INDEX 301 Courthorpe, Nathaniel, holds Pularoon against the Dutch, 113 Death of, 113 Cromwell, scanty records of the relations of, to the East India Company, 251 Real relations of, to the East India Company, 252 Obtains redress for the East India Company, 252 Imposes principle of permanent Jomt Stock on the East India Company, 252 Enters the House of Commons in 1628. 253 Attitude of, toward the Company na- tional rather than for its special in- terests, 258-259, 262, 290 Ends exclusive rights of Portugal in the East, 261, 262 Portuguese treaty of July, 1654, settlement obtained by, 262 Personally inquires into the affairs of the East India Company, 263-264 Reconstructs the government of Eng- land, 264 Rumours of the intention of, to dis- solve the East India Company, 272 Petitioned by the East India Company for a wider charter and the restric- tion of private trade to India, 274 Refers new constitution of the East India Company to the Council of State, 274 Refers the petition of the General Court of the East India Company to the Council of State, 275 Commercial and maritime policy of, 276-277 Directs committee to draw up charter for a United Joint Stock, 282 Reconstitutes the Indian trade on the basis of " One Joint Stock," 282-283 Aided by the East India Company in the interpretation of laws, 283 Death of, 247 Indignities offered to the corpse of, 290 Activities of, 290-291 Crusades, conquest of the Asiatic Ocean deemed a continuation of the, 40 Cunha, Nuno da, opened out Portuguese trade to Bengal, 35 Customs of Gombroon, 216 Cuttack, English visit the court of, 236 Da Gama's discovery of India the result of the quest for the land of Prester John, 40 Dale, Sir Thomas, English admiral at Batavia, 85 Sent with six ships to India in 1618, 98 Death of, 110 Daman, Portuguese coast settlements of, besieged by Moghul governor, 46 Demarcation Bull ignored by the Eng- lish, but enforced by the Portuguese, 34-35 Denbigh, Earl of, Charles I commands the East India Company to provide passage to India for, 178 Smuggles indigo and other goods into Dover on his return from India, 178 Deptford, English East India Company starts shipbuilding at, 12 Digges, Sir Dudley, defends the East India Company, 167 Diu, Portuguese coast settlements of, besieged by the Moghul emperor, 46 Dominicans establish Inquisition in India, 42 Downton, Nicholas, general of the first Joint Stock voyage, 32 Power and directions given to, at out- set of first voyage for the Joint Stock Company, 32-34 Commander of English fleet in 1614- 1615, 47-48 Hardships of men under command of, in 1614-1615, 48 Death of son of, 51 Victory of, establishes forever English superiority over the Portuguese at Surat, 195 Death of, at Bantam, 53 Dutch, strength of, in the East, 9 Declare a truce with the Spanish for twelve years, 13 Competition with the English compli- cates relations between the two powers, 18, 73-74 Protestantism, struggle of Philip II with, 35 Declaration of Independence in 1581, 59 Navigators, discoveries, and coloniza- tion of the, 59 Intellectual activity of, 59-60 Hatred of the, for Spain, 63 Ascendency of, in the Eastern Seas, 63 Destroy Spanish fleet in Gibraltar Bay in 1607, 64 Policy regarding the Spice Islands, 64 Victorious over Portuguese in the Moluccas and Japan, 64 Conquest of the Indian trade-route, 65 Enter into an armed alliance with the King of Achin against the Portu- guese, 69
