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A59322	Insignia Bataviæ, or, The Dutch trophies display'd being exact relations of the unjust, horrid, and most barbarous proceedings of the Dutch against the English in the East-Indies : whereby is plainly demonstrable what the English must expect from the Hollanders when at any time or place they become their masters / by Elkanah Settle.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1688 (1688)	Wing S2696; ESTC R37369	23,105	31

Torment I have accused that honest and godly Man Captain Towerson who I think in my conscience was so upright and honest towards all men that he harboured no ill will to any much less would attempt any such business as he is accused of He further said he would before his death receive the Sacrament in acknowledgement that he had accused Captain Towerson falsly and wrongfully only through fear of Torment The 25. of February old stile all the Prisoners as well the English as the Portugal and the Japoners were brought into the great Hall of the Castel and there were solemnly condemned except John Powl Ephraim Ramsey John Sadler and Thomas Ladbrook formerly acquitted as aforesaid Captain Towerson having been during all his imprisonment kept apart from the rest so that none of them could come to speak with him writ much in his Chamber as some of the Dutch report but all was suppressed save only a Bill of Debt which one Tho. Johnson a free Burgher got of him by favour of his Keepers for acknowledgment that the English Company owed him a certain sum of money In the end of this Bill he writ these words Firmed by the Firm of me Gabriel Towerson now appointed to die guiltless of any thing that can be justly laid to my charge God forgive them their guilt and receive me to his mercy Amen This Bill being brought to M. Welden the English Agent at Banda he paid the money and received in the acknowledgment William Griggs who had before accused Captain Towerson writ these words following in his table-Table-book We whose names are here specified John Beomont Merchant of Loho William Griggs Merchant of Larica Abel Price Chyrurgion of Amboyna Robert Brown Taylor which do here lie Prisoners in the Ship Rotterdam being apprehended for conspiracy for blowing up the Castle of Amboyna we being judged to death this 5. of March Anno 1622 which we through ●orm●nt were constrained to speak that which we never meant nor once imagined the which we take upon our deaths and salvation they tortured us with that extream torment of Fire and Water that flesh and bloud could not endure and this we take upon our deaths that they have put us to death guiltless of our accusation So therefore we desire that they that shall understand this that our Imployers may understand these wrongs and that your selves would have a care to look to your selves for their intent was to have brought you in also they askt concerning you which if they had tortured us we must have confessed you also And so farewell Written in the dark This Table-book was afterward● delivered to M. Welden afore-named by one that served the Dutch. Samuel Colson also another that accused Captain Towerson writ as followeth in the waste leaves of a Book wherein were bound together the Common-Prayers the Psalms and the Catechism In one Page thus March 5. Stilo novo being Sunday aboard the Rotterdam lying in Irons UNderstand that I Samuel Colson late Factor of Hitto was apprehended for suspicion of consperacy and for any thing I know must die for it wherefore having no better means to make my innocency known have writ this in this Book hoping some good English-men will see it I do here upon my salvation as I hope by his death and passion to have redemption for my sins that I am clear of all such conspiracy neither do I know any English man guilty thereof nor other creature in the World. As this is true God bless me Sam. Colson On the other side upon the first page of the Catechism is thus written IN another leaf you shall understand more which I have written in this Book Sam. Colson In the beginning of the Psalms and in the leaf so referred unto is thus written viz THe Japoners were taken with some Villany and brought to examination being most tyrannuously tortured were asked if the English had any hand in their Plot. Which torture made them say Yea. Then was Master Tomson M. Johnson M. Collins Jonn Clark brought to examination and were burned under the arms armpits the hands and soles of the feet with another most miserable torment to drink Water some of them almost tortured to death and were forced to confess that which they never knew by reason of the torment which flesh and blood is not able to endure Then were the rest of the English men called one by one amongst which I was one being wished to confess or else I must go to torment withall caused M. Johnson who was before tormented to witness against me or else he should be tormented again which rather than he would endure he said What they would have he would speak Then must I confess that I never knew or else to go to torment which rather than I would suffer I did confess that which as I shall be saved before God Almighty is not true being forced for fear of torment Then did they make us witness against Capt. Towerson and at last made Capt. Towerson confess all being for fear of most cruel torment for which we must all die As I mean and hope to have pardon for my sins I know no more than the child unborn of this business Written with my own hand the first of March Stilo novo Sam. Colson Yet in another page were these words I Was born in New Castle upon Tyne where I desire this Book may come that my Friends may know of my Innocency Sam. Colson This Book he delivered to one that served the Hollanders who sowed it up in his Bed and afterward at his oppertunity delivered it to Mr. Weld●n before named All these said Writings are yet extant under the hands of the several parties well known to their Friends here in England The 26th of February Stilo veteri the Prisoners were all brought into the great Hall of the Castle except Captain Towerson and Emanuel Tomson to be prepared for death by the Ministers The Japoners now all in general as some of them had done before in particular cryed cut unto the English saying Oh you English men where did we ever in our lives eat with you talk with you or to our remembrance see you The English answered Why then have you accused us The poor men perceiving they were made believe each had accused others before they had so done indeed shewed them their tortur'd bodies and said If a stone were thus burnt would it not change his nature how much more we that are flesh and blood Whilst they were all in the Hall Cap Towerson was brought up into the place of Examination and two great Jarrs of Water carried after him What he there did or suffered was unknown to the English without but it seemeth they made him then to underwrite his confession After Supper John Powl Ephraim Ramsey Th. Ladbrook and John Sadler who were found not guilty as aforesaid were taken from the rest and put into another room By and by also were Samuel Colson

Seran Upon these Islands of Amboyna and the point of Seran the Hollanders have four Forts the chief of all is at the said Town of Amboyna and is very strong having four Points or Bulwarks with their Curtains and upon each of these Points six great Pieces of Ordinance mounted most of them of Brass The one side of this Castle is washed by the Sea and the other is divided from the Land with a Ditch of four or five fathom broad very deep and ever filled with the Sea. The Garrison of this Castle consisteth of about 200 Dutch Soldiers and a Company of free Burgers Besides these there is always a matter of three or four hundred Mardikers for so they usually call the free Natives in the Town ready to serve the Castle at an hours warning There lie also in the Road for the most part divers good Ships of the Hollanders as well for the guard of the place by Sea as for the occasions of Traffick this being the chief Rendezvouz as well for the Island of Banda as for the rest of Amboyna Here the English lived not in the Castle but under the Protection thereof in a House of their own in the Town holding themselves safe as well in respect of the Ancient Bonds of Amity between both Nations as of the strict conjunction made by the late Treaty before-mentioned They continued here some Two Years Conversing and Trading together with the Hollanders by vertue of the said Treaty In which time there fell out sundry Differences and Debates between them The English complaining that the Hollanders did not only lavish away much Money in Building and unnecessary Expences upon the Forts and otherwise and bring large and unreasonable Reckonings thereof to the common Account but also did for their part pay the Garrisons with Victuals and cloath of Coromondel which they put off to the Soldiers at three or four times the Value it cost them yet would not allow the English Companies part of the same Charge but only in ready Money thereby drawing from the English which ought to pay but one Third part more than two Thirds of the whole true charge Hereupon and upon the like occasions grew some Discontents and Disputes and the Complaints were sent to Jaccatra in the Island of Java Major to the Council of Defence of both Nations there Residing who also not agreeing upon the points in Difference sent the same hither over into Europe to be decided by both Companies here or in default of their Agreement by the King's Majesty and the Lords the States General according to an Article of the Treaty of the Year 1619. on this behalf In the mean time the Discontent between the English and Dutch about these and other Differences continued and daily encreased until at last there was a Sword found to cut in sunder that knot at once which the tedious Disputes of Amboyna and Jaccatra could not untie And this was used in manner as followeth About the 11th of February 1622. Stile veteri a Japoner-Soldier of the Dutch in their Castle of Amboyna walking in the Night upon the Wall came to the Sentinel being a Hollander and there amongst other Talk asked him some questions touching the strength of the Castle and the People that were therein It is here to be noted that those Japoners of whom there is not Thirty in all the Island did for the most part serve the Dutch as Soldiers yet were not of their Trusty bands always lodged in the Castle but upon occasion called out of the Town to assist in the Watch. This Japoner aforesaid was for his said Conference with the Sentinel apprehended upon suspition of Treason and put to Torture Whereby as some of the Dutch affirmed he was brought to confess That himself and sundry others of his Countrey-Men there had contrived to take the Castle Hereupon other Japoners were Examined and Tortured as also a Portugal the Guardian of the Slaves under the Dutch. During this Examination which continued three or four days some of the English-Men went to and from the Castle upon their business saw the Prisoners heard of their Tortures and of the Crime laid to their charge but all this while suspected not that this matter did any whit concern themselves having never had any conversation with the Japoners nor with the Portugal aforesaid At the same time there was one Abel Price Chirurgeon of the English Prisoner in the Castle for offering in his Drunkenness to set a Dutch-Man's House on Fire This fellow the Dutch took and shewed him some of the Japoners whom they had first most grievously Tortured and told him They had confessed the English to be of their confedracy for the taking the Castle and that if he would not confess the same they would use him even as they had done these Japoners and worse also Having given him the Torture they soon made him confess what ever they asked him This was the 15th of February 1622. Stilo veteri Forthwith about Nine of the clock the same Morning they sent for Captain Towerson and the rest of the English that were in the Town to come to speak with the Governor in the Castle they all went save one that was left to keep the House Being come to the Governor he told Captain Towerson That himself and others of his Nation were accused of a conspiracy to surprize the Castle and therefore until further Tryal were to remain Prisoners They also took him that was left at home in the House and the Merchandize of the English there into their own custody by Inventory and seized all the Chests Boxes Books Writings and other things out of the said House Captain Towerson was committed to his Chamber with a Guard of Dutch Soldiers Emanuel Thompson was kept Prisoner in the Castle the rest viz. John Beomont Edward Collins William Webber Ephram Ramsey Timothy Johnson John Fardo and Robert Brown were sent Aboard the Hollanders Ships then Riding in Harbour some to one Ship and some to another and all made fast in irons The same day also the Governor sent to the Two other Factories in the same Island to Apprehend the rest of the English there So that Samuel Colson John Clark George Sharrock that were found in the Factory at Hitto and Edward Collins William Webber and John Sadler at Larica were all brought Prisoners to Amboyna the 16th of February Upon which day also John Powl John Wetheral and Thomas Ladbrook were Apprehended at Cambello and John Beomont William Grigs and Ephraim Ramsey at Lobo and brought in Irons to Amboyna the 20th of the same Month. In the mean time the Governor and Fiscal went to work with the Prisoners that were already there And first they sent for John Beomont and Timothy Johnson from aboard the Unicorn who being come into the Castle Beomont was left with a Guard in the Hall and Johnson was taken into another Room where by and by Beomont heard him cry out very pitifully