[1693]
‘Nine Years' War’ continues.
Background - from official documents in the archives
27/5 This morning comes here to anchor the English ship Benjamin, sailed February 24 from Suratta, with 70 men and 40 guns ...
3/6 Resolutions [Decided that English ship Amy, two-masted, 16 guns, to be confiscated as a pirate, the crew to be sent with return-fleet: she was in Saldanha Bay in May, her passes* were not in order, and 12 men found hidden on board in addition to the declared crew of 23. She remained at the Cape for local service]
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