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A95286	A true relation of the unjust, cruel, and barbarous proceedings against the English, at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Netherlandish Governour & Council there. Also the copie of a pamphlet of the Dutch in defence of the action. With remarks upon the whole matter. Published by authoritie.		1651 (1651)	Wing T3065; Thomason E1311_1; ESTC R209171	60,574	204

A True RELATION of the UNJUST CRUEL and BARBAROUS PROCEEDINGS against the ENGLISH at AMBOYNA In the East-Indies by the Netherlandish GOVERNOUR COUNCIL there Also the Copie of a Pamphlet of the Dutch in Defence of the Action With Remarks upon the whole matter Published by Authoritie LONDON Printed by WILL. BENTLEY for Will. Hope at the Anchor under S. Bartholomew Church near the Royal Exchange Anno Domini 1651. To his EXCELLENCIE The LORD GENERAL CROMWEL My Lord SEe here a piece of Babarism which hath lain so long both as an injurie and a dishonour to our Nation brought again to light by which as we may compare the difference of these blessed times from those unhappie ones when this was acted and passed by so we must needs remember to bless God for that victorious hand of yours which hath in so great a manner led us a good part out of the Wilderness And therefore I thought it but a piece of publick gratitude besides private to throw it as your Excellencies feet whose great soul I presume will rather descend to look into this business wherein your Countrey is so highly concerned that in respect abroad you have been a fierie wall about her so at home you are become her great Intelligence and guid those great motions of her peace and securitie Which great work as I hope God will grant you to see finished so wish I you may live long to enjoy the fruits and comfort of it AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER IF we consider how loud and pressing the crie of bloud is or with what high severity God ever proceeds against it though his wrath for some small time may seem to be asleep we have just cause to fear that there is a heavy account must be given by the Dutch for that execrable Tyrannie of theirs executed upon the bodies of several English at Amboyna To take away any mans life without due course of Justice though it be with the greatest civility and easiness of death that could be is a crime which God hath denounced murder and will visit accordingly but to heighten and multiply a death with all the previous Tortures that a passionate Diabolical malice can invent cruelty inflict or the frame of mans body undergo is so far from being manly or Christian that it is beyond savageness and bestiality and approches that accursed frame of spirit that he hath plundged himself into who sits in the seat of darkness For my part as I delight not to be curious in these speculations which acquaint the mind with extremities and Criticisms of sin so it is a grief that the Theory of wickedness should be so much enlarged as it would be by the treatise which thou hast in thy hands Which as it hath bruitishly out-done all former records and examples of cruelty so it may unluckily possibly serve for instruction to some future inventive and poisoned spirits And indeed as I wish the occasion of publishing of it had never been so do I wish justice once required and had that the remembrance of it might have been buried But the breach being so national and to this day unsatisfied and the bloud there spilt no doubt crying loud it had been injustice in us to have buried it in silence and not displayed it to the sun For as the beginning of those Torments were from a causeless and and slight suspition of an improbable and ineffective plot so by that means were we forced from our possessions in those parts and the injury became complicated both as against justice and interest True it is that the East-India Company made the most diligent addresses to King James for revenge that could be but that blazing Star of Fortune that was after removed by a stab prepossessed by a great sum of money interposed between the judgement of that King and over-ruled his affection so that he who was naturally un-active and drousie enough being lull'd by such a privado fel asleep and snorted out the rest of his idle reign in debauchery and silence The East-India Company seing themselves obstructed in the prosecution thought fit to preserve the memorie of such a butchery by getting the several Tortures done at large in Oyl but the Table was scarce sooner hung up but the Murderers began to fear it would bleed at the nose so that Buckingham was appeased by another sacrifice and the Picture commanded to be taken down In King Charles's time the business was not stirred in he had too great designs at home than to preserve our Honour or remedy our injuries abroad but now since that yoak of Kingship is taken off our necks me thinks we should like men whose shackles are taken off them while they are asleep leap up nimbly and make use of our Liberty It were the most irrational thing in the World to think of forgiving of them who though they received assistance from us in their greatest affliction and lowest miserie have refused not onely to assist us now when their case is ours but have been more than neutral against us jealous it should seem that their way of Government which they have so grown and thriven under should have the same effects with us But I hope God will give us hearts to make use of the advantages in our hands and persist in doing wonderfull things for us And as he hath brought us out of the desart in so high and fearfull a manner so no doubt if we walk answerably we shall see his countenance shine upon us and improve this blessed peace at home to make good our peace abroad and so by his good assistance enjoy such earthly blessings as may render us safe if not terrible to the Nations round about us Grayes-Inne Sept. 10. 1651. To the READER GEntle Reader thou mayest perhaps wonder why this Relation of the business of Amboyna so many Moneths since taken upon the Oaths and depositions of our people that came thence and presented to his Majesty and the Lords of his Privy Councel cometh now at last to the Press and was not either sooner published or altogether suppressed The truth is the English East-India Company have ever been very tender of the ancient amity and good correspondence held between this Realm and the Neatherlands and have been very loath by divulging of the private injuries done them by the Neatherlands East-India Company to give the least occasion of any distast or disaffection which might happily grow between these two Nations for the sake and on the behalf of the two Companies respectively For which cause although the wrongs and injuries or rather contumelies done unto the English by the Dutch in the Indies have been as intolerable as manifold as to say nothing of those great heaps of them buried in the Amnesty of the Treaty of the year 1619. and onely to point at the general heads of those committed since that Treaty and grossely contrarie to the main intent and express words and disposition of the same first

executed by Hollanders upon the English Nation in a place where both lived under Terms of partnership and great amity confirmed by a most solemn Treaty A TRUE DECLARATION Of the News that came out of the East-Indies with the Pinnace called the HARE arrived in Texel in June 1624. CONCERNING A Conspiracie discovered in the Island of Amboyna and the punishment following thereupon according to the course of Justice in March 1624. comprehended in a Letter Missive AND SENT From a Friend in the Low-Countries to a Friend of note in England for information of him in the Truth of those passages Printed Anno 1651. Right Worshipfull and Worthy SIR THe great out-cries which have been made in England upon the last News which came out of the East-Indies about a certain execution which was done in the Island of Amboyna in March 1623 because we see the great desire that your Worship hath to keep good correspondence betwixt these two Nations it hath caused me beyond my own curiosity to search and inquire after the right and true beginnings proceedings and issues of these affairs upon which this execution followed Wherein I perswade my self I have attained good success by such means as I have used and by my good acquaintance so that at the last I am come to the clear light of the matter partly by the Letters that have been sent home to the Company here and declared to the States General as also by a particular examination of the process made against them in Amboyna before their execution and sent over hither in writing which at this present hath caused me to write this unto your Worship that so the truth may be made known concerning this business in all places where your Worthiness and respect can or may bring it to pass that so your Worship and all true well-willers of our Countrey may be no otherwise thought of than we deserve A True Declaration of the News that came out of the East-Indies with the Pinnace called the HARE which arrived in Texel in June 1624. THe very causes and beginnings through which the Governour and Councel established in the name of the United Neatherlands in Amboyna came into suspicion that some thing was plotted against that Province did first flow from the great licentiousness of the Tarnatanes in Moluque and Amboyna Who contrarie to the contract of alliance 1606. made with the High and Mighty Lords the States attempted without our consent and knowledge to make peace with the King of Tidore as also truce with the Spaniards their and our ancient adversaries by which the said Tarnatanes had too much cast off all respect which they both in regard of our confederacie and manifold assistance did owe to this State The Spaniard also was master enough at Sea in the Moloque because the English Merchants there in the East-Indies were unwilling to furnish us with Ships of War toward the common defence as they were bound to do according to the Treaties 1619. to the number of ten Through which the voyages to Mannila coming to cease the Enemy traded there without any interruption and procured power to send Gallies Ships and Pinnaces to the Moloque with great succours of people and provision and that because against the same through the default of the English Merchants there were no Ships of War kept as there should have been The Subjects of the King of Tarnata begun to commit great insolencies otherwise than they were wont against our Nation having outragiously assaulted divers of us divers wayes and also slain some and we notwithstanding could not obtain any punishment upon them And as one outrage unpunished provokes many more through hope of the like impunity or other considerations so were the said Tarnatanes of Amboyna dwelling at Loho Cambello and those near adjoyning places proceeded further and have armed themselves at Sea and invaded divers Islands and places standing under the Neatherlands Governour in Amboyna spoiling them and killing our Subjects and taking others and carrying them away for Slaves And notwithstanding the instant request of the Neatherlands Gouernour no satisfaction or Justice hath followed but the said Tarnatanes are yet gone further and openly threatened to murder the Dutch Merchants and to spoil and to burn the Logie or Factorie which our people have many years there enjoyed so that our Merchants have taken out the Dutch goods to avoid dammage And the Tarnatanes at Loho did actually set on fire and ruined the said Neatherlands Factorie In the Manichels an Island being under the Province of Amboyna they have in like manner shortly after burned the Neatherlands Logie with the loss of all the goods therein The Neatherlands Governour that by his presence and Authority he might cause such Rebellions to cease and to give order for time to come and also to seek satisfaction and punishment upon the aforesaid insolencies went toward Loho with a small power of Sloops and coming thereabout was met otherwise than was wont by a Navie of Sloops of the Tarnatans of Loho stronger than his were These by their conference gave him well to know how little reverence they gave the Dutch Governour they braved him without hope of restitution of any thing to come so that nothing done he was fain to return to his Castle of Amboyna By reason of these things the said Tarnatanes became so stout and daring that they gave out openly that they would come and spoil our Subjects by a general Army with above an hundred Friggots with these they said they would come against Amboyna to make a universal spoil of our people through which there came a great fear upon the Indians standing under the Subjection of the High and Mighty Lords the States as also over the Neatherlanders In the Islands lying far Eastward of Banda it was also said and the News went currantly there That the Hollanders were sure enough quit of the Castle of Amboyna And at that time there were divers secret correspondencies between the Indians others which gave us great suspition By this means the Neatherlands Governour and Councel of Amboyna were moved to have special regard and look narrowly unto all things seeing that it might be thence clearly gathered that something might be plotted against the State in Amboyna and that the Indians of themselves durst not offer to undertake any such great design without some great help of some of Europe either of Spaniarnds Portugals or some other and also they understood that they of Loho Cambello c. had great secret correspondence with the English Merchants When things were in such a state in Amboyna there came forth and was wonderfully discovered in February 1623. a horrible conspiracie against the Castle and Person of the Dutch Governour and the whole state of Amboyna and first by the apprehension of a certain Iaponian a complice of the feat who at an unseasonable time was often seen upon the wall of the Castle where he also over-curiously enquired of the most