Chap.XIV. Malabar and Coromandel. 
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Juftus Schouten^ a Member of the Great 
Council of the Indies, Simon van yllphen^ 
Dodtor of the Laws, Sheriff of the City 
of Batavia, Schald Wanderaar^ Receiver- 
Gen&fiil, Psttr Soury, Barent Wichmans^ 
Dirk Snoek, Etooud Spicringh, head Fadtors, 
John Lamoot, Serjeant-Major, Gerard Her^ 
Their Re- l^y^^ Doftor of the Laws, head Fador, 
'■.eptiW' Francjfco de Souz^a de Cajlro^ and Ambonio 
Fialbo Ftreira, both Povtuguefe Gentlemen, 
were fent to condud them from aboard 
their Vefiel to the General's Palace, un- 
der the difcharge of five pieces of Can- 
non ^ and being immediately introduc'd 
Am^r in into the Apartment where the Great 
diCouncil. Council was then aflerbbled, after the 
firfl Compliments on both fides, one of 
the Ambafladors began to make his Ha- 
rangue : " That Portugal having with- 
" drawn it felf from the Spani/h Jurif- 
didlion, had chofen Don John Duke of 
Braganza their King ; that the faid 
" King having foon after fent an Am- 
" baifador to their High and Mightinefles 
" to treat of a Peace and an Alliance 
" betwixt both Nations, they had all the 
" reafon to believe that the fame was 
brought to a happy Conclufion before 
" this time : In regard of which they 
were fent by the Viceroy of Goa, to 
treat with their Excellencies about a 
" CelTation of Arms, as would more at 
large appear out of their Credentials, 
which they deliver'd at the fame time 
to the Governor-General with this Super- 
fcription : 
u4. O. Senhor Anthonio de Diemen^ Ca- 
pitaon General de Nacaon OUandefa w' efie 
Oriente. On the other fide was written, 
De Conde d' Aveiras Viceroy e Capitaon 
W India. 
The Letter was feal'd with the Arms 
of Portugal, and written in the Portuguefe 
Language, as follows. 
" Commodore Qua/t, intimating, that rvTV^' 
as a CelTation of Arms was concluded BaldxiK^ 
Tlieh Cre- 
itntiah. 
TN the beginning of September ar- 
" * nv'd in our Fort Omr, a Caravel, 
" fent from Portugal, whereby we were 
" inform'd, that the Portugueses have 
proclaim'd and acknowledged a King 
of their own, by the general Confent 
** of that Nation. His Majefty of Por- 
tugal did in one of his Letters give 
" notice to us, that certain Ambafiadors 
having been difpatch'd to their High 
" and Mightineffes the States General, 
" to treat about a Peace, it was not 
doubted, but the fame would be foon 
" concluded, a Truce having been al- 
" ready agreed upon betwixt the two 
" Nations in Europe, whereof notice had 
" been given by the faid Maiefiry to the 
Vol. Ill, 
in Europe, fo the fame might take U'V"--* 
effed in thefe parts, and that he had 
given orders to the Viceroy of Goa 
accordingly. After the Deceafe of 
the faid Commodore, we gave notice 
thereof to Cornelius Leendertjz. Blaau 
his Succefibr, who excufing hirafelt 
with his want of Power, as being ob- 
lig'd to follow ftridly the Orders of 
the Great Council of the Indies, we 
thought fit to fend Diego Mmdes de 
" Bntto, Gentleman of the King's Houf- 
" hold, and Father Gonfalvo nilofo, to 
" treat v;ith your Exceliencies concerning 
" this Point ; they being provided with 
" Credentials from his Majefty, that 
" whatever lhall be agreed upon with 
" them, lhall be valid and kept inviola- 
" bly. We wifh all Bleffings to the 
" Crown of Portugal, and the Vnited 
Provinces. Dated 6 Deceinb. 1(541. 
Subfcribed, 
Conde d'Aveird'S. 
The Great Council having told themj 
that they would take the matter into fe- 
rious Confideration, the Difcourfe begaa 
to turn upon indifferent matters, and a- 
mong the reft concerning the Caraque, 
lately taken by the Dutch. The Ambalfa- 
dors being ask'd whether the Captain 
did not prefent the Viceroy with two or 
three Casks of Wine ; they anfwer'd. 
No : At which the Governor-General 
fliew'd a great diflike, telling the Am« 
baifadors, that they muft pardon the mat- 
ter, it being a common thing for the beft 
Seamen to make the worft Courtiers.. 
After the Ambalfadors had din'd with his 
Excellency, they were conduced to their 
Lodgings at Mr. James Harder s Houfe. 
They were both Perfons of a goodly 
Afpeft, the Francifcan being betwixt 60 Their Agt 
and 70 years of Age, the other of about ^rain, 
50. Their Train confifted in two Pages, 
and four Portuguefe Footmen, befides the 
Negroes and Miftices, a Gentleman, a 
Secretary, Surgeon, and two Boys ; their 
Livery was Orange Colour. 
The %th of February xht faid Ambaffa- Their Se- 
dors demanded a fecond Audience, which coni AhU^ 
being for weighty Reafons defer'd till 
the loth, they appear'd a fecond time 
at Nine a Clock in the Morning in the 
Great Council, reiterating their former 
Propofitions concerning a Ceffation of 
Arms: And left the Governor- General 
might not as yet have receiv'd a full ac- 
count of what had been tranfaded in 
Europe., they produc'd certain Original 
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