[1700]
General peace. Adoption of New Style* by the German Protestant States.
Background - from official documents in the archives
2/1 ... In the morning comes ashore the Capn of the Wyngaard Pink, now released by the said English ship Loyal Marchant, reporting how he had been handled by Capn Matthew Lowth ... [Several letters exchanged between Lowth and the Governor, texts not given]
4/1. Being Christmas Day in the Old Style*, those of the Loyal Marchant fired all their guns ...
11/1. Today being New Year by the Old Style,* those of the Loyal Marchant have frolicked and fired all their guns ...
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