[1697]
War ended by Treaty of Ryswyck.
Background - from official documents in the archives
3/1 ... at dawn arriving at the roads the long-awaited little ship the Veenmol ... sailed April 26 last from before Vlissingen ...
4/1 ... last night arrived the little English ship Scherbra, an interloper* and companion of the English vessel Rebecca ... 3 guns and 6 small iron guns [‘bassen’], 105 men, coming from Cadix ... bound for Bengal ...
7/1 ... came an English brigantine* named Royal Dutch, 4 guns and 15 men, coming from Barbados and now bound to Madagascar for the slave trade [Letter 20/1 to Batavia; suspected of piracy as confederate of Kydd]
9/1 ... between 7 and 8 in the morning ... four English warships including a fireship ... anchored behind the Lion Hill ...
11/1 ... came here to the roads, namely The Windsor, 56 guns, 350 men ... Tyger, 40 guns, 200 men ... Advys, 40 guns, 200 men ... Vulture, a fireship, 10 guns, 45 men. All bound for St Helena to await the English return-ships there ... but had been unable to reach there ... arriving here without sick ... and at noon ... anchored the Oost Indische Coopman, sailed on September 14th last in company with ... Sidny and Maddras from Plymuyden ... bound for Bombay ...
16/1 ... comes the said East-Indian merchantship Sidny to seek anchorage ... 40 guns, 133 men ... having lost 5 men and arriving with 30 sick ...
17/1 ... the aforesaid English ship Madras arrived ... 24 guns, 60 men, without deaths or sick ...
18/1 ... the chief officers of the English ships entertained to a collation on shore ...
21/1 ... the freemen to sell no corn or meal to the English ships ...
26/1 ... at last the aforesaid little English vessel Royal Russell set sail ...
29/1 ... the little flute* Veenmol set sail for Batavia ...
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