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As I have pointed out in my work, east India Trade in the Seventeenth Century, the Dutch outstripped the English, because their company had the support of the State, and used all the resources which a State could command for the furtherance of its object.
Downing wrote, " The directors of the (Dutch) East India Company declared plainly that it were much better to have a war with England than to restore those ships, and are returned to Amsterdam in great rage.
" The Court of Committees of the English East India Company then petitioned to King Charles II for redress of the injuries and insults at Bantam.
On August 14, 1683, the King granted a commission to Sir Thomas Grantham, Knight Commander of the ship Charles', At home, Dutch Commissioners· were appointed to settle the dispute and they came over to London to confer with the English East India Company's commissioners (1685).
The English Commissioners demanded damages estimated at £ 335,7755• In March 1686, however, the commissioners wrote that they were unable to reach a final settlement, and so they decided to leave the matter to the judgment of the King of Great Britain and the Dutch States-Ceneral", (1) Captain Alexander Hamilton : A New Account of the East Indies (Edinburgh.
Accordingly an application was made to the Dutch East India Company for letters to the Governor-General at Batavia and the I: Governor of the Bandas, instructing them to hand over the island to the English.