[37] Aitzema, X, 277.
[38] Admiralty High Court, Libels, 115, no. 124; ibid., Examinations, 74, deposition of Edward Paulstagge, March 7, 1662/3.
[39] Nassau and Hoorn to the estates of H. and W. F., January 24/February 3, 1662. In March, 1663, Bernard Sparke, owner of the Paragon which the Dutch had seized on the Gold Coast, arrested a West India Company ship at Ilfracombe. Sparke asked for the condemnation of the ship, but on account of a treaty entered into between the English and the Dutch in September, 1662, the Privy Council refused to detain the Dutch ship. Cunaeus to the estates of H. and W. F., March 27/April 6, 1663; P. C. R., Charles II, 3: 357, 380.
[40] Egerton MSS., 2538, ff. 68, 69, Downing to S. G., May 3/13, 1662.
[41] Clar. St. Paps., 76, ff. 217, 218, Downing to Clarendon, May 9, 1662. O. S.
[42] Egerton MSS., 2538, f. 73, Downing to S. G., June 6/16, 1662.
[43] Ibid., f. 106, Downing to S. G., August 6/16, 1662.
[44] Add. MSS. (Additional Manuscripts), 22,919, f. 270.
[45] Resolution of S. G., August 28, 1662 (N. S.).
[46] Dumont, Corps Universel Diplomatique, VI, part 2, pp. 424, 425.