Because of the reference of Res. Stat. Hol. 1691 4/2 p101 1690 3/3 in the Scheepvaartmuseum of Amsterdam we indeed found an account of the events in the Resolutions of the States of Holland from the National Archives in The Hague under 3.03.01, inventory number 5123 (pages 101 to 105).

Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, in "Nederlandse kapiteins - koopvaardij 1600-1700" by J.van Sluijs

A summary of the events:

On November 13, 1690, the Swedish skipper Adriaen Adriaens sailed from Plymouth in England to Lisbon with his fully loaded ship De Pauw, together with many other ships. However, after two days he was confronted by 22 French warships. They forced Adriaen to sail to France and exchange his own goods for French merchandise.

After he was allowed to continue his journey, he had bad luck again a few days later, because he comes across a Vlissinger privateer with a ship named De Vlamingh Jacobus Henricus, sailed by Captain Willem de Vlamingh. So his ship is not called de vergulde (= gilded) Vlamingh but the Vlamingh Jacobus Henricus. Which immediately made us seriously doubt whether this was about our Willem de Vlamingh from Vlieland and this doubt became even stronger when we read the rest of the story, for the privateer captain had no leniency at all with the Swedish skipper who told him in detail about his sad situation. Instead Willem de Vlamingh took the ship by force, and brought it to Corunna as a booty. Corunnas refers to the port city of "A Coruña" in the northwest of Spain.

Docked there in the harbour, the privateer captain seizes three crew members of the Pauw, whom he imprisons on his own ship (after beating, ill-treating and wounding them). Many of the new French goods were taken from the Pauw, such as jams, almonds and hazelnuts.

The privateer captain went away and left ten of his own men on the hijacked ship. For days they secretly tapped bottles full of wine and brandy from the hold of the hijacked ship, which they sold or drank themselves. Because the privateers were often drunk, great damage was also done to the sails of the Pauw. Captain Willem de Vlamingh did not forbid his men, he rather scolded the Swedish skipper when he complained about this and threatened if he did not keep his calm, he would throw him overboard.

Hopefully the reader agrees with our conclusion this is NOT our Willem de Vlamingh. This debauched behavior is not at all in line with the generally appreciated attitude we have seen of the Vlielander and is much more appropriate for a seasoned privateer from Middelburg, who had already commandeered several ships in his life, such as the example below in the previous year (12 ). Apparently, a notorious namesake was active around the same time Willem lived!

The text reads (in Dutch):

"Pleymuyden den 18 October, Voor 2 a 3 dagen is alhier opgebragt, door Capit. Vlaming van Zeeland, een Fregat Scheepje, met Wyn en Brandewyn, de wil hebbende na Ierland (dat naar Ierland wilde gaan), in welk Scheepje 4 a 5 paspoorten zyn gevonden."

Translation:

"Pleymuyden the 18th October, For 2 or 3 days has been brought here, by Captain Vlaming from Zeeland, a Frigate Ship, with Wine and Brandy, wanting to go to Ireland, in which Ship 4 to 5 passports have been found."

From the Amsterdam newspaper of 29 October 1689, p. 1. Consulted via Delpher