[34] See the last two volumes of De Couto’s Da Asia.
[35] The first Buddhist commandment, as given in The Light of Asia, reads:
“Kill not, for pity’s sake, and lest thou slay
The meanest creature on its upward way.”
[36] Albert died in 1621 and Isabella on the 30th of November 1623, and as they left no children, in 1624 Belgium passed again under the direct government of Spain. By the treaty of Baden on the 7th of September 1714 it was ceded to the emperor Charles VI, and thereafter was generally termed the Austrian Netherlands.
[37] Sections III, XLIX, and L of the treaty of Munster, pages 335 to 367 of Vol. II General Collection of Treaties, &c.
[38] See pages 188 to 202 of Volume II of A General Collection of Treaties, &c.
[39] See A Voyage to East India, &c. by the Rev. Edward Terry. London, 1655.
[40] The name of the Welshman is not given in the Report on Manuscripts in the Welsh language by the Historical Manuscripts Commission (Vol. I, Part 3), published in London in 1905, from which this extract is taken.
[41] A Voyage to East India, wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious Empire. Of the Great Mogols, &c., &c. Observed by Edward Terry (then Chaplain to the Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Row, Knight, Lord Ambassadour to the great Mogol) now Rector of the Church at Grunford, in the County of Middlesex. A foolscap octavo volume of 545 pages, published in London in 1655. Terry says that he went to India the year after Sir Thomas Roe in a fleet of six ships—the Charles, of 1,000 tons, the Unicorn, almost as big, the James, a large ship also, the Globe, the Swan, and the Rose, which were smaller. The fleet left the Thames on the 3rd of February 1615 (old style, 1616 it would be written now that the year commences on the 1st of January), under command of Captain Benjamin Joseph as commodore, and it rode at anchor in Table Bay from the 12th to the 28th of June. His statement concerning the convicts sent out the previous year does not fully agree with the records in the India Office in London, which I consulted to obtain information on this subject, and which I follow as far as they go, though they are defective.
[42] See Valentyn’s great work on India, the last volume of which contains the history of Ceylon and also of Mauritius. See also the volume Vies des Gouverneurs Generaux, by J. P. I. du Bois. The account of Pieter Kolbe, in his Caput Bonæ Spei Hodiernum, is so distorted by his bitter animosity towards Simon van der Stel as well as towards his son Willem Adriaan that no reliance can be placed upon it. Van der Aa, in his Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden, says that Simon van der Stel, son of Adriaan van der Stel and Monica da Costa, was born in Amsterdam, but that is a mistake, and not the only one in the article. See Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden, door A. J. van der Aa, Zeventiende Deel, Tweede Stuk, Haarlem, 1874. I copied the article on the Van der Stel family in the above work, and published it in 1911 in the third part of my Belangrijke Historische Dokumenten over Zuid Afrika. It will be found on pages 11 and 12 of the volume.