[1682]
General peace.
Background - from official documents in the archives
15/2 ... towards evening came to the roads ... the little boat [‘bootje’] Posthoorn ... December 18 last year from the Sunda Strait ...
16/2 ... this afternoon reaching the roads ... Land van Schouwen and Africa, and in the former ... the Hon. Governor-General Raykloff van Goens [and his wife] ...
4/3 About noon comes here from the Fatherland the ship the Burgt van Leyden ... sailed from Vlissingen on November 16, 1681 ... The news was of the seizure of Straatsburg by the King of France, without it being known what were his further plans, which might well lead to disunity throughout Christendom, and the threat of war to our State ...
5/3 [Broad Council*: work on Fort hastened]
13/3 [Broad Council: resolved to hold Burgt van Leyden at Cape]
24/3 ... sighted the ship the Vrijheydt ... sailed from Batavia January 10 ... all her four pumps continually at work ... her bowsprit and ‘guallioen*’ cut away to lighten her, also 8 cannon thrown overboard ...
25/3 ... this morning arrived ... the said ship Vrijheydt, in a lamentable condition everywhere ... two pumps working day and night ...
2/4 ... comes to anchor the ship Couverden ...
4/4 [Broad Council: resolved to send Burgt van Leyden with the return-fleet, for the reasons given in item 44] ... in the afternoon came tacking into the bay the long-awaited ship the Hollandse Tuyn ...
5/4 Before noon ... the ships Courtgene and Wester Amstel anchored [from Galle]
6/4 [Resolutions: details of the transfer of cargo to Burgh van Leyden from ‘the leaky return-ship Vrijheyt’, Hollantsen Thuijn, Landt van Schouwen, Africa, and Courtjene]
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