Background - continued
25/6/1686 ... the ships Sillida, Emeland, Coeverden, the Krygsman and the Hoefijser set sail ... tacking out of the bay ...
1/7 Resolutions ... the mine at the Witteboomen ... without the least sign of any lode ... agreed to send the Mine-Overseer Frederik Math. van Werlinghof with the other miners to Batavia ... for employment on the West coast of Sumatra ...
29/10 ... reached the roads the English Company's ship the Touwr van London, having sailed 4 months ago from the Thames bound for Bombaya with 130 sailors, 100 soldiers and 50 guns ... having touched at Saint Jago ... lost her foretopmast near the coast here in a storm ...
31/10 ... the Captain of the English ship ... came to salute the Hon. Commandeur ...
2/11 ... came to the roads the English King's ship Courtgene [?: name of Dutch ship] of 100 last,* manned with 32 guns and 62 men, having sailed four months ago from Portsmuyden ... with the Touwr ... both having touched at Saint Jago, being new ships, the smaller bound for Ballaser [Balasore] in Bengal ... having met a French warship in the Channel which told them that war between her King and ‘Haar Hoog Mogende’ was regarded as a certainty ...
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