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The 28th of June Mucheron arrived with his two companies in the Receif, from the 

 Alegoas, where it was refolved to difpofe his own company in Quinqueregular fort, of 

 which, as a place of great confequence, he was made commander-in-chief 5 the other of 

 Captain William Lambert was put in the fort Erneftus. 



By letters from Paul Linge, governor of Parayba, dated the 25th of June, we re- 

 ceived advice that the inhabitants thereabouts offered to give him frelh affurance of their 

 fidelity, by taking a new oath of allegiance, and that he did not obferve the leaft motion 

 towards an infurredtion. 



Jacob Daffnie, mafter of the fugar-mill Supapema, who had been abroad with a good 

 party, made his report to the council, that he had been at feveral fugar-mills, where he 

 had met with about two hundred of the enemy*s troops divided into divers fmall bodies, 

 compofed of Portuguefe, mulats, and negroes, under the command of Amador de 

 Araouje, Antonio de Crafto, one Taborda, and Henry Dias. 



The 29th of June, by fpecial commiffion from the council, Balthafar Vander Voer- 

 den examined Antonio d'Oliveira, concerning the defign of the Portuguefe formed 

 againft our government. He declared, that about the beginning of this prefent June, 

 being then at the houfe of Sebaflian de Karvalho, together with Francifco d'Oliveira, 

 Bernardin Karvalho, and the before-mentioned Sebaflian de Kacvello, a certain 

 Portuguefe very well known to them all, delivered to him a letter, direded to 

 all the perfons there prefent, with another piece of writing unfealed, which he 

 began to read ; but finding the contents to be, that the under- written perfons 

 promifed to be, and declare themfelves faithful fubjeds of the King of Portugal, and 

 that John Fernandes Vieira, Francifco Beringel, Antonio de Sylva, and feveral more, 

 whofe names he would not look upon, had figned the fame, he returned the faid 

 writing, and refufed to fubfcribe the fame, telling his fon at the fame time, " You ought 

 rather to fuffer your hand to be cut off, than fign this paper ;" and fo went his way im- 

 mediately, not any one of all there prefent having fubfcribed their names at that time : 

 he protefted he knew not the hand-writing. After a more ferious confideration, he 

 thought it requifite to make a difcovery of it, which he did accordingly within two days * 

 after to Matthew Reex, defiring him to give an account of it to the great council ; he 

 declared further, that the faid writing was figned by above one hundred of the in- 

 habitants. 



The 30th of June, one Digos Lopes Leyte, who was not long ago taken prifoner by 

 the Brazilians, was examined by Mr. Bulleflraet, Dortmont, and fome other military 

 officers. His confeffion was, that at the firft beginning of the defign of the Portuguefe 

 againft this ftate, they had fent a letter to the governor of the Bahia, Antonio Telles 

 de Sylva, to crave afliftance from him, which if he refufed, they would feek for aid 

 in Spain ; and if they did not fucceed there, they would rather furrender themfelves to 

 the Turks, than endure any longer the ill-treatment they met with from the Hollanders. 

 That neverthelefs he had heard many dire imprecations made againft John Fernandes 

 Vieira ; that he deferved no lefs than the gallows, he having railed this rebellion for 

 no other end, than thereby to free himfelf from the vaft debts he owed to the company. 



The fame day it was agreed to fend abroad a party of twelve foldiers and eight Bra- 

 zilians, to fetch a good quantity of farinha from St. Lawrence, who were put to the 

 rout near that place, fo that very few efcaped. At the fame time the council received 

 the unwelcome news, that fome of the inhabitants of Iguarafu had taken up arms 

 againft them. 



In the beginning of July it was refolved to draw the fortifications of Maurice's 

 Town into a narrower compafs, and to add a new line with a breaft-work. This tafk 



was 



