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Excerpt from A Calendar of the Court Minutes, Etc of the East India Company 1660-1663
Frigate for Guinea and Bantam (in Java). As the Commissioners of Customs refused to allow bullion to be shipped without special authority, an order was obtained for the export of treasure to the amount of (pp. 4, The question of planting' Pulo Run - tho island in the Bandas which the Dutch, by the Treaty of Westminster, had undertaken to restore to the English - had been revived in January, but on the 23rd of that month it was decided that it was too late to do anything that season. On the sth of the same month, the Advice, one of the ships sent out in May, 1658, reached Plymouth from Bantam. In February, 1660, the Committees were disturbed by the news that certain private merchants were fitting out the Anne and yoyce for dispatch to Bantam, and a month later it was learnt that the promoters of the enterprise had petitioned the Council of State, who had referred the application to a committee. Representations were at once made to the latter, with the result that the dispute was submitted to arbitrators, by whose award the Company was to take over the vessel and compensate the adventurers for their outlay. The Restoration, as the ship was now named, was dispatched in June to Bantam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.