[1678]
March Anglo-Dutch defensive alliance. August 10 Treaty of Nymegen, peace between France and Holland. September 17 peace between France and Spain. Continuation of the war between Denmark and Sweden.
Background - from official documents in the archives
24/3 ... five messengers came from the Obiquas ... sent by their Captain to beg that they might henceforth live in peace and friendship with us ...
9/4 [First stone of permanent Church laid; but letter from Holland 20/6/80 ordered that its building ‘must wait’. See 28/12/1700]
6/5 ... discovered that the four Hottentots [Souquas: apparently four of the six brought in by Cruse ‘charged with ... the thefts ... committed against the inhabitants’] confined in the prison had broken a hole through the wall, built of stone and five feet thick, with nothing but their hands ...
18/5 Letter to Holland ... we are now convinced that there is no such place as Saint Helena Nova to be found anywhere in the world ...
29/6 It pleased Almighty God to bring over to heavenly bliss this morning the Hon. Governor Johan Bax ... as provisional Administrator ... the Hon. Hendrik Crudop, Merchant* and Secunde* ...
10/11 ... arrived the Tommers Wall ... news of the marriage of H.R.H. the Prince of Orange with the daughter of the Duke of Yorck ...
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