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 90 THE STEUGGLE FOR THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO " in as ample manner and as the Company of London do." The danger was grave. For the Scotch would not only prove keen rivals in trade, but their charter might be covertly utilized by English interlopers, and a Pres- byterian nation was not unlikely to come to an under- standing with the Calvinist and Lutheran Dutch. The movement which resulted in the Scottish Brigade in Holland had set in; and the London Company might find itself beset by a Scotch and Dutch combination in the East. We shall find that the steward of the Dutch factory at Amboyna in 1623 was an Aberdeen man. King James listened to the remonstrances of his Eng- lish subjects, and in 1618 the new grant was recalled upon the London Company agreeing to compensate the Scotch patentee. The concession did not come too soon. In the au- tumn of the same year, 1618, the English Company found itself once more compelled to appeal for state support in what now clearly revealed itself as a strug- gle between the Dutch and the English nations. It presented memorials to the king and the Privy Council, setting forth " the manifest and insupportable wrongs and abuses done by the Hollanders unto your Majesty and your Majesty's subjects in the East Indies." The two nutmeg islets of Pularoon and Rosengyn, with a chief town in Lantor or Great Banda which had freely surrendered to his Majesty, had been threatened or attacked by the Hollanders, and English prisoners had been publicly shown in chains. " Lo, these are the