Background - continued
12/6/1699 ... the ship Abbekerk [arrived 19/5] weighed anchor, as did also the said English ship Entelope ...
16/6 ... towards evening came ... the Heer Commandeur Thomas Waren with three English warships, sailed January 18 last ... from Portsmuyden, having touched at Madeira and St Jago: Harwich 50 guns, 200 men; Anglesea Captn Littleton 56 guns, 200 men; Hastings Captn White 36 guns, 140 men. No sick or dead, and said to be bound for Madagascar to try to damage the pirates there, although one cannot learn their real purpose; also arrived here today the English East-India Company's ship Sceptre, Captn Jan Phenny, 28 guns and 80 heads, run out of Portsmouth March 12 ... bound for Madras ...
17/6 ... learned that the Heer Ridder Willem Norris was on board one of the English ships.
20/6 ... The Hon. Governor being this morning in the Company's Garden was met there by the Ambassador Norris and other prominent persons, and after they had chatted for a time in a tent, the same left there at noon after an exchange of compliments ...
26/6 ... arrived the English warship Lidzard, Capn Johnson, 40 guns and 150 men ...
28/6 ... towards noon came also the English Company's ship named Bedford, Captain Hutson, 54 guns and 250 men, from England April 1 ... having had 2 dead and bringing 6 sick ...
1/7 ... garrison* 496 heads ... in the ships lying here and in the Saldanhabhay Sirjansland 106 head [homeward], Westhoven 221 [outward], Peter and Paul 70 [for Madagascar for slaves], the little flute* the Hen 50 [outward], the Swaag [bringing stores for the Cape], the Berkel 145 [homeward], Beijeren 208 [ditto], Nieuwland 75 [ditto]. Towards noon the said Heer English Ambassador with the said Hon. Commander and other senior English officers took their farewell of the Hon. Governor in the Company's Garden ...
2/7 ... the 4 English warships, together with the [English] Company's ship ... the Sceptre, as also our aforesaid Dutch vessel Beijeren, all weighed anchor ... but must anchor again across the bay ...
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