THE
MEMORIAL
OF
THE
DUTCH
AMBASSADOR
TO
HIS
MAJESTY
.
SIR
,
THe
under-written
Ambassador
of
the
States
General
of
the
United
Netherlands
,
Your
good
Friends
and
Allies
,
having
had
the
honour
of
several
Audiences
with
Your
Majesty
,
and
therein
made
known
to
You
such
Orders
as
he
hath
from
time
to
time
received
from
his
Masters
,
upon
occasion
of
,
and
concerning
divers
Affairs
,
and
especially
these
following
:
To
wit
,
Seing
it
is
understood
and
perceived
,
that
Vessels
of
War
are
fitting
and
preparing
on
both
sides
,
which
if
they
go
forth
to
Sea
and
meet
there
together
,
might
by
some
misunderstanding
,
fall
foul
upon
one
another
;
Your
Majesty
would
therefore
be
pleased
to
keep
back
Your
Fleet
,
and
〈◊〉
suffer
it
to
go
to
Sea
;
as
their
Lordships
offer
on
their
p●●●
to
do
;
the
whole
intent
and
design
tending
only
to
th●
safety
of
both
parties
,
and
the
prevention
of
the
foresai●
sinister
encounters
.
Moreover
,
whereas
their
Lordships
have
been
informed
that
Captain
Holmes
,
with
the
Vessels
under
his
command
hath
now
again
(
as
heretofore
)
done
very
great
and
enormous
injuries
to
the
Netherlandish
Company
of
the
Wes●
Indies
,
by
taking
divers
of
their
Vessels
upon
the
Coast
o●
Africk
,
as
also
by
making
himself
Master
of
some
Place●
and
Forts
belonging
unto
them
,
and
namely
amongst
othe●●
of
Capo
Verde
,
&c.
which
is
directly
contrary
,
not
onl●
to
the
Treaty
last
concluded
between
Your
Majesty
and
th●
States
of
the
United
Provinces
,
but
also
to
mutual
amit●
and
good
neighbourhood
:
The
said
Ambassador
did
therefore
,
in
the
name
of
his
Superiors
,
demand
restitution
o●
the
same
,
and
that
reparation
might
be
made
of
the
damage●
and
interests
which
the
said
Company
and
other
Subject●
of
their
Lordships
who
were
concerned
,
have
suffered
thereby
;
as
also
,
that
the
like
proceedings
and
violences
might
be
prevented
for
the
future
by
an
express
Order
.
In
the
third
place
,
that
their
Lordships
,
being
from
day
to
day
confirmed
by
certain
Intelligence
coming
from
that
Coast
,
that
the
foresaid
action
of
Captain
Holmes
had
not
only
been
effected
in
the
manner
above-specified
,
but
also
that
he
was
intended
to
carry
on
his
design
further
,
by
making
incursions
and
seising
upon
all
the
Coast
,
and
that
for
his
better
success
therein
,
he
expected
a
notable
supply
of
Ships
from
England
,
as
the
whole
matter
may
be
proved
by
the
testimony
and
depositions
of
credible
persons
newly
come
from
thence
:
Which
actions
being
without
right
,
reason
and
equity
,
and
which
consequently
cannot
be
endured
,
nor
looked
upon
with
a
good
eye
,
Your
Majesty
was
entreated
that
it
might
be
Your
good
Pleasure
to
command
as
well
the
said
Captain
Holmes
,
as
others
who
were
in
that
engagement
,
or
are
held
to
have
been
employed
therein
,
not
only
to
restore
the
foresaid
Forts
and
Vessels
so
taken
,
and
to
repair
the
damages
thereby
suffered
(
as
reason
requires
)
but
also
that
the
Ships
which
by
report
are
now
ready
to
set
Sail
,
or
which
may
be
fitting
for
that
end
,
may
,
by
Your
Majesties
express
Command
,
be
prohibited
and
charged
not
to
do
or
cause
any
other
injury
or
damage
to
the
said
Company
;
or
to
any
other
the
Subjects
of
the
United
Provinces
.
Fourthly
,
Forasmuch
as
the
poor
and
afflicted
reformed
Churches
in
the
vallies
of
Piedmont
have
represented
,
that
after
the
agreement
made
with
his
Royal
Highness
the
Duke
of
Savoy
some
while
since
,
they
are
again
overwhelmed
and
ruined
by
exactions
and
charges
required
of
them
to
defray
the
expenses
of
the
Army
which
the
said
Duke
had
commanded
against
them
,
which
charges
amounted
to
so
high
a
sum
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
them
to
make
it
up
,
for
the
reasons
more
at
large
alledged
in
their
Remonstrance
;
Therefore
they
have
desired
the
intercession
of
the
States
General
with
Your
Majesty
,
that
Your
Ambassador
in
the
Court
of
France
may
have
order
to
procure
from
his
most
Christian
Majesty
(
as
being
Mediator
between
his
said
Royal
Highness
and
them
)
as
much
favour
and
comfort
to
those
poor
afflicted
Churches
as
can
possibly
by
any
means
be
obtained
.
And
finally
,
considering
that
the
Vessels
coming
from
the
United
Provinces
into
the
Rivers
,
Streams
and
Roads
of
this
Kingdom
,
are
stopped
there
under
pretence
that
there
be
Persons
and
Commodities
on
board
which
come
from
places
infected
with
the
Plague
,
or
at
least
suspected
to
be
so
,
by
which
means
the
freedom
of
Trade
and
Passage
is
obstructed
and
disturbed
,
to
the
great
prejudice
of
the
inhabitants
of
both
Nations
:
The
said
Ambassador
therefore
insisted
thereupon
,
that
the
same
might
be
remedied
,
or
at
least
that
the
strictness
of
those
Orders
might
be
mitigated
in
such
measure
as
in
reason
shall
be
found
convenient
;
And
that
the
rather
,
because
,
by
the
mercy
of
God
,
all
the
Provinces
in
general
are
not
infected
with
the
Contagion
.
To
all
that
is
abovesaid
,
Your
Majesty
hath
been
pleased
to
answer
in
effect
;
to
wit
,
upon
the
first
point
,
touching
keeping
of
the
Fleet
from
going
to
Sea
,
That
the
numbers
which
were
fitted
and
prepared
on
Your
Majesties
side
being
no
way
extraordinary
,
but
only
for
common
and
customary
use
,
and
without
design
of
bringing
any
damage
or
inconvenience
upon
the
inhabitants
of
the
United
Provinces
,
the
said
Vessels
could
not
be
kept
from
going
to
Sea
,
because
Your
Majesties
Honour
was
engaged
therein
;
Nevertheless
,
that
You
would
give
such
Orders
to
the
Chief
Commander
of
Your
said
Fleet
,
that
their
Lordships
shall
have
no
cause
to
apprehend
any
sinister
encounters
from
it
.
As
to
the
second
,
touching
the
action
of
Captain
Holmes
;
Your
Majesty
thought
good
to
answer
thereunto
,
That
You
had
received
no
information
of
it
,
and
that
having
given
no
Order
for
his
so
doing
,
You
would
cause
reparation
to
be
made
,
if
the
matter
proved
to
be
true
,
and
that
the
said
Captain
Holmes
should
be
punished
according
as
the
case
should
require
:
Nevertheless
adding
thereunto
afterwards
at
another
Audience
,
that
the
West-India
Company
had
likewise
done
much
damage
to
Your
Majesties
Subjects
upon
the
said
Coast
,
pretending
to
be
Masters
thereof
to
themselves
alone
;
which
thing
ought
to
be
considered
also
in
its
proper
season
,
judging
it
unreasonable
and
unjust
that
the
Trade
of
the
English
upon
that
Coast
should
continually
be
disturbed
and
hindred
.
And
as
to
the
third
,
Your
Majesty
was
pleased
to
say
as
before
,
That
You
had
received
no
information
of
Holmes
his
actions
in
those
parts
;
and
for
so
much
as
concerned
the
Ships
which
are
ready
to
set
Sail
towards
the
Coast
of
Africk
,
that
they
were
not
in
a
condition
to
make
any
attempt
there
,
being
only
Merchant-men
,
unto
which
there
was
added
but
one
Man
of
War
for
their
Convoy
.
For
what
regards
the
poor
Piemontoies
,
That
You
were
sensibly
touched
with
the
miserable
condition
of
those
Churches
and
People
,
and
for
that
reason
Your
Majesty
had
already
given
Order
to
Your
Ambassador
in
France
to
contribute
unto
their
relief
and
comfort
in
Your
Name
;
But
forasmuch
as
at
present
there
occur
some
new
difficulties
concerning
the
said
Churches
,
Your
Majesty
would
advise
more
particularly
thereupon
.
And
lastly
,
concerning
the
Merchants
Ships
which
come
from
the
United
Provinces
into
this
Kingdom
,
and
are
stopped
without
permission
to
Land
any
where
,
because
they
are
suspected
to
come
from
some
place
infected
with
the
sickness
,
there
being
no
distinction
made
between
Provinces
and
Cities
really
afflicted
with
the
said
Contagion
,
and
those
which
are
not
so
at
all
;
That
Your
Majesty
having
an
extraordinary
apprehension
of
that
disease
,
had
great
reason
to
use
all
possible
precaution
against
it
;
Notwithstanding
,
that
the
business
should
also
be
thought
upon
more
fully
.
All
which
points
abovesaid
having
been
repeated
by
the
said
Ambassador
at
his
last
Audience
,
and
instance
thereupon
made
,
that
according
to
their
Lordships
desires
Your
Majesty
would
be
pleased
to
explain
Your Self
in
Writing
,
to
put
the
minds
of
his
Superiors
out
of
perplexity
and
disquiet
;
and
Your
Majesty
having
to
that
purpose
desired
,
that
all
should
be
comprised
in
a
Memorial
for
an
Answer
to
be
given
thereunto
in
Writing
:
The
said
Memorial
(
May
it
please
Your
Majesty
)
is
here
most
humbly
presented
,
with
like
prayer
,
that
such
Order
may
be
taken
therein
,
as
that
by
a
favourable
answer
(
which
the
said
Ambassador
expects
from
Your
Majesty
)
he
may
be
enabled
to
give
his
Masters
content
.
M.
Van-Gogh
.
From
Chelsey
,
July
21/31
1664.
HIS
MAJESTIES
ANSWER
To
the
fore-going
MEMORIAL
.
THe
Ambassador
of
the
United
Provinces
having
so
particularly
set
down
the
Answers
he
received
from
Us
in
his
several
Audiences
to
his
particular
demands
;
albeit
We
think
he
may
well
acquiesce
with
the
same
,
yet
since
he
hath
thought
fit
by
his
Memorial
,
to
desire
an
Answer
in
writing
,
We
are
very
well
pleased
to
satisfie
him
herein
,
that
the
States
General
may
see
the
sincerity
of
Our
proceedings
towards
them
.
Concerning
the
preparations
and
provision
of
Vessels
of
War
,
it
is
notoriously
known
;
that
in
the
beginning
of
this
year
We
gave
order
for
the
providing
a
less
guard
of
Ships
for
the
Summer
,
then
hath
been
set
out
any
year
since
our
happy
Restoration
for
that
season
,
believing
Our Self
to
be
in
so
good
Intelligence
with
all
Our
Neighbours
▪
that
We
might
well
〈…〉
charge
;
when
Our
Parliament
,
upon
the
cry
of
the
whole
Nation
,
with
some
earnestness
pressed
Us
to
take
an
extraordinary
way
to
repair
Our
people
,
for
the
many
and
daily
injuries
they
sustained
from
the
Subjects
of
the
United
Provinces
by
depredations
at
Sea
,
in
other
places
as
well
as
in
the
East-Indies
,
in
which
there
were
some
circumstances
of
that
presumption
,
in
declaring
their
Dominion
and
inhibiting
of
Commerce
against
the
Law
of
Nations
,
as
all
Princes
are
equally
concerned
therein
with
Us
;
We
made
no
other
answer
to
Our
Parliament
,
then
that
We
made
no
doubt
but
that
Our
good
Allies
,
the
States
of
the
United
Provinces
,
to
whom
in
truth
the
injuries
sustained
could
not
reasonably
(
We
thought
)
be
imputed
,
would
cause
justice
to
be
done
;
in
order
to
which
,
We
would
appoint
Our
Minister
residing
there
to
make
a
representation
and
complaint
.
For
which
temper
and
moderation
(
when
it
may
be
,
another
resolution
,
considering
the
nature
of
the
provocations
,
would
have
been
more
agreeable
to
the
desires
of
Our
Parliament
)
We
expected
the
thanks
of
Our
good
Neighbours
,
when
on
the
contrary
they
no
sooner
received
advice
of
this
Answer
returned
by
Us
,
then
in
a
very
extraordinary
manner
they
gave
direction
for
the
present
setting
out
of
a
very
great
number
of
Ships
of
War
,
without
any
other
visible
cause
then
to
manifest
to
the
world
how
much
they
defied
Us
and
Our
Parliament
.
Upon
all
which
,
as
We
should
have
been
thought
to
have
had
very
little
foresight
for
our
Honour
or
Interest
,
if
We
had
not
prepared
a
considerable
Fleet
for
Our
defence
,
(
the
charge
and
expence
whereof
We
would
have
been
very
glad
to
have
prevented
)
so
the
same
being
prepared
,
it
will
be
thought
a
very
strange
proposition
▪
that
it
be
〈◊〉
kept
within
the
Ports
;
and
it
will
be
found
by
their
demeanour
,
that
their
Instructions
are
not
to
do
any
injury
to
Our
Neighbours
and
Friends
,
but
to
defend
Our Self
,
Our
Dominions
and
Our
Subjects
from
receiving
injuries
from
Our
enemies
.
Nor
in
truth
can
we
believe
or
imagine
,
that
the
United
Provinces
(
from
whom
We
have
deserved
well
,
and
with
whom
We
are
ready
to
maintain
a
fast
friendship
,
to
which
many
other
considerations
,
besides
that
great
one
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
should
dispose
both
of
Us
)
will
deny
to
do
Us
justice
upon
Our
reasonable
demands
,
or
that
they
will
ever
sacrifice
the
Peace
of
their
Country
for
the
support
of
the
miscarriages
of
particular
persons
,
or
a
particular
Company
,
who
We
find
by
experience
more
considers
their
own
profit
and
interest
,
then
the
honour
or
safety
of
the
Government
under
which
they
live
;
which
the
States
General
will
well
weigh
and
consider
.
As
We
did
with
great
frankness
,
and
as
an
everlasting
manifestation
of
Our
affection
and
kindness
,
conclude
the
late
Treaty
with
the
United
Provinces
,
by
which
many
very
memorable
discourtesies
and
injuries
to
Our Self
and
Our
people
,
and
particularly
that
of
Amboyna
,
were
put
in
oblivion
;
So
We
have
most
exactly
observed
every
Article
on
Our
part
,
and
have
no
sooner
been
moved
in
any
particular
,
in
which
the
Subjects
of
the
United
Provinces
have
been
grieved
,
then
We
have
given
order
for
their
redress
,
in
the
most
expedite
way
,
without
putting
them
to
those
formalities
which
are
usual
in
Courts
of
Justice
:
whereas
We
are
very
sory
to
say
,
that
upon
all
the
complaints
made
at
the
Hague
by
Our
Minister
,
in
which
the
matter
of
Fact
hath
been
most
notorious
and
convincing
,
and
the
Right
most
apparent
,
redress
hath
not
been
given
to
any
one
and
such
delayes
used
in
all
,
as
are
upon
the
matter
,
and
in
the
consequence
of
it
,
a
plain
denial
of
Justice
,
which
brings
every
day
great
complaints
to
Us
from
Our
Subjects
of
all
parts
:
Notwithstanding
all
which
,
We
have
not
to
this
day
granted
one
Letter
of
Mart
upon
the
Subjects
of
the
United
Provinces
.
Concerning
Captain
Holmes
,
We
have
with
great
sincerity
assured
the
Ambassador
,
that
he
had
no
Commission
to
take
Capo
Verde
,
nor
any
other
place
belonging
to
the
Dutch
,
or
to
do
any
Act
of
Hostility
upon
any
of
the
Subjects
of
the
United
Provinces
,
that
was
not
for
the
defence
of
Our
Subjects
and
their
Trade
into
those
parts
:
And
we
cannot
but
expect
,
that
this
Our
free
Declaration
should
find
more
credit
with
Our
Allies
,
then
any
informations
or
examinations
of
Mariners
and
Sea-men
,
who
seldom
know
what
they
inform
.
We
expect
the
said
Captain
Holmes
his
arrival
here
every
day
,
and
will
then
,
upon
due
enquiry
into
all
that
he
hath
done
,
determine
what
is
just
.
The
Ships
at
present
designed
for
those
parts
are
Ships
of
Trade
,
and
have
neither
power
nor
will
to
wrong
the
Subjects
of
the
United
Provinces
.
But
we
are
very
heartily
sorry
to
hear
,
not
from
general
rumour
,
or
the
loose
discourses
of
hear-sayes
,
but
from
the
pregnant
evidence
and
full
information
of
Our
Governour
of
Our
Fort
of
Cormantine
,
That
about
the
end
of
January
last
,
the
Commanders
of
the
Ships
belonging
to
the
Dutch
West-India
Company
,
after
many
assaults
upon
Our
Merchants
Ships
in
those
Seas
,
and
forbidding
and
restraining
them
from
Trade
,
did
stir
up
and
hire
the
King
of
Fantine
to
assault
and
surprize
that
Our
Castle
of
Cormantine
,
and
to
put
the
same
into
their
hands
for
the
price
of
sixty
Bendys
,
whereof
one
half
was
payd
down
by
the
said
Dutch
Commanders
,
with
this
condition
likewise
,
that
the
said
Natives
should
enjoy
to
themselves
all
the
plunder
of
that
Our
said
Castle
.
In
pursuance
of
which
infamous
Contract
,
and
the
better
to
enable
them
to
perform
the
same
,
the
Dutch
Commanders
supplied
the
said
King
of
Fantine
with
a
good
quantity
of
Muskets
,
Powder
and
Cartages
;
whereof
Our
Commander
having
notice
,
by
the
blessing
of
God
surprized
the
same
:
which
it
may
be
is
one
of
those
Acts
of
Hostility
whereof
mention
is
made
in
this
Memorial
,
We
having
no
notice
of
any
other
.
Two
Men
of
War
,
belonging
to
the
Dutch
Company
,
came
from
the
Mina
to
Cape
Coast
to
attend
this
enterprize
at
the
time
appointed
,
and
accordingly
the
King
of
Fantine
upon
the
fifth
day
of
February
last
came
with
five
hundred
men
in
hope
to
have
surprized
Our
Castle
;
but
finding
himself
discovered
,
and
forced
ro
retire
with
some
loss
,
he
advanced
again
the
next
day
with
a
Body
of
three
thousand
men
,
and
continued
a
sharp
fight
with
Our
men
for
the
space
of
four
hours
,
after
which
time
he
was
beaten
off
with
great
loss
,
and
hath
since
with
shame
and
sorrow
acknowledged
his
breach
of
faith
towards
Us
,
and
declared
the
motives
and
Contract
aforesaid
;
the
Dutch
Ships
at
the
same
time
driving
a
small
Ship
belonging
to
Our
Merchants
under
the
command
of
Captain
Borthwick
into
Our
Port
Inashange
,
anchored
by
him
,
hindred
all
the
Canoes
from
coming
on
board
him
,
and
took
his
Boat
and
five
men
,
which
they
would
not
restore
till
they
found
their
other
enterprize
had
miscarried
.
We
cannot
in
any
degree
doubt
that
the
States
of
the
United
Provinces
will
manifest
their
detestation
of
this
perfidious
design
,
and
cause
exemplary
Justice
to
be
done
upon
the
Persons
guilty
of
it
,
which
We
expect
and
require
;
and
that
instead
of
sending
Ships
of
War
to
justifie
these
unwarrantable
and
scandalous
proceedings
,
(
which
would
be
attended
with
ill
effects
,
and
would
insensibly
produce
a
War
between
the
two
Nations
,
which
we
desire
to
prevent
)
their
Wisdoms
will
reprehend
and
warn
their
West-India
Company
,
that
they
hereafter
forbear
those
outrages
,
and
that
they
do
not
presume
under
the
stile
of
Merchants
to
usurp
the
Prerogative
of
Princes
,
and
assume
such
a
Dominion
to
themselves
,
as
if
it
were
in
truth
vested
in
them
,
would
not
warrant
them
to
inhibit
Traffique
and
Commerce
with
their
Neighbours
,
but
must
incense
all
Christian
Princes
against
their
presumption
.
Concerning
the
Reformed
Churches
in
the
valleys
o●
Piedmont
,
towards
whom
We
have
expressed
Our
compassion
and
charity
in
a
contribution
since
Our
happy
Restoration
,
as
We
will
be
alwayes
ready
to
relieve
and
protect
the
afflicted
state
of
any
Protestant
Churches
to
Our
Power
;
We
being
not
fully
informed
of
their
condition
,
or
the
grounds
of
their
late
sufferings
,
know
not
what
more
to
do
,
then
to
desire
the
most
Christian
King
to
use
his
mediation
,
which
We
doubt
not
but
he
will
do
upon
the
desire
of
Our
Ambassador
in
Ou●
name
,
and
acccording
to
Our
directions
.
We
are
exceedingly
afflicted
for
those
places
withi●
the
Dominions
of
the
United
Provinces
which
are
〈◊〉
present
infected
with
the
Plague
,
and
do
heartily
pray
to
God
that
he
will
speedily
withdraw
that
his
Visitation
from
them
,
and
in
the
mean
time
do
in
a
great
degree
suffer
with
them
,
by
the
suspending
that
Traffique
and
Commerce
which
is
so
much
for
the
good
of
both
Nations
:
But
it
cannot
be
expected
or
desired
,
that
We
will
neglect
or
decline
that
provident
care
of
Our
People
which
is
due
to
them
,
in
using
all
possible
means
to
preserve
them
from
that
Contagion
,
which
cannot
be
done
without
such
restraints
,
which
are
for
the
present
with
great
loss
and
damage
to
both
People
,
and
to
which
We
hope
the
goodness
of
God
will
shortly
put
a
period
,
by
making
the
correspondence
as
safe
and
wholsome
as
it
hath
been
,
and
restoring
perfect
health
to
the
places
now
infected
,
as
well
as
to
their
Neighbours
,
who
cannot
but
in
a
degree
suffer
with
them
,
though
they
are
not
under
the
same
calamity
.
We
having
now
complyed
with
the
Ambassadors
desires
,
in
giving
this
particular
Answer
in
writing
to
his
Memorial
,
and
to
all
that
he
hath
proposed
to
Us
,
We
make
no
question
but
he
will
faithfully
transmit
the
same
to
Our
good
Friends
and
Allies
the
United
Provinces
;
and
We
desire
him
the
said
Ambassador
to
assure
them
,
that
We
are
so
firmly
resolved
to
maintain
a
firm
Amity
and
Friendship
with
them
,
that
a
War
(
by
the
blessing
of
God
)
cannot
fall
out
between
Us
,
except
they
depart
from
all
Rules
of
Justice
,
and
suffer
their
Subjects
to
involve
them
in
a
War
to
support
the
wrong
they
do
their
Neighbours
against
all
Right
;
which
we
are
most
confident
they
will
never
be
induced
to
do
,
and
which
mischief
(
of
which
no
man
can
foresee
the
end
)
their
great
Wisdoms
will
prevent
.
CHARLES
R.
By
His
Majesties
Command
,