884 ' An hi ft or tea I Account of the Inter courfe Book I. 
-of Death, and in the Stroke of the Executioner. What ces, as any which they had received in the Time of Queen 
■horrible and unexampled Diffimulation was this ?■ If home Elizabeth , and for which the States expreffed as much 
one or more of them had been fo fearfully defperate, yet Gratitude and Thankfulnefs to that Monarch, as ever they 
would there not one amongft ten be found to think of the did to the Queen, and, as it clearly appears’ with juft as 
Judgment to come, whereunto he was then inftantly fum- much Sincerity. I would not, however, be underftood to 
moned, without Effoin, Bail or Mainprize? What! Had mean, that the Tragedy of Amboyna was acted in confe- 
they hope of Reprieve and Life, if they kept their Coun- quence of any Inftructions from Holland , , fmee that would 
tenance to the lalt ? let what Hope had Thomfon and the not only be unfair, but untrue; but then the Reafon of 
reft when Captain tower ford s Head was off? Nay, what this ought to be attended to, which was, that the Prince 
defire had Thomfon and Clark to live, being fo mangled of Orange was at the Head of their Affairs, and they could 
and martyr’d by the Torture? They were executed one not, under the Eye of their Stadtholder, take any fuch 
by one, and every one feveraliy, took it upon his Death, bloody Refolutions. But in the Indies they were at full 
that he was guiltlefs. Liberty, and there therefore the true Genius of the Nation 
Now to blanch and fmooth over all this rough and bar- difplayed itfelf ; and the Butch Writers, in thofe very 
barous Proceeding, it is here given out, that the Governor times boaft, that the General of the Eaft- India Company 
and Fifcal found iuch Evidence of the Plot, and dealt fo kept as great a Court, and made in every refped as mao- 
evenly in the Procefs, that they fpared not their own Peo- nificent an Appearance as the Prince of Orange himfeff 
pie, . having ufed fome of their native Dutchmen , partakers which plainly proves, that as they hated the Government 
of his 1 reafon, in the fame Manner as they did the Englifh ; of the Princes of Orange , fo they were willing that Stran- 
out tun, as well by the Relation here truly and faithfully gets fhould take notice of their Independency and Power 
fet down, grounded upon the fworn Teftimony of fix ere- in another Part of the World, where the Government was 
dible Wftneffes, as alfo by other fufficient Reports of di- in fuch Hands as they beft approved, 
verfe lately come out of thofe Parts, appeareth to be a Thefe things being remembered, let us now proceed to 
meer Tale, not one alledged by any in the Indies in ma- the Butch Account of the pretended Confpiracy at Am- 
ny Months after the Execution, but only invented and dif- boyna, addreffed in a Letter to a Friend of theirs here 
perfeci here for a Bucus, and a fair Colour upon the whole under the Title of a true Detail of the News that came out 
Caufe, and to make the World believe, that the Groupd of the Indies. 
of this barbarous and tyrannous Proceeding was a true 7. “ The very Caufes and Beginnings through which the 
Crime, and. not the unfatiable Covetoufnefs of the Hollan- “ Governor and Council eftablifhed in the Name of the 
^ ers -> by this cruel T reachery, to gain the foie Trade of “ United Netherlands in Amboyna came into Sufpicion that 
the Moluccas, Banda and Amboyna , which is already be- “ fomething was plotted againft the Province, did firft 
come the Event of this bloody Procefs. To add hereunto “ flow from the great Licentioufnefs of the Tarnatanes in 
by way of Aggravation, will be needlefs, the Pad is fo full “ Moluque and Amboyna , who, contrary to the Contract 
of odious and barbarous Inhumanity, executed by the “ of Alliance 1606, made with the High and Mighty 
Dutch, upon the Englifh Nation, in a Place where both “ Lords the States without our Confent and Knowledge* 
lived under Terms of Partnerfnip and great Amity, con- “ to make Peace with the King of Fidore , as alfo a Truce 
firmed by a moft folemn Treaty. . . “ with the Spaniards , their and our ancient Adverfaries 
It muft be confeffed, that this is in all refpeds a moft “ by which the faid Tarnatanes had too much call off all 
a ftom firing and furprizing Relation. That the Butch “ Refped, which they, both in regard of our Confederacy 
fhould be defirous of ingrofling the Spice-Trade, had no- “ and manifold Affiftance, did owe to this State. The 
thing in it but what might be eafily accounted for, be- “ Spaniard alfo was Mafter enough at Sea in the Moluccas 
caufe of the former Instances they had given us of their “ becaufe the Englifh Merchants there in the Eafi-Indies 
Avarice, that they fhould make no fcruple of attacking and “ were unwilling to furnifh us with Ships of War towards 
deftroying the Englifto that i^ere fettled in the Spice-Iflands, “ the common Defence, as they were bound to do, ac- 
and confequently ftood in the Way of their Defign, is “ cording to the Treaties 1619, to the Number of ten 
what might have been expected from their boundlels Am- “ through which the Voyages to Manilla coming to ceafe’ 
bition, by which they were become formibable, even to “ the Enemy traded there without any Interruption, and 
their own States; but that they fhould take this Method “ procured Power to fend Gallies, Ships and Pinnaces to 
which was at once the moft barbarous, the moft provoking, “ Molucca, with great Succours of People and Provifion, 
and the moft contrary to the folemn Treaty they had made, “ and that becaule again through the fame Default of 
is ftrange in the higheft Degree. But perhaps it may be “ the Englifh Merchants, there were no Ships of War kept 
accounted ft.ill Arranger, that, when they had done it, they “ as fhould have been. The Subjects of the King of Ter- 
durft juftify it, and juftify it even here; which however “ nate began to commit great Infolencies againftour Na- 
they did, which produced the Account we have given the “ tion, having outrageoufly affaulted divers of us divers 
Reader, as appears from that very Account which the “ ways, and alfo flain fome, and we, notwithftanding, 
Eaft-India Company were not at Liberty to publifti till “ would not obtain any Punifhment upon them ; and as 
the Butch made this Appeal to the Publick themfelves. “ one Outrage unpunifhed provokes more, through Hope 
After this, indeed, the publifliing of their Cafe could “ of the like Impunity, or other Confiderations,°fo were 
be no longer refufed them, efpecially as what they offered, “ the faid Tarnatanes of Amboyna dwelling at Loho , Cam - 
was fupported by the fulleft Proofs upon Oath, regiftred “ bello, and thofe near adjoining Places, proceeded farther, 
in the Court of Chancery. We fee from hence, the great “ and have armed themfelves at Sea, and invading divers 
Confequence of the Liberty of the Prefs ; had it been open “ Iflands and Places Handing under the Netherlands Go- 
at that Time, it had been impoflible to have hindred the “ vernor in Amboyna , fpoiling them, and killing our Sub- 
Nation from receiving ample Satisfaction for fuch a fia- “ jects, and taking others, and carrying them away For 
grant Injury,' fuch an intolerable Xnfult. But as it was, “ Slaves; and, notwithftanding the inftant Requeft of the 
we are told, there was a Party in King James ' s Court, “ Netherlands s Governor, no Satisfaction or Juftice hath 
that if they did not juftify, at lead excufed this horrid Fact, “ followed ; but the laid Tarnatanes are yet gone farther, 
from the Butch Account of it before-mentioned, which “ and openly threatened to murder the Butch Merchants, 
renders it abfolutely neceffary, that this Butch Account “ and to fpoil and burn the Lodge, or Factory, which our 
Iliould be likewife given to the Reader, not only to pre- “ People have many Years there enjoyed, fo that our 
vent any Sufpicion of Partiality, but that all the Circum- “ Merchants have taken out the Butch Goods to . avoid 
fiances of this Tragedy may appear in the cleared: Light, “ Damage ; and the Tarnatanes at Loho did actually fet 
there being fome of them which could only be fet forth “ on Fire and ruin the faid Netherlands Factory, 
by the Butch themfelves. “ In the Manichels , an Ifland being under the Province 
It may not be amifs, however, to obferve previous to “ of Amboyna , they have in like manner fhortly after 
the tranferibing this Butch Account, that at this Juncture “ burned the Netherlands Lodge, with the Lois of all the 
the States were actually demanding and receiving Affif- “ Goods therein. The Netherlands's Governor, that by 
tance from the Crown of Great Britain , and that too as “ his Prefence and Authority he might caufe fuch Rebel- 
jarge in its Nature, and as effectual in its Confequen- “ lions to ceafe, and to give Order for Time to coipe, arid 
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