East India Company Records. 
(India Office) 
CORRESPONDENCE TO THE GOLD COAST. 
II. 
1661 - 1663. 
(Letter Book, Vol. 3.) 
Letter Book, 
Vol.3~ 1660-65, 
pp. 3«-8. 
Per the ship Joseph. 
London, 23d May 1661. 
Our Agent and 
Factors at Cormantine, 
WEE commend us heartily unto you, &c. Wee 
having received advise that the ship Joseph is now at 
Gravesend ready to depart for Guinea and may by the 
Almighties blessing arrive some considerable time sooner 
with you then our next intended ship, wee by her 
conveighance give you notice that since our last sent 
you on our pinnace the Benen Friggatt, dated 30th passed 
November, there is oome to our hands yours of the 16th 
July 1660, received 8th January, alsoe one of the 3d 
November, received 10th instant. To which by this convey-
ance wee shall not perticulerly respond, referring till 
same till the setting out our next ship, which by the 
Almighties asistance wee entend you from hence toward the 
latter end of the next July. And because wee perceive 
that you had a larg remaines of severall sorts of goodes 
upon your hands at the date of your last and onely wanted 
long cloth, iron, pewter and boatemans knives, t herefore 
wee shall principally fitt you by our next shi pp with t hese 
comodities though wee hope tha t before t he arriveall of t he 
said ship you will have disposed of all or most of your 
remaynes and gotten a good quantity of gold into your 
possession. 
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Some 2 or 3 monethes after the dispeed of our 
prementioned ship wee intend you a second with a consider-
able cargazoone, and therefore wee pray you, if you have 
any remaines of goodes resting, to endeavour theire 
disposure with all expedition, not suffring any to under-
sell you, according as wee ordered you in our letter per 
the Royall James and Henry (which ship wee understand is 
arrived with you). 
Wee take notice that our ship Castle Friggatt 
came to your port the 17th June and that you had laden 
abord her 120 marks of gold,with 2 bales perpetuanoes, and 
dispeeded her for Bantam, to which port wee hope the 
Almightie hath long since brought her. 
This ship Joseph being ready to depart, wee have 
not time further to enlarg, onely to require you that by 
the next safe conveighance'you retorne us perfect accompts 
of the estates, not only of all those persons which in 
yours of 16 July you have nominated to bee deceased, but 
also of Mr. Vickars and all others that have dyed in your 
service, and of whose estates noe accompt as yet hath bin 
given. Soe wee comend you to the Almighties protection 
and remayne. 
Your very loveing freinds 
ILLIJJ.!. LOVE ANDREW RICCARD Govr. 
STEPHEN HIrE RICHARD FORD 
CHRISTOPHER BOONE nLLIAM THOMSON 
JOHN JOLLIFFE WILLIAM VINCENr 
JOSEPH ASH ILLIAM IHLLIAMS 
SAM: BARNADISrON MAURICE THOMSON 
Postscript. 
Postscript 
Here inclosed wee send you the perticulers of 
what wee entend to lade on the next ship, which will 
amount to about 10000 IT sterling, and againe pray you 
to put of our comodities that are remayneing (if any) and 
to procure what gold possible against her arriveall. 
This letter was delivered to Mr. James Congett 
to bee sent for Guinea on the ship Joseph. 
Letter Book, 
Vol. 3, 1660- 65, 
p. 42. 
For Guinea. 
List of writings sent on the ship 
Royall Charles, 4th September 1661. 
No.1 Copie of the Company's letters to the Agent and Factors 
at Cormantine, dated 30th November 1660 and 23 May 1661, 
with their originall letter dated 31th August 1661. 
2 Invoice of merchandizes laden on the Royall Charles. 
3 Invoice of provisions laden on the Royall Charles. 
4 Bill of lading for merchandizes laden on the Royall Charles. 
5 Copie of the Royall Charles Charter Party. 
6 Bill of lading for provisions on the Royall Charles. 
7 Bill of lading for 3 chests musketts on the Royall Charles. 
List of writings sent on the Royall Charles 
for Fort St. George 4 September 1661. 
No.1 Copie of the Company's letters to the Agent and Factors 
at Fort St. George, dated 6 & 8 February, with their 
originall, dated 31 August 1661. 
2 Copie of the Royall Charles Charter Party. 
3 Copie or list of goodes to bee provided anually on Coast 
of Coromandell and Bay of Bengall. 
4 Invoice of 10 chests ~uicksilver laden on the Royall Charloo 
5 Bill of lading for 10 chests ~uicksilver on the Charles. 
Sent on the Royall Charles. 
Letter Book, 
Vol. 3, 1660-65, 
pp.42-46. 
London 31th August 1661. 
Our Agent and Factors 
at Cormantine, 
WEE commend us heartily unto you &c. The 
preceeding part hereof is copie of our last sent on our 
pinnace the Benen Friggatt, dated 30th November,and per 
the ship Joseph dated 23 May last, to which wee referr you. 
( I) 
Since when wee have received yours of the 14th January 1660, 
which came to our hands 4 June last. Wee come now to 
respond to such perticulers in yours as require the same. 
And first wee take notice that Mr. John Gatton (with many 
others of our servants) is deceased, and that the said 
r,:r. Gatton hath trusted out much of our goodes to John 
Cloyce and other persons. Wee shall therefore, according 
to your desire, deteyne in our hands what sallary or 
other estate shall bee found due unto him untill wee shall 
bee further advised from you. In the meane time wee hope 
it hath beene your care to get in what debts you can possibl 
procure. 
Wee take notice of what you have writen concerning 
your chirurgeon John Buckner, of his unsufficiency and 
carlesnesse to performe that trust undertaken by him, and 
shall therefore only make good unto him the sallary of 24 ±T. 
per annum, according to your agreement with him, and wee 
will 
will either by this or our next ship send you out such a 
" yO{ 
person as you desire, that is skilled in phisck as well 
as chirurgery. 
With the consent of John Cloyce and the greate 
men of the countrey wee observe that you have finished 
our howse at Cape Coast, which you say will bee as service-
able to us as if wee had the posession of the Castle, which 
wee now perceive is delivered up to the Sweeds at a vast 
charge, arising by the demaunds of John Cloyce in taking the 
Castle from the 81emings, the charge of soldiers to keepe 
it and the loase of mens lives in the taking of it. You 
write us word that you hope the charge of building our 
prementioned hawse at Cape Coast will not bee extraordinary 
and the greatest expence which you feare will bee in 
presents to John Cloyce and the greate men after the 
finishing of the howse. In our letter of 30 November last, 
sent on the Benen Friggatt, you will reade that wee 
therein gave you liberty (in case the Castle could not 
bee obteyned) to build a howse at Cape Coast and to dis-
burse thereupon the some of 150 ~.sterling, which we 
supose would bee sufficient to perfect the same, and wee 
hope you have not exceeded that some, but that both in the 
expence of building and gratifying John Cloyce &c. you have 
used all frugallity possible. 
Wee have received your abstracts sent us of what 
goodes 
goodes in perticulers you have sold and what you have 
remayning, and have proportioned the cargazoone of this 
ship the Royall Charles in such comodities as wee find 
you to want and such as you have desired to bee sent 
you, a small quantity of musketts excepte~ because wee 
find by your prementioned abstract that you had in 3 months 
time made sale of neare upon 1000 of what rema~ed, and 
hoping that- all the rest will bee disposed before the 
coming hereof wee have now sent you 513. 
The comendations which you have given us of Jeremy 
Sapster, whoe since his arriveall with you hath kept your 
accompts, and being a person whome you represent unto us 
to bee very dilligent and tractable in such other services 
a s you have put him upon, wee doe therefore, if you our 
Agent and Counsell shall still find him to bee carefull and 
dilligent in our service, hereby give our consent and order 
that hee bee continued i~ the place of accomptant in your 
factorie; if you sh&ll not find it necessary for our 
service otherwise to dispose of him. 
Wee now perceive t ha t you ha ve taken notice of 
our dislike in sending our letters unto us onel y firmed 
with the hand of our Agent without t he res t of his 
Counsell, your last letters being joyntly subscribed by 
our Agent and Counsell, which wee aprove of and expect and 
order that it bee duely continued. 
What 
What you have writen concerning Captain George 
Swanly in our ship Truroe,at his being with you in Guinea, 
wee observe, and although wee received letters of complaints 
from him against you yet are wee not soe sudainly credulous 
as presently upon receipt,without examination,to conclude 
all to bee truth that is written unto us, either from him 
or from any other (as you terme it) scandalous penn. And 
if it apeares unto us that the said Captains displeasure 
was occasioned by your endeavouring to hinder him in the 
selling and disposing of his private trade and following 
his owne and neglecting our businesse, wee have more reason 
to encourage and countenance your proceedings then in the 
least manner to seeme displeased with them. And although 
it hath beene and still is our desire that you asist all 
the Comanders of our ships with what may further them in 
the speedy prosecution of their voyages, as in the procuring 
ballast, wood or water for them, yet wee hope your faith-
fulnesse towards us will bee such as not to countenance 
or asist them in their private trade, but on the contrary to 
follow our orders formerly given you in the discovery of 
it and either receiving the respective mulcts expressed in 
Charter Parties or otherwise to make seizure and sale of it 
for our accompt. 
The copie of the accompts found in John Gattons 
bookes relating to Captain Swanlies private trade wee have 
received 
received, and wee are in dayly expectation of the said 
Captaines ariveall with us, which God graunt, and then wee 
shall make use thereof, and of that other accompt of 
perpetuanoes &c. sold the Dutch,which you have promised to 
send us by your next. 
Wee take notice that you had received out of the 
James and Henry such merchandizes and provisions as wee had 
here laden abord her, except 15 barrs of iron and 844 lb. 
bisquett, which wee shall charge to the accompt of the 
owners of the said ship. And whereas you say many of the 
bales, cases and chests were marked with other mens marks 
and some with noe marks, our husband affirmes the contrary, 
and wee therefore feare,though you received the quantitie, 
yet the quallity might bee altered. However, for the 
future wee shall give espetiall charge to our husband that 
he take care that noe parcell of our goodes escape without 
our ma~ke, and that each case, caske, &c. shall bee 
perticulerized in invoice to avoid there opening with you 
before their sale. 
Though those 3 Comanders mentioned in your letter, 
vizt., Captain Swanly, Captain ~itchell and Captain Price, 
refused or neglected to see the gold waighed and packed 
which was sent in their ships, for which they are blame 
worthie, espetially the latter whoe not onley refused to see 
it weighed but to ~me bills of lading or suffer his 
boatswain 
boatswain to give a receipt, yett,blessed be God, they 
have safely delivered their gold to those our factors to 
whome it was consigned, as per advice received from them. 
In the next place wee take cognizance that you 
having placed Mr. John Puleston to bee Gheife at Cape Coast 
factorie, and calling him to give an accompt, you found him 
something short,both in cash and goodes, trusted ou~ as he 
alleadged, to John Cloyse and other greate men, whereupon 
you retorned him back to gather in those debts which hee 
had made; but instead of getting them in,wee perceive hee 
made mbre and wasted our estate to the value of 30 marks. 
You have therefore done well to dismisse him from our 
imployment untill th~ debts which he hath made bee sattis-
fied, which you say will neaver bee done by himselfe. When 
wee shall bee advised from you what of those made by him 
you shall have recovered, wee shall seeke for the remainder 
from his security here, whome wee have alreadie made 
ac~umnted with the said Pulestons actions. 
For the carpett, Welch playne and 6 peeces of 
sletiahos convaighed out of our warehowse when in charge 
of Mr. James Gosnell, wee hope you have charged them to his 
accompt. The said James Gosnell and Mr. Edmond Child ~ing 
deceased, wee doe re~uire (if it bee not done before 
receipt hereof) that you retorne an accampt of their 
estates, as likewise of Mr . William Vickers and of all 
others 
others that have deceased in our service in your parts. 
Wee take notice of the time of our ship the 
at 
Royall James and Henries arriveallAand ' departure from your 
port, and that you had laden upon her 500 marks of gold 
and 10 negroes. Wee have advice from St. Hellena that th~ 
said ship arrived there the 6th March and departed thence 
the 12th detto in prosecution of her voyage to Fort St. 
George, to which port wee hope the Almightie hath .safely 
brought her. 
Wee accept of the thancks of our Agent, Mr. 
Chappell, and his brother for our acceptance of his said 
brother into our service, hoping that he will make good 
his promise in being just and honest in all our imployments. 
Notwithstanding that wee find in your accompt of 
remaynes a large parcell of sheets and sletiaes to bee 
resting in your warehowse, yet having provided a quanti tie 
of each of them before the receipt of your last advices 
wee are en~orced to send them on this ship, not doubting 
but before her arriveall,wee having sent you noe suplies 
(except a very small cargazoone on the Benen Friggatt, which 
wee hope may bee disposed of before her coming to you) since 
the arriveall of our ship James and Henry, you have disposed 
of what was resting on your hands at her departure from you 
and procured a larg quanti tie of gold ready to bee put 
abord this ship the Royall Charles, upon which ship wee 
have laden the perticulers following, vizt., 
C. Qr.H-. 
Iron 12095 barrs pz.3676. 3.13 'at 20 sg .. 3676.17. 2 
Sletiaes 46 chests containing 1373 
peeces at 38 s. . . . . . . . . • . . 2608.14. -
Old sheets 174 chests containing 11310 
sheets at 3.10d .......... . 2137.15. -
Pewter 41 cask several1 sorts amount to 670. -. -
Musketts 6 chests containing 324 at 8 sg. 129.12. -
Ratts for 1 dry fatt containing 12 dozen 
at 30 sg. . . . . . . . . . 18. -
Knives and sheathes 13 chests and 2 fatts 
amount to . . . . . . . .. . .•.• 250. -. -
Blew sayes 6 bales containing 180 peeces 
at 3.6.8d. . ....... . 600. -
Long cloth lOb bales containing 3000 
peeces amoun t to . . • • . 4926. 
Taffataies 3 bales containing 722 
peeces amount to .......• 411.10. -
One bale fine pintadoes amount to 30. 8. -
Musketts 3 chests containing 189 amount to 72.12. -
r~:ore in severall provisions as per invoice 249. 4. 8 
Gum total1 amount to 15780. 2.10 
The prementioned ship and cargazoone wee beseech 
the Almightie to bring safely and seasonably unto you. 
Wee herewith send you copie of this ships 
Charter Partie, whereunto conforme. If occasion doe reQuire 
she is to stay 35 daies after her arrivealL During her 
continuance with you wee desire that you asist the 
Comander with your blacks for the procuring ballast, water, 
&c. as shall bee necessary for the advance and prosecution 
of hi s voyage. 
It is our order that you lade abord this ship all 
the gold that at receipt hereof, or during her stay, you can 
possesse 
possesse yoursel~of, and with your advice and bill of 
lading consigne it to our Agent and Factors at Fort St. 
George for the ir disposure. 
Wee have alreadie fraighted another ship called 
the Coronation for your parts, whome by the Almighties 
asistance wee hope will bee readie to saile towards you 
somtime in October next. Therefore wee pray you bee 
active in selling of our goodes now sent you, and what 
elce (if any) shall bee resting on your hands, that you 
may bee furnished with a good quantity of gold against 
her arriveall with you. 
That our comodities which wee send you might 
find the quicker sales and ~nvested into gold ready against 
the arriveall of our shiping, wee give you co~ssion 
in our letters by the James and Henry that you should 
not suffer yourselves to bee undersold in any comodities, 
ei ther by the Dutch or any others. But wee now, l~upon 
further consideration, give you pur expresse order for to 
undersell both Dutch, Sweeds, interlopers and all ot hers 
in all comodities that by them shall bee brough t into your 
parts; but if wee shall have any comodity of which they 
have none, you may mainteyne its repute and advance~ 
QQVQft99 it but soe as to bee selling. By t his s hip wee 
send you a very considerable quantitle of iron and intend 
t he 
the like by our next ship, with other merchandize, and 
therefore wee hope you will bee very active in this our 
order given you, which by your care and industry will 
not only cause larger Quantities of goodes year ely to vend 
with you, but also, in tyme, to wearie both Dutch, Sweades 
and others from that trade. Therefore wee earnestly 
recommend it to your prudent manadgment, and let us by 
your next bee advised of your proceeding in this perticuler. 
Wee having beene often sollicited by our Agent 
Mr. Chappell that hee might have liberty from us to 
retorne for England and that wee would send out another to 
succeed him, and in his last letter finding him resolved to 
come ~ome, wee have therefore here enterteyned Mr. Edmond 
Yong, at the sallary of 200 ~ per annum, whoe taketh his 
passage on this ship. Him wee doe apoint and ordeyne to 
bee our Agent at Fort Cormantine and over all our factories 
on the Coa, st of Guinea; and doe hereby reQuire that,at his 
arriveall,the person whoe hath be ene chosen to succeed 
1fr. Chappell as Cheife doe resigne up his place and give 
accompt of all remaynes and what elce r eQuired t o the said 
Mr. Yong. And we e doe alsoe ordeyne that hee, with t he 
Counsell, doe manadg and direct all our affaires in t he 
severall factories, and that all due obedi ence bee given 
them by all our factors and servants residing in t he 
severall factories. 
And 
And that our affaires may not suffer for want of 
factors to assist therein wee have e[nJterteyned these 
following persons, vizt., 
tt. 
Nicholas Herrick at 40 per annum 
Francis Hughes at . 35 
Phillip Foxwell at .• 30 
Gilbert Beavis at • 25 
George Meynell at • 20 
John Flatman chirurgeon at . 2.5 sg. per month 
for 3 yeares 
John Uvedall at 15 per annum 
Thomas W.ullinox at •• 15 
George Harris at 15 
Devereux Elmes at 15 
All which wee leave to the disposure of you our 
Agent and Counsell as you shall find them Quallified. Such 
of them as come not to you on this ship shall take passage 
on our next. 
Our Agent in Bantam adviseth us that they have 
a want of blacks. Wee therefore desire you to procure 
15 ~usty young blacks, men ~ weomen, and sent them upon 
this ship to the Coast of Coromandell, and wee shall order 
their transport from thence to Bantam. 
Wee doe now send you, in a small fardle marked D ~ 
24 peeces of fine paintings and 1 painted carpett. If you 
shall find them to bee desired with you and they will torne 
to 
to accompt, cut of a small peece of each worke for a 
patterne and send them to our Agent and Counsell at Fort 
St. George by this conveighance and advise them what 
quantities will sell, wee having now ordered them to 
furnish the proportion required by you; but, however, send 
them patt~Jnes because wee have ordered them to provide 
a small quanti tie for us. 
'~ee have here enterteyned 11 yong men, whoe 
take passage on this shipp, vizt. 
sg. 
Walter Kent,a smith, at 23 . per menth for 3 yeares 
John Gunn. . at. 14 per month for 3 yeares 
William Carter. at. 10 per month for 4 yeares 
Arthur Clarke at. 14 per month for 3 yeares 
John Cornish at. 12 per month for 3 yeares 
Nicholas Beard. at. 10 per month for 5 yeares 
Samuell Haszard at. 14 per month for 3 yeares 
Edward Pilkinton. . at. 10 per month for 5 yeares 
John Thomson. at. 10 per month for 5 yeares 
Thomas Tayler .. at. 10 per month for 6 yeares 
Thomas Fisher, Joyner at. 14 per month for 3 yeares 
These are to undertake such services as you shall 
apoint unto them. Some of them you may imploy under your 
smith, carpenter, bricklayers, &c., as you shall find them 
inclineable. And soe wee leave you to the Almighties 
protection 
protection and remayne, your loving freinds 
MAURICE THOMSON ANDREW RIC CARD Govr. 
CHRISTOPHER WILLOUGHBY THOMAS CHAMBRELAN Dept. 
THOMAS WINTER GEORGE SMITH 
WILLIAM LOVE RICHARD FORD 
JOHN JOLLIFFE WILLIAM RIDER 
CHRISTOPHER BOONE AN'rHONIE BATEMAN 
JOSEPH ASH 
P.S. On the 28 instant wee received yours of 26 March, 
to which wee shall respond by our next. 
Letter Book, 
Vol.3, 1660-65, 
pp. 46-8. 
Comission aDd Instructions given by us, the 
Governor and Company of Merchants of London 
trading into the East Indies, unto our loving 
freind Mr. Edmond Yong, whome wee have apointed 
to bee our Agent at Fort Cormantine, dated in 
London, 31 August 1661. 
Kr. Edmond Yong, 
The good opinion which wee have conceived of you, 
both as to your abil1ities and faithfulnesse, hath induced 
us to make choice of you to bee our Agent and Cheife 
Director of our affaires in our factory or castle of Corman-
tine on the coast of Guinea, to which imployment wee doe 
apoint you, and for your encouragment wee doe settle upon 
you the sa1lary of 200 IT. per annum, to commence at your 
arriveall there and end at your departure from thence . 
For the transport of yourselfe and necessaries wee 
have apointed the ship Royall Charles, in which you shall 
have the use of the greate cabben and such other accomodation 
as the ship can afford. Wee therefore require you to 
repaire on board withall expedition, that the said ship may 
not by your ocasion be retarded in the prosecution of her 
voyage. 
In our gennerall letter,hercwith delivered you, 
wee 
wee have ordered that the person which at your arriveall 
at Fort Cormantine you shall find to bee Agent or Cheife, 
that he resigne up his charge and give an accompt of all 
remaynes into your posession. Which being performed, in the 
first place, as that which will procure a blessing upon 
your other actions, wee recommend unto you the service of 
the Almightie, wherein wee hope you will bee exemplary 
to the rest of our factors and others our servants within 
the lymitts of your Agency. 
That our affaires may not suffer by the keeping 
of our advices, accompts, or other writings from publi~ue 
view, wee doe re~uire that they bee all and at all times 
comunicated to those which shall bee of Counsell with you, 
that thereby, in case of removeall or decease of any of the 
Counsell, the remainder may bee .the better enabled to 
carryon our affaires, with knowledg and discretion. And 
for all such letters as shall bee directed from you to us 
which shall relate to our gennerall businesse, wee doe 
re~uire that they bee joyntly subscribed by you our Agent 
and the rest of the Counsell, mthout whose subscriptions 
or the major parte of them wee shall not accompt them to bee 
authentick. 
In case of any misdemeanors or miscariage in any 
of our factors or others our servants, in neglecting or 
refusing to performe t~ose services apointed unto them, or 
in 
in wasting or trusting out our estates without order, wee 
give you power and authority, with the advice and consent 
of the Counsell, if you see cause, either to suspend or 
wholy to dismisse them from our imployment, according as 
their offenses shall merritt. 
In the copie of this ship's Charter Party, which 
you shall have herewith, you will see what comodities wee 
have prohibited to bee exported to Guinea and the mulct 
agreed on to bee paid in case any of them bee carried in 
the ship. Wee desire that, when if shall please God to 
arrive you to your designed port, that you bee very 
circumspect to discover what of those comodities shall be 
brought out in this ship and in all others that shall 
hereafter arrive, and for what you shall soe discover to 
cause the proprietors to pay the mulct, which,if they 
shall refuse,wee give you power to make zeisure [sicJof 
them and to dispose of them in sale, bringing the proceed 
to our accompt. And though wee have in our former letters 
given this in charge to our Agent and factors, yet they hsve 
not answered our expectation, and t herefore wee perticulerly 
recamend it to your care and hope you will bee faithfull 
to us in its prosecution. 
In our gennerall letter wee have g i ven comissi on 
to undersell both Dutch, Sweades a nd interlopers in all 
comodities whatsoever, and wee d oubt not but in some t i me 
to 
to weary them from persuing that trade. This wee also 
recommend unto you, desiring that you will bee very active 
in the making sale of all our goodes and in the procuring 
of gold ready to bee taken into our ships against their 
arriveall; perticulerly that you get what gold you can 
possibly procure to bee laden on this ship during her 
stay with you, and therewith to dispeed her to our Agent 
and factors at Fort St. George. 
ee desire that by every convenient passage you 
send us home our accompts, that thereby wee may see what 
sales you have made and so accordingly to governe our 
selves, being wee imand by the Almighties asistance to 
furnish you largly with all sorts of comodities vendible 
with you. And therefore wee recomend our affaires to your 
prudent manadgment with the asistance of your Counsell, 
with whome wee desire that you live in love and in the 
feare of the Almightie, to whose good protection wee leave 
you and rene.yne 
Your loving freinds 
CHRISTOPHER WILLOUGHBY ANDREW RICCARD Govr. 
THOMAS WINTER THOl.;AS CHA1ffiERLAN Dept. 
CHRISTOPHER BOONE aNTHONIE BA'rEMAN 
JOSEPH ASH GEORG:!: SMITH 
JOHN JOLLIFFE WILLIA • VINCENT 
MAURICE THOMSON RICHARD FORD 
\ ILLIAM RYDER 
Postscript. 
ee understand that upon the ua~uay Coast, as 
you 
you saile along by the shoare, there often cometh off 
severall boates with negroes, whoe bring with them store of 
elephants teeth which they sell in truck for brandy, iron, 
sletias, pewter, &c. comodities at about 6d per lb., as the 
goodes cost in England. Wee therefore desire you, if such 
opertunity present as you saile along the said coast, or 
that by putting into such places on the coast where teeth 
are probably to bee procured, that you buy up what Quantities 
of them may bee atteyned,to bee sent on our next shiping 
which wee shall designe from your port to Surratt. 
In our letter dated 30 November last wee gave 
notice to our Agent and factors that there was formerly 
an English factory setled at Anta, where store of gold was 
procureable for English comodities, and therefore gave them 
order to make tryall of that place and if they found that it 
would vend comodities to send a faeter or twoe thither with 
a cargazoone to the value of 500 ri. This wee againe referr 
unto your care, to touch at that place and,if gold bee there 
procureable and that a factory for us bee not there alreadie 
setled, send 2 or 3 factors from Corman tine to reside there 
againe and furnish them with such comodities as are vendible, 
that they may gett in what gold is there to bee had. And 
during your continuance there, or at any other place before 
your coming to Cornlantine, wee tlesire you to improve your 
time (and better your experience) in getting what gold and 
teeth 
teeth are procureable, in exchange for any goodes that wee 
have put abord you. 
Letter Book, 
V01.3,1660-65. 
pp. 62-66. 
Sent on the Coronation. 
London 10th November 1661. 
Our Agent and Factors 
at Cormantine, 
WEE oommend us hartily unto you &c. Our last 
is the preceeding part hereof sent you on our ship the 
Royall Charles, Captain James Barker, Comander, dated 
31th August past, to which wee referr. In the close of 
our prementioned letter wee acknowledged receipt of yours 
of the 26 March past, and since, namely,on the 2d October, 
is come to hand yours of ultimo Aprill, to both which wee 
respond as followeth. 
First wee observe that our howse at Cape Coast ' 
was fully finished and wee doe,acco~ing to your promise, 
expect an accompt of the charge thereof by your next. Wee 
have alreadie sent you both beames, tyles and lyme for the 
roofe,&c., and shall suply what may bee further wanting. 
This howse wee order that you call by the name of Cape 
Coast Fort. 
Your proceedings with the Captain of the 
Aoannies, whoe you advise us bought goodes of Captain 
Blackman for the value of tenn markes in gold at one time, 
wee take espetiall notice of and aprove of your proceedings, 
and also in your oposing the designe of the Captain in 
endeavouring 
endeavouring to make Corman tine a free port for all 
interlopers to drive a trade in. However, wee perceive 
that, notwithstanding his greate presents to the King and 
greate men, his designe is frustrated, all differences 
ended, and a free trade manadged by you. 
Wee take notice of the relation you have given 
us of the difference which was likely to ensue betweene 
John Cloyoe and the Flemings about a pretended Sweades ship 
which the Flemings have taken, which John Cloyce demands 
restoration of, or, in case of refuseall, entends an open 
warr with them. What the issue thereof will bee wee 
supose you w1ll not omitt to advise us by your next. That 
the Hollanders should forbidd you to send any more cannoes 
or goodes to Cape Coast, for that they entended to hinder 
all trade to that port, at this their proceedings wee 
cannot much wonder, it beeing but a continuance and an 
adition to their former insolencies. You did very well 
in retorning them answer that you would not forbeare 
sending as often as your occasions should require. Copie 
of your letter to the Dutch Gennerall wee have received 
and aproove thereof and hope that, notwithstanding all his 
high language and threatn1ngs of surpr1zeall, you did not 
dis1st from sending suplies of comodities to Cape Coast, 
and if the Hollanders have done us any prejudice or damage 
by 
by stopage or seizing of our goodes, let us receive the 
perticulers and the full value attested under your hands 
and wee doubt not but to have due sattisfaction from them 
for the same, as likewise for all our former losses and 
damages ocasioned by their unjust proceedings. 
Wee have received the copie of the Agreement 
made with John Cloyce &~ greate men for our howse at Cape 
Coast, as also the copies of those certificates and accompts 
which cone erne Captaine Swaml~ which wee shall have 
occasion to make use of when it shall please God to 
retorne the said Captayne to England. 
Wee aprove of your proceedings in setling M~. 
Robert Richards to bee Cheife at Cape Coast, and wee hope 
he will principally ayme at our interest and improve his 
time for our most advantage. 
With those comodities which you write you shall 
first want wee have by our last ship and shall by this 
suply you, namely, with long cloth, pewter and korutts 
or Guinea stuffs. And for those musketts which remayne 
by you unsold, being refuse, broken and small boare, you 
must putt them off as well as you can. What wee shall 
now send you shall bee very good and serviceable and suc h 
as wee hope will find a ~uick vent to good pr offitt. 
Wee have beene mindfull to furnish you both with 
a good chirurgeon and a chest of chyrurgery, both whic h 
wee 
wee sent toward you on the Royall Charles, which when 
arrived wee doubt not but you will discharge your present 
chirurgeon whome you render to bee both unskillfull and 
negligent. 
·Wee shall forbeare the sending of you any pint 
potts, juggs, pampillion ruggs and sayes till wee shall 
receive advice from you that they are againe become in 
request with you. And so wee now come to take cognizance 
of and reply to yours of 30 Aprill last, wherein wee first 
meete with the wellcome newes of the arriveall of the 
Beneene Friggatt at your port the 26 Aprill, having found 
but small trade along the coast and only procured 77 
elephants teeth. These teeth wee doe apoint to bee sent 
on this ship for Fort St. George. 
Wee have and shall bee very carefull to send you 
such long cloth from hence as are cleare from damage. By 
our ship the Royall Charles wee sent you 100 bales, all to 
outward apearance good and well conditioned, and hope they 
will when opened bee found soe. What cometh on this ship 
wee have caused to bee opened and viewed, so that,except 
damage befall them 1n the ship in their passage to you, 
wee question not but they will bee to content and find a 
quick and proffittable vent. For what damaged long cloth 
you shall have resting on your hands, dispos e of it as soone 
as may bee, making a reasonable allowance for dama ge t o t he 
buyers. 
buyers. 
The Beeneene Frlggatt, wee take notice, you 
intended with all expedition to dispeede for the Beneene 
with some factors upon her, there to reside for the 
procuring of cloathes against a second voyage, that soe 
they may brebetter and the pinnace the sooner returned. 
This pinnace, you advise us, you hope so to imploy as 
thereby wee shall bee encouraged to send forth another the 
next yeare. To this wee say that,when wee shall bee 
acerteyned that by your industry and faithfulnesse she 
shall bee so imployed that wee thereby shall reape proffitt 
and that there will bee necessary occasion and imployment 
for another, wee shall upon your advice most readily 
furnish you; and alsoe by our next send you driving kettles 
for the ~aboone ~d Cape Lopus, and endeavour to procure 
you a quantity of rangoes and what other comodities you 
shall advise for. 
To what you write in respond to that section of 
our letter wherein wee expresse ourselves to admire that so 
greate remaines of our goodes are resting unsold, and that 
private traders find a present sale for all their comoditie~ 
wee reply that for what is past, conSidering that you had 
not our comission to undersell both Dutch, Sweades &c. 
interlopers, wee shall not soe much blame you, but wee doe 
expect that you, having received our order by the ship 
Royall 
Royall Charles, to undersell both Dutch, Sweades and 
interlopers, that you observe and follow our comission 
therein given you, whereby wee ~uestion not (as therein 
wee expresse) but that larg ~uantities of goodes will 
yearely vend with you and that in tyme wee shall weary 
both Dutch, Sweades and interlopers from coming to your 
ports. 
You write us that it is neither the Agent nor 
William Faldoe that are encouragers of private trade or 
drawers of interlopers to your port, and that the inter-
lopers understand better then to sell their goodes to 
white men, knowing that blacks will give them better 
prizes, and yet in conclusion desire our favour to give 
you leave to live by that, seeing wee prohibite you from 
all meanes of other gaines. This, in the first part, 
seemes to bee a disowning and discoragment in relation to 
private trade, and in the conclusion to take a liberty 
to your selves to prosecute it. Therefore, wee nowagaine 
second and confirme our order,given you by the Beeneene 
Friggatt,that wee doe strictly require that neither our 
Agent nor any of our factors or others our servants doe 
buy any goodes from private traders or others, or exercise 
any trade in buying or selling of negroes, but that you 
indeavour to put off our goodes that wee have and shall 
send you and to gett gold readie for our shiping tha t 
shall 
1 
shall arrive with you to bee sent for India. 
Wee,having in what preceedes given answer to 
yours, doe now proceed to advise you that wee have fraighted 
the ship Coronation, Captain~ Roger Milner, to voyage for 
your port, on whome wee have laden the perticulers 
following, vizt. 
H. sg. d. 
124 chests sheetes containing 
8060 at 3 sg. 10 d. • . . . . . . • .1544 16 8 
13488 barrs iron pz. 3889.1.26 +T. at 20sg •. 3889 9 8 
4 bales striped carpetts containing 
220 at 12 sg. • . . . • • • • . • • 132 
6 chests musketts containing 349 at 8 sg. . 139 12 
40 casks several 1 sorts pewter amount to 523 17 4 
775 broad tapseiles at 22 s. per peece 852 10 
463 harrow tapseiles at 14 s. per peece. . 324 2 
1000 niccanees at 11 sg. per peece. . 550 
3291 Guinea stuffs at 5 s. per peece 822 15 
1 bale containing 50 peeces collored 
ginghams and 2 peeces paintings 51 
128 bales long cloth containing 3805 paeces 
at 36 sg. . . . . . . • . . .. .....6849 
3 barrells Dutch knives containing 492 
dozen at 2s.6d. per dozen .•..... 61 10 
3 bales beades containing 356 IT nett at 8d .. 11 18 8 
1 bundle containing 4 peeces brawles for a 
muster . .. . • •. ..•..... 2 
1 bale blew bafts containing 200 peeces 
at 8:6d . . . . . . . . • . •. •. 85 
1 bale browne long cloth No.74 containing 
25 peeces at 34 sg. . . • . .. ... 42 10 
2 bales white long cloth No.3 containing 
60 peeces at 36 sg. ... ....... 108 
1197 barrs iron pz. 322.1.14~. at 20 s. 
per cwt. .....•.......•. 322 7 6 
More in severall provisions as per invoice 254 6 8 
Summ totall amount to 16566 15 6 
Take notice that the long cloth No. 1.2.62.52 and 
x 
29 each peeces containing 80 covids, which is about 
40 yards in lengths, the other numbers containing 73 covids. 
JO B 
By the ship ROY8ll Charles wee advised you of 
our intentions to send you this ship Coronation and desired 
that, having laden all the gold you had in your posession 
on the ship Charles, you would (after her departure) 
proceed on in selling of goodes and getting gold for this 
ship, and wee hope you have beene active therein. You will 
find by copie of her Charter Party that she is to remayne 
on your coast for the space of 35 daies, in which tyroe 
(with what you shall have before her arriveall procured) 
wee hope you will have gathered in some considerable some 
to bee laden aboard her, which having effected let the 
ship therewith, and with your advices and bill of lading, 
bee consigned to our Agent and Factors at Fort St. George. 
In a small bale marked C.G. wee have encloased 
50 peeces colloured ginghams and 2 peeces fine paintings 
of yellow grownds, and in a small fardle wee have made 
up 4 peeces brawles or striped s'tuffs. These wee send to 
you as patternes wherewith to try your marketts; therefore, 
if you find them affected, send samples of them by this 
ship to our Agent and factors at Fort St. George and advise 
them the ~uantities you desire, which wee have ordered them 
accordingly to provide. 
Since what in a former saxion written you 
concerning our long cloth,wee have had occasion to open 
some of the same ships parcell, which wee sen~ you on the 
Royall 
Royall Charles, namely those No. C and D, and notwithstanding 
they ~~eared very well conditioned outwardly, yet many 
peeces within have received damage, so that wee are jealous 
that some of those bales No. C and D may bee in the like 
condition, which if it shall so apeare you must put them 
off with some reasonable ~lowance,as before intimated. 
You may take notice that those bales of long 
cloth which wee have caused to bee opened and againe 
repact doe not contayne 30 peeces in each bale, as doe all 
the rest which have not been repact; and therefore,that 
you may distinguish them the one from the other,You will 
find upon each bale that hath beene . here repact the nomber 
of peeces written upon the outside of the bales. 
Wee now send you a good ~uantity of Guinea stuffs, 
a comoditie which you desire to bee furnished ~ith. You 
will find them come rated to you at a higher value then 
formerly because they are here advanced in sale proportion-
ably, wee having lately sold 700 peeces of them at 4.10d. 
per peece. This wee advise you off that you may accordingly 
governe your selves in the sale of what now sent you. 
Wee desire that you doe not faile by every 
conveighance to send us an accompt of what sales you have 
made, what comodities are remayning, and what gold you shall 
have resting in your hands. And alsoe let us have accompts 
of the estate in perticuler of Jeotfry Pothecary and of all 
aher 
other persons th~t have or shall decease within the lymitts 
of your Agency, that wee may here give a speedy answer 
and sattisfaction to their freinds for what shall bee 
brought into our cash. 
Wee have lately received letters from aboard the 
ship Royall Charles advising us that she mett with a 
violent storme at sea which inforced her, after much 
hazard and damage, to put into Lisbone, there to repaire 
her defects. What time may bee spent in its performance 
is uncerteyne. Therefore,if it should so happen that this 
this [sic] ship the Coronation should arrive with you before 
the Charles, wee doe then hereby order that you imediatly 
goe in hand with her unlading and dispatch her away for 
Fort St. George with all the gold that you shall have in 
M x 
your posession, and afterwards her dispeede to use all 
dilligence and industry in the procuring gold for the 
Charles, to which purpose wee hereby give you comission to 
procure all the gold you can of the Dutch, Sweedes, inter-
lopers or others, and to pass your bills of exchange upon 
us for what you shall so procure. Wee hope you may contract 
for it at or about 3.6.8d. per oz., but wee would not have 
you to exceed 3.10s., and take eseptiall care that it bee 
good Tiber gold. llhat bills you shall draw upon us shall 
bee accepted and duely paid. 
If before receipt hereof, or with in a short time 
a f ter 
after, you cannot dispose of those defective musketts 
which remaynes on your hands, let them by the next con-
veighance bee sent us for England. 
On this ship taketh passage Thomas Davis whome 
wee have enterteyned for a factor to reside with you. His 
sallary is 30 ~. per annum. Him wee referr unto you to 
bee imployed according to his abillities. And so the 
Almightie direct and keepe you, and wee remayne 
Your very loveing freinds 
THOMAS WINTER ANDREW RICCARD Govr. 
CHRISTOPHER WILLOUGHBY THOMAS CHAMBERLAN Dept. 
CHRISTOPHER BOONE WILLIAM THOMSON 
JOHN JOLLIFFE ANTHONIE BATEMAN 
SAMUELL BARNARDISTON RICHARD FORD 
PETER VAN DEPUTT GEORGE SMITH 
WILLIAM LOVE WILLIAM RYDER 
MAURICE THOMSON 
Postscript 
You will find in Invoice that our long cloth, 
tapseiles and niccannes (as well as our Guinea stuffs) come 
rates unto you at higher prices then formerly, all which 
comodities, in our last court of sales, have beene sold at 
or about the prizes they now come invoiced unto you; 
endeavour therefore to advance them what you can. 
Wee have enterteyned,and now send you on this s hip, 
the 3 following persons, whome you may imploy as your 
occasions shall require, vizt. 
WILLIAM PERRINAT 
THOMAS STORY at 14 sg. per moneth . 
RICHARD BROWNE 
ter Book, 
.3, 1660- 65, 
149-153. Sent on the George and Martha. 
London the 11th July 1662. 
Our Agent end Factors 
at Fort Cormantine, 
WEE commend us heartIly unto you &c. The 
preceeding part hereof, dated 10th November, is copie of 
our last sent you on our ship Coronation, which wee 
hereby confirme. Since the departure of the said ship 
wee have received yours of 10th June, 4th July, primo of 
August and 23th January past. To such perticulers in them 
as require our answere wee shall respond in the subsequent 
lynes and then proceed to give you our further orders 
as needefull. 
In the first place wee encounter with the un-
wellcome relation which you give us of the fireing our 
howse and burneing our goodes at Cape Coast, performed 
by twoe blacks of Morea, hired by the Flemings to committ 
that hellish action. Wee have taken perticuler notice of 
all the several 1 passages related by you concerning this 
aff~re and have made our aplycation to his Majestie for 
reparation and sattisfaction for this and all other losses 
and damages susteyned by them, and wee hope a good issue 
will ensue. 
Wee take cognizance of the Dutch, their proceedings 
with 
with the Danes in fireing their factories and endeavouring 
to hinder all trade, their incensing the Captain of the 
Acanies to beseidge our Castle of Cormantine and the issue 
thereof, which you tell us was performed with much honour 
to the mainteyning of our priviledges and upholding of our 
interest. 
Wee find you to complayne for the want of factors 
and soldiers to manadge our affaires and desire a suply of 
both; but this beeing before the arriveall of our ship the 
Royall Charles at your port wee doe not doubt but that you 
were by her in good measure suplyed with both sorts, beeing 
wee did here enterteyne and send toward you on that ship 
22 factors and others to bee disposed by you. Wee alsoe take 
notice of your desire that our pinnace may goe downe for 
Arda to buy a good ~uantitie of blacks to bee imployed in 
our service, because your country people are not serviceable 
and inclineable at all tymes to runn from you. To this 
your desire wee give our consent and lyberty to send downe 
the pinnace for that purpose, there to buy 40 or 50, if our 
occasions shall re~uire soe many, but withall wee re~uire 
you that they bee all such as are willing and not forced to 
saile unto you and become our servants. 
You tell us that at the takeing accompt of our 
remaynes you found Mr. William Rewling (whome you imployed 
as warehowsekeeper) much wanting in his accompts. It must 
therefore 
therefore bee your care to secure what estate of his you 
can finde out towards our sattisfaction, and to examine 
how hee hath runn out our estates and what blacks or others 
hee hath trusted with our goodes, and endeavour to gather 
in what possibly you can there; and wee shall not bee 
wanting to our selves here in the forbearing to pay any of 
his sallary, but secure our selves what wee may till hee 
shall render us a good accompt of his actions. And what 
wee say as to the prementioned Mr. Hewling, the like wee 
also doe as to Mr. Puleston, who hath alsoe runn out our 
estate as you advise us. Let it therefore bee your care to 
secure what you can with you and wee shall doe the like 
here. 
Wee have received the copie of Admirall Holmes 
his letter directe~ to you, wherein hee gives 'you warning 
to depart the coast, and wee doubt not (though you say you 
know not how you shall bee dealt withall at his arriveall 
and that your lives is the least which you value) that any 
violence will bee exercised either to your persons or our 
estate remayning with you. Wee are now in treaty with his 
Royall Highnesse the Duke of Yorke about that trade, and 
hope by our next to advise you of its successe. 
From yours of 23th January wee take notice of 
the arriveall of our ship the Royall Charles,with our Agent 
.. I. Young &,c" the 22th iJecember at your port, for which wee 
thanck 
thanck the Alnightie. Wee have also received your 
accompt of remaynes to the primo January, and from thence 
take notice of the severall sorts and Quantities of goodes 
that were resting in your hands. Wee have ,therefore , 
by this ship, confined our selves to such comodities only 
as are wanting and desired by you,namely, koruttscrGuinea 
stuffs, brawles, Sheffeild knives, Flemish boatswaine knives, 
Flemish sayes and Guinea neptune. The three latter wee 
have writt for to Holland and hope they will came in tyroe 
to bee laden on this ship. For the Quantitie of each sort 
wee referr you to the invoice. 
Wee have noe doubt but that by the Almighties 
(s)istance our pinnace the Beneene Friggatt is long since 
arrived in safety with you, beeing Mr. Chappell, whoe is 
here arived, informes us that she departed from st. Omay 
about the 22th December last, bound for Cormantine. Soe 
that at present there is noe necessity to furnish you with 
another pinnace. 
Wee are very glad to heare that you have hopes 
that trade in your parts will more and more increase now 
that the Acannies are retorned, who have beene up in the 
oountry to settle difference and opening a way for trade. 
Therefore wee hope it have beene your care and dilligence 
to dispose of all such goodes of ours as were rernayning in 
your 
your hands, and to that purpose (that they might the sooner 
vend) you have observed our order to undersell both Dutch 
and others. And for such damaged goodes as came unto you 
on the Charles, which you say was very much, wee hope you 
have disposed of them and all other damaged goodes according 
as the marketts would yeild. A list of those damaged goodes 
which you found in the Charles wee shall expect in your next. 
What gold you intended to lade on the Royall 
Charles, namely, 480 markes, wee take knowledge of and that 
you purpos~ to dispeede her within her lyroitted tyroe in 
Charter Partie,before the expiration whereof wee hope you 
made some addition thereUnto and that the ship by the 
Almighties blessing is before now safely arrived therewith 
at her designed port. 
Wee take notice that you had procured a lycense 
from John Cloyce for one halfe of the Castle at Cape Coast, 
and that you ~uestioned not having once gott footeing 
therein to obteyne the other halfe. Wee shall bevery glad 
to heare that you are possest of the whole and . that the 
issue thereof will bee the future safety of our goodes and 
the drawing of trade to that place. 
When in the future you shall write to us for any 
sort of comodities wee re~uire you to expresse t he ~uantitie 
that you shall desire, that soe wee may provide a c cordi ngly. 
In 
In your last letter you desire some Guinea neptune may bee 
sent you, a large quantity of brawles, &c., a parcell of 
Flemish sayes, soe that by these expressions wee are left 
doubtfull what quantities to send sufficient or insufficient 
for the suply of your marketts. 
It hath formerly bin (and still it is) the 
boldenesse of the Hollanders to forbidd the sending a 
suply of goods to Cape Coast, notwithstanding which your 
predecessors have not forborne to prosecute that trade, and 
wee require you to doe the like,and also proceede to the 
setling of a factory at Anto, if not alreadie done; and if 
the Dutch shall ~cibly opose yo~ protest fully against 
them, drawing up our damage to a certeyne somme, and wee 
shall not doubt of reparation and full sattisfaction. 
By this ship wee send you 3 hogsheads and a 
quarter cask of beefe and some other perticulers by you 
desired, as by invoi ce you may perceive. 
This comes unto you on the ship George and Martha 
whome wee have fraighted for your parts, then to St. Hellena , 
from thence to Fort St. George. A copie of her Charter 
Partie wee herewith send you for your directions. Abstract 
of what laden upon her is as followeth. 
Layden 
ti-.sg. d. 
Layden sayes 10 cases containing 
200 peeces at 4 rr. per peece is 800 
Iron 1495 barrs pz. 405C.-.24 IT. at 
20 sg. • • • . . . • • • • . 405 2 
Brawles 5 bales containing 1500 
peeces at 5 sg. .••.•...•.. 375 
Guinea stuffs 7 bales containing 
2300 peeces at 4 sg ...• 460 
Boatswaines knives 12 chests containing 
2051 dozen at 2sg.6d. • . • • • • 256 7 6 
Knives Sheffeild 2 hogsheads amount to .. 41 4 2 
Kettles 4 fatts pz. 3368 ~ at 18d. 252 12 
More in severall provisions as per 
invoice . . . . . . • . . . . • . .166 10 
2756 15 8 
Wee re~uire that you procure 12 lusty young 
negroes, the major part women, and ship them aboard this 
ship to bee landed and left on our island of St. Hellena. 
Wee desire that these 12 blacks may bee such as will 
voluntarily and without compulsion saile in the ship 
to the pre named place, if such may bee ateyned. 
Wee formerlY tooke notice of your complaint for 
the want of medicines, cordialls and other meanes for the 
preservation of your healthes, and did by the Royall 
Charles send you an able chirurgeon with a chest of 
chirurgery well furnished, and because that wee would 
not that there should bee any want in that kind wee have 
now 
now caused another chest to bee provided, and send it 
on this ship. 
By Charter Partie of this ship, copie whereof 
wee herewith send you, you may perceive that wee have 
engaged her (if necessity should re~uire) to remayne 
in your parts for the space of 10 daies. But notwith-
standing the said contract order, wee doe earnestly 
desire. that imediatly upon her arriveall you goe in hand 
to receive a shore such goodes as wee have laden aboard 
her and with all expedition to finish the same; and in the 
meane time let your blacks bee prepareing of ballast for 
the said ship, that soe she may bee dispeeded from your 
parts in 3 or 4 daies, if possible. Abord the said ship 
wee order that you lade to the value of 3 or 4000 IT. in 
gold (not exceeding 4000 IT.), but if that ~uantitie shall 
not bee readie to bee presently put abord so soone as the 
shipp is fitted to saile, lade what you shall have in 
a readinesse and dispeede her away, consigning the gold to 
bee delivered to our Agent and Factors at Fort St. George. 
Wee formerly hinted you that wee were in treaty 
with his Highnesse the Duke of Yorke aboute the Guinea 
trade, and that by our next wee should give you advice of 
its successe. In the interim, if any of the ships 
aperteyning unto his Highnesse shall arrive at your port, 
wee 
wee require that you treate them with all civillity, and 
asist them with what may reasonably bee desired by them. 
Wee desire you to procure a bushell or twoe of all 
sorts of graynes, that you can ateyne unto during this ships 
stay at your port, and deliver them to the Comaunderfbr 
the use of our Island of St. Hellena. 
Wee require that by every opertunity by way of 
Barbados you give us advice of all things materiall and an 
accompt of all proceedings in the sale of our goodes, what 
comodities are remayning, what gold in cash and what sent 
on every ship for India, and soe wee commend you to the 
Almightie and remayne, 
Your very loveing friends, 
SAMUELL BARNARDISTON THOMAS CHAMBRELAN Govr. 
THOMAS CAHHAM WILLIAM RYDER D"pt. 
PE'rER VANDEPUTT ANDREW RI CCARD 
STEPHEN LANGHAM MA.URICE THOMSON 
JOHN MAS CALL THOMAS KENDALL 
FRANCIS CLARKE GEORGE SMITH 
THOMAS WINTER CHRISTOPHER WILLOUGHBY 
Postscript. 
Since the finishing of the preceeding wee have 
received a breife letter of 2 or 3 lynes, dated in 
Cormantine Castle 4th March last, subscribed only by Mr. 
Edmond Young, advising us of a bill of exchange drawne upon 
us for 66 I+. sterling, payable to Mr. Richard Mathewes or 
order, for 20 oz. of gold at 3 TT.6sg. per oz. This bill 
wee 
wee have accepted and shall make payment; but withall 
take notice that wee wonder that our Agent should presume 
to infringe our standing order ,namely, that all writeings 
which concernes our affaires should bee subscribed joyntly 
by our Agent and Counsell and not come singly under his 
owne firme. Wee hope wee shall not hereafter have the 
like cause of displeasure given us, and had not this bin 
the first wee should not have accepted it. 
The 200 peeces of sayes which are mentioned in 
invoice wee have ordered to bee shipt of from Dover, by 
Mr. Vincent Delabarr, whome wee have desired to advise 
you of by a line or twoe, and inclose a bill of ladeing 
therein, 
Letter Book, 
Vol. 3, 1660-65, 
pp. 170-71. per American. 
London the xxvl1th. October 1662. 
Our Agent and Factor,s 
at Fort St. Qeepge, Cormantine, 
lA, 
WEE commend us heartily unto you,&c. The 
preceeding part hereof is coppie of our last, dated the 
11th of July ' past, which was dispeeded toward you on the 
George and Martha, to which wee referr, since whose 
departure wee have received youmof 18th February 1661, 
whereunto was prefixed copie of yours dated 25th of 
January preceeding, whose originall is not yet come to 
our hands. With these wee alsoe received the copie of 
~ur letter sent to the Gennerall of the Myne and a 
certificate of goods taken by the Dutch. 
As in your former, so now againe in these your 
last received letters, wee find many sections laying 
before us the continued abuses and affronts put upon us 
by the Dutch, of all which wee have taken espetiall and 
perticuler notice, and have therewith apeared before and 
made our aplycation to our Kings Majestie for reparation 
and sattisfaction, and doubt not but shall in some good 
measure receive the same, the peace betweene the 2 nations 
beeing now agreed on and 3 months set for rattification 
thereof. In which Articles of Peace there are perticulers 
inscerted 
inscerted in relation to our sattisfaction. 
Wee take notice in the next place that you had 
laden abord the ship Royall Charles 3776 oz. of gold, with 
10 men and 5 women, blacks, and that she departed your 
coast the 25th January last in prosecution of her voyage 
for Fort St. George, to which place wee hope the Almightie 
hath long since brought her. 
Wee have not yet heard from Captain Barker, 
Comaunder of the Charles, nor his complaints against you 
for not asisting him to inforce the blacks to change the 
badd monie paid him and his saylers abord for brandy, wine, 
&c. bought of them. Wee conclude you did well not to medle 
therein; however, it had beene better not to have permitted 
any of them to have gone abord his ship. 
s"l 
As it 1s wee are very glad to he are of the 
arriveall of our ship Coronation with you (on the 25th 
January), so it is very unwelcome newes unto us to heare 
that you feare you shall bee necessitated to dispeede her 
from your port with an inconsiderable quanti tie of gould, 
principally occasioned by the Dutches not permitting 
you to furnish our factory at Cape Coast with goods there 
vendible, and where at least (dureing the said ship's stay) 
200 marks of gold might have beene prooured and laden abord 
her. However, wee hope that you have beene very carefull 
aIXl 
and active to get what ~uantity of gold was procureable 
before her departure, and therewith dispeeded her 
according to order. 
On the 14th February wee take notice that it 
pleased God to arrive our pinnace from the Beneene, where 
you advise .us a factory is setled. The 489 clothes which 
she brought with her wee ~uestion not but you have disposed 
of,and for the 935 ±+.of eliphants teeth and what more you 
shall have collected togither, let it bee reserved by you 
to bee sent on our next ship, which wee entend shall come 
to your port and from thence saile to Surratt. 
Wee take notice of the severall comodities 
wherewith you desire to bee furnished, and had we beene 
permitted to have driven on our trade as formerly wee should 
have furnished of all sorts and sent them unto you, But it 
haveing pleased the Kings Majestie to graunt that trade 
of Guinea to his Highnesse the Duke of Yorke and Royall 
Company, betweene whome and ourselves it is agreed that wee 
shall not send out any more goods for those parts, wee doe 
submitt. And therefore this ship, the American, comes 
toward you only with one bundle,marked P, containing vizt. 
ft. sg. d. 
2 reames large paper . • • . • . • . 1 16 
2 reames ordinary paper . . . . 13 4 
500 ~uills and 1 dozen black lead pencills 8 8 
I pound hard wax . . . . . . . . . . . 4 
1 glasse bottle covered with gunnell contai~ ? 4 
1 gallon of inck. . .. ) 
More in beere, wine, c~!:;~e~t, ~u~t~r. a~d. .)j3014 4 
34 3 8 
When 
When wee first contracted with the Owners and 
Master of this ship it was agreed that she should depart 
from Gravesend with the first faire wind and weather that 
God should send after the last of September, that departing 
soe timely toward you she might not bee straightned or 
disapointed to prosecute her after intended voyage for 
S~ Hellena and Fort St. George. But, contrary to our 
intentions, wee have beene necessitated to deteyne the 
said ship till this time, ocasioned by our severall 
conferences and meetings with the Royall Company in relation 
to the trade of Guinea, the result whereof is concluded in 
the following. 
Articles 
tter Book, 
1. 3, 1660-65, 
.171- 4. 
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT betweenethe ROYALL COMPANY 
and the EAST INDIA COMPANY, made the 
xvith day of Octobrt 1662. 
First That the East India Company hath lyberty untill 
the 25th of March next to dispose of soe muc~ of their 
estate now at Guinea as they can by that timej and that the 
East India Company may, at the 25th March aforesaid, leave 
there 2 Factors to dispose of what shaa then remayne there 
dureing 12 moneths, and for what shall bee sold by them 
after the said 25th of March as aforesaid the East India 
Company are to allow the Royall Company ten per cent 
upon the proceede of what shall bee sold, and at the end 
of the said 12 moneths that the East India Company may take 
and remove away what shall then bee undisposed of by them. 
Secondly That at the 25th of March next the East India 
Company are to deliver over to the Assignes of the Royall 
Company the Fort Choromantine, the factories, howses 
and grownd at Wyamba, Cape Coast and Beneene (with the 
consent of Sir Nicholas Crispe), or that the Royall Company 
will indemnifie the East India Company for soe doeing, 
without any wilfull wast to bee made on any of them by the 
East India Company or any of their people, with the gunns 
as well which were SEnt thither by the East India Company, as 
what 
what elce is there, with the habilliments belonging to the 
said gunns and alsoe tenn barrells of their remayning 
powder. And that all the English soldiers on that coast 
belonging to the East India Company, in their pay, are from 
the 25th March aforesaid to enter into the pay and service 
of the Royall Company and bee armed by the said East India 
Company with a sword, a muskett, and bandaleirs or a pike, 
each of them, and that all other musketts, powder and other 
things there may bee disposed of by the East India Company 
as they shall thinck fitt. 
Thirdly That if the Castle of Cape Coast bee purchased 
by the East India Company, they are to deliver the same 
over to the Assignes of the Royall Company at the 25th of 
March next. And that the Royall Company are to allow to 
the East India Company what the purchase of the said Castle 
hath cost the East India Company. 
Fouerthly That the East India Company hath lyberty before 
the 25th of March next, in such manner as they shall find 
convenient, to send out 2 ships for Guinea and one other 
ship within 12 moneths after the 25th of March next, then 
to drawe of[f] all that shall remayne there belonging to u.m 
But the East India Company are not to send out any goods in 
any of the three ships for trade on that coast. 
Fifthly That what householdstuffe, waights or instruments 
belonging 
belonging to the East India Company which they can spare at 
the end of 12 moneths after the 25th of March next, shall bee 
valued at a price by the factors of both Companies, if they 
can agree on the same, and bee left there for the use of the 
Royall Company. And that 4 factors for the Royall Company 
shall be forthwith admitted to reside at Choromantine, where 
the East India Company shall afford them conyeniency of 
lodging and what warehow~e}oome they may have occasion for, 
soe farr as the East India Company can spare the same. 
Now the consideration of the preceeding -Articles 
thus mutually agreed on preseeth upon us to take into our most 
serious thoughts how wee may wind up our bottome and put a 
conclusion to our businesse in your parts in such a manner 
as may most conduce to our advantage; to which purpose, in 
the first place, wee very earnestly recommend unto you 
the speedy sale of as larg q ~uantity of our remayning goods 
as possibly you can, to bee converted into gold and laden 
abord the ship American, beeing it is very much desired by 
us to have as much of our stock in your parts remayning 
to bee disposed of this yeare and the proceede thereof in 
gold sent into India. And to that intent and purpose wee 
hereby give you order and directions to make sale of all 
sorts of comodities remayning on your hands as best you may, 
wee not lymitting a price soe you can procure a ~uantitie of 
ready gold, and to endeavour to put of our goods to any 
whomsoever 
whomsoever that will buy. The Dutch factors doe usually 
buy whole cargazoone of interlopers, whoe wee conceive may 
helpe you of with a considerable quantitie of our comodities 
such as you conceive they will accept of, and if you can 
come to an agreement sell them what quantities they shall 
desire. 
If your selves, or any othe~with you, either 
Sweedes, interlopers or others, have any gold that they will 
deliver into our cash, wee give you comission to accept the~ 
of, not exceeding 3 IT. lOs. per oz. And bee carefull it 
bee good Tyber gold, and give them your bills upon us, which 
wee shall accept and make good payment when due. 
In Dece~ber next wee intend you another ship to 
carry away what gold shall bee gathered in by you after 
this ships departure, which, that it may bee cons~derable, 
wee pray you to persevere in the selling of our goods of all 
sorts as much as possibly you can. By that ship wee shall 
further advise you; but in the meane time wee pray bee 
very diligent in makeing sale of our goods,and wee shall 
acknowledge it as an acceptable service and give encourag-
ment to all those that shall faithfully act therein. And 
by the next shipping will take care for future employment 
of those that desire it, and they that will may came home 
for England, and if any of our factors bee so resolved, let 
them saile on this ship for St. riell ena and come for England 
from 
from thence on our next shipping that shall arrive there 
from India. 
Wee desire you to enorder the Coma under of this 
ship that, if he touch at St. Thoma, that hee there procure 
6 lusty heyfer calves and deliver them ashore to our 
Gouvernor of St. Hellena, and desire him also to get 
provision for them and to take care of them in their passage 
thither. Also wee require that you put abord this ship 
12 of our owne blacks, vizt.6men, and six women, such as 
can speake English, to bee landed'at St. Hellena, and lay 
in sufficient of victualls, &c., for their expence thither. 
Heerewith wee send you copie of this ships 
Charter Partie, whereby you will see that she is obliged 
to tarry with you for the [? space] of 20 daies and then 
to saile for St. Hellena and Fort St. George. So that you 
having (as in the preceeding wee have and now againe 
earnestly desire you) procured all the gold you can atteyne 
unto, let it bee all laden abord tier, and then with your 
advices and bill of la~g consigne the said ship and gold 
(after her touching at St. Hellena) to our Agent and 
Factors at Fort St. George. 
Wee desire that you write us by all conveighances 
that shall present, and therein omitt not to advise ~s 
what sales you have made and what gold you have in cash. 
hat letters you shall send us by way of Barbadoes,enclose 
them 
them under covert to Mr. Howell and Mr. Chambrelan, whome 
wee are assured will bee very carefull to dispeede them 
unto us. 
You haveing soe large a stock of goods 0n your 
hands and none now sent you on this ship, the long time you 
have had for sale and the lyberty which wee have given you 
to undersell all, both Dutch, Sweeds and interlopers, as als 
that warrant which in the preceeding wee have given to take 
up gold and pass bills of exchange upon us, by all these 
meanes wee doubt not but you will have procured a large 
~uantity of gold readie against this shipps arrlveall. 
Therefore, notwithstanding you will find in Charter Partie 
that this shipp is to remayne with you twentie daies after 
her arriveall, yet wee now order that, although you have 
a greater ~uantitie then 20 or 25000 rr. in gold, yet that 
you dispeede her with the said somme within three or fouer 
daies after her arriveall, and what gold more you have or 
shall procure, let it bee reserved for our next shipp. 
If the Royall Company shall send any factors on 
this shipp for Guinea, wee re~uire that you use them civilly 
and give them such enterteynment as shall betitt them. And 
soe the Almightie keepe you, and wee remayne, 
Your very loveing treinds, 
PETER VAN DEPUTT THOMAS CHA..v.BRELAN Govr. 
FRANCIS CLARKE ILLI RYDER Dept. 
CHRIS'fOPHER BOONE ANDREW RICCARD 
CHRISTOPHER ILLOUGHBY 
JOHN JOLLIFFE ILLIAM THOMSOI 
STEPHEN LANGHAN MAURICE THOMSON 
ARTHUR INGRAM i~ SAt.'UELL BARNARDISTON 
Letter Book, 
Vol.3, 1660-65, 
p. 178. per American. 
London the viith November '62. 
Our Agent and Factors 
at Cormantine, 
WEE oommend us heartily unto you, &c. By this 
ship Amerioan wee have wrote you twoe letters, dated 27th 
and 31 of the passed moneth, which ship beeing not yet 
departe~ hath given us further opertunity to advise you 
that in relation to the cleareing of our estate from your 
parts, and for the manadging of the same dureing the time 
allotted us in our Agreement with the Royall Oompany, and 
also that our factors and other our servants may have 
knowledge of our intentions for their future disposure, 
wee have resolved as follows, 
That our Agent, Mr. Edmond Yong, doe make choice 
of such 3 of our factors as at receipt hereof, or before 
the departure of our next ship from your parts (namely the 
Castle Friggatt), which wee intend shall saile from hence 
the midle of the next moneth, which hee aocording to his 
judgment shall conclude are persons best fitted and 
quallified to asist him in the sale and disposure of that 
estate of ours which shall bee resting after the 25th of 
March next, whose choice wee shall confirme, and desire our 
said 
said Agent, with the said 3 factors, to dispose of all 
such goods as shall bee remayning, and to tourne over such 
householdstuffe, waights, instruments, &c. which shall 
bee belonging unto us to the Royall Company, according as 
it is agreed on in the Articles betweene us. 
In the next place wee have taken into our 
consideration the disposure of our other factors,&c., but 
have not fully concluded thereon (but shall by our next 
ship). Yet thus farr wee have concluded, that John Uvedall 
and George Meynell (at the re~uest of their friends here 
made unto us) doe take their passage on this ship American 
from Guinea for St. Hellena and there remayne till the 
arriveall of our ship the Constantinople Merchant, whome 
wee have ordered to saile fromfuence for Bantam; on which 
ship wee doe apoint them to take their passage thither, of 
which wee shall advise our Agent in Bantam and to give 
them such imployment as their abillities shall merritt. 
With the twoe prenamed wee also give lyberty to any other 
of our factors, whose covenanted times in our service shall 
not bee expired by 2 or 3 yeares, that they likewise may 
take their passage for st. Hellene and saile in the 
Constantinople Merchant from thence to Bantam, And for such 
other of our factors that shall bee desierous to retorne 
for England wee did in our former letter order that they 
may take their passage on the American for St. Hellena and 
there 
there remayne till the arriveall of our ships from India 
and retorne on them for England, which wee now againe 
confirme. 
There is one Thomas Mollinox with yo~: for his 
disposure wee shall give you directions by our next ship, 
and what elce wee shall find necessary to advise. Soe 
the Almightie keepe you, and wee remayne 
Your very loveing friends 
THOMAS CANI-WI . Ire) THOMAS CHAMBRELAN Govr 
SAMUEL BARNARDISTON WILLIAM RYDER Dept. 
FRANCIS CLARKE RICHARD FORD 
CHRISTOPHER WILLOUGHBY THOMAS CANHAM~ 
ARTHUR INGRAM JOHN BATHURST 
THOMAS WINTER MAURICE THOW~ON 
PEl'ER VANDE PUTT 
This letter was sent into 
the Downes inclosed in a 
letter to Captain John 
Mallison. 
Letter Book, 
Vol.3, 1660-65, 
pp. 193-4. Sent per the Castle Friggatt. 
London 2d January 1662. 
Our Factors at 
Fort Cormantine, 
WEE commend us heartily unto you, &c. The 
preceeding part hereof, dated 27th and 31th October last 
and 7th November, are copies of what sent you on our shipp 
American, to which wee referr. Since when yours of 29th 
May last came to our hands on the 10th of the passed 
November, bringing us the sade and unwellcome newes of the 
death of our Agent, Mr. Edmond Young, and 15 more of our 
factors and servants in your parts; for which wee are 
very heartily sorrey, though with patience wee submitt to 
the good pleasure of the Almightie and hope hee hath beene 
pleased to preserve in health the remainder of you that 
were then surviveing. 
Wee take notice that as it was the desire of our 
deceased Agent that Mr. John Puleston should succeed him, 
soe wee likewise find the concurrence of those our factors 
whoe have subscribed with him to our letter for aprobation 
thereof, since the receipt of which letter here is a shipp 
arived from your parts and Barbadoes without any letters 
from you for us, yet others whoe have received advices 
report 
report a further montal11ty amongst our people when they 
came from Guinea. The consideration whereof,and withall 
not knowing how it hath pleased God since that time to 
I~t ~ 
deale with the remainer of our people, hath therefore caused 
us to comissionate the Comaunder of the shipp Castle Frigga~ 
Captain Stephen Mitchell, of whose abillities and faithfull-
nesse wee are very well assured, to bee,dureing his stay 
on your coast, Superintendant and Cheife Manadger of our 
affaires in those parts, and to assemble all our factors 
togither and out of them to choose 4 of the ablest and 
fittet persons to joyne with him to consult and carryon 
our interest according to the Articles of Agreement betweene 
the Royall Company and ourselves, and that comission which 
wee have given him the said Captain Stephen Mitchell 
relawing thereunto. and hereby require all and everyone of 
our factors and servants remayning in your parts to yeild 
obedience thereunto in all perticulers and to render a full 
and due accompt of all proceedings from time to time, and 
at all times when required by him; and that dureing his 
continuance with you you give him all readie asistance and 
furtherance in our affaires, in the dis posure of our goods 
and getting of what gold procureable to bee laden abord this 
shipp, that as little goods as possibly may bee remayning 
to bee dis posed of after his spivesll departure; and for 
what cannot bee made sale of dureing his s tay wee must 
referr 
referr it to the care of those 4 persons whoe shall bee 
apoynted joyntly to martadge our affaires afterward, whome 
wee desire to bee very active and carefull therein, and 
wind up our bottome to our best advantage. And wee doe 
assure them that wee will requite and reward their good 
services. 
But wee cannot but blame those our factors, and 
that justly, whoe subscribed our last advices of 29th May, 
in that they have not given us notice of the time when our 
ship Coronation departed from them, n~fuer what quanti tie 
of gold was sent upon her or what was remayning in cash. 
These perticulers ought most espetially to bee constantly 
advised us, and wee hope by your next and future letters 
to receive better sattisfaction by your more fuller 
relations. 
Wee haveing fully written you of all needfull per-
ticulers by the ship American, copie whereof preceedeth this, 
wee have not materially to enlarge, referring you to our 
said advices and to that comission which wee have given 
to Captain Mitchell, requireing your due observation and 
diligent performances to what in them is enjoyned, and 
frequently, as opertunity shall present, to advise us of 
all your proceedings; soe wee comend you to the Almightie 
and remayne, Your very loveing friends, 
SAMUEL BaRNARDIJTON JOHN BATHURS'r THO S CHAMBRELAN Govr. 
CHRISTOPnERRKEBOONE rHO MAS CANHAM .IILLIA RYDER Deputy 
FRANCIS CLA THO S BLOO.i)\IORrH JOHN LE IS 
STEPHEN LANGHAM Q01=lti''O'r V.!:"' .1UDREW RI8CARD 
THOMAS Y'lINTER PErER VANDEPU'ff t ILLIA1.. THOMSON 
Letter Book, 
Vo1.3, 1660-65, 
pp. 315-318. 
Sent upon one of the Royall Companies shipps. 
London 10 August 1663. 
Our Factors at 
Fort Cormantine, 
WEE commend us heartily unto you, &c. Our last 
was dated the 2d January passed, sent on our shipp the 
Castle Friggatt, in custody of Captain Stephen Mitchell; 
Since whose departure from hence are come to our hands your 
severalmof the 25th June, 9th October, 8th November and 
26th January and 2d February past, in which you have given 
us severall relations of passages with you and what goods 
you stood in want of, but beeing the trade of those parts 
is invested into other hands for time to come, these things 
will only require our observation without reply. 
Wee take notice of the arriveall of the shipp 
George and Martha with you on the 2d October last, and that 
She departed your port the 14th detto with 140 marks of gold 
laden abord her, with which wee hope the Almighty hath 
conducted her to her designed port. 
Wee cannot but observe the insolency of the Dutcn, 
whoe will not distinguish or make any difference betweene 
his Highnesse the Duke of Yorks ships and ours, ~ng they 
have proceeded (as you advise us) to give them severall 
grosse affronts and abuses in hindring them from trading 
c, and 
and surprizing their boates, men and goodes, and wee hope 
our Kings Majestie and his Highnesse will take these their 
unsufferable proceedings to heart and require sattisfaction 
from them, as also for the many damages and losses which 
ourselves have susteyned from them. 
It haveing pleased the Almighty on the 6th 
January last to take Mr. Puleston out of this world, wee 
observe that Mr. Thomas Davies was made choice of to succeed 
Agent, and that thereupon hee proceeded to the setling of 
our affaires, and found that the true and exact keeping 
of our accompts had beene neglected in the time of Mr. 
Puleston, that hee was taking an exact accompt of all 
remaynes and intended to send it us on the Charles Friggatt. 
On the 20th January wee observw that our shipp 
American arrived in your port, and that on the 2d of 
February you had laden abord her 1112 marks in gold and 
consigned it (according to our order) to our Agent and 
factors at Fort St. George. The odd 12 marks which you 
tooke up of severall persons at 3 rr. 10 s. per oz., 
amounting to 336 rr. sterling, and for which you have passed 
your bills on us, payable at 10 daies sight to Mr. kathias 
Goodfellow or order, wee have duely sattisfied and paid. 
On the 24th June, by our shi~p Richard and artha (arrived 
from Surratt), wee received coppie of a letter from Captain 
Stephen Mitchell, dated in Cormantine primo of Aprill 1663, 
wnose 
whose originall is not yet come to our reception, with an 
adition thereto from the Island Ascention, 25th Aprill. 
With these wee received coppie of the instructions left 
with you, coppie of inventory of goods remayning on the 
Gold Coast, perticuler and valuation of divers necessaries 
delivered the Royall Company, and a perticuler of the 
charges setling of Anto and Cantancory factories. In his 
said letter hee hath very fully advised us of all passages, 
from his arriveall with you to his departure from you, and 
that Agent Davies was embarqued on a Dutch vessell in pro-
secution of his voyage for England (but hee is not yet 
arrived) . 
Hee further adviseth us that our affaires were 
comi tted into the manadgment of Mr. Gilbert Beavis and I':r. 
John Uvedale, twoe persons of whome hee giveth us a very 
good character, as those whoe will bee very dilligent, 
carefull and faithfull in our service, of which wee shall 
not doubt, and for their encouragment wee assure them that 
wee shall acknowledg and reward all their faithfull 
endeavours in our service. 
By the inventory of goods,delivered by Captain 
Mi tchell into the charge of Lr. Gilbert Beavis and Mr. 
Uvedale, wee find a large remaines of severall sorts of 
comodities. rhese wee hope you have, according to the 
instructions 
instructions left with you by Captain Mitchell, endeavoured 
both by wholesale and retaile to put off at the best rates 
you could; and if anything shall bee remayning undisposed 
off at receipt hereof, let them bee sold at any reasonable 
rates according as your marketts will permitt. And for 
those narrow and broad baftaes, and what elce will not 
sell in your parts (if you have not alread~ let them bee 
sent for the Barbadoes,consigned to Mr. Richard Howell and 
Mr. Thomas Kendall, there to bee sold and the proceed 
invested into sugars and sent us for England, that soe all 
our remaynes b eeing disposed of and converted into gold 
it may bee in a readinesse for the reception of a shipp 
which we intend, God will1f\g, to send you about December 
next for that purpose. 
I~ee take notice that the debt which was oweing 
to us by the deceased Mr. Pules ton was part paid into our 
cash by himselfe in his life time, and the remainder since 
by Mr. Thomas Davies; but wee are also advised by Captain 
Mitchell that the said Yr. Puleston lent the Danes 40 marks 
of gold out of our cash and received from them a parcell of 
brasse basons and battery for security, of which parcell 
was sold to the vallue of 17 marks 8 angles, which somme 
was remayning in the hands of Mr. Beavis, but hee further 
saith that what of the Danes goods was remayning then 
unsold would not,with the 17 marks and 8 angles received, 
make 
make good the 40 marks lent them. Wee wonder that 
Pulestone should, without our order, lend out our monies, 
espetially on comodities wherewith hee was suffitiently 
suplyed by ourselves. Wee hope you have taken same 
effectuall course herein with the Danes, from whome 
Captain Mitchell adviseth us,that Puleston had taken 
authentique papers to declare that the said 40 marks 
gold was lent them, that soe wee may not suffer any damage 
in this perticuler. 
Mr. Rewling and Mr. Betts wee find to bee still 
our debtors, the former denying his debt, pretending 
Mr. Chappell hath wronged him in severall perticulers, 
and that hee hath 10 or 11 yeares sallary due to him from 
the Guinea Company and ourselves,and therefore refused to 
give an acknowledgment under his hand that hee was indebted 
to us. For Mr. Betts, wee take notice that hee hath given 
us an acknowledgment under his hand and seale for his debt 
to Mr. Thomas Davies, whoe bringeth it with him for England. 
Concerning these twoe persons wee find that Captain 
Mitchell, in his instructions left with you, hath recommend-
ed to your care, the procuring our full sattisfaction from 
them, and to that pur pose to secure what estate of theirs 
you could at any time light upon, which if not sufficient 
fully to cleare their debts then to get acknowledgment 
under their hands and seales that wee might hereafter 
recover 
recover our due from themselves or their securities. 
This wee shall not doubt but you have carefully endeavoured 
to effect according to direction. 
Wee take notice that our shipp Castle Friggatt 
carried with her in gold to the vallue of 312 marks 6oz.2a. 
and that 45 marks thereof was taken of the Royall Company 
and 34 marks of perticuler men upon bills of exchange; 
which bills, when presented, we shall honour with 
acceptance and order their due payment. 
Wee hope it will not bee long ere the arriveall 
of Mr. Davies with us, from whome we Question not to 
receive ample sattisfaction how affaires stood at his 
departure, and then, if necessary, shall signifie our 
desires and give you further order. In the meane time 
let it bee your care, as beforementioned, to sell our 
goode and get gold readie for our intended shipp, which 
wi~bee much to our sattisfaction, and cause us to remayne. 
London 31th September 1663. 
The preceeding part hereof was intended to have 
beene sent towards you when dated, but deteyned till now. 
Since the writeing whereof l 'r, rhomas Davies is arrived 
with us, and besides the originalls of the severnll papers, 
copies whereof (as prementioned) wee received from Captain 
itchell 
Mitchell, hee hath also delivered us a breife letter 
subscribed by Gilbert Beavis and John Uvedale, with an 
abstract of what goods were sold from the 25th March to 
the 3d Aprill 1663. From your said letter wee take 
notice that you promise that you will dilligently 
endeavour from time to time to dispose of all our remaynes 
to our best advantage, the performance whereof will well 
content us and confirme our good opinions of your abillities 
and faithfullnes. 
Wee observe that you had considered of our order 
for lading of such goods as were not vendible in your parts 
on some good shipp for the Barbadoes, consigned to Mr. 
Richard Howell and Mr. Thomas Kendall, but suposing that 
you might find vent for them with you in twoe or three 
moneths time, you had forborne to send them for the 
Barbadoesj with which wee are very well sattisfied, rather 
desiring all our remaynes should bee disposed of with you 
then to runn a second adventure to any other place. 
~ee have fraighted the shipp Marigold, Captain 
Charles Thorowgood, whome, God willing, wee intend shall 
saile for your port sOmtime in December next, to carry of 
what effects of gold shall bee in your hands at his 
arriveall. Wee hope by your care and dilligence you will 
have cleared all our remaynes and converted it into gold, 
which wee seriously recomend to your performance, not 
doubting 
doubting but you have and will embrace all opertunities 
to effect the same. By the said shipp wee shall further 
advise you of all things needfull, and in the meane time 
recommend you to the Almighties direction and rest. 
London 10 October 1663. 
Having waited an opertunity to dispeed the 
preceeding and none presenting till now, wee acknowledg 
the receipt of your gennerall of 15th May last, as also 
a perticule~ letter from Mr. Gilbert Beavis of the same 
date. With these wee received abstract of goods sold from 
2d Aprill to 15th May, with the coppie of a protest 
delivered the Agent for the Danes Company, with other 
papers according to your advice. 
Wee commend your dilligence in making sale of 
our comodities and shall not doubt of its continuance to 
our sattisfaction, and that before the arriveall of our 
shipp Marygold you will have disposed of all our remaynes 
and bee posest of gold for them to bee laden abord her. 
ee observe that the cargazoone of the Beneene 
pinnace brought you from the Beneene, as also that the 
Comaunder had retorned 86 elephants teeth in retorne of a 
cargazoone sent by him to the Gaboone. These teeth wee 
order to bee laden upon the Mar igold and consigned to our 
Agent and factors at Fort St. George. nd for the Beneene 
pinnace 
pinnace wee hope you have made sale of her to our most 
advantage. 
Wee take notice of what related concerning the 
taking of the Castle of Cl;pe Coast from the Sweedes, but 
beeing it is our only worke to winde up our bottome and 
cleare the place, wee leave it to the consideration of those 
whome it may cone erne in the future. 
Wee have delivered the Royall Company to the 
vallue of 10513 t+.8s.4d., for which they have given us 
twoe bills of exchange upon their factors in Fort 
Corman tine , the one for 2896oz.8~ ackies, and the other 
for 138oz.l215  ackies of rich Guinea gold. Coppies of the 
said bills wee now send yOUj the orig inalls shall come by 
our shipp Marigold, with our further directions and 
advices. In the meane time wee desire you to bee very 
dilligent, that,if possible , all our remaynes may be 
disposed of with you before our shipps arriveall, and wee 
shall remyne 
Your ver y loving friends 
RICHARD SPENCER TH01~S CHAMBRELAN Govr. 
FRANOIS CLARKE TtlOUAS KENDALL Dept. 
PETER VANDEPUTT WILLI A11 THOMSON 
.JOHN PAGE ARTHUR DiGRAM 
Sent on the ship American. 
etter Book, 
01.3, 1660-65, 
p. 327-9. Sent on the ship Marygold. 
London primo December 1663 . 
Our Factors at 
Fort Cormantine, 
WEE commend us heartily unto you, &c . Herewith 
wee now remitt you transcripts of our letters, dated lOth 
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August, 31th September and lOth October last, sent on a 
shipp belonging to the Royall Company, which wee now 
confirme. In them wee acknowledged receipt of your 
severall letters which to that time were come to our hands, 
since when we have received noe others from you, and 
therefore proceed to advise that, according as wee writt 
you in our letters of 31th September, wee now send you the 
shipp Marigold, the bringer hereof, at whose arriveall 
with you wee hope it will bee found that you have disposed 
of all our remaynes and received the full value of them in 
gold to bee laden abord the said shipp, and cleared all 
accompts in that place. 
But in oase all our remaynes, at the arriveall of 
this ship at your port, should not bee disposed of, wee have 
therefore made a contract and agreement with the Royall Com-
pany to severall perticulers, that soe a finall end may bee 
put to all things and the place quitted. For your better and 
fuller directions wee herewith send you coppie of the said 
Agreement 
Agreement, and thereunto referr you. 
In which Agreement,concluded on betweene the 
Royall Company and our selves, something aperteyne to us to 
manadge here, as in the first place to nominate persons 
for the putting a just and indifferent vallue (as in the 
first Article is expressed) upon all goods that shall bee 
remayning at the arriveall of this shipp; for the perfor-
mance whereof wee doe nominate and apoint you our factors, 
y~. Gilbert Beavis and W~. John Uvedale, and for your 
asistance wee have commissionated Captain Charles Thorowgood, 
the present Comaunder of this shipp Marygold, to bee the 
persons whome wee doe constitute to proceed on in the 
manadgment and finishing of this worke according to the 
Agreement, and also upon the delivery of our goods to 
receive the value in gold for our accompts. 
Secondly, as to what agreed on in the 4th and 
5th Articles, wee did with our last letters send you coppie 
of the Royall Companies bill of exchange for 2898 oz.8t 
ackies of rich Guinea gold, beeing for the 10000 ±±. here 
delivered them by us, and also coppie of a bill of exchange 
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for 138 oz. 125 ackies of gold, the vallue by us here 
delivered in iron. The originall bills cometh herewith 
and we doubt not but good payment will be made at due time. 
And for what gold the factors of the Royall Company shall 
deliver you (as in the 6th Article), when your bills shall 
be 
bee presented wee shall accept them and make good payment. 
What elce remaynes to the compleating of the Articles must 
bee referred to your carefull manadgment upon the place. 
Only to the 7th Article, which is as a reserve in case a 
difference should arise in the valuation of our remaynes, 
wee add, that wee doubt not but that the Royall Company 
will give such effectuall order to their factors as that 
an indifferent valuation beeing sett upon our goods they 
will accept of all, but if it should soe happen that any 
difference should arise betweene you and that they shall 
refuse to take off &11 our remaynes, wee would rather that 
you should submitt to moderate and lessen the vallue of 
such goods which they shall declare to bee overrated then 
that any part of them should bee sent for the Barbadoes or G 
come for England, beeing it is our earnest desire that all 
our remaynes in that place should bee cleare and as much 
gold collected togither as may bee, to bee transported on 
this shipp to our Agent and factors at Fort St. George, 
to which place wee have consigned this shipp. And likewise 
order you to send all the gold that shall bee in your 
possession for our accompt, and give us full and ample 
advices of all your proceedings till the shipps departure 
from the coast of Guinea. 
If r. Gilbert Beavis and r. John Uvedale or 
either of them have a desire to visitt India and there to 
continue 
continue in our service, wee give them lybertie and order 
them to embarque themselves on this shipp Marygold for 
Fort St. George, of which wee have advised our Agent and 
factors there resident, and that they give them such 
imployment as shall be answerable to their quallity. But 
if they shall rather desire to retorne for England, or 
otherwise to dispose of themselves, wee freely leave them 
to their owne choice and disposition. 
By Charter Partie this shipp Marygold is obliged tc 
tarry and remayne on the Gold Coast of Guinea 20 daies after 
her there arriveall, if she shall not bee sooner dispatched. 
But it is our earnest desire,notwithstanding that agreement, 
and in consideration that at her arriveall you are to 
surcease from selling any goods, that (if possible) the 
shipp may be dispeeded and all our businesse on that coast 
finished within a few daies after her arriveall, which wee 
hope will by your care and dilligence bee accordingly 
performed, which will bee more to our advantage then to 
keepe her out the full time upon expectation to advance 
our goods in passing them over to the Royall Company, or 
any other occasion. Therefore wee pray you use all 
dilligence to the furthering of a sudaine and quick dispeed 
of this shipp to her designed port of Fort St. George. 
Let it bee your espe tiall care, in the recei veing 
of 
of the gold from the factors of [the] Royall Company 
that you accept of none but good rich Guinea gold, without 
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any mixture or dullerating. Wee question not but your 
experience hath well fitted you to make a distinction, and 
therefore let not your care bee wanting in this perticuler. 
And because it is our earnest desire that a large parcell 
of gold may by this shipp bee carried to our Agent and 
Factors at Fort St. George, if your selves or any others 
English or strangers shall bee posessed with any gold, 
bee it to the value of 3 or 4000 ri. sterling, wee give you 
comission to take and accept of it for our accompt at the 
rate of 3 IT. lOs. per oz. English troy waight, or rather 
then bee disapointed to allow 3 rr. lls. or 3 Tr. 12s. per 
oz., for which pass your bills upon us, which wee shall 
accept and make good payment when due. Herein be carefull 
also to the goodnesse of the gold, which wee ref err to your 
discretion. 
Wee have not further to advise except againe to 
pre sse upon you the quick dispatch of what before directed, 
and the dispeede of the shipp as soone as may bee after her 
arriveall with you, and to wish you (if you shall emb~rque 
your selves on this shipp) a safe arriveall at the Coast of 
Coromandell; desireing you to bee carefull to the exact 
waighing and well packing of our gold, taking bills of 
lading from the Comaunder or Purser of the Marygold for 
what 
what shall bee laden abord, one whereof enclose in your 
packett to us advising us fully of all your proceedings. 
And the other bill of lading consigne,or carry with you, 
to our Agent and Factors at Fort St. George. And soe the 
Almightie keepe you,and we remayne, 
Your very loving friends 
GEORGE Lord BERKELY THOMAS CIDUtBRELAN Govr. 
WILLIAM THOMSON THON.AS E!!NDALL Dept. 
SAMUEL BARNARDISTON MAURICE THOMSON 
.JOHN JOLLIFE .JOHN PAIGE 
FRANCIS CLARKE THOMA.S CANHAM 
PE'rER VANDE PUT CHRISTOPHER WILLOUGHBY 
ARTHUR INGRAM RICHARD SPENCER 
THOMAS TYTE THOMAS PAPILLON 
CHRISTOPHER BOONE 
Postscript. 
When Captain Stephen Mitchell went from hence 
wee desired him,amongst other our debtorB, to secure what 
oweing to us by Mr. William Hewling. The said Captain 
Mitchell retornes us answer in his letter of primo Aprill 
that the said Hewling denies his debt, pretending Mr. 
Chappell hath wronged him and received severall sommes 
belonging unto him to the amount of 12 marks, and other 
pretences which nothing concernes us as to sattisfaction 
to his debt. Mr. Davies brings him in a debtor to us 25 
marks of gold, and tells us tha t hee had secured the same 
had not Mr. Selwyn protected the said Rewling and his estate. 
Wee hope the said Mr. , Selwyn hath better considered hereof 
and 
and that you have since that time received our said debt. 
But if not, wee pray you seriously by all meanes to endeavour 
it and advise us what you shall effect herein. 
By our accompts of remaynes wee find a large 
parcell of musketts resting, said to bee severall wayes 
defective. Whereupon wee have Questioned the gunsmiths 
of whome wee bought them, whoe tell us that all the musketts 
were good and without exception, and that peradventure some 
of our servants with you whoe had badd musketts hath made an 
exchange for our good ones, and for its discovery hath given 
us their markes which were sett on all our musketts (which 
marks wee now send you), whereon you will find 3 stampe, the 
first our marke, the second WT. and the last M. All our 
musketts are marked with our marke, with one of the other 
twoe, and what are not soe marked are none of oursi therefore 
looke over your remaynes and see how they are marked, and 
give us an accompt how you find them. 
To comply with our Agreement with the Royall 
Company wee have laden abord the Marygold 10 barrells of 
powder, for which wee send you bill of lading herewith. 
Wee require you to send us a list of all those 
persons which were tourned over to the Royall Company the 
25th March last, and an accompt what was due to them till 
that time. 
etter Book, 
01.3, 1660-65, 
p. 332-3. Sent per the shipp Marigold. 
London 16 December 1663. 
Our Factors at Fort Cormantine 
and Captain Charles Thorowgood, 
Since the writeing of our gennerall letter of 
the primo instant wee have had some treaty with the Royall 
Company, and here inclosed send you the perticulers of 
what wee desired. 
To the first Article concerning Mr. William 
Hewling, they have acquainted us that there is a Court 
of Admiralty erected in Guine~whereGf one Doctor William 
Lister is to bee Judg, whereby a legall course may bee 
taken to recover our right. But before you sett on this 
course with the said Hewling, endeavour to gett our 
sattisfaction by faire meanes if possible, and not only 
of him but of Mr. Betts also. 
Inclosed wee send you the coppies of the writeings 
and affidavit for the proofe of the said Hewlings debt , 
and require that, imediatly upon the receipt of t hem, 
you make your demaund of the said Hewling for our sattis-
faction, which,if hee shall deny, then speedily call him to 
an accompte in a way of justice and shew our proofes now 
sent you and such others as you yourselves can render to 
evidence our debt. Endeavour to find out the said Hewlings 
effects 
effects and legally seize thereon, and what shall bee soe 
seized let it bee sent on this shipp to our Agent and 
Counsell in Fort St. Geo,rge. 
In case tbesaid Court of Admiralty bee not setled 
before the dispatch of the Marygold, soe that you cannot 
come to have sentence and execution for our debt (for wee 
would not that this businesse should cause your stay, but 
all speede made for the dispat[c]h of the shipp for Fort 
St. George), then wee order that you leave your papers 
and proofs with Doctor Lister and Mr. Nathaniell Lansdon, 
to whose care leave the prosecution of the businease, taking 
their acknowledgments for the receipt of them and engagment 
to make good unto us what shall bee recovered from the said 
Hewling. 
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The 2d Article relate to r.'.r. John Betts, and wee 
hope hee will readily comply and pay us our mony, but if 
not,then you are to proceed with him as wee have before 
directed in relation to Mr. Hewling. 
To the 3d and 4th Article for the charges of 
erecting and setling the factory Cantancory and Anta, wee 
now send you the papers wee received, beeing the perticuler 
of what disbursed. If there bee anything tha t is not justly 
charged when duely examined, you are to defalke and abate 
it; but herein,and in all other things,wee require you to 
preserve our right what possible. 
To 
To the 5th Article Mr. Davis saith that there 
was only an engagment made to sattisfie the charges of 
landing the Royall Companies goods and carrying them up 
to the Castle, soe that if wee have not .disbursed any mony, 
wee then only require to be disengaged from that promise. 
To the 6th Article Mr. Davies chargeth us in his 
accompts to have paid for the Royall Company for custome 
on their goods on the American, vizt. 
Mark.oz. a. 
At Corman tine 1- 7. 5 ) )Ulrk. oz. a. 
At Cape Coast . O. 3. - ) 2. 5. 5 
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At Wyamba O. 3. - ) 
And also 24 gallons brandy, lent lr. Selwyn to engage the 
blacks at Comendum 30z. of gold. Hee also tells us wee 
were at great charges for enterteyning the factors and 
servants of the Royall Company before their shipps arriveall, 
and that there were severall provisions of victualls left 
there by us at the delivery of the Fort. Of all these 
perticulers the Royall Company have written to their 
factors and required to examine them, and what shall apeare 
to bee just and reasonable that they shall allow it and 
accordingly make payment for themi therefore wee referr it 
to your care to see all matters rightly stated and that wee 
receive our just and due sattisfaction. 
To the 7th Artiole which makes due unto us for 
houshold goods 8 Marks. 7 oz. la.,and 2t ~ arks which wee 
demaund 
demaund for our cannoes, which the Royall Companies factors 
make but It Marks of gold, all which monies they have 
deteyned upon pretence that wee did not deliver them 10 
barrel Is of p0wder (which although it is disputable, wee 
not then having that ~uantity remayning in our stores), yet 
not beeing desierous to have any contests with the Royall 
Company, wee have now laden abord the Marigold 20 barrells 
of gunpowder, which wee order you to deliver to the factors 
of the Royall Company, and upon their delivery require 
payment of the somes abovementioned; and although they shall 
refuse to accept of them and pay the prementioned sommes, yet 
wee would have you to leave the said 20 barrells of powder 
in their posession and send us full attestations of your 
proceedings herein, and in all other matters intrusted to 
your manadgments, with authenti~ue and good proofs and the 
reasons of such your actings, and for the difference in 
the value of the cannoos rather accept of lt Marks for them 
then that [it] should cause any stopp in your proceedings. 
As to the 8th Article for an equall and just 
valuation to bee made of all goods remayning, wee have 
already given you our order in our prementioned letter of 
the primo instant, and therefore needlesse to make repet~tipn 
Wee therefore ref err all to your prudent manadgment to 
compose and settle aud,if possible,to cleare all our 
remaynes 
remaynes and carry their proceed on the Marygold for Fort 
St. George, which will bee very acceptable unto us and 
cause us to remayne, 
Your very loving friends 
JOHN BATHURST THOMAS CHAMBRELAN Gouvernor 
ROBERT LANT THOMAS KENDALL Dept. 
JOHN PAIGE WILLIAM THOMSON 
JOHN JOLLIFE 
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Letter Book, 
Vol.3, 
1660-65, 
pp. 171-4. 
ARTICLES of AGREEMENT betweene the Royall 
Company and the East India Company, made 
the xvith day of October 1662. 
First. That the East India Company hath lyberty untill the 
25th of March next to dispose of soe much of their 
estate now at Guinea as they can by that time, and that 
the East India Company may at the 25th March aforesaid 
leave there 2 factors to dispose of what shall then 
remayne there dureing 12 moneths, and for what shall 
bee sold by them after the said 25th of March as 
aforesaid the East India Company are to allow the Royall 
Company ten per cent upon the proceeds of what shall 
sa id 
bee sold, and at the end of the A12 moneths that the 
East India Company may take and remove away what shall 
then bee undisposed of by them. 
Secondly. That at the 25th of March next the East India 
Company are to deliver over to the assignes of t h e 
Royall Company the Fort Choromantine, the factories, 
howses and grownd at yamba, Cape Coast and Beneene 
(wi~h the consent of Sir Nicholas Crispe ) , or t hat t h e 
Royall Company will indemnifie t he East India Company 
for soe doang without any wilfull wast to bee made on any 
of 
of them by the East India Company or any of their 
people, with the gunns as well which were sent thither 
by the East India Company, as what elce is there, with 
the habilliments belonging to the said gunns and alsoe 
tenn barrells of their remayning powder. And that all 
the English soldiers on that coast belonging to the 
East India Company in their pay are from the 25th March 
aforesaid to enter into the pay and service of the 
Royall Company and bee armed by the said East India 
Company with a sword, a muskett and bandaleirs or a pike, 
each of them, and that all other musketts, powder and 
other things there may bee disposed of by the East India 
Company as they shall thinck fitt. 
Thirdly. That if the Castle of Cape Coast bee purchased by the 
East India Company they are to deliver the same over to 
the assignes of the Royall Company at the 25th of March 
next, and that the Royall Company are to allow to the 
East India Company what the purchase of the said castle 
hath cost the East India Company. 
Fouerthly. That the East India Company hath lyberty before the 
25th of March next,in such manner as they shall find 
convenient, to send out 2 ships for Guinea and one other 
ship within 12 moneths after the 25th of March next, then 
to drawe of all that shall remayne there belonging to 
them 
them; but the East India Company are not to send out 
any goods in any of the three ships for trade on that 
coast. 
Fifthly. That what householdstuffe, waights or instruments 
belonging to the East India Company which they can spare 
at the end of 12 moneths after the 25th of March next 
shall bee valued at a price by the factors of both 
Companies, if they can agree on the same, and bee left 
there for the use of the Royall Company, and that 4 
factors for the Royall Company shall bee forthwith 
admitted to reside at Choromantine where the East India 
Company shall afford them conveniency of lodging and 
what warehowsroome they may have occasion for, soe farr 
as the East India Company can spare the same. 
Now the consideration of the preceeding Articles 
thus mutu 11y agreed on presseth upon us to take into 
our most serious thoughts how wee may wind up our 
bottome and put a conclusion to our businesse in your 
parts in such a manner as may most conduce to our 
advantage; to which purpose in the first place wee very 
earnestly recommend unto you the speedy sale of as larg 
a quantity of our remayning goods as possibly you can 
to bee converted into gold and laden abord this ship 
American, beeing it is very much desired by us to have as 
much of our stock in your parts remayning to bee disposed 
of 
of this yeare and the proceede thereof in gold sent into 
India. And to that intent and purpose wee hereby give 
you order and directions to make sale of all sorts of 
comodities remayning on your hands as best you may, wee 
not lymitting a price soe you can procure a quanti tie of 
ready gold, and to endeavour to put of our goods to any 
whomsoever that will buy. The Dutch factors doe usually 
buy whole cargazoones of interlopers, whoe wee conceive 
may helpe you of with a considerable quanti tie of our 
comodities, such as you conceive they will accept of, 
and if you can come to an agreement sell them wha t 
quantities they shall desire. 
If yourselves, or any others with you, either Sweedes, 
interlopers, or others, have any gold that they will 
deliver into our cash, wee give you comisSbn to accept 
thereof, not exceeding £3.10s. per oz., and bee carefull 
it bee good Tyber gold,and give them your bills upon us, 
which wee shall accept and make good payment when due. 
In December next wee intend you another ship to 
carry ~way what gold shall bee gathered in by you after 
this ships departure, which, that it may bee considerable , 
wee pray you to persevere in the selling of our goods of 
all sorts as much as possibly you can. By that s hip wee 
shall further advise you, but in the meane time wee pr ay 
bee very diligent in makeing sale of our go ods a nd wee 
sha ll 
shall acknowledge it as an acceptable service and give 
encouragment to all those that shall faithfully act 
therein, and by the next shipping .w ill take care for 
future employment of those that desire it,and they that 
will may come home for England,&~any of our factors bee 
so resolved,let them saile on this ship for St Hel lena 
and come for England from thence on our next shipping 
that shall arrive there from India. 
Wee desire you to enorder the Coma under of this ship 
that if he touch at St. Thoma, that hee there procure 
6 lusty heyfer calves and deliver them ashore to our 
Governour of St. Hellena, and desire him also to get 
provision for them and to take care of them in their 
passage thither. Also wee require that you put abord 
this ship 12 of our owne blacks, vizt. 6 men and six 
women, such as can speake English, to bee landed at 
St. Hellen~ and lay in sufficient of victualls, &c., for 
their expence thither. 
[ Remainder of letter and signatures not copied.] 
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Home Series, 
lliscellaneous, 
Vol. 42, 
pp.103-4. 
ARTICLES of AGREEMENT had and made the 
17th September 1663, between the Company 
of Royall Adventurers of England trading 
into Affrica of the one part, and the 
Governour and Companie of Merchants of 
London tradeing to the East Indies of 
the other part. 
First. It is mutually agreed between both Companies that 
upon the arrivall of the Marigold o~ any other shipp 
which shall first arrive at Chor~m~tine in Guinea for 
accompt of the East India Company, the Factors of the 
said East India Company shall surcease and forbeare to 
sell any more goods, and that the Royall Companies 
Factors shall receive and take all the East India 
Companies goods then unsold, paying for the same in 
rich Guinea gold as they shalbe indifferently vallued 
by two or three persons of each Companies Factors to 
bee appointed to value the same according to equity and 
good concience. 
2dly. That whereas by the agreement between the two Com-
panies, dated the 16 of October 1662, the East India 
Company did agree and promise to pay and allow to the 
Royall 
Royall Company tenn per oent upon the prooeed of what 
goods should bee sold by their Faotors from the 25 day 
of Maroh 1663 to the 25 day of Maroh 1664, it is now 
mutually agreed that the said ten per oent shalbe 
defaulked to the Royall Company by the Faotors of the 
East India Company on the aocompt of such goods as the 
Factors of the Royall Company shall buy of them, but if 
they shall not agree for any or not soe much as the said 
tenn per cent shall amount unto the wholle or part 
accordingly shalbe paid unto the Royall Companies Factors 
in gold according to the first agreement abovementioned. 
3411'. That the Royall Company shall not pretend to or 
olaime the ten per cent upon such goods as shalbe bought 
by their Factors of the East India Companies Factors. 
4thly. That· the Royall Company hath bought and doth agree 
to receive of the East India Company about thirty eight 
tonns of Sweedish iron at the rate of thirteene poun[ds] 
tenn shillings per tonn, and doth promise to pay for the 
saae by bills of exchange upon their Factors at 
Choromantine in rich Guinea gold, at the rate of three 
pounds fourteene shillings per ounce English Troy weight 
5thly. That the East India Company doe furnish and pa y the 
Royall Company in ready mony ten thousand pounds Sterlin 
for which the Company shall give them bills of exchange 
upon their Factors to pay them in rich Guinea gold at 
ten 
ten daies sight, after the rate of three pounds nine 
shillings per ounoe English Troy we!ght. 
6thly. That what other rioh Guinea gold the Faotors of the 
Royall Company shall deliver the Faotors of the East 
India Company more then the ten thousand pounds value 
aforesaid, whioh in ten daies after the arrivall of 
their shipp the Faotors of the East Ind1a Company shall 
passe their bills of exohange upon the said Company for 
the same,after the rate of three pounds fourteene 
shillings per ounoe English Troy wetght, whioh bills 
the East India Company promise to aocept and pay to the 
Royall Company twenty daies after sight. 
7thly. That whatsoever goods belonging to the East India 
Company at Guinea the Factors of the Royall Company shall 
not buy as aforesaid, the Factors of the East India 
Company shall have liberty to lade upon the shippe of 
the Royall Company either for the Barbadoes or London, 
paying a reasonable freight for the same. 
Sealed with the Companies seale by order of 
the Company of Royall Adventurers of England 
tradeing into Affrica. 
R.Comp's. For Sir Ellis Leighton, Secretary. 
seale 
8 Deoemb. Cornelius Middleguest, clerk. 
1663. 
~. In Mr. S.C.Hill's catalogue of the Home Series, 
Miscellaneous MES. at the India Office, item 19 of 
Vol.42 is entered as follows;- "(19) pp.89,103,104. 
Agreements with the Royal African Company regarding 
Fort Cormantine, &c. 1662. See G.F.Zook, The Company 
of Royal Adventurers trading into Africa, in Journal 
of Negro History, vol.IV. No.2, April 1919." 
The "Agreement" on p. 89 is abstracted by Miss 
Sainsbury on pp. 284-5 of Court Minutes 1660-1663.