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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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