HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : IIL 159 each of which, as above mentioned, will cost the Company 1200 guilders per month less than those they now fit out, and thus it will derive a profit, in the year, of fl. 432,000. With which, in our opinion, the six per cent might be yearly divided, or employed in the purchase of shares, in order to reduce the immense capital or to pay off some of the Company's liabilities. (Signed) Abraham Trouwers. and Gerrit Janssen de Vry.

Mr. Spieringh to the States General.

t From Ihe Original in the Eoyal Archives a' Ihe Hague ; File, TTijs* Indie. ]

High and Mighty Lords. On the 27"" instant I represented to your High Mightinesses that my factor at Harlingea was called on by the Board of Admiralty at that place to pay the import duties (convoij) on the freights of the royal ships the Cahncrslcutcl and Fama, which I have already once paid to the West India Company at Amsterdam, as appears by the annexed authenticated copy, the original whereof remains with me; and as my said factor at Harlingen still remains impeded, and what has once been paid cannot again be craved, I have to request your High Mightinesses to be pleased to cause the said Board of Admiralty at Harlingen to be forthwith notified to desist from this or farther pretences, and not to give my factor any further trouble or inconvenience in this matter. Which expecting, I wish God Almighty to grant you a long and prosperous reign, remaining. High and Mighty Lords, Your High Mightinesses' affectionate The Hague, (Signed) Peter Spieringh Silvercroon, 31'' of July, 1045. hereditary proprietor of North Holm.