owed Her And advised them for the future that they should not seek a remedy against growing danger from old acounts by compulsion but rather merit new favours by their gratitude and thanks for the former At these expressions of Her Majesty the poor distressed States thought themselves confounded both for their former and future charges Yet considering the name of Alliance with England was of exceeding advantage unto them they resolv'd to submit as they could not avoid it to such Conditions as Her Majesty should lay upon them The Queen again press'd them for the payment of Her Mony and for Peace but She could not incline them to peace being never disposed to pay Her Money which must be at the end of the War Yet in complyance with Her Majesty the Account was stated And the principal Debt besides Interest upon Interest and the loss of Her Subjects in their Wars did amount unto 8000000 Crowns and they did agree to pay Her Majesty during the War 100000 Pounds yearly and the remainder when peace was concluded and the Cautionary Towns surrendred and that in the mean time 1500 English Souldiers should remain in the Garrisons and that the States should pay them The Queen having Her Debts stated began to be more friendly to them and wished them to follow their Trade of fishing upon the British Seas which She gave them leave to do that they might be the better able to pay Her and support the charges of their War which they did effectually But I could never find that they ever paid unto Her Majesty any of the money they owed Her For it 's not to be conceived that those persons whom Her Majesty for so many years could not bring to an account would at the last pay Her any thing But Her Majesty being grown into years and those vigorous and great parts She formerly had somewhat declining they that the Queen might not exact of them the payment of Her money according to Agreement with Her continually by Emissaries which they had about Her Majesty and their Pensioners did infuse Jealousies into Her Head and what Plots and secret designs the Cing of Spain had against Her Majesty and Her Dominions which did so amuse Her that I do not observe Her Majesty ever pressed them after for the payment of any money But from time to time She supplied them with men as they desired and ever made good to them her own Motto Semper eadem And as Her assistance to them was the first so it continued to the last that is until April 3. 1603. at which time She died having lost not fewer than 100000 of Her Subjects in that War And having spent in Naval expeditions for their sakes against the King of Spain in America and elsewhere above a Million of money besides the Debt which the States owed Her King James being proclaimed King and the undoubted Heir and Successor to the Queen The States sent their Ambassadors to the King and after some Complements to Him they signifie to His Majesty That they had lost Her whose Goodness and Benefits to them were not to be expressed in words But they had found His Majesty as the Heir of Her Kingdom so the Imitator of Her Vertues and persuaded Him to a War with Spain and begged supplies of Him But King James being a wise Prince and not to be taken with their arts and cunning told them that He had no difference with the Spaniard and also that King Philip had voluntarily offer'd Him His assistance if any dispute should have arisen concerning His Kingdoms And for the Arch-Duke he made War with the Queen not with the Realm This highly discompos'd the States But King James treated withe Spaniards and concluded a League with them And the States such kindness had His Majesty for them were offered by King James to be comprehended in the Articles of the Treaty but they refus'd yet by the mediation of King James a Peace was propounded to the States from the King of Spain But they signified unto His Majesty that they would not treat with the King of Spain till they were declared by him Free States abstracted from all right and title unto any of the Provinces or Places by them possessed which He might pretend unto All which by the great endeavours of King James were granted unto them by the King of Spain And so Anno 1609. a Peace was concluded between the King of Spain and them The Provinces in the possession of the States at the time of the conclusion of the Peace were Holland Zealand West-Friesland Overyssell Groningland Vtrecht Zutphen three parts of Gelderland and so some frontier Towns and Place of contribution in Brabant and Flanders All which Provinces with their frontier Towns in Brabant and Flanders are not so big as York-shire one of our Counties in England And there may be a greater number of stout and gallant men for War raised out of that one County than they can raise out of all their Provinces Being now declared Free States and Peace concluded with the King of Spain yet for their own security they were enforced to maintain an Army in their Country The charge whereof could not amount to less than six hundred thousand Pounds yearly besides other vast expences as the preservation of their Dikes c. All or the greatest part thereof they raised out of the Fishing of the British Sear or on the people by Excise and taxes upon every Acre of Ground Which is such that the whole Country returns into their hands every third year and by other Impositions so insupportable in themselves and amongst men which would be thought to live in a Free State that should any Prince in Christendom lay but half so much upon their Subjects it would occasion a Revolt So that whereas one of the first causes of their falling off from their Prince was to free themselves from Taxes and Impositions illegally as they â—aid enforced upon them they have drawn upon themselves more arbitrary and illegal Payments than any Nation in the world So true it is that a Rebellion once suppressed the King is more King and the Subjects more subject But if it thrives and happen to be prosperum seelus and to advance it self to a Free State as they call it Tyranny and Oppression are the two Pillars which must support it The States being now absolute and having obtain'd a Sovereign Dommion only the Cautionary Towns stook in their Stomachs and might prove a curb to them But being unwilling to move the King concerning them by the great sums of money they then owed Him and being not well able to pay Him they would by some projection or other endeavour to gain them Thereupon they resolv'd as the best expedient not to pay the English Soldiers in the Cautionary Towns who being thereby put to distress and want would be enforced to borrow some monies for their present support
to themselves This unfortunate Nation being thus in Combustion and all befry'd the Hogan Mogans with joy as an ingenious man observed did warm their hands at those unhappy flames which they themselves had kindled tuning their merry Harps when others were weeping over a Kingdoms Funeral In England there being nothing but Confusion and Ruine nothing to be seen but the Convulsions of a dying State His now Sacred Majesty for his own safety and security withdrew Himself out of England and resolved to live for some time in his Solitudes in the Belgick Provinces But the States were so far from affording Him any comfort as a distressed Prince or yielding Him any kindness as their best Friend and greatest Patron that if his Majesty had not had timely notice of it it is credibly said that he had been delivered up in their Territories as a Sacrifice to the fury of his cruellest Enemy His Majesty Anno 1660. being restored to his Kingdoms forgetting all their former Unkindnesses and Ingratitudes his care was to conclude a strict League with the said States But no sooner was it concluded but they return to their usual practise of breaking of Articles who expect an exact observance of them from others but perform none themselves Thereupon his Majesty 1664. was stirred up by the Complaints of his people and the Unanimous Votes of both Houses of Parliament to defend the Rights of his Crown and the Liberties of his People which the States had most notoriously invaded yet his Majesty to prevent the effusion of bloud as Tyrants shed bloud for pleasure Kings for necessity spent the whole Summer in Negotiations to bring them to reason but all his endeavours proved ineffectual Thereupon Anno 1665 ensued the War and continued to the year 1667. Wherein his Majesty obtained so many signal Victories that by their humble Supplications and Addresses to his Majesty for Peace he was induced to a Treaty And his Majesty having the Garranty of the most Christian King and of the said States that no Act of Hostility during the said Treaty should be attempted by them against his Majesty or any of his Dominions thereupon his Majesty did forbear to Equip his Fleet. Yet the said States contrary to their Faith during the said Treaty with their Fleet though not half mann'd or Victuall'd for any time most treacherously invaded his Majesties Dominions burnt and committed Destruction upon several Ships of his Majesties Navy Royal in his own Ports and Harbour Whereas if his Majesty had set forth his Fleet they had not been able to have put to Sea that year for want of Mariners and other discouragements upon them having received so many memorable defeats by the Valour and Courage of his subjects No sooner was there a Peace concluded but every Article was broken by them And no wonder for it 's a Maxime of their State That all Alliance as to them is inconsiderable the foundation of their Greatness and Safety consists in their own Power and Strength Therefore to keep any Article is of no consideration to them Now they invade his Majesties Fishing upon the British Seas without his Royal License they refuse to strike Sail and dispute his Sovereignty of the British Seas Affronts so high and Indignities so transcendent that no King or Potentate except these men did ever so much as question any of them It doth appear by the Records in the Tower and the Municipal Laws of this Nation that the Kings of England have had ever from the time of the Romans an absolute and uninterrupted Right and exclusive Property in the Sovereignty of the British Seas in the Passages and Fishing thereof and hath power to make Laws and exercise Supreme Jurisdiction over all Persons and in all cases within or upon the said Seas as 't was agreed 26 E. 1. by the Agents and Embassadors of Genoa Catoloigna Spain Almaine Zealand Holland Friesland Denmark Norway and divers other places in the Empire And by all the States and Princes of Europe in a case then in question between the King of England and his most Christian Majesty concerning Rayner Grimbold his Admiral exercising some Jurisdiction upon the British Seas See the Records in the Tower 26 E. 1. de Superioritate Maris Anglici The Laws of Olleron which after the Rhodian Laws were antiquated have now near five hundred years been received by all the Christian World for regulating Sea-Affairs and deciding of Maritine Controversies were first declared by King R. 1. at his return from the Holy Land and by him caused to be published in the Isle of Olleron as belonging to the Dutchy of Aquitane If the Subjects of any King or Prince have a Right to Fish in the British Seas I do desire to be satisfied What should be the reason that all Neighbour Princes have by Treaty obtained license from the Kings of England for their Subjects to Fish in those Seas and have paid Tribute as it doth appear by the Licences granted by H. 4. unto the French By H. 6. unto the Dutchess of Burgundy To those of Brabant and Flanders by E. 4. To Francis Duke of Britain for his Subjects Philip II. King of Spain in the first year of Queen Mary obtained a Licence for his Subjects to fish upon the North Coasts of Ireland for the term of one and twenty years paying yearly for the same 1000 l. which was accordingly paid into the Exchequer of Ireland And the Presidents in R. 1. King John E. 3. and other Kings are almost infinite And if any King or Prince could pretend to any right certainly His Most Christian Majestic hath as good a pretence as any But that King by the special Licence of the Kings of England and not otherwise hath fish'd upon the British Coasts with a set and limited number of Boats And that for his own Family and being likewise to observe the Laws and Orders of his own Fishermen For breach whereof divers of his Subjects have been taken and imprisoned in Dover Castle and elswhere as doth appear by many presidents in time of E. 3. H. 4. H. 7. c. in the Tower Neither is this singular in the King of England only for in Russia many Leagues from the Main Fishermen do pay for their fishing great Taxes to the Emperor of Russia And in most places other Nations are prohibited to fish The King of Denmark doth the like and taketh great Tribute both at Wardhouse and the Sound And the like he doth now for Norway All the bordering Princes of Italy do the like within the Mediterranean Seas The States do take an Imposition upon fish which is taken upon the British Seas and within the Streams and Dominions of other Princes The Hollanders do allow the tenth Fish both in Russia Lappia and other places or pay a Composition for the same And do also pay a Tribute in the Sound for passage to fetch the said Fish But I shall not give my self
not made greater distempers and confusions and caused more effusion of blood aud expence of Treasure in Europe than the Great Turk hath done for these 500 years And as they are more powerful by Sea so they are much more dangerous in their practise For the Turk is a Prince who with all Potentates doth exactly observe his Leagues and keeps his Faith But it 's an Apophthegm in their State that its for Kings and Merchants to keep their word and Faith But for States no longer then it's subservient to their Interest And how exactly they make this good in their actions I appeal to all the Kings and Princes of Europe if ever they kept one Article or their Faith in any thing where it was their interest to break it Certainly these men live as if great Sins would merit Heaven by an Antiperistasis And it s very well becoming the gravest Judgements to consider if these men may not prove in a short time a greater Terror and Plague to Christendom than the Turk Himself Insomuch as his Arms are at a great distance and only Land-forces but these men are seated in the Centre of Europe and being so Potent at Sea and rich in Treasure may cast an Army and with that blood and confusion into any Princes Dominion whom they please to disquiet especially being first reduced to poverty which they labour to effect in all their Territories by obstructing of Trade And they can more speedily and powerfully offend any Kingdom by Sea in one month than the most puissant Army is able to to march through in a year Well It 's time to reduce these men to Justice and Reason Prudence teacheth us to set limits to that Power which deservedly may be suspected For as they grow in Puissance and strength so the more formidable they will render themselves to all Kings and Princes From one great King they have taken so much blood that he is fallen into a deep Consumption And it 's adjudged by some wise Physicians of State that he will hardly recover Did they not lately break the heart of one Potent King and almost the back of another Do they not privately engage Prince against Prince and by that means bring misery and calamity to them both and out of their ruine create riches and plenty themselves Do they not undermine the Trade of all Europe and send nothing but poverty misery and complaints into all Princes Dominions How dangerous and fatal their Greatness will in few years prove to all the Kings and Princes of Europe and to their Subjects if not timely prevented a weak Statist 〈…〉 without the help of Galileo s Prospective-glass may easily see Yet there are a People in the World which contribute their assistance to them but let them be assured that if these States by their Arts shall extricate themselves from the destruction and calamity which now threaten them they must for all their friendly assistance expect nothing but Polyphemus courtesie to be the last that shall be swallowed up This is too evident by their Ingratitude and Insolencies to the Kings of Great Britain and to the English Nation Nothing can give a check to their growing Power but the Naval Forces of the King of Great Britain whose Situation Ports Strength of Shipping Courage of People and Experince in Sea-Fights have always made him very formidable And that Henry the eighth understood so well that he assumed to himself that Motto Cui adhaereo Praeest This Naval Power of the King of Great Britain is the security and safety of Europe For if that were broken they would look upon all the other as inconsiderable because they are so far separate that they might be destroyed before they could unite and in case they did the issue would be very doubtful Then they would sacrifice one Prince after another and bring nothing but confusion poverty and misery to Prince and People And whether this be not more than conjectural look into their practices in the East-Indies Observe their Arts and Methods by which they have reduced so many great Kings with their Subjects Vassals and Slaves to their vast Ambition I have done Yet I cannot but drop a few Tears for some honest People amongst them who must be inwrapt in the Punishment though innocent as to the Guilt Now the most formidable and Potent Kings in Christendom are drawing their Forces against them All their Trade is gone by Sea nothing but horror and confusion in their Land none of their Allyes durst appear for them A mournful Tragedy Methinks like wise Patriots they should seise upon their States whom they may thank for all their calamities and miseries and yield them up to Justice set up their Prince whose Ancestors have spent so much Blood and Treasure to Vindicate their Rights and Liberties and not to serve their ends of him as all wise men think the States do at this juncture of affairs for its an Adage amongst them that Leo vinciri liber pernegat And the States do as certainly hate a Prince as a Prince doth a Free-State Discite Justitium moniti c. FINIS The Belgick Provinces Duke Alva is sent into the Belgick Provinces The Bloet-rod setled in the Provinces The Government of the Provinces alter'd Five thousand Families leave the Provinces Holland and Zeland for the Prince of Orange They declare Philip of Spain to be fallen from his Government The Duke of Parma provails much Queen Elizabeth takes the Hollanders into her protection Articles concluded between Queen Elizabeth and the States Queen Elizabeth sendsover to the States 5000 Foot and 1000 Horse The Christian Religion was first planted in Holland Zealand and Friesland by an Englishman The Staple of English Cloth removed to Delf Queen Elizabeth gives leave to the Hollanders to fish in our British Seas The King of Denmark seizes 7 0 Ships of the Hollanders Now they triumph giving out their Meddals with this inscription What we are we are by Gods Grace and Queen Elizabeth Ostend defended by the English 3 years 3 months The Spaniards lost 100000 men before Ostend Breda recovered by the English Queen Elizabeth maintained 40000 horse and foot for the Hollanders Q Eliz. infests the King of Spain in America The distressed States petition the Queen not to desert them The States send Ambassadors to Q Elizabeth The Queen di pleas'd with the S ates Alliance with Q Elizabeth was of great advantage to the States Q. Elizabeth councelled and inclined the States to peace The States owed Q. Elizab two millions of pounds Q Eliz. died April 3. 1603. She lost 100000 men in the States service King James proclaimed King King James refuses to assist the States A League concluded between King James and the Spaniard The States refuse to treat with the Spaniard except they be declared by him free-Free-States Peace concluded between the Spaniard and the States The Provinces of the States The Charges the States are at to maintain their Coâ—tries The projection of the States to get the Cautionary Towns from King James Cautionary Towns delivered to the States The Treasure and men which the Spaniard spent in the Wars The States declare themselves High Mighty States The States paying a Tribute Fish in the British Sas. The number of ships the States imploy in the Fishing Trade The riches the States gain by their fishing upon the British Seas A League between King James and the States for advance of Trade in America The Massacre of the English at Amboyna The States seise the Factories of the English at Amboyna A Prophesie of King James The States seise upon all the Islands and Plantations of the English in America The States drain 400000l. yearly for Spices out of the Kings Dominion The riches the States gain'd by seising of the English Factories The stock of the East India Company of England lost Poloroon delivered by the Natives to King James Poloroon seised by the States from the English The cruelty of States against the Natives in Polloroon The States 〈…〉 themselves the sale Trade and Dominion of the East Indies And to speak freely prosperous villanies are Cardinal Virtues in the States Ethicks The States suffer no ships to pass the Streights of Mallaca Two ships of the English seised and confiscated by the States Bon Esperanza a s ip of the English seised by the States The Dragon and Katherine two English ships seised by the States and confiscated Anno 162â— The Factories of the English in Sumatia seised by the States The Factories of the English in Siain seised by the States The States make War against the King of Bantam for his love to the English The States have the sole command of the North Seas The stile of the States in the Indies The States exclude the Subjects of the Princes of Europe to Trade in the East-Indies The great losâ—es which the King of England and his Subjects have sustained in India by the Vsuâ—pation of the States The Inâ—â—lencies of the States to the King of England in Europe The States fight the Spanish Armado upon the British Seas against the King of Englands Command Difference betwixt the King of England and his Parliament and how advanced by the States The States afford no kindness to his now Majest 〈…〉 being in their Provinces The States make Addresses to the King of Great Britain for Peace The States burn his Majesties Ships The Sovereignty of the British Seas in the King and the Fishing Licenses granted to Neighbour Princes for their Subjects to fish paying tribute The Subjects of other Princes pay for their liberty of fishing All passing upon the â—ritish Seas ought to strike sail Licences of safe Conduct granted by the King of Great Britain The Soveraignty of the Sea ought to be preserved The Hollanders supplant Trade The States have scandalized His Majesty by Libels The States make addresses to some of the Scotish Nation to rebel The States have made more disturbance in Europe than the Turk these 50â— years The States will prove a greater plague to Christendom than the Turk King of Spain King of Sweden King of Denmark The Naval power of England is the security of Europe
of the States of Zealand which they did who therewith advised the States General at the Hague they consulting with Sir Ralph Winwood Embassador for His Majesty there who was a favourable Instrument to them in this Business sent Instructions to the Lord Caroon then their Ambassador in England to acquaint the Lord Treasurer herewith And in case of no satisfaction from him to make his Adresses to the King which he did His Majesty being much incensed that His Subjects and Souldiers should starve for want of their Pay in foreign parts sent for the Lord Treasurer who drawing His Majesty aside and telling Him how empty His Exchequer was His Majesty told their Ambassador that if his Masters would pay Him His Money they owed Him He would deliver up those Towns The next day their Ambassadour waiting upon the King to know whether His Majesty persisted in the same Resolution His Majesty answered That He knew the States of Holland to be His good Friends and Confederates bot in point of Religion and Policy therefore He apprehended not the least fear of any difference that should fall out between them In contemplation whereof if they would have their Towns again He would willingy surrender them The States hereupon made up the money presently and sent it to the King And so Anno 1616. the cautionary Towns were delivered unto them The King such was his Royal Bounty unto them remitted the Interest and five pounds for every Gentleman and Officer which died in their service Which Sum certainly would have amounted unto treble the Principal The King of Spain having spent in those Wars one hundred and fifty millions of Crowns and wasted 600000 men and was plung'd so deeply in debt notwithstanding his Mines of Mexico and Peru that having taken up money in all the chief Banks of Christendom He was forced to publish a Diploma wherein he dispenc'd with himself as the Holland Stories report from payment alledging that he had imployed these monies for the publick Peace of Christendom What Sum the King received of them it is not comporting with the duty of a Subject to question or dispute Yet we may observe the treacherous and unhandsom practice of the States to suggest such notoriour untruths to His Majesty when they themselves by Agrement with the Queen were to pay the Souldiers in those Towns however they had been ungrateful to suffer such persons who had so highly merited of them to want when the States were built by the English valour and by their bloud united and cemented But having gotten the possession of their Towns which were the Lock and Key of their Provinces and having compounded for those exceeding great sums of money which they owed His Majesty which sober men did think they never had been able to pay if rightly stated they presently from Poor distressed People are swell'd up to those spreading and magnificent Titles of High and Mighty States Insolent Boggs They might rather have said unto Sedition Thou art my Father and unto Rebellion Thou art my Mother Now they make their Naval Expeditions into America and other parts of the World And by the leave and licence of King James paying some small Tribute they fall to their Fishing Trade upon the British Seas Wherein they did so exceedingly thrive that towards the latter end of King James His Reign they imployed yearly eight thousand four hundred Vessels of all sorts for their Trade of Fishing upon the British Seas which number since is vastly increased whereby they have a Seminary of Mariners ready for publick Service or Navigation And upon Computation it appeared that they made in one year of the Herrings oâ—ly caught upon the British Seas the sum of five millions of our pounds the Custom and Tenth of Fish advancing to the Publick Treasury no less than eight hundred thousand pounds besides the Cod Ling Hakes Pilehard and other Fish compated to amount unto near three millions more By reason of those maltitude of Ships and Mariners they have extended their Trade to all parts of the World exporting for the most part in all their Voyages our Herrings and Fish in exchange whereof they return the several Commodities of other Countries and sell the same at their own prices Great part of their Fish they sell for ready money which commonly they export of the finest Gold and Silver and coming home Re-coin it of a baser Alloy under their own stamp which advance a great profit to them The returns which they make for their Fish in other Commodities amounts to a vast sum And all this Wealth Riches and Grandeur is derived unto them from the Indulgency and Bounty of the Kings of Great Britain The Hollanders now beginning to be considerable in the World by reason of the many Royal Favours wherewith they are inriched by the Crown of England The English and they having several Factories and Places in the Isles of Molluccaes Banda Amboyna and elsewhere in the East Indies the English being some years there setled before the Hollanders had made any discovery of those Islands Anno 1619. there was a Solemn League and Agreement by King James and the States of the United Provinces in a strict Alliance and social Confederacy of the English East-India Company and that of the United Provinces for the better advancing and carrying on of the Trade and Commerce in those Islands and elsewhere in the East-Indies Here are so many marks of Kindness such ample Demonstrations of Favour as no People could have greater Obligations if any Principles of Honour or Justice could oblige them to make returns of Gratitude and give the greatest instances of their Sincerity and Faithfulness to the Kings of Great Britain and the English Nation But with them Favours past are not accounted they love no Bounty but what is meerly future At Amboyna one of the Scyndae or Setibe Islands lying near Seran and hath many lesser Islands depending upon it it 's of the Circuit of 60 Leagues an Island which bears Cloves plentifully for gathering and buying whereof the English Company had placed five several Factories The head of all at the Town of Amboyna so called from the Island the chief Town in it two at Hitto and Larico in the same Island and two others at Latro and Cambello in the Island of Seran But the Hollanders observing the English to be better beloved by the Natives than themselves and that they began highly to improve and gain by their Trade and Traffick hating that any should thrive but themselves Anno 1622. upon pretence of a Plot between the English and the Japonesses to betray their Fortress in the Town of Amboyna which was built at the charge of the English and for the safety of Trade and Commerce the Hollanders having about two hundred Souldiers there to the end they might ingross the whole Trade and Traffick of the said Islands to themselves most treacherously murthered and with Fire and Water
there the Ship and Goods were confiscated valued at one hundred thousand pounds The Dragon and Katherine two English Ships of Sir William Curâ—een valued at three hundred thousand pounds besides their Commanders and others who had very great Estates therein anno 1636. were set upon by seven Dutch Men of War as they past the Streights of Mallaca from China and by them taken The men tyed back to back and slung over bord the Goods being taken out of the said Ships were seised to the use of the States there and the Ships sunk that it might not be known who committed that cruel fact In Aru and Manueado in Sumatia an Oriental Island the English had several Factories there by the consent of the King and Natives but by the practise of the Hollanders anno 1625. they were all enforced to leave their Factories and the places In Pachane the chief City of Pachane one of the Kingdoms of Siain in India the English had several Factories there but by the unjust practices of the Hollanders they were compelled to quit the Country and their Factories to an unexpressable loss to the English Pachane being a great Country for Gold Silver Pearls Precious Stones and many other rich Commodities The Hollanders anno 1636. made War against the King of Bantam one of the Kings of Java major for that he had a great kindness for the English And for that he permitted them to have several Factories in Sunda and Jambe for Pepper And by this art would have driven the English from thence and their chief Pepper Trade And so would have shut them out both of the Streights of Sunda and Mallaca Which from these men we may learn That those which study to be great by any means must by all means forget to be good they must dismiss that puny thing Conscience for there is no such Remora to Grandeur as a coy and squemish Conscience And it's observ d by a learned Gentleman had Alexander boggled at invading other mens Kingdoms he had never wept for the scarcity of Worlds The oppressions and injuries of these men in India not only to the English but to the Subjects of many of the Kings and Princes in Europe are not to be express d and indeed they are fitter for our wouder than our words It were to be desired that they would set forth a Manifesto to the world of the particular losses they and their Subjects have sustained by the Insolencies and Usurpations of these men And then they would be as much scorned by every good man in Europe as they are now hated by the Indians in America For the Indians though they have no kindness for the Spaniard yet they look upon him as a Gentleman but the Hollanders they abhor for their sordid acts and unjust practises As they have made themselves Masters of the South Seas so having Anno 1662. taken Cochen from the Portuguez and other Ports upon the coast of Mallabar they have the sole command upon the North Seas from Mallabar to India Persia Arabia Red Sea Mosambique all along to Cabo de Bon Esperanza so they will in a short time restrain all the Kings and Princes in Europe and their Subjects to have a Trade or Commerce in those parts And whether it may not by the help of a little Logick be concluded out of their stile consider The States General of the United Provinces of Battavia Amboyna Tewan c Commanders of all the Seas of the world Protectors of all the Kings and Princes in Europe and Supreme Moderators of all the affairs of Christendom For so they stile and write themselves in the East Indies Now they are High and Mighty States indeed Ambition is never so high but she thinks still to mount that station which lately seem'd the top is but a step to her now and what before was great in desiring seem little being once in power The Method and Arts which the States have used in India to Inlarge their Dominions and to exclude others from Trade or Commerce there 1. THey are in a perpetual state of Hostility ever Warring upon some Prince or other and thereby gain either Tribute or Dominion 2. When they have to do with any King or Prince they order their Affairs so that he must perform first and when he hath done they are States and so are free 3. They encourage the Natives upon every small occasion of discontent to Arm against their Prince premising them their assistance which they exactly perform When they have Conquered the King and taken his Castles and Ports which they first secure making themselves Masters of the Seas and great Rivers then they subdue the Natives and so Vest in themselves Sovereign Dominion and make both King and Natives their Vassals 4. If the Natives take up Arms against their Prince as many times they do then they encourage him against his Rebellious Subjects and give him their assistance When the Natives are subdued then they conquer the King himself or else demand so much for their assistance that he is not able to pay and so he must submit himself and his Dominions to their boundless ambition 5. If there be any Wars between Prince and Prince they will be sure to fall in with one of them and give him their Aid and so make War in the other Princes Dominion When that Prince is subdued and themselves setled in his Dominions then they reduce the other Prince to their Obedience having some Castles or Ports in his Dominions which do command the whole 6. If they have any places of concern and the Subjects of any Prince in Europe have any Factories there which they cannot fairly dismiss then they lay such great Taxes and Impositions upon the Natives that they are enforced to Arms. When they are subdued then they charge the Subjects of that Prince as Conspirators and Abetters of the Natives and so seize upon all their Goods Factories and enforce them to quit the Country or else send them into some of their Islands to be Slaves 7. If any Prince in Europe make any Treaty or League with the States concerning any Affairs in India they send to the States of Battavia private Instructions contrary to their publick Agreement So that all Treaties and Leagues as to the Affairs of India are ineffectual 8. Where they have footing in any Island or Dominion they claim by Conquest and so lay what Taxes they please upon the Natives And being in by Conquest they are Proprietaries and so exclude the Subjects of any King or Prince from Trade there 9. If the Subjects of any King or Prince in Europe have Factories in the Dominions of any Prince there if they begin to be considerable they take some occasion to War against that Prince and upon Treaty charge those Subjects to be the cause of the War so if the Prince will have Peace he must seize their Factories and Goods and banish them his Country 10. They