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carrying them away For Slaves'; yea, burning two of 
their Houfes, one at Loho, and another at Manichels % 
for which, when the Governor went out with a Fleet to 
crave -Juftice and Reparation, he was braved by the 
Tarnatanes with a ftronger Fleet than his own ; yea, 
they threatened to come with a hundred Curricurries 
againft Amboyna . 
“ This Dealing of the Author is like the former about 
the Treaty of Peace with the Tidorians , and Truce with 
the Spaniards ; for when the Governor of Amboyna fet 
forth the Fleet of Curricurries, before the Apprehenfion 
of the Englifh , he flood in good Terms with the Tama- 
tames at Loho , neither of the Factories here mentioned 
being then burnt, or injured ; the Governor then went 
only, according to his yearly Cuftom, to vifit the Skirts 
and Out-parts of Amboyna , and had no Affront offered 
him. After that upon occafion of a Slave of the Englifh 
that ran away ; and being afterwards laid hold on, was 
refeued by a reputed holy Man of, or near that Part ; 
the Englifh craved Affiance of the Dutch Governor, 
who did his beft, but was therein abufed by thofe of 
Loho ; and not only fome of his Men outraged by the 
Englifh Fador, but M. Beamont , to whom this Slave 
belonged, was Way-laid by the People of the holy 
Man ; and inftead of him one of the Servants of the 
Dutch was flain between Camhello and Loho . The next 
Day alfo was Beamont himfelf affailed, and (hot in the 
Hand by the fame holy Man’s People, who alfo a little 
before did their beft to kill William Griggs, another of 
the Englifh Factors, that finding the laid Slave at Loho, 
laid hold on him there. Upon this Occafion both the 
Englifh and Dutch left their Fadory at Loho , which was 
fhortly after burnt by the Tarnatanes. 
44 That other, touching the burning the Fadory at 
Manichels , is more grofsly applied than the former ; for 
that Fadory was burned after the Englifh were appre- 
hended ; befides that, this Author diffembleth, that 
there was a vehement and common Sufpicion at Am- 
boyna, that this Fadory at Manichels was burnt, not by 
the Tarnatanes, but by the Dutch Factor himfelf, who 
being there alone, was firft faid to have conveyed away 
the Goods of the Dutch and Englifh there for his own 
Ufe, and then to have burnt the Fadory, laying the 
Fad upon the Tarnatanes. After this ended, the Go- 
vernor of Amboyna made out a Fleet of Curricurries to 
procure Reparations of thefe Exceffes, and therein, not 
going fo ftrong as he might, was braved by thofe Tar- 
natanes of Amboyna ; but this was after the Apprehen- 
fion and Execution of the Englifh, and fo is as honeftly 
applied to move Sufpicion in this Place, as the joint 
Quarrel of the Englifh and Dutch with thofe of Loho, 
beginning upon occafion of the Englifh ; and as the 
Burning of the Fadory at Manichels, done after the 
Englifh were apprehended and imprifoned. As for the 
Threats of the Tarnatanes here mentioned, that they 
would come with an hundred Curricurries againft Am- 
boyna, it is, for ought any of the Englifh ever heard, a 
mere Fidion ; at moft, it was a vain Brag, and fuch as 
could not affright the Governor, that knoweth well that 
the Tarnatanes have no Gun-powder, nor other Provi- 
fions, for fuch an Exploit ; and yet are far beyond the 
Governor of Amboyna for Number of Curricurries, be- 
fides the Dutch Ships and Caftles. 
44 The next Caufe of Sufpicion this Author makes to be 
an idle Report in the Eaft Parts beyond Banda, uncer- 
tain which, or by whom, that the Dutch were already 
quit of their Caftle at Amboyna : A poor pretence, and 
not worthy to be anfwered. Yet ftill farther, difeover- 
ing what Penury of good Matter this Author had, that 
he was fain to borrow fuch crazy Stuff. But the laft, 
and that which is exprefsly applied to the Englifh is, that 
about this time the Dutch underftood that thofe of Loho 
and Cambello held great and fecret Correfpondence with 
Lnglifh. How did the Dutch underftand this ? or 
why does not this Author exprefs the particular Proof 
in a Matter fo pertinent? It is true, the ' EngUfh had 
their Fadories at Loho and Camhello, but in the fame 
Houfes with tiie Dutch, and for their joi nt Account, -and 
had Traffick with the Country People as the Dutch 
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had; but what fecret Correfpondence is this ? or what 
Danger to the Dutch ? Was the Burning of the Fado- 
ries, which belonged to the Englifh as well as to the 
Dutch, a Note of good Intelligence between the EngUfh 
and the Incendiaries ? What was that for Gorrefpon- 
dency with thofe of Loho, when at one time they Way- 
laid M. Beamont to kill him, and at another time ftiot 
him in the Hand with an Arrow ; offered to kill JViU 
Ham Griggs, and from Time to Time out-raged our 
People equally with, and as the Dutch ? Further, our 
People, as well as the Dutch , now diffolved their Fac- 
tory at Loho, and were come all thence; What Letters 
or Meffages did they ever fend thither afterwards ? or 
how, or by what means maintained they this Correfpon- 
dence ? Yet this Was underftood, perhaps, by the Go- 
vernor’s Dreams ; for that, as he afterwards told Mr. 
Welden, Hill, and Cartwright, that came thither from 
Banda, was a Motive to him to examine the firft Japon, 
which Was the Beginning of the whole Procefs. 
“ The Author having thus quitted himfelf in this Pre- 
face, proceedeth to the Matter itfelf, firft fetting down 
the Occafion and Manner of the Difcovery of this pre- 
tended Plot, and then the Confeffions of the Japonefe, 
and of the Englifh ; but he maketh no mention of any 
Torture ufed upon the Japonefe that firft confeffed, nor 
of any other Indicium or Preemption to torture or 
examine that Japonefe ; but only his curious queftiohincr 9 
touching the fitting and changing of the Watch, and of 
the Number of the Soldiers in the Caftle, which fhewed 
what fufficient Indicium and Caufe it was to torture a 
Soldier of their own that fetved them, had Reafon to 
underftand the Courfe of their Watches, and the Strength 
of the Aid he might exped, if any Hidden Attempt 
flionld happen in his Quarter, is eafily to be judged ; 
and how this poor Man, and the reft of his Countrymen 
were tortured, appeareth in the Englifh Relation. Here 
alfo is concealed, by What manner and kind of Queftions 
this and the other Japonefe were led along in their Con- 
feffions, to make up the Plot juft as the Dutch had de- 
vifed it ; and alfo what other Anfwers they made before 
they were thus direded : That they and the Englifh both 
confeffed what the Dutch Would have them, is no Doubt 
nor Wonder, being fo tormented, and feared with Tor- 
ture, etia’m Innocent es cogit mentiri dolor. But What 
Likelihood or Poffibility there is of the Truth of their 
Confeffions, if yet they confeffed, as is here related, may 
appear by that which hath already been difeburfed in 
this Point towards the End of the EngUfh Relation, 
which, for Brevity fake, is here forborn to be repeated ; 
yet fome Circumftances, which the Dutch Relation hath 
more than the Englifh , deferve here to be examined. 
“ And firft, that of Abel Price, the Englifh Barber, 
who is made the Meffenger and Negotiator of this 
Practice with the Japonefe : It is true, that he, and he 
alone, of all the Englifh , had fome kind of Convcrfa- 
tion with fome of the Japonefe ; that is, would dice and 
drink with them, as he likeWife did with other Blacks, 
and with the Dutch alfo : But is it credible, that Mr. 
Towerfon would commit any thing of Moment, nay, fo 
dangerous a Matter as this, to a drunken, debauched Sot, 
who alfo, as the Englifo that were there conftantly re- 
port, threatened to cut his, the Paid Tower fonh, Throat, 
for that he had punifhed him for his Mifdemeanors r 
Further, this Relation maketh this Abel Price confefs, 
that all the Englifh Merchants in the OUt-fadbries Were 
privy and acceffary to this pretended Treafon ; yet the 
Governor ahd Fifcal, in their own Procefs, found John 
Powel, Ephraim Ramfey, and two others, gUiltlefs. 
44 After Price's Confeffidn, he fets down the general 
Subftaiice of all the Confeffions in one Body, where, 
firft, having affighed Mr. Towerfon^. Preface to the reft, 
to induce them totheExpIoit, he tells us, that they 
made doubt of the Point of Poffibility, as well they 
might, knowing the Weakness of- their own Part, and 
impregnable Strength of the- DM, • in- Comp&rifon of 
theirs ; for SatisfadiOn of which their Doubt/ he faith, 
Mr. Towerfon told them, that Ke had already won the 
Japonefe within the Caftle to his Purpofe, and that he 
would attempt this Matter, not whfen tht Dutch wefe 1 at 
