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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27176	The Emblem of ingratitude a true relation of the unjust, cruel, and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Netherlandish governour & council there : also a farther account of the deceit, cruelty, and tyranny of the Dutch against the English, and several others, from their first to their present estate, with remarks upon the whole matter : faithfully collected from antient and modern records.	Beaumont, 17th cent.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1580; ESTC R17875	36,639	108

talk together nor mutually relate their miseries But because the Hollanders defend their own proceedings by the confessions of the parties executed acknowledging severally under their hands that they were guilty of the pretended crime it will not be amiss to recollect and recall unto this place as it were unto one sum and total certain circumstances dispersed in several parts of this Narration whereby as well the innocency of the English as the unlawful proceedings against them may be manifested First Therefore it is to be remembred that the Japons were apprehended examined and tortured three or four dayes before the English were attached and the same as well of their apprehension as torture was rise and notorious in the Town of Amboyna and the parts adjoyning Tomsom in this interim and the very first day of the examination of the Japon went to the Castle to ask leave of the Governour to land some Rice and brought back the news with him to the English house of the cruel handling of these poor Japons This had been Item enough to the English if they had been guilty to shift for themselves whereto also they had ready means by the Curricurries or small Boats of the Amboyners which lie along the Strand in great number wherewith they might easily have transported themselves to Seran to Bottom or to Maccasser out of the reach and Jurisdiction of the Dutch but in that they fled not in this case it is a very strong presumption that they were as little privy to any treason of their own as suspicious of any treacherous train laid for their bloods In the next place let it be considered how impossible it was for the English to atchieve this pretended enterprize The Castle of Amboyna is of a very great strength as is before declared the Garrison therein two or three hundred men besides as many more of their free Burgers in the Town What their care and circumspection in all their Forts is may appear not onely by the quick Alarm they now took at the foolish question of the poor Japon made to the Sentinel above recited but also by that which a little before happened at Jaccatra where one of their Soldiers was shot to death for sleeping in the Watch. Durst ten English men whereof not one a Soldier attempt any thing upon such a strength and vigilancy As for the assistance of the Japons they were but ten neither and all un-armed as well as the English For as at the seizure of the English house all the provision therein found was but three swords two Muskets and half a pound of powder so the Japons except when they are in service of the Castle and there armed by the Dutch are allowed to have no Arms but onely a Catan a kind of short sword and it is forbidden to all the Dutch upon great penalty to sell any hand-gun powder or bullets to the Japons or Amboyners But let it be imagined that these twenty persons English and Japons were so desperate as to adventure the exploit how should they be able to master the Dutch in the Castle or to keep possession when they had gotten it what second had they There was neither Ship nor Pinnace of the English in the Harbor All the rest of the Japons in the Island were not twenty persons and not one English more The nearest of the rest of the English were at Banda forty Leagues from Amboyna and those but nine persons all afterwards cleared by the Governour and Fiscal themselves from all suspition of this pretended crime as were also the rest of the English at Jaccatra On the other side besides the strength of the Castle and Town of Amboyna the Hollanders have three other strong Castles well furnished with Soldiers in the same Island and at Cambello near adjoining They had then also in the road of Amboyna eight Ships and Vessels namely the Rotterdam of 1200 Tun the Vnicorn of 300 Tun the Free-mans Vessel of 100 Tun the Calck of 60 Tun Captain Gamals Junek of 40 Tun the Flute of 300 Tun the Amsterstam of 1400 Tun and a small Pinnace of about 60 Tun and all these well furnished with Men and Ammunition It is true that the Stories do record sundry valiant and hardy enterprizes of the English Nation and Holland is witness of some of them yea hath reaped the fruit of the English resolution yet no Story no Legend scarcely reporteth any such hardiness either of the English or others That so few persons so naked of all provisions and supplies should undertake such an adventure upon a counter-party so well and abundantly fitted at all points But let it be further granted that they might possibly have overcome all these difficulties yet to what end and purpose should they put themselves into such a jeopardy They knew well enough that it was agreed between both Companies at home That the Forts in the Indies should remain respectively in the hands of such as had possession of them at the date of the Treaty Anno 1619. and that the same was ratified by the Kings Majesty and the Lords States General They knew likewise and all the world takes knowledge of his Majesties Religious observation of Peace and Treaty with all his Neighbours yea with all the world what reward then could these English hope for of this their valour and danger Certainly none other than that which is expresly provided by the Treaty it self that is To be punished as the disturbers of the Common Peace and Amity of both Nations But let these English men have been as foolish in this Plot as the Hollanders will have them is it also to be imagined that they were so graceless as when they were condemned and seriously admonished by the Ministers to discharge their consciences yet then to persist in their dissimulation being otherwise of such godly behaviour as to spend the time in Prayer singing of Psalms and spiritual comforting one another which the Dutch would have had them bestow in drinking to drive away their sorrow Let Colsons question to the Minister be considered his and the rests offer and desire to receive the Sacrament in sign and token of their innocency their mutual asking forgiveness for their like false accusations of one another forced by the Torture Tomsons last farewell to Beomont Colsons prayer and his writing in his Prayer-book Fardo's farewell to Powl also his conjuring exhortation to his fellows to discharge their consciences and all their answers thereunto craving Gods mercy or judgment according to their innocency in this cause their general and Religious profession of their innocency as to their Countreymen at their last parting with them and finally the sealing of this profession with their last breath and blood even in the very Article of death and in the stroke of the Executioner What horrible and unexampled dissimulation were this If some one or more of them had been so fearfully desperate yet would not there one amongst ten be found to

years conversing and trading together with the Hollanders by vertue of the said Treaty In which times there fell out sundry differences and debates between them The English complaining that the Hollanders did not onely lavish away much Money in building and unnecessary expences upon the Forts and otherwise and bring large and unreasonable reckonings thereof to the common account but also did for their part pay the Garrisons with Victuals and Cloath of Coromondell which they put off to the Souldiers at three or four times the value it cost them yet would not allow of the English Companies part of the same charge but onely in ready Money thereby drawing from the English which ought to pay but one third part more than two thirds of the whole true charge Hereupon and upon the like occasions grew some discontents and disputes and the complaints were sent to Jacatra in the Island of Java Major to the Council of defence of both Nations there residing who also not agreeing upon the points in difference sent the same hither over into Europe to be decided by both Companies here or in default of their agreement by the Kings Majesty and the Lords the States General according to an Article of the Treaty of the year 1619. on this behalf In the mean time the discontent between the English and the Dutch about these and other differences continued and daily encreased untill at last there was a sword found to cut in sunder that knot at once which the tedious disputes of Amboyna and Jaccatra could not untie And this was used in manner as followeth About the eleventh of February 1622. Stilo veteri A Japoner Soldier of the Dutch in their Castle of Amboyna walking in the night upon the wall came to the Sentinel being a Hollander and there amongst other talk asked him some questions touching the strength of the Castle and the people that were therein It is here to be noted that those Japoners of whom there is not thirty in all the Island did for the most part serve the Dutch as Soldiers yet were not of their trusty bands alwaies lodged in the Castle but upon occasion called out of the Town to assist in the watch This Japoner aforesaid was for his said conference with the Sentinel apprehended upon suspition of Treason and put to the Torture Thereby as some of the Dutch affirmed he was brought to confess himself and sundry others of his Countrey-men there to have contrived the taking of the Castle Hereupon other Japoners were examined and Tortured as also a Portugal the Guardian of the Slaves under the Dutch During this examination which continued three or four days some of the English-men went to and from the Castle upon their business saw the prisoners heard of their tortures and of the crime laid to their charge But all this while suspected not that this matter did any whit concern themselves having never had any conversation with the Japoners nor with the Portugal aforesaid At the same time there was one Abel Price Chyrurgion of the English prisoner in the Castle for offering in his Drunkenness to set a Dutch mans house on fire This fellow the Dutch took and shewed him some of the Japoners whom they had first most grievously tortured and told him they had confessed the English to have been of their confederacy for the taking of the Castle and that if he would not confess the same they would use him even as they had done these Japoners and worse also Having given him the Torture they soon made him confess whatever they asked him This was the fifteenth of February 1622. Stilo veteri Forthwith about nine of the Clock the same morning they sent for Captain Towerson and the rest of the English that were in the Town to come to speak with the Governour in the Castle They all went save one that was left to keep the house Being come to the Governour he told Captain Towerson that himself and others of his Nation were accused of a conspiracy to surprize the Castle and therefore untill further Trial were to remain prisoners Instantly also they attached him that was left at home in the house took the Merchandize of the English Company there into their own custody by Inventory and seized all the Chests Boxes Books Writings and other things in the English house Captain Towerson was committed to his Chamber with a Guard of Dutch Soldiers Emmanuel Tomson was kept prisoner in the Castle the rest viz. John Beomont Edward Collins William Webber Ephraim Ramsey Timothy Johnson John Fardo and Robert Brown were sent aboard the Hollanders Ships then riding in Harbour some to one Ship and some to another and all made fast in Irons The same day also the Governour sent to the two other Factories in the same Island to apprehend the rest of the English there So that Samuel Colson John Clark George Sharrock that were found in the Factory at Hitto and Edward Collins William Webber and John Sadler at Larica were all brought prisoners to Amboyna the sixteenth of February Upon which day also John Powl John Wetheral and Thomas Ladbrook were apprehended at Cambello and John Beomont William Grigs and Ephraim Ramsey at Loho and brought in irons to Amboyna the twentieth of the same moneth In the mean time the Governour and Fiscal went to work with the prisoners that were already there And first they sent for John Beomont and Timothy Johnson from aboard the Vnicorn who being come into the Castle Beomont was left with a guard in the Hall and Johnson was taken into another room Where by and by Beomont heard him cry out very pitifully then to be quiet for a little while and then loud again After taste of the torture Abel Price the Chyrurgion that first was examined and tortured as is above remembred was brought in to confront and accuse him But Johnson not yet confessing any thing Price was quickly carried out and Johnson brought again to the torture where Beomont heard him sometime cry aloud then quiet again then roar afresh At last after he had been about an hour in this second examination he was brought forth wailing and lamenting all wet and cruelly burnt in divers parts of his body and so laid aside in a by-place of the Hall with a Souldier to watch him that he should speak with no body Then was Emanuel Tomson brought to examination not in the room where Johnson had been but in another something farther from the Hall Yet Beomont being in the Hall heard him roar most lamentably and many times At last after an hour and an half spent in torturing him he was carried away into another room another way so that he came not by Beomont through the Hall Next was Beomont called in and being demanded many things all which he denied with deep Oaths and protestations was made fast to be Tortured a cloath tied about his neck and two men ready with their Jarres of water to be poured