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44 alfo to feek Satisfaction and Ptmiflament upon the afore- ft Englife Merchants, had alfo Knowledge of the laid Trea- 
“ faid- Infolencies, went towards Loho> y with a fmall Power 44 chery. Upon this full and uniform Examination and 
44 of Sloops, and coming thereabout, was met otherwife 44 ConfefTion of twelve Perfons, as well of the eleven Ja~ 
64 than was wont, by a Navy of Sloops of the Tarnatans 44 ponefe as one EnglifJj, the ilAGabrielTowerJon was called 
4t . of Loho, ftronger than his were ; thofe by their Confe- 44 to the Council, and there appearing, the fail Tower fin call- 
44 rences gave him well to know, how little Reverence 44 ed together all his People unto the Caftle, upon theRequeft 
44 they gave the Butch Governor : They braved him with- 44 of the General Council, who were then taken and impri- 
44 out any hope of Reftitution of any thing to come, fo 44 foned, except the faid GabrielTowerJon himfelf, to whom, 
44 that he was fain to return to his Caftle of Amboyna. By 44 at his Requefc, and in regard of his Quality, being chief 
44 reafon of thefe things, the faid 'Tarnatans became fo (tout 44 Merchant in Amboyna , in the Name of the Englijh Com- 
44 and daring, that they gave out openly, that they would 44 pany, his own Houle was allotted him for his fafe keep- 
44 come and fpoil our Subjects, by a general Army, with 44 ing and forth-coming ; and the faid Prifoners were all 
44 above an hundred Frigates : With thefe, they faid, they 44 lawfully and orderly examined j and it appeared by them 
44 would come againft Amboyna, to make an univerfal Spoil 44 jointly, according to their own Confeffion, every one 
44 of our People, through which there came a great Fear 44 having underwritten it with his own Hand as followeth : 
44 upon the Indians , Handing under the Subjection of the 44 Gabriel Tower [on, about New-year’s-day 1623, hav- 
44 High and Mighty Lords the States, as alfo over the 44 ing with him almoft all the Englijh Merchants of the 
44 Nether landers,. In the Iflands lying far Eaftward of 44 Foreign Cantore in Amboyna , affembled them in his 
44 Banda , it was alfo faid, and the News went currently 44 Chamber, and propounded to them, that he had fome.- 
44 there, that the Butch were fure enough quit of thC 44 thing of great Moment to impart unto them under the 
44 Caftle of Amboyna , and at that Time there was divers 44 Fidelity of an Oath to be taken before, for the keeping 
44 fecret Correfpondencies between the Indians and others, 44 fecret thereof, and being trufty therein, faying, it is ne« 
44 which gave us great Sufpicion. 44 ceffary fo to be ; for if the thing fhould come abroad 
44 By this means the Netherlands Governor and Council 44 which I fhall make known unto you, it will coft all our 
44 of Amboyna were moved to have fpecial Regard, and 
44 look narrowly into all things, feeing that it might thence 
44 be clearly gathered, that fomething might be plotted 
44 againft the State in Amboyna, and that the Indians of 
44 themfelves durft not offer to undertake any fuch great 
44 Defign without fome great Help of fome of Europe , 
44 either of Spaniards , Portugueze , or fome others ;and alfo 
44 they underftood, that thefe at Loho , Cambello , &c. had 
44 great fecret Correfpondence with the Englijh Merchants. 
44 When things were in fuch a State at Amboyna , there 
44 came forth, and was wonderfully difeovered in February 
44 1623, a horrible Confpiracy againft the Caftle and Per- 
44 fon of the Butch Governor, the whole State of Amboyna , 
44 and firft by the Apprehenfion of a certain Japonefe , 
44 who, at an unfeafonable Time, was often feen upon the 
44 Wall of the Caftle, where he alfo over-curioufly enqui- 
44 red of the moft unfkilful and fillieft Soldiers, touching 
44 the Setting and Change of the Watch, and what Num- 
44 ber of People might be in the Caftle, and many other 
44 things : Whereupon in the very ACt the faid JaponeJe 
44 was apprehended, and being examined of many Circum- 
44 fiances, he confeffed, that the JaponeJe Soldiers under 
44 our Service, had determined to make themfelves Mafters 
44 of the Caftle, and that they fhould have fet upon this by 
44 the Help of the Englijh , who had folicited them unto 
44 it y and that he, with all the other JaponeJe in the Eng- 
44 lijh Houfe, oftentimes, within three Months before, 
44 had conferred with the Englijh, touching the Manner 
44 whereby they lliould bring this Treachery to pafs. Then 
44 all the JaponeJe Soldiers, who were in our Service, were 
44 difarmed and .imprifoned ; and by Examination of them 
44 all, it appeared plainly, by an orderly and joint Confef- 
44 fion, that all the faid JaponeJe , upon the Treaty of Ga- 
44 briel Tower Jon, and other Englijh Merchants and Officers, 
44 agreed to affift the faid Englijh to betray the faid Caftle, 
44 and to give it over into the Englijh Power ; and that 
44 Gabriel Towerjon , and Abel Price , an Englijla Chirur- 
44 geon, and other Englijh, dealt often with them, on the 
44 Ways and Means how they fhould work it. 
« The faid Abel Price being before imprifoned for a foul 
44 and execrable Faff, and yet remaining fo confined, and 
44 although it appeared fufficiently to the Governor and 
44 Council of Amboyna , out of the Confeffion of the Japo- 
44 neje , what the faid Gabriel Towerjon , with his Merchants 
44 and other Accomplices had before refolved to do, and 
44 that the Council had fufficient Information to imprifon 
44 them all, yet the General Council would not precipitate, 
44 but commanded the faid Abel Price , then a Prifoner, to 
44 come before the Council ; and after the Places, Perfons 
44 and Time nominated to him, where and when he had 
44 dealt with the JaponeJe and other Englijh about the faid 
V Treaebery it was alfo from him well underftood, how 
44 foe and another Japonefe had perfuaded all the Japonefe 
44 to confent to this Villany ; and that confequently the 
faid Towerjon , as the firft Author, and all , th.e other 
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44 Lives : Whereupon the holy Gofpel was produced, upon 
44 which every one who was prefent did fwear Secrefy and 
44 Fidelity, as was required. Then Towerjon opened to the 
44 Confpirators, how he had a Way and Means to make 
44 himfelf Mafter of the Caftle of Amboyna ; and whereas 
44 fome prefent made it difficult to do, being too weak for 
44 it ; the faid Towerjon anfwered, that he had already won 
44 to his Purpofe the JaponeJe Soldiers, who were in the 
44 Caftle, and that they fhould execute his Purpofe, when 
44 the Butch , who were in the Caftle, were in their greateft 
44 Weaknefs, and worft provided, or when the Governor 
44 fhould be abfent about fome Exploit ; and that they 
44 fhould wait till fome Englijh Ships or Ship were in Am- 
44 boyna, whofe People he might employ in this Attempt; 
44 as alfo, when all other the Englijh Merchants and Slaves 
44 of the Foreign Cantore in Amboyna fhould be fent for to 
44 the Caftle ; and faid farther, that he knew how to get 
44 Men enough, and they fhould leave this to his Care, and 
44 themfelves do their beft ; and that they of Lobo fhould 
44 alfo come to help him, with certain Correcurries, &c. 
44 Upon which Inducements, all that were prefent fwore 
44 to affift Towerjon herein, and concerning the Manner of 
44 Execution ; the faid Towerjon had preferibed to the 
44 Japonefe , who were in the Caftle, that they fhould fend 
44 to every Point of the Bulwarks two Men, and the reft in 
44 the Court fhould attend the Governor, and murder him ; 
44 and that at the Sign which fhould be given to the Eng- 
44 lijh , they fhould make themfelves Mafters of every Point 
44 of the Bulwark, and kill all who fhould refift, and im- 
44 prifon the reft ; and further, fhould take and divide be- 
44 tween themfelves and the JaponeJe the Goods of the 
44 Eajl-India Company, except one thoufand Rials of 
44 Eights, which every Japon fhould have before ; and 
44 that they fhould kill the Citizens, who would not con- 
44 fent with them, and do them all the Mifchief they could ; 
44 and touching the Time, he had not yet certainly fet it ; 
44 but that there fhould fuddenly be another Affembly of 
44 the Confpirators, when Gabriel Towerjon would give 
44 Orders for all things, and would give a Sign to the Ja - 
44 ponefe , whereupon, when they fhewed it, they fhould 
44 begin the Work within. 
44 The faid Gabriel Towerjon being afked in particular, 
44 what moved him to fuch a wicked Fad ? He anfwered, 
44 the Defire of Honour and Profit: Being farther de- 
44 manded, who fhould enjoy the Honour and Profit, and 
44 for whom he would have taken the Caftle ? he anfwered, 
44 that if he did obtain his Defire, he fhould prefently have 
44 advertifed thofe of his Nation being in Batavia , and 
44 called for their Help, who, if they had fent him Suc- 
44 cour, he would have kept the Caftle for his own Com- 
44 pany, viz. the Englijh Eajl-India Company, and if not, 
44 he would have held it for himfelf, and have endeavour- 
44 ed a Peace with the Indians *, that fo, by the one Means, 
44 and the other, he might attain his Purpofe. After the 
44 Examination of Towerjon was ended, the Butch Cover- 
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