[38] Admiralty High Court, Libels, 115, no. 124; _ibid._, Examinations, 74, deposition of Edward Paulstagge, March 7, 1662/3. [39] Nassau and Hoorn to the estates of H. and W. F., January 24/February 3, 1662. In March, 1663, Bernard Sparke, owner of the Paragon which the Dutch had seized on the Gold Coast, arrested a West India Company ship at Ilfracombe. Sparke asked for the condemnation of the ship, but on account of a treaty entered into between the English and the Dutch in September, 1662, the Privy Council refused to detain the Dutch ship. Cunaeus to the estates of H. and W. F., March 27/April 6, 1663; P. C. R., Charles II, 3: 357, 380. [40] Egerton MSS., 2538, ff. 68, 69, Downing to S. G., May 3/13, 1662. [41] Clar. St. Paps., 76, ff. 217, 218, Downing to Clarendon, May 9, 1662. O. S. [42] Egerton MSS., 2538, f. 73, Downing to S. G., June 6/16, 1662. [43] _Ibid._, f. 106, Downing to S. G., August 6/16, 1662. [44] Add. MSS. (Additional Manuscripts), 22,919, f. 270. [45] Resolution of S. G., August 28, 1662 (N. S.). [46] Dumont, _Corps Universel Diplomatique_, VI, part 2, pp. 424, 425. [47] Index op het Register en Accorden met de Naturellen, Wilree to Edmund Young, May 24, 1662 (N. S.). [48] S. P., Holland, 176, f. 119. [49] Add. MSS., 22,919, f. 262. [50] _Ibid._, 22,920, f. 24, affidavit of William Crawford and others, before the Admiralty High Court, February 13, 1663/4. [51] _Ibid._, 22,919, f. 262, Wilree to the officers of the ship James, November 9, 1662 (N. S.). [52] _Ibid._, 22,920, f. 24, affidavit of Crawford and others, February 13, 1663/4. [53] S. P., Holland, 167, f. 251, Downing to Williamson, September 11, 1663. O.S. [54] Add. MSS., 22,920, ff. 13, 14, Downing to S. G., September 17/27, 1663. [54a] Clar. St. Paps., 106, f. 192, Downing to Clarendon, September 18, 1663. O. S.; S. P., Holland, 167, ff. 271, 272, Downing to Bennet. [55] Add. MSS., 22,920, f. 22, Royal Company to Downing, September 25, 1663. [56] Clar. St. Paps., 106, f. 223, Downing to Clarendon, October 2, 1663 O. S. [57] S. P., Holland, 168, ff. 41, 42. [58] _Ibid._, 176, f. 121. [59] _Ibid._, 167, f. 284, Downing to Bennet, September 25, 1664 (O. S.). [60] Brieven van de Ambassadors in Engeland aan den Raadpensionaris, Cunaeus to DeWitt, November 2, 1663 (N. S.). [61] C. S. P., Col., 1661-1668, p. 159, warrant to duke of York, Sept. 5, 1663. [62] S. P., Dom., Charles II, 114, f. 53. These instructions are not preserved in their complete form. [63] C. O. 1: 16, f. 157, oath of William Quick and others at Charles Island, June 1, 1662. [64] C. O. 1: 18, f. 154, deposition of Stephen Ustick, June 7, 1664; S. P., Dom., Charles II, 114, ff. 147, 148. [65] S. P., Dom., Charles II, 114, f. 148, Holmes' narrative. After taking the island Holmes sent for as many men as could be spared by the Royal Company's factors on the Gambia. Accordingly they took possession of it in the name of the company. C. O. 1: 18, f. 24.