^94 JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). [VOL. XVII. 



Bouwens, Coenraet Salomons, Cornelis Laurensz Stan- 

 broeck, Abraham Bonwens, Albert Claesz Hooghland, Secre- 

 tary. 



January 16, 1642. 



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The plenary Council of the various ships and war-yachts 

 • 4 Bergen op den Soom," " Armuyden," " Bredam," and i% Lim- 

 men," duly assembled, having read and fully weighed the 

 letter from the Commander Cornelis Leendertsz Blaeuw 

 before Goa, sent us per the said yacht " Limmen," which left 

 Goa on the 23rd of December last, and arrived here by way 

 of Sante Cruz de Galle this day, in which letter the said 

 Commander Blaeuw, among other matters, requests that the 

 said yacht may be directly sent back to him with our advices 

 touching the state of affairs in the Island of Ceylon, that, 

 before he shall arrive here — as he intends to do — with the 

 ships " Hertogenbosch," " Wassenaer," " Valchenburg," and 

 the yacht " Rommerswael," he may shape his plans in accord- 

 ance with such information as he shall receive ; 



The Lord President having submitted to the judgment of 

 the Council the question whether it would be advisable to 

 keep the said yacht " Limmen " here or to send it back to the 

 port of Goa in conformity with the request of the Commander 

 Blaeuw ; 



the Council has unanimously resolved for the reasons 

 following, viz., 



as the said Commander Blaeuw trusts with the help of God 

 to appear here about the middle of this present month of 

 January, and as on the 9th of the present month the yacht 

 " Francker " left this fleet with a Persian cargo for the harbour 

 of Goa in order to set out from there 



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for Persia, taking with her a letter touching the state of 

 affairs here, to be delivered to the Commander Mathys 

 Quast of blessed memory (of whose demise we had not yet 

 then been made acquainted), which letter will doubtless reach 



