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A33387	His Majesties propriety and dominion on the Brittish seas asserted together with a true account of the Neatherlanders insupportable insolencies and injuries they have committed, and the inestimable benefits they have gained in their fishing on the English seas : as also their prodigious and horrid cruelties in the East and West-Indies, and other places : to which is added an exact mapp, containing the isles of Great Brittain and Ireland, with the several coastings, and the adjacent parts of our neighbours / by an experienced hand.	Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.; Clavell, Robert, d. 1711.	1665 (1665)	Wing C4602; ESTC R3773	67,265	198

to him then undergo the Torments of Fire and Water in the Attestation of his Innocence But Iohn Clark was of another Resolution he was no sooner brought in by the Souldiers and Officers but by and by he was heard to make a hideous and a lamentable complaint which continued for the space of two hours during which time as they abated or increased his Torments he diminished or doubled his cryes at the Sense and horrour of his Sufferings The two Elements of Fire and Water although merciles of themselves by making their Fury more deliberate were here instructed to be more unmercifull whiles accurate cruelty did torment even invention it self to torment the Innocent The Rack ordained for the confession of great and grievous Offences is oftentimes but an unfaithfull discoverer of them for whiles men are put to those torments which Flesh and Blood are not able to endure they confess those crimes which their Flesh and Blood were no wayes accessary to Two hours was this poor Man under the torment of Fire and Water yet confessed not any thing at which his Tormentors being amazed they did cut off his hair thinking belike that the strength of his Resolution lay in his hair when indeed it lay in the Justice of his Cause and the Innocence of his Conscience Afterwards they hoysed him up again and with lighted candles they did burn him in the bottom of his feet untill the moisture that dropped from them did put out the candles yet even then they applyed fresh lights unto him They burnt him also in the elbows and in the palms of his hands and so horridly under his arm-pits that his Inwards might evidently be seen At the last when they perceived that he could make no handsome Confession they led him along with questions of particular circumstances which they had framed of themselves And being wearied and overcome with Torments he at last according to their own wishes made Answer to whatsoever they demanded of him Being then released from his Martyrdom they sent him out by four Negroes who carried him between them to a Dungeon where he lay five dayes without any Chyrurgian to dress his wounds untill his flesh being putrified great Maggots creeped and dropped from him in a most loathsom and noysome manner In the like manner the rest were all Examined but none of them were so heavily Tortured for some of them to avoid the Torment made suddain Confessions others at the first or second drenching with the water Answered to all the Interrogatories of the Fiscal Captain Towerson himself being reserved amongst the last untill the Torments of those that were Examined before him might Rack out something from them that might Evidence against Him was brought into the Court where these younkers of Holland like another Council of Rehoboam sate in Judgement upon Him he deeply did protest his Innocence to Encounter which they produced the Persons and Confessions of Samuel Colson William Griggs and John Fardo Samuel Colson being told that unless he would make good his former Confession against Captain Towerson he should be commanded again to the Torture of Fire and Water did coldly and faintly re-affirm what before he said and so was dismissed the other two being brought face to face before Captain Towerson he charged them as they would Answer it at the dreadful Day of Judgement to speak nothing but the truth at which both of them trembled down upon their knees and besought him for GOD's sake to forgive them they openly acknowledged that that whatsoever they formerly had confessed was most false and spoken only to avoid the Torment Upon these words the Fiscal and the rest of this High Court of Justice did command them again to the Torture which they would not endure but affirmed their former Confession to be true I do find this Torment was so terrible to Flesh and Blood that it even startled the Courage of Captain Towerson himself who either to avoid the horrour of the Torment or the infamy of it confessed some words which the Factor of Cambello in the Isle of Seran Master John Weatherall should speak who being sent for and Examined on the day following the Captain was brought forth to justifie what before he had confessed who desiring Mr. Wedtheral to speak the truth and nothing but the truth as God should put it into his heart Mr. Weatheral was in a great Amazement and being ordered to undergo the torture of water and told that if water would not make him to confess fire should he prayed them to tell him what he should say or to write down what they themselves pleased and he would subscribe unto it but being told that he needed no Tutor and that they would make him to confess of himself having hoysted him up four several times and perceived that he knew not what to say they did read unto him the Confession of the other Men that had been Examined and asked him from point to point and he observing very well which way the world did go and that his Life must become a Sacrifice to the Rage and Rapine of the Dutch did still answer yea unto all On the 26 of February old stile the Prisoners were all brought into the great Hall of the Castle to be prepared for death by their Ministers being solemnly Condemned the day before some few of them found mercy and had their lives saved Captain Towerson was kept apart from the rest and so was Mr. Emanuel Tomson but some of them by writing found the opportunity to leave a Testimony of their Innocence behind amongst whom was Captain Towerson who in the end of a Bill or Obligation wrote these words Firmed by the Firm of me Gabriel Towerson now appointed to die guiltless of any thing that can justly be laid unto my Charge God forgive them their guilt and receive me into his Mercy Amen William Griggs also did leave a paper to be sent to Mr. Welden Agent at Banda which came afterwards into his hands the Tenour of it was in these Words We whose Names are here specified John Beaumont William Griggs Abel Price Robert Brown Prisoners in the Rotterdam being apprehended for Conspiracy for blowing up the Castle of Amboyna being adjudged to Death were through Torment constrained to speak that which we never meaned or imagined the which we take upon our deaths and salvation for they tortured us with that extreame torture of Fire and Water that Flesh and Blood could no wayes endure it and this we take upon our deaths that they have put us to death being guiltless of our Accusation So therefore we desire that those who imployed us may understand these wrongs and that you your selves would have a Care to look to your selves for their intent was to have brought you in also They asked concerning you and if we had been Tortured on that particular we must have confessed you also And so Farewell Master Welden having perused this Letter and observed the bloody and

inveterate Malice of the Dutch against the English did not long afterwards leave the Island of Banda to the Dutch and the English Factories in the Mollu●co Islands did follow his Example Samuel Colson also in a Psalter which he had did leave this Attestation of his Innocence The Japoners were taken and brought to Examination and being most Tyrannously Tortured were asked if the English had any hand in their Plot which Torture made them say yea Immediately Mr. Tomson Mr. Johnson Master Collins and John Clark were Examined and burned under the Arms Arm-Pits the Hands and Soals of the Feet with another most miserable Torment of Water some of them being almost Tortured to Death were forced to confess that which they never knew by reason of the great Torment which Flesh and Blood is not able to endure Then were the rest of the English Men called amongst whom I was one being wished to confess or else I must go to Torment they withall caused Master Johnson who was before Tormented to witness against me or otherwise he should be Tormented again which rather than he would endure he said he would confess whatsoever they would have him And for my part I also must confess that which I never knew or else I must go to Torment which rather than I would suffer I confessed that which as I shall be saved before Almighty God is not True being forced to it for fear of Torment At the last they did make us to bear witness against Captain Towerson and by the same violence for fear of most Cruel Torments they made Captain Towerson to confess the like for which we all must dye As I hope to have pardon for my sins I know no more than the Child unborn of this Business for which we all must suffer Written with my own hand the first of March Stilo novo Samuel Colson Other Attestations there are to the same effect which for brevities sake I omit I shall only insert that all things being prepared for Execution the Condemned were brought forth out of the Hall and passed along by the Chamber where the Acquitted and Pardoned were who stood in the door to give and take the farewell of their Country-Men that were then going to the Execution Making a little stay for this purpose they intreated and charged those that were saved to bear witness to their Friends in England of their Innocence and that they died not like Traytors but as so many Innocents meerly murthered by the Hollanders whom they prayed to God to forgive their blood-thirstiness and to have mercy on their own souls It is observable that being brought into the Yard their Sentence was there read unto them from a Gallery and from thence they were carried to the place of Execution together with Nine Japons and one Portugal whom their specious malice to give a better pretense unto their cruelty had contrived to be of the same Confederacy They did not go the ordinary and short way but round about through the Town and were guarded with five Companies of Souldiers Dutch and Amboyners and the Natives of the Island flocked together to behold this Triumph of the Dutch over the Innocent and Condemned English And it is not to be forgotten that on the day before the English desired of the Dutch Ministers that they might all receive the Sacrament as a Seal of the forgiveness of their sins which by no means would be granted them whereupon Master Colson said unto them You declare unto us the danger of dissimulation in this Case But tell us if we suffer guiltless being true believers in Christ Jesus what shall our Reward be The Minister Answered By how much the more Innocent you are by so much the Glorious shall be your Resurrection Upon that word Mr. Colson imbraced him and gave him his Purse and such money as was in it saying Sir God bless you tell ●he Governour I freely forgive him and intereat you to exhort him to repent of his Bloody Tragedy wrought upon us poor Innocent Souls and proceeding in his Discourse he spake with a loud voice in these words According to my Innocence in this Treason so O Lord pardon all the rest of my sins and if I be guilty thereof more or less let me never be partaker of thy Heavenly Joyes At which words every one or the rest cryed out Amen for me Amen for me good Lord. This being said each of them knowing whom they had Accused addressed themselves one unto another begging forgiveness for their false Accusations being wrested from them either by the pain or by the fear of Torture whereupon they all of them freely did forgive one another for none of them had been so falsely Accused but he himself had as falsely Accused another In particular George Sharrock knecled down to John Clark and craved forgiveness at his hands who freely did forgive him saying How shall I look to be forgiven of God if I should not forgive you having my self so falsely Accused Captain Towerson and Others This Master ●olson had contrived a Prayer in writing which he did read to his Fellows the night before their Suffering and now also at the place of Execution where having devoutly pronounced the fame he let the Paper fall from his hand which the Governour caused to be brought unto him and he kept it The Names of those that Suffered were Cap. Gabriel Towerson Samuel Colson Emanuel Tomson Timothy Iohnson Iohn Weatheral Iohn Clark William Griggs Iohn Fardo Abel Price Robert Brown They had prepared a Cloath of black Velvet for Captain Towerson's Body to fall upon after his Head had been severed from it which being stained and defaced with his Blood they sent to the English Company and put it on their Account They sent the Mourning Cloath to the English but the Scarlet of their Blood-Guiltiness they retained to themselves Having thus given you an Account of the Barbarous Cruelty of the Dutch in the East-Indies it is now high time to look to their Proceedings in the West-Indies where we shall find their Cruelty as unparallel'd as their Avarice The Perfidiousness and Ingratitude of the Hollanders to the English may be traced all along ever since the shook of their Obedience to the King of Spain even unto this present time But we will pass from their Hypocrisic and Cruelty practised abroad and look on their Actions at Home How almost but the very other day did they labour to impose upon His. Majesty and Sir George Downing his Envoy Extraordinary by delivering Papers to many Publick Ministers of State at the Hague as if His Majesty and his Envoy had been prepossessed with them when they had not the least notice of any such thing How have they seemed to be most desirous of Peace when at the same time they have omitted no dayes even those appropriated for Holy Duties to drive on their preparations for War How have they stood in defence of their violent and unjust Proceedings and

the Castle Upon this confession which made a great noyse amongst the Dutch and administred them a subject upon which to act even according to their own desires divers other Iaponers were examined and tortured This Examination continued four dayes during which time diverse English Men that belonged to the Factory had every day their ingress into the Castle and egress from it they heard of the torturing of the Japoners and of the crime laid to their charge never dreaming of the bait that was prepared for themselves at the same time there was Prisoner in the Castle one Abel Price an English Man for threatning in a drunken humour to set a Dutch Mans house on fire The Dutch being glad they had such an Instrument to work on in their Custody they showed him some of the Japoners whom most grievously they had Tortured and told him they had confessed that the English had combined with them for the taking of the Castle whereupon having put him also to the Torture they enforced him to confess whatsoever they desired of him Immediately upon this Captain Towerson and the rest of the English that were in Amboyna were sent for to the Governour of the Castle They in obedience to the command did all of them repair unto him one man excepted that was left to keep the Factory The Governour told Captain Towerson that he and many other of the English Nation were Accused of a Conspiracy to surprize the Castle and were to remain under Custody untill a further Tryal instantly they attached the person that was left at home in the Factory and the Merchandize of the English Company was taken into the Dutch Custody by Inventory All their Chests Boxes Books Writings and whatsoever was of any Value in the English House were seized on Captain Towerson was committed to his Chamber having a Guard of Dutch Souldiers Emanuel Thomson one of the Chiefest of the Factors was kept Prisoner in the Castle seven others viz. John Beaumont Edward Collins William Webber Ephraim Ramsey Timothy Johnson John Fardo and William Brown were sent aboard the Ships of the Hollanders then in Harbour some to one ship some to another and all made fast in Irons The rest of the English that were in the other Factories in the same Island were apprehended Samuel Colson John Clark George Sharrock were found in the Factory at Hitto and Edward Collins William Webber and John Sadler in the Factory at Larica who were all brought Prisoners to Amboyna John Powel John Weatheral and Thomas Ladbrook were apprehended at Cambello and John Beaumont William Griggs and Ephraim Ramsey at Loho and brought in Irons to Amboyna on the 20th day of February In the mean time the Governour and the Fiscal intend to lose no opportunity in the prosecution of the fine Plot that was contrived John Beaumont and Timothy Johnson are sent for from aboard the Unicorn Being come into the Castle Beaumont was left with a Guard in the Hall and Johnson was taken into the place of Torture where by and by to the great grief and astonishment of his heart and understanding Beaumont heard him to make a lamentable Out-cry and then to be silent for a little while and not long afterwards to be as loud in his hideous complaints if not louder then before After this Torture Abel Price the Chyrurgion who was first of all wracked was brought in to accuse him But Johnsons heart being as stout as it was innocent and not confessing any thing he was remanded to the Torture again where Beaumont heard him to roar and cease from roaring and then to roar out again enough to soften the hardest stones into compassion Having been a whole hour in this Purgatory of Fire and Water they brought him forth wet all over and burned in severall places of his body and so laid aside in a by-place in the Hall with a Souldier to watch him that he should speak to no man After him Emanuel Tompson was examined in a room adjoyning to that where Johnson had been Tortured where being an hour and a half in his Examination and his Torment he was carried another way and passed not through the Hall where Beaumont attended and every hour expected the dreadfull summons At the last Beaumont was called in and with deep protestations denying what was propounded to him he was made fast to the Rack and the cloath being tyed about his Neck and two men with Jarrs of Water in their hands being ready to pour it on his head the Governour commanded that he should be taken down again saying that he would forbear him a day or two longer because he was an Old Man The next day being Sunday Robert Brown was called in and being on the Rack and the Torment of Water given him he confessed all as the Fiscal asked After him was Edward Collins called in whose Hand and Feet being fastned to the Rack he prayed to be respited saying he would confess all But being let down with great Oaths and Execrations he protested his innocency as before yet told them that because he knew that by Torture they would make him to confess any thing though never so contrary to the Truth they should do him a great favour to tell him what they would have him to confess and he would acknowledge it to avoid the torture At which the Fiscal being angry he was hoysted up again and the Torment of Water being given him he was not able to endure it but prayed to be let down again to his Confession After which having deliberated a little with himself he confessed he had a hand in the Plot for the surprisal of the Castle and being demanded of the Fiscal whether Captain Towerson were not an Associate in the Conspiracy He Answered No Whereupon the Fiscal told him that he lied for said he Did not he call all of you of the English Factories unto him and tell you that the daily Affronts and Abuses of the Dutch had put a Plot into his head and that he wanted nothing but your Consent and Secrecy A Dutch Merchant standing by said And did not you all swear upon the Bible to be secret to him Collins with great Protestations replyed that he knew nothing at all of it Being then delivered again into the hands of the Executioner the sense of the late Torture so prevailed upon him that he confessed all to be true which they had spoken Being thus respited he was demanded whether the President of the English at Iaccatra or Master Welden Agent for the English at Banda were not privy to the business to which he again answered No Afterwards the Fiscal propounded other Interrogatories unto him and perceiving that Collins knew not what answer to make he helped him to confess those things which he thought most conducing to his purpose Next to him was Samuel Colson brought in who for fear of the pain when he saw Edward Collins come forth chose rather to deny nothing that was propounded