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William Adams at Hirado to his ‘unknown friends and countrymen’ at Bantam
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Item 78. Two copies of letter from William Adams at Hirado to Bantam, ff 116-121, and 122-129. The first copy is so badly faded as to be almost illegible. The following transcription taken from Farringdon's The English Factory in Japan: Laus Deo, the 23th October a[nno] 1611, in Ferando in japa...
Thomas Merry’s answer to a protest by the VOC Chief Adrian van Ostend, testified by notaries Isaac Bontet de l’Etoile and Pietro Pantaleo, Isfahan, with French translation