At a Committee held in Batavia Road, July 1. 1710.
WE have resolved to supply these Officers of the Duke, Dutchess, Marquiss, and Batchelor, with the following Sums, to provide themselves with Necessaries in our long Passage to Europe.
| Pieces of Eight. | |
| To Captain Thomas Dover | 2000 |
| Captain Rogers, and Captain Courtney, for their present Expences | 400 |
| Captain Cook | 800 |
| Mr. Fry and Mr. Stretton | 1000 |
| Captain Dampier | 200 |
| Mr. Pope | 350 |
| Mr. Glendall, and Mr. Connely | 700 |
| Mr. Vanbrugh | 250 |
| Mr. Tho. Bridge, and Mr. Milbourne | 100 |
| Mr. Knowlman, and Mr. Selkirk | 80 |
| To the Three Doctors of the Duke, Dutchess, and Marquiss | 90 |
| To the Doctor of the Batchelor | 20 |
| To Mr. Goodall, and Mr. Appleby | 80 |
| Total | 6070 |
Transactions at Batavia.
All these Sums we order’d Mr. Vanbrugh and Mr. Goodall to discharge out of the Money on Board the Duke or Dutchess, as either Commanders shall think convenient, whenever the above-mentioned Officers shall demand it, and the Receipts to Mr. Vanbrugh and Mr. Goodall, so far as is here order’d, shall be sufficient. Witness our Hands, July 1, 1710.
Signed by the
Majority of
our Council.
July 2. From the 22d of the last Month we lay leaky and in a very ordinary Condition, not knowing when and how the General would please to order us Assistance, according to our present Necessities, which were then laid open to him; and this Day, to shew that we could sufficiently vindicate and justifie all our Proceedings like honest Men, we gave in an Abstract of our Voyage, from the Day we set sail out of King Road, to the Day we arrived in Batavia, which they desir’d to see, before they would assist us; so we gave it ’em as short as possible.
July 7. To Day our Men finished appraising and dividing the Plunder-Cloth in the Batchelor; which being tolerable good, amounts to about 400 l. Sterling.
July 8. This Day, after a great many dilatory Answers, we were at last permitted to make Preparations for careening at Horn Island, which is about 2 or 3 Leagues to the Northward of the Road, (but were by no Means suffer’d to go to the Island Unrest, where all the Dutch Ships are clean’d) being only allow’d 8 or 10 Malayan Caulkers and small Vessels to put our Goods in. The Marquiss began to careen aboard her; but the Carpenters having view’d her betwixt Wind and Water, finding her very bad, and that she had but a single Bottom, eat to a Honey-comb by the Worms, they judg’d her altogether unfit to go to Europe; whereupon I desir’d the Committee to meet and agree to dispose of her, as follows.