CEYLON. - Provisioneel ende particulier tractaet gemaeckt .. in 's Gravenhage den 27. Martii 1645 tusschen de heer Francisco de Zousa Continho, Raedt ende Ambassadeur van den .. koningh van Portugael .. ende de heeren Gedeputeerden van de .. Staten Generael van de Vereenighde Nederlandtsche Provincien etc. aengaende de controversie over de jurisdictie ende territorie van 't fort Galle.

's Gravenhage, weduwe en erfgenamen van wylen Hillebrandt Jobobsz van Wouw, 1645. 4to.With woodcut coat of arms of the States General, lion with sword and 7 arrows, in an elaborately decorated cartouche with military attributes on title-page and woodcut initial on first page. (8) pp. With heading: Translaet uyt het Latyn in de Nederlandtsche tale. - Treaty on the jurisdiction and territory of the fortress at Galle, Sri Lanka, to settle the dispute between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and Portugal on Fort Galle, a major trading post of the Company. The fort was captured from Portugal in 1640. The Portuguese were finally driven out of the rest of Ceylon in 1658, with the help of the king of Kandy and from that time on the Company acquired the monopoly on the cinnamon trade. Knuttel 5202; Landwehr, VOC, 242.

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