could with protestation that both he and all his people were very sory for his departure finding we were good people and not such as the Hollanders did report vs to be which liued only by robbing and stealing During this communication the Holland ship which rid by vs shot off three peeces which the King hearing sent to know the cause word was brought the Hollanders Admirall was come from Tydore and gone aboord which the King hearing tooke a short farewell of our generall and went to his caracole shewing euidently his great feare to offend the Hollanders Before he could put off his boate from the side our ship was vnder sayle giuing him seuen peeces of ordinance and helde on our way beetweene Tarnata and Tydore About noone the 21. day we came to an anker at Taffasoa the Gouernour presently came to our Generall with a present of hennes and fruite telling him that he had been at Tydore and the King had giuen him order to surrender the towne vnto him if he came thither againe and the sort praying him to dispose thereof as his owne The Generall gaue him thankes telling him he had fewe men but if he had so many as he had when he came from Bantam he would leaue such a Garrison there as they should doubt neither the Hollanders nor the Tarnatanes but his weakenesse was such that hee could leaue no men there He answered he doubted not the keeping of the towne in dispite of all their enemies and although he could leaue no meÌ„ there yet had he order by his king to surrender his right and title to the King of England to whose vse he would keepe it desiring the surrender therof might be drawne and the Generall should haue the originall and he the copie Which done he caused the people to bring those Cloues they had so tooke his leaue and departed we directing our course for Selebis where wee had such water as the place afforded but it was brakish buyng some Cocus of the people who are like lauans Iuly the 24. we came to anker in Bantan road were Master Scot chiefe factor there certified our Generall of the mortallitie of men in the Hector and Ascention before they departed so that he was forced to hyer Chineses to helpe them home and that of 24 left there in their factorie 12. were dead where we continued till the sixt of October which day hauing taken leaue of M. Scot and the rest left there we set saile for England continuing in our course with variable weather till the 19. of December which day the winde scanting vpon vs we though to put into Saldania roade about 10. a clock in the morning we saw a sayle to leewards thinking it had been the Ascention whose company we lost 14. dayes before but contrary to our expectation it prooued the Hector which went in company of the Susan from Bantam aboue 9. months before in such lamentable distresse that had we not met with them that day they had purposed the next to haue run theÌ„selues aground at Pengwin Iland hauing for that purpose fardled vp their apparrel such other things as were most necessary for them Our General caused our Pinnesse to be hoysted out and sent for Cap Keeling the Purser who related their extreme miseries hauing but 10. Englishmen and 4 Chineses aliue so supper being done with thankes giuen to God for their miraculous preseruation our General sent 12. men more to help theÌ„ into Sâ—ldania road where we stayed repairing the ruines of the Hector prouiding other necessaries til the 16. of Ianuary following when we set sayle for Saint Helena where wee ariued the second of February following the eleuenth of February we departed from Saint Helena continuing at Sea with such varytie of weather as those that vse the sea are vsually accustomed vnto till the second of May following when we were of Plymoth and the sixt following at the Downes FINIS The King of Tarnata to the King of England Scotland France and IRELAND c. HEaring of the good report of your Maiestie by the comming of the great Captain Francis Drake in the time of my father which was about some 30. yeeres past by the which Captaine my Predecessor did send a Ring vnto the Queene of England as a token of remembrance betweene Vs which if the aforesaide Drake had beene liuing hee could haue informed your Maiestie of the great loue and friendship of either side he in the behalfe of the Queene my Father for him and his Successors Since which time of the departure of the aforesaid Captaine we haue dayly expected his returne my Father liuing many yeeres after and dayly expecting his returne and I after the death of my father haue liued in the same hope till I was father of eleuen-children in which time I haue beene informed that the English were men of so bad disposition that they came not as peaceable Merchants but to dispossesse them of there Countrey which by the comming of the bearer hereof wee haue found to the contrarie which greatly we reioyce at And after many yeeres of our expectation of some English forces by the promise of Captaine Drake Here arriued certaine ships which we well hoped had beene Englishmen but finding them contrary and being out of al hope of succour of the English Nation we were inforced to write to the Prince of Holland to craue ayde and succour against our auncient enemies the Portingals and according to our request hee hath sent hither his forces which hath expeld all the Portugales out of the fortes which they held at Amboyna and Tydore And whereas your Maiestie hath sent to me a most kinde and friendly Letter by your seruant Captaine Henry Middleton that doth not a litle reioyce vs. And whereas Captaine Henry Middelton was desirous to leaue a factory heare we were very willing therunto which the Captain of the Hollanders vnderstanding became to challenge me of a former promise which I had written to the Prince of Holland that if he would send me such succour as should expell the Portugales out of these parts that no other Nation should haue trade heare but they onely So that we were inforst against our liking to yeeld vnto the Hollanders Captaines request for this time whereof we craue pardon of your Highnesse and if any of your Nation come hereafter they shall be welcome And whereas the chiefe Captaine of the Hollanders doth sollicite vs not to hold any friendship with your Nation nor to giue eare to your Highnesse Letters yet for all their suite if you please to send hither againe you shall be welcome And in token of our friendship which we desire of your Maiestie we haue sent you a small remembrance of a Bahar of Cloues our Countrey being poore and yeelding no better commoditie which we pray your Highnesse to accept in good part TARNATA The King of Tydors Letter to the KINGS MAIESTIE OF ENGLAND THIS Writing of the King of Tydor to the King of England is to let your Highnesse vnderstand that the King of Holland hath sent hither into these partes a Fleet of shippes to ioyne with our ancient enemie the King of Tarnata and they ioyntly together haue ouer-runne and spoyled part of our Countrey and are determined to destroy both vs and our Subiects Nowe vnderstanding by the bearer hereof Captaine Henry Midaleton that your Highnesse is in frienship with the King of Spaine Wee desire your MAIESTIE that you would take pittie of Vs that wee may not be destroyed by the King of Holland and Tarnata to whom wee haue offered no wrong but they by forceable meanes seeke to bereaue Vs of our Kingdome And as great Kings vpon the earth are ordayned by God to succour all them that be wrongfully oppressed so I appeale vnto your MAIESTIE for succour against my enemies not doubting but to finde reliefe at your MAIESTIES hands And if your MAIESTIE send hither I humbly entreate that it may bee Captaine Henry Middleton or his Brother with whom I am well acquainted Thus We end praying God to enlarge your Kingdomes and blesse You and all your Counsels TYDOLR The King of Bantam to the King of ENGLAND A LETTER giuen from your friend the king of Bantam to the King of England Scotland France and Ireland desiring GOD to preserue your health and to exalt you more and more and all your Counsell And whereas your MAIESTIE hath sent a Generall Henry Middleton he came to me in health I did heare that your MAIESTIE was come to the Crowne of England which doth greatly reioyce my heart Now England and Bantam are both as one I haue also receiued a Present from your MAIESTIE the which I giue you many thankes for your kindnesse Idoe send your MAIESTIE two Beasar stones the one waying fourteene Masses the other three And so GOD haue you in his keeping Bantam
He answered he knew not of any so turning to the Dutch admiral he maruailed he should giue credit to such vntruths reported by a slaue Hee answered againe such things were told but he did not beleeue them to be true So the Generall asked what he ment to do with the Portingales his prisoners He said he would hang them The Generall intreated him to shew them mercy considering they did nothing but what all good subiects are bound to doe in defence of their King and Country and therefore desired not to take their liues nor deliuer them to the King of Tarnata He promised at his intreaty not any one of them should die nor be deliuered to the King of Tarnata but that he would ship them away to Manallia The General gaue him thankes taking leaue of them and came rowing along the shore by the kings towne where he tooke in the Captain of the Fort brought him along with him aboard where he both supped and lodged and from him had the trueth of all the fight farre differing from that which the Hollanders reported The Generall told him his going to the Dutch Admirall was principally to intreat him to shew mercy vnto the Portingales which he promised to performe The Captaine gaue him great thanks for the care he had of them saying now all their hope rested vpon him and vpon the same hee presented the Generall with a small Ruby set in a ring praying him to weare it for his sake which the General would not take saying what he could doe for them was in Christian charity and not for reward The 10 day in the morning our Generall went aboard the Hollands Admirall to see if he could bring the King of Tarnata and the King of Tydore and the Hollanders to a peace The Dutch admirall made answer the King of Tarnata would bee very hardly drawne to any peace with the King of Tydore but he for his part would be willing thereunto and if it pleased the King of Tydore to repaire aboard his ship hee should safely come and go to haue conference with him The Generall thought he could perswade him to come aboord his owne shippe so that he would leaue two duch Captaines a shore in pledge for him But to come aboard his ship he was sure he would not So the Dutch Admiral sent two of his chiefe Marchants with the General to be left as pledges if the King would come aboard whereupon our Generall went to the king of Tydore and told him what he had done in his behalfe perswading him to come aboard our shippe which he was loath to yeeld to The Generall seeing him feareful told him there was no such cause for that he had brought two Dutch Captaines to remaine as pledges and that he would leaue his brother with them Then the King was willing and caused his own boate to be fitted imbarked himselfe Being ready to put off came the Kings sister and his son weeping as if he had gone to death detayned him in this manner halfe an houre In the end he put off but when he was halfe way betweene the shore and the ship he saw a Carricole rowing off from the Fort which he stood in feare of and would proceed no further but returned backe promising the next daye to come aboard if we would ride with our ship nearer his towne The 11. day in the morning we weighed and anchored againe before the Kings towne The General with his pledges going a shore there was an alarum in the town which was sodainly done the cause was that a great number of the Tarnataes had consorted to go robbe some out-houses in the Kings towne and finding nothing therein set them a fire The Tydorians gaue a sodaine assault vpon them and had the cutting off of a dozen of their heads all the rest hardly escaped by running away The heads they presēted to the King our Generall standing by him telling him the cause The King seemed to be offended with the Hollanders which had promised that no hostility of warre should bee offered in this time of parlye The Hollands Captaines which were in our Pinnasse seeing the heads were in no small feare of their owne After the rumor was appeased the King imbarked himselfe with our Generall and the Captaine of the Fort. The Dutch Marchants and Captain Middleton rowed a shore for Pledges but the King and our Generall came aboard our ship where they stayed the comming of the Dutch Admirall who comming aboard was brought downe to the King in the Generalls cabbin and they saluted one the other very friendly After some little pause the King said whereas at your first comming hither you sent me word your comming was not to harme mee nor any of my subiects but to expell the Portingalls your enimies out of the land and make the place open for trade for al nations and therfore you desired I should not take with them against you which I performed till such time I did see my mortall enimy the King of Tarnata ioyne with you so that I was inforced to arme my selfe against him who I know desireth nothing so much as the ouerthrowe and subuertion of my estate and therefore you haue iust cause not to blame me for arming my selfe and people against the inuasion of my mottall enimy And now seeing you haue the vpper hand of your enimies the Portingalles it resteth in your power to dispose of them as you shall thinke good Now you haue your desire of them I would know whether you will haue peace or ioyne with the King of Tarnata against me The Dutch Admiral answered his cōming was only to expel the Portingals which he thāked God was now in his power And for peace he said it was the thing he desired with al princes in those parts that he wold doe what in him did lie to make an agreement betweene the King of Tarnata him The King answered that he desired a good peace but it could hardly be for that any slight occasion was dayly cause of breach betweene thē Therfore he desired the Hollāders they wold take part with neither he doubted not he should haue as good as he brought The Admirall answered he would do what he could to make an agreement which if he could not bring to passe he promised the King taking our Generall to witnes that he would take part with neither of thē Which speeches greatly contented the King who excusing himselfe of not being well tooke leaue and went a shore After the King was gone came the Captaine of the Fort looking very heauilie as he had iust cause which the Dutch Admirall seeing tooke him by the hand bad him bee of good cheere telling him that it was the chance of war and that the fury being nowe gone he minded to deale friendly with him and all the Portingals Willing him to repaire aboard where he should be welcome and safely go and come The Captain gaue him thanks for
he had deliuered them from as for Clowes there was good store to bee had at Tarnata and Makean and for their parts they would not bee our hindrance for that they had nether wares nor money left So the Generall caused them to entreat the king to come into the ship who came in trembling which the General seeing thought hee was a colde and caused his man to fetch him a blacke damaske gowne layde with golde lace and lyned with vnshorne Veluet which the king put vpon his backe but neuer had the maners to surrender it againe but kept it as his owne the king being in the Generals Cabin desired him to goe with him to Tarnata where hee minded to haue a factorie but himselfe and his shippe would make no stay there but goe to Tydore to see what vsage hee should finde of the Portugals The king did what hee could to perswade him to the contrary but could not preuayle Heare the Generall deliuered a Letter from the KINGS MAIESTIE of ENGLAND with a fayre standing Cuppe and a couer double gilt with diuers of the choisest Pintadoes which hee kindly accepted of and presently had the Letter red and enterpered vnto him where-with hee made shewe to bee greatly contented Wee trimmed our Sailes by a winde and plyed to winde ward for Tarnata the Kings Carracole not daring to put from the shippe About foure of the clocke in the after-noone came the King of Tarnatas eldest sonne aboard in a light Frigat which rowed well hee greatly doubted the well-fare of his father and the king stood in doubt of his sonne At his comming to his father aboard our ship in the Generals cabin he kissed his fathers right foot he kissed his head the Generall had giuen warning to all his company that they should tell no newes of the Hollands fleet but before night it was tould the King and all the rest but by whome could neuer be learned From the twentie two to the twentie foure the King and all his crewe taried a bord of vs. the foure and twentieth day we came by the chiefe towne of Tarnata and saluted them with seauen peeces of ordinance the same after noone wee came to an anker in the rode which is in the Southest part of the Iland in fourteene fadomes sandy grownd the rode is from the towne two leagues and a halfe The twentie fiue day the king sent for his plate and vittells from the towne and feasted the Generall in his owne cabin there sat none of his nobles with him at table none sat but his sonne and the Generall the rest sat vpon the floore of the Cabin crosse legged like tailors after dinner the Generall desired him that he would take some order he might haue a house to establish a factorie for that he was minded to goe to the Portugals to see what he could do with them the King perswaded him earnestly not to meddle with them for he was sure there was nothing but villanie and trecherie with them The Generall sayd it was a folly to disswade him from it and therefore prayed him that he might haue a house according to his promise The King seeing in what earnestnes the Generall did speake vnto him sayd hee would presently depart to the town and cause a house to be prouided in a redinesse for his Marchants The twentie six before day our Generall was in a redines with such Marchants and Marchandizes as he minded to leaue at Tarnata went to the towne and an howre before day came thirther the King hearing a noyse of trumpets knew that our Generall was come and sent a small Prawe to our pinnes to will our Generall to come vnto him he was a board the admirall of the Caracoles he came into our pinnes and sat some halfe an howre there taking Tabacko and then came the Sabendor with light and brought the Generall to his house and the King to his Caracole Our Generall presently after his landing caused his men to land all our goods carrie thē to the house which was performed before day light then the Dutch Marchants enuited the Generall and Maister Browne to dine with them with whome they presently went to the Dutch-house where they shewed them what euery sort of commodities were worth in that place with proffers of any kindnes they could doe him As for the prices of our wares the Generall had made enquirie of the Gusorates which came aboard which did agree with the Dutchmen in rating of euery sort of them whereby he knewe that they did not dissemble Before it was dinner time there came a Messenger from the King to will the Dutch Marchants to come and speake with him and the Generall came home to our house where hee had not stayed halfe an houre but one of the Dutch Marchants came for him to come speake with the King So the Generall taking Master Browne and Iohn Addeyes one that had the language and my selfe with him went presently with them that were present where wee found the King in a large roome sitting in a chaire and all his chief Counsellars about him sitting vpon mattes on the ground before him the Dutch-Marchants sitting amonge them when the Generall came the King willed him to sit downe after hee was set the King caused the Letter brought by our Generall from the kinges Maiestie of England to bee openly read which being done the King acknowledged himselfe beholding vnto his Maiestie for so kinde a Letter and a present which he would endeuour to requite And for confermation thereof he gaue his subiects free leaue to trade with vs for cloues and likewise as one wishing vs all the good he could hee desired our Generall for his owne good that he would not haue any thing to doe with his enemies the King of Tidore and the Portugalles with whome he should finde nothing but treason and trecherie The Generall by his interpretor gaue him great thanks for his kindnes in giuing so free liberty to trade with his people and likewise for his good counsell to shun the trecherie of the Portugalls but for his part he doubted no trecherie at all should harme him for that he did mind to stand vpon such a gard as all the strength they had should not offend him and therefore desired his highnes to pardon him hee did not follow his counsell for that hee purposed withall speede to goe thither and to offer them peaceable trades which if they refused hee had the thing he desired then had he iust cause to bee at warres with them and if they would not accept of peaceable trade hee minded to ioyne with the Hollanders against them when GOD should send them thither This spech of the Generall contented the King and all there present so that they had no more to say but intreat him that he did not furnish them with any of our great ordinance and to take great care of their trechery and so the counsell broke vp The Generall
with Captaine Torris to dinner where there was no lacke of good cheere After dinner come the high priest to welcome our Generall willing him to haue no doubt of any bad dealing in that place vpon his soule hee would vndertake that there were not any in the towne that wished him or any of his company any harme with many other complements and so departed Captain Torris made offer to the Generall to be his chiefe Factor and to helpe his brother and M. Woodnoth in their busines each hauing more to doe then they could well turne them to and to say the trueth he was so carefull in their busines as if it had bin his own This day died of the flixe M. Mitten our cooke and of the flixe Thomas Halls The Tydoryans came not aboard to sell vs any thing the Generall doubted it was long of the Portingals who had put them in some needlesse feare The 6. day the Generall sent his brother to the king of Tydore with a present and to diuers of his principal men desiring his highnesse he would giue his subiects leaue to repaire aboard with cloues and fresh victualls and that there was no cause of feare why they should abstaine from so doing The King said they should haue leaue to bring vs refreshing a board But for the cloues his people had should bee brought to the English-house otherwise the quantity wee should buy would not be knowne whereby the King of Portingall might loose his custome and presently vppon the same the King made a Proclamation willing all his people to repaire to the English factory with such Cloues as they had The Captaine of the Fort proclaiming the like in his towne there came a flying report the Hollanders were in sight and vpon the same the King sent out a Caricole to sea but saw no shipping The 9. day the Generall sent his brother a shore againe vnto the King with a present to desire his highnesse to giue his subiects leaue to repaire aboard with their Cloues for that the Portingalls would not permit them to repaire to his house but would be serued themselues with the best wares and let his people haue but their leauings Whereupon the King promised they should come aboard which they afterwards did The 12. day came newes the Hollanders were in sight and out went the bloudy colours at the Fort. The 14 day being Sunday Captaine Torris the Kings factor and diuers other of the principal of the Portingals dined with the General This day the Captain of the Fort sent our Generall word that the Hollanders were off and on Bachan willing the Generall to cause his factors to get in his debts that were owing before their comming The 15. day the Generall sent his brother a shore to gather in such debts as were owing and likewise to buy Cloues if any came to the house to bee sold which he performed buying some small quantity for that most in the Iland were in our hands without it were some 80. Bahars which the Kings Factor had which he could not sell because they did belong vnto the Marchants of Malaea The captaine of the fort gaue commandement to al men to make present paiment which they honestly performed The Generall sent to Captaine Torris to know the cause hee sent him word we had bought all they had without it were those which were in the factors hands which could not be sold The 19. day we prepared for our departure from hence to go to Makeau The 20. day came a Portingall a board with a letter to our Generall from the Captaine of the fort the effect thereof I could not learne The King of Tarnatas two men which all this time of our being in this place had tarried aboard were very earnest with the Generall for their departure to the I le of Makeau where they made no doubt but to lade our ship with cloues They began to be merry to see vs in such readinesse to bee gone for they liued in no small feare of some treason to be attempted against vs by the Portingals and Tydorians in so much that all the time of our being here they were the best watchmen in our ship The Generall sent his brother to the King desiring his highnesse he would write his letter to the Gouernour of Taffasoa to sell him such cloues as they had there which he presently did This towne of Taffasoa is vpon Makeau and holds for the King of Tydore all the rest of the Iland is the Kings of Tarnata The 21. day being Sunday came the same Portingall that brought our Generall the letter the day before with commendations from his Captaine to the Generall to certifie him the Hollanders ships were in sight The Portingall taking his leaue about eleuen a clocke wee weighed with a smal fauourable gale of winde to go for Makeau As we passed by the Fort we saluted thē with 5. peeces they answering vs with 3. Likewise comming thwart the Kings towne we gaue them 5. peeces and were answered with 6. from the Galcons At this present we had sight of the Hollanders Capten Torris our Generals great friend comming a board presēted him with hens which be both scarse and deare and so tooke his leaue we keping on our course with little winde for Makeau passing bettwene Mottera Poulacaualya the Hollāders seing vs come rome vpon them were in good hope we had beene a Portingall that for feare was flying away Night being at hand they spread themselues that we could not passe them but one or other must needes see vs. About midnight we came amongst thē sounding our trompetes whereby they did know we were not Portingales The Admirall sent his shiper in his pinnasse aboord to know what newes which was certified them at full He departing they saluted vs with 3. peeces of ordinance we answred them with the like They told our Generall that they had taken Amboyna castell and left a garrison therein The 22. day we came to an anchor about seuen a clocke at night a little to the eastwards of the chiefe towne of Makeau the towne is called Mofficia in which towne the Viceroy for the King of Tarrata is resident this after noone came a cary cole aboard before we came to an anchor and told our General they would go about the I le and to all the townes to giue them warning to repaire to our shippe with their cloues before night They had compassed the Iland and came aboard vs againe The 23. day the Generall sent his brother with the two Tarnataes and the Kings letters and a present to the Gouernor The present hee receiued and caused the letter to be publikely read but for the cloues of that Iland he said they were not ripe but those fewe that were to be had the Generall should haue them the next day This day died of the flixe our Baker Griffith Powell The 24. day the Generall went a shore himselfe to the Gouernor to
was likewise indebted vnto thē Out ran our men with weapons but she was gone before they came or else if they had not made the more hast they had not carried them away so easily as they did The marriners were hired by one of those factors whose head the Generall so lately had saued for a Royall of 8. a man to do this braue exploit at their comming aboard They told the Generall how the Holland factors vsed thē which hee tooke very euill The 29. day the Generall went to the towne with 20. armed men some shot and some pikes and Halberts and at his cōming he sent word to the Dutch-house they should restore the cloues they had taken away They told our Generall that the party had bin in their debt these two yeares and they could not get him to any paiment that the King had made proclamation that no man that was indebted vnto the Hollanders should sell him any cloues yet neuerthelesse they would not be their owne iudges but would stand to the iudgement of the King when he should come the cloues to remaine in the Sabendors hāds till the matter was tried So the General was pacified threatning to giue the bastinado to the factor which was the cause but after that time he durst not passe by our dores This breach betwixt vs and the Hollanders caused the king to make the more haste for that hee doubted we wold go by the eares with thē hauing very few men in the towne he doubted the worst for that the Hollanders are not beloued of the countrye people the cause is their manyfold disorder in their their drunkennes against men but principally against the women The first of Iune about 1. of the clock at night came a Caracole frō Tydore rowing by our ship calling to the watch The Generall hearing it knew it was the King that spake and rose out off his bed saluted him by his name the King did the like to him asked him how he knew him in the darke The Generall by his interpretor said that he knew him by his voice which caused him to laugh And so spending some little time in talking he willed our Generall to meete him at the towne in the morning The Generall gaue him 5. peeces of Ordinance at his departure which he tooke very kindely They delight much to heare ordinance to go off at pleasure so that they be not at the cost When it was day the General went to the towne had not staied in his house halfe an houre but the king came spent al the forenoone with him The Generall was desirous to know of him whether he should leaue a factory or no. He answered he could not tell for that it was to be determined by a counsell which he had not leasure to cal as yet by reason of much businesse He said the Hollanders did threaten him to forsake his coūtry to establish a factory at Tydore if he did let the English tarry in the country and establish a factory They saying we were theeues robbers and so if he did trust vs he should finde vs saying that Holland was able to set out 20. ships for Englands one and that the King of Holland was stronger by sea then all Christiandome besides with many vntrueths of their owne people Countries commendations the disparagement of our people and country and of al other Christian princes If this frothy nation may haue the trade of the Indiās to thmselues which is the thing they hope for their pride insolencie wil be intollerable The Generall answered what Hollander so euer hee were that had told his highnesse so he lied like a traytor said he would iustifie it to their faces and for their country if the Queenes maiesty of England had not pittied their ruine in sending her forces to withstand the Spaniards their country had bin ouer-run they marked in the faces for traitors and slaues many yeares ago And therfore desired the King to inquire of a Spanish Renegado which was in the towne he would certifie him of the trueth Then the Generall demanded whether he should haue those Cloues which the Flemings had carried away by force Hee answered we should haue so many of thē as should paie the debt the Hollāders should haue the rest which was in the afternoone performed The king told our General that the morrow he must returne for Tidore where he must spēd 3. or 4. daies before he could returne In the meane time he gaue him leaue to buy sell with his people And at his returne he should haue an answer whether he should leaue a factory or no. The general intreating him whilest he tarried in the country hee would let him haue a house to lodge in where hee might be nere his businesse and not be forced euery night to go aboard The king promised he should and so tooke his leaue departed An houre after he sent his Sabendor to the Generall who brought him to a faire chāber the king sending him a faire gilded bedsted a Turkie carpet to lie vpō so after that the Generall was not enforced euery night to go aboard as before time he had done The 2. day about 8. a clocke at night came a light prawe of Tydore aboard with a letter to out Generall the effect was that the king of Tydore found himselfe agreeued with the Hollanders for taking part with the King of Tarnata against him that vpon his sending away of the Portingales they had shot into his towne demanding Taffasoa to be surrendred to procure his peace The General answered he thought he needed not feare the Hollāders for that their shipping would shortly be disposed of to other places that at any time for that towne if so it need he might make his peace With which answer they returned making a bold attēpt to either come or go the sea being full of their enimies The 5. day the King of Tarnata the Hollanders admirall came frō Tarnata to cōclude of our banishmēt The 6. day the king sent our Generall word that both hee and the Dutch admirall should come face to face before him his coūsell to heare what either could say against other The Generall sent the king word he had nothing to say against the Dutch vnlesse he withstood his leauing of a factory there which if he did he desired his highnes that they might meete face to face before him to heare what either could say the king sēt word it should be so The Dutch admiral came to our generalls chāber to visit him Our Generall asked whether he came to procure his banishment He answered he was bound to do the best he could for his aduēturers The Generall told him the king was minded the next day to know why we should not haue a factory in the country as wel as they He said he would chalenge the kings owne writing and promise The
7. day the Generall waited to be sent for to the King but seeing no body came he sent to know the reasō He sent word he was very busie that day and could not intend it till the morrow The Dutch admiral had conferēce with the King twise this day where belike he had what he desired for as soone as night came hee departed for Tydore The 8. day the King sent his secretary and one of the Dutch Marchants vnto him with a letter sealed with hard waxe which seale had two letters an H a B. which stood for Hance Beerepot with a Marchants marke betweene the letters This letter they deliuered and told him it was the Kings letter to the King of England The Generall would not beleeue the King would send so great a Prince as the King of England a letter with so little state and a Marchants seale vpon it They answered and if he doubted thereof they would cause the King to come and iustifie it The Generall said he would not otherwise beleeue it So they left the letter and departed Halfe an houre after came the King a great traine to our Generals chamber where saluting him kindely they sat downe vpon a trunck togither The King said I sent you a letter sealed by my secretary which you haue receiued making doubt it is not sent by mee to so great a king deliuered with so little state sealed with a marchāts seale Now you heard me say thus much I hope you are satisfied the letter is sent by me and none other therefore prepare your selfe to morrow to bee gone The General neither would nor durst deliuer it to the King of England willing him to take it againe He would not but departed The 9. Chichell Gegogoe the Kings vncle hearing how the Generall had bin vsed by the king the Hollanders came to visit him at his chāber where there passed much talke betweene thē concerning the foresaid counterfeit letter intended to haue bin sent to the disgrace of the Generall to the king of England Chichell Gegogoe assuring the Generall that if it lay in his power he wold procure of the king that they might leaue a factory there Moreouer that at his next returne to him he should know the cōtents of that base slanderous letter inuented by the Hollanders so he departed with promise to returne the next day The people of the coūtry vnderstāding the Hollanders had procured our banishment were much offended that the petty prince of Holland and his whom they esteemd but debaushed drūkards should be esteemed before the mighty King of England his subiects knowing we were commanded to depart brought all their commodities ro vs none to the Hollanders Whereat they finding themselues agreeued caused our beame that we weighed cloues with to be taken away but it was restored againe by the meanes of Chichell Gegogoe Which the Hollanders perceiuing they sent to their admiral at Tydore to returne to Tarnata which he did threatning the King that he would leaue him and establish a factory at Tydore Wherevpon the King with the vnwilling consent of his councell gaue order for our banishment sending the Sabendor to our Generall to will him to lingar no longer but to depart aboard The 16. day towards euening the king of Tarnata with a great company of his Nobles came downe from the towne landing right against our shippe and caused a tent to be set vp sending for our Generall to come a shore which he presently did The King caused him to sit downe by him excusing himselfe that we left not a factory there alleaging that the Hollanders inforst him to the contrary he and his subiects owing them much which he hoped to pay the next haruest that thē he would take an other order with them which being done he caused a letter to be read by his Secretary openly the contents whereof follow at the end of the booke Sealing it vp he deliuered it to the General intreating him to returne and he shold be welcome Who answered that it was in vaine for the English to returne thither so long as the Hollanders bare rule holding it a disparagement to his nation to giue place to them being so farre their inferiors This communication ended by the sodaine comming of a great many of lights and in the middest one of his chiefe Noble men vnder a Canopy carrying in a platter of gold couered with a couerture of cloth of gold the letter which was before so publikely read and the Generall looking earnestly not knowing what the matter was the King called vnto him willing him to arise and receiue the letter he sent to the King of England Which he presently doing the party which carried it made lowe obeisance after their country fashion and then deliuered it to the Generall which he kissing receiued and sat him downe againe by the King Giuing him thanks in doing our king himself that right in deliuering the letter in such sort as it ought to be The king answered this letter which you haue is vnsealed and written in the Malaya tongue to the intent at Bantam it might bee interpreted by some of your owne people which haue learned that language But the other was inuented by the Hollanders to haue done you iniury telling him in briefe the effect thereof excusing himselfe that hee had no good thing to send the King of England but onely a Bahar of Cloues which he hoped his Maiestie would accept in good part considering his contrey yeelds no other thing of worth Likewise hee bestowed vpon our Generall a Bahar of cloues and caused them presently to be carried to the Boate which done hee tooke his leaue and departed aboord his Caracole The 17. day the King of Tarn̄ata came roing about our ship and diuers of his women with him in a Caracole the Generall entreating him to come aboord but he would not Chichell Gegegoe came aboord this afternoone to our General certifying him that the contents of the Hollanders counterfeit Letter was that we had solde powder great ordinance and other munition to the Portugalls And more that to their great hurt in the fight we had assisted them with Gunners and that was the cause we left not a Factory there hoping the Generall would haue carried and deliuered it to his owne disgrace but he suspecting their slaunderous trecherie refused it The 18. day the King and his Vncle came aboord in a small Prawe because he would not haue the Hollanders which rid by vs to know of his being there for it was death to them to see him vse our Generall kindly their comming was to take leaue of our Generall he desired them to come downe to his Caben and made them a banquet whih they kindly did accept and spent most part of the day with him vrging our Generall to returne thither againe or at the leastwise to send and he or they should be welcome doe the Hollanders what they