Chap. II. between the Inhabitants of Great-Britairi, 
c. 
panies during the Time fixed for the Continuance of 
this Treaty. 
That if in any of the Faftories of the Indies belonging 
either to the Englife or Dutch , it Ihould fall out by Death 
or other Accidents, that none Ihould be left to take 
Care of the Effefts in the Faftory, that then they fiiould 
be preferved by, and juftly accounted for by the Members 
of the other Factory-, that this Treaty fhall endure for 
twenty Years, and in cafe any Difputes fhall arife not- 
withftanding thereof, which cannot be either decided or 
accommodated by the Councils of the faid Companies, 
his Britanick Majefty, and the States-General, are hum- 
bly defired to take the fame under their Cognizance, and 
finally, to adjult and determine them. All thofe Articles 
were to be faithfully and inviolably obferved on both 
Sides, according to the Intention of the faid Treaty, and 
the fame to be ratified by his Majefty in one Month. 
This Treaty was accordingly ratified by King James , on 
the 1 6th of July 1619, under his own Fland, and fealed 
with his Broad-Seal : In this Ratification his Majefty promifed 
not to grant any Charter or Powers to any other Company 
during the Continuance of this Treaty. 
One would have imagined that all Things muft now 
have gone on harmonioufly and peaceably, and that an 
End had been put to all the Difputes between the Englifh 
and Dutch Companies for twenty Years at leaft : But it 
fell out quite otherwife ; for the Dutch General of the Eaft- 
India Company having a Fleet of large Ships under his 
Command, attacked Lantore , and having defeated the 
Natives, fired the Town, plundered the Englifh Factory, 
took away the Cloth, Money, and Bullion, belonging to 
the Eaji-India Company, together with twenty-three thou- 
. land Pounds Weight of Mace, and one hundred and fifty 
thoufand Pounds of Nutmegs. The Englifh Factors that 
were fettled there, were ftripp’d naked, bound, beaten, 
thrown over the Town- Wall, and afterwards dragged 
through the Streets in Chains. The Faftory of Poolaroon 
had the fame Fate ; and thus all things were in a worfe 
State after this Treaty than they were before in the Indies. 
What feems to be moft extraordinary and aftonilhing is, 
that the Dutch Eaft-India Company publilhed in Holland 
a Defence or Vindication of thefe Proceedings, in which they 
alledge, that having a prior Right to thefe Ifiands, this 
could not be taken away by any fubfequent Aft of the In- 
habitants, who were no longer their own Mailers; that 
this War was profecuted again ft the Natives as Principals, 
and againft the Englifh as Auxiliaries only. To this the 
Englifh publilhed an Anfwer, in which they abfolutely de- 
nied, that the Inhabitants of the Illand of Banda ever fub- 
mitted chemfelves to the Dutch , and infilled on their legal 
Title to that Country. 
But it does not appear, that the Government ever inter- 
fered properly in this Affair, or demanded juft Satisfaction 
from the States of Holland , which might perhaps be ow- 
ing to the perplexed Circumftances of crur Adminiftration, 
and the Differences that had arifen between King James 
and his Parliament. But if this ill Ufage was hard to be 
born, there followed foon after much worfe, when, to take 
from the Englifh the ftpall Remains of the Spice Trade, 
and to monopolize entirely a Commerce of fuch Import- 
ance into their own Hands, the Dutch were guilty of fuch 
unheard of Barbarities in Amboyna, as tho’ they may be 
forgiven, yet ought never to be forgot; and yet we find 
them very Dightly palled over, even in thofe W orks where 
we might reafonably expeft the fulleft Accounts of them, 
which is probably owing to the Inclination fome Writers 
have to hide the Faults of their Neighbours, and to pub- 
lifh the Exceffes of no Government but their own. 
Yet as at the very Time it happened; the Eaft-India 
Company here took Care to give a full and large Account 
of the whole Tranfaftion, from fuch Authorities as can- 
not be quell ioned, it feems but reafonable that for the 
fake of Truth, and the perpetual Prefervation of fo au- 
thentick and curious a Piece, which otherwife as a Pam- 
phlet may be in Danger of being loft, as well as for other 
Reafons which fhall be expreffed hereafter, we Ihould in- 
fert it intire. It is indeed of fome Length, and delivered 
in an uncouth and antiquated Stile ; but however, it is 
better it Ihould Hand fo, than that w;e Ihould run any 
Numb. 59, 
Rifqile of altering the Fafts, by endeavouring to arfc'erid 
the Language in which they are expreffed. 
6 . Amboyna is an Ifland lying near Seram, of the Com™ 
pafs of forty Leagues, and giveth Name alfo to fome other 
Imall Elands adjacent. It beareth Cloves ; for gathering 
and buying in whereof, the Englifh Company, for their 
part, had planted five feveral Factories : The Head and 
Rendezvous of all at the Town of Amboyna ; and therein 
firft Mailer George Mufchamp , and afterward Mailer Ga- 
briel flower fort , their Agents, with Directions over the 
fmaller Factories at Hitto and Larica upon the fame Ifland; 
and at Lobo and Cambello upon a Point of their neighbour- 
ing Eland of Seran. Upon thefe Elands of Amboyna , and 
the Point of Seran , the Dutch have four Forts ; the chief 
of all is at the faid Town of Amboyna, and is very ftrong; 
having four Points, or Bullwarks, with their Curtains j 
and upon each of thefe Points fix great Pieces of Ordnance 
mounted, moll of them of Brafs. The one Side of this 
Callle is walhed by the Sea, and the other is divided by 
the Land, with a Ditch of four or five Fathom broad, very 
deep, and filled with the Sea. The Garrifon of this City 
confilleth of about two hundred Dutch Soldiers, and a 
Company of free Burghers. Belides thefe, there is always 
a matter of three or four hundred Mardikers in the Town, 
ready to ferve the Callle at an Hour’s warning. There 
lie alfo in the Road, diverfe good Ships belonging to the 
Dutch , as well for the Guard of the Place by Sea, as for 
the Occafion of Traffick, this being the chief Rendezvous 
as well for the Eland of Banda , as for the reft: of Amboy- 
na. Here the Englifh lived not in the Callle, but under 
Protection thereof, in a Houfe of their own, in the Town, 
holding themfelves fafe, as well in refpeft of the ancient 
Bonds of Amity between both Nations, as of the ftrift 
Conjunction made by the late Treaty before mentioned. 
They continued here two Years converfmg and trading 
together, with the Dutch , by virtue of the faid Treaty, 
in which Time there fell out feveral Differences and De- 
bates between them ; the Englifh complaining, that the 
Dutch did not only lavifh away much Money in Building 
and unneceffary Expences upon the Forts, and otherwife, 
and bring large and un reafonable Reckonings thereof to 
the common- Account, but alfo did, for their Part, pay 
the Garrifon with Victuals and Cloth of Coromandel , which 
they put off to the Soldiers at three or four Times the 
Value it coll them, yet would not allow of the Englifh 
Company’s Part of the fame Charge, but only in ready 
Money, thereby drawing from the Englifh more than two 
Thirds of the whole true Charge. Hereupon, and upon 
the like Occaficns, grew fome Difcontents and Difputes, 
and the Complaints were fent to Jaccatra , in the Eland of 
Java Major , to the Council of Defence of both Nations 
there refiding, who alfo not agreeing upon the Points in 
Difference, fent the fame hither over into Europe , to be 
decided by both Companies here, or, in Default of their 
Agreement, by the King’s Majefty, and the Lords the 
States-General, according to an Article of the Treaty of 
the Year 1619 on this Behalf. In the mean Time, the 
Difcontent between the Englifh and the Dutch about thefe 
and other Differences continued, and daily increafed, until 
at laft there was a Sword found to cut in funder that Knot 
at once which the tedious Difputes of Amboyna and Jacca- 
tra could not untie; and this was ufed in the Manner as 
followeth. 
About the nth of February 1622, O. S. a Japonefe 
Soldier of the Dutch in their Callle of Amboyna , walking 
in the Night upon the Wall, came to the Centinel, and 
there, among other Talk, afked him fome Queftions 
touching the Strength of the Callle, and the People that 
were therein. It is here to be obferved, that thofe Japo- 
nefe did for the moll Part ferve the Dutch as Soldiers, yet 
were not of their trufty Bands always lodged in the Callle, 
but upon Occafion called out of the Town to afiift: the 
Watch. This Japonefe aforefaid, was, for his faid Confe- 
rence with the Centinel, apprehended upon Sufpicion of 
Treafon, and put to the Torture ; thereby he was brought 
to confefs himfelf and fundry others of his Countrymen 
there, to have contrived the taking of the Callle, Here* 
upon other Japonefe were examined and tortured, as alfo 
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