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the Englifli Eafl-India company the ifle of Poleroon in the ftate it is 

 now in. 



III) We decree and ordain, that the Dutch company (hall pay to the 

 EngUfh company here in London LSjjOOO fterUng. 



IV) As to the complaints and demands made in the name of fome 

 private EngHflimen, who complain of having received injury and dam- 

 age at Amboyna in the years 1622-3, after having heard and confider- 

 ed the matters which have been alleged and exhibited by the above 

 mentioned deputies of the Dutch company in their own defence ; and 

 we being defirous that no relids of complaint fhould remain, do, by 

 virtue of the full powers and authority aforefaid, appoint and ordain, 

 that all complaint, adion, and damage of the Englifh whomfoever, 

 whether public or private, on the fcore of any injury or damage which 

 they pretend to have fuffered at Amboyna in the year 1622 of the 

 Englifli flile, and 1623 new ftile, may be made void, terminated, and 

 committed to oblivion. And that no perfon fhall enter any adion on 

 that account, nor moleft, difturb, or vex, the faid Dutch company, nor 

 any Dutchmen on that pretext. And, on the other hand, we alfo de- 

 clare and ordain, that the faid Dutch company fhall pay here at Lon- 

 don, before the firfl of January next, the fum of L3625 fterling, viz. 

 to the nephew and adminiftrator of the effeds of Gabriel Towerfon, late 

 of Amboyna, deceafed, L700. And in like fort to the reprefentatives 

 of the other fufferers in the cruel mafiacre and tortures at Amboyna, 

 fundry different fums to make up the fum total of L3625. And on this 

 confideration we iniifl that their adions or fuits be altogether fet aiide 

 and cancelled, fo as never to be revived hereafter by any perfon whom- 

 foever. 



In witnefs whereof we have fubfcribed thefe prefents, and lealed them 

 with our feals, the 30th of Augufl, Englifh ftile, 1654. 



jfobn Exton, &c. (L. S.) 



Andrian Van Aelmonde, 8tc. (L. S^) 



Upon this famous award, very little remark is neceffary. Certainly 

 Cromwell had the Dutch at this time very much in his power : yet, on 

 the other hand, it is certain, that the Dutch Eaft-India company had 

 committed many outrages on the Englifli company, to their very great 

 damage, whereby they had brought our company into very low cir- 

 cumftances. It is moreover but too evident, that even fuppofing the 

 fads alleged againft the Englifh at Amboyna had been all clearly made 

 out, yet the barbarities and cruelties committed there againfl: them by 

 the Dutch were abfolutely unjuftifiable in the higheft degree. But as the 

 bufinefs of Amboyna has been fo frequently and unreaibnably brought 

 on the flage againft: the whole Dutch nation, it is but reafonable it 

 fliould be hereafter buried in oblivion. 



This year an ad of the protedor's parliament limited the number of 



