Background - continued
18/4/1699 ... the aforesaid English ships Josias, Benjamin and Sidny ... set sail with no compliments nor the firing of any gun ...
10/5 ... in the evening came advice overland from the Saldanhabhay that a certain well-armed English pirate had entered the bay and taken two of our vessels, including the Amy ... resolved to send the ship the Gent [arrived 28/4 outwards] with the frigate* Peter and Paul [they sailed 11/5 returning fruitlessly 19/5: Amy had been looted of everything moveable]
19/5 ... came about noon ... the Ceylon return-ship Sarjansland ... in a very bad state ...
5/6 ... the ship Beijeren ... bound for Batavia came here to the roads, having run out from Goeree February 2 last ... forced by heavy weather to run into Pleymouth and remain lying there until March 11 ...
6/6 ... appears the English ship Entelope, 30 guns, and 93 men, coming from Portsmouth 3½ months ago, bound for Bengalen ...
7/6 ... storm ... the boat of the Waterman [arrived 19/5 outward] and one of the shoreboats somewhat damaged ...
8/6 ... about 8 o'clock the said five returnships, to wit Nieuburg, Dieren, Bekesteyn, Bambeek and Spierdijk ... set sail [had arrived 5/5 and 14/5]
11/6 ... the ship the Waterman set sail ...
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