Company, in several articles of their demands so delivered, blame the Dutch India Company for cruelly treating their agents, and thereby giving occasion to the English to desert their habitations in the aforesaid places belonging to the Dutch company, the said Dutch company has been pleased, for the removing of these foul slanders with which it is causelessly traduced, to put the English in mind of what follows, viz: That their agents having (for reasons best known to themselves) petitioned the governor-general of Batavia for their dismission, first, on the 16th day of January 1623; again, on the 28th of the said month; and the third and last time on the 9th of December 1624 did on the 11th of the said December 1624 set sail with nine ships and pinnaces, together with all their mariners and merchandize, from Batavia to the Straits of Sunda, and fortified themselves in the island of Lagondum, where, living miserably for six months, and 400 of their companions being dead by reason of the unwholesomeness of the situation, they were reduced to such extremity that they were obliged to represent their distressed condition to the governor-general of the Dutch company, begging his favor, both by ambassadors and epistles, that they might be delivered from that pestilential spot, as they said, and might be allowed to go with their surviving companions to Batavia, as is manifest from two several epistles of theirs sent to the governor-general of the Dutch company. To which the governor returned answer that, having considered their requests (as sincere friends ought to do by one another), he would not deny them speedy assistance, which was performed by the sending of a pinnace thither first, called Abigael, and then a ship named the Good Fortune, with many men, provisions, and other necessaries; and a promise was added that they should be welcome to return to Batavia to the habitations they had there before. Upon this the pinnace sailed with forty sick men to Batavia for their recovery, and carried back sixty healthy, stout men; and a little after she was followed by the said ship Good Fortune and a 5627-VOL. 5-29

small pink called Palalecata, which were both stationed about Bantam, that they might be near to carry relief to those at Lagondum, which was done out of hand; and as soon as one of them arrived at Batavia with six other English ships and pinnaces and the surviving of the ships' companies, who were for the most part sick, they were cheerfully enough received, and carried to their former settlement, to which a famous new structure was added, and they were furnished with other necessaries. Of the aforesaid sick men three soon died, and the factors of the Dutch company, to the number of almost fourscore, were infected also with the same distemper, which to many proved mortal; and, as the English themselves own, they were reduced to such a miserable state in Lagondum that, had it not been for the assistance aforesaid, it was the opinion of many they would all have perished; for which reason the president himself and the other governors did oftenly loudly declare that the assistance given to them was so great and unexpected that they should never forget it as long as they lived, but always remember it; and that not only their private letters would be witnesses of it, but a catalogue of the particulars would be inserted in the public monuments of England.

"For which assistance, and for the charges which the Dutch company has been liable to on this account, the said Dutch company does not doubt but they shall receive just satisfaction and recompense from the English company.

"And moreover, when the deputies of the Dutch company came to the examination of the matter in question, they pleaded that the third article of their pretensions (which treats to the expenses incurred at the siege at Bantam) stated only in part, without expressing the sum of the expences in general, which sum they did then express and assert that it rose to 850,0001. sterling, and they have desired that their demand may be augmented with the said sum.'

"All which complaints and demands, exhibited to us, the said commissioners, by the deputies of both the English and Dutch companies, expressly chose to this purpose, have been laid before us, with a great number of documents, instruments, and proofs exhibited, as well for forming and corroborating their own demands, as for destroying and refuting those of the opposite party; and at length the arbitration of all these controversies is submitted to us the aforesaid commissioners by the said deputies of both companies.

"Wherefore, we, the aforesaid John Exton, William Turner, William Thompson, Thomas Kendal, Adrian van Aelmonde, Christian van Rodenberg, Lewis Houwens, and James Oyfel, after having seen, read, examined, and accurately considered all the documents, instruments, and proofs exhibited to us on both sides, together with all other things which seemed necessary for the discovery of the truth, and being desirous to reconcile and to establish a perpetual agreement between both the companies aforesaid, by virtue of the power and authority to us given and granted by the most high the Lord Protector of the republic of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the high and mighty lords the states general of the United Netherlands, have decided, defined, and determined, and by this our present award and arbitration do decide, define, and determine as follows: We make void, extinguish, obliterate, and altogether wipe ont and commit to oblivion (so as never to be revived at any time, and upon any pretence, by any

person whatsoever) all complaints, pretensions, and controversies mentioned more at large above, and all others whatsoever which the English company trading in the East Indies doth or may form against the Dutch company, without excepting any, of whatsoever kind, nature, or condition they may be; and particularly we appoint and ordain that the said English company shall not for the future sue or demand anything of the said Dutch company in Persia or elsewhere, under the denomination of the customs of Ormuz and Gamron; so that the Dutch shall never be molested or disturbed by the English for this cause under any pretext. Provided, nevertheless, that this does not prejudice any action or plaint which the English company may entertain against the King of Persia or any other person whatsoever, the Dutch excepted.

"In like manner we make void, extinguish, obliterate, and wholly blot out and commit to oblivion (so as never to be revived at any time, and upon any pretence, by any person whatsoever) all complaints, pretensions, and controversies mentioned above more at large, and all others, whatsoever they may be, which the aforesaid Dutch East India Company doth or may form against the before-named English company trading in the East Indies, excepting none, of whatsoever kind, nature, or condition they may be.

"And moreover we appoint and decree that the said Dutch company shall yield and restore the island Poleron to the said English company, in the same state and condition as it is now. Provided, nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for the said Dutch company to take away and remove out of the said island all military furniture, merchandize, household stuff, and all moveables, if they happen to have any in the said island.

"And in the last place we decree and ordain that the said Dutch company shall pay the said English company 85,0007. sterling, to be paid here at London, one moiety before the last day of January next ensuing, according to the English style, and the other moiety before the last day of March following, according to the same style.

"And all controversies between both the said companies being by this means composed, decided, and determined, to the end that a stop may also be put to the quarrels of private persons, we have seen, pursued, and examined all the complaints and demands exhibited to us in due time, in the name of some private Englishmen who complained of having received injury and damage at Amboina in the year 1623; and on the other hand, we have heard and considered the matters which have been alleged and exhibited by the above-mentioned deputies of the Dutch company in their own defense; and we, the commissioners aforesaid, considering that no one person, besides those underwritten, has on this account entered any actions or demands before us within the due time, after which it is not lawful to enter any more; and being therefore desirous that no relicks of complaint should remain and that all cause of wrangling may be removed, after having duly considered and weighed all things, do by virtue of the full power and authority given and granted to us by the most high lord protector, and the high and mighty States of the United Netherlands, appoint and ordain that all complaint, action, and demand of the English whatsoever, whether public or private, on the score of any injury or damage which they pretend to have suffered at Amboina in the year 1622, the English style, and in 1623, N. S., may be made void, terminated, and com