With the Danes the Dutch had more success. On February 11, 1667, a treaty was entered into between Frederick III, of Denmark and the United Provinces, in which it was agreed that the Danes should surrender all their claims to Cape Corse, retaining, however, the adjacent fort of Fredericksburg. Dumont, Corps Universel Diplomatique, VI, part 3, p. 74.
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Dumont, Corps Universel Diplomatique, VI, part I, pp. 44, 45, article 3.
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Villaut, A Relation of the Coasts of Africa called Guinee, pp. 49, 56, 75.
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Ibid., pp. 126, 131, 135. Villaut also speaks of an English fort at Eniacham (Anashan).
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A. C. R., 75: 60.
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S. P., Dom., Charles II, 217, f. 76, John Lysle to Williamson, September 16, 1667.
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C. O. 1: 17, f. 243, John Allen to (the Royal Adventurers), December 18, 1663.
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A. C. R., 75: 3.
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S. P., Dom., Charles II, 380, f. 57; ibid., 381, ff. 138, 139.
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C. O. 1: 23, ff. 3, 4, 6, 7, Wilree to Pearson, January 23/February 2, and February 14/24, 1668.
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Ibid., 23, f. 5, Pearson to Wilree, n. d.
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C. O. 1: 23, f. 2, Pearson and others to the Royal Adventurers, February 18, 1667/8.
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A. C. R., 75: 75.
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C. O. 1: 23, f. 1, petition of the Royal Adventurers (July 3), 1668; P. C. R., Charles II, 7: 374, July 3, 1668.
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P. C. R., 7: 378, July 8, 1668. The minutes of the general court for November 14, 1668, mention a letter intended to be dispatched to Sir William Temple. A. C. R., 75: 81.
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A. C. R., 100: 47, 48.
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ibid., 75: 96.
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C. O. 1: 25, f. 227, estimate of charges for supplies at Cape Corse, December 19, 1670; A. C. R., 75: 106, 107.
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Foreign Entry Book, 176, minutes of the foreign committee, January 22, 1671/2.
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These were people of the rougher and even criminal classes of the parent country who, in return for their ocean passage, agreed to work for some planter during a specified number of years, usually seven.
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C. S. P., Col., 1674-1675, Addenda, p. 86, articles agreed on by Lord Willoughby and Sir George Ayscue and others, January 11, 1652.
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C. S. P., Col., 1661-1668, p. 14, petitions of merchants and planters, March 1, 1661.
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C. S. P., Col., 1661-1668, pp. 29, 30, 45, 46, 47, petitions from Barbadoes, May 11, July 10, 12, 1661.
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Ibid., p. 117, minutes of the council and assembly of Barbadoes, December 18, 1662.
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The pieces of eight were to be accepted at four shillings each, and 2,400 pounds of muscovado sugar were to be accepted in exchange for a slave.
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