2cj6 ■• A. D. 1619. 



benefit of this treaty, unlefs by the confent of both companies. And 

 if any fubjed of the king, or of the ftates, fliall hereafter invade the 

 privileges of either company, in that cafe both companies fhall jointly 

 and feparately oppofe all invaders of this trade, and all other companies 

 that may hereafter be fet up during the term of this treaty. 



XXIX) ' In cafe of the death of the fadors, or other difaflers hap- 

 pening to either company, their property fliall be carefully preferved by 

 the factors of the other company for the proprietors. 



XXX) ' This treaty fliall continue for twenty years ; during v/hich, 

 any difputes which cannot be determined by the council in India, or 

 by the companies in Europe, fliall be fubmitted to his majefty and the 

 ftates general, who will condefcend to fettle them.' 



The king, in his ratification of the treaty, promifes not to ered any 

 other India company during the term of it. [Fiedera, V. xvii,/». 170.] 



This famous treaty, or rather union, between the two companies, was 

 fcarcely fooner concluded than it was violated in its moll eflential points. 

 The Englifli and Dutch writers are fo diametrically oppofite in their 

 accounts of the tranfadions which followed, that they agree in nothing 

 but mutual accufations, fo that it is apparently impoflible to difcover 

 the truth. But we may obferve, that if the two companies could have 

 preferved the harmony profefled in the treaty, they might probably till 

 now have remained fole mafl;ers of the entire commerce of Arabia, Per- 

 fia, India, and China, and have expelled not only the Portuguefe, but 

 every other European nation, from trading to thole countries. How 

 juftly that could have been done, we do not pretend to fay. 



The king appointed Sir John Ayre his minifter at the court of the 

 fultan Ofmin Han, at Conflantinople, to fettle friendfliip and com- 

 merce with Turkey, and to appoint the places of trade, and to nomi- 

 nate confuls. [Feeder a, V. x\n,p. 178.] 



' About this time tapeftry work was firfl; brought into England by 

 * Sir Francis Crane, for the encouragement whereof King James gave 

 ' L2000 for the building of a houfe at Mortlake, on the Thames, where 

 ' Francis Clein was the firfl defigner.' {Prejentjlate of England, part iii, 

 p. gs,ed. 1683.] 



According to the author of the Happy future flate of England [p.yS, 

 ed. 1689] the whole coinage of gold and filver in the mint at the tower 

 of London, between the years 1599 and 161 9, was L. 4,779, 3 14 • ^3 • 4- 



The voyagers tell us, that in this year the Englifli, from Japan, at- 

 tempted to fettle a trade with China and Cochin China, though unfuc- 

 cefsfuUy. In the later country both the Englifli and Dutch faitors were 

 maflacred ; becaufe, as was given out, the Dutch had a little before 

 burnt one of their tov^ns. Letters from the Englifli fadory at Firando, 

 in Japan, gave accounts of a great perfecution of chriflians in that 

 country ;. and they ahb complained of the cruel treatment by the 



