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prefs orders to prefs one hundred men out of the Ihips, with proportionable provifions, 

 immediately after his arrival there, which were to be difpofed in the fort of St. Mar- 

 garet, both for its defence, and to keep the inhabitants in due obedience. 



And, confidering that the fcarcity of provifions was one of the main obftacles to be 

 furmounted on our fide, which, as the cafe then ftood, would more and more increafe, 

 unlefs we could remain mailers of the field, from whence we drew mofl of our provi- 

 fions, and to over-awe the difcontented inhabitants, it was judged requifite to form a 

 fmall camp near St. Lawrence ; and, accordingly, the two lieutenants Huykquefloot 

 and Hamel, were ordered thither with thirty-five men each, the firft from Iguaraka, 

 the lad from Moribeca, as likewife Captain Wiltfchut, with fifty men more from the 

 Receif ; John Liflry, commander-in-chief of the Brazilians, was likewife ordered to 

 join with them with all poflible fpeed, three hundred Brazilians under their own 

 commanders. 



The fame day, being the 1 2th, after a view was taken of the fortifications of Mori- 

 beca town, the fame were ordered to be repaired ; and news being brought, that John 

 Fernandes Vieira had been feen in his mill the fame night, the council endeavoured, 

 with all poflible care, to have fecured his perfon, but in vain ; it being certain, that 

 (according to the depofitions made by his fteward of the mill, called St. John, before 

 the public notary Indiik, in the Receif, 21ft January 1647), near fix months before the 

 breaking out of this infurredion, he had never flept one night in his houfe : and when- 

 ever he happened to be there in the day-time, he remained for the mofl part in a turret 

 on the top of the houfe, from whence he could have a profpedt at a great diflance ; if 

 his bufinefs called him below, he put fomebody elfe there to keep the watch ; who, if 

 they f?.w but two or three perfons come that way, gave immediate notice thereof to 

 him ; and if any Dutch in a body were difcovered, he retired inftantly into the adjacent 

 woods. He had likewife placed fome negroes at a certain diflance from the houfe, who 

 were to give notice of the approach of any unknown perfons that way. 



The 1 3th, Sebaflian Karvalho, and Antonio de Bulbous, were brought in prifoners 

 to the Receif, the refl, who were fenfible of their guilt, having efcaped their hands ; 

 the firll being examined the fame night by the affeffor of the court of juflice, Mr. 

 Walbeek, concerning the intended confpiracy, gave him the following account by word 

 of mouth : — 



His Cotifefflon, 



" That he was one of thofe three who, a few days ago, had, by way of letter, given 

 an account of an intended confpiracy in the Vergea, to the great council, the ring-leader 

 thereof being John Fernandes Vieira, who, with the reft of his Portuguefe accomplices, 

 relied upon the fuccours promifed them from the Bahia ; with what he had judged 

 mofl proper for obviating the fame. That the whole defign of this confpiracy was laid 

 open to him by means of a certain writing, in form of an affociation, which was de- 

 livered to him by a Portuguefe fervant of the faid Vieira, together with a letter, in which 

 he defired him to fubfcribe the fame, there being no more than two who had figned it 

 at that time, viz. John Fernandes Vieira, and Lewis da Coda Sepulpeda. The contents 

 of this affociation were, that they promifed to rife in arms againfl this ftate, and to fa- 

 crifice their lives and eflates for the recovery of the Dutch Brazil under the obedience 

 of the King of Portugal. That indeed he had figned the faid affociation, but had given 

 immediate notice thereof to Fernando Vale and a third perfon ; and that he, together 

 with Mr. Vale, had caufed the before-mentioned letter, direded to the great council, 



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