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A33599	His Majesties propriety, and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies, and injuries, they have committed; and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas. As also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places. To which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Britain, and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours: by an experienced hand.	Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.; Clavell, Robert, d. 1711, attributed name.	1672 (1672)	Wing C4876B; ESTC R219456	66,598	191

though Enemies to one another should securely sayle to and fro as it were under the wings of an Arbitrator or Moderatour of the Sea and also freely should use the Sea according to such spaces and limits as they were pleased at first to appoint which without doubt is a clear Evidence of Dominion In this next place I shall cite some of the Publick Records which are kept in the Tower of London in which the Dominion of the Sea is expresly Asserted as belonging to the Kings of England We Read that Edward the Third in his Commissions given to Geoffery de Say Rot. Scotia 10. ●dvar● Governour or Commander of the Western and Southern Seas and to John de Norwich of the Northern expresseth himself in these following words We calling to mind that our Progenitors the Kings of England having before these times been Lords of the English Sea on every side yea and Defendors thereof against the Invasions of Enemies do strictly Require and Charge you by the Duty and Allegiance wherein you stand bound that you set forth to Sea with the Ships of the Ports and the other Ships that are ready and that you Arrest the other ships under our Command and that with all Diligence you make search after the Gallies and Ships of War that are abroad against Us and that stoutly and manfully you set upon them if they shall presume to bend their Course towards any part of our Dominions or the Coasts of Scotland c. Then followeth a Power to Press Seamen and other matters of that kind We read also in the Reign of the said King in the preferring of a certain Bill in Parliament which is the voice of the Estates of the Realm that he was usually accounted King or Sovereign of the Seas by all Nations The words in French are to this sence in English Rot. Parli 46. Edv. 3. The Nation of the English were ever in the Ages past Renowned for Sea-Affairs in all Countries near the Seas and they had also so numerous a Navy that the People of all Countries Esteemed and called the K. of Engl. the K. or Sovereign of the Sea Another Testimony to the same Effect we read in the Parliamentary Records of Henry the Fifth where the Tenour of the Bill runs after this manner The Commons do pray that seeing our Sovereign Lord the King and his Illustrious Progenitors have ever been Lords of the Sea Rot. Parli 8. Hen. 5. and now seeing through Gods Grace it is so come to pass that our Lord the King is Lord of the Shores on both sides of the Sea such a Tribute may be imposed upon all Strangers passing through the said Sea for the Benefit and Advantage of our said Lord the King as may seem agreeable to reason for the safegard of the said Sea The Answer subscribed to the said Bill was Soit a vise par le Roy which is Let the King Himself be advised of it For the King at that time Resided in France being Lord of that Country as well by Conquest as Inheritance And Humphrey Duke of Glocester was then President of the Parliament and Leivtenant of England by whom as the Kings Deputy that Answer was given to the said Bill but when the King was present in person Le Roy S' advisera the King will Advise was the Answer from the Antient down to our present times in such Bills as were to be passed into Acts Many other Testimonies in this Nature may be produced which for brevities sake are purposely omitted Neither hath the High Court of Parliament onely given this Attestation to our Kings as Supream and Sovereign of the Seas But to confirme it we shall produce the Testimonies of Robert Belknap Rich. 2. Fitz Herbert Tit. protection 46. an Eminent Judge in the Time of Richard the Second who affirmeth that the Sea is Subject to the King as a part of his Kingdom or of the Patrimony of the Crown And it appeareth by Publick Records containing diverse main points touching which the Judges of the Land were to be consulted for the good of the Common-Wealth that the Kings Sea-Dominion Edw. Cook part 5. fol. 108. in Com. ad Littleton Sect 439. fol. 260. which they called The Antient Superiority of the Sea was a matter out of Question amongst all Lawyers of that Age and Asserted by the Determinations and Customes of the Law of the Land and by the express words of the Writs and Forms of the Actions themselves Neither is this Truth confirmed only by our Laws but by our Medals There hath been a piece of Gold very often Coyned by our Kings called a Rose-Noble which was stamped on the one side of it with a Ship floting in the Sea and a King Armed with a Sword and Shield sitting in the Ship it self as in a Throne to set forth a Representation of the English K. by Sea The first Authour hereof was Edward the Third when he Guarded his own Seas with a Numerous Navy consisting of Eleven Hundred ships at which time as at others he marched victoriously through France But what need we labour to produce so many Testimonies at home from our Records in the Tower and other places from our High Courts of Parliament from our Laws from our Coyns from our Histories to prove this Truth since it is acknowledged even by Forreigners themselves whom it most concerneth by their usual striking of sayles according to the antient Custom by every ship of any Forreign Nation whatsoever if they sayle near the Kings Navy or any ship belonging to it at Sea which is done not onely in Honour to the English King but also in acknowledgement of His Sovereignty and Dominion at Seas The Antiquity of this Custome and that it hath been in use for above these Four Hundred years may appear by this following testimony At Hastings a Town scituate upon the Shore of Sussex it was Decreed by K. John in the Second Year of His Reign with the Assent of His Peers That if the Governour or Commander of the Kings Navy in His Naval Expeditions shall meet with any Ships whatsoever by Sea either Laden or Empty Mr. Commentar de Rebus Admiral fol. 28. that shall refuse to strike their sayles at the Command of the Kings Governour or Admiral or his Lievtenant but make resistance against any who belong unto his Fleet that then they are to be reputed Enemies and if they be taken their Ships and Goods to be Confiscated as the Goods of Enemies And that although the Masters or Owners of the Ships shall Alledge afterwards that the same Ships and Goods do belong to the Friends and Allies of our Lord the King yet the persons who shall be found in these Ships are to be punished with Imprisonment at discretion for their Rebellion It was accounted Treason saith Master Selden If any ship whatsoever had not acknowledged the Dominion of the King of England in His own Sea by striking

Iames himself for whereas the Duke of Lennox as Admiral of Scotland had by order from the Majesty of King Iames in the year One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixteen sent one Master Brown to demand of the Hollanders then fishing upon the Coasts of Scotland a certain antient Duty called Size Herring they began to contest with him about it and after a long Disputation they payed it as in former times it had been accustomed but not without some affronting terms that it was the last time it should be payed And it is most observable that the same Gentleman coming the year following with the same Authority and Commandment with one only Ship of His Majesties to demand the Duty aforesaid And with Order if he were denyed to take witness of the refusal in writing and so peaceably depart He came aboard one of their Ships and no sooner demanded the aforesaid Duty but by the Master of the Ship he was denyed it who as plainly as peremptorily told him That he was commanded by the States of Holland not to pay it unto the King of England any more of which he took witness according to his Order from His Majesty This taking of witness did so startle the Dutch that before Master Brown had got off to his own Ship the Master of another Ship of Holland came presently aboard that Ship in which he was who demanding of Master Brown his Name he replyed that his Name was Brown Why then quoth he if you be the Man I have Order to Arrest you and to carry you into Holland whereof Master Brown gave notice to the Master of the Kings Ship requiring him to advertise His Majesty of this Insolency and Master Brown was in this manner Arrested and carried away Prisoner into Holland where for a while he was detained I do read that much about the same time one Master Archibald Ranthin a Scotch Gentleman and residing at Stockholme in Sweden where he sollicited for the payment of some sums of monies due to the English Merchants there was at the same time in the same City one Vandyke who lying there as an Agent for the States of Holland Vide Observations concerning the Affairs of Holland said unto some Principal Persons of the Swedes that they need not be so hasty in paying any Monies to the Subjects of the King of England or to give them any high Respect because the said Kings promises were not to be believed nor his threatnings to be feared for which Vile and Insolent Speeches being afterwards challenged by Master Archibald Ranthin he had no better Excuse then to say he was drunk when he did speak those words for deny them he could not and by this means his Excuse of playing the Beast did excuse him for playing the Man Now from these Insolent Affronts by words let us proceed and come to what they have done by deeds where in the first place we may observe their rude demeanour to our English Nation in the Northern Seas on the Coasts of Greenland and those parts about the Fishing for Whales and the Commodity of Train Oyle where violently they have offered unpardonable abuses by giving of blows and chasing the English-men away and by procuring much loss and prejudice unto them their Pride of Heart was so high that it would not give their Reason leave to apprehend that Fishing at Sea is free for every Man where it is not upon the Coast of any Country unto which the Dominion of the Sea belongeth by antient Prerogative And yet all this is but inconsiderable in regard of their usage of our Nation in the East-Indies where in open Hostility they have as fiercely set upon them as if they had been most mortal Enemies having in several Encounters slain many of our Men and sunk sundry of our Ships And when they had taken our Men Prisoners they would use them in the sight of the Indians in such a Contemptible and Disdainfull manner as if at their own Home and in the Country of the Butter-Boxes the English in respect of them were but a sordid and a slavish Nation and the Hollanders were either their Superiours and might use them at their own pleasure or the English were so spiritless or so unpowerfull that they durst not be revenged but quietly must put up all the Affronts and Injuries which they received at their Hands And as for the Commodious Trade which the English have had in Muscovy for above these fourscore years and some other Countries that lye upon the East and North which the Hollanders have now gotten quite out of their Hands Their spoyling of our Trade in Muscovy and other Countries of the East to the great Grief and Prejudice of many Merchants in this City What shall we say seeing not long since they have been acting the same again with our English Merchants in Turkey And it is a practise so usual with them to spoyle the Trade of other Nations that when they cannot find any Occasion to do it they will show a Nature so wretchedly Barbarous that they will not stick to spoyle one another so great is their Covetous and most Insatiable desire of Gain And yet all this proceedeth out of an ignoble and a sordid spirit for let them arrive to what Wealth they will they can never be the Masters of a Noble and a Generous Disposition Had it not been for their Neighbouring Nation of the English they had never arrived to the liberty of a Free State yet so ungratefull have they been that they have endeavoured to forget all the Obligations of Humanity and have digged into the very Bowels of those who did preserve them Many Examples of this may be instanced I shall look a little back again on the cruelty of their proceedings in the East Indies before their studied malice at Amboyna and afterwards of their horrid Massacre at Amboyna it self As their Avarice was unsatisfied so their quarrels with the English were many Covetousness and Ambition not long enduring a Co-partner Queen Elizabeth being translated into a better World and the Hollanders to be the more ready to set the English at nought having by the Assistance of Sir Ralph Winwood got the Cautionary Towns into their own Possession they presently began to appear in their true Colours by adding Cruelty to Hypocrisie and Avarice to Insolence The English that were Trafficking in the East Indies being sensible thereof and finding no redress preferred their Just Complaints to the Majesty of King Iames on which ensued the first Treaty in the year One thousand six hundred and thirteen in the City of London and after that another Treaty in the year One thousand six hundred and fifteen at the Hague in Holland which taking up much time to little effect there was a third Treaty which was held in London in the year One thousand six hundred and nineteen touching the Differences between the English and Dutch in the East Indies in which a full and

former injuries forgotten to which purpose to give them a manifestation of their Respects they had transported them thither and provided what for the present could be had for their Refreshment The Poor Inhabitants being much surprized at this unusual manner of Respect having fed heartily and expressed their thankfulness prepared for their departure but the Dutch leading them to a window told them that they must walk to yonder Green and take their Farewell of them there for there their Executioners stood in a readiness to dispatch them whereat the poor Bandeneses being much amazed cryed out O Apetow which is in English O what is this Immediately they were hurried away to the place of Execution and by the Iapan Slaves the cruel Instruments of the Hollanders they were cut asunder in the middle alive and their divided Quarters were sent some of them to Lantore some of them to Polleroon and other Islands belonging unto Banda In the same year they put to Death the Chiefest of the Inhabitants of Polleroon amongst whom was the Chief Priest of that Island in whose side the Dutch having cut a hole they commanded that Gun-powder should be put into it which at that instant being set on fire by a new way of torment they deprived him of his life It is very observable that although these Inhabitants of Polleroon were under the English Protection yet their numbers being inconsiderable to the strength of the Dutch the English durst not contradict them So that these poor people were not only murdered before their faces but the English perceiving how Tyrannical withall the Dutch were and how incroaching upon them and what were their cruelties which they practised at Amboyna of which more in its due place in the year One thousand six hundred and twenty two The English abandoned the Banda Islands and the reason of it they abandoned the Banda Islands which the Dutch have ever since possessed and do still wrongfully and unjustly enjoy not permitting the Enlish to have any Commerce with them And in this place I shall not forget to give you the memorable account of the innumerable Shoales of Mackerell which was the Chiefest thing that supported those Islands they came always in their season in great Multitudes and if at any time they appeared not so numerous they were sure to have arrived within the limits of two or three dayes and in far greater abundance then usually before but after that the English had left those Islands they did forsake them also as places polluted with Blood and Avarice or as if they would come to no Coasts but where Humanity and Probity or at least where the English had their Residence Vide The Dutch Tyranny pag. 64. Much about the same time Captain Iourdan sayling from Bantham with two Ships the one called the Sampson the other the Hound to the great Islands of Burnew he discovered three or four Dutch Ships standing in for the same Port and being confident that they intended no good to him he gave order to prepare for the Encounter fully resolving to fight it out to the last Man rather then to yield himself to the unmerciful hands of his Insulting and Approaching Enemies the Dutch summoned the English to deliver the Ships upon fair Quarter but Captain Iourdan a well complexioned Man who had a great heart in a little body absolutely refused to yield upon any Condition whatsoever The Dutch pretending to be unwilling to shed blood called out to the English and told them that they knew very well that little Captain Iourdan was there and desired them to perswade him to Parley with them Captain Iourdan being informed of it refused to have any conference with them whereupon they desired that he would but show himself upon the Quarter Deck that by a fair complyance they might stop the effusion of blood which otherwise must come to pass Whereupon Captain Iourdan thinking that to speak with them could not much prejudice him did show himself on the Quarter Deck after the exchange of some few words told them that he knew the Justice of his Cause and the Injustice of Theirs and was resolved to fight it out The Hollander alledging that their strength was far greater then his and it was rather Desparateness then true Valour to fight upon such a Disadvantage it prevailed nothing at all with Captain Iourdan who told them he questioned not his own strength but was resolved to fight it out and to leave the success unto God The Dutch finding him intractable to their Demands did hold him still in Discourse until a Musquet Bullet from one of their ships laid him dead upon the Deck as he was in Parley with them At that very instant of time whether by Treachery or by Accident it is uncertain a part of our other English Ship called the Hound was blown up and many of our men mortally hurt the Amazement was so great that the English were inforced to yield to the mercy of their Enemies who having taken them did cause them to be laden with bolts and did not allow them so much favour as to the Heathen for they were permitted to walk up and down with a chain of Iron which is far more easie then to lye in bolts of Iron Thus may we observe what injury and wrong we have all along sustained by the Dutch who have got many of those Islands where now they have seated themselves by cruelty and blood-shed and by murthering the English and their Friends These indeed are sad Relations and though dismall in themselves they are but the Prologues to the Tragedy at Amboyna Amboyna is an Island lying near unto Seran fruitful of Cloves for the buying and gathering whereof the English Company had for their parts planted five Factories the Chiefest whereof was at the Town of Amboyna but the Hollanders who had already dispossessed them of their residence at Polleroon and at Lantore had a labouring desire to heave them out also at Amboyna and at Banda several complaints and discontents did every day arise which were transferred to Iaccatra in the Island of Iava Major to the Council of Defence of both Nations there residing who also not agreeing in points of difference did send them over into Europe to be decided by both Companies here or if they could not agree amongst themselves they should then be determined by the Kings Majesty and the Lords the States General according to the Article of the Treaty in the year One thousand six hundred and nineteen which although it was then Articled and Agreed upon by both Nations yet the Ambition and Avarice of the Dutch would not admit of so deliberate a course but with rash hands would of themselves cut their way to their own ends and use neither delay nor conscience where gain or profit did appear The English Factories at Amboyna began to be rich and were a great eye-sore unto them who could not indure that any should Trassick there but themselves