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should reach that my fortress you would send another without any 
delay, to thank me obediently and in your name and that of the 
Governor and Councillors of India swear to the said peace and the 
conditions thereof. For this reason, leaving aside the things that have 
happened in times past because of the Dutch nation, in order to turn 
to the confirming anew of the terms of peace made in Batecalou, with 
the explanation of some doubts which present themselves regarding 
certain clauses, I, to-day, Sunday, the 27th of June, dispatch the ambas- 
sador of Your Honours, Lourens de Marschalck, who has been in this 
my imperial court, with two other discreet persons of these my realms, 
who carry the articles of peace and the conditions thereof, in confor- 
mity with what I have here assented to and determined, if Your 
Honour wishes it so, that you may sign them with the other Councillors 
who reside in this my fortress of Gale, affixing your seal ; and when the 
ambassador comes here I shall before him sign the said articles and 
command them to be sealed with my royal seal, and the ambassador 
who comes to this my imperial court shall swear in the name of the 
Prince of Orange and of the Company and its directors. Your 
Honour further said in the aforesaid letter that you had determined 
to send an ambassador to reside always at this my imperial court, at 
which I rejoiced greatly, and from that I understood that Your Honours 
take in good part what those conditions of peace have effected, and 
when he comes he shall be treated with great honour and love, and if 
he comes to swear to the conditions of peace and to reside in this my 
imperial court, I shall dispatch the imprisoned Hollanders with a person 
of this my court ; but, if one comes to swear to the conditions of peace 
and another to remain, I shall dispatch the said prisoners in the 
company of him who comes to swear to the conditions of peace. Since 
I am setting them at liberty it does not seem well, nor is it right, that 
my aleas^ which were seized in the Seven Corlas, should be detained.^^^ 
In the letter of Your Honour mention is made of a Portuguese, whom 
Your Honour calls dissava of Yalave, which Portuguese is not dissava 
of Valave but vidana of Panava, to whom I gave the said vidania on 
account of his being a Portuguese (as Your Honour says) and captured 
in war, because he had served me well and f aithf uUy/^^ And that Your 
Honours have served me and do serve me better I bear in my heart, 
and it is right that I should give many honours and thanks to you. As 
this is so Your Honour says [ * * ] obediently 
1^ C5 i:> pio ^jjg^^ J j^g^y pleased to deliver to the same, who is 
dissava of Mature, the said office, to send him for that purpose my 
patent, in order from this time forth to do in my royal name all things 
pertaining to the said office. It appears to me well and it is right 
that I should reward and recompense those who may serve me ; where- 
fore, if it seem well to you, and you wish it, in the company of the 
ambassador whom Your Honour is to send, send the said dissava to 
reside at this my imperial court as do all the other dissavas of my 
court, and from here he shall govern and perform all the services that 
