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King's authority for the surrender ; " yet his after carriage savoured of a 

 traitor " as Willoughby stated, but the charge which he enclosed is not 

 now forthcoming. 



Some of the Settlers retired to Barbados, and Lord Willoughby wrote 

 that he was sending shipping for more. He hoped that if the surrender 

 was delayed, most of the sugar works would be utterly destroyed, and 

 the Dutch would have little reason to glory of their purchase. All this 

 the States Ambassadors represented to the Court of St. James was against 

 the Treaty of Breda ami claimed damages. In reply it was stated by 

 Champante, Lord Willoughby's agent, in May 1668, that when the colony 

 was surrendered to Crynsens by Byarn it was stipulated that the inhabi- 

 tants were to have all their estates, lands, and goods, with power to sell 

 them, and they were not to be damnified by Dutch or French. Power was 

 also given to transport themselves with their slaves and goods. The 

 articles were to be confirmed in Zealand as soon as possible ; but this had 

 never been done, though twelve ships had since arrived at Surinam from 

 Zealand, and it was intended to make absolute prey of His Majesty's sub- 

 jects there, and on the 7th October, 1667, the colony had been retaken by 

 Lt. General Willoughby and Sir John Harman. This prevarication on 

 Willoughby's part may have been in a measure the cause of much trouble 

 to the Rritish in the transfer of the colony to the Dutch, who at all times, 

 however, suffered from the fault of giving too little and asking too much. 



In June the States Ambassadors became impatient and requested 

 that the King should frame letters to declare that what Lord Willoughby 

 and his son had done was a notorious breach of the Peace and a con- 

 tempt of His Majesty's command, and to command him to surrender the 

 fort and colony to whomsoever should show the order as expressed in his 

 Majesty's letter annexed. 



In July a petition was considered by the King in Privy Council from 

 Nathaniel Kingsland, a planter of Barbados, complaining that Lt. -General 

 Henry Willoughby had sold his land in Surinam to a Dutchman, and his 

 great-house in the town to a drink-seller, and that Lord Willoughby had, 

 because he protested, imprisoned him and sent him to England. Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel Robert Sauford, who had in 1662 petitioned the Privy 

 Council with regard to Byam's high-handed action as governor, also 

 complained that on being expelled from Surinam he had obtained advan- 

 tageous employment in Barbados under Sir James Drax but that 

 Willoughby had put him in prison and sent him to England. There is, 

 however, no record to tell whether they obtained redress or not. 



In July the King wrote to Lord Willoughby expressing his resent- 

 ment of what he and his son had done contrary to the Treaty of Breda, 

 and declaring that Willoughby ought not to have anythiug to do with the 

 colony of Surinam. The King judged that all goods which 

 Willoughby and his son possessed in Surinam were confiscated 

 to the States of Zealand. Therefore his Majesty strictly commanded him 



