Chap.XXXVIIL from the I of James I. to the Revolution. gy
1663. Th e twelfth of September, the Am-bassador departed from Archangel', withhis whole Train} And went in Barges,up the River, against the Stream toVologda , two Hundred and fifty Leagues,where they arrived the seventeenth ofOSlober. Here the Earl stay’d ’till theJ 664. fifteenth of January , 1664. and thendeparted for Mufcow on Sledges, hav-ing sent Part of his Train, a Weekbefore, the same Way. The sixthof February, the Earl made his Pub-' lick Entry into Muscow, the Ceremo-ny and Magnificence of which I omit,as foreign to my Purpose; As I shalllikewise that of his Publick Audienceon the eleventh, and those which fol-lowed, Commissioners being appointed,at the second Audience, to treat withthe Earl, he had several Conferences,with them, which, however, all prov-7-z ing fruitless, and the Privileges demand-
lysuccessless e< ^ ^ or t ^ e RuJ/ian-Comf any, being ab-' solutely refused, His Excellency, afterhaving taken his Audience of Leave, onthe four and twentieth of June, depart-ed soon after for Riga, where he stay’d’till the eighteenth of Augujl, and thenembarked on Board a Swedish Man ofWar for Stockholm, where he arrivedthe first of September . The eighth his
Excellency made his Entry, and threeHays after had his first Audience of theKing.
The principal End of this Am hasty The Earlbeing to endeavour the Establishment'ofa firm League with Denmark, the Am-bassadour had frequent Conferences!,with the Ministers of Sweden, on thatand other Occasions, and having finiih’dhis Ambassy to his Satisfaction, on theeleventh of Qblober, took hisAudience ofLeave, and, the thirteenth, left Stock-holm, to embark on Board the Centurion,an Englijh Man of War, of fifty Guns,appointed to carry him to Copenhagen, Co P eilawhere he arrived the five and twentieth, ®
The seven and twentieth, he made hisEntry into that City, with great Splen-dour, and three Days after had his firstAudience. His Business was much thefame as at Stockholm, which having ex-pedited to his Mind, he left the DanijhCourt, on the fifteenth of December, andembark’d for England, and having beenforced, by contrary Winds and badWeather, to put in again at Elsenore,he went on Shoar and pursued his Jour-ny by Land, thro’ Holjlein to Hamburg,
Bremen, thro’ Wefphalia and Flanders, R eitirm i9to Calais, and arrived at London, the England,thirtieth of January, 1665?
CHAP. XXXVIII.
Sundrv Naval and other ’Transactions of the English, introdublory to, and at theBeginning of the Dutch War, to the Conclusion of the Tear, 1665.
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RE AT Complaints had been,for someTime, made, by almostall the Trading Companies inEngland, ( a ) of . the great En-croachments of the Dutch on the Eng-lijh Trade in all Parts, and particularlyof new Damages and Affronts sustainedfrom the Dutch Eaft -and Wes-India -Companies; But to no Purpose; Nor
would they give any Satisfactory An- ^64.swer to these Complaints, to His Maje-sty’s Amballadour at the Hague ; On the Ruyter,contrary they had committed open Ho- Bafhage An*stilities upon the Englijh, on theCoast of princesGuinea ; All which had made the Na- Unies .Levetttion shew an Impatience for a War der Zee.with them. (£) In the meanTime, the Helden.Dutch having suffered very much in the
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(a) The Eaft-India , Turky, Guinea, Portu-gal , and Royal African Companies, brought intheir several and separate Complaints and De-mands.
(b) Th e House os Commons , after an Examina-tion of theObstructions of theTrade of the Nation,voted, and obtained the Concurrence of the Lordsin their Vote: “That the Injuries, Insults and In-“ dignities put upon his Majesty, by the Subjects“ of the United Provinces, in India, Africa, and" other Places, and the Damages done to the En-
" glijh Merchants, by the said Subjects of the“ United Provinces, were the greatest Obstacle to" theTrade of England. That a speedy Re.“ monstrance of this should be made to the King," who should be humbly moved to use the most" effectual Means for Redress of these Injuries,“ and others of the like Nature, and for pre-" venting the like for the future. That for this“ Purpose the two Houses would stand by His« Majesty, with their Lives and Fortunes, against" all Opposers. Aud- accordingly, they addreD
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