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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21088	A remonstrance of the directors of the Netherlands East India Company presented to the Lords States Generall of the vnited Provinces, in defence of the said Companie, touching the bloudy proceedings against the English merchants, executed at Amboyna. Together, with the acts of the processe, against the sayd English. And the reply of the English East India Company, to the said remonstrance and defence. Published by authority.	Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; East India Company.	1632 (1632)	STC 7450; ESTC S105421	58,679	132

A REMONSTRANCE OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE NETHERLANDS East India Company presented to the Lords States Generall of the vnited Provinces in defence of the said Companie touching the bloudy proceedings against the English Merchants executed at Amboyna TOGETHER With the Acts of the Processe against the sayd ENGLISH AND The Reply of the English East India Company to the said Remonstrance and Defence Published by Authority Printed at London by Iohn Dawson for the East India Company 163● ¶ To the Reader Gentle Reader THe Remonstrance of the Netherlands East India Company hereafter in the first place following was by the same Company presented to the Lord States Generall of the vnited Provinces in November Anno 1624. for Answere of the Relation of the English East India Company touching the vnjust cruell and barbarous proceeding against the English at Amboyna and for justification of that infamous processe the Coppie of which Remonstrance being imparted to the sayd English Company they forth with writ the subsequent Reply and sent the same to be presented to the said Lords States Generall for a counter-poyson a-against the said Remonstrance At that time the English Company intended not to have publisht it in Print thereby to make so many Iudges of the cause as now they must but vpon faire hope then given them out of the Netherlands trusted by the justice of the Lords States Generall joyned with that of their owne Soveraigne to obtaine an issue of this cause according to the merits thereof But the Ambassadour of the said Lords States being here in England in Iune 1625. and moved by his Majestie for satisfaction for the lives of his subjects that were so treacherously but chered by theirs at Amboyna as also for restitution of their goods so made forfeit and recompence for the damage of the English Company by this and other actions vsed such excuse and cullor as it seemeth out of the ground of this Remonstrance which after many provisionall disputes finally concludeth for delay of tryall that at the last in September the same yeare they obtained of his Majestie a respit of 18. moneths for the calling home of the Governour Harman van Speult and the rest of the Iudges in the sayd bloudy processe from out of the Indies to answere the matter here themselues and for satisfaction of all the other Complaints of the English Company To whom although this respit was irkesome having already borne so long delay in a cause of such impatient nature as also having a suspition of the sinister intent of the Dutch Companie in this new respit neverthelesse considering that this was a favour craved by the said Lords States in their first Ambassage to his Majestie and their very congratulations of his happy successe to his rightfull Crownes they held it their duty to conforme themselues to his Majesties grace herein As also the same English Company having confidence in the sincere dealing of the Lords States Generall whose Letter of the 31. of December 1624. for calling home of the sayd bloudy Governour and others was committed to their conveyance and by them sent into the Indies hoped that their remedy though slow and long would yet at last be sure and serious and so they put on a new patience and expectation of some issue of this likely course But having waited out this respit which expired some years now past they finde all things fall out contrary to their hope so grounded vpon the Lords States promise and Letter but altogether verifying their suspition of the drift of the Netherlands Company before mentioned For the said Letter of the Lords States being by the English President at Iacatra safely delivered to Carpentier Governour Generall of the Dutch in the Indies he when Harman van Speult the late Governour of Amboyna and head of the bloudy treachery against the English there arrived at Iacatra received him with great honour yea with triumph and instead of sending him for Europe to answere the complaints of the English according to the direction and commandments of the Lords States by their sayd Letter made him cheife Commander of a fleete of ships sent from thence to Surat and other Northerne parts of the Indies The English President and Councell at Iacatra in vaine protesting here-against and vrging his remission to Europe in consequence of the Letter of the Lords States aforesayd Neither haue the Officers of the sayd Netherlands Company in the Indies in all that respit of 18 moneths nor in all the time since made any restitution or reparation to the English as was promised and pretended nor any preparation thereunto but rather haue added new grievances So that it now plainely appeareth that the sayd Netherlands East India Company in their earnest suite to the Lords States to procure his Majestie to giue respit for the due tryall of the cause of Amboyna inserted in the latter end of this ensuing Remonstrance intended nothing lesse then such a true tryall but a cooling and blunting of the edge and zeale of the English Company in pursuing of their due remedies hoping as it is in the fable of him that vndertooke to teach the Asse to speake that in long delay and respit of time something might happen vtterly to elude and frustrate the reall performance In the meane time besides the goods of the English that they detaine they enioy the whole trade of the Mulluccoes Banda and Amboyna the true though wretched motive of their abhominable processe against the Innocents and haue raised the Nutmegs Maces Cloues being by this meanes solely in their owne hands to more then double the price of that they were at in these parts when the English had their share in them Whereby it appeareth how sincerely this following Remonstrance slighteth this matter as a poore end though it so much enrich the Dutch Company as likewise how much not onely the whole Realme of ENGLAND but even all the Kingdomes and Common wealths in Europe that are thus served with those Spices at such high rates are interessed in this cause And yet besides all the premises the English Company finde another and more proper cause of their recourse to the presse at this present otherwise for all the rest they could perhaps attend other remedies But they finde that in this Interim of the cause and motives whereof the world could take no notice many not onely of the Dutch but English also begin to conceiue worse of the English cause presuming that if it had beene such as the discourses formerly published in this argument imported they thinke certainely ere this to haue heard of some exemplary punishment vpon so execrable a fact or at least of some serious preparation thereunto In particuler the English Company vnderstand that some of the bloudy Colledge of Iudges being returned into the Low Countries and living free and well countenanced there have of late vpon confidence as it seemes of the effectuall working of their elusory Artifice craked and vaunted that they will