>To make this kind of research accessible, I’m open-sourcing the workflow I created for this investigation as a small toolkit, Antiquity, enabling anyone with a question and a coding agent to conduct similar historical archival investigations.

https://github.com/jessewaites/antiquity

There are also VOC archives at Cape Town, also in Kew (search for the letters of Loot) which were literally looted by privateers. All these are written in High Dutch some in German. How reliable are the translations?