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So that our deliberations may tend to the honour and 

 glory of Thy name, to the welfare of our beloved country, 

 to the benefit of our neighbours, together with the prosperity 

 and well-being of our chiefs and of those who have entrusted 

 these things unto us ; 



All this we entreat of Thee, in the name of Thy Son Jesus 

 Christ, Who has taught us to pray as follows : — 



Our Father, &c, 



De Vogel. 1 



Thursday, August 28, 1642. 



MS. foil. 



Whereas the Lord President and the Council of this 

 town, having on the 29th March last sailed from this 

 place for Coromandel by way of Battecaloa in the fleet 

 commanded by the Honourable Captains Cornell's Leendersz 

 Blaeuw and Dominions Bouwens respectively, had intimated 

 to the Lord Governor Arent Gardenys, that in the month of 

 September next they would send thither one of the yachts 

 lying in this Bay, in order to fetch thence certain necessaries 

 for the use of this garrison, 



the Lord President has submitted to his Council the 

 question 



Which yacht would be best suited for this purpose ; 



Whereupon the aforesaid Council having duly considered 

 that the yacht " Limmen " should especially remain here^ 

 seeing that the said yacht is the strongest and best equipped 

 of the three, not only to protect this bay against the enemy's 

 attacks by sea, but also in due time to harass the said enemy 

 in all possible ways in the roads of Columbo, and to intercept 

 any reinforcement that should be sent out to them from Goa, 

 which reinforcements cannot, we trust, at all be considerable, 



1 This was probably the name of a clergyman who accompanied the 

 expedition. His name does not appear in the list given in Valentyn, 

 Zaalien van den Godtsdienst op Ceylon, page 460, which begins two years later 

 with Antonius Hornhovius, 1642. 



