%>4 An hiftorical Account of the Intercourle Book L 
64 and faith*, that the Lords States-General took great 
44 Care to inform themfelves of all the Paflages in this 
64 Bufinefs, and to that End defired to fee all the 
44 Letters, Pieces, and Papers* that concern this Procefs, 
44 by 'which it appeareth not that there was any cruel Tor- 
44 ture ufed. But fuppofe the A&s made no mention of 
44 them, is it any marvel that the Authors of this mur- 
u derous and tyrannous Procefs, being themfelves the 
“ Perfons that alfo formed the ACts, would omit thofe 
44 things that made againft them ? 
44 It is to be prefumed alfo, that the ACts kept by their 
44 People at Poloway in Banda , have omitted many things 
of their Procefs againft the poor Color oons, whom in 
44 Auguji 1622, being about fix Months before this Exe- 
46 cution of the Englijh , their Governor there ufed in like 
44 Sort as the Governor of Amboyna did the Englijh, and 
44 gave him a Model and Prefident of this Procefs, which 
44 it will not be amifs to relate briefly, becaufe this Au- 
44 thor in the next Place alledgeth the merciful Difpofl- 
44 tion of the NetherlandiJh Nation in general, to infer 
44 thence, that it is therefore unlikely, that their Cover- 
64 nor at Amboyna was fo cruel as is reported in England . 
44 Polaroon, one of the Iflands of Banda , was in Pofleffion 
46 of the Englijh at the Time of the Treaty Anno 1619, 
44 and by Agreement was to remain theirs. 
44 After the Treaty came to the Indies , the Dutch for- 
44 bore the publifliing thereof in the Iflands 6f Banda , until 
44 they had taken Polaroon *, but knowing that it muft be 
44 reftored again, according to the Treaty, they firft take 
44 all Courfes to make the Ifland little or nothing worth. 
44 They demolifh and deface the Building, tranfplant theNut- 
44 meg-trees, plucking them up by the Roots, and carrying 
44 them into their own Iflands of Neva and Poloway, there 
t4 to be planted for themfelves, and at leaft And a Means 
44 to difpeople the Ifland, and to leave it fo as the Engliflo 
44 might make no Ufe of it, worth their Charge of keeping ; 
44 and that upon this Occafion was a young Man, the Son 
44 of an Orankey, or a Gentleman in Polaroon , that had 
44 committed Felony, for which, by the Laws of his Coun- 
44 try, he was to die. This Fellow, to fave his Life, fled 
44 to another Ifland of Banda , called Rofinging , and there 
44 turned Chriftian ; but quickly underftanding that that 
44 would not make him fafe from Punilhment, he went 
44 back fecretly into his own Country of Polaroon , and 
44 having lurked there for two or three Days, took his Paf- 
44 fage for Nera, another Ifland where the Dutch have a 
44 Fort, and told the Dutch Governor, that the Orankeys 
44 of Polaroon had confpired to maflacre the Dutch as well 
44 at Polaroon as at Poloway , with Help of the People of 
44 Scran , that fhould fend over thirty Curricurries for that 
44 Purpofe. Immediately upon this Indicium of this Ma- 
44 lefaCtor certain Prows or Fifher-boats of the Polaroons 
44 that were filhing at Poloway were feized, and the Peo- 
44 pie, made Prifoners, Command was fent by the Dutch 
44 Governor to Polaroon , that the Orankeys fliould come 
44 over to him, that there might be farther Inquifition 
44 made of this Matter. 
44 The Prieft of the Polaroons and feventy Orankeys 
44 inftantly took a Prow, or fmall Veflfel of cheirown, and 
44 embarked.themfelves for Poloway. As they were at Sea, 
44 and yet out of Sight of the Dutch Caftle, they were met 
144 by a Filhing-boat of Bandanezes , and told how all the 
44 reft were apprehended, and that if they went to Polo- 
44 way , they were all but dead Men. Neverthelefs the 
44 Prieft and the reft, although they had Space and Means 
44 to have, efcaped the Scran, and other Places fafe enough 
44 from the Dutch , yet were fo confident of their Inno- 
44 cency, that they would needs go to Poloway to purge 
44 themfelves, where, as foon as they arrived, they were 
84 inftantly carried Prifoners to the Caftle, and withal the 
“ Governor, with a Force of two hundred Men, went per- 
44 tonally for Polaroon , whence he fetched all the reft of 
44 the Orankeys, and brought them Prifoners to the fame 
44 Caftle : As foon as they were come, they were prefently 
“ brought to the Torture of Water and Fire, even in the 
44 fame fort that our People were afterwards at Amboyna , 
44 only herein differing, that of thofe of Polaway, two were 
44 fo tortured, that they died in their Tortures ; the reft 
being one hundred and fixty-two Perfons, were all, upon 
thi. ir own forced Confeffions^ condemned and executedo 
“ The Prieft, when he came to the Place of Execution. 
44 fpake thefe Words in the Malayan Tongue : All ye 
great and fmall, rich and poor, black and white, look 
to it, we have committed no Fault •, and when he would 
44 have fpoken more, he was taken by the Hands and Feet, 
64 laid along, and cut in two by the Middle with a Sword \ 
44 forthwith the Governor cau fed the Wives, Children- 
44 and Slaves of thofe of Polaroon to be all carried out of 
“ Ifland, and diftributed in other Iflands fubjefjt to the 
44 Dutch, and fo have made a clear Country for the Eng- 
“ HJh , where they may both plant and gather themfelves, 
44 deftitute of the Help of any of the Country People." 
44 without whom neither the Englijh nor the Dutch can 
44 maintain their Trade in the Jndies ; and yet this is not 
44 here recited, to the end thereby to charge the Nether - 
44 lander* s Nation with thofe cruel Proceedings, but the 
44 Perfons themfelves that have committed thefe barbarous 
44 Tyrannies, who, if we fhall believe an Author of their 
44 own, are not of the belt of that Nation. 
44 For the Majors , as this Author fays, ufe the Indies 
44 as a Tuckt-houfe, or Bridewell, to manage their unruly 
44 and unthrifty Children and Kindred, whom, when they 
44 cannot rule and order at home, they fend to the Indies > 
44 where they are preferred to Offices and Places of Go- 
44 vernment ; yea, faith he, they prefer fuch to be Fifcais 
44 there as never faw Study nor Law ; fo that it is no mar- 
44 vel, that fuch Perfons proceed not with that Juftice 
44 and Moderation as is ufed generally in the Low Countries 
44 by the Choice of the Nation there ; and this agreeth 
44 well with the Report of our Merchants of Credit that 
came lately from Amboyna , who averr, that excepting 
i4 the Governor himfelf, who is well ftept in Years, of the 
reft of the Council there, as well the Fifcal as others, 
44 there was fcarce any that had Flair on their Faces ; yea, 
44 that moft of them are leud, drunken, debauched Per- 
44 Tons, and yet muft be judges, as well of our Englijh as 
44 the poor Indians there. Now to return to this Author’s 
44 Proofs, that there was no Excefs ufed in the Proceed- 
44 ings, at the laft he taketh one Argument by way of 
44 Comparifon from the Law of England to prefs Men to 
44 Death, which, he faith, hath much more Cruelty than 
44 their Courfe of Torture ufed by the Dutch in Amboyna , 
44 and is holden, as well by forne Authors of our own Na- 
44 tion as others, for damnable. How pertinently is this 
44 Matter of prefling alledged for juftifying their Tortures, 
44 fince no Man in England is prefied for not confeffing, 
44 which is the Caufe of the Torture with the Dutch ? But 
44 the Caufe why any is prefled is, for that he obftinately 
44 refufes the Trial of his Country, and ’ challenged the 
44 Judges as incompetent, which the Law appointeth him, 
44 which he doth for the moft part to fave his Goods, which 
44 but by that ordinary Courfe of Trial cannot be confif- 
44 cate ; what is this to the Point of Confeflion ? for Re- 
44 fufal whereof the Dutch ufe the Torture, and yet no 
44 Man blameth them for proceeding according to the Law 
44 of their Country therein, nor yet in their Execution, 
44 when they break the Legs, Arms and Thighs of the 
44 Malefactors, and then fet them upon a Wheel on the 
44 End of a great Pole, there to languilh to Death, an 
44 Execution far more direful than the Englijh pr effing, 
44 which is fo fuddenly done, and fo feldom ufed. 
44 But why doth he not name the Author of our own, 
44 or foreign Writers, which condemn this kind ofExecu- 
44 tion ? Let him do it yet, and he fhall have more Au- 
44 thors of his own Country that fhall condemn their Courfe 
44 of Tortures, and yet the Englijh complain not of the 
44 Courfe in general, but of the unlawful Ufe of it, con- 
44 trary to the Laws even of the United Provinces. Laftly, 
ic in this Point the Author pretended, that little or no 
44 Torture was ufed in this Procefs. What the Torture 
44 was, and in what Degree, appears in the Englijh Rela- 
44 tion ; but he can find little or none mentioned in the 
44 Afts. What if he will not find it ? or what if their Qf- 
44 fleers at Amboyna have concealed it ? Shall we not be- 
44 lieve thofe that fuffered it themfelves ? Shall we not be- 
44 lieve thofe that being themfelves acquitted, yet heard the 
44 Cries, and faw the Bodies of JohnJon, Clark , and Thom- 
44 Jon 3 and have confirmed their Relation by their corporal 
44 Oaths 
