A Summary of fome particular Damages fuftained also from the DUTCH EAST-INDIA Company.

1. FOR damages fuftained by those who befieged Bantam, whence it came to pass, that for fix years together we were excluded from that trade, and confequently from an opportunity of laying out in pepper fix hundred thousand royals, with which we might have laden our homeward bound fhips; for want of which lading they rotted upon the coast of India. In the mean time our stock in India was wafted and confumed in mariners wages, provifion, and other furniture; fo that they could not value their lofs at less than twenty hundred and four thousand royals 600000l. oos. ood.

2. More for damages by reafon of our due part loft of the fruits in the Molucca iflands, Banda and Amboyna, from the time that by the flaughter of our men we were thence expelled, till the time that we fhall be fatisfied for our lofs and expenses; which space of time, from the year fixteen hundred and twenty two, to this prefent year fixteen hundred and fifty, for the yearly revenue of 250000 lib. amounts in twenty eight years 700000l. oos. ood.

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3. We demand fatisfaction for one hundred and two thousand nine hundred and fifty nine royals, taken from us by the Mogul's people, whom the Dutch protected in fuch a manner, that we never could repair our loffes out of the money or goods of that people, which lay in their junks, which we endeavoured to do, and was in our power, had not the Dutch unjustly defended them. Which loft money we could have trebled in Europe, and value at 77200l. oos. ood.

4. For the customs of Perfia, the half part of which was by the king of Perfia granted to the English, anno fixteen hundred and twenty four. Which to the year fixteen hundred and twenty nine, is valued at eight thousand royals; to which add the four thousand lib. which they are bound to pay fince fixteen hundred and VOL. IV. twenty

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LETTERS

WRITTEN IN THE NAME OF

OLIVER THE PROTECTOR.

To the Count of OLDENBURGH.

Moft Illuftrious Lord,

BY your letters dated January twenty, fixteen hundred and fifty four, I have been given to understand, that the noble Frederic Matthias Wolifog, and Chrif topher Griphiander were fent with certain commands from your illuftrious lordship into England; who when they came to us, not only in your name congratulated our having taken upon us the government of the English republic, but alfo defired, that you and your territories might be comprehended in the peace which we are about to make with the Low Countries, and that we would confirm by our prefent authority the letters of fafeconduct lately granted your lordship by the parliament. Therefore in the first place we return your lordship our hearty thanks for your friendly congratulation, as it becomes us; and thefe will let you know that we have readily granted your two requefls. Nor fhall you find us wanting upon any opportunity, which may at any time make manifeft our affection to your lordship. And this we are apt to believe you will understand more at large from your agents, whofe fidelity and diligence in this affair of yours, in our court, has been eminently confpicuous. As to what remains, we most heartily with the bleffings of profperity and peace, both upon you and your affairs.

Your illuftrious lordship's most affectionate,

OLIVER, protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c.

To the Count of OLDENBURGH.

Moft Illuftrious Lord,

WE received your letters, dated May the second, from Oldenburgh, moft welcome upon more than one account; as well for that they were full of fingular civility and goodwill towards us, as because they were delivered by the hand of the moft illuftrious count Anthony, your beloved fon; which we look upon as fo much the greater honour, as not having trufted to report, but with our own eyes, and by our own obfervation dif cerned his virtues becoming fuch an illuftrious extraction, his noble manners and inclinations, and lastly, his extraordinary affection toward ourfelves. Nor is it to be queftioned but he difplays to his own people the fame fair hopes at home, that he will approve himself the fon of a moft worthy and most excellent father, whofe fignal virtue and prudence has all along fo managed affairs, that the whole territory of Oldenburgh for many years has enjoyed a profound peace, and all the bleffings of tranquillity, in the midft of the raging con-fufions of war thundering on every fide. What reason therefore why we fhould not value fuch a friendship, that can fo wifely and providentially fhun the enmity of all men? Laftly, most illuftrious lord, it is for your magnificent present that we return you thanks; but it is of right, and your merits claim, that we are cordially,

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Your illuftrious lordship's most affectionate,

Westminster, June 29, 1654.

OLIVER, &c.

Superfcribed, To the moft Illuftrious Lord, ANTHONY GUNTHER, Count in Oldenburgh and Delmenhorst, lord in Jehvern and Kniphaufen.

The horfes which threw him out of the coach-box.

OLIVER, Protector of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND, &C., To the moft Serene Prince CHARLES GUSTAVUS King of the SWEDES, GOTHS, and VANDALS, Great Prince of FINLAND, Duke of ESTHONIA, CARELIA, BREME, VErden, STETTIN in POMERANIA, CASSUBIA, and VANDALIA; Prince of RUGIA, Lord of INGRIA, WISMARIA, as alfo Count PALATINE of the RHINE, and Duke of BAVARIA, CLEVES, and MONTS, &c., Greeting,

Moft Serene King,

THOUGH it be already divulged over all the world, that the kingdom of the Swedes is tranflated to your majesty with the extraordinary applause and defires of the people, and the free fuffrages of all the orders of the realm; yet that your majesty should rather choose, that we should underftand the welcome news by your most friendly letters, than by the common voice of fame, we thought no fmall argument both of your goodwill towards us, and of the honour done us among the first. Voluntarily therefore and of right we congratulate this acceffion of dignity to your egregious merits, and the moft worthy guerdon of fo much virtue. And that it may be lucky and profperous to your majefty, to the nation of the Swedes, and the true christian interest, which is also what you chiefly with, with joint fupplications we implore of God. And whereas your majefty affures us, that the preferving entire the league and alliance lately concluded between this republic and the kingdom of Sweden fhall be fo far your care, that the prefent amity may not only continue firm and inviolable, but, if poffible, every day increase and grow to a higher perfection, to call it into queftion, would be a piece of impiety, after the word of fo great a prince once interpofed, whofe furpaffing fortitude has not only purchafed your majefty an hereditary kingdom in a foreign land, but also could fo far prevail, that the most auguft queen, the daughter of Guftavus, and a heroefs fo matchlefs in all degrees of praife and mascu line renown, that many ages backward have not produced

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