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Show edn Embaffage to the Emperour o 1 L Soi Two Statnes Engraved with divers Flowers A Sword hatched with Gold and Silwer A Fair of Knives A Plume of Feathers to a A Painted Parrot toge Twenty Bottles of Enrope's Sweet-Water Twelwe Pots of Wine of divers Countries - they Seas T b Thefeare the Treafuries wherewith the Hollanders intended to purchafe t China Trade 5 certainly the beft courfe for Merchants to tak : but though thef had good skill, yet they had bad {uccefs, and ou God who fuffered them to ente Fapan, fomuchto the deftre&ion of Chriftianity, which before flourithed o that Ifland, would not permit their ingrefs into China, t the like damage of Reli ypon of, d feech the 1 on th ion here 3 The Hollanders reception in Canton was very Honourable, and the r Entertainment at this Court very Hofpitable; and at laft their difmiffio thence wa perou withall poflible Grace and Favour, as appears by their Pafs ort, whereof the Tranflation followeth zix A Remonfimhce of the Court of Requefttothe EMPE the wi OUR. lengt ]C&VC TN the 1 3. year of the Reign of the Emperour Canchy,on t e 18. day of the fixt month, came to this Court a Copy of a Petition of the Holl nders, who cam here to tender their Homage and Vaffalage to your Majefty wherefore accordin - to our Duty,we have confulted thereon : and although th truth be,that the Fam of your Majefties Greatnefs and Power be extended unt the utmoft parts of th habirable Earth; yet upon our firiGeft examination, and fea ch into the Law and antient Records of this Empire, for this purpofe, w cannot find in an Age paft, that the Hollanders have ever {ent to pay T ibut ; therefor this remot tothe Thao this C their nly d fec g we have no Prefident, nor eftablifhed Rule to follow in thi bufinefs, th refult of our prefent Judgment is, that your Majefly may do v ry well to contitinue this following Decree ; to wit That confidering the Voyage from the Hollznders Countre hither is bot tedious and perilous, your Majefty doth grant them leave, onc yearsy to come and pay their Tribute unto this ‘Court, and no oftner 5 and thi your Majefty doth, to fhew the whole world your willingnefs to re eive int your bofome the remoteft firangers. For the way of their app oach hither, it i fit to be by the Province of €antor, and no otherwife : and for wha relateth t grant Licenfe for their Commerce within your Majefties' Do inions, there alreadya clear Declaration publifhed for your Majefties diflike t ereof, {o tha more needs not to be {aid of that matter; notwithftanding after thei appearanc before your Majefty,they may buyand fell fome certain things,pr vided they hav regard alwaysto fuch conftitutions as are made concerning a l firangers withi this Realm , and exadly conform themf(elves in the manner of uying and fellin giftso yet t be bu merce might with th fits th unani mfe: h Provid cither ¢ to the Laws and Ordinances eftablifhed in that behal ; and hereunto let a]] vigilan y be had, and all appointed penalties {everely executed upon defa As cften as they fhall come to pay their Tribute, their hole number both o Mafters and Servants not to exceed an hundred perfo s, of thofe only twent fhall repair unt the Court (the reft remaining behind at Cantor) and of th twenty let them obferve to bring two Chiefs,whercof one ma be a Man of Learng, the other a Souldier. Let the Mandorines provide ftro g and lufty Guard t . Req |