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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36823	A true and compendious narration or, second part of Amboyna, or sundry notorious or remarkable injuries, insolencies, and acts of hostility which the Hollanders have exercised from time to time against the English nation in the East-Indies, &c. and particularly of the totall plundering and sinking of the Dragon & Katharine both ships and men : with undeniable and convincing proofs for evidencing the truth thereof, and satisfaction of the reader / by a person of long observation and experiences employed first and last in the affairs of the Indies, fifty years, to wit, from Sr. Walter Rawleigh, his voyage, 1615 to this present year 1665 by J. D.	J. D. (John Darell)	1665 (1665)	Wing D252; ESTC R15400	26,816	44

no instructions in that case but must go in again for new and that he was sure to lose his head when he came to Battavia because he did neither burn nor sink nor bring them into Mallacca and so going in for new and further Instructions came out no more And the Dragon Sun and Katherine proceeded and came to Goa and there landed all the said Portugals and their Goods according to agreement made with them at Maccao in China but contrary to that pretended seizure and Captain Swanleys expectation and the said Captain Swanley in the said Ship Sun came that year home and arrived safe in England but the Dragon and Katherine staid in India until the next year to compleat their lading But when the Dutch observing the Motion of the Dragon and Katherine understood plainly that by the foresaid pretended seizure they were meerly deluded and disappointed both of their prey and purpose doubtless they were exceedingly exasperated and inraged And it was not their Commanders head that would asswage or satisfie their Constant and Frequent Bloody and Cruel Malice and Revenge as former and latter experience plainly remonstrates but when the aforesaid Dutch● Commander came to Battavia the Sceane was altered and a new device framed to destroy them altogether and not suffer any to live to bring back the said tidings of their Destruction FOr in or about the Year 1637. upon a War or Difference between the King of Coelon the Portugals there Inhabiting The Hollanders Vpperland States of their Vnited Provinces of Battavia Amboynia Tewan c. neglecting no opportunity to advance their foresaid designs of Conquest and Trade Complied with and assi●ted the for●said King against the said Por●ugals being very antient in●abitants there and undoubtedly it was that very same Fleet going upon th●t occasion to Coelon before the Dragon and Catherine set saile for England that extinguished and most barbarously destroyed both those two ●hips and Men according to the several Relations of English Portugals and Dutch c. And that done Then the said Fleet proceeded upon their design at Coelon aforesaid where in few years after they conquered and vanquished the foresaid Portugals both by Sea and Land and took and surpriz'd all thrir ships and goods with their chief Town or City of Collombo and the rest with all their Castles Fortifications and Houses or Towns with all the Good● and Treasure Ordinance Amunition and Appurtinances therein and thereto belonging and so quickly possest and dispatcht the Riches and Subjects of two Eminent Kings in Europe out of their way and the third the King of the said Island and his Subjects escaped not altogether free For by good report when the said King desired to know their demands for their assi●tance and the same being produced the said King was thereat much amazed and said that he and all his Subjects were not worth the one half or quarter of what the said Hollanders demanded notwithstanding the exceeding great plunder and booty taken from the English and Portugals aforesaid And so the said King being altogether unable to sati●fie their said demands in any reasonable measure and to be rid of them as he once well hoped but they never intended Therefore the said King was constrained and necessitated to Submi●t and to suffer the said Hollanders to enjoy all the Portugals Towns and Castles aforesaid with c. ut supra and what other Ports or places upon his said Islands they desired And further to permitt and suffer the foresaid Hollanders States to conferr a Kings Ship upon the said John Tyson as an extraordinary Reward and Recompence for all his good services according to the usual construction of Holland and Dutch Reason Supposing thereby to Declare and Proclaim to all Kings Emperours and Princes beyond Cape bona Esperanza and to their Subjects That as they the Holland Upperlander States aforesaid had power there to destroy and set up Kings at their pleasure so had their Masters in their Neatherlands the like power or more over all Kings and Emperours in Europe and ●o th●reby thinking to free themselves from that aspersion which many Heathens seemed long since justly to lay upon them to wit That they were some Rude Bruitish Boarosh Vncivil and Barbarous people and of low esteem in Europe Because they had no King And thus Per fas aut nefas they intend ● if possible to build their Babel as high as Heaven But I must here Ponere Obicem and give you a True and Perfect Copy of Quondam Skipper Now Dutch President and Hollands King John Tyson one of his Warrants to his Subjects within the Verge of his Command and Iurisdiction A true translation of one of his Warrants by Geo. Gawton Marchant which came to my hands at Goa in India 7. Nov. Stilo Veter 1664. Iohn Tyson President for the Dutch at Gallee in Coelon THe Chief of the people of Gampa with the rest dwellers Let them come and obey the Hollands King and bring the other Duragos or Dwellers of the Neighbouring Aldees or Towns and the Challes or Inhabitants of Urngampala and of Galleluja and Hivitiania and all other Challees or Inhabitants Subjects to the Corlo or Governour of Allicuer and the Captain of Gampan withall And in case all these people eannot come Let him appear before the King For so is the Kings command The seaven Corlos or Commanders are already at Ningumbo Concerning the loss of the Dragon and Katherine Out of the Book of Resolutions at Goa in the Instruction given to Io. Dursenon his Persia Voyage written by Iohn Darett ALso if you happen to meet with the ship Hopewell Mr. Edward Lock or whosoever Commander enquire diligently of six Dutchmen taken Aboard the said ship at her last being at Cocheen who can make certain relation concerning the Dragon and Katherine their sinking between the Islands of Coylon and Mauritius by seven Dutch Vessels or Ships as we are informed whereof the Ship called Amsterdam was Admiral 21. November 1644. in Goa London 9th of June 1641. FRancis Day saith That from Mesulapatam he came to Surratt and coming before Goa was forced to strike by the Hollanders and a Boat from the Ship Amboyna came aboard to have a discharge how that they received no injury from the Hollanders which discharge was written twice before it could be to their likeing And amongst the Boats Crew there was an English man who told to the Purser of the Expedition as three or four men come home by the Crispine can witness It is well you struck for all the guns aboard were primed and the Lynstocks ready waiting for the word to give fire and would have sunk you and God knows what is become of Captain Weddal which words being spoken he was called away by the Commander into the boat These persons present William Courteen Fr. Day Isaac Saxby and D. G. i. e. David Goubard Iohn Carter came home in the Crispine and afterwards in the