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until such time as we shall certainly know how we stand 

 with Raja Singa. 



As to the third point, 

 whereas we have not received notice in due form from the 

 Portuguese of the Truce concluded, and the approval of the 

 same, but only, on the 4th October, 1642 A.D., Dom Philippo 

 de Mascarenho, General of Columbo, sent to the Lord 

 President Jan Thysen, a copy of the articles of the truce and 

 of the ratification by Dom Jan, which had been despatched 

 before the counter-ratification of the States had been issued, 

 and which has consequently been considered null and void, 

 the more so as it was not accompanied by any formal assent 

 of the States-General. 



It has been resolved, that the Uppermerchant Marten 

 Vinck shall set sail for Columbo on the 5th instant in the 

 yacht " Rommerswael," in order to give notice there of the 

 afore-mentioned ten years' truce concluded between Dom 

 Jan the Fourth, King of Portugal, Algarvia, &c, and Their 

 High Mightinesses the States-Generals of the United Nether- 

 lands, and to signify unto the authorities at Columbo the 

 ratifications mutually exchanged, giving them to understand 

 at the same time, that on accepting our notification of the said 

 truce, they will be bound to evacuate and cede to us the 

 country about Galle, which at the present moment they are 

 still holding, together with such matters as shall be set 

 forth at length in the instructions given by the Commis- 

 sioner to the said Uppermerchant Mr. Marten Vinck, who 

 shall as soon as possible return hither and give a report 

 of his mission ; Lastly the Lord President Jan Thysen 

 has proposed to the Council, 

 whereas on the first of this month the 



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yachts " Limmen" and " Rommerswael " were under way 

 with destination for our fleet before the roads of Goa, in order 

 to procure, through Commander Jan Dircksze Gale, some 



