[1698]
General peace. Charter given to the English ‘New East-India Company’.
Background - from official documents in the archives
3/2 ... arrived the frigate the Pool ... expressly sent out for Ceylon to take the good news of peace, by the mediation of His Royal Majesty of Sweden, between the King of France and the Allied Powers, solemnly made at the King's house at Ryswyk in Holland on September 20 last ...
14/2 ... towards noon six of the [return-] fleet seen, but could not reach the roads ...
17/2...at last 6 [sic:seven] ships have reached the roads, namely 's Lands Welvaren, Beijeren, Meresteyn, Overnes, Schoondyk, Nigtevegt, Donkervliet ... but Domburg and Grimmesteyn were ... forced to run out to sea again ...
20/2 ... the said ship Grimmesteyn comes to anchor, but could tell us nothing of the ship Domburg ...
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