's monopoly was looked on with disfavor
by the leaders of the Puritan party, however, and in 1649 the company
was summoned before the Council of State, where it was accused of
having procured its charter by undue influences. Later, the company's
case was considered by the committee of trade, and finally, on April
9, 1651, the Council of State recommended that the company's monopoly
to that part of West Africa extending from a point twenty miles north
of Kormentine to within twenty miles of the Sierra Leone River be
continued for fourteen years.[23]

This company also suffered numerous misfortunes on the African coast.
A factory which the English had set up at Cape Corse in April, 1650,
was seized the following year by some Swedes who for several years
thereafter made it the seat of their trade in Guinea.[24]
Notwithstanding this fact the Swedes permitted the English to retain a
lodge at Cape Corse with which the agents at Kormentine sometimes
traded.[25] Even after the place was seized by Hendrik Carloff, a
Danish adventurer, in 1658, the English seem to have been allowed to
remain at Cape Corse. By this time, however, the English African
Company had become unable to support its factories on the coast of
Guinea. Therefore they were turned over to the English East India
Company, and became occasional stopping places for its vessels on
their way to and from the East Indies.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Jonge, Johan Karel Jakob de, _De Oorsprong van Neerland's
Bezittingen op de Kust van Guinea_, p. 16.

[2] Gramberg, J. S. G., _Schetsen van Afrika's Westcust_, p. 12.

[3] Jonge, _Oorsprong van Neerland's Bezittingen_, pp. 18, 19, 20.

[4] In return for this concession the Dutch evacuated Brazil. Dumont,
J., _Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens_, VI, part 2, p.
367.

[5] De Gids, "Derde Serie," _Zesde Jaargang_, IV, 385.

[6] Hakluyt, Richard, _The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques,
& Discourses of the English Nation_, VI, 123, 124.

[7] _Ibid._, VI, 145-162.

[8] _Ibid._, VI, 154-177.

[9] _Ibid._, VI, 177-252.

[10] Queen Elizabeth's profit may have been only five hundred pounds,
as it seems likely that the five hundred pounds which she spent in
provisioning the ships should be subtracted from the one thousand
pounds which she received. Scott, W.R., _The Constitution and Finance
of English, Scottish and Irish Joint Stock Companies to 1720_, II, 6.

[11] Hayluyt, _Principal Navigations_, VI, 258-