[140] On October 30, 1664 (N. S.), d'Estrades declared to the king of France that the real cause of the war then about to begin was the desire of the king of England to become master of Guinea. _Memoires d'Estrades_, II, 517. [141] See the paper of Sir Richard Ford, one of the prominent members of the Royal Company. Clar. St. Paps., 83, f. 374. [142] C. S. P., Dom., 1664-5, p. 154, warrant to Holmes, January 7, 1654. [143] S. P., Holland, 174, f. 138, VanGogh to Ruysch, January 9/19, 1665. [144] S. P., Holland, 174, f. 138, VanGogh to Ruysch, January 13/23, 1665. [145] _Brieven van de Ambassadors in Engeland aan den Raadpensionaris, VanGogh to Ruysch_, January 27/February 6, 1665. [146] _Ibid._, VanGogh to Ruysch, January 30/February 9, 1665. [147] _Ibid._, Cunaeus to ----, February 24/March 6, 1665. [148] P. C. R., Charles II, 5:69. [149] _Brieven van de Ambassadors in Engeland aan den Raadpensionaris_, (VanGogh) to Ruysch, February 27/March 9, 1665. [150] C. S. P., Dom., 1664-5, p. 268, order to release Holmes, March 23, 1664/5. [151] The account of DeRuyter's voyage given here is a digest of what appears at much greater length in Brandt, _Vie de Ruiter_, pp. 223-265. A short contemporary English account may be found in C.O. 1: 19, ff. 88, 89. [152] S. P., Holland, 182, ff. 246, 247. The Dutch had entertained some hopes of inducing the English to surrender Cape Corse, as is evident from negotiations which they carried on with the Swedes and the Danes. In March, 1665, a treaty was drawn up between Sweden and the United Provinces in which the former country agreed to renounce her claims of damage against the West India Company and all her rights to any places on the African coast, for which renunciation the States General was to pay 140,000 rix dollars. The treaty failed of approbation on account of the reluctance of the king of Sweden to withdraw his interests from the coast of Africa. Aitzema, XI, 1102, 1103; S. P., Holland, 174, f. 148, Downing to Bennet, February 17, 1664/5 (O.S.); S. P., Holland, 179, f. 86, Downing to Bennet, March 10, 1665 (March 10, 1664/5. O. S.). With the Danes the Dutch had more success. On February 11, 1667, a treaty was entered into between Frederick III, of Denmark and the United Provinces, in which it was agreed that the Danes should surrender all their claims to Cape Corse, retaining, however, the adjacent fort of Fredericksburg. Dumont, _Corps Universel Diplomatique_, VI, part 3, p. 74. [153] Dumont, _Corps Universel Diplomatique_, VI, part I, pp. 44, 45, article 3. [154] Villaut, _A Relation of the Coasts of Africa called Guinee_, pp. 49, 56, 75. [155] _Ibid._, pp. 126, 131, 135. Villaut also speaks of an English fort at Eniacham (Anashan). [156] A. C. R., 75: 60. [157] S. P., Dom., Charles II, 217, f. 76, John Lysle to Williamson, September 16, 1667. [158] C. O. 1: 17, f. 243, John Allen to (the Royal Adventurers), December 18, 1663. [159] A. C. R., 75: 3.