5P4- A M E%^I C A. Chap.. VII. 



without the ufual Circumjlances, pafi their Sentence, fthich was to be Executed by a higher 

 Tower. 



A few days after this Agreement was concluded, the Portuguefe Ambaflador, 

 Henrico Son/a ToVares, went for Lisbon , where he arriv'd on the laft day of September* 

 - g!^'» of ' Not onely Guelderland and Zealand, were much diflatisfi'd with this Agreement, 

 2^pmr r e tut alfo Groningen accus'd their Deputy Schulenbergh, that contrary to Orders he had 

 mthltnl been too forward in concluding the Peace with Portugal, and that he had con. 

 demn nd ^ fented to that which the States of Groningen had not permitted him 5 for they re- 

 ft*?*, folv'd to make Peace on no other account, but that Portugal fhould pay the eighty 

 Tun of Gold in ready Money, and that in a (hort time 5 whenas on the contrary, 

 he had allowed of the payment in Merchandife, and that in a longtime. Where- 

 fore the States of Groningen (who for this Fa& and feveral Accufations brought 

 againft Schulenbergh, condemn'd him to be Beheaded, which Sentence had been Exe- 

 cuted upon him, had he not made his Efcape) together with thofe of me land, and 

 others, who difapprov'd of the Peace concluded with Portugal, drew up many Rea- 

 fons why they diiTentcd, and look'd upon it as both difhonorable and difadvanta- 

 geous ; however, the Articles being Sign'd, and the States General, taking into con- 

 fidcration how impoffible a Work it would have been to have gone about to re- 

 new a War with the Portuguefe in 'Brafile, being at that time in firm poiTeflion of 

 all, and that for the Intereft of a few, in refpedt of the whole Common. wealth 

 they were fore'd to reft fatisfi'd, and together with the IVeJl-India Company, to fit 

 down with the lofs of thofe Places in Brafile, which had coft fo much Blood and 

 Trcafurc to gain. 

 InaCom- Neverthelefs the WeflAndia Company put in a Memorial at the Hague, of all that 

 Sai M deii. k ac * k een <* one by them from time to time, wherein they themfelves had been great 

 StAtM* Sufferers, and the Common-wealth very much advantag'd, as namely, That atfirft 

 they put in a Stock of feventy four Tun of Gold, fent out divers Fleets under the 

 Admirals Willekens, John Dirkfcoon Lam, Boudewyn, Henrilkfoon, Peter Hein, Adrian 

 Pater, Henrick Lonk,DirkUitgeeJl, Peter Ita, Loos, Cornells Houte*been, Lichthart, (Banker*, 

 and others, at feveral times, which had much wcakned the Spanijh Power, to the 

 great advantage of the United Netherlands , becaufe the Spaniard was not onely fore'd 

 to difperce his Power to defend America, but alfo loft great Riches on the Coaft 

 thereof, which being flic Sinews of his War, prevented him from oppreffing that 

 State ; That to their lofs thqy fuffer'd their Forces to flop the Enemy, when he broke 

 into xhtVelum, at that time when the United Netherlands feem'd to hang by a filken 

 Thred 5 That it would probably have been the ruineof Holland, if the mighty Spa- 

 nifb Fleet which Engagd with Martin Tromp in the Downs, had been affifted by fixty 

 fix Sail, which La Torre was fore'd to fend to the Coaft of Brajile, againft the Weft- 

 India Company j That this Companies Concern was fo great a ^urfery of Mari- 

 ners in the Year i6i 9 . that they had above a hundred Ships at Sea,and fifteen thour 

 fand Men in their Service 5 which the United Netherlands confidcring, and judging 

 that Charge too great for the Company to maintain, had refoVd to contribute a 

 certain Sum towards it yearly, which had not yet been paid . which made them 

 take up Money upon Intereft, and put in a Supply of thirty Tun of Gold for the 

 payment of the fame • That the Expedition of Henrick Brewer to Chili had put them 

 very much behind-hand, becaufe the Enemy having notice of it, fecur'd himfelf, 

 yet was often terrifi'd with it . for Brewer having found out a Way to go from flfc- 

 ciffa to the Province of Qhili in two Moncths, and accordingly to do great mifchief 

 to the Spanijh Power, whofe Riches lay bare all along the South Sea 5 this and 



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