East Indies, China and Japan: September 1620

Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 3, 1617-1621. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1870.

Citation:

'East Indies, China and Japan: September 1620', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan, Volume 3, 1617-1621, ed. W Noel Sainsbury( London, 1870), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/east-indies-china-japan/vol3/pp388-390 [accessed 29 November 2024].

September 1620



Sept. 6. The Hague.	896. Carleton to Sec. Naunton. As to the States' desire of conjunction of his Majesty's fleet and theirs against the pirates, Carleton informed the States that his Majesty having undertaken the enterprise with the King of Spain, it was not res integra to join with the States, as before, and that they might easily imagine, if they considered the usage his Majesty's subjects had received from the Dutch of late in the East Indies, that he had reason sooner to join with any than with them ; nevertheless, if their fleet came thither his Majesty, for his part, would not refuse their help in so good a cause. Answer of the States ; and for what had happened in the Indies it was the fortune of war, and they are sorry for it, as both are weakened thereby, their merchants being by contract to make restitution, as they expect the like from the English Company. The benefit of their conjunction, and their acknowledgments to his Majesty, which, if he had not effected, the Spaniard would have chased both Companies out of the Indies. Carleton's reply ; and concerning the proceedings in the East Indies, that his Majesty complained of their prosecuting a war against his subjects when a treaty of accommodation was on foot, and that the States showed that they justified their merchants' doings, and espoused their quarrel, rather than disavow it, for which and many other reasons his Majesty remained very ill satisfied. [Five pages. Holland Corresp.]
Sept. 7. Norenberg.	897. Walter Balcanquall to Carleton. Is wonderful glad of the embassies that go from the States to England and France, for the Spaniards at Brussels made no question but that the East Indies business would cut off all those hopes. [Extract from Holland Corresp.]
Sept. 13. The Hague.	898. Carleton to Sec. Naunton. The Lord of Benthusen, Camerleng, the pensioner of Delft, and Zunk [Sounck], burgomaster of Horne, deputy for the merchants at the last treaty touching the East Indies, appointed extraordinary ambassadors to his Majesty ; "all moderate men, but little practised in foreign affairs ;" meanwhile Sir Noel Caron is to beseech the King to suspend his displeasure until their arrival. Ambassadors chosen for France. [Extract from Holland Corresp.]
Sept. 18.	899. Extract from a sentence of the Dutch Court at Jacatra, fining the English President, Thos. Brockedon, fifty ryals, for taking wood without the knowledge of the officers to whom the oversight was committed. [One page. O.C., Vol. VII., No. 892.]
Sept. 20.	900. Certificate by Thos. Barker of the delivery of a packet of letters by Jefferies to him, which he gave to Monox, "which afterwards was by him [Monox] intercepted, which he could not deny, before a consultation held in Jask." [O.C., Vol. VII., No. 893.]
Sept. 21. Whitehall.	901. Sec. Naunton to Carleton. Recapitulates, according to the King's commands, and in answer to Carleton's letter of the 6th inst., all that has passed since the 29th of December 1618, when the States' Commissioners were like to have returned without any treaty at all. [Holland Corresp.]
Sept. 25. Hampton Court.	902. Minute of the order in which business is to be taken by the Privy Council. After that concerning the Merchant Adventurers resident at Middleburg, it is ordered that some of the East India merchants give an account of what has been done upon their complaint against Barwicke, for betraying their ships in the East Indies. [Extract from Domestic Corresp. Jac. I., Vol. CXVI., No. 106., Cal. p. 179.]
1620. Sept. 30. Hampton Court.	903. Sec. Naunton to Carleton. Letter received by the King from the States, expressing their misdoubt and apprehension of his displeasure, which his Majesty dissembled not to Sir Noel Caron. The points which the King has taken ill, and which he detailed to Sir Noel, and wound them up with a reference to be debated and concluded when their now intended Commissioners should come to treat here again, who are expected from week to week. [Extract from, Holland Corresp.]