East Indies: December 1611 | 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.

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'East Indies: December 1611', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 2, 1513-1616, ed. W Noel Sainsbury( London, 1864), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol2/pp232-233 [accessed 29 November 2024].

December 1611



Dec. 4. London.	592. John Chamberlain to Sir Dudley Carleton. Sir Dudley Diggs, a great undertaker of this new discovery of the North-west passage, thinks of nothing else: they are preparing ships against spring as if there were no doubt nor difficulty in the matter, and the Prince is become a partner and protector. [Extract from Domestic, Jac. I., Vol. LXVII., No. 82, Cal. p. 96.]
Dec. 12.	593. Sir Robert Sherley to Salisbury. Is loth to intrude upon his great affairs, “I beseech God upon the knees of my heart to disburden you of your indisposition,” but has an earnest desire to know what he is to expect in answer of those things proposed in the name of the King which sent him, having no mind inclined to idleness, nor to sleep in the favours it has pleased His Majesty to use towards him. Sir Walter Cope the bearer of this letter. [One page and a half. East Indies, Vol. I., No. 35.]
Dec. 14. Aboard the Thomas, [off Bantam?]	594. [George Ball]? to Edmond Camden [at Bantam]? Complains of being kept in ignorance of what is doing although joined, in commission with him and others, and entreats him to obtain information from his captain and communicate it to him. [One page. O. C., Vol. I., No. 79.]
Dec. 29. Madrid.	595. Sir John Digby to Salisbury. Sir Robt. Sherley much railed at; those who formerly extolled him for a great good Catholic, stick not to lay every imputation upon him, affirming that he lived a Moor in Persia, with other infamies; they are much displeased that he is so received in England. But finds them by many degrees much more troubled with the bruit of the new discovery of the Northwest passage, which is very distasteful to them. [Extract from Correspondence, Spain.]
1611. Dec.29. /1612. Jan. 8. Pettapoli.	596. Lucas Antheuniss to Peter Williams at Masulipatam. Thanks for his letters. Particulars of mercantile transactions. Hopes to leave the 14 parcels contracted for ready in 15 days, and to have the accounts ready in 20 days. [Dutch. One page and a quarter. O. C., Vol. I., No. 80.]
Dec. 30.	597. Commission to Edward Marlowe to be captain and chief commander of all persons in the James and Solomon, for a voyage now intended to the East Indies, with like authority to John Gourney to succeed him if he should die. [Docquet. Domestic, Jac. I., Cal., p. 103.]
Dec. 30.	598. Similar commission for Thos. Best and Thos. Aldworthe to be captains successively of two other ships for a voyage intended to the East Indies. [Docquet. Domestic, Jac. I., Cal., p. 103. In Gt. Bk., p. 83, Domestic, Jac. I., these two ships are named the Dragon and Osiander, and both this and the preceding commissions are dated Jan. 16, 1612.]
1611.	599. Minute of the particulars which Sir Ralph Winwood, ambassador with the States of the United Provinces, was commanded to negotiate. To take notice of the complaints of the English East India merchants who have received wrongs and violence from the subjects of the States. [Extract from Holland Corresp., 1613.]