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A21090	A true relation of the vniust, cruell, and barbarous proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East-Indies, by the Neatherlandish gouernour and councel there Also the copie of a pamphlet, set forth first in Dutch and then in English, by some Neatherlander; falsly entituled, A true declaration of the newes that came out of the East-Indies, with the pinace called the Hare, which arriued at Texel in Iune, 1624. Together with an answer to the same pamphlet. By the English East-India companie. Published by authoritie.	Skinner, John, Sir, fl. 1624.; Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639.; Wing, John, of Flushing, Zealand.; East India Company.	1624 (1624)	STC 7451; ESTC S100220	56,331	110

the time hee had not yet certainely set it but that there should suddenly bee another assembly of the conspirators when Gabriel Towerson would giue order for all things and giue a signe to the Iaponians whereupon when they shewed it they should begin the worke within The sayd Gabriel Towerson being asked in particular what moued him to such a wicked fact hee answered the desire of Honour and Profit Being further demanded who should enioy that Honour and Profit and for whome hee would haue taken the Castle he answered That if he did obtayne his desire hee sh●…uld presently haue aduertised those of his Nation being in Batauia and called for their helpe who if they had sent him succour hee would haue kept the Castle for his owne company viz for the English East-Indian Company and if not he would haue held it for himselfe and haue endeuoured a peace with the Indians that so by the one meanes or the other hee might attayne his purpose After the examination of Towerson was ended the Dutch Gouernour in Amboyna vpbrayded Towerson of his cruell intent and asked if this should haue beene the recompence of the manifould honours and kindnesses hee had done vnto him Whereto Towerson answered with a deepe sigh Oh if it were to bee begun it should not be done This voluntary confession and penitent acknowledgement with much sorrow was made the 9. of March being the day when the execution should haue beene done but the examination of Towerson was ended the 18. of February so many dayes before This is the substance of the confessions of 10. Iaponians of 14. En●…lish and of a Neatherlandish Merinho or Captaine of the Slaues who all confirmed these their confessions with their owne hands What crime this intended prodition was is hence very manifest and vndoubted what punishment is due to treachery according to the law and customes of all nations is also well knowne no true Christian man will patronage any such horrible attempt but will adiudge it worthy of death as it was determined vpon the complices of this conspiracy according to order of iustice as there in Amboyna it is exercised according to desert by the Gouernour and Councell in the name of the High and Mighty Lords the States Here you haue Sir the very substance of the truth both of the fact and punishment other than which many things are spread abroad in England but vpon what pretence or intendement I know not let the matter it selfe speake for it selfe The first point which is obiected against this iustice done in Amboyna is concerning the proceedings which are said to bee holden without formality and with extreamity against these conspirators Your Worship and each reasonable man knoweth that euery land hath their lawes and ordinances and their particular manner of proceedings as well in Ciuill as in Criminall causes England hath hers France Spayne Dutchland Netherland and all other Kingdomes and Gouernments haue also theirs which are iust lawfull to euery one in their dominion so that when any man will iudge of the equity or iniustice of a proceeding vsed in any land hee must examine the same according to the lawes and customes of that Kingdome or dominion where the iustice and proceedings were holden These proceedings were holden by the Netherlandish Gouernor in the name of the illustirons Lords the States hauing supreame power many yeares since in the Yles of Amboyna which were conquered in the name of the said Lords the Staes from the Spaniards or Portugalls who held that Castle in the name of the King of Spaine our hereditary enemy therefore they are now possessed in the name of the Lords the States and are vnder their dominion by a iust and lawfull title of warre according to the law of Nations There among other things iustice is administred according to the lawes of the Netherlands in that manner as was vsed in the proceedings against these conspirators I know that the lawes of England are diuers from ours in criminall cases yea from all the Nations in Europe howbeit therefore no man hath any ground of reason to say that the proceedings of the Engl●…sh Iudges holden in England against delinquents are not legitimate though the said English proceedings doe vary in the manner from the proceedings of France Spayne c. where other customes are for that is lawfull which agreeth with the lawes of that land where the fact is committed Now then the Iaponian souldiers being in the service of the Netherlands Company in Amboyna are discouered to haue conspired against the Castle and the Gou●…rnment there vnder whose oath pay they were they were apprehended and examined and conuicted of the said conspiracy This proceeding is lawfull and toucheth no man because the said Iaponians knew no other Master than the Netherlanders vnder whose oath seruice and pay they stand All these Iaponian conspirators with the said Merincho a Captayne of the Netherlands Slaues confessed with one mo●…th that they were moued and induced to this conspiracy by the English Merchants resident in Amboyna whose names they named Now not only the right of Netherland but of England and of the whole world requireth that the authors abettors complices of murther and treason should bee punished with death whereto according to the common lawes as also the particular lawes of eue●…y Kingdome or Dominion the suspected persons first and before all should bee imprisoned not only for preuenting the eff●…ct of their euill purpose but that they might also receiue their deserued punishment which apprehe●…sious could not in that place bee done by any o●…her man than by the command of the Netherlands Gouernor to whom it belongeth to take care to see euery act concerning supreame power to be there obserued specially al other reasons ceasing the highest English Officers there could not apprehend these English conspirators because all the chiefe of the English Merchants in Amboyna were themselues of the conspiracy and complices of the fact vpon which the apprehension was made Therefore the apprehension of the English complices must bee done by the Dutch Gouernour who therefore hath therein proceeded according to the custome of all Nations of the world And that these apprehensions may bee holden more lawfull it appeareth out of the written processe that the said English complices were not imprisoned vpon the first suspitions and grosse euidences which were had against them but then at last when all the Iaponian souldiers were taken examined and conuicted and had discouered by the vniforme confession of all the 11. the names and sur-names of such English as had perswaded and hyred them to this fact of which English one viz. Abel Price Barber was before apprehended as an Incendiary for burning and violence done vpon other houses who also was first examined and first confessed as the other 11. Iaponians that he by name Gabriel Towerson and other English Merchants whom hee named by their names had suborned the said

to the lawes of that land though strangers shall iudge otherwise of it And in like manner the English nation cannot complaine of the torture which euill willers say was vsed vpon these English Conspirators in Amboyna because it is done according to the lawes of this Gouernment and is not vnusuall in cases of treason neither with vs nor almost any Nation in Europe And for England it selfe it is well knowne and his most excellent Maiesty doth acknowledge by his owne Princely pen that the Rack the Manicles are the on●…ly tortures that are exercised vpon Traytors to force them to confesse without concealement what they knowe to bee dangerous to the State And to say the ●…ruth wi●…hout taking parts the English Conspirators being a●…ronted with the vniforme and written confessions of the 11. Iaponians their Compli●…s which could conuince them sufficiently according to the lawes and fr●…de them guilty of the same conspi●…acy and consequen●…ly of death if now notwithst●…nding this they had persisted in the sto●…t deniall of the fact were not this to speake according to the manner in England enough to iudge them dumb by con●…umacy and so to esteeme them worthy of this sore p●…nishment of pressing to death as is aforesaid But this torture of ours if any in Amboyna were so tortured is to bee iudged farre lesse than that pressing where the malefactor doth suffer such extreame misery as cannot bee imagined and which is not to bee lenifyed or cased at all but ended by death But to the sufficient satisfaction of my self and your Worship and all men a●…d not to speake according to the sentence and conscience of others I haue vsed all diligence to get into my hands the written Processe con cerning the Conspirators in Amboyna which I obtained authentically and read carefully and I finde that all that is by mee aboue said is confermed to wit That the Iaponian Complices were examined and made their confession as aforesaid for 3. dayes viz. the 23. 24. 25. of February 1623. and that all this being don●… and consummated before then at last is Gabriel Towerson first with the rest of the English Complices imprisoned the said 25. of February when their examination and confession began and continued diuers dayes without ouerhasting till the 3. of March. And the said examinations and confessions being so finished the Netherlands Gouernour and Councell deliberated whether the punishment might bee deferred to any long time or referred to any other place but it was so concluded by ioynt consent of all that the said punishment there deserued must bee executed in the same place for example and that it could not in any wise bee delaied without extreame danger for reasons there related and among others because the Ternatanes Indians about Amboyna had otherwise than they were wont rebelled neither could it bee fully knowne what great confederacy these Conspirators had made with them and others And touching any extraordinary and cruell ●…orture I haue accuratly ouerlooked euery ones confession but I finde not one word in any one which maketh any mention of such torture as is vniustly spoken of in England nay scarce finde any mention of that ordinary torture which is in vse saue onely these words in one act of the 25. February 1623 viz. The Councell being gathered together haue thought meete that all the English should be presently examined one after another as accordingly it was instantly done and some of them before any torture others after a little or rather a touch of it confessed as followeth Vnto which followeth presently the particular confession of each one subscribed with his owne hand as aforesaid So that hence it is manifest that no extraordinary torture was vsed in such manner as is giuen-out there by those that wish vs euill nay that those few that felt any were onely touched not punished with ordinary torture And thus your Worship hath the vpright and impartiall truth of this businesse touching the whole passage as it proceeded and the punishment as it was inflicted from which some English were exempted by fauour that the English goods should not be lost according as order hath beene giuen to that end And I finde that the sentence was giuen the 9. of March 1623. by a competent assembly of 14. Iudges who as it appeareth in the sentence in the doing thereof did before earnestly call vpon the name of the Lord that hee would please to be president and predominant in euery one of their hearts in this their sorrowfull assembly and that hee would inspire them onely with that which might bee iudged to bee expedient and iust c. So that out of all that is aboue said nothing else can appeare but that this businesse was managed lawfully and orderly by men of honesty and conscience against such as had vndertaken against the State against the wealth and aduantage of this East-India Company the liues of their Officers there placed against the estate and welfare of many who had little deserued and as little expected such wickednes from their friendly confederates in the same society of Marchants there resident with them And now considering the premisses I hope it shall bee farre from euery Christian in any wise to protect or excuse this wicked fact but rather to mourne and g●…ieue as wee doe for this conspiracy and for the euill the conspirators haue so deseruedly drawne vpon their owne heads and to honour them who in iustice haue punished villany according to the due merit thereof for wee all know that without IVSTICE without reward of that which is Good and punishment of that which is Euill no society of mankinde can consist And of this information which I send in loue and honour to your Worship as vnto a louer of Truth and a hater of Treachery you may make such vse as to yo●… shall seeme good in any place where you come both for refutation of any thing already reported contrary thereunto and for preuention of any further false rumors or clamors and finally for propagation of that vndoubted truth which here to my b●…st I haue endeauoured to discouer And if you shall meete with any thing of worth which can be truly auowed to bee contradictory vnto any thing I haue written I desire to vnderstand it from you and you to suspend your wise and impartiall iudgement till I haue cleared it vnto you TRVTH remaineth euer the same So I commend you to the God of truth desiring him to giue vs mindes Not to iudge according to outward appearance but to iudge with a righteous iudgement From my Lodging Iuly 23. 1624. THE ANSWER VNTO THE DUTCH PAMPHLET MADE IN DEFENCE OF THE VNIVST AND BARbarous proceedings against the ENGLISH at AMBOYNA In the East-Indies by the HOLLANDERS there Printed at London Anno M. DC XXIV AN ANSWER TO THE DUTCH RELATION TOVCHING THE PREtended Conspiracie of the ENGLISH at AMBOYNA in the Indies THE Compiler of this relation perceiuing that hee had an

confirm their last profession of their innocencie But this would by no meanes be granted Whereupon Samuel Colson said thus vnto the Ministers You manifest vnto vs the danger of dissimulation in this case But tell vs if we suffer guiltlesse being otherwise also true beleeuers in Christ Iesus What shall be our reward The Preach●…r answered By how much the cleerer you are so much the more glorious shall be your resurrection With that word Colson started vp imbraced the Preacher an●… gaue him his purse with such money as hee had in it saying Domine God blesse you tell the Gouernour I freely forgiue him and I intreat you to exhort him to repent him of this bloodie tragedy wrought vpon vs poore innocent soules Here all the rest of the English signified their consent to this speech Then spake Iohn Fardo to the rest in presence of the Ministers as followeth My countrey-men and brethren all that are here with me condemned to dye I charge you all as you will answer it at Gods iudgement seat if anie of you be guiltie of this matter whereof we are condemned discharge your consciences and confesse the truth for satisfaction of the world Hereupon Samuel Colson spake with a loude voyce saying According to my innocencie in this Treason so Lord pardon all the rest of my sinnes and if I be guiltie thereof more or lesse let me neuer be partaker of thy heauenly ioyes At which words euerie one of the rest cryed out Amen for me Amen for me good Lord. This done each of them knowing whom he had accused went one to another beging forgiuenesse for their false accusation being wrung from them by the paines or feare of torture And they all freely forgaue one another for none had beene so falsely accused but he himselfe had accused another as falsely In particular George Sharrock who suruiued to relate this nights passage kneeled downe to Iohn Clarke whom hee had accused of the tale at Hitto aboue mentioned and craued forgiuenesse at his hands Clarke freely forgaue him saying How should I looke to be forgiuen of God if I should not forgiue you hauing my selfe so falsely accused Captaine Towerson and others After this they spent the rest of the dolefull night in prayer singing of Psalmes and comforting one another though the Dutch that guarded them offered them wine bidding them drinke Lustick driue away the sorrow according to the custome of their owne Nation in the like case but contrary to the nature of the English Vpon the morrow morning being the execution day the 27. of February stilo veteri Iohn Powle being freed as is aboue recited came into the roome where the condemned persons were and found them at Prayer They all requested him to relate vnto their friends in England the innocencie of their cause taking it vpon their deaths that what they had confessed against themselues others touching this crime was all false and forced by feare of torture The same morning William Webber was called againe into the Fiscals room and there pressed to produce the letter which hee had before confessed to haue receiued from Iohn Clark in the Postscript wherof some great businesse was intimated They promised him his life if he would deliuer or produce them that letter which although hee did not nor indeede could yet at last they pardoned him and sent him to the rest that were saued and Sharrock with him That morning Emanuel Tomson vnderstanding that Iohn Beomont was pardoned made meanes to haue ●…im come and speake with him which with much a●…oe hee obtained Beomont found him sitting in a chamber all alone in a most miserable fashion the wounds of his torture bound vp but the matter and gore blood issuing thorow the Rollers Hee tooke M. Beomont by the hand and prayed him when hee ●…ame into England to doe his duetie to the honoura●…le Companie his Masters to M. Robinson and to his ●…rother Billingsley and to certifie them of his inno●…encie which said hee you your selfe know well e●…ough All things being prepared for the execution the condemned were brought forth of the Hall along ●…y the chamber where the quit and pardoned were who stood in the dore to giue and take the farewell of their countrey-men now going to execution Staying a little for this purpose they prayed and charged those that were saued to bear witnesse to their friends in England of their innocencie and that they dyed not traytors but so many Innocents meerely murthered by the Hollanders whom they prayed God to forgiue their blood-thirstinesse and to haue mercie vpon their owne soules Being brought into the Yard their sentence was there read vnto them from a Gallery and then they were thence caried vnto the place of execution together with nine Iapons and a Portugall not the ordinary and short way but round about in a long procession thorow the towne the way guarded with fiue Companies of Souldiers Dutch Amboyners and thronged with the Natiues of the Island that vpon the summons giuen the day before by the sound of the Drum flocked together to behold this triumph of the Dutch ouer the English Samuel Colson had conceiued a prayer in writing in the end whereof he protested his innocency which Prayer he read to his fellowes the night before and now also at the place of execution deuoutely pronounced the same then threw away the paper which the Gouernour caused to bee brought to him and kept it Emanuel Tomson told the rest hee did not doubt but GOD would shew some signe of their innocencie and euery one of the rest tooke it seuerally vpon their death that they were vtterly guiltlesse and so one by one with great cheerefulnesse they suffered the fatall stroke The Portugall prayed ouer his Beades very deuoutely and often kissed the Crosse swearing thereupon that he was vtterly innocent of this Treason yet confessed that God had iustly brought this punishment vpon him for that hauing a wife in his own countrey hee had by the perswasion of the Dutch Gouernour taken another in that countrey his first being yet liuing The Iapons likewise according to their Religion shut vp their last Act with the like profession of their innocencie So there suffered ten Englishment viz. Captain Gabriel Towerson the Agent of the English at Amboyna Samuel Colson Factor at Hitto Emanuel Tomson Assistant at Amboyna Timothy Iohnson Assistant there also Iohn Wetherall Factor at Cambello Iohn Clarke Assistant at Hitto William Griggs Factor at Larica Iohn Fardo Steward of the house Abel Price Chirurgion and Robert Browne Taylor The Portugall also suffered with them His name was Augustine Perez He was borne at Bengala The names of the Iaponeses that suffered if any be curious to know them were as followeth all borne at Firando Hitieso Tsiosa Sinsa borne at Nangasacque Sidney Migiel Pedro Congie Thome Corea Quiondayo natiue of Coraets Tsabinda of Tsoucketgo Zanchoe of Fisien Besides these there were two other Iaponeses the one named Soysimo

and the rest when Capt. Towersons head was off Nay what desire had Tomson and Clarke to liue being so mangled and martyred by the torture They were executed one by one and euery one seuerall tooke it vpon his death tha●… he was guiltlesse Now to blanch a●…d smooth ouerall this rough and barbarous proceeding it is here giuen out that the Gouernor Fiscall found such euidence of the plot and dealt so euenly in the processe that they spared not their owne people hauing vsed some of their natiue Hollanders partakers of this treason in the same maner as they did the English But this as well by the relation here truely and faithfully set downe grounded vpon the sworn testimonie of sixe credible witnesses as also by other sufficient reports of diuerse lately come out of those parts appeareth to bee a meere tale not once alleaged by anie in the Indies in many moneths after the execution but only inuented and dispersed here for a Fucus and a faire colour vpon the whole cause and to make the world beleeue that the ground of this barbarous and tyrannous proceeding was a true crime and not the vnsatiable couetousnesse of the Hollanders by this cruell treacherie to gain the sole Trade of the Molluccos Banda and Amboyna which is already become the euent of this bloody processe To adde hereunto by way of aggrauation will be needlesse the fact is so full of odious and barbarous inhumanitie executed by Hollanders vpon the English Nation in a place where both liued vnder termes of partnership and great amitie confirmed by a most solemne Treaty FINIS A TRVE DECLARATION OF the News that came out of the East-Indies with the Pinace called the HARE which arriued in TEXEL in Iune 1624. CONCERNING A Conspiracy discouered in the Iland of Amboyna and the punishment following thereupon according to the course of iustice in March 1624. comprehended in a Letter missiue AND SENT From a friend in the Low-Countries to a friend of note in England for information of him in the truth of those passages Printed anno 1624. Right Worshipf●…ll and Worthy SIR THe great outcryes which haue beene made in England vpon the last newes which came out of the East-Indies about a certayne execution which was done in the Iland of Amboyna in March 1623. because we see the great desire that your Worship hath to keep good correspondence betwixt these two Nations it hath caused me beyond my owne curiosity to search inq●…ire after theright true beginnings procedings and issues of these affaires vpon which this execution followed Wherein I perswade my selfe I haue attained good successe by such meanes as I haue vsed and by my good acquaintance so that at the last I am come to the cleare light of the matter partly by the letters that haue beene sent home to the Company here and declared to the States Generall as also by a particular examination of the processe made against them in Amboyna before their execution and sent ouer hither in writing which at this present hath caused mee to write this vnto your Worship that so the truth may bee made knowne concerning this busines in all places where your Worthynes and respect can or may bring it to passe that so your Worship and all true well willers of our Countrey may be no otherwise thought of than wee deserue THe very causes and beginnings through which the Gouernour and Councell established in the name of the Vnited Netherlands in Amboyna came into suspicion that some thing was plotted against that Province did first flow from the great licentiousnes of the Tarnatanes in Moluque and Amboyna Who contrary to the contract of alliance 1606. made with the High and Mighty Lords the States attempted without our consent and knowledge to make peace with the King of Tidore as also truce with the Spaniards their and our ancient aduersaries by which the said Tarnatanes had too much cast off all respect which they both in regard of our confederacy and manifold assistance did owe to this State The Spaniard also was master enough at sea in the Moluque because the English Merchants there in the East-Indies were vnwilling to furnish vs with ships of warre toward the common defence as they were bound to doe according to the treaties 1619. to the number of ten Through which the voyages to Mannila comming to cease the enemy traded there without any interruption procured power to send Gallyes Shipps and Pynasses to the Moluque with great succours of people and prouision and that because against the same through the default of the English Merchants there were no Ships of warre kept as there should haue beene The subiects of the King of Tarnata begun to commit great insolencies otherwise than they were wont against our Nation hauing outragiously assaulted diuers of vs diuers wayes and also slayne some and wee notwithstanding could not obtayne any punishment vpon them And as one outrage vnpunished prouokes many more through hope of the like impunity or other considerations so were the sayd Tarnatanes of Amboyna dwelling at Loho Cambello and those neere adioyning places proceeded further and haue armed themselues at Sea and inuaded diuers Ilands and places standing vnder the Netherlands Gou●…rnour in Amboyna spoyling them and killing our subiects and taking others and carring them away for slaues And notwithstanding the instant request of the Netherlands Gouernour no satisfaction or iustice ha●…h followed but the said Tarnatanes are yet gone further and openly threatned to murder the Dutch Marchants and to spoyle and burne the Logie or Factory which our people haue many yeares there enioyed so that our Merchants haue taken out the Dutch goods to auoid damage And the Tarnatanes at Loho did actually set on fire and ruined the said Netherlands Factory In the Manichells an Iland being vnder the Prouince of Amboyna they haue in like manner shortly after burned the Netherlands Logie with the losse of all the goods therein The Netherlands Gouernour that by his presence and authority hee might cause such rebellions to cease and to giue order for time to come and also to seeke satisfaction and punishment vpon the foresaid insolencies went toward Loho with a small power of sloopes and comming there-about was mett otherwise than was wont by a nauy of sloopes of the Tarnatanes of Loho stronger than his were Thes●… by their conference gaue him well to knowe how little reuerence they gaue the Dutch Gouernour they braued him without hope of restitution of any thing to come so that nothing done he was faine to returne to his Castell of Amboyna By reason of these things the sayd Tarnatanes became so stout and daring that they gaue out openly that they would come and spoile our subiects by a generall army with aboue a 100. Friggetts with these they said they would come against Amboyna to make a vniuersall spoile of our people Through which there came a great feare vpon the Indians standing