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(1,083 tons) and Elizabeth (978 tons) were new ships, built by 
the Company in the previous year. The chief commander was 
Charles Clevenger (CLE of the inscription), who hoisted his flag on 
the Palsgrave. 
At the Cape they seem to have met the Lesser James, homeward 
bound. Writing from Tiku, in Sumatra, which was reached on the 
23rd of October, 1619, Clevenger, Brockendon, and a factor named 
Mills, say: ‘‘ The 3rd of August before day wee sett sayle from the 
Cape, where we were 16 dayes wynde bound” (I. O. Records, O.C., 
No. 821). This conflicts with the inscription, but the two dates are 
not irreconcilable. No doubt it was intended to sail on the 20th of 
July, but after cutting the inscription and getting on board, the want 
of a suitable wind prevented them from making a start until the 3rd 
of August. The Thomas Brockedon mentioned in this inscription 
subsequently became the chief agent of the British Hast India Com- 
pany at Batavia, in Java, and at the time of the great struggle for 
commercial supremacy in the trade of the Hast Indian Islands, 
which finally culminated in the well-known massacre of Amboyna, 
he wrote (August, 1622) to his directors in London asking leave to 
return home, as he could ‘live no longer under the insolence of the 
Dutch” (Hunter’s ‘‘ History of India,” i., p. 385). 
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