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General resolutions are also unfoliated and are treated in the same way, as are the
Amsterdam admiralty resolutions (fire damaged, microfilm only) which for our period
(1664-1666), are only extant for 1664 and April-December 1665.
44 De Jonge, Nederlandsche zeewezen, I, 612; De Jonge, Johan en Cornelis Evertsen, 210; N.
Japikse, Der verwikkelingen tusschen de Republiek en Engeland van 1660-1665' Leiden,
1900, 440. Evertsen's fleet is also given as 20 ships. See Backer Dirks, Nederlandsche
zeemagt, II, 138. Roos gives it as only 18-strong. See Roos, Twee eeuwen, 226.
45 NA, AA 2483. Resolutiën Admiraliteit van Zeeland [RAvZ], 15 December 1664 (on
RSG, 11 December 1664); ibid, 2484. RAvZ, 30 December 1664 (on RSG, 23
December 1664); ibid. RAvZ, 3 January 1665 (on RSG, 27 December 1664); TNA, SP
84/173, f. 95. Downing to Bennet, 16/26 December 1664 [TNA Online Catalogue];
ibid, f. 217. RSG, 11 December 1664; ibid, f. 252. RSG, 27 December 1664 [quota-
don]; ibid, SP 84/174, f. 17v. De Bacquoy [De Ruyven] to Bennet, 10 January 1665;
ibid, f. 36. De Bacquoy [De Ruyven] to Bennet, 24 January 1665; ZA, SvZ 2480. RSG,
11 December 1664 (on Committee of Maritime Affairs, report); Lieuwe van Aitzema,
Historie of verhael van saken van staet en oorlogh. 's-Gravenhage, 1668, XI, part 2, 821.
Rommelse mentions the States General order on frigates, but does not explore the issue
further. See Rommelse, Second Anglo-Dutch War, 114.
46 NA, AA 2483. RAvZ, 17 December 1664 (on States General, in-letter and RSG, 13
December 1664); ZA, Rek. C 6989.1. Cornelis Evertsen de Oude, extraordinary
expenses (January-August 1665), 5 September 1665; TNA, SP 84/173, f. 84v. Downing
to Bennet, 9/19 December 1664; ibid, f. 89. De Bacquoy [De Ruyven] to Bennet, 13
December 1664 [TNA Online Catalogue]; ibid, f. 225. RSG, 13 December 1664; ZA,
SvZ 2480. RSG, 13 December 1665 (on Committee of Maritime Affairs, report);
Aitzema, Saken van staet, XI, 401.
47 NA, AA 2483. RAvZ, 17 December 1664 (on States General, in-letter and RSG, 13
December 1664). Cornelis Evertsen the Elder was promoted on 16 December. See
Roos, Twee eeuwen, 226. See also ZA, Rek. C 6984. Payroll of Vlissingen, 29 December
1665.
48 NA, AA 1417. RAvA, 15 December 1664 (on Amsterdam admiralty deputies, in-letter,
14 December 1664).
49 NA, AA 2483. RAvZ, 17, 18 and 24 December 1664; ZA, Rekenkamer C [Rek. C]
6980, fif. 161v. Ontvanger-Generaal te Water, Rekeningen [OGWR], 1665; [Johan
Boreel] to [Van Kinschot], 19 December 1664, Codex diplomaticus Neerlandicus.
Verzameling van oorkonden, betrekkelijk de vaderlandsche geschiedenis. 2de serie, Utrecht,
1852, II, 16. Boreel mentions five Zeeland ships.
50 NA, AA 2484. RAvZ, 16 February 1665 (on RSG, 27 January 1665 and RSG, 10
February 1665); TNA, SP 84/173, f. 225. RSG, 13 December 1664; ZA, SvZ 2481.
RSG, 10 February 1665 (Committee of Maritime Affairs on Zeeland admiralty, in-let
ter, 20 January 1665 and RSG, 27 January 1665); Aitzema, Saken van staet, XI, 401.
51 NA, AA 2483. RAvZ, 18 December 1664; ibid. RAvZ, 27 December 1664 (on Cornelis
Evertsen the Elder, in-letters, 25 and 26 December 1664); ibid, 2484. RAvZ, 29
December 1664 (on Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, in-letter, 27 December 1664); TNA,
SP 84/173, f. 258. Amsterdam Admiralty to States General, 31 December 1664; ibid, f.
252. RSG, 27 December 1664; ZA, SvZ 2481. RSG, 3 January 1665 (on Amsterdam
Admiralty, in-letter, 31 December 1664); ibid. RSG, 7 January 1665 (on Cornelis
Evertsen the Elder, in-letter, 3 January 1665).
52 ZA, SvZ 2154.1. Rotterdam admiralty to States General, 6 January 1665; ZA, SvZ
2481. RSG, 8 January 1665 (on Rotterdam admiralty, in-letter, 6 January 1665).
53 NA, AA 2484. RAvZ, 3 January 1665 (on Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, in-letter, [no
date]); ibid. RAvZ, 6 January 1665 (on States General, in-letter and RSG, 2 January
1665); TNA, SP 84/174, f. 24v. De Bacquoy [De Ruyven] to Bennet, 17 January 1665;
