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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03477	An answere to the Hollanders declaration, concerning the occurrents of the East-India. The first part. Written by certaine marriners, lately returned from thence into England	Churchman, Bartholomew.	1622 (1622)	STC 13599; ESTC S104145	14,007	33

man the Maister whom your Commaunders doe suffer to be their Commander rather then their inferiour If you consider all his actions the refreshing which wee haue bought hath beene but small that is to say foure small hennes and cockes and euen them hath the Maister taken away and eaten them in the great Cabbin which dealing of his if it bee Christian-like we refer it to your owne discretion and now at last for a smal cause or nothing at all to be thus handled is a ten times worse affliction then euer was inflicted vpon vs for to chaine vs vp like so many dogs and to let vs lie in the raine and stormes of the night without any shelter which is also brought to passe by the Maister For Commander we considering your gentlenes so that you can dispense with rigor Therefore that miserie that we endure is not by your meanes but by the masters and theirs that be of his mind and this is of a truth that euen your hogges after their kind lie a nights drier then we after our kind being Christians and our griefe is the more because your men of the blacke Lyon being taken by our English were vsed like men and we like abiects of the world to be thus vsed like dogges being subiects to the Kings Maiestie of England and in good respect with our imployers But God that is aboue all knowes all and in his good time will remedy all Thus much we haue thought good to certifie vnto you not in the way of intreaty for that we see is vaine but onely that you may know we now neuer looke to come aliue out of your hands for by all manifest appearance you seeke to take euen our liues from vs and this shall bee a true argument of our grieued hearts witnessing to all men how vnchristianlike wee haue bin and are vsed by you for in all this wee haue not expressed the tenth part of your cruelty yet we hope that for this time it shall be a sufficient light vnto you for that which hath bin from time to time practised by you against the English Giuen at the Iland of Monaboca the 19. of March 1618. Subscribed by Cassarian Dauid Bartholomew Churchman George Pettys Vpon the receipt of this letter wee three aforenamed were layed in Irons for eighteene moneths following with such barbarous vsage as is not to be imagined to be vsed amongst Christians Vpon the newes of the taking of our two ships called the Sampson and the Hound in Patania Roade Hendericke Iohnson the Commander of three ships viz. the Angell the Morning Starre and the Burger-Boate sent a letter by the vpper Steresman of the Starre who had but one arme to their Generall Iohn Peeter Sacone then at Iacotra of the taking of our two ships He the said Sacone then said you haue now Henricke Iohnson giuen me good satisfaction in that Captaine Iordan is dead at his returne thither gratified him with 1400. Gilders in a chaine of gold putting it himself about his necke not leauing any one vnrewarded that had beene at the taking of our two ships and a 100. peeces of eight to him that shot him notwithstāding our flag of truce was hung out We affirme also that the sayd Generall Iohn Peeter Sacone vpon the newes brought him by a ship called the Hart from the coast of Carmandele of the death of Sir Thomas Dale then said Dale is dead and Iordans blood I haue if I had George Cockins life too I were then satisfied An answer to obiections made by the Hollanders that the English were the cause of the first breach in the East Indies Whereas the Hollanders affirme that Sir Thomas Dale and Captaine Iordane were the prime cause of all the differences betwixt the two Companies This we affirme and can proue that both Sir Thomas Dale and Captaine Iordane were both in England when the Defence and the Swan were taken and also that very inhumanely they tooke the Defence when for reliefe being put from their Anchor at Polorone in a storme they came into one of their harbors for succor They tooke the ship and detemed her men prisoners likewise in rescue wee following they tooke a Pinnice of ours called the Speed-Well going to Iacatra one of our men they slew and the rest they layd in Irons as prisoners amongst which one Richard Tayler Carpenter of the sayde Pinnice who at that time had the bloody fluxe who dying in their hands in Irons they tooke the dead carkasse of the said deceased and put him into a bush with his head downeward and his heeles vpward and sayd in most barbarous manner that there was a stert man that is a man with a taile with his heeles vpward and there his carkasse rotted in the bush 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is to be proued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then comming out of England hardly cleare of the Coast when they tooke both these ships vpon faire termes of Composition namely with promise to giue vs our liues goods and libertie They robbed vs of all our goods and kept vs in lamentable manner in Irons some of vs three yeeres some more some lesse in which wofull miserie many of our Company 〈◊〉 their daies lamentably for in truth they neuer kept any faith oath or promise with vs at all but most proudly disdainfully and cruelly demeaned themselues towards vs. Bartholomew Churchman 1619. Iaparre the cruelty there 1619. Aombonias crueltie * A sop for Cerberus 1616. Feb. 2. 1617. 〈…〉