Chap. I. 
Commodore Roggewei n. 
4 of it in the following Manner ; viz. 800 Men were to 
4 have polled themfelves at Crolot on the Mill River , be-. 
4 yond the advanced Guard of the Fort Ryfwyk ; 2000 
4 Men were to have marched into the Country of the Chief 
4 Peter d’Alida , particularly to Grogol , and the Places in 
4 its Neighbourhood ; and another Body of 1000 Men was 
6 to have defiled to Mangadova , Pie fang , Batu, and the 
4 Places in that Neighbourhood. To thefe feveral Bodies 
4 it was agreed that all the reft of the Confpirators fhould 
4 have joined themfelves from the different Retreats in 
4 which they were concealed, in Places adjacent to Bata- 
4 via , that, by the Junction of fo great a Force, they 
4 might have executed their Schemes in their full Extent, 
4 and maintained themfelves in Poffeffion. In cafe they 
4 had fucceeded in their Defign, they were to have been, 
4 as their own Letters fufficiently fhew, fupported and fuf- 
4 tained by another Body of upwards of 10,000 Baleyans , 
4 whom they had engaged to pafs the Mountains on the 
c Side of Cadiri , by Maturin on the South Side, and by 
c Campongbaru , in order to have taken Poll on the Moun- 
4 tain of Guru. In cafe it fhould have fo happened, that 
4 the Inhabitants of Campongbaru had refufed to fiibmit, 
4 the Baleyans had Orders to put them all to the Sword, 
4 and to march immediately towards the City, to have com- 
4 pleted the Maffacre of all fuch as fhould have oppofed 
4 them, and totally to have exterminated the Chriftians, 
4 that the Company might not only have been deprived of 
4 their Dominions for the prefent, but prevented from ever 
4 recovering them, or carrying on the fmallefl Commerce 
4 in thefe Parts. 
4 Peter Ether f eld had been folicited, for two Years to- 
4 gether, to enter into this wicked Defign, by the fecond 
4 Criminal Catadia , who had fpent fix Years in framing it; 
4 during which time he had been continually travelling up- 
4 and-down the Country, and fixing fecret Correfpondencies 
4 for the bringing about his Purpofe ; and, if he did not 
4 carry things foon into Execution, it was for no other Rea- 
4 fon, but becaufe he had a mind to fee what Turn the War 
4 of Java would take, that he might make an Advantage 
4 of it. The Prifoner May a Pray a was of very great Ufe 
4 to the Rebels, having had an Opportunity of informing 
4 himfelf very exaltly as to the Forces of the Company, and 
4 their Refolutions, while he lived heretofore as Clerk with 
4 Mr. John Mantien , who was Major in the Company’s 
4 Service. The Prifoners Pomboain , Grambrek , and Mietas y 
4 had alfo a perfect Knowledge of all thefe villainous De- 
4 figns, and contributed all in their Power towards carrying 
4 on this Confpiracy, having often affifted at the Delibera- 
4 tions, that were held at the Houfe of Peter Erberfeld , as 
4 is before-mentioned. 
4 All the Points of this Confpiracy, however abominable 
4 and amazing, are but too well eftablifhed as Falls, by the 
4 Proofs that have been obtained ; nay, fome of the Chiefs 
4 were fo audacious, as to divulge their Defign, believing, 
4 no doubt, that they had taken their Meafures fo effellu- 
4 ally, that it was not poffible for them to mifs of Succefs. 
4 Of this, it is certain, the Company had felt the fad Expe- 
4 rience, if, through the Mercy of the Divine Providence, 
4 always watchful over the Elelt, this terrible Confpiracy 
4 had not been traverfed • info much that every Circumftance 
4 was difcovered,'and all the Accomplices fecured, without 
4 the leaft Emotion happening amongft their numerous Ad- 
4 herents. The Enormity of this Defign becomes fo much 
4 the deeper, when it is confidered, that the Confpirators 
4 had fixed on a Friday for the Execution of their Defign, 
4 which is the Mohammedans Sabbath , on which it is not 
4 lawful for them to fined human Blood ; inafmuch as they 
4 ought then to be taken up with the Alls of their Reli- 
4 gion : But they thought, no doubt, they fhould be able 
4 to expiate this Sacrilege, by the butchering fuch a Num- 
4 ber of Chriftians. 
4 That which is mod abominable in this execrable Affair 
4 rails upon Peter Erberfeld , who is, or at leaft has always 
4 given himfeli out to be, a Chriftian ; and yet has forgot 
4 himfelf to fuch a degree, as to put himfelf at the Plead of 
4 a Body of Rebels and Affaffins, who were to have cut 
4 the Throats of his Superiors, and of his Brethren, at the 
4 fame time that he was guilty of the blacken: Ingratitude, 
4 fince his Father was heretofore a Member of the Provin- 
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4 cial College, and a Captain 'of Horfe. In fpite of all thefe 
4 Circumftahces, which ought moll certainly to have re- 
4 drained him within the Bounds of his Duty towards his 
4 lawful Sovereign, he has been wanting therein to fuch a 
degree, as to form the moft barbarous and wicked Defign, 
4 that was ever heard-of, Confifling, as himfelf has confeffed, 
4 in a fixed Refolution of butchering, without Diftinllion, 
4 every Chriftian in the Ifianci of Java , in order to make 
4 himfelf Mailer of the City and Ci tadel of Batavia. He 
4 ought, however, to know, that Heaven never Puffers fuch 
4 flagrant Offences to remain unpunifhed, but expofes fuch 
4 as are guilty of them to the fevered Chaflifements. 
4 We the Judges having heard and examined the Xnform- 
4 ation preferred ex officio by Henry van Steel , Droffard of 
4 the flat Country, againfl the before-mentioned Criminals, 
4 who have confeffed the Whole, and fubmitted themfelves 
4 voluntarily to this Conclufion ; it is therefore concluded, 
4 Regard being had to the before-mentioned Crimes, and 
4 all the Circumftances relating to them, and we hereby 
4 conclude and decree in Juftice, in the Name, and on the 
4 Part, of their High Mightineffes the States General of the 
4 United Provinces, that we condemn the before-mentioned 
4 Prifoners, with the Approbation of the Governor-General 
4 Mr. Swaardekroon , and of the Counfellors of the Indies , 
• to be tranfported to the Place before the Citadel, where 
4 it is ufual to execute Criminals, there to be delivered into 
4 the Hands of the Hangman, in order to receive their re- 
4 fpeltive Punifhments in the Manner following : The two 
4 Criminals Erberfeld and Catadia , otherwife ftyled Rading , 
4 Ihall be extended and bound each of them on a Crofs, 
4 where they Ihall each of them have their Right Hands 
4 cut off, and their Arms, Legs, and Breads, pinched with 
4 red-hot Pincers, till Pieces of the Fiefh are torn away. 
4 They fhall then have their Bellies ripped up from Bottom 
4 to Top, and their Hearts thrown in their Faces ; after 
4 which, their Heads fhall be cut off, and fixed upon a Poll; 
4 and their Bodies, being torn in Pieces, fhall be expofed to 
4 the Fowls of the Air without the City, in whatever Place 
4 the Government fhall pleafe to direll. 
4 The other four Criminals Maya Praya , Sana Suta , 
4 otherwife Wang fa , Suta PJiftra , and Layeck , are to be each 
4 of them bound upon a Crofs, and have their refpellive 
4 Right Hands cut off, their Arms, Thighs, and Breads, 
4 pinched, their Bellies ripped open, and their Hearts 
4 thrown in their Faces, and their Limbs expofed upon a 
4 Wheel in the ufual Places, there to become a Prey to 
4 Birds. The other ten Criminals fhall be each of them 
4 tied upon a Crofs on the Scaffold, and, in cafe there be 
4 not Room on the Scaffold itfeif, on a Place near it, where 
4 they fhall be broken alive, without receiving the Coup de 
4 Grace. They fhall be afterwards carried to the ordinary 
4 Place of Execution, and there expofed on a Wheel, and 
4 guarded fo long as they fhall live there ; and, after they 
4 expire, be left a Prey to the Birds. The other three, 
4 T 1 omboam , Grambiek , and Mitas , are condemned to be 
4 each of them tied to a Stake, and there ftrangled, till they 
4 are dead. Their Bodies fhall be then carried, like the 
4 reft, to the common Place of Execution, and there ex- 
4 pofed on Wheels, for the Nourifnment of the Birds. We 
4 likewife further condemn die faid Criminals to the Cofts 
4 and Expences of Juftice, and to the Confifcaribn of half 
4 their Effelts : This being paid, renouncing all further 
4 Pretenfions. Done and decreed in the Affembly of my 
4 Lords the Counfellors of Juftice, this Wednefday the 8th 
4 of April., all the Judges, except Mr. Craiv anger , being 
4 prefent.’ This Sentence was executed as pronounced, on 
Wednefday , April the 2 2d, 1722. 
In Procefs of Time, there were abundance of their Ac- 
complices difeovered, and, one after another, executed. 
The Houfe, in which Peter Erberfeld livyd, was pulled 
down, and razed to the Ground ; and, on that Side of it, 
which looked to the great Road, a Column of Infamy was 
erelted, on the Chapiter of which was placed a Death’s- 
head. There was alfo a Table placed on the faid Column, 
on which was engraved in five different Languages ; viz, 
in Dutch , Portuguefe , Malayan , JavaneJe , and Chinefe , the 
following Infcription : In this Place heretofore food the Houfe 
of that unworthy Praitcr Peter Erberfeld, on which Spot no 
other Houfe Jhall ft and henceforth for evermore . It wag 
4 D never 
