Ghap.XV. Malabar and Cordmandel 
615 
compaffing their Coramiffion, fign'd by his 
Excellency the Governour-General An- 
thony van Diemen^ by Cornelius van der Lijn, 
John Maatzjuyker^ Jujlus Schouten^ Corne- 
I'm IVitz^en, and Peter Boreel^ in the Caftle 
of Batavia^ April 9. 1642. To the Fran- 
cifcan Father the Council gave the follow- 
ing Letter^ directed to the Viceroy of 
Goa. 
Aloji lllujlrious Lord! 
A Letter to u l^jecQ Mendes de Britto^ Gentleman 
thev,^my « LJ of the King's Houfhold, and the 
" Reverend Father, Brother Gonfalvo de 
" 5. jofeph^ your Excellency's Ambafla- 
" dors, being come in our Road the iSth 
" of January aboard the Dolphin^ were 
" honourably receiv'd by us the next day. 
" They have deliver'd to us your Ex- 
" cellency's Credential Letters, dated in 
" Goa the 6th of December of the laft year, 
as alfo the Letters of his Portuguefe 
" Majefty to you, concerning the Truce 
'* betwixt Portugal and the United Pro- 
vinces. The before- mentioned Am- 
bafladors have not been remifs in their 
Zeal, Induftry and Duty, to prefs in 
their feveral Audiences the obtaining 
" of a Truce i which we would willing- 
" ly have granted, had not we receiv'd 
*' certain Advice by fome Ships arriv'd 
" the I ^th of February by the way of Fer- 
" nambuco^ and others arriv'd the firit of 
April here, of a Trtice concluded be- 
twixt his Majefty of Portugal and the 
States-General of the Vnited Provinces j 
*' wherein it was exprefly agreed with ,'^.-A>nl 
" his Majefty's Plenipotentiary Trifiaon Baldcciu. 
*' de Mendoz.a Furtado^ among other 
" Points, that the Truce agreed upon for 
" 10 years in Europe^ ftiould be of the 
" fame validity in thefe parts, yet fo that 
*' the fame (hould not commence before 
" that his Portuguese Majefty fhould have 
fent back his Ratification into Holland^ ' 
" and the fame be publickly proclaim'd 
afterwards in thefe parts, as will more 
" fully appear to your Excellencies out 
of the endofed Letters. Thus being 
oblig'd to follow the Diredlions of our 
" Lords and Mafters, we could not pro- 
" ceed further in this bufinefs till the 
arrival of the next Ships from Holland ; 
" which being expefted daily, with the 
faid Ratification, we did advife your 
" Ambafl'adors to ftay (or at leaft one 
of them) for the coming of the faid 
" Ships, as the only means not to render 
" your Excellency's Embafly altogether 
" fruitlefs: Accordingly Mr. Z);c^o .^fw- 
*' des de Britto intends to halten his 
*' Journy to Goa^ immediately after the 
" firft further notice of the faid Rati- 
" fication, which we hope v/ill prove 
agreeable to your Excellency's Senti- 
" ments. We recommend your Excellen- 
" cy to God's Proteftion- Dated in 
" the Caftle of Batavia^ April 80 1 642. 
Subfcribed, 
The Governour-General for the 
United Provinces in the Eajl-Indies. 
CHAP. XV, 
The Rdtifcatton of the 10 years Truce brought to Batavia. A Frotefiation fent 
to the Count d'Aveiras. Treaty of Peace with the Viceroy, The Articles 
thereof Agreements about the divijion of the Limits betwixt the Portuguefes 
and Hollanders in the IJle of Ceylon. Agreement betwixt Mafcarenhas and 
Cornelius van Sanen. 
The R4ti- ^TpHE fo much defir'd Ratification 
fication X (figned at Lisbon the i6th of Ja- 
publiflM. yiff^yy 16^2, and deliver'd at the Hague 
the i%th of /"etrM^^ry following ) being at 
laft brought to Batavia, the fame was 
publifli'd the Sth of Oilober throughout the 
Indies. 
" A Nihony van Diemen Governour- 
*^ General, and the Members of the 
" Great Council of the Eafi-lndtes un- 
" der the Jurifdiftion of the United 
" Provinces, make knovVn to all it may 
" concern ; That whereas by two feve- 
" ral Letters, dated the iid of February^ 
" znd I <yth of March 1^42. brought over 
" by the Ship the Salamander, we have 
** been advertis'd, That the 1 2th of June 
i<54i. a firm Alliance and Truce has 
** been concluded for 10 years betwixt 
" the moft Potent Don John IV. King of 
Portugal, Algerve, and Lord of Guinea, 
*^ and of the Conquefts made on the 
Shoar of Ethiopia, Arabia, Perfia and 
Jndta, 
