nd of their merchandise and personal effects which were still on
the coast of Africa. Whether this second contract contained anything
about compensation for the forts it is impossible to say, since this
agreement also has not been preserved. Admiralty High Court,
Examinations 134. Answers of Edward M. Mitchell and Ellis Leighton,
May 10, 20, 1664.

[25] That Sir Nicholas Crispe felt the losses he had incurred in
Guinea appears from his will of 1666, in which he directed the
following inscription to be erected to his memory: "first discovered
and settled the Trade of Gold in Africa and built there the Castle of
Cormentine," and thus "lost out of purse" more than L100,000. Crisp,
Frederick A., _Family of Crispe_, I, 32.

[26] A. C. R., 309, June 25, September 4, 1663. Upon the latter date
it appears that only L1300 of his subscription was paid.

[27] Clarendon, _History of the Reign of Charles II_, p. 198.

[28] _The Several Declarations of the Company of Royal Adventurers of
England trading into Africa_, January 12, 1662 (O. S.).

[29] _Ibid._

[30] A. C. R., 309, June 25, August 25, 1663.

[31] _Ibid._, 309, August 25, 1663.

[32] _Ibid._, 309, the balance of the company's books on September 4,
1663.

[33] These figures are arrived at by a careful examination of the
various sums paid to Thomas Holder, the treasurer. As it is not always
possible to be sure that the payments were made for stock, too much
dependence cannot be put in the figures, especially when the sum
arrived at by adding the items which appear to be owing the company
for stock in the balance of September 4, 1663, amount to L52,000. This
is of course several thousand pounds more than the sum arrived at by
the former computation, but here again it is not possible to estimate
exactly the money owing the company for stock and for other things.

[34] This number is arrived at by a careful perusal of the first book
kept by the company, number 309. Sometime in 1664 the company
submitted a petition to the king in which it speaks of having sent
over forty ships to the coast during the previous year and of
supplying them with cargoes amounting to more than L160,000. C.O.
(Colonial Office) 1: 17, f. 255, petition of the Royal Adventurers to
(the king, 1664).

[35] C. S. P., Col. (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, America and
West Indies), 1661-1668, p. 175, warrant to officers of the king's
mint, December 24, 1663. Another evidence of special favor