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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02933	To the right honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses assembled in Parliament. The answer of the East-India Company, to two printed papers of Mr. Samuel White, one entitled His case; the other, A true accompt of the passages at Mergen.	East India Company.; White, Samuel, ca. 1650-1689 His case.; White, Samuel, ca. 1650-1689 A true accompt of the passages at Mergen.	1688 (1688)	Wing E100J; ESTC R174835	5,509	4

To the Right Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses Assembled in Parliament The Answer of the East-India-Company to Two Printed Papers of Mr. Samuel White One Entituled His Case The other A True Accompt of the Passages at Mergen NOT to trouble the Honourable House with hard Reflections upon the Complainant or Rhetorical flourishes which prove nothing but his passion and want of solid grounds to support his Complaint or justifie himself We shall only exhibit to your Honours the plain proofs of Fact we have received from India which we presume will evince the Complainant not only to be a very ill man but a great Interloper and a great Enemy to this Kingdom in general and the premeditated contriver of the deaths of those English Men whom he and his Accomplices had first inveigled into the King of Syam's service and afterwards destroyed in a time of Truce by wicked Arts particularized in the annexed proofs when he observed they were resolved to return to their duty to His Majesty and the publick service of their own Countrey By the annexed proofs we think it will likewise appear how little distinction he made between the King of Syam's Estate and his own and how often he pleased to call Ships and their whole Ladings sometimes his own and sometimes the same Ships again the King of Syam's as would best serve his present designs and therefore he might as well say he acquired three times the Estate he claims as half of that he pretends to have had The annexed proofs we think do likewise detect his forgeing Commissions under the King of Syam's Ministers Seals to justifie his making War upon the Companies Allies Subjects of the King of Gulcondah by his own private Commission not only without the King of Syam's consent but expresly against his Order In which War so made by his private Commission several Towns were burnt many Men killed Ships and Vessels rifled taken and destroyed and amongst them divers of the Companies Subjects under His Majesty Inhabitants of their City of Madrasse some of whom he made Slaves and all this not onely to the dammage of the Company above 30000 pounds but to the great scandal and dishonour of the English Nation English Deserters being employed by him in those Lawless and Injurious attempts By the Dutch Laws in India who are a Nation as tenacious of their Liberty as any people upon Earth and by the Laws and practices of all other European Nations there a Deserter or Interloper is not only to be confiscated but to suffer death although the English Judicatures in India have never proceeded in such Cases further than according to their Charters to condemn such Interlopers Ships and Goods one half for the use of His Majesty and the other half to the Companies use And if they should not have power so to do the whole Trade of India would unavoidably fall to the Dutch and French as hath been made evident in many hearings at the Council-Table in the Two last Reigns as well as in more antient times and by several Treatises in Print As to the grounds of the War with the King of Syam occasioned by his Grand Visier or Chief Minister Constantine Phaulkon who was a poor Fellow formerly Stewards Mate of a small ship of the Companies We humbly conceive there will be no doubt made by considering Gentlemen but that the grounds of that War were not only just but very cogent considering His late Majesty King James mov'd by the necessity of the Case gave Commissions of War under the great Seal of England against the King of Syam and His Subjects notwithstanding Phaulkon had made a strong Confederacy between his Master and the French turned Papist himself and as the Company are informed sent his Son to be Educated a Papist in France made curious Presents of great value to the Pope the late King James and His Queen and also to the French King. But if your Honours think it proper to require further satisfaction touching the reasons of that War and the success of it the Company will be ready to present your Honours with a larger Narrative thereof That Phaulkon and his Creatures Mr. White Burnebey c. were kind to some of the Companies Servants at Madrasse and to the Captain of the Curtana especially who was at last made his own intirely contrary to his duty as appears evidently by the annexed proofs and in many other instances to particular persons the Company beleive may be true And it is one of the particulars that they did justly complain of to His late Majesty That Phaulkon by great Rewards as well as by great wages and kind inveigling Words did endeavour to indulge many of the Companies Servants Commanders and Seamen but all with a design of corrupting them from their Fidelity Duty and Service to the Company that he might in time become strong enough in European Seamen and Souldiers with the Aid of the French King English Interlopers and English and Dutch Fugitives to oppress first the English Company in India and at last the Dutch. But on the other hand such of the English as he found true to the Company and their common Countrey he used with the greatest contempt and barbarity imaginable as particularly Mr. Potts he caused to be beaten by Cofferies or Negroes which is in India understood accounted and intended to be a publick affront to the Nation of which any person so abused is a Member Mr. Strang Mr. Crouch and others which he could not draw to his Lure he used with the greatest unkindness Captain Lake in a strange manner he brought to his death of which a more particular account shall be given if it be required As to what was formerly Printed in any News Papers which is not pertinent to this Case the Company say in truth They never gave out any Paper or any Intelligence to the Secretaries of state but what were exactly according to their advices from India And if the first advices from such remote places prove not exactly correspondent to the Events and all the Circumstances of Fact They do not conceive themselves blameable for such mistakes of their advisers But they cannot by the later advices or the proofs annexed see any considerable Error in these first advices they received from India more than that a very few of the Companies Soldiers or Servants perished in that Massacre with the rest of their Countrey-men that had been formerly Interlopers or Deserters On the whole matter and in answer to all other Complaints of Interlopers The Company say they have done nothing but what they conceive they are warranted to do by their Charter and which they thought themselves bound in Conscience to perform to the utmost of their power for the publick good of this Kingdom and of Posterity which They have more zealously pursued than any proper Interest of their own or of the Adventurers well knowing that the Navigation of this Kingdom and indeed of all