East Indies: April 1607 | 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: April 1607', 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/pp151-152 [accessed 29 November 2024].

April 1607



April 16–25.	368. Court Minutes of the East India Company. A general court to be convened for consulation of a fourth voyage to the Indies, and for giving notice of the sale of the spices. Thomas Nelson, executor to his brother, having adventured 125l., and paid 40s. to the use of the poor, admitted a free brother of the society; also Henry Robinson, son of Mrs. Owen, an adventurer of 500l. in the third voyage. Request of Thomas Dobson for payment of 251. Names received by the governor of the persons wanting in the ships; means to be used to recover their imprests. Tristram Eldred and Mr. Tyte's accounts to be examined. Paul Bannyng's request about his spices, and Sir Edward Holmden's adventure.
	April 20.—Spices to be sold on 28th instant. Names of persons ordered to make present payment of their adventure to [Thos.] Farrington, treasurer, with the amounts.
	April 22.—Sir Edward Holmden's release of his adventure to Paul Bannyng read and agreed to. Request of Mr. Nicholson, executor of his brother Edmond, to be made free of the Company in his brother's place. Edmond Scott's request; his account of the Company's money employed by him at Bantam to be examined. Fifty–three shillings lent to Goad's wife, not for his wages, for avoiding of a precedent, “yet in charity in regard of her great misery.” The secretary's request for increase of wages, for his extraordinary labours.
	April 25.—Letters received from Plymouth signifying the departure of the pinnace on the 12th, and of the Dragon and Hector on the 16th. [Four pages and three quarters. Court Bk, II., 26–28.]
April 30. Bantam.	369. Gabriel Towerson to his loving brother. His last was of the 26th Oct. 1606 by the West Friesland, since which time nothing has happened worthy the writing. His own business in great forwardness. Thinks the time very long before the ships arrive, “to make an end of this irksome living in this place.” The Hollanders bear the greatest sway in these parts. Recounts at great length the proceedings of Admiral Cornelius Mataliphe the younger, who left Holland in May 1605 with eleven ships; their arrival at the islands of Maio, Amabo, “a very pleasant land, the people are of colour black, and go all naked,” Cerna, “by the Hollanders called Moritius,” with the loss of only one man who was killed, and the Nicobar Islands. Here the Admiral named the Bay Mataliphe and promised very large offers to the company if they took Malacca by force or otherwise. Efforts of the Hollanders and their conflicts with the enemy [the Portuguese]. King of Jor's ambassador, brought with the fleet from Holland, sent to his master for succours, who came himself, “but not so strong as was expected.” Four junks of Sumatra also came to help the Hollanders. Landing of between 1,300 and 1,400 men, Hollanders and blacks. Encounters with the Portugals; “shooting at the town;” and farewell sally of the Portugals. The Hollanders killed, about 50 and then went quietly to their ships, the admiral being the last man ashore. They then set sail to meet the [Portuguese] Armada, in all 26 vessels. On 6th August began the first fight, which “continued very hot on both parts;” long account of it; the Hollanders' want of ammunition; supplies procured at Jor. The fight renewed on the 6th October; details and loss on both sides. Don Lewis de Loberto, who was appointed admiral of the armada, taken prisoner, and kept at Bantam for a ransom of 6,000 ryals of eight. Movements of both the fleets. The [Dutch] Admiral has done much service in securing Acheen, Jor, and Bantam, which the Portugals threatened to overrun, and turn both the Hollanders and English out. The Hollanders will never be so near getting Malacca as they were, “and surely had had it, if the armada had not come upon them as he did.” In all this time the Hollanders lost upward of 600 men, two great ships, and 150 ryals of eight. News that the West Friesland is cast away upon the Sand Island, having saved all their men, but little of their goods. [Four pages. East Indies, Vol. I., No. 27.]