323
Ibid., f. 100, Downing to Clarendon, October 14, 1664 (O. S.); Brieven van de Ambassadors in Engeland aan de Staten Generaal, October 14/24, 1664.
324
Clar. St. Paps., 108, f. 108, Downing to Clarendon, October 28, 1664 (O. S.); ibid., f. 120, Downing to Clarendon, November 4, 1664 (O. S.).
325
Ibid., f. 117, Downing to Clarendon, November 4, 1664 (O. S.).
326
Brieven van de Ambassadors in Engeland aan der Raadpensionaris, VanGogh to DeWitt, October 17/27, 1664.
327
S. P., Holland, 173, f. 19, VanGogh to Ruysch, December 5, 1654 (N. S.). The duke of York was known to be very favorable to Holmes at the same time. S. P., Dom., Charles II, 105, f. 176, Coventry to Bennet, November 27, 1664.
328
Pepys, Diary, IV, 312.
329
He arrived at Cape Verde October 22, 1664, and left the Gold Coast February 27, 1665.
330
In this account it seems unnecessary to give the details of the capture of these places. They may be found at length in Brandt, Vie de Ruiter, pp. 223 to 265.
331
S. P., Dom., Charles II, 110, f. 19; Condition of Co., Jan. 2 (1664/5).
332
P. C. R., Charles II, 5: 4.
333
The Case of the Royal African Company of England and their Creditors, p. 6.
334
Add. MSS., 22,920, f. 46, Lord Hollis to (Downing), September 2/12, 1664.
335
On October 30, 1664 (N. S.), d'Estrades declared to the king of France that the real cause of the war then about to begin was the desire of the king of England to become master of Guinea. Mémoires d'Estrades, II, 517.
336
See the paper of Sir Richard Ford, one of the prominent members of the Royal Company. Clar. St. Paps., 83, f. 374.
337
C. S. P., Dom., 1664-5, p. 154, warrant to Holmes, January 7, 1654.
338
S. P., Holland, 174, f. 138, VanGogh to Ruysch, January 9/19, 1665.
339
S. P., Holland, 174, f. 138, VanGogh to Ruysch, January 13/23, 1665.
340
Brieven van de Ambassadors in Engeland aan den Raadpensionaris, VanGogh to Ruysch, January 27/February 6, 1665.
341
Ibid., VanGogh to Ruysch, January 30/February 9, 1665.
342
Ibid., Cunaeus to –, February 24/March 6, 1665.
343
P. C. R., Charles II, 5:69.
344
Brieven van de Ambassadors in Engeland aan den Raadpensionaris, (VanGogh) to Ruysch, February 27/March 9, 1665.
345
C. S. P., Dom., 1664-5, p. 268, order to release Holmes, March 23, 1664/5.
346
The account of DeRuyter's voyage given here is a digest of what appears at much greater length in Brandt, Vie de Ruiter, pp. 223-265. A short contemporary English account may be found in C.O. 1: 19, ff. 88, 89.
347
S. P., Holland, 182, ff. 246, 247. The Dutch had entertained some hopes of inducing the English to surrender Cape Corse, as is evident from negotiations which they carried on with the Swedes and the Danes. In March, 1665, a treaty was drawn up between Sweden and the United Provinces in which the former country agreed to renounce her claims of damage against the West India Company and all her rights to any places on the African coast, for which renunciation the States General was to pay 140,000 rix dollars. The treaty failed of approbation on account of the reluctance of the king of Sweden to withdraw his interests from the coast of Africa. Aitzema, XI, 1102, 1103; S. P., Holland, 174, f. 148, Downing to Bennet, February 17, 1664/5 (O.S.); S. P., Holland, 179, f. 86, Downing to Bennet, March 10, 1665 (March 10, 1664/5. O. S.).