[848] Affairs of State and War in and concerning the United Netherlands, 1621-1669; The Re-instated Lion, 1650. The first edition of Saken, etc., appeared during the years 1657 to 1671; a second edition, containing the Herstelde Leeuw, 1669-1672. The work was continued by Lambert Sylvius or Van den Bosch up to 1697.
[849] Broad [wholesome] Advice to the United Netherland Provinces ... composed and given from divers ... documents by J. A. G. W. C. [Its authorship is assigned to Cornelis Melyn by Brodhead, New York, 1. 509, and by Henry C. Murphy, who translates it in 2 N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll. iii. 237, and says it affords some facts not known from other sources. Extracts were reprinted in translation by F. W. Cowan at Amsterdam in 1850, and again in the Documentary History of New York, iv. 65. Brodhead censures this translation. Cf. Asher’s Essay, no. 334, who first gave it the prominence it deserves, and disbelieves in Melyn’s authorship, and goes into a long examination of the question. It is priced at from £20 to £40. Stevens’s Hist. Coll. i. 1,525; Sabin’s Dictionary, vii. 112; Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. 664; Brinley, no. 2,714.—Ed.]
[850] N. Y. Coll. Doc. i. 16, and N. Y. Coll. MSS.
[851] N. Y. Coll. MSS.
[852] He was born 1709, and died 1773. Cf. Asher’s Bibliographical Essay.
[853] Vaderlandsche Historie, ix. 227. “Resolved, that by carrying the war over to America the Spaniards be attacked there, where their weakest point was, but whence they drew most of their revenues. That a great part of America reaching thence to both poles was unknown (not undiscovered).”
[854] The full title of the twelfth part is: Zwölfte Schiffart, oder kurze Beschreibung der Newen Schiffart gegen Nord-osten über die Amerikanischen Inseln, von einem Englander, Henry Hudson, erfunden. Oppenheim, 1627.
[855] West und Ost-Indischer Lustgart, Eygentliche Erzaehlung wann vnd von wem die Newe Welt erfunden, besaegelt vnd eingenomen worden, vnd was sich Denckwuerdiges darbey zugetragen. Koeln, 1618.
Newe vnd warhaffte Relation von deme was sich in den West vnd Ost Indien vonder Zeit an zugetragen, dass sich die Navigationes der Holleandischen vnd Engländischen Companien daselbsthin angefangen abzuscheiden. Muenchen, 1619 (by Nicolai Elend).