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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46403	A justification of the directors of the Netherlands East-India Company as it was delivered over unto the high and mighty lords the States General of the United Provinces, the 22d of July, 1686 : upon the subject and complaint of Mr. Skelton, Envoy Extraordinary from the King of Great Brittain, touching the affair of Bantam, and other controversies at Macassar, and on the coast of Mallabar and at Gamron, in the Gulf of Persia : likewise a justification in answer to the several memorials lately given unto the States General by the Marquess of Albeville, touching Meslepatam and other places in the Indies / translated out of Dutch by a good friend for the satisfaction of all such as are impartial judges of the matters now in dispute between the two companies.	Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; Good friend.; Dam, Pieter van, 1621-1706.	1688 (1688)	Wing J1259; ESTC R12898	44,960	84

necessitated thereunto But besides what might be alledged to weaken this Assertion he confesseth That what he witnesseth thereof is not of his own Knowledg but that he believeth it to be True upon the Credit of Persons of Worth which of it self is enough to reject the same As also it is very observable what on this Subject the foresaid Sir Martin and others with him do declare to wit That the Contest was not to dispose the King to the Ejection of the English but to turn away the Wrath and Indignation of the King which because of their Assistance of his Father and the Rebels he had taken up against them and thereby to deliver them from the loss of all their Goods yea Life it self as out of Revenge he had determined against them Which also was so taken and acknowledged by the English Company at Bantam when by their Agent they returned thanks unto the Ministers of the Netherlandish Company for their Protection But suppose the King had not been so incensed against them as hath been said and that he had not had design at all to be avenged on them yet the meer consideration of his Security might have moved him to their Ejection as being assured they assisted his Rebels and in apprehension that they as well versed in Warlike Affairs might from England or elsewhere re-enforce themselves with Ships and Soldiers besides the perillous Neighbourhood of their Warehouse to his Castle his Father lying round about Bantam with his Army and keeping it yet for some Months besieged and he as yet by his Auxiliary Forces having only the Sea open might if he were not very circumspect be again suddenly assaulted or at least the English remaining in Bantam by spying all opportunities make Discoveries to the Enemies so as in the way of Providence it was requisite for him to do what he did If the Letters brought in the Process be reviewed it will appear whether it be true as is imputed to them that they of their own motion did send Succours to the said King yea so as thereby if their most injurious Aspersion were true to get him into their Clutches or on the contrary that it was done at the Great and Instant Entreaties of the Young King after that all ways of Reconciliation had in vain been attempted But forasmuch as this Assistance and Succour is thus aversly and after so odious a manner declaimed it will be necessary to relate the same somewhat more fully and more clearly to discover the occasion and progress thereof After the Rulers of Batavia had ripely consulted about the constitution of the Affairs of the Young King they thought meet as also hath before been specified to proffer their Service of Mediation between the Father and the Son To which end they wrote two Letters in civil and obliging Terms testifying their Purpose and Affection in a way of Friendship to accommodate and lay by their questions and differences and with that Intention sent their Plenipotentiaries with Letters the one to the Father and the other to the Son in a Ship prepared to that End after that some days before by way of advance they had also sent three other Ships But considering those Plenipotentiaries went unto a place where the Parties on both sides were in Arms and not being certain whether they might meet with Friends or Enemies they therefore judged themselves obliged to put them into a posture of Defence furnishing them with Weapons in case of necessity to make Resistance to such as forgetting the Right of Nations especially in that confused State of things and the respect that ought to be given to Publick Persons might possibly attempt to lay hold on and injure them And this is that Fleet of Ships and Barks which in these and other of their Writings they so much enhaunce and make a stir about as sent to Bantam to land our Troops there Our foresaid Plenipotentiaries having waited some time for an Answer from the Old King received none And not knowing what properly the Intention of these men might be as to them sent a good Troop of men to inform themselves more exactly of the State of things But being a little advanced they met some Europeans who by an English Man enquired of them wherefore they came to intermeddle with the differences of the two Kings Whereupon being answered That they came as Friends to procure a Peace between the Father and the Son they soon perceived the Design they had formed against them For forthwith they saw a Great Troop of Men gathered together making ready some Fireships and other Vessels fitted for War making a shew as if they would fall foul with us who verily were too few in Number to have thoughts to attempt any thing against so powerful an Enemy who seemed to come against them which also they did and came to the Deed it self shooting at us and with their Canons which were managed by the English they much endamaged our Ships whereby they perceived that they not only did not accept of our Mediation but also that they treated us as Enemies Upon which they of Batavia soon resolved by force of Arms to deliver the young King out of this Misery and the brink of Death and to this end to send a sufficient power of Ships and Men to his Assistance which also had that Success as before is mentioned The Assistance which the English gave to the Old King whereby the Displeasure and Wrath of the Young King was so kindled against them even to their Ejection out of his Country is so notoriously known to the World that besides the Proofs which the Netherlandish Company have already alledged they yet further could bring hundreds of convincing Testimonies but let only the Letters of the Young King which he sent from his besieged Castle to them of Batavia be produced and you shall hear him complaining in these formal Words What Reason hath the English Captain to help to shoot at me without once laying to heart that he is Resident in my Land and Sea This is yet worse that Mr. Bowyer one of the English Merchants at Bantam causes my House to be shot at not once thinking that I desired the King of England that he might be Captain in the English Lodge I request of Capitain Moor Speelman that he will warn the English not to come on Shore to shoot at my House and assist mine Enemy also with Powder forasmuch as he hath his Residence in my Land but not in the Land of Sultan Agon the Old King As also to perswade them not to follow mine Enemy seeing they drink my Water and dwell in my Land and that they close no more with Sultan Agon if Captain Moor have Love for me let him be pleased forcibly to insinuate this unto the English that above all things they shoot not at my House nor betake themselves to Land. The which also in a following Letter to the Major St. Martin he further confirmed Beside