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" all ; but, being tortured, made a second confession. The 
next morning I sent him to execution. As he went out of 
" our gates the Javans (who do much rejoice when thej see 
" a Chinese go to execution, as also the Chinese do when 
" they see a Javan go to his death) reviled him ; but he 
i " would answer again, saying, The Englishmen were rich 
" and the Cliinese poor, therefore why should they not steal 
'■' from the English if they could ? The next day the Admiral 
" (Sir James Lancaster) took another of them, and sent him 
" to me, who knew there was but one way with him, and 
" therefore he resolved with himself not to confess any thing 
" to us. He was found hid in a privy, and this was he that 
" put fire to our house. He was a goldsmith, and confessed 
" to the Admiral he had clipped many rials, and also coined 
" some counterfeits : some things he confessed to him con- 
" cerning our matter, but not much ; but he would tell zis 
" nothing. AVherefore, because of his sullenness, and that 
" it was he that fired us, I caused him to be burned under 
" the nails of his thumbs, fingers, and toes, with sharp hot 
" irons, and the nails to be tore off ; and because he never 
" blinked at that, we thought that his hands and legs had 
" been numbed with tying, wherefore we burned him in the 
" hands, arms, shoulders, and neck, but all was one with 
" him : then we burned him quite through the hands, and 
" with rasps of iron tore out the flesh and sinews. After that 
" I caused them to knock the edges of his shin bones with 
" hot searing irons ; then I caused cold screws of iron to be 
" screwed into the bones of his arms, and suddenly to be 
" snatched out ; after that, all the bones of his fingers and 
" toes to be broken with pincers : yet for all this he never 
