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ibidf. 97v. De Bacquoy [De Ruyven] to Bennet, 7 February 1665; ZA, SvZ, 2481.
RSG, 13 January 1665 (on in-letter from Rotterdam admiralty, 12 January 1665); ibid.
RSG, 22 January 1665 (on WIC); ibid. RSG, 7 February 1665 (on Rotterdam admiral
ty, in-letter, 6 February 1665) [quotation], ('naer het saisoen des jaers redelyck goet
weder').
54 ZA, SvZ, 2480. RSG, 13 December 1664 (on Friesland admiralty, 'remonstration', [no
date]); ibid, 2481. RSG, 10 January 1665 (on Friesland admiralty, in-letter, [6] January
1665). See also TNA, SP 84/174, f. 2v. Downing to Bennet, 3/13 January 1665.
55 TNA, SP 84/174, f. 19v. Downing to Bennet, 13/23 January 1665; ibid, 38. De
Bacquoy [De Ruyven] to Bennet, 24 January 1665; ibid, f. 123. Downing to Bennet,
17/27 February 1665; ZA, SvZ, 2481. RSG, 26 January 1665 (on placards); ibid. RSG,
7 February 1665 (on SG to Noorderkwartier admiralty, 26 November [sic - January
1665]); ibid. RSG, 16 February 1665 (on Noorderkwartier admiralty, in-letter, 13
February 1665). The warships are not named in the sources, but are referred to as capi
tal ships: they can only, therefore, be the ships given above.
56 ZA, SvZ, 2481. RSG, 16 January 1665 (on report of Zeeland deputies).
57 NA, AA 2484. RAvZ, 16 February 1665 (on RSG and in-letter, 10 February 1665); ZA,
SvZ, 2481RSG, 30 January 1665 (on Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, in-letter, 25 January
1665); ibid. RSG, 4 February 1665 (on Amsterdam admiralty, in-letter, 3 February
1665); ibid. RSG, 10 February 1665 (Committee of Maritime Affairs on Amsterdam
admiralty, in-letter, and RSG, both 4 February 1665).
58 NA, AA 2484. RAvZ, 26 January 1665; ZA, SvZ 2481. RSG, 30 January 1665 (on
Cornelis Evertsen the Elder, in-letter, 25 January 1665); ibid. RSG, 4 February 1665 (on
Amsterdam admiralty, in-letter, 3 February 1665).
59 NA, AA 2484. RAvZ, 2 February 1665 (on RSG, 26 January); ibid. RAvZ, 4 February
1665 (petition for commissions). ZA, SvZ 2481. RSG, 26 January 1665 (Placards);
ibid. RSG, 28 January 1665 (Commissions); ibid. RSG, 12, 13, 16 and 17 February
1665 (all Commissions).
60 Regulations required privateers to supply one man to the navy for every man they
recruited: there is no explicit evidence in Zeeland of this process (overseen by admiral
ty officials) before 27 February, though this is not conclusive. See ZA, Rek. C 6988. Jan
Jasperssen van de Burgh, accounts (October 1664-April 1665), 29 July 1665.
61 Initial work does not indicate any prizes taken by privateers before 25 February. See NA,
AA 2484. RAvZ, passim (January-February 1665) and 25 February 1665 (on Nicolaes
Godijn, petition). See also L.J. Sturm (ed.), Repertorium van de namen van
kaperkapiteins en schepen voorkomende in de rekeningen van de Vendumeesters van de
Admiraliteit in Zeeland, 1596-1713. Middelburg, 1995, 47, 94, 151, 160. Close exam
ination of the original vendumeesters sources is also needed.
62 Davies, Pepys's Navy, 223-225, 228.
63 Downing to Clarendon, 6 December 1664, T.FI. Lister, Life and Administration of
Edward, First Earl of Clarendon. London, 1837, III, 357.
64 William Coventry to Sandwich, 13 December 1664, MS Carte Calendar 40 [http://
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/projects/carte/carte40.html]; James Robinson to
Sandwich, 20 December 1664, ibid.
65 James, Duke of York to Sandwich, 12 December 1664, MS Carte Calendar 40-, William
Coventry to Sandwich, 12 December 1664, ibid [quotation].
66 TNA, SP 84/174, f. 51 v. Downing to Bennet, 27 January/6 February 1665.
67 Roos, Twee eeuwen, 226, nl79.
68 NA, AA 2484. RAvZ, 2 and 4 February 1665
69 NA, AA 2484. RAvZ, 14 January 1665.
70 TNA, SP 84/174, f. 2v. Downing to Bennet, 3/13 January 1665.
71 TNA, SP 84/173, f. 128. De Bacquoy [De Ruyven] to Bennet, 31 December 1664/10
